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Daily GK Update: 20th December, 2015
PFRDA switches to PAN for online enrolment
under NPS
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Afghanistan becomes 163rd member of WTO
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It will be the
36th least developed country (LDC) to join the
global trade body
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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has
unanimously adopted a resolution No
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Key facts
The resolution endorses formal talks on a political
transition between the President Bashar al-Assad
led Syrian government and opposition in early
January 2016
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Offensive
and defensive actions against such terrorist groups
in Syria such as ISIS will continue
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Free and fair elections to be held in Syria under UN
supervision within 18 months
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has formally
inaugurated the All-India conference of Directors
General of Police (AICDGPs) at Dhordo in white
Rann of Kutch region near Bhuj, Gujarat
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Three day conference was inaugurated in the
presence of Union Minister for Home Rajnath
Singh, Minister of State for Home Kiran Rijju and
Haribhai Patel
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West Bengal Government has approved proposal
for formation of five new districts in the state
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India‘s biggest Wildlife Rescue Centre named as
Gorewada Zoo and Wildlife Rescue Centre has
been commissioned at Gorewada near Nagpur,
Maharashtra
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The centre was inaugurated by Maharashtra
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in presence of
State Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar
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Scientists of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI)
have a discovered a new species of eel named
Bengal moray eel (Gymnothorax mishrai) along the
coast of Digha in Purba Medinipur district of West
Bengal
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The Eels are mainly snake-like fishes with fins
and gills and are mostly found at bottom of rivers
and seas
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The National selectors decided that M
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Dhoni
will remain captain of the limited-overs sides till
the World T20 championship in March
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Before announcing the teams for India‘s
upcoming tour of Australia next month, BCCI
secretary Anurag Thakur announced the decision
regarding Dhoni
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However, chairman of selectors Sandeep Patil
explained that the decision related to Dhoni‘s
captaincy was taken due to rumours related his
tenure as captain in the shorter formats
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UN launched 2016 International Year of Pulses
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The UN on 10 November 2015 launched
the year at the headquarters of the Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, Italy
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Bengaluru FC (BFC) midfielder Eugeneson
Lyngdoh and striker Bala Devi on 20 December
2015 was named the 2015 All India Football
Federation (AIFF) Player-of-the-Year and woman
Footballer-of-the-Year respectively
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Bala Devi
will be presented with a Trophy along with a prize
of 1 lakh rupees
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Pritam Kotal was declared the 2015 AIFF
Emerging Player of the Year
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Furthermore, Football Association of Odisha
(FAO) bagged the 2015 AIFF Award for Best
Grassroots Programme
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The 2015 AIFF Award for long time
contribution to Indian Football was awarded to
Coca Cola
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Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach was on
20 December 2015 crowned Miss Universe 2015 at
the final of 64th edition of Miss Universe held in
Las Vegas, the USA
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She is
a Filipino-German actress, model and beauty
pageant titleholder
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She finished her secondary education with the
ABS-CBN Distance Learning Center and studied
culinary arts at the Center for Asian Culinary
Studies in Metro Manila, Philippines
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She worked as a cosmetics model
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Miss Spain Mireia Lalaguna Royo on 19
December 2015 was crowned Miss World 2015 at
the Beauty of Crown Theater in Sanya, China
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It
is the first time Spain has won the title of Miss
World
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Mireia, a 23year-old medical college student and a pianist from
Barcelona, was crowned Miss World Spain 2015 on
24 October 2015 after participating at the 2015
edition of Miss World Spain held in Malaga, Spain
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Miss Russia Sofia Nikitchuk was the runner-up,
while Miss Indonesia Maria Harfanti stood third in
the pageant
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Miss India Aditi Arya won the People‘s Choice
Award which ensured her direct entry in the
competition
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The West Bengal Government on 18 December
2015 cleared the proposal for setting up five new
districts in the state
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Miss Iraq beauty pageant was held for the first
time since 1972
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In the final event of the pageant,
Shaymaa Qasim Abdelrahman was crowned Miss
Iraq
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They also participated in a tree-planting ceremony
near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon
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The contest was held successfully despite the
death threats from Islamic militant organistaions
like ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant)
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For the last time, it
was held in 1972 when the country was stable and
prosperous
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India‘s Abhay Singh
on 20 December 2015 won the Under-19 Singapore
Squash Open
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He defeated Chai 11-8, 11-3, 11-8 in the final
played at Singapore
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With this win, Abhay, the world number one
junior player, has won seven junior titles in the year
2015
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He
followed this up with a fighting win over Yusuke
Ogata of Japan 13- 15, 11-3, 11-8, 10-12, 11-6
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In the semi-finals, he beat Kojiro Tan of
Singapore 7-11, 11-5, 11-7, 11-7 for a place in the
title round
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Chennaiyin FC crowned 2015 ISL champion
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Kane
Williamson, 25, on 21 December 2015 became the
first cricketer from New Zealand to top the
International Cricket Council‘s (ICC‘s) Test
rankings
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Chennaiyin FC
was crowned as the champions of the 2nd Indian
Super League (ISL) Football tournament on 20
December 2015
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FC Barcelona on 20 December 2015 won the
2015 FIFA Club World Cup
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The final match was held at the International
Stadium in Yokohama, Japan
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From Barcelona, Luis Suárez of Uruguay scored
two goals, while the remaining goal was made by
Lionel Messi of Argentina
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So far, the event was held for 12 times and
Barcelona tops the table of winners with three titles
overall
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The 2013 title was won by FC Bayern Munich
that was held in Morocco
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Union HRD Ministry launched the 6th All India
Survey on Higher Education
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million in 2010-11 to 33
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percent on 2010-11 to 23
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The Odisha Government on 21 December 2015
launched Anwesha scheme to provide free
education to scheduled caste and scheduled tribe
students
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The expenses for fees,
uniform, books, hostel accommodation as well
transportation will be sponsored by the government
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The government aims to enrol a total of 50000
SC and ST students in phases
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5 lakh ST and
SC students staying in hostels are to continue their
education while 2 lakh more will avail the facility
soon
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Government of Nepal on 20 December 2015
decided to amend the Constitution to address two
key demands of agitating Madhesis regarding
proportional representation and constituency
delimitation
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It brings out the correct and complete picture of
the higher education system so that relevant
statistics are available to the Central Government as
well as State Governments in order to devise future
educational policies
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A decision in
this regard was approved at an emergency cabinet
meeting held at Singha Durbar in Kathmandu
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Their
dissatisfaction with the new Constitution was with
the fact that the Pahadi or hill communities, who
constitute 50 percent of the population, got 100
seats in the parliament, while Madhesis‘ got only
65 seats
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Madhesis‘ were also fighting against the
Constitutional scheme related to proposed
boundaries of the new provinces
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American aerospace company SpaceX on 21
December 2015 achieved the historic feat of
successfully launching and landing Falcon 9 rocket
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The Falcon 9 rocket was successfully launched
from Cape Canaveral, Florida carrying 11 satellites
to low-Earth orbit and was also successfully landed
after 10 minutes to the Earth
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It is the first time in the history of rocketry that a
rocket has returned back after delivering a
spacecraft to its orbit, so that it could potentially fly
again
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5 million pounds of thrust and
carrying 11 commercial satellites
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Delhi Government on 21 December 2015
appointed a one-member commission of inquiry on
Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA)
scam
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It will probe
the alleged financial irregularities by the
administrators of the DDCA
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The commission was appointed on the basis of
recommendation of the three-member committee
headed by Chetan Sanghi
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The five-day long 10th World Trade Organisation
(WTO) Ministerial Conference concluded on 19
December 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya
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India was
represented by Minister of State (Independent
Charge) for Commerce & Industry Nirmala
Sitharaman
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3 trillion US dollars per year
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Negotiations on the expanded ITA were
conducted by 53 WTO members, including both
developed and developing countries, which account
for approximately 90 per cent of world trade in
these products
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China launched DAMPE satellite to shed light on
mysterious dark matter
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India on 22 December 2015 celebrated National
Mathematics Day
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The conferences brought together academics,
mathematicians and teachers to explore and discuss
key associated concepts
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The declaration to observe 22 December as
National Mathematics Day was made by former
Prime Minister Dr
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He died at a
young age of 32 years on 26 April 1920
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New Zealand cricket captain Brendon McCullum
on 22 December 2015 announced retirement from
all forms of international cricket
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, tests, ODIs and twenty20
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In ODIs, he
made his debut as a 20-year-old batsman in 2001
against Australia at Sydney
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He scored 6273 test runs with 11
hundreds, including the only triple century by a
New Zealand batsman, and 31 half-centuries at an
average of 38
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He scored double Test Century
against Pakistan in Sharjah in November 2014 and
in the process scored the fastest test century by a
New Zealander
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In ODIs, he scored 5909 runs from 254 matches
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He is the first and so far only player to have scored
two Twenty20 International centuries and 2000
runs in T20 Internationals
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He successfully lead the team to
their first ever ICC Cricket World cup final in
March 2015 in which Australia won by 7 wickets
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Andy Murray won 2015 BBC Sports
Personality of the Year Award
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The Scottish tennis-player
was presented the award by Irish boxing legend
Barry McGuigan
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Murray was chosen for the award after a public
vote in which he received 361446 of the 1,009,498
votes cast
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He received the previous award in 2013
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He
reached the final of the Australian Open and the
semi-finals of both Wimbledon and the French
Open
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The winner is the
sportsperson, judged by a public vote, to have
achieved the most that year
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on 22
December 2015 approved much anticipated Patna
Metro Rail project's proposal
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Daily GK Update: 23rd December, 2015
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Rajya Sabha on 22 December 2015 passed the
Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children)
Bill, 2015
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Also, any 16-18 year old, who
commits a lesser (serious) offence, may be tried as
an adult only if he is apprehended after the age of
21 years
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The Bill replaces the Juvenile Justice (Care and
Protection of Children) Act, 2000
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The JJB will conduct a preliminary inquiry
to determine whether a juvenile offender is to be
sent for rehabilitation or be tried as an adult
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The proposal
for the metro rail project was approved at a
meeting, which was called to review the
performance of the state urban development
department at Patna
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The
first corridor will run east to west over 14
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Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on 22 December 2015 approved the
Lucknow Metro Rail Project Phase-1 A
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878 km with 22
stations
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It was
founded in 1973 as subsidiary of Elf Aquitaine
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Out of the total
route length of 22
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438 km while underground route length will be
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The metro train will
ply between Chowdhary Charan Singh Airport and
Munshi Pulia
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The project will cost 6928 crore rupees of which
the Union Government will give 1300 crore rupees
in form of equity and subordinate debt
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The project will be implemented by the
Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC), which
will be reconstituted into a 50:50 jointly owned
company of Union Government and Government of
Uttar Pradesh
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Philippines became first Asian country to
approve world's first-ever dengue vaccine
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Earlier on 9 December 2015, Dengvaxia,
manufactured by French pharmaceutical giant
Sanofi, secured its first regulatory approval in
Mexico
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The Federal Commission for the Protection
against Sanitary Risks (COFEPRIS) approved
Dengvaxia for the prevention of disease caused by
all four dengue virus serotypes in preadolescents,
adolescents and adults, 9 to 45 years of age living
in endemic areas
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The COFEPRIS approval of Dengvaxia is based
on results from an extensive clinical development
program involving over 40000 people of different
ages, geographic and epidemiological settings, and
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The scheme will be implemented at an
outlay of 3000 crore rupees, for a period of five
years
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It will cover development and management of
inland fisheries, aquaculture, marine fisheries and
all activities undertaken by the National Fisheries
Development Board (NFDB) towards realizing
Blue Revolution
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The scheme aims development and management
of fisheries and aquaculture sector to ensure a
sustained annual growth rate of 6 to 8 percent
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Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa
on 21 December 2015 announced that the country
has planned to adopt the Chinese Yuan as legal
tender
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China has been
accused of exploiting the continent's vast mineral
and energy resources at the expense of local people
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Earlier also to stabilize its hyperinflation crisis,
the nations has adopted foreign currencies, mostly
the US Dollar and South African Rand, as legal
tender
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 22
December 2015 created a dedicated helpline
(Email) for start-ups in India in order to offer
assistance on Forex matters to them for undertaking
cross-border transactions within the ambit of the
regulatory framework
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While seeking
guidance on the helpline, the enterprises will be
asked to provide complete information to the
Reserve Bank and mention the specific issues on
which they need guidance from the Bank in relation
to the Foreign Exchange Management regulations
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This will enable the personnel attending the
helpline to offer timely and effective information
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The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
(CCEA) on 22 December 2015 gave its approval
for investment of 5000 crore rupees by Oil and
Natural Gas Company Limited (ONGC) into the
equity share capital of ONGC Videsh Limited
(OVL) by conversion of existing loan of equivalent
amount into equity
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The approved
investment will strengthen the capital base of
ONGC Videsh
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All the loan ONGC
had given to OVL was at zero interest
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Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited
(ONGC) is a multinational oil and gas company
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It is a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU)
of the GoI, under the administrative control of the
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
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ONGC Videsh is a Miniratna Schedule A Central
Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) of the Government
of India
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It was incorporated as Hydrocarbons India
Pvt
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on 5 March 1965 to carry out exploration
and development of the Rostam and Raksh oil
fields in Iran and undertaking a service contract in
Iraq
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Pawan Kumar Agarwal appointed as CEO of
FSSAI
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Malik is believed to be the man
behind the ban on global giant Nestles popular
noodle brand Maggi, which has now been removed
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Prior to
Pawan Kumar Agarwal's appointment, FSSAI
Chairman Ashish Bahuguna was holding the
additional charge of FSSAI CEO
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Pawan Kumar Agarwal is a 1985 batch IAS
officer of West Bengal cadre
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) on 23
December 2015 announced the winners for the
2015 ICC Awards in Dubai, the UAE
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With this
announcement, Smith became the fourth Australian
and 11th overall to win the prestigious award
named after former West Indies cricketer Sir
Garfield Sobers
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During the voting period, the 26-year-old from
New South Wales finished as the leading run-scorer
in Tests with 1734 runs in 25 innings of 13 matches
at an average of 82
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This included seven
centuries and six half-centuries
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They were
banned for eight years from all football-related
activities (administrative, sports or any other) on a
national and international level
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The ban came into force immediately
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The decision was made in
the wake of payment of 20 lakh Swiss Francs
(CHF) which was transferred to Platini by Blatter in
February 2011
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International Tennis Federation announced
winners of 2015 World Champions
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The awards were conferred on the
basis of players‘ performance in the 2015 season
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Men‘s World Champion - Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Women‘s World Champion - Serena Williams (the
USA)
Men‘s Doubles World Champions - Jean-Julien
Rojer (Netherlands) & Horia Tecau (Romania)
Women‘s Doubles World Champions - Martina
Hingis (Switzerland) & Sania Mirza (India)
ITF Junior World Champions - Dalma Galfi
(Hungary) & Taylor Fritz (the USA)
ITF Wheelchair World Champions - Jiske Griffioen
(Netherlands) & Shingo Kunieda (Japan)
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The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics
Committee on 21 December 2015 banned FIFA
President Sepp Blatter and Vice-President and
member of the Executive Committee of FIFA and
President of UEFA Michel Platini
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RBI extended deadline to exchange pre-2005
notes to 30 June 2016
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The decision to extend
the deadline was notified by the apex bank in a
statement issued in Mumbai
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RBI in an official statement said that the notes
can be exchanged for their full value
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Soliciting cooperation from members of
public in withdrawing these banknotes, it also urged
them to deposit the old design notes in their bank
accounts or exchange them at a bank branch
convenient to them
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Earlier on 25 June 2015, the Reserve Bank had
set the last date for public to exchange pre-2005
banknotes notes as 31 December 2015
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The Reserve Bank pointed out that it is standard
international practice not to have currency notes
from multiple series in simultaneous circulation
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The Basohali town which is located in Kathua
district of Jammu and Kashmir was in news on 24
December 2015 as the Union Defence Minister
Manohar Parrikar dedicated the first cable-stayed
bridge of North India to the nation
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The 592-metre bridge was constructed over river
Ravi on Dunera- Basohli-Bhadharwah road
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It is fourth of its kind in India
and first in North India and Jammu and Kashmir
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It was constructed by Border Roads
Organization (BRO) at a cost of 145 crore rupees
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India‘s first indigenously designed and built
warship Indian Navy Service (INS) Godavari was
on 23 December 2015 decommissioned in Naval
Dockyard Mumbai
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It
was the lead ship of her class of three guidedmissile frigates of the Indian Navy
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She was also among of the first frigates in
the world capable of carrying two Sea King
helicopters (well known as the ‗Flying Frigate‘,
because of its integral firepower and sensor suite)
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Godavari and
Betwa intercepted and arrested the mercenaries,
who tried to flee Male onboard the Merchant Vessel
Progress Light
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OPEC released 2015 OPEC World Oil Outlook
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First
published in 2007, the WOO offers a thorough
review and assessment of various scenarios related
to the medium and long-term development of the
upstream and downstream sectors of the oil
industry
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As per the report, oil and gas, combined, are
expected to supply around 53 percent of the global
energy demand by 2040
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Oil demand is
projected to be at 110 mb/d by 2040
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Non-OPEC liquids supply increases from 56
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By 2040, non-OPEC liquids supply
falls below 60 mb/d
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7 mb/d by 2040 – an increase
of 1 mb/d compared with 2014 publication
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The long-term value of the OPEC Reference
Basket is assumed to rise from more than 70 US
dollars per barrel in 2020 to 95 US dollars per
barrel by 2040 (both in 2014 dollars)
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Indian American professor Rakesh K Jain was on
22 December 2015 selected for the National Medal
of Science 2015 of United States (US)
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Professor Jain holds a B
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Jain is regarded as a pioneer in the area of
tumour micro-environment and widely recognized
for his seminal discoveries in tumour biology, drug
delivery, in vivo imaging and bioengineering
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He is a member of all
three branches of the US National Academies- the
National Academy of Medicine, the National
Academy of Engineering and the National
Academy of Sciences and the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences
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he National Medal of Science was created by
statute in 1959 and is administered for the White
House by the National Science Foundation
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30th National Consumers Right Day was
observed across India on 24 December 2015
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The
Consumer Protection Act was enacted with the
objective of providing better protection of
consumer‘s interest
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The act provides effective safeguards to the
consumer, against various types of exploitations
and unfair dealings, relying mainly on
compensatory rather than a disciplinary or
preventive approach
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It
also provides speedy and inexpensive adjudication
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Idea Cellular on 23 December 2015 became the
third mobile operator in India to launch 4G services
in India
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Gautam H Bambawale was on 23 December 2015
appointed as the High Commissioner of India to the
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
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Bambawale will
succeed TCA Raghavan, who will retire at the end
of December 2015
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Bambawale is an Indian Foreign Service officer
of 1984 batch
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He became the first Consul General
of India in Guangzhou, China, in 2007
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Bihar Government banned 15-year-old diesel
vehicles from plying on Patna roads
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The decision was taken in view of
increasing pollution
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The decision
was made during the review meeting of the
environment and forests department under the
chairmanship of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
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He said there will also be restriction on burning of
plastic and solid waste
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The Bihar State Pollution Control Board
(BSPCB) on 14 December 2015 sent an advisory to
the Chief Secretary stating that the air quality index
of Patna crossed 400 in November-December 2015
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5 (particulate
matter less than 10 micron), PM10 (particulate
matter less than 10 micron), nitrogen oxides,
sulphur dioxide, ozone, carbon monoxide, ammonia
and lead
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UN adopted resolution to observe 5 November
as World Tsunami Awareness Day
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The creation of the day is aimed at
raising awareness among people in the world of the
dangers of tsunami and stressing the importance of
early warning systems in order to mitigate damage
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The proposal
was first suggested by the Japanese Government
after the Third UN Conference on Disaster Risk
Reduction held in Sendai, Japan in March 2015
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Japan suffered heavy losses as a result of
tsunamis, most recently the Great East Japan
Earthquake and Tsunami of 11 March 2011
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It affected
lives and the natural environment in six countries in
the region including India, Sri Lanka, Somalia,
Thailand and Maldives
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Biocon launched generic version of hepatitis-C
drug Harvoni in India
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The generic version of the drug
named Harvoni will be sold under the brand name
CIMIVIR-L
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The generic drug Harvoni is an improved version
of Gilead‘s hepatitis-C drug Sovaldi or sofosbuvir
and will come in fixed-dose combination of
ledipasvir-sofosbuvir of 90mg and 400mg,
respectively
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The sale of
ledipasvir-sofosbuvir combination was recently
approved by the Drugs Controller General of India
(DCGI), which is being manufactured in India
under a license from Gilead
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Harvoni has been approved by the US Food and
Drug Administration (USFDA) for the treatment of
chronic hepatitis-C genotype-1 infection and it has
shown high cure rates of around 90 percent
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Earlier in the year 2015, Biocon entered into a
non-exclusive licensing agreement with Gilead
Sciences to manufacture and market chronic
hepatitis-C medicines, including Sovaldi and
Harvoni, for India and 91 other developing
countries by paying 7 percent royalty on sales
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According to Biocon, the CIMIVIR-L, a once-aday oral therapy, will offer a convenient, effective
and safe alternative to people infected with the
Hepatitis-C virus (HCV)
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Lok Sabha passed The Payment of Bonus
(Amendment) Bill, 2015
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The
Bill will allow doubling of wage ceiling for
calculating bonus of factory workers
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The Bill seeks to amend the Payment of Bonus
Act, 1965
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It seeks to raise the
eligibility limit for payment of bonus from a salary
of 10000 rupees to 21000 rupees a month
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It seeks to raise this calculation ceiling of bonus
to 7000 rupees per month or as per the minimum
wage notified for the employment under the
Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (whichever is higher)
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It seeks to mandate prior publication of rules
made by the Union Government in the Official
Gazette to allow for more public consultation
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Daily GK Update: 25th December, 2015
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Prime Minister Modi received a warm embrace
and welcome by Afghan president Ashraf Ghani in
Kabul where he arrived on Friday for delegationlevel bilateral talks and for inaugurating the new
Afghan Parliament building
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Though, India & Afghanistan need no introduction,
we are bound by a thousand ties… We have stood
by each other in the best and worst of times,‖ Ghani
tweeted
...
Delegation-level bilateral talks between the two
countries were held at Dilkosha Palace, the Afghan
presidential office
...
The Prime
Minister also addressed the two houses
...
Ghani and Modi toured the parliament building
and arrived at the main session hall in the presence
of the guests, including member of the Afghan
parliament, Khaama press reported
...
IndianOil, Oil India sign MoU with Rosneft
i
...
ii
...
In all,
16 agreements were signed between Indian and
Russian firms in the field of nuclear energy,
hydrocarbon, defence and other sectors
...
―The MoU document lays the foundation for a
long-term partnership between IndianOil, OIL and
Rosneft
...
iv
...
3
...
Yesteryear Hindi film actress Sadhana, known for
popularising the fashionable Sadhana cut (fringe
haircut), passed away in Mumbai at the age of 74,
according to reports
...
Known for
memorable films, such as Love in Shimla, Parakh,
Waqt, Woh Kaun Thi, Mera Saaya, Geeta Mera
Naam among others, Sadhana was known for her
on-screen simple looks as well glamour quotient,
and is closely associated with some of the most
memorable Hindi film songs during the 1960s
...
Sadhana was said to be ailing for some time and
had been operated for a lesion in her mouth last
year
...
―RIP Sadhana aunty
...
will live on forever
...
4
...
Reliance Defence said on Thursday it had signed
a manufacturing and maintenance deal potentially
worth $6 billion with Russia's Almaz-Antey, the
maker of an air defence system that sources said the
Indian military was poised to buy
...
The partnership between the Indian firm
controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani and the
Russian firm was announced as Prime Minister
Narendra Modi began a trip to Moscow aimed at
strengthening defence ties
...
Earlier this
week, Indian defence ministry sources said the
government had cleared the purchase of five S-400
air defence systems that are estimated to cost about
$4
...
iv
...
Reliance is forging close ties with
Russia to jumpstart its ambitions to develop a
defence business from scratch
...
v
...
Earlier this month, Ambani's Reliance
Infrastructure took sole management control of
Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering Co
which has built patrol vessels for the Indian navy
...
Reserve Bank of India Invites Applications for
Innovative Payment Solutions
i
...
With this initiative, the RBI is hoping to
transform the way transactions are processed in the
world‘s fastest growing emerging economy
...
Some broad areas which the contest will hope to
cover are:
Payment security including fraud prevention
Customer convenience and cost reduction
Mobile payments
Acceptance/electronic payment infrastructure
Use of emerging technologies for payments
iii
...
A panel of experts will shortlist the
most innovative applications, and the best three will
be rewarded with citations/prizes
...
iv
...
The blockchain is able
to serve the crucial purpose of cutting down
transaction costs while facilitating fast, reliable, and
secure payments
...
v
...
India has been
lagging behind in the fintech race, but similar
initiatives may catapult the nation to a higher spot
...
PM goes to Lahore, makes a Christmas date with
history
i
...
ii
...
Modi had telephoned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
from Kabul to wish him on his birthday, and during
the call, made plans to travel to Lahore to wish him
personally a few hours later
...
Mr
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2
...
65 billion deal with Russia
for nuclear power plants
i
...
65 billion
...
The Work will begin early next year at Ruppur in
Iswardi, 160km (100 miles) from Dhaka, said
Kamrul Islam Bhyian, spokesman for the ministry
of science and technology
...
"Russia will finance up to 90 per cent of the
total cost as credit with an interest rate of Libor plus
1
...
iv
...
Bangladesh
finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said it
would be the country's biggest power project
...
Former WicketKeeper Syed Kirmani nominated for 2015 Col
...
Former Indian Wicket-Keeper nominated for the
2015 Col
...
A decision in this regard was taken at a
meeting of the Col
...
The meeting was held at the BCCI‘s
headquarters in Mumbai
...
Kirmani represented India at the international
level between 1976 and 1986
...
iii
...
Cottari
Kanakaiya Nayudu, the country‘s first test captain
...
India, Russia signed 16 pacts to deepen bilateral
cooperation
i
...
The pacts were
signed after the conclusion of the 16th India-Russia
Annual Summit in Moscow
...
After the summit, which was attended by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President
Vladimir Putin, both the leaders issued a joint
statement with the theme Shared Trust,New
Horizons
...
(2) Protocol amending agreement between India
and Russia on mutual travel regime for holders of
Diplomatic & Official Passports
...
5
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An Indian-origin software engineer named
Nandagopal Lakshminarayanan has won a
prestigious award in the UK for creating an
innovative electronic smart key system which
enables the creation and management of keys and
locks that cannot be copied or picked
...
He has been working as a knowledge transfer
partnership (KTP) associate at Lincoln Security Ltd
for the past two years, won the Business Leader of
the Future award at Innovate UK's 'KTP Best of the
Best Awards 2015' at a ceremony in London
...
World Bank to give $35mn to Pakistan for Indus
River Basin
i
...
ii
...
7
...
Sri Lankan wicketkeeper Kusal Perera is facing
the prospect of a four-year ban after his B sample
tested positive for a banned substance
...
"The ICC has
informed that he faces a four-year ban, as his urine
sample was tested positive in Qatar after the ICC
had originally found it contained banned substance
...
Consequently Perera had to drop out of Sri
Lanka's current tour of New Zealand
...
Perera is Sri Lanka's second player to
flunk a dope test
...
8
...
Good Governance Day was observed on 25
December 2015 across the country
...
ii
...
iii
...
9
...
Reliance
Defence Limited and Russian AlmazAntey, have
decided to work jointly on the entire range of AD
Missile and Radar Systems that are required for
Indian defence forces
...
ii
...
Hindustan Petroleum
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
Tata Steel
Hindalco Industries
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
10
...
Amway India CEO Anshu Budhraja in her
statement said that they needed a strong and
credible face who could help people understand the
role of supplementation in addition to balanced diet
and exercise as part of leading a healthy lifestyle,
that's why Farhan Akhtar was an obvious choice
...
Nutrilite is a leading brand of vitamins and
dietary supplements
...
Tech Mahindra launches contactless wallet
MoboMoney
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
Daily GK Update: 27th December, 2015
Action plan for
‘Start up India’ to be unveiled on Jan
...
Seeking to boost entrepreneurship at the
grassroots level, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
said the action plan for ‗Start up India, Stand up
India‘ will be unveiled on January 16
...
Mr
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iii
...
Indian Oil Corp tops in 2015 Fortune 500
companies in India list
i
...
ii
...
4,51,911 crore
...
3,82,565 crore
...
Top ten companies
Indian Oil Corp (IOC)
Reliance Industries
Tata Motors
State Bank of India (SBI)
Bharat Petroleum (BPCL)
Union Govt brings 376 drugs under the NLEM
i
...
ii
...
The committee was headed by V
...
Katoch, former secretary of Department of Health
Research
...
The revision includes addition of 106 essential
medicines and deletion of 70 medicines
...
With this total number of essential medicines in
the list has gone up to 376 from earlier 348
medicines
...
v
...
Veteran Bollywood actress Sadhna passes away
i
...
She was 74
...
She was renowned for his style statement and
acting prowess in Bollywood in the 1960s and 70s
...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the
new building of Afghanistan Parliament in the
capital city Kabul built by India
...
It was inaugurated during Narendra Modi‘s first
official visit to Afghanistan after becoming Prime
Minister
...
He also named one block of Parliament as Atal
Block after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee
...
Prime Minister also handed over 4 Mi-25 attack
helicopters to Afghanistan Air Force symbolising a
shift in India‘s position on supplying ‗offensive‘
equipment
...
Seychelles government allowed India to build its
first Naval Base on the Assumption Island in the
Indian Ocean region (IOR) as a joint project
between both countries
...
In this regard, Seychelles government has
allocated a plot of land on in its Assumption Island
which will help to enhance mutual security along
our western seaboard in IOR
...
India‘s first Naval Base project has acquired
significance following China acquiring its first
African naval base in Djibouti (near Horn of
Africa) in November 2014
...
Reliance Jio launched 4G telecom service
i
...
The service was launched at the Reliance
Corporate Park in Navy Mumbai to mark the birth
anniversary of Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of the
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)
...
However, at present, it is limited to 85000
employees and their families of the company, while
the commercial services are expected to begin by
April 2016
...
It has three-pronged focus on broadband
networks, affordable smart phones and the
availability of rich content and applications
...
iv
...
Under the project, around 2
...
v
...
Users will
have the option to switch over to 5G services in
future
...
AP Government signed MoU with Microsoft
India on technology initiatives
i
...
The MoU was signed after a
meeting between the Chief Minister N
Chandrababu Naidu and Microsoft‘s CEO Satya
Nadella in Hyderabad
...
The purpose of
the MoU is to improve use of information and
communication technologies, drive digital inclusion
and provide IT-based decentralised citizen services
...
iii
...
The three PoC solutions
are related to the fields of education, agriculture
and eCitizen services
...
The PoC solutions will be built and deployed to
address specific problems within each of the fields
to achieve better outcomes for the State
...
v
...
The company will set up a Centre for
Excellence (CoE) in Visakhapatnam
...
Union Government announced 4 new IT-based
initiatives for citizen-centric health services
i
...
The
initiatives include three applications, namely,
Kilkari, Mobile Academy and M-Cessation and a
dedicated toll free number 1800-11–6666 which
will provide round the clock counselling and
treatment support services for TB patients
...
The initiatives were announced on the occasion
of the Good Governance Day which is being
celebrated annually to mark the birth anniversary of
former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
...
Kilkari is an audio-based mobile service that
delivers weekly audio messages to families about
pregnancy, child birth and child care
...
Those who are
registered in Mother and Child Tracking System
(MCTS), a web- enabled name-based system to
monitor and ensure delivery of full spectrum of
services to all pregnant women and children, will
be benefitted from the service
...
Mobile Academy is a mobile-based application
aimed at providing training services to 9 million
ASHAs
...
Once registered, ASHAs can access
the 240-minute course via their mobile phones
...
Digital bookmarking technology
enables ASHAs to complete the course at their own
pace
...
M-Cessation will be an IT-enabled tool to help
tobacco users to quit tobacco
...
The counselling would be done
through a two-way SMS process, the Minister
informed
...
Former CJ of Karnataka & Kerala High Courts
Justice VS Malimath died
i
...
He was 86-years old and survived by wife Prema
Devi V Malimath, a son and four daughters
...
He was born
on 12 June 12 1929, secured first rank in LL
...
and
had a post Graduate Diploma in Public
International Law from University of London in
1952
...
iii
...
Subsequently, he was
appointed as Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court
in 1984
...
Post retirement, he was appointed as Chairman
of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)
...
He headed the Committee
on Reform of Criminal Justice System in India
...
v
...
In June 2015,
he was appointed as the Chairman of the Karnataka
Border Protection Force by the Karnataka
government
...
Indigenously developed Air-to-Air missile Astra
successfully test fired
i
...
The test was
conducted by the Indian Air Force off the coast of
Odisha near the Integrated Test Range (ITR),
Balasore
...
In addition to this air trial, the missile underwent
successful ground based trials in early December
2015 near Pune
...
iii
...
Astra is India‘s first
beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM)
that is capable of engaging its target at ranges of 37
km or beyond
...
The all-weather missile has been indigeniously
designed and developed by the Defence Research
and Development Organisation (DRDO)
...
It is a state-of-the-art missile in the sense that it
travels at supersonic speed (4780 km/h), possesses
Single Shot Kill Probability (SSKP) with active
radar terminal guidance, uses smokeless propulsion
system to evade enemy radars and has the capacity
to engage in multi-target scenario
...
It can reach up to 110 km when fired from an
altitude of 15 km, 44 km when launched from an
altitude of eight km and 21 km when fired from sea
level
...
6
...
Taking a cue from the biennial investor
congregation - Vibrant Gujarat Summit - held every
alternate year in Gujarat the Central Government is
organising ―Make in India Week‖ in Mumbai
during February 13-18, 2016
...
The week-long event, being organised by the
Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion
(DIPP), Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry,
will have investors meet for the manufacturing
sector under Make in India
...
Following the ambitious initiative of the Prime
Minister Narendra Modi to encourage investments
in the manufacturing sector in the country, the
government will conduct the 'Make in India Week'
on the lines of three-day Vibrant Gujarat Summit
...
iv
...
"We have interacted with
entrepreneurs and they have raised valid issues
faced by them
...
They have given
suggestions on how to resolve these issues," said
Amitabh Kant, secretary, DIPP during a road-show
for the event in Ahmedabad on Saturday
...
He stated that the 'Make in India' initiative is
aimed at increasing the share of manufacturing
sector in the GDP from the current 15-16 per cent
to 25 per cent by 2022
...
"
7
...
Karan Adani, son of Adani Group Chairman
Gautam Adani, has been appointed as the CEO of
Adani Ports and SEZ (APSEZ) with effect from
January 1, 2016
...
ii
...
It also approved the ―appointment
of Karan, Executive Director (non—board position)
as CEO of the company with effect from January 1,
2016,‖ the filing said
...
Karan, who looks after strategic development of
Adani ports across India, has been involved in
managing various port operations for the firm since
2009
...
iv
...
Bhattacharya, in his new role,
will be responsible for driving the significant
emerging opportunities between India and the US,
it said
...
10 per cent to
Rs
...
35 apiece in the afternoon trade at the BSE
...
China amended One Couple, One Child Policy
i
...
The amended policy,
which will come into force on 1 January 2016, will
lift the restrictions on couples from having only one
child
...
The amended
policy is aimed at balancing the country's
population structure by allowing all couples to have
two children
...
iii
...
In
2013, couples were allowed to have a second child
if either parent was an only child
...
As per an estimate, China has 140 million
women of child-bearing age who have already
raised a child
...
v
...
45 billion in 2029 and is
expected to result over 30 million more people in
the labor force by 2050
...
CRI Pumps bags export quality excellence award
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
The company's has emerged as a turnkey solution
provider across segments, including residential,
industrial, agricultural, mining, and water
treatment
...
Wicked Ride launches utility bike rental service
i
...
R
...
ii
...
apnaride
...
iii
...
iv
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11
...
Shiva Keshavan on 27 December 2015 grabbed a
silver medal in the 18th edition of the Asian Luge
Championship held in Nagano, Japan
...
On the other hand, South
Korea's Kim Dong-hyeon grabbed the third place
...
Born on 25 August 1981, Keshavan is the
posterboy of Indian winter sports
...
He
set a new Asian speed record at 134
...
9 km/h
...
In Asia Cup 2011, he grabbed the gold medal
...
590
seconds
...
iv
...
He studied humanities and political
science at the University of Florence and obtained a
Master's degree in International relations from the
University of Florence
...
Union Government links LPG subsidy to income
i
...
Henceforth, the LPG subsidy will not be available
to LPG consumers if the consumer or his/her
spouse has taxable income of more than ten lakh
rupees
...
This income would be as per the previous
financial year computed under Income Tax Act,
1961
...
initiative which will help provide efficient services
to the people by digitizing more than 12,000 files
...
ii
...
Various modules of
this e-office are Knowledge Management System,
File Management System, Leave Management
System and Tour Management System
...
Personnel Information Management System
module of this e-office is likely to start from the 1
January, 2016
...
iv
...
It would
also result in better accountability and transparency
and will ultimately result in higher manpower
efficiency
...
18th India-Iran Joint Commission Meeting held
in New Delhi
i
...
The session was cochaired by External Affairs Minister of India
(EAM) Sushma Swaraj and Ali Tayebnia, Minister
of Economic Affairs and Finance of Iran
...
This move will affect at least 60 lakh LPG
consumers of the total 16
...
113
crore from this decision
...
Earlier under the ‗Give it Up‘ campaign many
LPG consumers had given up their subsidy
voluntarily but Government felt that consumers in
the higher income bracket should get LPG cylinders
at the market price
...
50 lakh LPG
consumers have opted out of LPG subsidy
voluntarily under the campaign that aims to ensure
that the subsidy benefits go to the targeted group
...
Ministry of Women and Child Development
launches e-office
i
...
Both the
leaders reviewed the progress in trade and
economic cooperation and a number of related
matters
...
iii
...
The Iranian side suggested participation of
India‘s public and private sectors in development of
Chahbahar Port and Chahbahar Free Trade Zone
(FTZ) and in setting up industrial units in the FTZ
...
India emphasized the need for early completion
of all necessary procedures for India‘s participation
in Farzad-B field and pointed out India‘s desire to
participate in other oil and gas explorations in Iran
as well
...
v
...
The agreement was reached
between P5+1 countries and Iran on 14 July 2015
and paves the way for peaceful resolution of
outstanding issues related to Iran‘s nuclear
programme
...
Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler
passed away
i
...
He was 93
...
He
was best known for his work in films like One Flew
Over the Cuckoo‘s Nest and American Graffiti
...
He was born
on 6 February 1922 in Chicago, US
...
He had worked as director of
photography on films including The Best Man and
Mulholland Falls
...
iii
...
iv
...
He was first cinematographer to
receive star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in
1996
...
Report of Vijay Kelkar Committee on Revisiting
& Revitalizing PPP Model released
i
...
The 9-member committee
was headed by former Finance Secretary Vijay
Kelkar and submitted its report on 19 November
2015
...
The committee was constituted on 26 May 2015
to review the experience of PPP Policy and suggest
measures to improve capacity building in
Government for their effective implementation
...
iii
...
The
recommendations of the committee are of relevance
to the overall growth of the economy as PPP
projects have become the preferred mode to
develop large scale infrastructure projects
...
At present, over 12007 PPP projects are under
implementation across the country, involving about
7
...
v
...
This is necessary to make only malafide action
by public servants punishable and not errors
...
The Committee strongly endorsed setting up of
the ―3PI‖ which can, in addition to functioning as a
centre of excellence in PPPs, enable research,
review and roll out activities to build capacity, etc
...
The committee advised against adopting PPP
structures for very small projects, since the benefits
of delivering small PPP projects may not be
commensurate with the resulting costs and the
complexity of managing such partnerships over a
long period
...
RBI released report of Deepak Mohanty
Committee on Medium-term Path on Financial
Inclusion
i
...
The committee
was constituted on 15 July 2015 by the RBI with
the objective of working out a medium-term (five
year) measurable action plan for financial inclusion
...
ii
...
Given the
predominance of individual account holdings (94
per cent of total credit accounts), a unique
biometric identifier such as Aadhaar should be
linked to each individual credit account
...
Account lined Aadhaar and the credit
information should be shared with companies to
enhance the stability of the credit system and
improve access
...
iv
...
This should be backed by an
Aadhaar-linked mechanism for Credit Eligibility
Certificates to facilitate credit flow to actual
cultivators
...
A scheme of ‗Gold KCC‘ (kisan credit card) with
higher flexibility for borrowers with prompt
repayment records, which could be dovetailed with
a government-sponsored personal insurance, and
digitisation of KCC to track expenditure pattern
...
vi
...
As a part of second generation reforms,
the government can replace the current agricultural
input subsidies on fertilisers, power and irrigation
by a direct income transfer scheme
...
Amitabh Kant got additional charge of CEO of
NITI Aayog
i
...
ii
...
The IAS officer of
1980 Batch of Kerala Cadre, Kant is currently
serving as Secretary, Department of Industrial
Policy and Promotion (DIPP)
...
iii
...
It was formed on 1 January 2015
by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to replace the
Planning Commission
...
The Aayog aims at fostering involvement and
participation in the economic policy-making
process by the State Governments of India
...
8
...
Popular science-fiction
writer George Clayton Johnson, who penned the
script for the first Star Trek episode, The Man Trap,
passed away on 25 December 2015 due to cancer in
Los Angeles, California
...
ii
...
iii
...
Nolan, the basis for the MGM 1976 film
...
iv
...
9
...
The Globe Soccer on 27 December 2015
presented the sixth edition of Globe Soccer Awards
2015 to the winners at a ceremony held in Dubai,
UAE
...
ii
...
Globe Soccer was created and built by BC
Bendoni Consulting to facilitate intercontinental
dialogue among the main players in the football
world, with opportunities to meet and discuss for
the game‘s institutions, clubs, leagues and transfer
market operators
...
C
...
C
...
iv
...
Born on 15 April 1977, he
self-taught himself the art of sand sculpture
...
v
...
He has represented India in 50
international Sand Sculpture championship and
festivals all around the world and won 27
championship prizes for the country
...
In 2013, he won gold medal at Saint Peters Burg
in 12th International sand sculpture competition at
Russia
...
In 2014,
he was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of
India
...
Cabinet clears formation of JVs between Indian
Railways and states
i
...
Daily GK Update: 30th December, 2015
1
...
Well-known sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik‘s Santa
Claus sculpture on 29 December 2015 found a
place in Limca Book of World Records
...
ii
...
It took him 22 hours to build the
structure which will be on display till 1 January
2016
...
The artist had also created sculptures of Jesus
and Mother Mary near Santa Claus
...
The initial paid-up capital of the Ministry of
Railways will be limited to Rs
...
The joint venture companies would be formed
with equity participation from the Ministry of
Railways and the state governments concerned
...
100 crore and based on the projects to
be undertaken, further fund infusion would be done
on approval of the project
...
The joint ventures will be allowed to form
project-specific special purpose vehicles with
equity holding from other stakeholders such as
banks, ports, public sector undertakings, mining
companies, and others
...
―This would ensure greater participation of state
governments in implementation of railway projects,
both in terms of financial participation as well as
the decision-making process
...
v
...
One such MoU is
between SITNEF, Norway, and Central Public
Works Department for cooperation in development
of human resource capacity building and scientific
research in recycling of construction and demolition
waste in India
...
WHO officially declared Guinea Ebola-free
i
...
The
organization took the decision after observing that
42 days have passed since the last person confirmed
to have Ebola virus disease and tested negative
now
...
Guinea now enters a 90-day period of heightened
surveillance to ensure that any new cases are
identified quickly before they can spread to other
people
...
With this, Liberia becomes the only country
still counting down for an end to this ruinous
epidemic
...
The end of Ebola transmission in Guinea marks
an important milestone in the Ebola outbreak in
West Africa
...
iv
...
The total number
of people infected with Ebola eventually totalled
more than 28000
...
v
...
These appear
to have been due to the re-emergence of a persistent
virus from the survivor population
...
4
...
Students who have opted for the Science stream
at the high school level, but have no access to
physical labs now have the option to perform
experiments in a virtual science-lab
...
ii
...
It is based on the premise that lab
experiments can be taught over the Net in a cost
effective and efficient manner
...
According to Venkat Rangan, Vice Chancellor,
Amrita University – the initiative is aimed at
helping students understand complex science
concepts and build scientific temper
...
Under this nationwide
initiative, Amrita has set a target of preparing
around 30,000 science teachers from across the
country on how to use OLabs, so they can in turn
help students perform experiments in a virtual lab
...
OLabs has been officially endorsed by the
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) as a
teaching aid for all its schools
...
v
...
Amrita
is hoping that in a span of three years at least 10000
schools across the country would be provided free
access to OLabs
...
5
...
Ian Fraser Lemmy Kilmister, founding member
and singer in the British heavy metal band
Motorhead, passed away on 28 December 2015
after battling cancer
...
Popularly known
as Lemmy, he played furiously on platinum-selling
Motorhead albums like Ace of Spades , Overkill
and Iron Fist
...
He was born in
December 1945 in Staffordshire, England
...
In response, he formed
Motorhead in 1975
...
Motorhead has released 22 studio albums with
Lemmy as its only constant member
...
He was regarded as the
godfather for rock n roll endurance and genres like
thrash and speed metal
...
Noted Gujarati writer Raghuveer Chaudhary
selected for 51st Jnanpith award
i
...
ii
...
Other members of the selection
board are Shamim Hanfi, Harish Trivedi, Suranjan
Das, Ramakant Rath, Chandrakant Patil, Alok Rai,
Dinesh Misra and Leeladhar Mandloi
...
iii
...
It
will be used for disaster prevention and relief,
surveillance of geological disasters and forest
disasters, and meteorologic forecast
...
iv
...
The
satellite was launched as a part of Gaofen project
that aims to launch seven high-definition
observation satellites before 2020
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8
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Chaudhary is
the fourth Gujarati litterateur to bag this prestigious
award after Uma Shankar Joshi (1967), Pannalal
Patel (1985) and Rajendra Shah (2001)
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Born in 1938 in Gujarat, Raghuveer Chaudhary
is a novelist, poet, critic, a prominent figure on
contemporary Gujarati literary scene and a
Gandhian
...
v
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He also had worked as a columnist for
numerous newspapers such as Sandesh,
Janmabhumi, Nirikshaka and Divya Bhaskar
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He was a teacher at the Gujarat University until
his retirement in 1998
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7
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China on 29 December 2015 successfully
launched Gaofen-4 Earth observation satellite
toward a geostationary orbit from the Xichang
Satellite Launch Centre in the south-western
province of Sichuan
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ii
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Veteran singer
Subir Sen passed away on 29 December 2015 due
to lung cancer in Kolkata
...
He is
survived by his wife and a daughter
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From the 1950s till the 1980s, the
melodious singer had sung a number of hit songs
...
ii
...
Similarly, Chhoti Bahen had
several duets by him and Lata Mangeshkar which
dominated the charts of the time
...
Some of Sen‘s well-known songs include Aa ja
re nain dware from the Dev Anand-Waheeda
Rehman starrer Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja and
Main rangeela pyar ka raahi in Chhoti Bahen
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He was also known for his Bengali songs like
Dhoronir pathey pathey, Monalisa tumi ki bolona
and Saradin tomay cheye
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Ex Chief of Indian Army General Om Prakash
Malhotra passed away
i
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He was 93
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General Om
Prakash Malhotra was the 13th Chief of Army Staff
of the Indian Army from 1978 – 1981
...
He was born in Srinagar, Kashmir, in August
1922 and attended Government College in Lahore
before being selected to join the Indian Military
Academy, Dehradun
...
He commanded different
Artillery Regiments between November 1950 and
July 1961
...
He was the Military Attache at the Indian
Embassy in Moscow for over three years from June
1962
...
He was appointed as
the Governor of Punjab and Administrator of
Chandigarh from 1990 - 1991
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He was also the President of the Equestrian
Federation of India for nearly nine years
...
In 1994, he was conferred with the
Degree of Doctor of Letters (Honours Causa) by the
University of Jammu
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Indian Navy successfully test fires Barak-8 long
range missile from INS Kolkata
i
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The Navy
described the maiden firing of its newly developed
Long Range Surface to Air Missile (LR SAM) as a
significant milestone in enhancing its anti-air
warfare capability
...
The firing was
undertaken on the Western Seaboard by INS
Kolkata, wherein the missile successfully
intercepted an aerial target at extended ranges, a
statement by Navy said
...
iii
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The firing trial of the LRSAM has been jointly carried out by the Indian
Navy, DRDO and Israel Aerospace Industries
...
Israel made MF-STAR radar system is capable
of simultaneously tracking hundreds of airborne
targets to a range of more than 250 KM
...
The LR-SAM has been manufactured by
M/s Bharat Dynamics Limited
...
With the successful proving of these systems, the
Indian Navy has become part of a select group of
Navies that have this niche capability, which would
provide a fillip to India‘s maritime operations
...
It is expected that India and
Israel are likely to win orders worth billions of
dollars for the multi-purpose Barak-8 missile
system
...
A Barak-8 battery, including the Adir radar
system made by IAI subsidiary Elta Systems, a
command and control system, and the missile
launchers, is already installed on the deck of Israeli
Navy ship Lahav, from which the new interceptor
was fired last week as part of a complete trial of the
system
...
HAL ties up with Russian firm Rostech to build
200 Kamov helicopters
i
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The new fleet of Kamovs will replace the ageing
Cheetah and Chetak helicopters
...
The deal is estimated to be worth $1 billion,
according to Press Trust of India report
...
iii
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The two
leaders signed a deal for Russian Kamovs to be
manufactured in India under the "Make in India"
initiative
...
iv
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"Rostech's competitive advantage lies in the fact
that we are ready to deal with not only the
localisation of helicopters in India, but also offer
our partners the localisation of production
technology," Rostech's CEO said in an official
statement
...
The Kamov 226T helicopters have a unique
capability of operating in dense urban areas to
mountainous regions such as Siachen, a Hindustan
Times report stated
...
2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy was the 14th season
of the Vijay Hazare Trophy
...
The Vijay Hazare Trophy is also known as the
Ranji One Day Trophy
...
It was started in 2002–03 as a limited-overs
cricket domestic competition involving state teams
from the Ranji Trophy plates
...
From the tournament's inaugural edition during
the 1993–94 season through to the 2001–02 season,
no finals were held, and teams consequently played
only within their zones, with no overall winner
named
...
Rakhi Haldar, Kavita Devi bagged gold at
National Weightlifting Championship
i
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ii
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Lalchhanhimi bagged the silver with a
total lift of 210 kilograms, while Rajwant Kaur
finished with a bronze with an overall effort of 201
kilograms
...
In Women's 75 kilograms category, Devi lifted
95 kilograms in snatch and 122 kilograms in clean
and jerk for a total of 217 kilograms to win the top
medal
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iv
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Rashpal Singh, who also came up with a total lift of
317 kilograms, had to settle on a bronze
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Gujarat clinched maiden Vijay Hazare Trophy
i
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It is the first time that
Gujarat won the trophy
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The
Daily GK Update: 31st December, 2015
Union Cabinet approves Raptor MoU for
conservation of migratory birds of prey
i
...
ii
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With signing it, India will become
the 54th signatory to the MoU
...
About Raptor MoU
It is an agreement under Article IV paragraph 4 of
the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS) and
is not legally binding on signatory parties
...
The Raptors MoU extends its coverage to 76
species of birds of prey out and an action plan has
been formulated that envisages the conservation
action for Raptor species
...
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi approved the India-Australia Civil
Nuclear Cooperation deal that came into force on
November 13, 2015
...
The deal along with the administrative
arrangement for implementing the accord will
bolster India‘s energy security by supporting the
expansion of nuclear power in the country
...
The cooperation agreement was signed between
two countries in September 2014 to sell uranium as
a nuclear fuel for peaceful power generation
...
CCEA approves Amended Technology
Upgradation Fund Scheme for textile sector
i
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ii
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iii
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Union Govt approves constitution of 69 bridges on
Trilateral Highway in Myanmar
i
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ii
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These bridges will be
constructed at a cost of Rs
...
58 crore and shall
impart all weather usability to the TKK road
section
...
Union Government has unveiled National
Biotechnology Development Strategy (NBDS)
2015-2020 to establish India as a world-class biomanufacturing hub
...
It was unveiled by the Union Science and
Technology Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan in New
Delhi
...
State-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
(BHEL) has commissioned a 660 MW unit of
Prayagraj Super Thermal Power Project at Bara
town in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh
...
This is the first supercritical thermal unit to be
commissioned in the state to achieve capacity
addition on attaining full load
...
It is Greenfield thermal power project is owned
by Prayagraj Power Generation Company Limited
(PPGCL), a subsidiary company of Jaiprakash
Power Ventures Limited
...
Super-critical units are generally eco-friendly
and more efficient thermal power plants as they
consume less coal as fuel
...
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
(ACC) on 30 December 2015 approved the
appointment of Dr Gyanendra D Bandgaiyan as the
Director General of the National Centre for Good
Governance
...
He will be in the office for a period of three
years which is extendable by another two years or
up to 60 years of age, whichever is earlier
...
The 54-year-old Bandgaiyan is a former IAS
officer of the Union Territories cadre
...
Japan and South Korea reached Agreement on Issue
of Comfort Women
i
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ii
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iii
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iv
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Union
government and the World Bank signed a $50million credit agreement
i
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ii
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iii
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Kumar and
Michael Haney, the World Bank‘s Operations
Adviser in India
...
Sweden's Bjorn Isberg on 30 December 2015 was
appointed as the Tournament Director of Coal India
Hockey India League (HIL), the premier league for
hockey in India
...
On the other hand, Muthukumar Balakrisnan
from Malaysia was given the role of the Assistant
Tournament Director in the 4th edition of the Coal
India Hockey India League
...
Andy Mair from Scotland was named as the
umpire's manager for the league
...
The ambitious odd-even scheme of Delhi
government, a first such intervention in the country
to combat spiralling air pollution, got off to a
decent start on new year with volume of cars on
the city roads coming down significantly amid
deployment of thousands of policemen and and
moderately augmented public transport
...
As the clock struck eight, the vehicular
restriction policy came into effect with thousands of
volunteers carrying roses also taking to the streets
to assist traffic police in enforcing the pilot plan
that will stay in force till January 15
...
Under the scheme, cars bearing odd-numbered
registration plates shall ply on city roads while
those with even number plates, if taken out, will
attract a penalty of Rs 2,000 under relevant sections
of the Motor Vehicles Act
...
Also, 25 categories of people are being
given exemptions including the VIPs
...
He will be given citizenship under Section 6 (I)
of the Indian Citizenship Act, 1955 under the
category ―citizenship by naturalisation
...
Lahore-born Sami first arrived in India on
March 13, 2001 on a visitor‘s visa with a validity of
one year
...
i
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The missile was fired from INS Kolkata and it
successfully intercepted an aerial target at extended
ranges
...
The test-fire was jointly carried out by the Indian
Navy, Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO) and Israel Aerospace
Industries
...
This was the first test for LRSAM or BARAK 8
missile in India
...
iv
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It has been manufactured by M/s Bharat
Dynamics Limited, India
...
Iran‘s leading banks will open branches in India
to energise commercial ties between New Delhi and
Tehran
...
ii
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iii
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5 billion energyrelated pending payment, with Iran
...
i
...
The banking regulator has asked banks to
submit a roadmap on how many branches they will
be opening by 31 March 2017
...
ii
...
Therefore, it has been decided to focus on villages
with population above 5,000 without a bank branch
of a scheduled commercial bank
...
This will also enable banks to provide quality
financial services and timely support to BC outlets
that would help in sustaining and strengthening the
services provided through BCs and also ensure
close supervision of BC operations
...
K
...
K
...
He is currently Director
(HR) of the Bengaluru-based BEML
...
Harpal Singh Kumar received Knighthood from
Queen Elizabeth II
i
...
Mr Sami, who has
been staying in India since 2011, will now have to
fill a citizenship form at the Home Ministry‘s office
in Delhi and pay Rs 13,700
...
An Indianorigin cancer research expert Harpal Singh Kumar
received a Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for
his influential work on prevention and treatment
of cancer
...
ii
...
Chairman of Sun Mark
Ltd, Raminder Singh Ranger, was awarded a CBE
for services to business and community cohesion
...
Among the Officer of the Most Excellent Order
of the British Empire (OBE) list were Kala Patel,
managing director of Kiddycare Ltd Nurseries, for
services to childcare business and Daljit Lally,
deputy chief executive of Northumberland Country
Council, for services to integrated care
...
1 South Africa to give them
their first overseas loss in nine years
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iii
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C
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Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award
...
Ashwin becomes the no
...
Star India offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin ended 2015 as the
No
...
ii
...
iii
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5
overs in England‘s second innings in the Durban
Test
...
World champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway won
the Qatar Masters Open chess tournament, billed as
the strongest Open in history
...
He drew his 10th and final
round encounter with former World champion
Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, while Yu defeated
Wesley So of the United States
...
Surya Shekhar Ganguly was the best-placed
Indian, at 10th
...
Indian Test
captain Virat Kohli was named ‗Cricketer of the
Year‘, while Mithali Raj was picked for the M
...
Chidambaram Trophy for the best women‘s
cricketer
...
Under Kohli, the Indian team ended a 22-year
wait for a series win on Sri Lankan soil before
i
...
Shukla, who
failed to make it to the Bengal Ranji squad for most
of the current season after making a comeback from
injury, was included in the team that played its last
league match against Assam earlier this month
...
ii
...
Daily GK Update: 2nd January 2016
1
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The Drug Authentication and Verification
Application (DAVA) project of The Department of
Commerce has won the 2015 eASIA Award under
Trade Facilitation category
...
ii
...
iii
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It seeks to create an
integrated platform for implementation of the Track
and Trace system for exporters and domestic
markets of Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
...
iv
...
Under this project, the DAVA
application has been incorporated with value-added
features like availability of stocks for a drug in an
area/retailers/ wholesalers at a point of time
...
Using it drugs can easily be identified and
recalled due to traceability of stocks which in turn
helps in prevention of black marketing which
especially arises during epidemics
...
Vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyam conferred 2015
Sangita Kalanidhi award
i
...
The prestigious award
was bestowed upon him by renowned
mathematician Manjul Bhargava at 89th annual
conference of the Madras Music Academy in
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
...
With this, he became seventh artistes to be
conferred with this award before completing 50
years of age
...
Srinivasa Iyer,
G
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Balasubramaniam, M
...
Vasanthakumari and
M
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By profession he is Charted Accountant but in
2000 became full-time musician
...
Gaana
Padhmam (2013), Vani Kala Sudhakara (2010) and
the title Kalaimamani by Tamil Nadu Government
(2006) etc
...
It is a prestigious award bestowed annually upon
an expert of Carnatic Music by the Madras Music
Academy
...
This honour is considered one of the
highest awards in Carnatic music
...
Government constitute Kamlesh Chandra
Committee to study wage structure of Gramin Dak
Sevaks
i
...
It is one member
committee comprising of Kamlesh Chandra,
Retired Member of Postal Services Board
...
The
Committee will be assisted by Senior
Administrative Grade Officer T
...
Mohammad
who will act as Secretary to the GDS Committee
...
Examine the present system of Branch
Post Offices, engagement conditions and existing
structure of wage and enrolments paid to the GDS
and recommend necessary changes
...
Review the existing Services Discharge Benefits
Scheme and also other social security benefits for
the GDS and suggest necessary changes
...
iv
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(b) Conduct and disciplinary rules of GDS,
particularly keeping in view the proposed induction
of technology in the Rural Post Offices
...
Indian-origin cancer expert Harpal Singh Kumar
knighted
i
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Mr
...
ii
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He had founded
Nexan Group, a venture capital-backed medical
devices company in 1997
...
iii
...
He has won
the Mobil Prize, Metal Box Prize, and Hughes
Prize
...
Knighthood is one of the highest honours
bestowed upon an individual in the UK and it
doesn‘t carry any military obligations to the
sovereign
...
Queen usually presents
insignia at the ceremony
...
CMPDI Chairman assumes charge
i
...
Prior to this, he served as the Director (Technical)
of CMPDI
...
A mining engineer and MBA, he started his
career in the coal industry from Sohagpur area of
South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL) in 1981
...
Eight states to implement DBT in kerosene from
April 1
i
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The scheme will be implemented from
April 1, 2016 and till then state governments will be
consulted in the run up to the scheme
...
iii
...
iv
...
The implementing states
will be advised to take all necessary steps to ensure
that eligible and genuine beneficiaries particularly
in rural areas are able to access the full entitlement
of kerosene
...
Kerosene subsidy outgo for the financial year
2014-15 was ₹ 24,799 crore
...
7
...
Electronic motor insurance policies are legally
accepted by the police and transport authorities in
Telangana from today, making it the first state in
the country to do so
...
ii
...
There are 84
lakh vehicles in the state and 50 per cent of them do
not have insurance
...
Driving a vehicle without a motor third party
insurance is an offence under Motor Vehicle Act
1988 as it pays for legal liability in case of any
injury or damage to any third party life or property
caused by the use of vehicle in a public place
...
"The launch of e-Vahan Bima and digital
acceptance will help the poor accident victims in
the state and also ensure better compliance,‘‘
Ramarao said after formally launch of the initiative
here on Saturday
...
Going forward, registration certificates of
vehicles and driving licences should be verified
electronically, he added
...
8
...
To put an end to recent controversies surrounding
the Censor Board, the Centre has set up a
Committee headed by noted film-maker Shyam
Benegal to work out a revamp plan and submit its
report within two months
...
Noting that film certification has to ensure that in
doing so (giving certification), ―artistic creativity
and freedom do not get stifled/curtailed and the
people tasked with the work of certification
understand these nuances,‖ the committee is
expected to provide a ―holistic framework and
enable those tasked with the work of certification of
films to discharge their responsibilities keeping in
view this framework,‖ a statement from
Information & Broadcasting Ministry said
...
The other members of the Committee are Hindi
film director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, adman
Piyush Pandey, film critic Bhawana Somaaya, Nina
Lath Gupta of National Film Development
Corporation and Joint Secretary (Films)
...
Among other things, the committee would be
expected to take note of the ―best practices in
various parts of the world, especially where the film
industry is given sufficient and adequate space for
creative and aesthetic expression
...
It has been tasked with recommending broad
guidelines/procedures under the provisions of the
Cinematograph Act/Rules for the benefit of the
chairperson and other members of the Screening
Committee
...
The committee will also look into the staffing
pattern of Central Board of Film Certification,
known as the Censor Board, and recommend a
framework to provide efficient/transparent userfriendly services
...
India successfully test-fired indigenously
developed MBRL Pinaka II at Pokhran
i
...
The
three-day long user assisted trials were conducted at
Pokhran in Rajasthan
...
Pinaka is an unguided rocket system and capable
of neutralising large areas with rapid salvos
...
iii
...
It is capable to incorporate several types of
warheads, which make the weapon deadly for the
enemy as it can even destroy solid structures and
bunkers
...
The system proved its mettle during Kargil war
while neutralising the mountain peaks off the
enemy
...
The Pinaka
MBRL System has been indigenously developed by
the ARDE, Pune
...
15 states have joined UDAY scheme: Piyush
Goyal
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
Discoms will also issue bonds for the remaining 25
per cent of their debt which will be guaranteed by
the state governments
...
Further, states will issue non-SLR including
SDL bonds in the market or directly to the
respective banks and financial institutions holding
the Discom debt to the appropriate extent
...
The states which have agreed to join the scheme
are Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Madhya
Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab,
Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh,
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha and Maharashtra
...
Lodha panel proposes drastic reforms for BCCI,
IPL CEO given clean chit
i
...
ii
...
The committee also suggested the restructuring of
the BCCI‘s administrative set-up, proposing the
position of a CEO accountable to a nine-member
apex council
...
Among the most sensational recommendations
by the Lodha panel was the suggestion to legalise
betting
...
iv
...
The Secretary and the Treasurer of the
BCCI will be ex-officio members of this IPL
governing council,‖ Justice Lodha said
...
―The Governing Council of IPL will be entitled
to take all decisions concerning IPL, which includes
decisions relating to financial matters
...
So limited autonomy is
proposed for the IPL GC,‖ he added
...
Wipro management changes, T K Kurien
elevated as Vice Chairman, COO becomes CEO
i
...
ii
...
Kurien
who took over the role of CEO in February, 2011
will hold the executive vice chairman position until
March 31, 2017
...
Commenting on the appointment, Wipro
Chairman Azim Premji said, ―Over the past five
years, Wipro has been transforming into a next
generation technology and consulting company
with defining differentiators in the marketplace
...
‖
iv
...
He previously spent 23 years at TCS and
is the second outsider to head Wipro‘s IT business
after Vivek Paul
...
Kurien on the appointment of Neemuchwala
said, ―Abid had demonstrated a deep understanding
of technology, business vision, sound judgement
and innate ability to bring people together
...
‖
vi
...
5
...
Paytm has acquired Shifu for $8 million (about
Rs 53
...
Shifu, a context-aware personal
assistant application, mines the smartphone usage
patterns of users and makes personalised and highly
relevant recommendations to them
...
By predicting
user behaviour based on past usage, location and
other data points, Paytm‘s platform will be able to
offer relevant recommendations to our users, he
added
...
Shifu, created by Delhi-based The Signals, is a
free task-managing app
...
iv
...
Paytm has a user base of more than 100 million
people
...
In November, Paytm acquired home service
marketplace Near
...
6
...
The National
Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(NABARD) on 1 January 2016 signed the
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) for webbased monitoring of Indo-German Watershed
Development projects
...
The web-based monitoring of Indo-German
Watershed Development projects will happen in
three states- Gujarat, Rajasthan and Telangana
...
Under the MoU, NRSC will create a separate
page for NABARD on Bhuvan web-portal
...
NRSC will develop customised software tool
and mobile application for real time monitoring,
online comparison and visualisation with respect to
activities implemented in the projects
...
Atul Sobti took charge as CMD of Bharat Heavy
Electricals Limited
i
...
ii
...
Prior to
this appointment, Sobti was the Director on the
board of BHEL, where he headed two crucial
portfolios of Power and Finance
...
He also held Additional Charge of the post of
Director (Engineering, Research and
Development)
...
Before his elevation to the Board of BHEL in
December 2013, Sobti was Executive Director
(Power) at BHEL and was holding concurrent
charge of Industrial Systems Group, a Bengaluru
based unit of BHEL
...
LIC offers longer cover under ‗Jeevan Labh‘
i
...
The highlight of the plan is
that premium is payable for a limited period while
risk is covered for the whole policy term
...
The plan is
available from ages 8 to 59 years with a choice of
policy term of 16, 21 and 25 years and premiumpaying terms of 10,15 and 16 years respectively
...
iii
...
Minimum basic sum assured is ₹2 lakh with
maximum basic sum assured having no limit,
Shankar added
...
LIC‘s accidental death and disability benefit
rider is available as an optional rider by payment of
additional premium
...
9
...
Arunima Sinha, the amputee mountaineer who set
a record by climbing the Mount Everest on 25
December 2015, conquered Mount Aconcagua in
Argentina
...
ii
...
The four other peaks
conquered by her include Everest in Asia,
Kilimanjaro in Africa, Elbrus in Europe, and
Kosizko, Australia, as the world's four highest
peaks
...
Aconcagua is the highest mountain outside Asia,
at 6960
...
iv
...
Everest on 21 May 2013
...
10
...
India on 3 January 2016 won of the South Asian
Football Federation Cup (SAFF) championships
...
ii
...
At the
end of a breathless normal second half, both India
and Afghanistan were 1-1
...
For India, the first goal was scored by Jeje
Lalpehlua
...
iv
...
Afghans won their first title in
2013
...
Jharkhand Government inaugurated land bank
web portal jharbhoom
...
in
i
...
nic
...
ii
...
This
land bank will help investors get information
through district-wise nodal officers
...
For this purpose, district wise nodal officers
have been appointed whose mobile numbers and
email ids will also be available on the website
...
The state government also issued directions to
make land available through the land bank to the
industrialists allotted with coal blocks
...
Former Chief Justice of India Sarosh Homi
Kapadia died
i
...
He was
68
...
ii
...
He was
enrolled as an advocate at the Bombay High Court
in 1974
...
iii
...
On 18 December 2003, he was appointed as
a judge of the Supreme Court
...
iv
...
During his
tenure as CJI, he served as the Chairman of the
General Council of the Gujarat National Law
University and the Visitor of the National Law
School of India University
...
LinkedIn names Akshay Kothari as India
Country Manager
i
...
India has one of the
largest userbase for LinkedIn, which has more than
400 million members globally
...
Kothari replaces Nishant Rao, who quit the
company in October last year to join cloud-based
customer support software firm Freshdesk as its
Chief Operating Officer
...
iii
...
Since then, based
out of LinkedIn's global headquarters in Mountain
View, California, he has led several major product
and content initiatives, including Pulse
...
iv
...
Over the past six
years, the member base in India saw a ten-fold
increase (which translates to a compound annual
growth rate of 46 per cent) to more than 33 million
...
SC directed Gujarat government to make Gujarat
State Cooperative Tribunal functional
i
...
ii
...
The ruling
was made by a bench headed by Chief Justice of
India TS Thakur
...
The dispute
has its origin in 2011, when the Gujarat Cooperative Bar Association moved the High Court
challenging the Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act,
1961 and the Rules made there under with respect
to the appointment of members of the State Cooperative Tribunal and members of Board of
Nominees
...
They had contended that the Act confers
excessive power upon the State in the appointment
process
...
v
...
It ruled that only members
with a minimum of five years‘ experience as a
judicial officer will be eligible to be appointed to
the tribunal
...
Nokia completed acquisition of Alca-Lucent for
15
...
Nokia Corporation on 5 January 2015 announced
that it completed the regulatory formalities for
acquiring the French telecom equipment company
Alca-Lucent
...
6 billion euro, was
signed in 2014 and later approved by the European
Commission
...
With this acquisition, Nokia holds 79
...
97 percent of the French company's voting
rights
...
iii
...
It was founded in 1865 and operates
across 120 countries
...
In April 2014, its mobile phone business unit
was acquired by the Microsoft in a deal worth 5
...
At present, Rajeev Suri, an Indian, is
the President and CEO of the company
...
Mary Barra elected as Chairman of General
Motors Board of Directors
i
...
Barra succeeds
Theodore Solso, who will continue serving as the
Lead Independent Director of the Board
...
Earlier, Barra
was serving as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
GM since January 2014
...
Barra began her career with GM in 1980 as a
General Motors Institute (Kettering University) CoOp Student at the Pontiac Motor Division
...
iv
...
7
...
British writer Kate Atkinson on 4 January 2016
won the novel-of-the-year prize at Britain's Costa
Book Awards 2015 for the second time in three
years
...
ii
...
iii
...
She studied English literature at the
University of Dundee and obtained her master's
degree in 1974
...
iv
...
Since then, she has published another eight
novels, one play, and one collection of short stories
...
She was appointed a Member of the Order of the
British Empire (MBE) in the 2011 Birthday
Honours for services to literature
...
The Costa Book Awards is one of the United
Kingdom‘s most prestigious and popular literary
prizes
...
The award was launched in 1971
...
Toilets made mandatory to contest Panchayat
polls in Bihar
i
...
This declaration means
that no one can contest the Bihar panchayat
elections scheduled in 2016 without having a toilet
at their home
...
In the initial phase, it will be made operational
on the 500 km long Haldia-Farakka National
Waterways 1
...
ii
...
He
also said to ensure free and fair polling the elections
will be held in 10 phases
...
iii
...
iv
...
The legislation
brought some new provisions including making it
mandatory for candidates contesting all level of
panchayat raj elections to have toilets at their
individual home by 31 January 2016
...
Union Government to launch River Information
System for Inland Waterways
i
...
The system is
expected to improve navigation in Indland
Waterways as the government is set to expand the
network across the country through the National
Waterways Bill, 2015
...
The bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on 21
December 2015 and is pending with the Rajya
Sabha
...
It
will provide remote communication with vessels
and real time meteorological data which will be
available online
...
To operationalise the system, Radars and
sensors will be installed along the route and there
will be major base stations to monitor the
movement
...
10
...
India-Nepal Bus Service on 4 January 2016
resumed after a gap of 27 years
...
The service runs
between Kanchanpur in Nepal, which is close to
Banbasa border in Champavat district of
Uttarakhand, and Anand Vihar ISBT in Delhi
...
To travel in these buses, no special documents
are required as both the countries share open
border
...
The service is expected to benefit people living
along the border areas as they have family as well
as trade relations with each other
...
And, it is also expected to benefit around 10000
Nepalis who travel from Kanchanpur district,
Dandel Dhura, Voti, Sapen, Acham, Kalali,
Jagbuddha and Siddhartha Nagar areas in Nepal
...
Sterlite Grid commissioned first power project
under TBCB incentive regime
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
iv
...
v
...
It will
connect Kota in Rajasthan to Shujalpur in Madhya
Pradesh to provide the path for the evacuation of
electricity generated at RAPP-7 and 8
...
Under the TBCB norms, developers quoting the
lowest average electricity tariffs from a proposed
project get to set it up, as against the erstwhile
―cost-plus‖ model, where projects were set up
through pacts with distribution utilities and were
entitled to assured returns
...
IUPAC announced addition of Four Elements to
complete Seventh row of Periodic Table
i
...
The decision was taken by the IUPAC as the four
elements met the discovery of elements of the
IUPAP/IUPAC Transfermium Working Group
(TWG) 1991 Discovery Criteria
...
All these four
elements are synthetic in nature
...
iii
...
Naming of elements: After officially
recognizing the elements, the IUPAC also invited
suggestions related to permanent names and
symbols from the scientists who discovered them
...
iv
...
It was
discovered by the scientists belonging to RIKEN
research laboratory in Japan
...
115: ununpentium, Uup are the temporary
working name and symbol respectively
...
117: ununseptium, Uus are the temporary
working name and symbol respectively
...
Element 118 - It has ununoctium and Uuo as
the temporary working name and symbol
respectively
...
They were discovered by slamming lighter nuclei into each other and tracking the following
decay of the radioactive superheavy elements
...
13
...
Department of
Posts on 1 January 2016 formed a one-man
committee to study issues related to Gramin Dak
Sevaks including wage structure and service
conditions
...
ii
...
It will review the
existing facilities for 2
...
14
...
rime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the
annual Indian Science Congress (ISC) at University
of Mysore campus in Karnataka on Sunday
...
The Congress will continue till January 7
...
After inaugural
of the Congress by Modi, eminent scientist CNR
Rao will deliver the Bharat Ratna M Visvesvaraya
Lecture on 'Doing Science in India' on the opening
day on January 3
...
Over 100 eminent scientists from different
universities and research institutions will deliver
plenary talks on subjects like Nano Science, Space
Science, Technology & Applications, Diabetes,
Evolution: The Frontiers, Atomic Energy, Safe
water and sanitation, Diseases and drug
development, Public-Private partnership for the
Swachh Bharat Mission initiative during the fiveday meet
...
As part of Indian Science Congress, the Children
Science Congress will be inaugurated by Nobel
Laureate John B Gurdon (Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine in 2012) on January 4 at
the amphitheatre, Manasagangothri inside the
University campus
...
Filippo Grandi takes helm as UN High
Commissioner for Refugees
i
...
ii
...
Record
numbers of people globally are forced to flee war
and persecution, including more than one million
refugees and migrants who crossed the
Mediterranean to Europe during the past year
...
Other challenges include critical shortfalls in
humanitarian funding, fewer voluntary returns than
at any time in more than three decades, people
staying in exile for longer periods of time and the
increased politicization of refugee issues in many
countries
...
Grandi, 58, who is from Italy, has worked in
international affairs for over 30 years, 27 of them
with the United Nations
...
16
...
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on 3
January 2015 won the 26th Lal Bahadur Shastri
Hockey tournament
...
To win the title, the ONGC defeated Indian
Railways 3-0 on penalties in the final match held at
the Shivaji Stadium in New Delhi
...
At the end of the stipulated time both the teams
stood at 2 points each
...
iv
...
It will examine
their conduct and disciplinary rules, particularly
keeping in view the proposed induction of
technology in rural post offices
...
Sachin is brand ambassador for Novo Nordisk's
diabetes campaign
i
...
ii
...
In
India 69
...
5 million people will
have diabetes
...
iii
...
The company, which is the leading global
insulin maker, is providing free diabetes treatment
and education to 4,000 children, who have been
suffering from Type-2 diabetes, in India
...
Cabinet okays India-Singapore MoU on civil
aviation
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
This cooperation will be extended to
other airports with mutual consent
...
The Union Cabinet also gave its nod for postfacto approval to the Memoranda of Understanding
(MOUs) between the Corporate Affairs Ministry,
Competition Commission of India (CCI) and Indian
Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) with foreign
countries/organisations
...
The Union Cabinet has been apprised of the
protocol signed earlier between India and Czech
Republic in the field of heavy industry, especially
in industrial cooperation and facilities construction
...
The protocol includes the intent for
modernisation of the existing facilities in India by
the Czech companies, including modernisation of
three plants of Heavy Engineering Corporation, a
Central Public Sector Enterprises under the
Department of Heavy Industries at Ranchi, set up
with Czech support
2
...
Forbes on 4 January 2016 released the 2016 30
Under 30 List featuring 600 men and women who
achieved remarkable professional success before
attaining 30 years of age
...
ii
...
iii
...
iv
...
Union Cabinet approved Stand Up India Scheme
i
...
ii
...
It is expected to benefit at least 2
...
The expected date of reaching the
target of at least 2
...
iii
...
It will
create credit guarantee mechanism through the
National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company
(NCGTC)
...
iv
...
Its focus is on
handholding support for both SC/ST and Women
borrowers
...
The aim is to leverage institutional credit
structure to reach out under-served sectors of the
population by facilitating bank loans repayable up
to 7 years and between 10 lakh rupees- 100 lakh
rupees for greenfield enterprises in nonfarm sector
set up by such SC, ST and Women borrowers
...
The National Credit Guarantee Trustee
Company Ltd (NCGTC) will be the operating
agency for the loan
...
The
Start up India Stand up India initiative was
announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in
his speech on 15 August 2015
...
Andhra Bank launched Immediate Payment
Service
i
...
The service makes
payments possible within fraction of seconds with
all the standards and integrity maintained for
security
...
The IMPS was enabled across all branches to
provide inter-bank electronic fund transfer service
capable of processing person to account
remittances
...
Unlike
National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT), IMPS
will be available round-the-clock under which a
real-time instant fund transfer system for inter-bank
remittances is possible
...
iv
...
It was set up with the guidance and
support of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and
Indian Banks‘ Association (IBA)
...
Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) is one of the
electronic funds transfer systems of India
...
The service enables an
instant, 24X7, interbank electronic fund transfer
through mobile, internet and ATM
...
World's largest blue star sapphire discovered in
Sri Lanka
i
...
49 carats was discovered in a mine in Sri
Lanka
...
ii
...
ii
...
iii
...
Under the deal, the company will
acquire all 12 onshore mutual fund schemes of
Goldman Sachs Asset Management India with total
asset under management of 7132 crore rupees
...
The deal will also make Reliance MF the
exclusive fund manager for the government's
ambitious Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSE)
Exchange
...
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
...
It engages
in global investment banking, securities, investment
management and other financial services primarily
with institutional clients
...
The firm provides mergers and acquisitions
advice, underwriting services, asset management,
and prime brokerage to its clients
...
iii
...
The name came from a
Muslim belief that Adam arrived in Sri Lanka after
being sent away from the Garden of Eden
...
iv
...
v
...
The value of a star
sapphire depends on the weight of the stone and
also on the body color, visibility, and intensity of
the asterism
...
Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman topped 2015
US Bestseller List
i
...
Around 1
...
The figures
were based on US print unit sales reported to
Nielsen
...
CCI cleared Reliance Capital-Goldman Sachs
deal
i
...
CCI approved the acquisition as
the deal may not have an adverse impact on
competition in the country
...
Go Set a Watchman was published more than
half a century after Harper‘s Pulitzer-winning first
book, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published
...
The spike in the sales of Go Set a Watchman
can be attributed to the fact that 89-year-old Harper
Lee is now confined to a nursing home and may not
publish a word in future
...
The second and third bestseller in the list was
Jeff Kinney‘s Diary of Wimpy Kid series (1
...
4
million) respectively
...
Australia pulled out of U-19 World Cup in
Bangladesh due to safety concerns
i
...
It
pulled-out citing security reasons
...
ii
...
ICC announced that
Australia will be replaced by Ireland team – the
runners-up in the qualifying tournament in Kuala
Lumpur in October 2015
...
The first
matches of the event will start on 27 January 2016
in which England will play against Fiji and
Bangladesh will play against South Africa
...
iv
...
It seems that the decision was made
after a series of militant violent attacks in the
country since September 2015, including the
shooting of three foreigners, two of whom died
...
Union Government launched Ganga Gram
Yojana in Uttar Pradesh
i
...
Under the scheme, 1600 villages of UP
situated along the banks of river Ganga will be
developed
...
In the first
phase of the progamme, 200 villages have been
selected initially
...
The villages will have toilets in every
house hold
...
It is proposed to incur the expenditure of 1 crore
rupees on every village
...
Sichewal is
situated in Punjab, where cooperation of the
villagers has been solicited for the water
management and waste disposal
...
The Ministry also deployed first company of
Ganga Task force Battalion at Garhmukteshwar as
a major initiative towards fast track implementation
of Namami Gange Programme
...
10
...
Government is keen to promote operational
oceanography since it plays an important role in
translating the benefits of science for the common
public, Y S Chowdary, Minister of State for
Science, Technology & Earth Sciences said here
today
...
A few
examples being potential fishing zones advisories to
fishermen, ocean state forecasts for mariners,
tsunami and storm surge early warnings among
others, the minister was quoted as saying by an
official release
...
Chowdary performed 'bhoomipujan' or ground
breaking ceremony for setting up the international
training centre for operational oceanography
(ITCO-Ocean) which is coming up on the campus
of Indian National Centre for Ocean Information
Services ( INCOIS) here
...
Wayne Rooney named 2015 England Player of
the Year
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
He previously won the award in 2008,
2009 and 2014
...
iv
...
It's been a great year for the
team and for me personally
...
Stoke City goalkeeper Jack Butland, who has
produced some impressive performances this
season, was elected the Under-21s Player of the
Year
...
12
...
Indian shooter Apurvi Chandela broke the world
record on way to winning gold in the women's 10
metre air rifle event at the Swedish Cup Grand Prix
...
2 in the event held on Tuesday
to surpass the feat of Chinese Olympic gold
medallist Yi Siling, who held the record with 211
...
The result marked a positive start for Chandela,
who has already won an Olympic quota place for
the Rio Olympics
...
6) and
Stine Nielsen (185
...
iii
...
The support,
encouragement and wishes received from my well
wishers from Rajasthan has stood me in good stead
in various international tournaments
...
Chandela had won the gold at the National
Championships in the Capital last month
...
Daily GK Update - Current Affairs - 7th January
2016
1
...
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti
Mohammad Sayeed, a crafty politician who took on
the powerful Abdullah family and rose to become
the country‘s first Muslim Home Minister, died
today at AIIMS here after his platelets dropped
dangerously
...
Sayeed, 79, who took charge of the State on
March 1 last year heading a PDP—BJP alliance,
breathed his last this morning after remaining on
ventilator for the past few days
...
During hospitalisation
his platelets had dropped dangerously, doctors said
...
He is the second J&K Chief Minister to die in
office, the first one being Sheikh Mohammad
Abdullah who died on September 8, 1982
...
But this will require the approval of BJP
...
Sayeed is survived by his wife, three daughters
and a son
...
Flags will be flown at half mast
...
The mortal remains of the Chief Minister would
be flown to Srinagar where the body will be kept
for people to pay homage
...
vi
...
In the 87-member J
and K Assembly PDP won 28 seats and BJP 25
while opposition National Conference got 15 and
Congress 12
...
Wattan Ko Jano initiative: A programme that
aims to expose youth from J&K to rest of India
i
...
The initiative came
in news after more than 240 youth in the age-group
of 15 to 24 from J&K met with Prime Minister
Narendra Modi in New Delhi
...
Watan Ko Jano initiative was conceived by the
J&K State Rehabilitation Council in 2011
...
iii
...
iv
...
3
...
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has
approved 33% reservation for women in Central
Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) at constable-level
positions
...
There will be 33% reservation for women at
constable-level posts in Central Reserve Police
Force and Central Industrial Security Force, and 1415% reservation at the constable level in border
guarding forces i
...
Border Security Force,
Sashastra Seema Bal and Indo Tibetan Border
Police, starting immediately, according to an
official statement released by the Ministry of Home
Affairs
...
The Committee on Empowerment of Women in
its Sixth Report had advocated elevating
representation of women in paramilitary forces
...
iv
...
In 2015, 33% positions in the Delhi Police
were reserved for women; six other Union
Territories also passed this proposal and women
were also allowed for combat roles in the Indian
Air Force
...
The Delhi Police employed only 9
...
4
...
Industry body Internet and Mobile Association of
India (IAMAI), which counts companies such as
Facebook, Microsoft and Google as members,
named Kunal Shah, co-founder FreeCharge as its
new chairman
...
Shah succeeds
Nishant Rao, the ex-managing director of LinkedIn,
who recently moved to Freshdesk as the global
Chief Operating Officer, the association said in a
statement
...
IAMAI also named Vishwas Patel, chief
executive officer, CCAvenue as the new treasurer
...
Shah co-founded FreeCharge in August 2010
with an aim to build a business that turned
recharges in to rewarding experiences for its
consumers
...
v
...
CCAvenue provides payment gateway services to
thousands of eMerchants across the world
...
Gadkari launches India's first River Information
System
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
iv
...
6
...
The Global Communication Association (GCA),
a not-for-profit professional organisation, to host
the 11th international conference of media experts
and communication specialists from around the
world at Mysuru on January 28-29
...
The meet has
University of Mysore, which is celebrating its
Centenary year, as its academic partner for hosting
the conference
...
iii
...
iv
...
v
...
vi
...
7
...
Karnataka‘s Tourism and the National Academy
of Sciences of India (NASI) have signed a
memorandum of understanding to set up a Cauvery
river gallery in Mysuru
...
The gallery, to
be built at a cost of Rs
...
5 crore, is expected to
showcase the life, culture and biodiversity along the
river from its birth in Kodagu till it reaches the Bay
of Bengal
...
iii
...
The project will be
completed in 6-9 months and it is expected to
become a tourist attraction
...
NASI former president Manju Sharma said,
―The Cauvery gallery in Mysuru will be third in the
country
...
‖
v
...
vi
...
8
...
The State Cabinet has decided to implement the
‗Sampoorna Arogya Keralam‘ project announced in
the 2015-16 State budget
...
With this, people will not be required to
visit multiple offices or agencies for medical care
...
Instead, they
can go to enlisted public and private hospitals and
get the services through a smart health card
...
All families with annual
income below Rs
...
At least 42
lakh such families are expected to benefit
...
The Chief Minister will head the Sampoorna
Arogya Kerala Trust, which will monitor and
implement the project
...
20
crore would be set up and a separate head of
account formed
...
iv
...
Assistance for medical care in Kerala
is currently made available through Rashtriya
Swayam Bima Yojana (RSBY), Comprehensive
Health Insurance Scheme (Chis), Chis-Plus,
Arogyakiranam, Karunya Benevolent Fund,
Thalolam, cancer protection scheme and similar
schemes of various welfare fund boards
...
Beneficiary families, except the 32 lakh enrolled
under the RSBY, Chis and Chis-Plus schemes, need
to produce an income certificate from the revenue
department as a one-time requirement
...
A technical
committee will be set up to decide on treatment
protocols and the various procedures required to be
adopted in accordance with the guidelines of the
project
...
India to skip BS-V, leapfrog to BS-VI norms
from April 1, 2020
i
...
The decision was taken
at an inter-ministerial meeting chaired by Road
Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari,
which was attended by Oil Minister Dharmendra
Pradhan, Heavy Industries Minister Anant Geete
and Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar
...
―Government has decided to leapfrog from BSIV to BS-VI directly by April 1, 2020
...
It is a bold
decision and a commitment to the environment,‖
Gadkari told PTI here after the meeting
...
All the other
ministries have assured cooperation to make the
implementation successful, he added
...
Earlier, a meeting of an
inter-ministerial group, including representatives of
the Ministries of Road Transport and Highways,
Petroleum, Heavy Industries and Environment and
Forests, was unable to reach a consensus
...
The Road Transport and Highways Ministry was
of the view the roll-out of BS-V norms must start
from 2019 but the Petroleum Ministry expressed its
inability to comply with the deadline
...
v
...
The rest
of the country has BS-III grade fuel
...
Uber launches ‗uberEXCHANGE‘, start-up
mentorship programme
i
...
Over the next years, Uber will
host a series of six leadership talks by senior Uber
executives, including from their headquarters in
San Francisco, the company said in a statement
...
The
programme will address issues that entrepreneurs
face, like fund-raising, product design, engineering
and how to scale up a business
...
iii
...
It will also support Prime
Minister‘s vision to make India a global startup
hub
...
―Today, more and more people aspire to be
entrepreneurs and build something themselves
...
v
...
―This mentorship programme will be immensely
valuable to Indian entrepreneurs and I am excited
about the exchange of knowledge and ideas
between the startup culture in India and the Silicon
Valley,‖ DIPP Secretary Amitabh Kant said
...
AB Khare appointed CMD of Madras
Fertilizers
i
...
In August
last year, the government headhunter Public
Enterprise Selection Board (PESB) had
recommended the name of Khare for the post of
CMD at Madras Fertilizers Ltd (MFL)
...
Khare will succeed I Vijay Kumar
...
Khare was previously working with
state—owned fertiliser firm Rashtriya Chemicals
and Fertilizers as Chief General Manager
(Commercial)
...
―The President is pleased to appoint of A B
Khare to the post of CMD, MFL in the pay scale of
Rs
...
iv
...
It is under the administrative control of the
Fertiliser Ministry
...
Achyuta Samanta elected as General President
of 105th Indian Science Congress
i
...
Samanta is also currently
serving as member of Executive Council of Indian
Science Congress Association (ISCA)
...
Noted Gujarati writer Labshankar Thakar
passed away
i
...
He was 80
...
ii
...
Some of his famous
poems are Vahi Jati Pachhal Ramya Ghosha (1965),
Manasni Vaat (1968), Mara Namne Darwaje
(1972), Boom Kagalma Kora (1974), Pravahan
(1986), Kalagranthi (1987)
...
iii
...
Apart from being Gujarati poet,
playwright and story writer he was also an
Ayurvedic Practitioner
...
iv
...
14
...
Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda, popularly
known as Sam Pitroda, on 6 January 2016 was
appointed Technology Advisor to the Odisha
Government
...
ii
...
On last occasion, Prof Prana
Krushna Parija, eminent Odia scientist, was elected
as President of the 47th Session of the ISCA in
1960
...
He has been the member of Executive Council
of ISCA since 2011
...
iv
...
Samanta has set
up institutions like Kalinga Institute of Industrial
Technology (KIIT) University and Kalinga Institute
of Social Sciences (KISS), Bhubaneshwar
...
Pitroda will have a key role in Vision 2036 for
Odisha@100, as the state government is making a
vision document for 2036 to celebrate the 100 years
of state‘s formation
...
In 1964, he travelled to Chicago to study electrical
engineering
...
He is a director of the Young Indian Company
co-owned by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi
...
iv
...
He has also served as an advisor to
the United Nations
...
Pavan Kapoor To Be India's Ambassador To
Israel
i
...
Mr Kapoor, a 1990 batch Indian Foreign
Service Officer, is currently India's High
Commissioner in Mozambique capital Maputo
...
ii
...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
may also pay a return visit to Tel Aviv
...
President
Pranab Mukherjee had visited Tel Aviv in October
last year, becoming the first Indian Head of State to
visit the Jewish nation
...
India is Israel's largest buyer of military
hardware
...
Mr Kapoor,
an MBA from Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad, also a has a Master's degree in
International Political Economy from the London
School of Economics
...
In his diplomatic career of two decades, he has
served in different capacities in the Indian Missions
in Moscow, London, Geneva and Kiev apart from
serving in the Ministry of External Affairs and the
Prime Minister's Office
...
Daily GK Update - Current Affairs - 8th January
2016
1
...
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram
Rajan was named The Banker magazine's Global
and Asia-Pacific Central Bank Governor of the
Year 2015, for stabilising the Indian rupee,
initiating key reforms to attract much needed
foreign capital in the country and reining in a
runaway price appreciation
...
ii
...
iii
...
In October 2014,
Euromoney and in January 2015, Central Banking
awarded him the best central banker award for his
contribution in stabilising the Indian economy
...
After he took over in September 2013, the first
priority for the RBI governor was to stabilise the
local currency, which hit a record low of 68
...
Through a series of innovative
measures, including attracting dollars from nonresident Indians by offering higher interest rate on
deposits, Rajan stabilised the rupee
...
v
...
The magazine also noted
Rajan's efforts in cleaning banks' balance sheets
from bad debts and introducing 23 new sets of
banks in 2015
...
Overseas Indian Affairs Ministry, MEA merged
i
...
Announcing the merger, External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj tweeted on Thursday, ―As Minister
of External Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs, I
realised that a substantial work of MOIA is done
through our missions abroad
...
‖
ii
...
iii
...
―Even the
information for answering the questions related to
MOIA in Parliament used to be provided by the
Indian missions,‖ said the spokesperson
...
But reportedly, the MEA, which has been short
of staff, wanted greater number of officials with
diplomatic experience in key positions in MOIA to
deal with emergencies involving Indians in various
crisis-prone countries in West Asia
...
v
...
3
...
India and France on 8 January 2016 started their
eight-day counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency
joint exercise Shakti-2016 in Rajasthan
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ii
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It is an
important step for the armies to train together and
gain from each other's rich operational experience
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French contingent comprising 56 personnel of
35th Infantry Regiment of 7th Armoured Brigade,
which had taken part in the Afghan war, will
participate in the Shakti-2016
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iv
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Both countries have troops deployed in
counter-insurgency and counter-terrorist operations
and therefore sharing each other's military
experiences will pay meaningful dividends
...
The French 35th Infantry Regiment was raised in
1604 by a member of the gentry from Lorraine
whose surname was Nemond
...
The battalion has varied
combat experiences, having served in Algeria,
Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan, amongst other places
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First Company of Ganga Task Force deployed
Ganga Gram Yojana launched
i
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Speaking
on the occasion Union Minister of Water
Resources, River Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation Sushri Uma Bharti said that three
such companies will be deployed soon at Kanpur,
Varanasi and Allahabad
...
The Minister said the Jawans of the Ganga Task
force will be deployed on the banks of the river
Ganga to ensure that industry and civilians do not
pollute the river
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iii
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In these villages open drains falling into
river Ganga will be diverted and alternative
arrangements for sewage treatment will be made
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It
is proposed to incur and expenditure of Rs
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iv
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It may be noted that Sichewal is
situated in Punjab, where cooperation of the
villagers has been solicited for the water
management and waste disposal in a meticulous
way
...
Earlier the Minister inspected two under
construction sewage treatment plants at
Garhmukteshwar
...
The Minister also
inaugurated Namami Gange Photo exhibition at
Garhmukteshwar and administered the pledge to the
people to keep Ganga clean
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5
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Senior IAS officer Sailesh was today appointed as
Registrar General and Census Commissioner
...
Sailesh, a 1985 batch IAS officer of AssamMeghalaya cadre, is presently Additional Secretary
in Home Ministry
...
He has been appointed in place of C
Chandramouli, who completed his tenure today
...
The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has
approved the appointment of Sailesh as Registrar
General and Census Commissioner for a period till
July 28, 2017, an order issued by Department of
Personnel and Training said
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Tata Steel bags PM‘s trophy
i
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This Award
has been conferred on the Company for the eighth
time
...
ii
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The
enthusiasm and involvement of its employees
including the Union Leadership team was highly
appreciated by the panel of judges for the Prime
Minister‘s Trophy, reaffirming the core strength of
Tata Steel – its skilled and motivated workforce
that has a will to excel
...
Tata Steel has always strived to set the
benchmark of excellence in efficiency, quality and
sustainability in all it‘s operations
...
iv
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The
primary objective of the scheme is to generate a
sense of competition among the steel plants so that
they continuously benchmark themselves with the
best and improve their performances
...
Amitabh Kant appointed as CEO of NITI Aayog
i
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His appointment was approved by the
Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC)
...
ii
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iii
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Kant is currently serving as the Secretary in the
Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion in
the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry
...
He has also served as the CEO of India‘s largest
industrial infrastructure project the Delhi-Mumbai
Industrial Corridor Development Corporation
...
8
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Devender Kumar Sikri was on 7 January 2016
appointed as Chairman of fair-trade regulator
Competition Commission of India (CCI)
...
ii
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e
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iii
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He has held various positions in
Centre as well as in his cadre state Gujarat
...
iv
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He also served as the
Collector of Rajkot and Jamnagar
...
Indigenously Built ASW Corvette INS Kadmatt
commissioned in Visakhapatnam
i
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INS Kadmatt is the second
ship of Project 28 (P28) class ASW corvettes and is
the latest ship after Shivalik class, Kolkata class
and INS Kamorta
...
ii
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The ship is an integral part of
the Eastern Fleet under the Eastern Naval
Command to safeguard the Eastern Seaboard of
India
...
It was designed 90 per cent indigenously by the
Directorate of Naval Design (DND) and
constructed by M/s Garden Reach Shipbuilders and
Engineers Ltd
...
iv
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The ship had been
constructed using high grade steel (DMR 249A)
produced in India
...
10
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Operation Green Hunt, an all-out offensive by
India‘s paramilitary forces and the state's forces
against the Naxalites came in news on 8 January
2016
...
ii
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The Committee is protesting against the
Operation by security forces against the ultras in the
south-western part of the State
...
The term
Operation Green Hunt was coined by the
Chhattisgarh police officials to describe one
successful drive against the Communist Party of
India (Maoist) in the state
...
iv
...
Earlier, the operation also
came in news in December 2014 when the outlawed
Communist Party of India (Maoist) claimed that the
Sukma ambush was answer to Operation Green
Hunt
...
11
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The Union Government on 8 January 2016
allowed the conduct of the traditional bull-taming
sports, Jallikattu, in Tamil Nadu
...
Jallikattu
is celebrated around pongal in southern state of
Tamil Nadu
...
The Union
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate
Change issued a gazette notification with regard to
holding traditional sports that use bulls as
performing animals including Jallikattu across
India
...
The notification said that bulls can be exhibited
and trained as performing animal at different events
of different states as per the customs or tradition of
any community
...
The events that use bulls as performing animals
are Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu and bullock cart races
in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana,
Kerala and Gujarat
...
v
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On the other hand,
in case of Jallikattu, the moment the bull leaves the
enclosure it shall be tamed within a radial distance
of 15 metre
...
Quikr acquired online real estate portal
Commonfloor
...
Quikr on 7 January 2016 announced acquisition
of the property search website Commonfloor
...
Quikr bought the website in a distress
sale orchestrated by Tiger Global Management Llc
...
After the deal, Quikr will be valued at about 1
...
The merger is expected to be completed over the
next two to three months
...
QuikrHomes will
benefit from CommonFloor‘s structured data and
domain expert
...
Quikr is an Indian classified advertising
platform
...
It is headquartered in Bangalore
...
iv
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com is an Indian real estate
portal founded in 2007 by three computer science
graduates from IIT Roorkee and JSSATE
...
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The Philippines' Miguel Tabuena on 7 January
2016 was voted as the Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of
Month for December 2015
...
The trio were nominated by a
selection panel before going into a voting process
...
Born on 13 October 1994, Miguel Tabuena is a
Filipino professional golfer
...
iii
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He has played
on the Asian Tour since 2011 and picked up his
first win at the 2015 Philippine Open
...
He became the first Filipino to win his National
Open since 2008
...
French soldiers to march down Rajpath on
Republic Day 2016 along with Indian troops
i
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Hollande
is the Chief Guest for 26 January 2016 celebrations
...
ii
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Some soldiers will also fly down
from France to form a proper marching contingent
...
Earlier similar event occurred in France when
Indian troops drawn from the three services (Indian
Army, Indian Navy and Indian Air Force) marched
down the Champs Elysees in Paris along with
French Army on the Bastille Day
...
iv
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The French National Day
commemorates the Storming of the Bastille on 14
July 1789, an important event in Paris that was the
symbolic start of French revolution
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Modi to be chief guest at sustainable agriculture
meet in Gangtok
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ii
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iv
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iii
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Human Resource Minister Smriti Irani on
Saturday inaugurated the 43rd edition of the New
Delhi World Book Fair which commenced here
with China as the guest of honour country and a
theme presentation of the cultural heritage of India
...
The nine-day fair, touted as the largest in Asia, is
hosting about 30 countries in which a series of
programmes including panel discussions, dramas,
classical and folk dances, workshops, discussions,
authors‘ meets, conferences, seminars and cultural
programmes will be held
...
Talking about the Chinese participation, Irani
said, ―I believe that 50 publishing houses and 9
eminent authors bring with them to this World
Book Fair around 5,000 titles so that through this
exchange our people across both nations can be
enriched
...
China was invited to be the guest country after
the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping here last
year where he signed a memorandum of
understanding with Prime Minister Narendra Modi
...
This year the fair has introduced a special
‗Navlekhan‘ programme which seeks to promote
and publish young authors under the age of 40
writing in Indian languages
...
iv
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The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has
launched an online initiative to seek suggestions
from LPG consumers across the country, which will
help in providing efficient and friendly service
...
Two online discussion forums - Citizen-Friendly
Services and Increasing LPG Coverage in the
Country - have been launched and are available on
myGov
...
in, an official press statement
said
...
The initiative is part of steps being taken to
observe 2016 as the 'Year of LPG Consumers'
...
"LPG consumers/ citizens are requested to
participate and share their thoughts on the
respective forums online
...
v
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President Pranab Mukherjee on 7 January 2016
promulgated the Enemy Property (Amendment and
Validation) Ordinance, 2016 to make amendments
to the Enemy Property Act, 1968
...
These
amendments will help is dealing with the loopholes
of the Enemy Property Act, 1968 and ensure that
the enemy properties that have been vested in the
Custodian remain so and they do not revert back to
the enemy subject or enemy firm
...
Once an enemy property is vested in the
Custodian, it shall continue to be vested in him as
enemy property irrespective of whether the enemy,
enemy subject or enemy firm has ceased to be an
enemy due to reasons such as death and others
...
The law of succession does not apply to enemy
property
...
v
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The Union Government through the
Custodian of Enemy Property for India is in
possession of enemy properties spread across many
states in the country
...
vi
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A couple of days after naming Abidali
Neemuchawala its new chief executive, Wipro,
India's third largest information technology
company, has made a few changes to its
organisation structure
...
The Bengaluru-headquartered company has
elevated company veteran Bhanumurthy B M as its
chief operating officer (COO) and president apart
from handing over a new role to G K Prasanna,
who is presently heading Global Infrastructure
Services as president and chief executive
...
Bhanumurthy, who joined Wipro in 1992, is
presently the president and chief executive of
business application services (BAS), the largest
business line in the company which accounts for
almost a half of its overall revenues
...
iv
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MIT will
comprise of the offices of the chief technology
officer, chief information officer, marketing,
strategic engagements (Advisor Relations and sales
enablement functions) among others
...
This new unit would focus on non-linear growth
engines, products and platform-based services,
integrated solutions, research, and new
technologies, the company said confirming the
developments
...
Sri Lankan parliament begins process to adopt
new Constitution
i
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ii
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The new
constitution will replace the current executive
president headed constitution adopted in 1978
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The resolution noted that there shall be a
Committee of Parliament referred to as the
―Constitutional Assembly‖ which shall consist of
all MPs, for the purpose of deliberating on, and
seeking the views and advice of the people, on a
new constitution for Sri Lanka, and preparing a
draft of a Constitution Bill for the consideration of
Parliament in the exercise of its powers under
Article 75 of the Constitution
...
A Steering Committee consisting of the Prime
Minister (Chairman), Leader of the Opposition,
Leader of the House, the Minister of Justice, and
not more than 11 other Members of the
Constitutional Assembly will be appointed by the
Constitutional Assembly
...
President Maithripala Sirisena in his address
said the time has come to formulae a new
constitution in keeping with the demands of the
21st century
...
v
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Sirisena, since coming to power, has reduced his
presidential powers and strengthened key areas of
governance by setting up independent commissions
on police, judiciary elections and public service
...
Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis clinch Brisbane
International title
i
...
The top seeds
quelled the challenge of German wildcards
Angelique Kerber and Andrea Petkovic 7-5, 6-1 in
mere 69 minutes
...
Sania and Martina, the world number one team,
have now stitched a 26-match winning streak
together, which has brought them six titles in a row
at the US Open, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Beijing, WTA
Finals and now here
...
It is the longest winning streak since Italians
Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci's 25 in a row in
2012
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iv
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v
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It was a cakewalk for
them from there, losing only one game before
closing the match in their favour
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Urjit Patel re-appointed as RBI Deputy Governor
for Three Years
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ii
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Patel, a
doctorate from Yale University, also had a stint at
IMF
...
Patel is the fourth deputy governor and the other
three are HR Khan, R Gandhi and SS Mundra
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The 14th
Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (PBD) was held in New
Delhi
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The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee
inaugurated the three day long 88th annual
conference of Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya
Sammelan today (January 10, 2016) at Ranchi,
Jharkhand
...
Speaking on the occasion, the President said he
had been closely involved with the organization for
the last three decades
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 10 January
2016 released a book titled ―MARU BHARAT
SARU BHARAT ―(My India Noble India) written
by Jain Acharya Ratnasundersuriswarji Maharaj
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This is the
300th book of Ratnasundersuriswarji Maharaj
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5
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Nepal on 9
January 2016 was elected to the UNICEF executive
board, representing the group of Asia-Pacific
countries for the term 2016-2018
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Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on 10
January 2016 inaugurated the 28th edition of
International Kite Festival at Sabarmati River front
in Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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ii
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iii
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She also said that in last one
decade the business of kite making has grown from
100 crore rupees to 700 crore rupees
...
The international kite festival is simultaneously
organized in other cities of the state including
Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Porbandar, Mandvi,
Botad, Surendranagar, and Modhera
...
Uttarayan is the sign for farmers that the sun is
back and that harvest season is approaching which
is called Makara Sankranti
...
7
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Brie Larson
won the best actress award for ‗The Martian‘
Movie
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The 11th World
Hindi Day was celebrated on 10 January 2016
...
ii
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And, it is in addition to the National Hindi Divas
that is being celebrated annually on 14 September
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Noted Hindi writer and journalist Ravindra Kalia
passed away on 9 January 2016 in New Delhi
...
Kalia had been suffering from liver
cirrhosis
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ii
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Born on 11 November 1938 in
Jalandhar, Punjab, Kalia was mainly famous for
writing stories, novels, memoirs and satires
...
The writer had been honoured with Uttar
Pradesh (UP) Premchand Memorail Award, UP
Sahitya Bhushan Award, UP Lohia Award, Punjab
Government‘s Shiromani award and Pdumlal
Bakshi Award of Madhya Pradesh Government
...
73rd Annual
Golden Globe Awards announced in California
i
...
These
annual awards honour the best in Motion Pictures
and Television for the year 2015
...
The Revenant won the Best Motion Picture –
Drama while best Actor and best Director Awards
were conferred to Leonardo DiCaprio and
10
...
The Centre is planning to launch a "Stand-up
India" drive to promote entrepreneurship among
women, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes,
according to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
...
He was
speaking here on Sunday at the inaugural of the
three-day Partnership Summit jointly hosted by the
Confederation of Indian Industry and the State
Government
...
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iii
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He said each bank branch in the
country would have to give at least one loan to a
woman, SC and ST entrepreneur to set up units
...
"There are 1
...
11
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British singer-songwriter David Bowie has died at
the age of 69 after battling cancer for 18 months
...
―David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded
by his family after a courageous 18 month battle
with cancer
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iii
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He is survived by two
children Duncan Jones and Alexandria ―Lexi‖
Zahra Jones and wife Iman
...
One of the most influence musical artistes of his
generation, Bowie is known for his camelion-like
qualities as a performer that often blurred the lines
between genders in an illustrious career that
spanned four decades
...
The musician, whose full name was David
Robert Jones, was born in Brixton, UK on January
8, 1947
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ICC announces MoneyGram as Event Partner;
signs 8-year deal
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iv
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v
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Sponsors are the lifeline for any sport
and on behalf of the ICC, I thank MoneyGram for
their continued support
...
Maria Teresa de Filippis, first female Formula
One driver, died
i
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She was 89
...
De Filippis participated in five World
Championship Grands Prix; however, she scored no
championship points
...
iii
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She won her first race, driving a Fiat 500 on a 10
km drive between Salerno and Cava de' Tirreni
...
She took part in various motor racing events,
including hill climbing and endurance racing,
before being given the chance to drive in Formula
One
...
v
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14
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Stanislas Wawrinka on 10 January 2016 won his
Chennai Open title
...
This is the
fourth Chennai Open title for the Swiss player and
the third consecutive win, who first won it in 2011
...
He extended his run of dominance in Chennai to
a 12-match win streak, including 24 consecutive
sets won
...
The Swiss completed the first three-peat in
tournament history, becoming the ninth different
active player to do so at an ATP World Tour event
...
The 30 year old notched his 12th tour-level
crown overall and eighth on hard courts
...
Daily GK Update - Current Affairs - 12th January
2016
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Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu
on 11 January 2016 inaugurated implementation of
E-enabled Track Management System (TMS) and
Mobile Application of TMS on Indian Railway at
Rail Bhawan in New Delhi
...
Indian Railways brought in these initiatives to
bring efficiency and effectiveness in management
practices which involve handling of huge volumes
of data statistics as well as dynamic analysis of
various measurement and defects and planning,
deployment of large resources
...
Along with these two initiatives, the minister
also inaugurated pilot implementation of Track
Inventory Management System on Northern
Railway to track materials inventory, construction
and track machines organization in entire 225 units
of Northern Railway
...
It is an important milestone in promoting eworking in civil engineering department of Indian
Railways
...
With the implementation of this
system, various activities of Track Inspection,
Monitoring and Maintenance came on IT platform
...
v
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It
will eliminate more than 100000 manual record
keeping registers and make the area of working
almost paperless
...
vi
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Required
infrastructure like Netbooks/mini laptops along
with requisite Internet connectivity/mobile data
cards provided to all Junior and Senior Engineers
...
ADB to fund $840-m corridor between Vizag,
Chennai
i
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She said the industrial corridor, meant to
boost manufacturing activity and help economic
growth of the hinterland, will have four nodes:
Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, GannavaramKankipadu, and Yerpedu-Srikalahasti
...
The building
blocks of the corridor would be node-centred
development and trade and transport
...
Arterial roads would have to be developed
...
iii
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7,500 crore
...
iv
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They pointed
out that like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the
State had an able and decisive leader in Chief
Minister Chandrababu Naidu
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v
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3
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The 2016
edition of the Constro exhibition will be held in
Pune from January 14-17 and will focus on the
Smart City concept
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It will
consist of six pavilions, and 250 stalls with a
special focus on featuring the tools and materials
connected with skill development
...
The other highlights include a seminar series
and a display and demonstration of wall & floor
tiling and bricklaying by Parshuram Naik, a bronze
medallist who won the Bricklaying Medallion of
Excellence in Brazil
...
Telangana became first State to make gender
education compulsory at graduate level
i
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In this regard, the state in second
week of January 2016 introduced a bilingual
textbook titled, Towards a World of Equals
...
5
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Airbus Group on 11 January 2016 announced the
appointment of Ashish Saraf as Vice-President Industry Development, Strategic Partnerships and
Offsets
...
Saraf will look over the Group's existing Make in
India initiatives and conceive new ones for all the
businesses of Airbus Group India with the aim to
increase their industrial footprint in the country
...
iii
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Prior to
joining Airbus Group, he was the India head of the
Tata Sikorsky joint venture since 2010
...
iv
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He is an alumnus of the
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management
(SIBM), Pune and the National Institute of
Technology (NIT), Nagpur
...
RINL inked MoU with Andhra Pradesh
Government for investment of 38500 crore rupees
i
...
ii
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The book
attempts to cover information on unacknowledged
women writers of Telangana to problems of sex
selection and women‘s work in politics and
economics
...
It also touches upon complex subjects like
female-centric history and male-female
relationships
...
The
book discusses different strands of women‘s
movements across the world, introducing students
to political movements of Afro-American,
Caribbean, African, Dalit and minority women
...
The book is coupled with a collection of visual
teaching tools which include documentary films
...
ii
...
The
deal was signed during the 22nd CII Partnership
Summit & 1st Sunrise AP Investment Meet, which
is being held in Visakhapatnam
...
The investments by RINL will include
expansion capacity of Vizag Steel to 7
...
At
an investment of 3400 crore rupees, construction of
Coke Oven Battery and other projects are also
expected to be modernised
...
The overall investment figure of 38500 crore
rupees also includes further total expansion
capacity of RINL to around 11
...
The company will also spend 6100 crore
rupees on a slurry pipeline and pellet plant in a joint
venture with NMDC & others
...
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, also known as
Vizag Steel, is an Indian government-owned steel
producer
...
It has been awarded the Navaratna status, with
accompanying autonomy of operations, due to its
strong financial performance
...
The plans for a steel plant in Visakhapatnam
were announced in 1971 by then Prime Minister of
India, Indira Gandhi
...
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Illumina, the world‘s largest DNA sequencing
company, on 10 January 2015 announced the
launch of the startup named GRAIL to develop
blood-based cancer tests
...
ii
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The test, which is also called as
liquid biopsy, will use high-speed DNA sequencing
machines to scour a person‘s blood for fragments of
DNA released by cancer cells
...
All the partners in the startup raised around 100
million US dollars among themselves, in which
Illumina will have the majority stake holder
...
GRAIL will operate from San
Diego in California, the USA
...
Binny Bansal appointed as CEO of Flipkart
i
...
On the
other hand, Sachin Bansal, who has been the CEO
since inception, will now take on the newly-created
role of Executive Chairman
...
The major
restructuring of its top management will see
Mukesh Bansal report to Binny
...
He has also been given additional responsibility of
the overall ads business
...
The current ads business head Ravi Garikipati
will report to Mukesh
...
In
2007, he co-founded the e-commerce platform
Flipkart with Sachin Bansal
...
Before co-founding Flipkart, Binny was
previously employed with Amazon for 9 months
...
He graduated from the Indian Institute of
Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer
Science and Engineering
...
Kullu Folk Dance Finds Place in Guinness Book
of World Records
i
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In the
Nati, 10,000 men and women attired in traditional
Kullu dress performed at Dhalpur Ground during
Kullu Dussehra festival on October 26 last year
...
The jamboree
of over 20,000 people danced to spread the message
of 'Beti Hai Anmol' (Girl child is precious)
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for best goal of the year, for his bicycle kick goal
for Goianesia against Atletico-GO in March 2015
...
Balkrishna Garg conferred with 2015
Harikrishna Devsare Baalsahitya Award
i
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He
received the award for his Baa Geet, which is a
collection of poems for children
...
The award was presented by Sahitya Akademi
President Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari and National
Book Trust (NBT) Chairman Baldeo Bhai Sharma
...
It was the second award to be conferred since its
inception in 2014 and consists of a cash prize of
75000 rupees, a shawl and a citation
...
The award was instituted in the memory of
Harikrishna Devsare, a renowned Hindi writer
known for his work in the field of children‘s
literature, who passed away in 2013
...
Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi wins Ballon
d'Or award for world's best player for fifth time
i
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Messi helped Barcelona to a Spanish league,
domestic cup and Champions League treble plus
the Club World Cup and also led Argentina to the
Copa America final, where they lost to Germany
...
"It's incredible, much more than anything I
dreamed of as a kid," said Messi as he received the
award
...
"
Barcelona's Luis Enrique was voted coach of the
year
...
United States World Cup winner Carli Lloyd,
who scored a hat-trick in the final against Japan,
was named women's player of the year
...
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Brazilian
footballer Wendell Lira received the Puskas Award
Daily GK Update - Current Affairs - 13th January
2016
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Vice President Hamid Ansari today declared
Kerala as the first state in the country to attain
'Total Primary Education', and described the
achievement as 'historic
...
ii
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Noting
that the achievement was another feather to the
state's educational cap, he said the state was
marking the successful culmination of its
'Athulyam' programme aimed at ensuring Total
Primary Education in Kerala -- equivalent to
Standard IV of formal education
...
"This is the fructification of the continuing
efforts under the Total Literacy Campaign through
the well-planned and executed post-literacy
activities and the Continuing Education Programme
by the Kerala State Literacy Mission Authority
(KSLMA) under the Government of Kerala," he
said
...
Ansari also said this remarkable educational
achievement was a result of the enlightened
political leadership of Kerala, the dedication of its
public functionaries and the people of state who
have come to value the importance of education
...
v
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The impressive march of Kerala
on the education and various other socio-economic
fronts has been due to what Nobel laureate Amartya
Sen has called "the constructive and combative
roots of its historical background", he said
...
He lauded the contribution of religious
reformers such as Sree Narayana Guru and other
social organisations such as Nair Service Society,
Muslim Educational Society (MES) and Christian
missionaries, saying they also helped in inculcating
and sustaining spread of education as a social
movement
...
Book titled Jawaharlal Nehru and The Indian
Polity in Perspective released by Hamid Ansari
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
iv
...
3
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The 22nd edition of Confederate of Indian
Industry (CII) Partnership Summit -cum-Sunrise
Andhra Pradesh Investment Summit was concluded
on 12 January 2016 at Vishakhapatnam, Andhra
Pradesh
...
The summit was held in cooperation with the
Government of Andhra Pradesh and the Department
of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Government of
India
...
iii
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Andhra Pradesh
became first state to release retail policy
...
iv
...
4
...
The term Project Tango was in news in the
second week of January 2016 as Lenovo, a Chinese
multinational computer technology company,
announced that it entered into a partnership with
Google for the project
...
As part of the partnership, Lenovo will launch a
new smartphone that can ―see‖ and map out
surroundings without external signals like satellitebased global positioning system (GPS)
...
iii
...
The project was unveiled by Google in
June 2014 and has features like motion tracking,
depth perception, area learning that are based on 3D
technology
...
It brings a new kind of spatial perception to
mobiles and tablets by adding advanced computer
vision, image processing, and special vision
sensors
...
v
...
5
...
The Employees‘ Provident Fund Organization
won the National Award on e-Governance 2015-16
for launching the Universal Account Number
(UAN)
...
ii
...
iii
...
In this initiative, all active employees are
provided a universal number which can be linked to
various provident fund account numbers provided
to them while working in different organisations
iv
...
65 crore employees in 457000
organisations were allocated with UAN till
November 2015
...
It enables the employees to
switch their provident fund deposits automatically,
when they change their job, just by providing UAN
to the new employer
...
It also allows employees to have access to their
provident fund account to view their balance and
deposits on the portal, without going through the
Employer
...
6
...
Conference of Quadrilateral Coordination Group
(QCG) on Afghan Peace and Reconciliation process
was held in Islamabad on 11 January 2016
...
ii
...
The
group will again meet in Kabul on 18 January 2016
to hold discussions on a roadmap
...
The joint statement released after the
discussions emphasised the immediate need for
direct talks between the representatives of the
Afghanistan government and representatives from
Taliban groups
...
iv
...
The first
round was held in July 2015 but the process was
suspended in the same month after news of Taliban
Chief Mullah Omar's death was announced
...
The group also reiterated their commitment to
the realization of objectives expressed in their
statement from the quadrilateral meeting held on
the sidelines of the Heart of Asia Conference in
Islamabad on 9 December 2015
...
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group signed MoU to
set up naval facility in Vishakhapatnam
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
And, it will
be setup on the East Coast of India at Rambilli,
which is 70 kilometers south of Visakhapatnam
...
Earlier, in March 2015, Reliance acquired the
Pipavav shipyard on West Coast in Gujarat
...
8
...
Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan on 12
January 2016 was bestowed honorary life
membership of Kolkata‘s soccer outfit
Mohammedan Sporting
...
ii
...
Mohammedan Sporting Club
was founded in 1891 at Kolkata
...
At
present, the club plays in the I-League 2nd Division
and premier division of Calcutta Football
League(CFL)
...
It was the first Indian club to win CFL in 1934
and continued their run till 1938 season
...
iv
...
After Independence, the
club also became the first Indian club to win on
foreign soil by lifting the Aga Khan Gold Cup in
1960
...
C
...
C
...
9
...
The 20th National Youth Festival was on 12
January 2016 inaugurated by Union Road Transport
and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari at Rajyostav
Sthal in Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh to mark the
National Youth Day
...
The five day long annual festival is celebrated by
the Union Government in partnership with a state
government on the occasion of the birth anniversary
of Swami Vivekananda
...
iii
...
The festival will see
the participation of over 6000 youths from across
the country except West Bengal
...
It will see contests in 18 different disciplines,
including folk dance, folk song, drama, classical
music, classical dance, extempore etc
...
v
...
vi
...
In the conclave, the participants
discussed issues related to skill development such
as public private participation, reforms in skills for
industrial development and improving livelihood in
rural India through Skill India
...
Indra Nooyi becomes ‗most generous graduate‘
of Yale School of Management
i
...
ii
...
She is also the first woman to endow
the deanship at a top business school, the school
said in a statement yesterday
...
The PepsiCo
chairman, who graduated from the school in 1980,
credited her experience at the school for ―forever‖
altering ―the course of my life‖ and said her gift
―pales in comparison with the gift that Yale gave
me the fundamental understanding that leadership
requires an expansive worldview and a deep
appreciation of the many points of intersection
between business and society
...
―Business issues are never just business issues,
and my most ardent hope is that this endowment
will teach future generations of leaders that the
most successful companies of tomorrow will do
more than make money,‖ she said in a statement
...
―They will make a difference and create
shareholder value by improving the quality of life
in every market in which they operate,‖ she said
...
vi
...
In 2010, Harvard Business School had received a
gift of USD 50 million from Tata Companies
...
Industrialist Ratan Tata had attended the
School‘s Advanced Management Programme in
1975
...
viii
...
It will be open
to additional substantial contributions that can help
the school develop the technology and other
infrastructure to support these and future initiatives
...
PMO sets up panel to fast-track bullet trains
i
...
ii
...
The Railway Board chairman,
secretary in the department of expenditure, foreign
secretary and secretary (industrial policy) will be
part of the panel
...
Officials said the Railway Board head will look
after all issues related to overall operation and
technical issues
...
iv
...
Also approved was a
suggestion to consider allowing private operators
on the 508-km line
...
The Panagariya panel had favoured Japan over
China due to the low-cost funding up to 80 per cent
of the cost proposed by Japan International
Cooperation Agency, at a 0
...
vi
...
Bullet trains are run by
state-owned agencies in France and Germany
...
Daily GK Update - Current Affairs - 14th January
2016
1
...
The union cabinet on Wednesday approved the
crop insurance scheme Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima
Yojana (PMFBY) to boost the farming sector and
ensure farmers' welfare
...
It incorporates the best features of all
previous schemes and at the same time, all previous
shortcomings/weaknesses have been removed," said
a ministry of agriculture statement
...
Under PMFBY, the farmers are required to pay a
uniform premium of two percent for all Kharif
crops and 1
...
iii
...
iv
...
The earlier practice of
capping the premium rate has been done away with
as it resulted in low claims being paid to farmers,
the statement said
...
"This capping (premium rate) has now been
removed and farmers will get claim against full sum
insured without any reduction," the statement
added
...
To enable faster claims payment, the
government intends to encourage use of technology
and smartphones to capture and upload data on crop
harvesting and also deploy remote sensing to
reduce crop cutting experiments
...
WHO declares world‘s worst ever Ebola
outbreak over
i
...
―Today the World Health Organisation
declares the end of the most recent outbreak of
Ebola virus disease in Liberia and says all known
chains of transmission have been stopped in West
Africa,‖ the UN health agency said
...
WHO stressed though that ―the job is not over,‖
warning ―more flare-ups are expected
...
One
of the most feared diseases in the world, Ebola
killed more than 11,000 people across west Africa
after it surfaced in southern Guinea in December
2013
...
At its peak, the tropical haemorrhagic virus
devastated Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone,
scything lives and dealing a hammer blow to weak
economies and fragile health systems
...
Liberia, the country worst hit by the outbreak with
4,800 deaths, discharged its last two patients from
hospital — the father and younger brother of a 15year-old victim — on December 3, 2015
...
The outbreak infected almost 29,000 people and
claimed 11,315 lives, according to official data
...
Fighting stigma and resistance to
containment measures were among the many
challenges facing Ebola workers on the front line
...
Today marked the third time that Liberia has
been given the all-clear
...
Liberia was officially
credited with beating the epidemic for a second
time in September before another small cluster of
cases emerged
...
The WHO came under fire for its sluggish
response to the epidemic, which local healthcare
systems were woefully underequipped to handle
...
3
...
Sikkim has become India's first fully organic state
by converting around 75,000 hectares of
agricultural land into sustainable cultivation
...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will
formally announce this at a sustainable agriculture
conference in Gangtok on January 18," said Sikkim
Organic Mission's executive director Dr Anbalagan
...
He said around 75,000 hectares of agricultural
land was gradually converted to certified organic
land by implementing organic practices and
principles as per guidelines laid down in National
Programme for Organic Production
...
It was 12 years ago in 2003 when the Pawan
Chamling-led government decided to make Sikkim
an organic farming state through a declaration in
the legislative assembly
...
Farmers therefore had no option but to go
organic
...
iv
...
Sustainable farming will also help in building the
soil health resulting in sustainable increased crop
production, he said
...
Besides it will also boost the tourism industry in
the tiny landlocked Himalayan state
...
4
...
State Bank of India launched its wealth
management offering and inaugurated a dedicated
branch for start-ups here today
...
ii
...
However, the bank would love to
give them loans when they turn more mature than,
Bhattacharya said
...
Surely, then they can become good
candidates for funding," she said
...
Asked whether SBI would help start-ups to raise
funds from equity market, she said, as of now, it is
not the bank's part of the mandate
...
"We still believe we will be useful to
the start-upsthough we are not giving them
financial help, becausefinancing is not the only
thing that start-ups need
...
So, wehope
this kind of service will help them a lot," she said
...
To a query, SBI Managing Director (National
Banking Group) Rajnish Kumar said after
Bengaluru, the bank isthinking of launching the
project in Pune and NCR, as much of start-up
activities are taking place in these three centres
...
v
...
The
customers will have access to a dedicated
Relationship Manager to take care of all
theirbanking and investment needs
...
5
...
In order to cover more households under Direct
Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme, the union minister
of state (Independent charge) for Petroleum and
Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday
informed that soon kerosene consumers would be
able to get their subsidy directly into their bank
accounts
...
ii
...
In the
coming days, all needy people who buy kerosene
will get subsidy amount directly in their bank
...
iii
...
iv
...
"Daily 3
crore people in India visit petrol pumps, kerosene
retailers, and LPG distributors to buy petroleum
products
...
v
...
In Gujarat, the pilot project of DBT scheme
for kerosene will be taken up in seven districts
having large tribal population
...
6
...
R Shivakumar, Chairman of Kumar Group of
companies, Bengaluru, has been appointed as the
Chairman of Assocham Karnataka Regional
Council, the new regional outfit of Assocham, New
Delhi
...
S Babu, Chairman of Ashwin Precision Products,
has been appointed as Co-Chairman of Assocham
Karnataka Regional Council
...
The new revamped regional council of
Assocham in Karnataka is expected to play a
significant role in the development of industry and
trade in the state
...
Subhashini Vasanth honoured with Neerja
Bhanot Award
i
...
She was presented the award for her
endeavour to help people in distress and for
empowering widows of martyrs and their families
across the country
...
ii
...
Since the death of
her husband, she has been helping the families of
martyrs
...
She started the Vasantharatna Foundation in
memory of her husband
...
Subhashini is also a
Bharatnatyam exponent known for her intense
abhinaya and immaculate footwork
...
iv
...
It is awarded to an
Indian woman, subjected to social injustice, who
faces the situation with grit and determination and
extends help to other women in similar distress
...
The annual Neerja Bhanot Award was instituted
in 1990 and named in honour of Senior Flight
Purser, Neerja Bhanot, who saved hundreds of lives
while sacrificing her own, during a Pan Am Flight
73 hijack at Karachi Airport in September 1986
...
Sachin opens railway police safety drive
i
...
Speaking on the
occasion, Mr Tendulkar expressed concern over the
number of fatalities on railway tracks each year and
recalled an incident in his teenage years after which
he had resolved never to cross railway tracks again
...
The two initiatives, SAMEEP (Safety Alert
Messages Exclusively For Passengers) and BSAFE, were launched at the Railway Police
headquarters in Wadi Bunder by Mr Tendulkar and
Railway Police Commissioner Madhukar Pandey
...
―SAMEEP is an effort towards instant
communication with railway passengers in case of
any eventualities
...
iv
...
The campaign will consist of putting up theme
based posters across railway station platforms,
distribution of pamphlets and awareness meetings
of commuter associations, educational institutions,
etc,‖ Mr Pandey said
...
Mr Tendulkar said the number of deaths on the
tracks was worrying
...
But this also means that we are breaking the law
and risking our lives for the sake of five minutes,‖
he said
...
UNICEF presented David Beckham with Danny
Kaye Humanitarian Leadership Award
i
...
Sir Elton John and David
Furnish presented the award to Beckham at the
event, honouring him for his tireless work to save
and improve the lives of children around the world
...
Beckham has been a UNICEF Goodwill
Ambassador since 2005
...
iii
...
Kaye was
one of the world‘s most beloved entertainers
...
Daily GK Update - Current Affairs - 15th January
2016
1
...
The Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO) in the second week of
January 2016 successfully test-fired Nag anti-tank
missile at the Mahajan Field Firing Range in
Rajasthan
...
The test was conducted during a night trial to
validate the enhanced 4-km range capability of
Imaging-Infrared seeker, which guides the missile
to the target after its launch
...
During the test, the Thermal Target System
(TTS) was used as target for the missile
...
Hovercraft, C-415, C-417, one Dornier and one
Chetak helicopter
...
Sahayog-Kaijin bilateral exercise is a part of the
cooperative arrangements between two Coast
Guards for the last 15 years
...
v
...
iv
...
It can be fired during night
and day as well
...
It weighs 42kg having
1
...
v
...
To carry the land version, DRDO
developed the NAMICA (Nag Missile Carrier) for
the army
...
Once inducted in the Armed Forces, the HeliNa
missile will be integrated with the weaponised
version of the Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH)
Dhruv, the light combat helicopter produced by
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL)
...
Union Ministry
of New and Renewable Energy has announced that
India‘s grid-connected solar power generation
capacity has crossed the 5,000 Mega Watt (MW)
mark
...
Presently, Government has set an
ambitious plan to achieve 175 Giga Watt (GW) of
power generation capacity from renewable sources
by 2022
...
iii
...
2
...
The 15th edition of bilateral exercise by the
Indian Coast Guard and its Japanese counterpart
titled ‗Sahayog-Kaijin 2016‘ has begun off the
coast of Chennai, Tamil Nadu in the Bay of Bengal
...
Anti-piracy
procedures, search and rescue operations and
interoperability between the two forces and other
areas of common professional interest
...
iii
...
India‘s Grid-linked solar generation capacity
crosses 5,000 MW mark
4
...
Union Government on 14 January 2016 signed a
loan agreement with World Bank in New Delhi for
the Neeranchal National Watershed Project
...
All 28 states which implement the watershed
projects will benefit from this project
...
iii
...
It will be implemented by the Ministry of
Rural Development over a six-year period (201621)
...
It will support the Pradhan Mantri Krishi
Sinchayi Yojana in hydrology and water
management, agricultural production systems,
capacity building and monitoring and evaluation
...
Around 12 percent of the area of wasteland will
be targeted through this project to make about 336
lakh hectares of land arable
...
5
...
Bollywood actor Rajesh Vivek Upadhyay died on
14 January 2016 due to a heart attack in Hyderabad
...
Rajesh was mainly known for his roles
in films like Lagaan and Swades
...
Born on 31
January 1949, Rajesh Vivek was best known for his
role of the astrologer Guran in Lagaan and as the
Postman/Postmaster in Swades
...
iii
...
He made his mark as a villain in the
beginning with films like Veerana and Joshilay
...
He is also noted for his roles in the historic TV
series Bharat Ek Khoj
...
6
...
Actor Alan Rickman, known for films including
Harry Potter, Die Hard and Robin Hood: Prince of
Thieves, died of cancer on 14 January 2016 in
London, England
...
ii
...
iii
...
His first big break was as the Vicomte de
Valmont in the stage production of Les Liaisons
Dangereuses in 1985, for which he was nominated
for a Tony Award
...
He played romantic leads like Colonel Brandon
in Sense and Sensibility and Jamie in Truly, Madly,
Deeply
...
v
...
7
...
Madhya Pradesh (MP) Government on 14
January 2016 signed four MOUs with Singapore to
collaborate in urban planning, skill development,
clean energy and food processing
...
The MoUs were signed in Singapore in the
presence of MP Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan,
who was on four day visit from 12 January 2016
iii
...
It was the biggest of the investment proposals
...
The MoU covering urban planning was signed
between the Directorate of Town & Country
Planning and Singapore Cooperation Enterprise
...
The MoU covering food processing was signed
between India‘s LT Food Ltd and Singapore-based
DSM Nutritional Products
...
Earlier, Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan was
awarded with Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellowship
for his contribution in development and
international harmony
...
Eddie Teo in Singapore
on 13 January 2016
...
He is the fourth Indian to receive this
fellowship
...
8
...
A freshly-trained contingent of 500 women
personnel will become the first 'mahila' squad to be
deployed in high-altitude posts along the IndiaChina border
...
ii
...
iii
...
iv
...
v
...
vi
...
The force plans to have
women personnel make up at least 40 per cent of its
strength at these forward posts
...
Marat Safin inducted into International Tennis
Hall of Fame
i
...
1 tennis
player Marat Safin joined the International Tennis
Hall of Fame
...
ii
...
1 and seventime major champion, and Helena Sukova from the
Czech Republic, who won 14 major titles in
doubles and mixed doubles
...
Marat Safin began his professional career in
1997
...
1 world ranking for a total of
9 weeks between November 2000 and April 2001
...
iv
...
v
...
Martina Hingis became the first Global
Ambassador for the International Tennis Hall of
Fame in 2015
...
Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis juggernaut
continues, win Sydney International title
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
iv
...
v
...
2
...
Four years ago, an idea took root in Kerala‘s
business capital of Kochi in the hope of attracting
the best entrepreneurial minds among youngsters
and creating successful start-ups
...
Daily GK Update - Current Affairs - 16th January
2016
1
...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday kickstarted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious
Start-Up India mission at Vigyan Bhavan in New
Delhi
...
ii
...
iii
...
iv
...
Around 40 top CEOs and startup
founders and investors from Silicon Valley attended
the event as special guests, and take part question
and answer sessions at the event
...
But today, on the cusp of the launch of a
nationwide campaign that aims to spawn startups
across the country, Startup Village in Kochi sits
pretty with a list of grand accomplishments and a
grander vision
...
In April 2012, Startup Village commenced
operations as India‘s first public-private
technological business incubator with the aim of
creating at least 48 startup companies in five years
...
iv
...
The target is to support 10,000 startup teams in the
next five years
...
The ‗Startup India‘ campaign that Prime Minister
Narendra Modi launches on Saturday will be an
added boost, top officials at SV told IndianExpress
...
With
a young and aspiring demographic, many believe
India can very well be the hotbed for enterprising
startups that can contribute to national GDP as well
as provide labour
...
Chinese President Xi launches Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
In all 57 countries
have joined as founding members, while the US
and Japan have stayed out
...
iv
...
Chinese Finance Minister, Lou
Jiwei, was elected as the first Chairman of the AIIB
council
...
v
...
vi
...
34 per cent, 8
...
66 per cent stake respectively in the newly
formed bank
...
vii
...
World Bank would be anchor investors in this new
fund, along with other co-investors, Prabhu said,
―This fund would be kick-started soon as there is
unanimity in the World Bank leadership‖
...
He also said the World Bank leadership has
realised that based on the performance in the past
one year, Indian Railways is in the ―right
direction‖
...
Prabhu is here to attend a World
Bank meeting on transportation
...
iv
...
―To help us in monetisation issues, bringing in the
global best practices
...
In India it is not even two per cent
...
v
...
―Today we also
agreed to make a Railways-specific umbrella
agreement with the Transport Department, which
would help to work on many things,‖ Prabhu said
...
World Bank to be anchor investor in Rail
Development Fund: Prabhu
i
...
5
...
Online marketplace Flipkart has tied up with auto
major Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd to exclusively
launch the latter's newest SUV- KUV100
...
ii
...
First time in the automobile
category, this exclusive tie-up will allow Mahindra
access Flipkart‘s extensive reach and network to
connect with their customers and provide them the
ease to book Mahindra KUV100 online
...
―We have decided to work with the World Bank
on creating a Railway Development Fund
...
But now, we have taken it
forward,‖ Prabhu said here yesterday after his
meeting with World Bank officials
...
Flipkart
launched Automobiles as a category last month
with a vision to change the way vehicles are bought
in India
...
The two entities have come
together to deliver superior customer experience
with assured in-a-month delivery
...
iv
...
v
...
In fact, all research & development
activities for this compact SUV were aligned with
global standards of quality, technology, testing
norms, regulations and emissions from the very
start
...
World Bank released report titled World
Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends
i
...
The report explored the impact of the internet,
mobile phones, and related technologies on
economic development across the world including
India
...
Further, it concluded that potential gains from
digital technologies are high, but often remain
unrealized and proposed policies to expand
connectivity, accelerate complementary reforms in
sectors beyond information and communication
technology (ICT), and address global coordination
problems
...
In relation to
India, the authors of the report that included
Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice President and Chief
Economist of World Bank appreciated the Aadhaar
scheme as it saved 1 billion US dollars by bringing
down corruption
...
The world‘s offline population is mainly in India
and China, but more than 120 million people are
still offline in North America and the digital divide
within countries can be as high as that between
countries
...
v
...
For example,
there are more contributions to Wikipedia from
Hong Kong, China, than from all of Africa
combined, despite the fact that Africa has 50 times
more internet users
...
vi
...
7
...
An independent Delhi-based writer Ankita Anand
on 14 January 2016 won the European
Commission's prestigious Lorenzo Natali Media
Prize for 2015 in Asia and the Pacific amateur
category
...
She earned the award for her sensitive portrayal
of life for young women facing the threat of the
diktat of khap panchayats in Haryana with the title
Stirrings beneath the peepul published in the
journal The Equator Linel
...
Arison Tamfu,
an editor for the Cameroon Journal, won the
Lorenzo Natali Grand Prize for a critical
investigative report on how UN Climate change
negotiations that are calling on nations to switch
from fossil fuels to renewable energy are going to
affect the development of African communities
living where the resources are found with the title
Africa‘s billions might be buried forever
...
It is organized by the European Commission‘s
Directorate-General for International Cooperation
and Development since 1992
...
The Prize is
divided into two distinct categories: amateur and
professional journalism
...
v
...
Each winner of the
prize will be granted 5000 Euros
...
8
...
Dr Jancy James, the first woman Vice Chancellor
of Kerala, was on 15 January 2016 selected for the
Prof MV Pylee Award for the Distinguished
Academician of India
...
He is an Indian scholar,
educationist and management guru and widely
regarded as the father of management education in
Kerala
...
The award is given for excellence in teaching
and research and contribution to academic
community
...
iii
...
She is the former
Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University
and founder Vice Chancellor of Central University
of Kerala
...
She served as member of Kendra Sahitya
Akademi and as the National President of the
Comparative Literature Association of India
...
v
...
Daily GK Update - Current Affairs - 17th and 18th
January 2016
1
...
India‘s Dinesh Sharma on 17 January 2016 was
elected to the 12-member board of directors of the
China-sponsored Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank (AIIB)
...
ii
...
The inaugural meeting of the board of the
governors of the AIIB was held in Beijing after its
formal launch
...
iii
...
However, he was represented by Sharma at
the meeting
...
iv
...
It will invest in sectors including energy,
transportation, urban construction and logistics as
well as education and healthcare
...
China is the largest shareholder with 26
...
India is the second largest
shareholder with 7
...
93 percent and Germany with 4
...
On 16 January 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping
launched AIIB, which is seen as a rival to the USled World Bank, in Beijing
...
Despite opposition from Washington, US allies
including Australia, Britain, German, Italy, the
Philippines and South Korea have agreed to join the
AIIB in recognition of China's growing economic
influence
...
NITI Aayog collaborated with IDFC for
Enterprise Survey of Manufacturing Firms
i
...
ii
...
iii
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It will bring out
a comprehensive analysis and report on State-level
performance
...
It will complement the governments Make in
India initiative by taking stock of issues faced and
providing impetus for State-level reforms that will
make it easier to do business in India
...
3
...
Opposition candidate of Democratic Progressive
Party (DPP) Tsai Ing-wen on 16 January 2016 won
a landslide victory in Taiwan's presidential election,
making her the island's first female president
...
Tsai's commanding victory brings to power DPP,
which supports Taiwan's formal independence from
China, a red line for Beijing, which claims the
island as its territory
...
It is the
second-ever victory for the DPP since Taiwan split
with China in 1949
...
In the 2016
general elections, DPP led by Tsai emerged
victorious with 56 percent of the total vote share
...
Chu also made the announcement of quitting as
KMT head
...
iv
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She obtained a Master
of Laws at Cornell University Law School in 1980
and then a Ph
...
in law at the London School of
Economics in 1984
...
v
...
She also
led the drafting team on the Statute Governing
Relations with Hong Kong and Macau
...
4
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The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) on 17 January 2016
successfully launched SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from
California‘s Vandenberg Air Force Base in the
USA
...
The rocket carried the ocean monitoring satellite
Jason-3 on board
...
iii
...
S
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It is also expected to help the USA in better
forecasting of hurricane forecasting and marine
navigation
...
It will extend the time series of ocean surface
topography measurements (the hills and valleys of
the ocean surface) begun by the TOPEX/Poseidon
satellite mission in 1992 and continuing through the
currently operating Jason-1 and Jason-2 missions
...
These
measurements provide scientists with critical
information about circulation patterns in the ocean
and about both global and regional changes in sea
level and the climate implications of a warming
world
...
The primary instrument on Jason-3 is a radar
altimeter
...
3 inches or 3
...
5 centimeters)
...
Former Sikkim Governor Ventrapragada Rama
Rao passed away
i
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He was 80
...
ii
...
He
also played a pivotal role in trade union litigations
and served as President, Employees and Workers
Unions of several State and Central Public Sector
Undertakings and Corporations, such as AP State
Finance Corporation, South Central Railways
Employee Union and more
...
In 1965, he joined Jana Sangh as a member and
went on to serve as a Member of the National
Executive of Bharatiya Jana Sangh for many years
...
iv
...
In October 2002, he was
appointed by President of India as the Governor of
Sikkim
...
6
...
State Bank of Travancore (SBT) has teamed up
with the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) to
provide customers of the state utility online facility
for remittance of electricity charges
...
ii
...
K
...
Adikesavan, Chief General Managers, SBT,
and B Nina, Director (Transmission), KSEB
...
The online system facilitates immediate credit of
remittance through the SBT internet banking
platform free of any additional charges, a
spokesman for SBT said
...
This will enable consumers to pay their monthly
bills without going to the KSEB offices
...
v
...
7
...
ndtree has appointed Rostow Ravanan as the
CEO and managing director, and Krishnakumar
Natarajan as the executive chairman of the
company
...
All the changes will be
effective April 1
...
Apurva Purohit, independent director and
chairperson of the nomination and remuneration
committee of the Board said, "This is the
culmination of a year-long succession planning
exercise that the Board had undertaken after
carefully considering several candidates
...
iii
...
The Board recognizes and thanks Subroto
for his invaluable contributions and inspirational
leadership"
...
Ravanan, 44, is a member of Institute of
Chartered Accountants of India, Institute of
Company Secretaries of India and alumni of
Harvard Business School
...
"I am very honored and humbled at being
named to lead one of the most valuable and
respected IT services companies
...
Natarajan incoming executive chairman said,
"Mindtree is on a strong footing today to explore
newer opportunities that take us to a different orbit
in the years ahead
...
"
8
...
Exim Bank of India and the Government of
Andhra Pradesh have entered into a Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) for promotion of exports
from the state
...
The MoU was signed by Yaduvendra Mathur,
Chairman and Managing Director of the bank, and
Shamsher Singh Rawat, Secretary and
Commissioner for Industrial Promotion,
Government of Andhra Pradesh
...
Exim Bank seeks to support exporters having
operations in Andhra Pradesh in achieving higher
exports by facilitation of market linkages through
its market advisory services, which will assist in
identifying suitable partners
...
Besides, it will help develop skills through
capacity building workshops, help exporters‘
participation in select trade fairs and exhibitions,
and through research activities
...
Exim Bank would also use its strong institutional
linkages that it has developed over the years with
institutions in advanced markets like the US,
Singapore, Japan, Australia, EU, etc, and facilitate
technology transfer to the technology-seeking
enterprises in Andhra Pradesh
...
"With its presence through a Regional Office in
Hyderabad, the bank is desirous of further
extending funding facilities to exporters from the
State so as to provide them opportunity to access
the global market,‘‘ it said in a release issued here
on Monday
...
Somnath Temple to invest in Gold Monetisation
Scheme
i
...
ii
...
The
decision was taken during the recently held meeting
of trustees at Modi‘s residence in Delhi on January
12, said the trust secretary P K Lahiri, who is also
one of the trustees of the Somnath Temple, situated
in the Gir-Somnath district
...
―During the meeting, all the trustees have agreed
to the proposal of depositing the gold, which is not
in day-to-day use of the temple, in the Gold
Monetisation Scheme,‖ said Lahiri
...
iv
...
―We don‘t have a
huge amount of gold
...
Thus out of that 35 kg of gold, we will separate
pure gold which can be deposited under the
scheme,‖ said Lahiri
...
Other trustees of the Somnath Temple trust
include former Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai
Patel, who is also the chairman of the trust, veteran
BJP leader L K Advani, Harshvardhan Neotia and
JD Parmar
...
i
...
ii
...
He did not seek
to assume any new emergency powers
...
The measures included a loosening of some
worker-friendly measures to encourage companies
to hire, and new training for half a million workers
...
Delhi Acers defeated Mumbai Rockets to clinch
Premier Badminton League title
i
...
The match was held at the Siri
Fort Sports Complex in New Delhi
...
Tommy Sugiarto, men's doubles pair of Koo
Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong, and Rajiv Ouseph
won their respective matches as Delhi grabbed the
trophy and a winner's cheque of 3 crores rupees
...
Premier Badminton League is a franchise
league, managed and commercially owned by the
Badminton Association of India
...
iv
...
The objective of the tournament is to bring
top Indian players along with International players
on the same platform
...
Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar is the brand
ambassador of the league
...
French President declares economic emergency
Daily GK Update - Current Affairs - 19th January
2016
1
...
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) on
18 January 2016 released the World Tourism
Barometer, which reviewed trends in tourism at the
regional and global level for 2015 and enumerated
prospects for 2016
...
As per the publication, international tourist
arrivals grew by 4
...
In numbers, around 50
million more travelers were recorded in 2015
compared to that 2014
...
2015 marks the 6th consecutive year of aboveaverage growth, with international arrivals
increasing by 4 percent or more every year since
the post-crisis year of 2010
...
iv
...
By region, Europe, the
Americas and Asia and the Pacific all recorded
around 5 percent growth in 2015
...
Arrivals to the Middle East increased by 3
percent, while in Africa points to an estimated 3
percent decrease mostly due to weak results in
North Africa, which accounts for over one third of
arrivals in the region
...
Based on the current trend and this outlook,
UNWTO projects international tourist arrivals to
grow by 4 percent worldwide in 2016
...
2
...
Union Ministry of Finance on 18 January 2016
released the draft report of Justice R V Easwar
(Retd) Committee to simplify the provisions of
Income-tax Act, 1961
...
The draft recommendations of the 10-member
committee contain 27 suggestions for amendments
under the Income-tax Act, 1961 and 8
recommendations for reform through administrative
instructions
...
Amendment to Section 255(3) to enhance the
monetary limit for Single Member Bench (SMC)
cases before the Tribunal to rupees one crore from
the present rupees 15 lakhs
...
Deletion of section 143(1D) – Avoiding
undesirable delay in issue of refunds
iv
...
Proposal for certain amendments in rule 30
and 31 in relation to time and mode of payment of
TDS and filing of statement of TDS under the
provisions of section 200
v
...
The committee was also mandated to suggest
measures to improve the ease of doing business,
reduce litigation and accelerate the resolution of tax
disputes
...
Renowned film-maker Lakshman Rao Mohite
alias Geethapriya died
i
...
He was 84 and survived by
wife, son and two daughters
...
Lakshman Rao Mohite was born on 15 June
1931 and became famous his pen-name
Geethapriya
...
iii
...
The movie bagged National
Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada and
State awards
...
The Karnataka government honoured him with
the Puttanna Kanagal Award in 1986 in recognition
to his contribution to the Kannada film industry
...
B
...
4
...
In a global first, the World Bank in third week of
January 2016 decided to extend an assistance of 20
million US dollar to help reconstruct the Indira
Gandhi Zoological Park (IGZP), which got
devastated during cyclone Hudhud in October
2014, in Visakhapatnam
...
It is the very first time in the history of the World
Bank that it is directly involved in a zoo
...
iii
...
iv
...
v
...
The park is named after the former
Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi
...
5
...
The ‗MUDRA' loan for women entrepreneurs or
Boutique Finance for Women Entrepreneurs – a
special loan scheme under Prime Minister MUDRA
Yojana – has been launched for catering to the
financial needs of women entrepreneurs
...
Under the scheme, State Bank of India too has
come forward to participate and provide loans to
help women entrepreneurs in West Bengal who are
engaged in various handicraft activities
...
, according to a release issued by the bank
...
Around 80 women entrepreneurs received
sanctioned letters for loan, SBI said
...
Loans are being provided at a concessional rate
of interest
...
10 lakh will be provided
under the scheme without any collateral security
...
50 lakh can be
availed under the scheme
...
Jayalalithaa launches Amma Call Centre
i
...
The
‗Amma Call Centre‘, which will work all through
the year, was launched by the Chief Minister here
through video-conferencing
...
Jayalalithaa is
fondly addressed as ‗Amma‘ (mother) by her
supporters and her government is already running
many initiatives named after her, including the
hugely popular ‘Amma Canteens‘ which provide
subsidised food, and ‗Amma Mineral Water‘,
among others
...
The latest initiative was aimed at ensuring quick
response to people‘s grievances where in they can
dial toll-free number ‘1100‘ at any point of time in
the day, a government release here said
...
iv
...
―The action taken
on the grievance will also be shared with the caller
through SMS,‖ it said
...
Equipped with latest technology like Computer
Telephony Integration and Voice Logger System,
the centre will initially handle up to 15,000 calls a
day, with 138 operators recruited for the purpose
...
7
...
The 40th edition of the International Kolkata
Book Fair – the world‘s largest non-trade fair – is
all set to bring to life a slice of history
...
In a first of its
kind, the Publishers and Booksellers Guild –
organisers of the International Kolkata Book Fair –
will organise a ‗heritage walk‘ that takes the person
through the 39-year-old journey of the fair
...
According to Sudhangshu Dey, Director,
Publishers & Booksellers Guild, the walk will see
installations depicting the landmark achievements
of the book-fair including the inception of the Guild
at the iconic (India) Coffee House of Kolkata – a
favourite haunt of intellectuals and book lovers in
the city
...
―The heritage
walk will be organised within the fair grounds
...
This is our first year with such an experiment
...
iv
...
An application (mobile app) that can
be downloaded on smart-phones to locate the book
stalls
...
This apart, special shuttle buses will ply to and
from the fair grounds to the nearest point in central
Kolkata
...
Special arrangements have also been made with
taxi-aggregrator, Ola
...
8
...
HaloSource Inc
...
ii
...
India is a key geographic
region for the company, where it has a longstanding relationship with Eureka Forbes and most
recently signed a supply agreement with Panasonic
India Pvt Ltd
...
Chaudhuri has 29 years experience in senior
roles in the consumer durables industry and joins
HaloSource from water heater and purifier
company A
...
Smith India Water Products Pvt Ltd
...
He has also
completed the ‗Executive Program in Leadership‘
at Stanford Graduate Business School, USA
...
In a statement, Martin Coles, CEO and President
of HaloSource, said, ―This is an exciting time for
HaloSource in the rapidly growing water
purification market in India, a key market for
HaloSource
...
v
...
His deep knowledge, extensive
sector expertise, established network and proven
track record in delivering value in the region will be
invaluable to continue to drive the rapid growth of
our business in India
...
World‘s oldest man dies at 112 in Japan
i
...
Koide, born just months before the
Wright brothers made their first successful flight,
died in hospital in the central Japanese city of
Nagoya, where he had lived for many years, said
the city official
...
The supercentenarian, recognised as the world‘s oldest male
at 112 last year, died of heart failure and
pneumonia, the official added
...
iii
...
‖ Japan is known for the
longevity of its people and around a quarter of its
population of 127 million is aged 65 or older
...
It was not immediately clear who would succeed
Koide as the world‘s oldest male
...
10
...
Glenn Frey, a founding member and guitarist of
the Eagles, one of the most popular and
commercially successful artists of the 1970s, passed
away on 18 January 2016 in New York, the USA
...
Frey succumbed to complications from
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Acute Ulcerative Colitis and
Pneumonia
...
He handled the sections like production,
industrialization and procurement
...
ii
...
During the 1970s, he played guitar
with the band, as well as piano and keyboards
...
He sang lead vocals on songs such as Take It Easy,
Peaceful Easy Feeling, Tequila Sunrise, Already
Gone, Heartache Tonight, and so on
...
The Eagles are an American rock band formed
in Los Angeles in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don
Henley, Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner
...
iv
...
Hotel California is ranked 37th in
Rolling Stone 's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of
All Time
...
11
...
Guenter Butschek was on 18 January 2016
appointed as Chief Executive Officer and Managing
Director of India's biggest auto maker Tata Motors'
Group
...
He was appointed after post of Managing
Director of Tata Motors was vacant for two years
since the death of Karl Slym on 26 January 2014
after falling from a hotel building in Bangkok
...
iii
...
However,
Jaguar Land Rover would continue to be managed
by its Chief Executive Officer and Director, Ralf
Speth, who is also on the Board of Tata Motors
...
He joins Tata Motors after his stint as the Chief
Operating Officer at Airbus and Member of the
Group Executive Committee
...
12
...
Ronnie O'Sullivan on 17 January 2016 won his
sixth Snooker Masters title after defeating Barry
Hawkins 10-1 in the final at the Alexandra Palace
in London
...
ii
...
He is one of the most
successful players in the sport's modern era
...
He is also noted
for his mercurial temperament and for his
ambivalent relationship with the sport, from which
he has repeatedly threatened to retire
...
He made his first century break at the age of 10
...
He turned
professional in 1992 and soon earned the nickname
The Rocket because of his rapid playing style
...
He achieved his first major professional success
when he won the 1993 UK Championship at the
age of 17 years and 358 days, making him the
youngest player ever to win a ranking title
...
v
...
He also holds the record
for the most ratified maximum breaks in
professional competition and for the three fastest
competitive maximum breaks, the quickest in 5
minutes and 20 seconds
...
The Masters is a professional invitational
snooker tournament
...
It is the second longest running
tournament behind the World Championship
...
It is regarded as
one of the most prestigious tournaments on the
circuit
...
PSLV-C31 successfully launched IRNSS-1E
satellite
i
...
The satellite will provide
navigation, tracking and mapping services to the
Indian sub continent
...
The satellite is the fifth of the IRNSS
constellation
...
The Polar
Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C31 was the 32nd
consecutively successful mission of the PSLV
...
iii
...
iv
...
IRNSS-1A,
1B and 1C and 1D, the first four satellites of the
constellation, were successfully launched by PSLV
in July 2013, April 2014, October 2014 and March
2015 respectively
...
The navigation payload of IRNSS-1E will
transmit navigation service signals to the users
...
A highly accurate Rubidium atomic clock is
part of the navigation payload of the satellite
...
It is an independent regional navigation satellite
system designed to provide position information in
the Indian region and 1500 km around the Indian
mainland
...
2
...
Andhra Pradesh
Government on 18 January 2016 reconstituted the
Commission for Backward Classes with immediate
effect
...
) as its chairman and
Member Secretary, APCBC as the other member
...
The Chairman of APCBC shall hold office for a
term of three years from the date of assumption of
office
...
iii
...
C
...
P
...
3
...
Senior journalist and scholar Aroon Tikekar
passed away on 19 January 2016 in Mumbai
...
Tikekar, who has written over 20 books,
passed away due to breathing-related
complications
...
Aroon Tikekar worked as a college teacher for
some years
...
iii
...
As
Archival Research Chief at the Times of India, he
was responsible for writing the official history of
the 150 years old newspaper
...
From 1991 to 2002, he worked as an editor of
the Marathi newspaper Loksatta
...
v
...
In
October 2010, he lashed out against the University
of Mumbai's decision to drop Rohinton Mistry's
controversial book Such a Long Journey from its
syllabus
...
BSE launches algorithm trading test
i
...
The
new service has been launched in partnership with
Mumbai based Symphony Fintech Solutions Pvt
Ltd and is free-of-cost for market participant
...
Enable all
market participants to test their trading algorithms
in different trading segments including equity,
equity derivatives and currency derivatives
segments
...
iii
...
It uses mathematical models and
software codes to make transaction decisions on
exchanges and execute them at high speed
...
This technology-driven trading enables traders
to take advantage of any profit making
opportunities arising in the market much before a
human trader can even spot them
...
Maharashtra government inks MoU with Tata
Trust for skill training of youth
i
...
This
programme has been undertaken under the state
government‘s ambitious Kushal Maharashtra,
Rojgaryukt Maharashtra initiative
...
Tata Trust will train around one lakh youths in
the state in order to make them employable
...
iii
...
It will improve infrastructure these of
ITIs
...
India slips to 89th rank in global talent
competitiveness: Report
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
Last year, India was ranked 78th on the
index that measures a nation‘s competitiveness
based on the quality of talent it can produce, attract
and retain
...
iv
...
Union Government sanctioned 33000 crore
rupees for infrastructure projects in Tamilnadu
i
...
ii
...
With this, the total
amount sanctioned was raised to 50000 crore
rupees
...
The
infrastructure projects include construction of RailOver-Bridges, upgradation of state highways into
National Highways and major bridges in the state
...
Four-laning of 3 National Highways (NH)
accounting a length of 105 kilometers and two
flyovers in Marthandam and Parvathipuram, at an
estimated cost of 2766 crore rupees
...
v
...
4 flyovers in Kanyakumari district in
Ozhiginaseri, Vadaseri, Thuckalay and Chettikulam
at a cost of 300 crore rupees
...
Light combat aircraft, Tejas to fly at Bahrain Air
Show
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
HAL is proud to be
associated with design, development and
production of Tejas
...
iv
...
The Tejas light
combat aircraft is a 4
...
It has the fly
by wire, state of the art open architecture computer
for avionics and better weapon and combat
capability
...
9
...
The Cabinet today approved a new power tariff
policy that aims at promoting clean energy, better
regulation of discoms, and faster roll-out of
investments
...
―The Union Cabinet today approved a new
power tariff policy which will promote clean
energy, support the Swachh Bharat programme,
better regulation for discoms, and encourage faster
roll-out of investments in the sector,‖ said a source
after the Cabinet meeting here
...
iii
...
In 2006, the
Centre had approved the National Tariff Policy
under the provisions of the Electricity Act, 2003
...
Indicating that the policy will focus on clean
energy, Power Minister Piyush Goyal had recently
said: ―Now that we have a challenge to add 1
...
‖
v
...
The proposed
policy will bring in several unique aspects which
have not been touched in the past
...
10
...
Mamta Binani has been elected President of the
Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) for
2016
...
A commerce
and law graduate and a fellow member of the
Institute of Company Secretaries of India, Binani
was the all-India topper in the Intermediate
examinations of The Institute of Company
Secretaries of India, amongst all the lady candidates
in India and had ranked 14th on an all-India basis
...
In the final examinations, she stood all-India first
in the subject 'Company Law'
...
Binani has been an empanelled trainer
with ICICI Bank, and also with the mutual fund
industry
...
She also serves as an independent director
on a few of the boards
...
She has been the Chairperson of the Eastern
India Regional Council of The Institute of
Company Secretaries of India in 2010
...
Binani was also the first CS to be conferred the
'Bharat Nirman Awards' in 2010
...
Indian driver Jehan Daruvala won Lady
Wigram Trophy motor race
i
...
It was Daruvala‘s maiden victory
in Formula cars since making the switch from
karting in 2015
...
In August 2015, Daruvala won Rookie of the
Year at the Formula Renault 2
...
iii
...
iv
...
v
...
Daily GK Update - Current Affairs - 21st January
2016
1
...
The selection of the two actors follows the
Centre's decision to discontinue the contract of
actor Aamir Khan, who had angered the BJP-led
government with his remarks on perceived
intolerance in the country
...
ii
...
Other suggestions being considered include
choosing a female personality as the mascot for the
'Atithi Devo Bhava' series which is part of the
'Incredible India' campaign to attract foreign
tourists
...
Khan had late last year stirred a controversy
after he expressed "alarm and despondency" over
rising instances of intolerance in the country in the
past few months and said that his wife (Kiran Rao)
even asked if they should move out of India as she
feared for the safety of their children
...
Defending Khan's exit from the campaign,
senior bureaucrat Amitabh Kant had said the actor,
by terming India an 'intolerant country', worked
against his role as that of a brand ambassador
...
RBI asks banks to stop Rs 1,000 notes without
security thread
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
iv
...
The total
number of such notes with public may not be more
than 500 pieces, the spokesperson added
...
v
...
3
...
ke every year, the world is excitedly awaiting the
Oscar Awards this year
...
seeks to extend bilateral cooperation in public
administration and governance reforms
...
These awards
will specially interest Indian audiences this year
because one of the awardees is of Indian origin
...
iii
...
iv
...
It continues to provide artist-driven,
integrated, consistent and highly scalable studiowide playback and interactive reviews," the
statement added
...
PM Narendra Modi released book titled The Z
Factor written by Subhash Chandra
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
iv
...
3
billion US dollars and annual group revenues of
about 3 billion US dollars
...
Union Cabinet approved MoU between India &
UK on cooperation in governance reforms
i
...
The MoU, which was signed in November 2015,
ii
...
It will also
cover reforms towards strengthening of social
security, collaboration between Government and
Industry on staff management, crisis and disaster
Management and digital transformation of
government among others
...
It will help in understanding the system of
customer oriented public service delivery in UK
with reference to rapidly changing environments in
the area of public service management and enable
in adapting some of the best practices in the Indian
Public Service Delivery System, A Joint Working
Group on Public Administration and Governance
will be responsible for implementation of the MoU
...
The MoU facilitates India to learn best
administrative practices from the UK which is
renowned for its Right to Information Act,
Ombudsmen and Citizen Charter initiatives in the
field of public administration
...
6
...
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
(CCEA) on 20 January 2016 gave its approval for
setting up over 5000 MW of Grid-Connected Solar
PV Power Projects on build, own and operate basis
...
The work will
be implemented by Solar Power Developers (SPDs)
with Viability Gap Funding (VGF) under Batch-lV
of Phase-ll of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar
Mission (JNNSM)
...
iii
...
It will also help in
employment generation of about 30000 people in
rural and urban areas with reduction of about 8
...
iv
...
5 Million households
...
v
...
SECI
will enter into Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)
with the selected developers and the Power Sale
Agreement (PSA) with the buying entities
...
Requisite funds for provision of the VGF
support will be made available to MNRE from the
National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF), operated by
Ministry of Finance
...
This will be called the Domestic
Content Requirement (DCR) category and
remaining will be in open category
...
ISRO, Kuwait Institute signed MoU on
cooperation in space exploration
i
...
ii
...
It will also enable Training and
Building and launching of remote sensing and
communication satellites on commercial terms
...
It will provide impetus to explore newer
research activities and application possibilities in
the field of remote sensing; satellite
communication; satellite navigation and exploration
of outer space
...
It will lead to developing a joint activity in the
field of application of space technology for the
benefit of humanity
...
It will lead to setting up of a Joint Working
Group from ISRO and KISR which will work out
the plan of action including the time-frame and the
means of implementing this MoU
...
SEBI released report of Narayan Murthy-panel
on Alternative Investment Policy
i
...
ii
...
iii
...
iv
...
v
...
vi
...
9
...
The annual World Economic Forum (WEF)
meeting has started in Swiss resort of Davos,
Switzerland with participation of political leaders
and business from around the world
...
ii
...
The 4-day conference
will cover the discussions on tumbling oil prices
and China‘s uncertain economic prospects
...
It will be also discussing the issue of growing
terror threats in the wake of the November 2015
terrorist attacks in Paris (France) and influx of
migrants and refugees in Europe
...
They will also review
the latest efforts to improve industrial production
with robotics, artificial intelligence and information
technology
...
WEF is an international institution founded by
Klaus Schwab that works to improve the state of
the world through public-private cooperation
...
10
...
Eminent danseuse Mrinalini Sarabhai, wife of the
late Dr Vikram Sarabhai, father of India‘s space
programme, passed away here on Thursday
following age-related health complications
...
ii
...
The former President,
late Dr
...
iii
...
Her last rites will be performed at village
Pethapur in Gandhinagar, which she used to visit
frequently due to her keen interest in handicrafts,
for which the village is well-known
...
Born on May 11, 1918, in Kerala, she was
married to Dr
...
Daughter of a
former Member of Parliament, Ammu
Swamimanathan, she spent her childhood in
Switzerland, where she learnt her first lessons in
western dance forms
...
Subsequently, Mrinalini joined Santi Niketan,
founded by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore
...
She later founded the
Ahmedabad-based Darpana Academy of
Performing Arts for training youth in dance, drama,
music and puppetry
...
She was active at the academy until a
few years ago
...
Mrinalini Sarabhai was decorated with many
awards and citations in recognition of her
contribution to the arts
...
11
...
Three Mi-25 gunship helicopters supplied by
India are to officially join the Afghan Air Force
today
...
The decision for the delivery of Mi-25
gunship helicopters was concluded during the
recent visit of Afghan National Security Adviser
Mohammad Hanif Atmar to New Delhi
...
The attack
helicopters are designed to take on fortified enemy
positions and counter heavy ground fire
...
The Cheetal
helicopters were manufactured by Hindustan
Aeronautics Ltd (HAL)
...
iii
...
India is set to replace its Mi-25
chopper fleet with the new generation Apache
choppers that have been contracted from the US
under a government-to-government deal
...
The US Air Force is to deliver the light attack
turboprops to Afghanistan under the Light Air
Support (LAS) programme to bolster its fighting
capabilities
...
12
...
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has
signed an interim consultancy agreement with
Kerala Rapid Transit Ltd (KRTL) for the Rs
...
ii
...
S
...
Sharma,
Director, Business Development, DMRC, and P
...
Sheikh Pareeth, Managing Director, KRTL, signed
the interim consultancy agreement in the presence
of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, his cabinet
colleagues, and E Sreedharan, principal adviser,
DMRC
...
In the coming
days, DMRC will prepare the tender documents for
procurement of rolling stock, land acquisition
survey, estimates for the flyovers, identification of
major utilities and utility shifting plans
...
DMRC had sought the interim consultancy to
save time and cost escalation as the Ministry of
Urban Development had not yet granted inprinciple approval for or cleared the participation of
the Centre and its 20 per cent equity contribution in
the project
...
The 21
...
4,219 crore, while the 13
...
2,509 crore
...
vi
...
13
...
Uttar Pradesh on 20 January 2016 won its maiden
Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy with a 38-run win over
two- time champions Baroda in the final played at
the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai
...
ii
...
It is
organized by Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI),
among the teams from Ranji Trophy
...
The 2008-09 season was the inaugural season
for this trophy
...
BCCI had launched its own state structure in
2006-07 season with 27 Ranji teams divided in 5
Zones with the name of Inter-State T20
Championship, which was renamed and relaunched as the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
...
Gujarat was the winner of 2014-15 season of the
tournament
...
The UML designation for a
public class member is
(1) the symbol @
(2) the symbol #
(3) the minus symbol (-)
(4) the plus symbol (+)
(5) the word public
2
...
(1) Dis-joint tree
(2) Direction oriented tree
(3) directed tree
(4) Diagonalised tree
(5) Undirected tree
3
...
Built-in functions provided
by SQL are?
(1) SUM, AVG, MIN, MAX,
NAME
(2) MIN, MAX, MULT, DIV,
NAME
(3) SUM, AVG, MULT, DIV,
MIN
(4) SUM, AVG, MIN, MAX ,
MULT
(5) COUNT, SUM, AVT,
MAX, MIN
5
...
(2) A small program that
excutes within other application
and is stored on the server
...
(4) A small program that
executes within other
application and is stored on the
client or the server
...
6
...
1
...
0, mask
255
...
255
...
0
...
0
(2) 0
...
0
...
0
...
240
(4) 0
...
0
...
0
...
0
7
...
Which of the following is
used to create and delete views
and relations within tables?
(1) SQL Data Identification
Language
(2) SQL Data Identification and
Manipulation Languages
(3) SQL Data Relational
Language
(4) SQL Data Definition
Language
(5) SQL Data Manipulation
Language
9
...
Which of the following is
true for a CASE SQL
statement?
(1) CASE SQL statement a way
to establish a data definition in
SQL or establish a loop in SQL
1
...
(3) A directed tree is an
acyclic digraph, which has only
one node with indegree 0, and
others nodes have indegree 1
...
(4) An IP address is an
identifier for a computer on a
network
...
4
...
DIV and MULT are not
available in SQL
...
(5) Common Gatway
Interface (CGI) is a
specification for transferring
information between a www
server and a CGI program
...
The program could be written
in any programming language
including, C, Perl, JAVA or
Visual Basic
...
(2) 0
...
0
...
This is useful when you want to
match a subnet in which the
subnet part comprises of the
first three octets
...
(5) The full form of DLCI
Data Link Connection
Identifier
...
The DLCI field identifies
which logical circuit the data
travels over
...
(4) Data Definition Language
(DDL) is used to define the
datatbase structure or schema
...
9
...
(2)
1
...
3
...
Characteristics of a TPS
include performance, reliability
and consistency
...
2
...
Data security threats include
hardware failure
privacy invasion
fraudulent manipulation of
data
small programs created in
MS-work to automate repetitive
tasks by using VBA
None of the above
Answer : A macro is a fragment
of code which has been given a
name
...
There
are two kinds of macros
...
7
...
G10
B1, G10
All of the above
B1 : G 10
None of these
B1‘ , G 10
8
...
How can you insert a sound
file in your word document?
From Insert object menu
option
From Insert sound menu
option
From Insert file menu
option
POP core network
By right clicking the
document and choosing ‗add
sound‘ option
TCP core network
None of the above
PPP core network
IP core network
6
...
large tools in word such as
Mail Marge
programming language
that you can use to customize
MS-word
can place a chart on a new
chart sheet or on any sheet in
the workbook
can only place a chart on
new chart sheet
can only place a chart on a
new blank worksheet
can only be used to create
embedded charts
None of the above
Answer : A wizard found in the
Microsoft Excel program that
takes users step-by-step
through the process of creating
a chart in Microsoft Excel
...
9
...
10
...
COM,
...
BAT filename extension)
...
1
...
Which one of the following
memories is not the primary
memory of a computer?
ROM
RAM
web in an automated manner
and in an orderly fashion
7
...
A packet filtering firewall
operates at which of the
following OSI layers?
At the application layer
4
...
Which of the following key
combination will perform the
warm boot of computer?
Ctrl-Shift-Del
5
...
Software designed for a
specific purpose/application
such as pay calculations,
processing of examination
result etc
...
What is the web crawler?
customized software
It is a computer program
that browses the world wide
None of above
Ctrl-Alt-Delete
Alt-Shift-Enter
Spacebar-Shift-Enter
Ctrl-Alt-Enter
10
...
‗TELNET‘ is
(1) running complex programs
by logging on to
supercomputers belonging to
other countries
(2) a telephone call made by the
help of Internet
(3) a software to perfect viral
attack
(4) All of the above
(5) None of the above
2
...
Which one of the following
internet protocol version is the
most deployed internet layer
protocol?
(1) IPv2
(2) IPv4
(3) IPv6
(4) IPv8
(5) None of these
4
...
Which one of the following
rebooting commonly occurs
when the system of computer is
crashed?
(1) Soft rebooting
(2) Cold rebooting
(3) Hard rebooting
(4) Random rebooting
(5) None of the above
6
...
The advantage of a LAN is
(1) sharing peripherals
(2) backing up your data
(3) saving all your data
(4) accessing the web
(5) automatic printing of data
8
...
The memory address of the
first element of an array is
called
(1) floor address
(2) foundation address
(3) first address
(4) base address
(5) None of these
10
...
1
2
...
2
4
...
4
6
...
1
8
...
4
10
...
Which one of the following
applications uses the UNIX as
an operating system?
(1) Internet Servers
(2) Work stations
(3) Mobile devices
(4) All of these
(5) None of these
2
...
What is the Pel?
(1) It is the smallest,
controllable element of a
picture represented on the
screen
(2) It is a high-level
programming used in web
browsing
(3) It is the hardware used to
debug the computer when it
crashed
(4) It is a netbook with high
quality of wi-fi capability
(5) None of the above
4
...
The primary purpose of an
operating system is
(1) to make the most efficient
use of the computer hardware
(2) to allow people to use the
computer
(3) to keep systems
programmers employed
(4) to make computers easier to
use
(5) None of the above
6
...
Modules are
(1) a selection of commands
used to automatic repetitive
tasks
(2) programs written in visual
basic
(3) object tabs
(4) a group of record
(5) None of the above
yield();
interrupt();
is Interrupted();
2
...
A transaction processing
system is concerned with
(1) operational day-to-day
activities
...
Which of the following data
structure cannot store the nonhomogeneous data elements?
(1) Arrays
(2) Records
(3) Pointers
(4) All of these
(5) None of these
select();
top();
grant();
3
...
25 standard specifies
technique for start-stop
data
technique for dial access
DTE/DCE interface
data bit rate
None of the above
4
...
Database management
systems are intended to
(1) eliminate data redundancy
(2) establish relationship
among the records in different
files
(3) manage file access
(4) maintain data integrity
(5) All of the above
insert()
rename()
drop()
5
...
4
2
...
1
4
...
1
6
...
1
8
...
1
10
...
Which one is method of the
Object class?
Session Layer
Presentation Layer
Application Layer
6
...
Process is :
program in High level
language kept on disk
contents of main memory
a program in execution
a job in secondary memory
None of the above
8
...
0
...
0
255
...
0
...
255
...
0
255
...
255
...
Black box testing sometimes
called :
Data flow testing
Loop testing
Behavioral testing
Graph based testing
None of these
10
...
In asymmetric key
cryptography, the private key is
kept by
sender
receiver
sender and receiver
all the connected devices
to the network
None of these
2
...
transmission, which of the
following delays could be zero
To add/rename data files,
to change storage
application layer
Propogation delay
transport layer
Transmission delay
network layer
Queuing delay
session layer
Processing delay
2
...
UDP is ________ protocol
...
Propagation delay depends
on
Distance between the
routers
network layer
Packet length
session layer
Transmission rate
None of the above
all of the above
4
...
Dual-stack approach refers to
Implementing Ipv4 with 2
stacks
Implementing Ipv6 with 2
stacks
Node has both IPv4 and
IPv6 support
All of the above
None of the above
6
...
In a network, If P is the only
packet being transmitted and
there was no earlier
None of these
9
...
Transmission control
protocol is
connection oriented
protocol
uses a three way
handshake to establish a
connection
recievs data from
application as a single stream
All of the above
None of these
1
...
In SQL, the CREATE VIEW
command is used :
To re-compile view
To define a view of one or
more tables or views
To re-compile a table
To create a trigger
None of the above
4
...
Which command is used to
remove an index from the
database in SQL?
DELETE INDEX
DROP INDEX
REMOVE INDEX
ROLLBACK INDEX
None of the above
6
...
In SQL, which command(s)
is (are) used to remove rows
from a table :
DELETE
REMOVE
braces -- {
...
)
None of the above
brackets -- [
...
Which is not a component of
a relational database?
None of the above
8
...
Multivalued dependencies
should ________ be eliminated
...
Using the ______ clause
retains only one copy of such
identical tuples
...
Fifth Normal form is
concerned with
Functional dependency
Join dependency
Multivalued dependency
Domain-key
none of the above
3
...
7
...
The normal form which
satisfies multivalued
dependencies and which is in
BCNF is
4 NF
Key
3 NF
Key revisited
2 NF
Superset key
1 NF
All of the above
All of the mentioned
None of the above
4
...
Representations such as the
in the dept year relation, with
one column for each value of
an attribute, are called
_______; they are widely used
in spreadsheets and reports and
in data analysis tools
...
A subquery in an SQL
SELECT statement is enclosed
in:
5
...
Empty tuple
New value
Both (a) and (b)
All of the above
None of these
10
...
The topology with highest
reliability is:
Bus topology
Star topology
5
...
The ARP is a part of the
______layer of the TCP/IP
network
...
Time required for a message
to travel from one device to
another is known as:
Transport
Physical
All of the above
Ring topology
Transit time
Mesh topology
Dialogue time
2
...
Expansion of SMTP is
Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol
Simple Message Transfer
Protocol
Simple Mail Transmission
Protocol
Simple Message
Transmission Protocol
7
...
application layer
Network Layer
Transport layer
Session layer
None of the above
none of the above
8
...
3
...
Count to infinite problem is
used in
Distance vector routing
Flow based routing
Link State Routing
Flooding
None of the above
Cyclic Redundancy Code
application layer
Hamming Code
Network Layer
Bit Stuffing
Session layer
CREATE
Equalization
None of these
LINK
None of the above
4
...
Sockets are used in
4
...
_________allows you to
upload web pages
...
A data communication
system requires
HTML
Terminal device
UDP
Communication channel
None of the above
6
...
In WWW, when hypertext
pages are mixed with other
media, the result is called—
Mediamix
1
...
Necessary coditions for
Resource Deadlock
Hypermedia
Hold-and-wait
Helper application
No-Preemption
None of the above
Circular-wait
Linked list
Graph
Directory
None of these
9
...
test the software
the speed of CPU is
increased
the speed of I/O processor
is increased
all of the above
None of the above
7
...
Response
CPU
3
...
Page stealing
binding two addresses
together to form a new address
in a different memory space
is a sign of an efficient
system
a mapping from one
address space to another
is taking page frames from
other working sets
None of the above
4
...
User
CPU
10
...
Thrashing can be avoided if
Mutual Exclusion
Array
offset, rights
simultaneous process
operation online
External viewer
8
...
Which one is not a system
tool?
CPU manager
Backup
memory manager
Disk defragment
None of these
Virus scanning
All of the above
5
...
Memory tables are used to
keep the track of
Real and Virtual Memory
I/O Devices
Resources
I/O Modules+J77
5
...
A webpage displays a
picture
...
Which one of these is not a
valid pseudo class in CSS3?
:last-child
:nth-child(n)
all of the above
6
...
To set a register or counter to
the all-zero-state is
rerun
Vector class
2
...
How can you make an email
link
...
com="">
...
Comments in XML
document is given by:
Swapping
Spooling
Semaphore
Schedulers
None of the above
none of the above
8
...
What is the correct way of
describing XML data?
XML uses a DTD to
describe data
XML uses a description
node to describe data
XML uses XSL to describe
the data
XML uses a validator to
describe the data
None of these
2
...
None of these
3
...
Ageing
Starvation
Revocation
Relocation
None of the above
9
...
The memory address of the
first element of an array is
called :
LINK
floor address
CELLPADDING
foundation address
All of the above
first address
None of these
base address
None of these
5
...
What is the result of the
following operationTop (Push
(S, X))
null
X
s
All of the above
6
...
Merge sort uses ?
Backtracking approach
Heuristic search
Divide and conquer
strategy
Greedy approach
None of the above
8
...
Which multiplexing
technique involves signals
composed of light beams?
FDM
TDM
GDM
WDM
None of the above
2
...
Coaxial; twisted-pair
Coaxial; fiber-optic
Twisted-pair; fiber-optic
none of the above
3
...
In b-tree the number of keys
in each node is ____ than the
number of its children
...
Which of these is not an
advantage of Optical fibers
Immune to electromagnetic
interference
Less signal attenuation
greater immunity to
tapping
easy installation and
maintenance
None of these
5
...
limited
distributed
vast
All of these
None of the above
6
...
Telnet is ________ protocol
...
Compression is part of
Presentation layer
application layer
Network Layer
Session layer
None of these
9
...
An HTTP request message
always contains _______
...
A subset of data in a data
warehouse in the form of
summary data, related to a
particular department or
business function:
5
...
is the entire Database
is a standard way of
organizing information into
accessible parts
...
clause is an
additional filter that is applied
to the result
...
A scheme describe :
Data Elements
Record and files
Record relationship
all of the above
none of the above
7
...
Which one is not a logical
database structure:
Chain
Tree
Relational
Network
None of the above
2
...
The tables generated on
compilation of data definition
language are stored in?
3
...
Entity
Table
Attribute
Data dictionary
Relation
Data abstraction
None of these
Data File
Data meta
All of the mentioned
4
...
The collection of information
stored in a database at a
particular moment is?
10
...
The distinguishable parts of a
record are called :
Field
4
...
Which one is not a basic
property of transaction:
Activity
Atomicity
Isolation
Durability
Consistency
6
...
Which of the SQL
statements is correct?
SELECT Username,
Password FROM Users
SELECT Username AND
Password FROM Users
1NF
2NF
None of the above
8
...
second
first
fourth
third
None of these
9
...
F
...
What is right way to
Initialize array?
int n{} = { 2, 4, 12, 5, 45,
5 };
strnset()
None of these
5
...
What is other tag to
make text bold?
int n{6} = { 2, 4, 12 };
int n(6) = { 2, 4, 12, 5, 45,
5 };
int num[6] = { 2, 4, 12, 5,
45, 5 };
All of the above
3NF
4NF
4
...
BCNF is an extended form
of
...
The space factor when
determining the efficiency of
algorithm is measured by
None of the above
6
...
A technique for direct search
is
12
Hashing
13
Binary Search
Tree Search
CERN
None of the above
7
...
Which of the following code
creates an object?
var book = new Object();
Text
Decreasing complexity
var book = Object();
Nested
Increasing complexity
None of these
None of these
var book = new
OBJECT();
var book = new Book();
none of the above/div>
9
...
Which of the following is
an aggregate function ?
PLUS
Count
ABS
Minimum
None of these
1
...
A computer cannot ‗boot‘ if
it does not have the…………
Compiler
Loader
Operating system
Assembler
4
...
The full form of RMI :
Remote Method Invocation
Remote Memory
Invocation
Remote Method
Installation
Remote Memory
Installation
Consistency
6
...
LIFO is ______ where as
FIFO is ________?
Stack, Queue
Queue, Stack
Priority Queue, Stack
Stack
...
Ping sweep is a part of
Traceroute
Route
Ipconfig
Nmap
None of the above
White box testing
Grey box testing
Alpha Testing
none of the above
7
...
A function inside another
function is called a function
9
...
Where does the bayes rule
can be used?
Solving queries
Answering probabilistic
query
2
...
route
Ifconfig
Ipconfig
Traceroute
none of the above
3
...
Which field helps to check
rearrangement of the
fragments?
session
...
SNMP is ________ protocol
...
If 4 files are transfered from
server A to client B in the same
none of the above
9
...
DNS database contains
name server records
hostname-to-address
records
hostname aliases
all of the above
none of the above
application layer
transport layer
statistical
Wide area network
None of these
10
...
SONET is a _______ TDM
system
...
Annual Hundred Drums Wangala Festival
begun on a cultural fervor at Asanang near Tura
town in Meghalaya
...
Garos tribes
2
...
Which Non – Governmental
Organisation (NGO) assisted the railways in
making Mysuru railway station blind-friendly?
Ans
...
Walmart India announced an entrepreneur
development programme for women, a move to
encourage women
...
Andhra Pradesh
4
...
Rajasthan
5
...
Telangana
6
...
Delhi
7
...
Puducherry
8
...
Ans
...
Which states police launched its ambitious 'eFIR' system under the Centre-sponsored Crime
and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems
(CCTNS) project?
Ans
...
Narendra Modi inaugurated county's first
solar powered district court in Khunti, in which
states?
Ans
...
11
...
The
Project Named as ___?
Ans
...
Which states government launched the
Operation Valsalya to trace, rescue and reunite
the missing children with their family?
Ans
...
Which states Government banned drug
Ketoprofen to save vultures? Ans
...
Tamil Nadu
14
...
Delhi
15
...
Ans
...
103rd Indian Science Congress is going to be
held at which place?e
Ans
...
Mysore will host the 103rd Indian Science
Congress from January 3 to 7, 2016 and a Mega
Science and Technology Exhibition as part of it
...
‗Science and Technology for Indigenous
Development in India‘
...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated
the 450 Mega Watt Baglihar Hydro Electric
Power Project Stage-II
...
Chenab
19
...
It has been
established by __________ Rural Development
and Panchayat Department at Chandigarh with
an outlay of 233 crore rupees
...
Punjab
20
...
Ans
...
Name the China‘s Supercomputer which has
emerged as the world‘s most powerful
supercomputer system for the sixth consecutive
time
...
Tianhe-2
channel in terms of time spent per viewer ahead
of top General Entertainment Channels?
Answer
...
Name the country's second largest passenger
car manufacturer which launched its CSR
initiative -- Safe Move-Traffic Safety Campaign
-- in association with the Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways
...
Hyundai Motor India (HMIL)
11
...
The government flagged off the which ‗train
from Delhi, as part of its initiative to sensitize
the masses, especially children and the youth,
about the issue of climate change, in the run-up
to the global climate summit in Paris?
12
...
which they named as Mount Kalam
...
Railway launched a new scheme under which
waitlisted passengers can get confirmed
accommodation in next alternative train if they
opt for the option while booking their tickets
online named as?
Answer
...
The Asia Pacific
Answer
...
Science Express Climate Action
Special‘
4
...
2019
5
...
Airports Authority of India (AAI) signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
which firm to spread its wings overseas?
Answer
...
Tata Trusts and with which institute
announced collaboration on knowledge creation
and capacity building for social and economic
empowerment in India?
Answer
...
Harvard University South Asia
Institute (SAI)
6
...
Taj Mahal
7
...
Catholic Syrian Bank (CSB)
8
...
Chennai‘s K Prithika Yashini
9
...
The country's first-ever double decker
Shatabdi Express would run between?
Answer
...
16
...
Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN) scheme
17
...
11
18
...
The ULIP which is
also called as ‗New Endowment Plus‘
...
Life Insurance Corporation of India
(LIC)
11
...
Kailash Satyarthi
12
...
President Pranab Mukherjee
19
...
Shekhar Kapur
13
...
A R Rehman
20
...
PEN Pinter Prize 2015 given to ________?
Ans
...
Eram Scientific Solutions
1
...
Abraham M Keita
15
...
Trichy Corporation
2
...
Ashok Amritraj
3
...
The United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR)
16
...
Ratan Tata
17
...
Zenia Bhumgara of India
18
...
Ram Bahadur Chetri
4
...
Kiren Rijiju
19
...
Raif Badawi
5
...
Prashant Damle
20
...
Bindeshwar Pathak
6
...
Kuldip Nayar
1
...
Every 5 years
7
...
C
...
I
...
Sasi
8
...
Marlon James
9
...
Arun Jaitley
10
...
Atiur Rahman (Bangladesh)
2
...
Answer
...
What is the name of the mission which aimed
to achieve full immunisation of children below
two years & will be implemented in 352 districts
of the country in its second phase?
Answer
...
Imprint India which encourages the Indian
technical institutions to develop a blueprint for
research to crack major engineering and
technology challenges relevant to the nation is a
joint initiative of?
Answer
...
Bill Banvao, Inaam Pao scheme
5
...
Central Victim Compensation Fund
(CVCF)
14
...
APJ Abdul Kalam Amrut Yojna
6
...
77 crore small businesses in the
context of rapid expansion of e-commerce in the
country
...
E-lala initiative
7
...
‗Ek Bharat, Shresth Bharat‘ scheme
8
...
Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna
(UDAY)
9
...
Answer
...
Integrated Power Development Scheme
(IPDS) which aimed to ensure 24×7 power
supply to every house was launched in?
Answer
...
Union Government has launched which
polict to promote greening of National Highway
corridors across the country?
Answer
...
Which state government launched Swadhar
Greh scheme which will assure economic and
social security to women in distress, under which
Swadhar Greh will be set up in every district
with capacity to accommodate 30 women?
Answer
...
Name the state which has set up Kissan
Kendra, agri super markets across the whole
state
...
Kerala
17
...
Answer
...
Which state government has launched
Mobile app named m-Sehat for health workers?
Answer
...
Name the platform which will provide
viewers access to over 500 television channels of
their choice be it international, national, regional
and local; besides a host of other services like eapplications and TV everywhere
...
Headend In The Sky (HITS) digital
platform initiative
20
...
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
(AIIMS) in New Delhi
1
...
Sierra Leone
12
...
The Odisha Government
13
...
Citizens will
be eligible for the scheme only on a bill or cash
memo/retail invoice of not less than 100 rupees
2
...
Belgium
3
...
Canada
4
...
Hindi
5
...
70th
6
...
Saudi Arabia
7
...
Matale
8
...
United Kingdom
part of historical Temple of Bel in the ancient site
of Palmyra in Syria?
Ans
...
An Indian-origin driver in Australia, was
named as Australian of the Day by
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
...
Tejinder Pal Singh
18
...
Nepal
19
...
Norway
9
...
Brahmaputra River
20
...
CIPS stands for?
Ans
...
Who has recently been appointed as Circuit
Judge in the UK?
Ans
...
Which became the first European country to
sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
on the establishment of Nalanda University?
Ans
...
Who has recently been appointed as Vicechairman of the Bank of International
Settlement (BIS)?
Ans
...
President Pranab Mukherjee visited Jordan &
inaugurated a street named after in Amman and
planted an Olive tree in Peace Park?
Ans
...
Tanzania's first female Vice President
________?
Ans
...
which country Signed Right to Die Bill for
terminally ill people into a Law?
Ans
...
Which country proposed to invest 30 billion US
dollars for urban development in India?
Ans
...
World most populous country has announced
to abandon its three decades-long one-child policy
and changed it two-child policy?
Ans
...
As per a recent report issued by China Internet
Network Information Centre (CNNIC), China has
overtaken which country and become the world‟s
largest online retail market?
Ans
...
Islamic State (IS) militant group has destroyed
4
...
Harjit Sajjan
5
...
Lawyer Patricia
6
...
Jack Dorsey
7
...
Hoesung Lee
8
...
AR Rahman
9
...
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
10
...
Bidhya Devi Bhandari
11
...
Kundhavi Kadiresan
12
...
Ashok-Alexander Sridharan
13
...
Justin Trudeau
14
...
John Pombe Magufuli
15
...
Paul Ryan
16
...
Jimmy Morales
17
...
Filippo Grandi
18
...
Jagdeep Grewal
19
...
Malcolm Turnbull
20
...
Swati Dandekar
1
...
NPCI
2
...
The cooperative banks have to report
commencement of the service to the concerned
Regional Office of RBI in how many months?
ANS 2
...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) granted inprinciple approval to three applicants to set up
and operate Trade Receivables Discounting
System (TReDS)/?
ANS 3 NSE Strategic Investment Corporation
Limited (NSICL) and Small Industries
Development Bank of India (SIDBI),
Mumbai
b) Axis Bank Limited, Mumbai
c) Mynd Solutions Pvt
...
, Gurgaon, Haryana
4
...
Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti
Money Laundering (AML) norms
...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 15
October 2015 formed a single Financial
Inclusion Fund (FIF) with a corpus of Rs?
ANS 5
...
6
...
6 the Central Bank of United Arab Emirates
(UAE)
7
...
(1) NPS will act as an investment option
for NRIs under Foreign Exchange Management
Act (FEMA), 1999
...
8
...
Such bonds will attract a withholding tax
of?
ANS 8
...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) notified that
the Foreign Institutional
Investors(FIIs)/Registered Foreign
PortfoliosInvestors (RFPIs) can now invest up to
which percentage of the paid up capital of DEN
Networks Limited under the Portfolio
Investment schemes ?
ANS 9
...
The Reserve Bank has signed a memorandum
of understanding (MoU) with which bank for
exchange of supervisory information?
ANS 10
...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued a
Direction to all Scheduled Commercial Banks
(excluding Regional Rural Banks) on
implementation of the Gold Monetisation
Scheme, 2015 notified by the Union
Government
...
Section 35A of the Banking Regulation
Act, 1949
12
...
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to
issue coins of 5 rupees denomination to
commemorate golden jubilee year of Indo-Pak
War 1965
...
14
...
Sahara India Financial Corporation
Limited (SIFCL)
15
...
The MoU was signed by RBI‘s
Executive Director and Nepal Rastra Bank‘s
Executive Director?
ANS 15
...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has granted
in principle approval to how many entities to set
up small finance banks to provide basic banking
services to small farmers and micro industries?
ANS 16
...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) relaxed the
norms of Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) of
government debt and also announced higher
investment limits in rupee terms in government
securities with a view to bring in an additional
amount of?
ANS 17
...
2 lakh crore rupees by March 2018
18
...
Registered Foreign Portfolios Investors
19
...
Strategic DebtRestructuring Scheme
20
...
18 months
...
Who had received the lifetime achievement
award at Asian Business Leadership Forum
2015?
Answer
...
Name the Polish professional footballer whose
nine-minute, five-goal haul for German Football
Club Bayern Munich against Wolfsburg was
officially recognised by Guinness World Record
...
Robert Lewandowski
3
...
Eldar Ryazanov
4
...
Global Initiative of Academic Networks
5
...
2 December
6
...
India‘s Thakur Anoop Singh
7
...
Pulin Kumar
8
...
Iran
9
...
Industrial and Commercial Bank of
China Ltd (ICBC)
10
...
Bangalore Chamber of Industry and
Commerce (BCIC)
1
...
Name the portal?
Answer
...
Which state government has launched
International festival on Birds in a bid to
promote state as an international bird-watching
destination?
Answer
...
Recently in December 2015, the Reserve Bank
of India has cancelled the certificate of
registration of howm many non-banking finance
companies (NBFCs), including ABNL, Future
Ventures India and Bajaj Finserve?
Answer
...
When is the International Volunteer Day
(IVD) observed across the world with the theme
The world is changing
...
5 December
5
...
5081 Square kilometre
6
...
Himachal Pradesh
7
...
Singapore
8
...
Australia
9
...
Frank Islam
10
...
Pune and Rajkot
1
...
Answer
...
The biggest Tibetan Buddhist Festival named
Losar began on 12 December 2015
...
Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir
3
...
Ahmad Javed
4
...
130 out of 188 countries
5
...
Arun Kumar Jain
6
...
Singapore
7
...
Madhuri Bose
8
...
18 December
9
...
Who is the head of the
committee?
Answer
...
Who is appointed as the Chief Information
Commissioner (CIC)?
Answer
...
K
...
Pension fund regulatory body PFRDA has
started using which card instead of Aadhaar for
validation of new customers who can now be
registered online under the National Pension
System (NPS) scheme?
Answer
...
2nd World Internet Conference concluded in
which country on 18 December 2015?
Answer
...
Name the British Novelist who passed away on
16 December 2015 following a brief illness in
Winchester, Hampshire?
Answer
...
Who received Garwood Award for
‗Outstanding Global Leader in Open
Innovation‘ from UC Berkeley-Haas School of
Business?
Answer
...
Name the Arunachal Pradesh who was
removed by the MLAs by passing a resolution?
Answer
...
6
...
Rohit Sharma
7
...
BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, China
and South Africa)
8
...
Pravin Gordhan
9
...
Sharad Joshi
10
...
Myanmar
1
...
Arun Kumar Jain
2
...
Patricia Scotland
3
...
Bihar government
4
...
Central Monitoring System (CMS)
5
...
97th
6
...
75 percent
7
...
Wuzen,China
...
Who is going to be the Chief Guest at 67th
India‘s Republic Day celebrations?
Answer
...
Who was crowned the Miss World 2015 at the
Beauty of Crown Theater in Sanya, China?
Answer
...
Life On My Terms: From the Grassroots to
the Corridors of Power, is the autobiography of
whom?
Answer
...
Which bank will raise up to Rs
...
State Bank of India
Answer
...
2
...
2000 CC
3
...
‗Kolaveri di‘
4
...
Answer
...
What is the India‘s Gross Domestic Product
according to CSO in the second quarter (JulySeptember) of 2015-16?
Answer
...
4 percent
6
...
U
...
magazine Time named which famous
personality as its ―Person of the Year 2015,‖?
Answer
...
National Payments Corporation of
India
6
...
Answer
...
Who become the 164th member of WTO
recently?
7
...
Miss Spain Mireia Lalaguna Royo
8
...
Answer
...
Union Government requested the states and
Union Territories to start which operation from
1 January 2016, which is a campaign to
rescue/rehabilitate the missing children?
Answer
...
The Union Government appointed whom to
head the Judicial Committee which will look into
the implementation of One Rank One Pension
(OROP) scheme for the ex-servicemen?
Answer
...
Who is sworn as the President of Argentina
recently?
Answer
...
Who was appointed as the Secretary General
of the Commonwealth of Nations?
Answer
...
In the Global Gender Gap Report 2015 by
World Economic Forum, what is the rank of
India in the list?
Answer
...
Where is the 2nd World Internet Conference
was concluded recently?
Answer
...
Which state becames the first state to give its
approval for turning around its ailing discoms
by joining the Centre‘s ambitious UDAY (Ujwal
Discom Assurance Yojana) scheme?
Answer
...
The telecom wing of the Indian Railways,
RailTel, has signed an agreement with the
subsidiary of which company to provide Wi-Fi
facilities at 400 stations across the country?
Answer
...
The Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP) government has raised Delhi MLA‘s
salaries by a how much percent?
Answer
...
11
...
7
...
Name the missile which was successfully testfired by Pakistan which is a medium-range
surface-to-surface ballistic missile which can
carry nuclear warheads up to 2,750 km
...
Shaheen-III
13
...
USA
14
...
11
...
Surendra Upadhyay
Answer
...
What is the full form of KNOMAD?
Answer
...
Which state has emerged as the fastest
growing state in terms of gross state domestic
product, clocking a growth rate of 17
...
Bihar
1
...
Ahmad Javed
2
...
Bappi Lahiri and singer Kumar Sanu
13
...
Asian Development Bank
14
...
Zhengzhou, China
3
...
Jamaludeen Mohamed Sali
15
...
Islamabad, Pakistan
4
...
Naseerudin Shah
16
...
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
5
...
Kartik Sawhney and Neha Swain
6
...
Frank Islam
7
...
The Delhi Development Authority
8
...
Francois Hollande
9
...
Sharad Joshi
10
...
Ustad Sabri Khan
17
...
Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir
18
...
Varanasi and Jaipur
19
...
Madhuri Bose
20
...
Sharad Pawar
1
...
Doha, Qatar
2
...
BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, China
and South Africa)
3
...
Nuclear Power Corporation of India
Limited
Answer
...
The Supreme Court directed State and Union
Territaory Governments to consider whom
under the disabled quota?
Answer
...
The government has made it mandatory to
quote PAN for all transactions in excess of how
much amount?
Answer
...
2 lakh
5
...
Six states i
...
Andhra Pradesh,
Chhatisgarh, Goa, Jammu, Kerala and
Karnataka
5
...
Answer
...
The Ministry of Urban Development
approved an investment of 3120 crore rupees
investment plans for basic urban infrastructure
boost for 102 cities approved under which
scheme?
Answer
...
RBI released the final guidelines on
computing interest rates on advances based on
which methodology?
Answer
...
In December 2015, the Federal Reserve
System, the central banking system of the USA,
increased interest rate by how much percent?
Answer
...
25 percent
9
...
Delhi
6
...
Agra
...
Name the Vice-President of the New
Development Bank (NDB) of the Brazil-RussiaIndia-China-South Africa (BRICS) grouping,
who welcomed the inclusion of the Chinese yuan
in the IMF basket of reserve currencies Special
Drawing Rights
...
Vladimir Kazbekov
8
...
33 per cent
10
...
8
...
The Finance Ministry said banks will disburse
credit to tune of Rs 1
...
Which state government will ban liquor sale
and consumption in phases from April 1, 2016?
Answer
...
Bihar government
10
...
Which organiation plans to raise funds up to
Rs
...
Organised Crimes Investigating
Agency
Answer
...
The Indian Space Research Organisation
successfully launched PSLV C-29 rocket with
which country six satellites from Satish Dhawan
Space Centre?
1
...
South Korea
2
...
Myanmar
3
...
Jordan
4
...
Sweden's Bjorn Isberg
Answer
...
Name the project, in which a network of
balloons traveling approximately 20 km above
the Earth‘s surface in the stratosphere will be set
up for interne?
Answer
...
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime
Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its
approval for signing of a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) between India and which
country on cooperation in Port matters?
Answer
...
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
(ACC) approved the appointment of whom as
the Director General of the National Centre for
Good Governance?
Answer
...
UN Women Multi-Country Office for India,
Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka have signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
which organization in New Delhi to strengthen
collaboration on advancing gender equality and
women's empowerment in the business sector?
6
...
New Delhi
Answer
...
Who headed the Committee on Revisiting and
Revitalising Public Private Partnership (PPP)
Model which recently published its report?
Answer
...
Who headed the Committee on Medium-term
Path on Financial Inclusion which was
appointed by RBI?
Answer
...
Who was appointed as the Adani Ports and
Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) Chief
Executive Officer?
Answer
...
The Indian Government has appointed whom
to head the Judicial Committee to look into the
implementation of One Rank One Pension
(OROP) scheme for the Ex-Servicemen?
Answer
...
India with which country have signed a MoU
on cooperation and assistance in the Mumbai –
Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Project?
Answer
...
What is India‘s ranking on Human
Development Index (HDI) which was published
recently by UNDP?
Answer
...
India with which country plans to Sign Pact
on Kudankulam Project?
9
...
Russia
Answer
...
Which state assembly passes Single Window
Clearance Bill, 2015 in December 2015?
10
...
Who was given the additional responsibility
of Chief Executive Officer of NITI Aayog?
Answer
...
When was the 44th Navy Day was observed
recently?
Answer
...
4 December
1
...
CK Nayudu
Lifetime Achievement Award?
10
...
South Western Railways (SWR) Zone
Answer
...
Which international organization has
approved an additional financial assistance to
Pakistan of $35 million to support improved
management, planning and development of
water resources in the Indus River Basin in
Pakistan?
1
...
65 billion?
Answer
...
World Bank
2
...
Which company has emerged as the country‘s
biggest company in terms of annual revenue as
per an annual list of 2015 Fortune 500
companies in India?
Answer
...
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
4
...
Afghanistan
5
...
Shiva Keshavan
6
...
Answer
...
Who was the founding member and singer in
the British heavy metal band Motorhead, who
passed after battling cancer?
Answer
...
Good Governance Day was observed on which
date across the country, to mark the birth
anniversary of former-Prime Minister Atal
Bihari Vajpayee?
Answer
...
Which comany launches contactless wallet
MoboMoney for the Indian masses which would
allow consumers to convert cash into e-cash for
making payments?
Answer
...
Name the Veteran Bollywood actress who
passed away in Mumbai, Maharashtra?
Answer
...
Which state government signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
Microsoft India on a range of technology
initiatives?
Answer
...
Name the Indigenously developed Beyond
Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air missile which was
successfully test fired off the coast of Odisha
near the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Balasore?
8
...
Astra
Answer
...
The 18th Session of the India-Iran Joint
Commission Meeting (JCM) was held in?
Answer
...
Who was the Oscar-winning cinematographer
who died peacefully in his sleep in California, US
in December 2015?
Answer
...
Name the Well-known sand artist whose
Santa Claus sculpture found a place in Limca
Book of World Records?
Answer
...
One Quarter
2) Who is the US Federal Reserve Board
Chairwoman currently?
Answer
...
17 a litre on
diesel to make use of slump in oil prices to
garner an additional Rs 2,500 crore?
Answer
...
0
...
Answer
...
The Singaporean satellites
6) Indian Railway Catering and Tourism
Corporation (IRCTC) has tied up with which
company to offer an additional payment gateway
for food ordered through its e-catering facility?
Answer
...
Answer
...
5-billion
9) The National Human Rights Commission has
taken suo motu cognisance of reports about a
study highlighting the leakage of radioactive and
toxic waste from the country‘s oldest and most
important uranium mine
...
Jaduguda in East Singhbhum district of
Jharkhand
10) Name the Google‘s Project that uses heliumfilled balloons to provide data connectivity in
remote areas
...
Project Loon
Answers will be provided soon
1
...
Chhenaiyin FC
2
...
John Stiven Mendoza of Chennaiyin FC
...
Name the Lebanese who was convicted of
executing one of the most notorious attacks in
Israeli history and spent nearly three decades in
an Israeli prison who killed in an Israeli airstrike
...
Samir Kantar
4
...
Russia
5
...
Answer
...
A
...
Manocha
6
...
25 lakh
km of optic fibre cable network across the
country?
Answer
...
(TTL)
8) To help India ensure that all its citizens in
rural areas have access to improved sanitation to
end open defecation by 2019, the World Bank
has approved hoe much amount loan for a
support operation project of Swachh Bharat, a
7
...
PAN
8
...
Hemant G
...
Which country become the the 164th WTO
member and the 36th least developed country
(LDC) to join the global trade body after 11 years
of negotiations?
Answer
...
The government lowered the economic growth
forecast for the current fiscal to how much from
previously projected 8
...
5 per cent mainly
because of lower agricultural output due to deficit
rains?
Answer
...
5 per cent
1
...
11 years
2
...
Ramki Krishnan of Chennai
3
...
has agreed to
invest $1
...
Ele
...
Tata Power has signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) with whom to explore and
develop investment opportunities in the energy
sector?
Answer
...
Direct-selling FMCG firm Amway India made
whom as its brand ambassador to promote
Nutrilite range of the products?
Answer
...
Reliance Defence Limited with which Russian
company which is a leading developer and
manufacturer of air defence missile systems,
have decided to work jointly on the entire range
of air defence missile and radar systems
required for the Indian defence forces?
Answer
...
Who inaugurated the parliament building in
Kabul, which was built by India?
Answer
...
Name the Pakistan army chief who will travel
to Kabul amid efforts to revive peace talks
between the Afghan government and the
Taliban?
Answer
...
Raheel Sharif
9
...
4 Swedish tennis
player who has announced his retirement at the
age of 31 recently?
Answer
...
Who was chosen for the prestigious Col
...
K
...
Former India stumper Syed Kirmani
1
...
India
2
...
West Bengal
3
...
Answer
...
B
...
Which State-run lender is planning to raise
Rs
...
IDBI Bank
5
...
e
...
$7
...
Name the French transportation equipment
maker which rolled out the first set of railway
coaches for the Kochi Metro project from its
facility at Sri City in Andhra Pradesh
...
Alstom
7
...
$38-billion
8
...
Punjab National Bank
9
...
Mahindra & Mahindra
10
...
Security Printing and Minting
Corporation of India
1
...
The Indian Institute of TechnologyKharagpur
2
...
Answer
...
India and China are deepening their
engagement to facilitate which country‘s
political transition, in tune with the evolution of
a full-spectrum dialogue between the two
countries, which includes counter-terrorism and
emergence of new regional trade blocs?
Answer
...
Who is the DG of Indo-Tibetan Border Police
(ITBP) force?
Answer
...
Name the mayor of a city Temixco of Mexico
who was shot to death, less than a day after
taking office?
Answer
...
Who is the Pakistan‘s powerful army chief
who has vowed to rid the country from the
scourge of terrorism, asserting that ―all negative
forces‖ would be scuttled?
Answer
...
Which country won the final of the SAFF
Suzuki Cup football tournament against
Afghanistan?
Answer
...
Who is the current BCCI ombudsman?
Answer
...
P
...
Name the countries which are set to conduct a
joint study to evaluate the impact of regional
trade blocs such as the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) and the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-centred
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
(RCEP)?
Answer
...
Name the English cricketer who was
regarded as one of the most talented up and
coming players in the country, died at the age of
22?
Answer
...
Where is the 103rd Indian Science Congress
recently took place?
Answer
...
Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT)
asked which Indian Film Industry actor to
withdraw the name ‗Khan market‘ from his
shopping portal to protect the brand name of the
national capital‘s upscale market?
Answer
...
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra
Fadnavis said that the Mumbai-Trans Harbour
Link(MTHL) will be completed by which year?
Answer
...
Name the Star India off-spinner who has
ended 2015 as the No
...
Ravichandran Ashwin
5
...
Laxmi Ratan Shukla
6
...
Virat Kohli
7
...
A
...
Mithali Raj
8
...
C
...
Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award 2015?
Answer
...
Name the Pakistani player who was included
in the national cricket team squad after serving
a five-year ban and jail time for indulging in
spot-fixing during the 2010 tour of England?
Answer
...
What is the full form DDA?
Answer
...
Who is to become the new CM of Jammu and
Kashmir after the death of Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed?
Answer
...
The Supreme Court asked the Centre and
public sector banking authorities to consider
providing reservation to which employees in
promotion to officers‘ ranks at all levels?
Answer
...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the
which airbase in Punjab after a terrorist attack
at the site?
Answer
...
Who is to become the new CM of Jammu and
Kashmir after the death of Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed?
Answer
...
The Supreme Court asked the Centre and
public sector banking authorities to consider
providing reservation to which employees in
promotion to officers‘ ranks at all levels?
Answer
...
Name the chief of Pearls Group who along
with his three colleagues, was arrested by the
CBI in connection with a ponzi scam involving
over Rs
...
5 crore
investors
...
Nirmal Singh Bhangoo
3
...
Pathankot
4
...
45,000 crore collected from 5
...
Nirmal Singh Bhangoo
5
...
Jallikattu
5
...
Jallikattu
6
...
Answer
...
Name the party which recently cleared that it
is no longer part of the National Democratic
Alliance in the State?
Answer
...
Who is named as the most generous Indian of
the year for the third time in a row with
donations worth Rs
...
Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro
7
...
27,514 crore to the
education sector?
Answer
...
Name the American documentary on the life
of Pakistani female activist and Nobel Peace
Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, which has been
nominated at the 68th BAFTA Awards
...
He Named Me Malala
8
...
He Named Me Malala
9
...
Answer
...
Name the Nobel laureate who said that the
NDA government had been slow to move on key
reforms and even failed to deliver on the reforms
it had promised, thus hampering the successful
functioning of a market economy?
Answer
...
What is the name of the BJP leader
Shatrughan Sinha's biography?
Answer
...
What is the name of the BJP leader
Shatrughan Sinha's biography?
Answer
...
1
...
CommonFloor
...
1
...
Israel and Palestine
2
...
Pranay Chulet
3
...
BSNL
4
...
Answer
...
Name the state of India which is the only
Indian destination to have made it to the New
York Time‘s list of 52 places to go in 2016
...
Tamil Nadu
6
...
8,000 crore in
the next 3-5 years in India, which was acquired
by Vedanta Group in 2002 ?
Answer
...
(HZL)
7
...
Milos Raonic by defeating Roger Federer
8
...
Anthony Amalraj
9
...
Answer
...
Name the social media app, which will hold
its first ever photograph exhibition in India
where photos generated from the photo and
video sharing app will be displayed
...
Name the organization who won the the
National Award on e-Governance 2015-16 for
launching the Universal Account Number
(UAN)
...
The Employees‘ Provident Fund
Organisation
3
...
Mumbai
4
...
5
...
Attempting to streamline defence acquisitions
and give a big impetus to indigenisation through
the ‗Make in India‘ initiative, the government
has approved major changes to which procedure
category to promote domestic manufacturing,
including government funding for Research &
Development (R&D) and recognition of the
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)
in technology development?
Answer
...
Union Minister for Road, Transport and
Highways, Nitin Gadkari, said that Centre
would spendhow much amount in the next five
years to fix 726 black spots identified on
National Highways
...
Rs
...
Who took oath as the Chairman of
Competition Commission of India recently?
Answer
...
Name the President of Turkey?
Answer
...
Name the Indian Foreign Secretary who
arrived in Sri Lanka to hold bilateral discussions
with the island nation‘s leadership
...
S
...
With which county, India signed a new social
security agreement enabling people of both
nations to avail retirement benefits in each
other‘s country, a pact likely to boost bilateral
business linkages?
Answer
...
Name the women tennis player who continued
to top the women‘s double in the latest tennis
WTA rankings?
...
Sania Mirza
2
...
Carli Lloyd
3
...
Who has been given the additional charge of
CMD of NMDC?
Answer
...
Sihag
10
...
SBI
1
...
Indonesia‘s Jakarta
2
...
Alan Rickman
4
...
Name the marine who is going to face criminal
trial for murder of two Indian fishermen in 2012
who was in news as the Supreme Court has
allowed his stay in Italy for another three
months?
Answer
...
Binny Bansal
5
...
?
4
...
Sikkim
Answer
...
Who will become the new CEO of Swedish
home appliance maker Electrolux who will
replace Keith McLoughlin?
Answer
...
Name the former president of the Tamil Nadu
unit of Janata Dal (secular) who died of illness at
a private hospital in Salem recently?
Answer
...
A
...
As part of its attempts to make mutual funds
reduce their exposure to one issuer or a sector in
the debt schemes, SEBI Board has decided to
amend the mutual fund regulations in which
single issuer limit is reduced to how much
percent of the net asset value (NAV) of the
scheme?
Answer
...
Name the company which said that it is
buying Hollywood‘s Legendary Entertainment,
the maker of films such as Batman, for $3
...
S
...
Wanda Group
6
...
Kolkata
Answer
...
Which bank became the first public sector
lender to launch wealth management service, a
space dominated by private and foreign players,
to cater to fast-growing affluent segment of the
country?
Answer
...
Name the organization which plans to hire 150
people for the centre of excellence for forensics
(CoE) which it has established in Hyderabad
with an investment of $1
...
PwC India
Answer
...
What is the Wholesale price index (WPI) in
December 2015, according to recent estimates?
9
...
5,000-crore plan of Cadila Healthcare for fresh
equity infusion?
Answer
...
6,050 crore
Answer
...
73 per cent
10
...
S
...
S
...
MetLife Inc
1
...
State Bank of India (SBI)
Answer
...
Name the Lieutenant-General who died in
New Delhi, was one of the heroes of the 1971 war
with Pakistan?
Answer
...
F
...
Jacob
3
...
The WeVoo App
4
...
Which bank unveiled a dedicated advisory
services branch for startups and wealth
management service for high networth
individuals (HNIs)?
10
...
World Intellectual Property Organisation
(WIPO)
1
...
Rajesh Vivek
2
...
India‘s Sania Mirza and Swiss‘s Martina
Hingis
3
...
Kusal Perera and Rangana Herath
Answer
...
The World Health Organisation declared an
end to the deadliest end to which disease after no
new cases emerged in Liberia?
4
...
Tata Housing
Answer
...
Which country has reopened its embassy in
Baghdad after a closure that lasted 25 years?
5
...
Saudi Arabia
Answer
...
At the end of November 2015, the fiscal
deficit-the difference between government
expenditure and revenue stands at how much
percent of the Budget Estimate for this financial
year?
6
...
Riyad Maliki
7
...
A freshly-trained contingent of 500 women
personnel, which will be the first 'mahila' squad
to be deployed in high-altitude posts along the
India-China border, was commissioned into the
which forces?
Answer
...
Border Security Force (BSF) camel
contingent
8
...
National Authority for Testing (NAT)
9
...
V
...
Which legendary actor-director historic
home of legendary was partially demolished by
its owners for constructing a plaza in Pakistan?
7
...
‗Sahyog-Kaijin‘
8
...
Answer
...
With which international organization, the
Indian Railways would work together to create a
Railway Development Fund that will partly
finance the $142-billion investment plans for the
core infrastructure sector?
Answer
...
Late Raj Kapoor
1
...
Services
2
...
Answer
...
Who became the new top ranked bowler in
International Test Cricket by replacing Ashwin?
Answer
...
Who became the second most followed Indian
on social media site Twitter recently?
10
...
Sri Lanka
1
...
China
2
...
89th
Answer
...
How much amount is Prime Minister
Narendra Modi sought to infuse for India‘s
start-up ecosystem with a bouquet of initiatives
such as making tax-free the profits of these
fledgling units for three years & other benefits?
Answer
...
10,000 crores
3
...
Yasutaro Koide
4
...
recently?
Answer
...
Which company plans to become one of the
leading automotive solutions provider in the
world by establishing two greenfield projects
and making overseas acquisitions for which it
will set apart Rs
...
Pricol
6
...
8
...
Name the Indigenous fighter plane which will
participate in an overseas air show for the first
time at the Bahrain air show?
Answer
...
The government approved a ‗viability gap
funding‘ (VGF) of how much amount for setting
up over 5,000 MW of grid-linked solar power
projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National
Solar Mission (JNNSM)?
4) Jordan, Palestine and Israel
5) Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel
Ques
...
: 4 The govt has introduced a Central
Victim Compensation Fund (CVCF) scheme, with
an initial corpus of ______ to enable support to
women victims of crime and cross border firing
...
: 5 Which of the following retail firms
announced to launch 4G smartphones in India
under „Lyf‟ brand recently?
1) Easy Day
2) Big Bazar
3) Reliance Retail
4) More
5) Spencer
Answer
...
Which music video outpaced the South
Korean pop star Psy‘s Gangnam Style on the
race to 1 billion views on YouTube to reach 1
billionth view in 87 days?
Answer
...
Who is the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan?
Answer
...
: 1 What is the full form of the term ESOP
as used in banking/finance?
1) Exit Stock Option
2) Exchange Stock Option
3) Estate Stock Option
4) Employee Stock Option
5) Exceptional Stock Option
Ques
...
These three nations
were
1) Jordan, Sweden and Israel
2) Malaysia, Palestine and Jordan
3) Indonesia, Jordan and Israel
Ques
...
: 7 Investigations by the Enforcement
Directorate (ED) in the Bank of Baroda (BoB)
case have brought to light a larger trade-related
money laundering racket that misused nine banks
...
: 8 The UN woes a total of $1
...
The largest
amount owed was to
1) Rwanda
2) Bangladesh
3) India
4) Ethiopia
5) Pakistan
Ques
...
Which of the following is NOT one
of these four new schemes?
1) National Rural Health Mission
2) Pension schemes
3) MGNREGA
4) PMJDY
5) Provident fund
Ques
...
4)
2
...
2)
4
...
3)
6
...
3)
8
...
1)
10
...
: 1 Who among the following will be
India‘s next high commissioner to London in the
recent reshuffle in the Ministry of Economic
Affairs?
1) Navtej Sarna
2) Anil Wadhwa
3) Gautam Bambawale
4) Syed Akbaruddin
5) None of these
Ques
...
1) IRDA
2) EPFO
3) RBI
4) SEBI
5) SIDBI
Ques
...
He is the present
governor of
1) Assam
2) Odisha
3) West Bengal
4) Jharkhand
5) Arunachal Pradesh
Ques
...
: 5 Which of the following statements is
correct about IDBI Bank?
1) It is a public sector bank
...
3) It is a foreign bank
...
5) None of these
Ques
...
22 lakh cr for loans to be given by
state-run banks under the PMMY
...
1) Mudra
2) Mandal
3) Mahila
4) Milk
5) Model
Ques
...
: 8 India will host the first G4 summit
since 2004 which is aimed at giving strong push
to negotiation for UNSC reform
...
: 9 David Granger is the present Prime
Minister of which of the following countries?
About 40 per cent of the population of this
country is of Indian descent
...
: 10 Ngultrum is the currency of which of
the following countries?
1) Bhutan
2) Malaysia
3) Sri Lanka
4) Thailand
5) Philippines
Ques
...
: 2 Who among the following has been
crowned Miss Universe 2015?
1) Anastasia Lin
2) Maria Harfanti
3) Sofia Nikitchuk
4) Mireia Lalaguna Royo
5) Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach
Ques
...
: 4 Which of the following teams won the
FIFA Club World Cup crown recently?
1) River Plate
2) FC Barcelona
3) TP Mazembe
4) Auckland City FC
5) Club America
Ques
...
: 6 _________ became the largest
remittances receiving country at $72 bn as per
the report released by the World Bank recently
...
: 7 Tata Motors has made it to the Top 50
league of the world‘s biggest companies in terms
of R&D investments
...
: 8 Nearly 1,200 companies listed on the
BSE together spent USD 1 bn (Rs 6,400 cr)
towards CSR activities in 2014-15
...
: 9 _______ won the Old Chang Kee
Singapore Squash Open on 20 Dec
...
: 10 Reva Khetarpal is the new Lokayukta
of which of the following states?
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) Gujarat
3) Delhi
4) Haryana
5) Karnataka
ANSWERS
1
...
5) Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach
3
...
2) FC Barcelona
5
...
3) India
7
...
4) Corporate Social Responsibility
9
...
3) Delhi
Ques
...
: 2 Who among the following is the present
chairman and managing director (CMD) of
Sidbi, the country's principal lender for micro,
small and medium enterprises (MSMEs)?
1) RS Garg
2) V Sridar
3) S Muhnot
4) Kshatrapati Shivaji
5) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
Ques
...
: 4 The recently released book titled
―Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India‖
is the autobiography of
1) Azim Premji
2) NR Narayana Murthy
3) Sam Pitroda
4) Montek Singh Ahluwalia
5) Nandan Nilekani
Ques
...
1) Robert Mugabe
2) Joko Widodo
3) Najib Razak
4) Dilma Rousseff
5) Vladimir Putin
Ques
...
: 7 The govt cleared the first batch of
projects under the flagship AMRUT scheme for
89 cities worth Rs 2,786 cr recently
...
: 8 The RBI said that banks' CRR and
SLR will be applicable to short-term bullion
deposits under the gold monetisation scheme and
banks will be allowed to take a minimum deposit
of _______ of gold from individuals
...
: 9 Syed Zahoor Qasim, who died recently,
was a renowned
1) economist
2) physicist
3) chemist
4) author
5) marine biologist
Ques
...
2)
2
...
5)
4
...
1)
6
...
1)
8
...
5)
10
...
: 1 What is India‘s ranking in the recent
Ease of Doing Business List 2016 released by the
World Bank?
1) 84
2) 127
3) 130
4) 134
5) 142
Ques
...
: 3 The Union Govt constituted a
committee to simplify the provisions of the
Income Tax Act, 1961 recently
...
: 4 Sri Lanka and India began their
bilateral naval exercise SLINEX off _________
recently
...
: 5 The eighth edition of National Seed
Congress (NSC) began in which city recently to
deliberate on advanced seed development
technologies and regulatory measures?
1) Bengaluru
2) Hyderabad
3) New Delhi
4) Jaipur
5) Chandigarh
Ques
...
: 7 Which of the following states will host
the South Asian Rugby 7‘S Championship in
2016?
1) Himachal Pradesh
2) Jammu and Kashmir
3) Arunachal Pradesh
4) Haryana
5) Uttarakhand
Ques
...
: 9 Sylvie Lucas was appointed as the
Chair of the Inter-Governmental Negotiations
(IGN) on UN Security Council (UNSC) reforms
recently
...
1) Belgium
2) Netherlands
3) Switzerland
4) Romania
5) Luxembourg
Ques
...
3) 130
2
...
1) RV Easwar
4
...
2) Hyderabad
6
...
2) Jammu and Kashmir
8
...
5) Luxembourg
10
...
: 1 The Modi gov declared 31 Oct as
―Rashtriya Ekta Diwas‖ (National Unity Day) to
mark the birth anniversary of
1) Bhagat Singh
2) Abul Kalam Azad
3) Subhas Chandra Bose
4) Jawaharlal Nehru
5) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Ques
...
: 3 As per 2015 Melbourne Mercer Global
Pension Index (MMGPI), the Indian retirement
system ranks last while the retirement system of
__________ ranks first
...
: 4 John Magufuli was elected as the
President of which of the following countries
recently?
1) Kenya
2) Angola
3) Tanzania
4) DR Congo
5) Ethiopia
Ques
...
1) USD 5 bn
2) USD 10 bn
3) USD 15 bn
4) USD 20 bn
5) USD 25 bn
Ques
...
: 7 Raif Badawi was awarded the
European Union‟s prize for human rights and
freedom of thought recently
...
: 8 The International Finance Corporation
(IFC) is an international financial institution
which is headquartered at
1) Geneva
2) Paris
3) Rome
4) Washington DC
5) New York
Ques
...
: 10 According to the UN‟s report
released recently, the Asia Pacific region is the
world‟s most disaster prone part while _______
is the world's most „at-risk‟ country for natural
hazards
...
5) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
2
...
5) Denmark
4
...
2) USD 10 bn
6
...
3) Saudi Arabia
8
...
5) China
10
...
: 1 The Central govt allowed ‗Jallikattu‘
or bull taming sport played in which of the
following states recently? It is played during
Pongal festival
...
: 2 The ingenuously designed INS
Kadmatt was commissioned into the Indian
Navy recently in Vishakhapatnam
...
: 3 Who among the following has been
appointed as Chairman of fair-trade regulator
Competition Commission of India (CCI)?
1) Dhanendra Kumar
2) Ashok Chawla
3) Devender Kumar Sikri
4) Vinod Rai
5) Shashi Kant Sharma
Ques
...
She is the present managing director (MD)
and chief executive officer (CEO) of
1) HDFC Bank
2) ICICI Bank
3) Federal Bank
4) Axis Bank
5) Kotak Mahindra Bank
4) UK
5) France
Answers:
Ques
...
: 6 The Indo-French military exercise was
conducted in Rajasthan recently
...
: 7 The govt on 7 Jan announced to merge
the ministry of overseas Indian affairs (MOIA)
with the external affairs ministry
...
: 8 Who among the following was recently
named The Banker magazine‘s Global and AsiaPacific Central Bank Governor of the Year
2015?
1) Raghuram Rajan
2) Janet Yellen
3) Mario Draghi
4) Zhou Xiaochuan
5) Atiur Rahman
1
...
1)
3
...
4)
5
...
3)
7
...
1)
9
...
5)
1
...
The 2016 European Football Championship
Euro 2016" is scheduled to take place from June
10 to July 2016 in–
(A) Italy
(B) Scotland
(C) France
(D) Denmark
(E) Germany
3
...
: 9 __________ has been reappointed as
RBI deputy governor for three years
...
Cibil Transunion score ranges from……… to
...
: 10 For the first time in history, the army
contingent of which of the following countries
will be a part of the Republic Day parade 2016
along with the Indian Armed forces?
1) US
2) China
3) Japan
5
...
Which of the following institutes has
introduced RuPay Debit Card?
(A) DISCOVER
(B) VISA
(C) MASTER
(D) RBI
(E) NPCI
9
...
C
1
...
The National Capital of Republic of Iraq is–
(A) Medina
(B) Al Bahah
(C) Baghdad
(D) Jeddah
(E) Tehran
2
...
The missile was fired from ?
Answers: INS Kolkata
8
...
With a view to scaling up bilateral Research
and innovation relationship ‗A Newton Bhabha
Fund has recently been established by India
and–
(A) United States of America
(B) United Kingdom (UK)
(C) France
(D) Scotland
(E) Ireland
10
...
The Public Enterprises Selection Board has
recommended to whom and be the new CMD of
defence PSU BEML Ltd and currently he is
Director (HR) of the Bengaluru-based BEML?
Answers: D
...
Hota
4
...
Star India off-spinner ended 2015 as the No
...
Indian Test captain was named ‗Cricketer of
the Year‘, while Mithali Raj was picked for the
M
...
Chidambaram Trophy for the best
women‘s cricketer,Who is he?
Answers: Virat Kohli
7
...
D
2
...
C
4
...
D
6
...
C
8
...
Former India player and Bengal captain
announced his retirement from cricket
...
Foremost south Indian classical vocalists has
conferred with prestigious 2015 Sangita
Kalanidhi award, name him?
Answers:Sanjay Subrahmanyam
10
...
Electronic motor insurance policies are legally
accepted by the police and transport authorities
in from today, making it the first state in the
country to do so?
Answers: Telangana
2
...
Name the amputee mountaineer who set a
record by climbing the Mount Everest on 25
December 2015, conquered Mount Aconcagua in
Argentina?
Answers:Arunima Sinha
8
...
In the title clash played at Trivandrum
International Stadium of Kerala?
Answers:India
9
...
nic
...
Ex-Chief Justice of India passed away on 4
January 2016 in Mumbai
...
Amament Research and Development
Establishment (ARDE) in the last week of
December 2015 successfully test-fired multi
barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) System
...
Paytm has acquired for $8 million (about Rs
53
...
Professional networking platform LinkedIn
appointed whom as Country Manager for India,
with immediate effect
...
Nokia Corporation on 5 January 2015
announced that it completed the regulatory
formalities for acquiring the French telecom
equipment company Alca-Lucent,The deal,
worth ?
Answers:15
...
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development (NABARD) on 1 January 2016
signed the Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) with National Remote Sensing Centre
(NRSC) for web-based monitoring of,name the
project?
Answers: Indo-German Watershed Development
projects
3
...
British writer who won on 4 January 2016 won
the novel-of-the-year prize at Britain's Costa
Book Awards 2015?
Answers: Kate Atkinson
6
...
State election commissioner (SEC) Ashok
Kumar Chauhan on 4 January 2016 announced
that toilets will be mandatory requirement for
eligibility to contest panchayat elections in which
state?
news in the first week of January 2016 it topped
the 2015 US bestseller list?
Answers: Bihar
Answer: Go Set a Watchman
6
...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will
inaugurate the annual Indian Science Congress
(ISC) at University of Mysore campus in
Karnataka on Sunday
...
The Union Minister of Water Resources, River
Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma
Bharti on 5 January 2016 launched which
scheme at Village Puth in Hapur district of Uttar
Pradesh (UP)?
Answers: Ganga Gram Yojana
6
...
UN official who has worked in refugee and
political affairs in the Middle East, Africa, and
Asia, began his five-year term as UN High
Commissioner for Refugees,who is he?
7
...
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on
3 January 2015 won the 26th Lal Bahadur
Shastri Hockey tournament,ONGC defeated ?
8
...
Indian cricket star as brand ambassador for
the disease awareness campaign 'Changing
Diabetes' initiated by it in India,who is he?
Answer:Sachin Tendulkar
1
...
Forbes on 4 January 2016 released the 2016 30
Under 30 List featuring 600 men and women
who achieved remarkable professional success
before attaining 30 years of age
...
The world's largest blue star sapphire that
weighs 1404
...
Which book written by Harper Lee was in
9
...
Answer: 33%
10
...
: 1 The World Telecommunication and
Information Society Day (WTISD) is observed
on
1) 12 May
2) 15 May
3) 17 May
4) 18 May
5) 22 May
Ques
...
: 3 Who won the men‘s singles title of the
Rome Masters tennis tournament on 17 May?
1) Roger Federer
2) Novak Djokovic
3) Rafael Nadal
4) Andy Murray
5) None of these
Ques
...
5 Billion from Chinese Banks during PM
Narendra Modi‘s recent visit to China?
1) Idea
2) Bharti Airtel
3) Reliance Communication
4) Reliance Jio
5) None of these
Ques
...
The
valley is situated in the state of
1) Himachal Pradesh
2) Jammu and Kashmir
3) Uttarakhand
4) Sikkim
5) None of these
Ques
...
Name the aircraft carrier
...
: 9 The ousted president Mohamed Morsi
was sentenced to death by a court in which of the
following countries recently?
1) Libya
2) Syria
3) Egypt
4) Turkey
5) None of these
Ques
...
He is associated with
1) Shooting
2) Boxing
3) Squash
4) Archery
5) None of these
Answers:
1
...
1)
3
...
2)
5
...
1)
7
...
4)
9
...
1)
Ques
...
: 7 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced
to death by lethal injection by a US court
...
: 2 Kamala Laxman, who died, recently,
was a well-known
1) classical music composer
2) Bharatanatyam exponent
3) child rights activist
4) children‘s books writer
5) None of these
Ques
...
: 3 Which of the following states marked
its statehood day on 15 Nov and introduced
‗Mobile Governance‘?
1) Chhattisgarh
2) Telangana
3) Goa
4) Jharkhand
5) Odisha
Ques
...
The pharmacy is named
1) SANJIVANI
2) AMRIT
3) SAMARTH
4) JEEVAN JYOTI
5) AAROGYA
Ques
...
4 kmph recently
...
: 6 The overdraft under Jan Dhan scheme
has reached near Rs 120-cr mark
...
1) one month
2) three months
3) six months
4) nine months
5) twelve months
Ques
...
: 10 India and which country signed the
standard operating procedure (SOP) in New
Delhi recently to operationalise the Agreement
on Coastal Shipping, signed earlier?
1) Myanmar
2) Sri Lanka
3) Maldives
4) Japan
5) Bangladesh
Answers:
1
...
4)
3
...
2)
5
...
3)
7
...
3)
9
...
5)
Ques
...
: 2 A research panel headed by the Indian
Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently
cleared the consumption of khesari dal, fifty-five
years after it was banned
...
: 8 The committee set up to look into the
ways to revive Public Private Partnership (PPP)
model is headed by
1) Nachiket Mor
2) Bimal Jalan
3) Vijay Kelkar
4) Y Venugopal Reddy
5) C Rangarajan
Ques
...
1) Railways
2) Uttarakhand
3) Kerala
4) Punjab
5) Services
Ques
...
: 4 Who won the 14th Delhi International
Open chess title on 16 Jan?
1) MR Lalith Babu
2) Vitaly Sivuk
3) Attila Czebe
4) Valeriy Neverov
5) Ivan Popov
Ques
...
: 6 The NITI Aayog and IDFC Institute
will jointly conduct a survey on ease of doing
business
...
: 7 The Hindu Prize, 2015 was awarded to
who among the following at the Lit for Life
festival in Chennai recently?
1) Siddharth Chowdhury (The Patna Manual of
Style)
2) Janice Pariat (Seahorse)
3) Anuradha Roy (Sleeping on Jupiter)
4) Easterine Kire (When the River Sleeps)
5) Amitav Ghosh (Flood of Fire)
Ques
...
: 9 Which of the following teams clinched
the 2016 Premier Badminton League (PBL) title
recently?
1) Mumbai Rockets
2) Delhi Acers
3) Bengaluru Topgun
4) Hyderabad Hunters
5) Chennai Smashers
Ques
...
The first President of the bank is
1) Lou Jiwei
2) Zhou Xiaochuan
3) Jin Liqun
4) Perng Fai-nan
5) Bo Xilai
Answers:
1
...
2)
3
...
5)
5
...
2)
7
...
2)
9
...
3)
1
...
The Global Communication Association
(GCA), a not-for-profit professional
organisation, to host the 11th international
conference of media experts and communication
specialists from around the world at where?
Answer: Mysuru
3
...
All families
with annual income below Rs
...
Taxi-hailing app Uber today announced a new
start-up mentorship programme in the country
in partnership with Invest India called?
Answer: uberEXCHANGE
5
...
Who was on 6 January 2016 elected as the
General President of the 105th Indian Science
Congress Association (ISCA) that is scheduled
for 2017-18?
Answer: Dr Achyuta Samanta
7
...
Who was on 7 January 2016 appointed as
Chairman of fair-trade regulator Competition
Commission of India (CCI)?
Answer: Labhshankar Thakar
Answer: Devender Kumar Sikri
8
...
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvette INS
Kadmatt was on 7 January 2016 commissioned
in the Indian Navy at naval dockyard in where?
Answer:Visakhapatnam
Answer: Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda,
popularly known as Sam Pitroda
8
...
Senior diplomat who has been appointed
India's ambassador to strategically important
Israel, where he will succeed Jaideep Sarkar?
Answer:Commonfloor
...
The Philippines' who was on 7 January 2016
was voted as the Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of
Month for December 2015?
10
...
In order to avoid duplication of work and to
improve efficiency, the government on Thursday
merged the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs
(MOIA) with Which ministry ?
Answer: Ministry of External Affairs
2
...
Senior IAS officer was today appointed as
Registrar General and Census
Commissioner,Who is he?
Answer:Sailesh
4
...
Who was on 7 January 2016 appointed as the
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NITI
Aayog,His appointment was approved by the
Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
(ACC)?
Answer: Amitabh Kant
10
...
Union Ministry of Finance recently decided
to impose how much percentage Swachh Bharat
Cess (SBC) on all taxable services?
1) 0
...
75%
3) 1%
4) 0
...
Q2
...
Which states / UT‘s recently impose
Environment Compensation Charge or
‗environment cess ‗on trucks entering into its
territory?
1) UP
2) MP
3) Delhi
4) Kerla
5) None of these
...
WHO recently declares which of the
following country Ebola-free?
1) Sierra Leone
2) Liberia
3) Guinea
4) Senegal
5) None of these
Q5
...
Who has recently sworn in as Tanzania‘s
first female Vice President?
1) Garima Suluhu
2) Gayatri Suluhu
3) Samia Suluhu
4) Rekha Suluhu
5) None of these
Q7
...
The book titled Rebooting India: Realizing a
Billion Aspirations authored by ____?
1) Nandan Nilekani
2) Viral Shah
3) Krishna Kant
4) 1 & 2 only
5) None of these
...
The Indian government approved an
agreement with which country for cooperation
in development of new and renewable energy
technologies?
1) Belgium
2) Afghanistan
3) Japan
4) Malta
5) None of these
...
Who among the following topped the
Forbes list of ―World's Most Powerful People
2015‖?
1) Angela Merkel
2) Vladimir Putin
3) Narendra Modi
4) Indra Nooyi
5) None of these
Q11
...
What is
India‘s Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rank?
1) 10th
2) 9th
3) 4th
4) 15th
5) None of these
Q12
...
The amount
allocated for this project is______?
1) Rs
...
2,000 Crore
3) Rs
...
1,000 Crore
5) None of these
Q13
...
The Reserve Bank has imposed how much
penalty on Dhanlaxmi Bank for violation of
Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money
Laundering (AML) norms?
1) Rs
...
10 Crore
3) Rs
...
8 Crore
5) None of these
Q15
...
Who became first female jockey to win
Melbourne Cup, Australia's most prestigious
Thoroughbred horse races?
1) Rajeev Payne
2) Prashant Payne
3) Michelle Payne
4) Meena Payne
5) None of these
Q2
...
Which states Govt
...
P
...
Which Indian Railway Stations became the
first blind-friendly Railway Station in India?
1) Kesare
2) Mysuru
3) Halalu
4) Gurur
5) None of these
Q5
...
Veteran cricketer Shoaib Malik, who made a
spectacular comeback into the Test squad after
five years, has announced retirement from the
longest format of the game, is from which
country?
1) South Africa
2) Afghanistan
3) England
4) Pakistan
5) None of these
...
Inzamamul Haq, has been roped in as the
Afghanistan coach for a two-year period
...
Which company, under its ‗Project Loon‘, is
using big balloons floating at a height of 20
kilometers above earth surface for transmission
of Internet services?
1) IBM
2) Infosys
3) Google
4) TCS
5) None of these
...
US-based social networking giant Facebook
recently partnered with which telecomm
company to create 100 WiFi hotspots in rural
areas of western and southern India?
1) MTNL
2) BSNL
3) Vodafone
4) Airtel
5) None of these
...
Mysuru Railway Station (Karnataka, India)
became the first blind-friendly Railway Station
in India
...
To recognise the spirit of the persons with
disabilities, first international film festival for
the persons with disabilities (IFFPD) recently
held at which place?
1) Hyderabad
2) Jaipur
3) Pune
4) Delhi
5) None of these
Q12
...
This
championship recently concluded at which
place?
1) Kota (Rajasthan)
2) Lucknow (U
...
)
3) Rajkot (Gujarat)
4) Pune (Maharashtra)
5) None of these
Q13
...
An Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS)
Arinjay was on 1 November 2015 commissioned
at which place?
1) Vishakhapatnam
2) Mumbai
3) Kochi
4) Port of Kolkata
5) None of these
Q15
...
Q1
...
Supersonic cruise missile BrahMos, with a
strike-range of over __________, test-fired from
the navy's newest stealth destroyer INS Kochi
successfully hitting a decommissioned target
ship in the Arabian Sea?
1) 280 kms
2) 290 kms
3) 180 kms
4) 190 kms
5) None of these
Q3
...
K
...
M
...
S
...
Subramanian
4) R
...
Pachauri
5) None of these
Q4
...
Q5
...
He is the founder of___?
1) Bajaj Auto
2) TVS Motors
3) Hero MotoCorp
4) Kinetic
5) None of these
...
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications
Ltd (R-Com) is merging with which telecom
business, that operates MTS brand with itself in
an all-stock deal worth Rs
...
1) Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd (SSTL)
2) Airtel
3) Vodafone
4) MTS
5) None of these
...
The names of former (late) footballer and
Asian games gold medallist who was to be
conferred posthumously Khel Ratna award
officially approved by the state sports ministry?
1) Liaqat Ali
2) Sanjay Dhyani
3) Ram Bahadur Chetri
4) Gigy George
5) None of these
...
Nico Rosberg claimed victory at the Mexican
Grand Prix by defeating ________?
1) Lewis Hamilton
2) Sebastian Vettel
3) Fernando Alonso
4) Kimi Raikkonen
5) None of these
Q9
...
Q10
...
Q11
...
Q12
...
Q13
...
Q14
...
The guidelines will
come into effect from which date ?
1) 1 April 2016
2) 10 April 2016
3) 31 March 2016
4) 1 September 2016
5) None of these
...
World Trade Organisation (WTO)
unanimously approved Afghanistan‘s WTO
membership at the WTO‘s Tenth Ministerial
Conference (MC10) in Nairobi, the capital of
Kenya
...
Q16
...
P
...
P
...
Q17
...
The
committee will be headed by __________?
1) Justice Ajit Prakash Shah
2) Justice H
...
Dattu
3) Justice R
...
Lodha
4) Raju Singh
5) None of these
...
CII-ITC Sustainability Awards 2015 for
Excellence in Sustainable Business conferred in
various categories
...
Q19
...
K
...
K
...
Q20
...
1
...
Ratan Watal
Shaktikanta Das
Mahavir Das
None of these
2
...
The National Unity Day was observed across
India on which date to commemorate the
birthday of Sardar Vallabhai Patel?
28 October
three decades-long one-child policy and changed
it two-child policy?
31 October
Pakistan
31 December
UK
28 December
US
None of these
China
None of these
4
...
Name the scheme is
________?
8
...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed
to which of the following entity to subscribe to
the National Pension System (NPS) enabling
them access old age income security?
Non-Resident Indians (NRIs
Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI)
Foreign Institutional Investors (FII)
Both 1 and 2
None of these
9
...
Lunar rover, Yutu, has set the new record for
the longest stay by a rover on the lunar surface
...
NRIs may subscribe to the NPS through
normal banking channels and the person is
eligible to invest as per the provisions of the
PFRDA Act, 2013
...
Who has recently been selected for New
York Global Leaders Dialogue Humanitarian
Award?
Bindeshwar Pathak
Radhe Pathak
Sujit Pathak
Rahim Singh
7
...
Raif Badawi has been selected for European
Union‘s prestigious Sakharov Prize for human
rights for year 2015
...
What is india's rank in "ease of doing
business" report published by World Bank?
140
138
130
13
...
World Bank recently announced that India
ranked 130 out of the 189 countries surveyed in
terms of ease of doing business for domestic
firms
...
Indian para-athlete Amit Kumar Saroha
recently won silver medal in men's club throw
F51 event in the IPC Athletics World
Championships
...
Indian and France have signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to
conserve, develop and publicize written heritage
at the National Library at which place?
4
...
The committee will
be headed by ___?
K
...
Easwar
R
...
Easwar
Kolkata
S
...
Easwar
Delhi
R
...
Sahni
Mumbai
None of these
Chennai
None of these
1
...
SLINEX -2015, is a naval exercise begins in
between which two countries?
India and Russia
India and Nepal
India and China
India and Sri Lanka
None of these
University of San Diego
Harvard University South Asia Institute
6
...
Citibank appointed which of the following as
Chief Economist for India?
Kabir Chakraborty
Samiran Chakraborty
Samir Chakraborty
Rahim Singh
7
...
She is from which country?
Luxembourg
Russia
US
China
None of these
8
...
Who has recently been elevated as Managing
Director of country's largest lender State Bank
of India in place of Corporate Banking head P
Pradeep Kumar?
R
...
Gupta
K
...
Gupta
None of these
Students
Corporate
Tax Payers
Only for Technical Students
None of these
9
...
South Asian Rugby 7‘S Championship in
2016 is going to be held at which place?
Jammu & Kashmir
Telagana
Delhi
Uttarakhand
None of these
James Staley
Raghvendra Singh
Rahim Staley
Krishna Singh
None of these
10
...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC)
chief recently announced that all the highly
qualified athletes who are refugees will be
allowed to compete in the Olympic Games
...
Financial powers of Health Institutions
enhanced to Rs
...
The earlier upper limit
per patient was?
recognised as White House Champions of
Change for sustainable and climate-smart
agriculture at an event in the US?
Ankita Adalja
Anita Purohit
Anita Adalja
Rs
...
4 Lakh
None of these
Rs
...
3 Lakh
None of these
1
...
, are covered under the scheme?
5
...
)
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL
1998
Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL)
1982
None of these
1997
1984
None of these
6
...
Indian archer Deepika Kumari bagged the
silver medal in the Archery World Cup Final
held at which place?
Mexico City
Doha
Ufa
Tokeyo
None of these
3
...
He is
from which country?
Russia
China
South-Africa
Japan
None of these
Russia
Bangladesh
England
None of these
7
...
IFSC stands for?
International Financial Services Centre
India Financial City Centre
International fiscal services Centre
India Financial Secure Centre
...
BlackBerry has appointed which of the
following as the Managing Director of its India's
operations to steer the Canadian handset
maker's restructuring efforts?
Rajendra Nayak
4
...
Tianhui-1C, a mapping satellite successfully
launched by which country?
UK
USA
Mumbai and Pune
None of these
14
...
Who has recently been elected as the
President of the Guatemala?
Otto Perez Molina
Soluna Samay
Jimmy Morales
Sebastian Vettel
None of these
15
...
BlackBerry has appointed Narendra Nayak
as the Managing Director of its India operations
to steer the Canadian handset maker's
restructuring efforts
...
Which Television channel claimed that it has
emerged as the most watched Hindi channel in
terms of time spent per viewer ahead of top
General Entertainment Channels?
Zee News
Doordarshan
Jayant Talukdar
None of these
1
...
IFSC stands for?
International Financial Service Centre
India Financial Service Centre
India Financial City Centre
International Financial City Centre
None of these
2
...
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has
announced that the Railways would soon start
country's first-ever double decker Shatabdi
Express that would ply between _____?
Giugiaro
None of these
3
...
Losar, the biggest Tibetan Buddhist Festival
recently began on 12 December 2015 at which
place?
Ladakh (Jammu and Kashmir)
4
...
This
Committee is headed by?
Lucknow (UP)
Jaipur (Rajasthan)
Ranchi (Jharkhand)
None of these
K Narashimha Reddy
L
...
Construction work on the TAPI Gas Pipeline
project started in Turkmenistan on 13 December
2015
...
Narsimha Reddy
Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India
None of these
Turkey-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India
P
...
Operation Smile-II for rescuing and
rehabilitating missing children is going to start
from which date?
Tajikistan-Alaska-Pakistan-India
None of these
1 Jan 2017
1 Jan 2016
10
...
Which Indian-origin politician has recently
been appointed as South Africa‘s new Finance
Minister?
Pradhan Gordhan
None of these
11
...
India‘s star golfer Anirban Lahiri (28) has
won the coveted Order of Merit crown of Asian
Tour for year 2015
...
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) recently
appointed Mumbai Police Commissioner Ahmad
Javed as the Ambassador to which country?
UK
USA
China
Saudi Arabia
None of these
13
...
Which Indian-origin Tamil writer was
declared as the winner of the prestigious South
East Asian Write Award for Singapore?
C
...
Lakshmi
Suki Sivan
Jamaludeen
Jamaludeen Mohamed Sali
None of these
15
...
Who was appointed as the President of The
Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry
of India (ASSOCHAM)?
Answer
...
Who was crowned Miss Universe 2015 at the
final of 64th edition of Miss Universe held in Las
Vegas, the USA?
Answer
...
Who was conferred with the Padma
Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian honour
recently in December?
Answer
...
Name the Global software giant who
announced that it won the 2015 Aegis Graham
Bell Award for developing a solution for the
Internet of Things
...
Wipro
5
...
Answer
...
The two-day 14th Meeting of the Council of
Heads of Governments of Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation (CSO) Member States was
concluded in?
Answer
...
7
...
The Chief Economic Advisor Arvind
Subramanian
8
...
Ajit Prakash Shah
9
...
Tunisia‘
10
...
Answer
...
Securities and Exchange Board of India will
soon put in place norms to help entrepreneurs
raise funds through which funding?
Answer
...
The government has extended the usage
criterion of the RuPay debit cards in order to
avail of the in-built insurance cover, from 45
days to?
Answer
...
Govt imposed five-year anti-dumping duties
on which product imports from China, the
European Union and the United States, as the
government tries to help local companies
suffering from cheaper imports?
Answer
...
India with which country signed an
agreement to amend the Double Taxation
Avoidance Agreement which will help in
reducing tax avoidance and act as a deterrent
against tax evasion as well as accumulation of
black money?
Answer
...
Which financial organization approved a 1
...
The World Bank
1
...
Sudarshan
Uttar Pradesh
Jammu & Kashmir
None of these
5
...
V
...
K
...
Vijay Keshav Gokhale has been appointed as
India‘s Ambassador to China
...
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce
and Industry (FICCI) has announced its new
president Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman of
Ambuja Neotia Group for the year 2016
...
The World Health Organisation (WHO)
recently launched the World Antibiotic
Awareness Week with the theme of_____?
Antibiotics: Handle with smile
Antibiotics: Handle with care
Antibiotics: use carefully
Antibiotics: Use when need
None of these
7
...
Deborah Herold is related to which sports?
Cyclist
4
...
Justice Thakur will
take over the office from 3 December 2015 as the
43rd Chief Justice of India
...
Who has recently been designated as the
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Champion for
the Asia Region by the United Nations Office for
Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)?
US
Piyush Goyal
UK
Kiren Rijiju
None of these
Kiran Rao
Kiran Kumar
None of these
10
...
Sankaran Nair passed away recently
...
Union Minister of Food Processing
Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal recently laid
the foundation stone of the first Mega Food Park
in Telangana
...
Ltd
...
―Ek Kadam Unnati Ki Aur‖ a programme
towards rural digitisation in 10 States from
Nadimpalle villlage in Telangana launhed by
which company?
Toshiba
Dell
Intel
HP
None of these
15
...
The
championship was held at which Place?
Kuwait City
Qatar
New Delhi
Hyderabad
None of these
1
...
Tianhe-2, a supercomputer has emerged as
the world‘s most powerful supercomputer
system for the sixth consecutive time
...
Supercomputer Titan is from which
country?
China
India
Australia
Ram Antar Gokhal
None of these
Ans
...
The deal along with the
administrative arrangement for implementing the
accord will bolster India‘s energy security by
supporting the expansion of nuclear power in the
country
...
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
(CCEA) has approved introduction of Amended
Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (ATUFS)
for technology upgradation in which of the
following sectors?
IT Sector
Automobile Sectors
Banking Sector
Textiles industry
None of these
Ans
...
Decision in this regard was taken by CCEA
meeting chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra
Modi in New Delhi
...
3
...
Myanmar
The Union Cabinet has approved the construction
of 69 Bridges including Approach Roads on the
Tamu-Kyigone-Kalewa (TKK) road section of the
Trilateral Highway in Myanmar
...
These bridges will be constructed at a cost of
Rs
...
58 crore and shall impart all weather
usability to the TKK road section
...
State-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
(BHEL) has commissioned a 660 MW unit of
Prayagraj Super Thermal Power Project at
Which Place in Allahabad district of Uttar
Pradesh?
Bajha
Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh
...
Super-critical units are generally eco-friendly
and more efficient thermal power plants as they
consume less coal as fuel
...
Who has recently been appointed as DG of
National Centre for Good Governance?
Hemant Contractor
Kuldeep Singh
Rakesh Singh
Dr Gyanendra D Bandgaiyan
None of these
Ans
...
He will be in the office for a period of
three years which is extendable by another two
years or up to 60 years of age, whichever is earlier
...
Japan and which country recently reached an
Agreement on Issue of Comfort Women?
South Korea
North Korea
China
Russia
None of these
Ans
...
The agreement was reached after a
meeting between Fumio Kishida, Minister for
Foreign Affairs of Japan and Yun Byung-se,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea in
Seoul
...
7
...
Bara Town
State-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
has commissioned a 660 MW unit of Prayagraj
Super Thermal Power Project at Bara town in
PK Sant
None of these
Ans
...
On the other hand, Muthukumar
Balakrisnan from Malaysia was given the role of
the Assistant Tournament Director in the 4th
edition of the Coal India Hockey India League
...
8
...
10
...
Sudarsan Pattnaik
The artist had also created sculptures of Jesus and
Mother Mary near Santa Claus
...
Sudarsan
Pattnaik is a world-renowned Indian sand artist
from Odisha
...
He established
The Golden Sand Art Institute which is first of its
nature in India
...
He has represented
India in 50 international Sand Sculpture
championship and festivals all around the world
and won 27 championship prizes for the country
...
C-DAC (Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing)
...
Thanks to the educational
technology initiative - ―Online Labs‖ - developed
by Amrita CREATE (Centre of Research in
Advanced Technologies for Education) in
association with CDAC (Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing)
...
Which institute of India inked a deal with
Japan‘s Nikken Sekkei Research Institute
(NSRI) to plan, design and implement smart
technologies to develop sustainable habitats for
India‘s smart city growth?
Answer
...
The World Health Organization (WHO)
recently declared which of the following country
as Ebola-Free?
2
...
Answer
...
Republic of Guinea
The World Health Organization (WHO) on 29
December 2015 declared the end of Ebola virus
transmission in the Republic of Guinea
...
The end of Ebola transmission in Guinea
marks an important milestone in the Ebola outbreak
in West Africa
...
India and China are deepening their
engagement to facilitate which country‘s
political transition, in tune with the evolution of
a full-spectrum dialogue between the two
countries, which includes counter-terrorism and
emergence of new regional trade blocs?
Answer
...
Who is the DG of Indo-Tibetan Border Police
(ITBP) force?
Answer
...
Name the mayor of a city Temixco of Mexico
who was shot to death, less than a day after
taking office?
Answer
...
None of these
6
...
General Raheel Sharif
7
...
India
8
...
Justice A
...
Shah
9
...
India and China
10
...
Matthew Hobden
1
...
Aniket Singh
2
...
Raghuveer Pratap Singh
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The decision was taken
in a meeting of the Jnanpith Selection Board
chaired by noted scholar Namwar Singh
...
2
...
Russia
2
...
China
4
...
China
China on 29 December 2015 successfully
launched Gaofen-4 Earth observation satellite
toward a geostationary orbit from the Xichang
Satellite Launch Centre in the south-western
province of Sichuan
...
Launched as a part of the China High-resolution
Earth Observation System (CHEOS), Gaofen-4
is located at the orbit 36000 kilometres away
from the earth and moves synchronously with
the earth
...
Under the "Make in India" initiative, Russian
firm Rostech State Corporation has tied up with
India's which company to manufacture 200
Kamov 226T light helicopters?
1
...
ISRO
3
...
HAL
5
...
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)
Under the "Make in India" initiative, Russian
firm Rostech State Corporation has tied up with
India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)
to manufacture 200 Kamov 226T light
helicopters
...
The
deal is estimated to be worth $1 billion,
according to Press Trust of India report
...
4
...
Patiala, Punjab
2
...
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Haldar
lifted 94 kilograms in the snatch and 119
kilograms in clean and jerk to come up with a
total lift of 213 kilograms in Women's 69
kilograms to grab the gold medal
...
5
...
Services
2
...
Mumbai
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
It is the first time that
Gujarat won the trophy
...
The 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy
was the 14th season of the Vijay Hazare Trophy
...
Union Government has announced to link
LPG subsidy to income of consumers in order to
ensure that the subsidy benefits go to the
targeted group
...
12 Lakh
2
...
10 Lakh rupees
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Henceforth, the LPG subsidy
will not be available to LPG consumers if the
consumer or his/her spouse has taxable income
of more than ten lakh rupees
...
This decision will
be given effect to initially on self-declaration
basis of LPG consumers while booking cylinders
January 2016
...
E-office, an initiative which will help provide
efficient services to the people by digitizing more
than 12,000 files
...
DEITY
2
...
Finance
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
It was formally launched by WCD
Minister Maneka Sanjay Gandhi in New Delhi
on the lines with the spirit of Good Governance
initiative of Union Government
...
Various modules of this eoffice are Knowledge Management System, File
Management System, Leave Management
System and Tour Management System
...
The 18th Session of the India-Iran Joint
Commission Meeting (JCM) was recently held at
which Place?
1
...
New Delhi
3
...
Jaipur
5
...
New Delhi
The 18th Session of the India-Iran Joint
Commission Meeting (JCM) was held on 28
December 2015 in New Delhi
...
Both the leaders reviewed the progress in
trade and economic cooperation and a number
of related matters
...
9
...
The 9-member
committee was headed by?
1
...
Arvind subramaniyan
3
...
P Bhaskar
5
...
Vijay Kellar
The committee was constituted on 26 May 2015
to review the experience of PPP Policy and
suggest measures to improve capacity building
in Government for their effective
implementation
...
10
...
The committee was
constituted on 15 July 2015 by the RBI with the
objective of working out a medium-term (five
year) measurable action plan for financial
inclusion
...
Prakash Mohanty
2
...
Ravi Jhan
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The
committee was constituted on 15 July 2015 by
the RBI with the objective of working out a
medium-term (five year) measurable action plan
for financial inclusion
...
Banks have to make
special efforts to step up account opening for
females, and the Government may consider a
deposit scheme for the girl child – Sukanya
Shiksha - as a welfare measure
...
11
...
National Development Council (NDC)
2
...
NITI Aayog
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Kant will replace the incumbent
NITI Aayog CEO Sindhushree Khullar whose
extended tenure will end on 31 December 2015
...
The Best Player of the Year award in sixth
edition of Globe Soccer Awards 2015 given to?
1
...
Neymar da Silva Santos
3
...
Lionel Messi
5
...
Lionel Messi
The Globe Soccer on 27 December 2015
presented the sixth edition of Globe Soccer
Awards 2015 to the winners at a ceremony held
in Dubai, UAE
...
The awards
conferred were based on the performance of the
players and football clubs in 2015
...
Which of the following telecom recently
launched 4G telecom service?
1
...
AirTel
3
...
Idea
5
...
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (RJIL)
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (RJIL) or Reliance
Jio on 27 December 2015 launched 4G telecom
service
...
However, at present, it is limited to 85000
employees and their families of the company,
while the commercial services are expected to
begin by April 2016
...
Indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range
(BVR) air-to-air missile, Astra, was recently
successfully test fired
...
This
Astra missile was developed by?
1
...
DRDO
3
...
L & T
5
...
Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO)
Indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range
(BVR) air-to-air missile, Astra, was on 25
December 2015 successfully test fired
...
In addition to this air trial, the
missile underwent successful ground based trials
in early December 2015 near Pune
...
15
...
Lallan Singh
2
...
Karan Adani
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
He will take over the top
job from outgoing CEO Sudipta Bhattacharya,
who is moving to the US as the CEO for North
America, APSEZ said in a regulatory filing
...
It also
approved the ―appointment of Karan, Executive
Director (non—board position) as CEO of the
company with effect from January 1, 2016,‖ the
filing said
...
Which telecom recently launched 4G telecom
service?
Vodafone
Airtel
RJIL
Idea
None of these
Ans
...
The
service was launched at the Reliance Corporate
Park in Navy Mumbai to mark the birth anniversary
of Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of the Reliance
Industries Limited (RIL)
...
2
...
Microsoft Government of Andhra Pradesh on
28 December 2015 signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft India on a
range of technology initiatives
...
The purpose of the MoU is
to improve use of information and communication
technologies, drive digital inclusion and provide ITbased decentralised citizen services
...
Indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range
(BVR) air-to-air missile, Astra, was recently
successfully test fired
...
Odisha indigenously developed Beyond
Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air missile, Astra, was
on 25 December 2015 successfully test fired
...
In addition to this air trial, the
missile underwent successful ground based trials in
early December 2015 near Pune
...
Which of the following country has given its
approval to amending One Couple, One Child
Policy? The amended policy, which will come
into force on 1 January 2016
...
China China‘s National People's Congress
Standing Committee, country‘s top law making
body, on 27 December 2015 gave its approval to
amending One Couple, One Child Policy
...
he amended policy is
aimed at balancing the country's population
structure by allowing all couples to have two
children
...
Which company has bagged 'Export Quality
Excellence' award for the 11th time in a row?
CRI Pumps
Exim Bank
ECGC
DICGC
None of these
Ans
...
The Joint
Managing Director of CRI Pumps, G Selvaraj,
received the EEPC award given in recognition of
the company's high quality and innovative pumping
solutions from the Governor of Karnataka,
Vajubhai Vala, at an award ceremony held in
Bengaluru last week
...
Which of the following start-up has launched
its brand ‗Apna Ride‘ for utility bike rentals,
targeted primarily at budget conscious bike
enthusiasts?
Ola
TCS
Wipro
None of these
Ans
...
IOC topped the list for consecutive sixth year
with annual revenue of Rs
...
IOC was
followed by Mukesh Ambani-led private sector
Reliance Industries at the second place with a
revenue of Rs
...
9
...
Wicked Ride Wicked Ride, a start-up founded
in 2014 by Vivekananda H
...
, Anil G and Varun
Agni, has launched its brand ‗Apna Ride‘ for utility
bike rentals, targeted primarily at budget conscious
bike enthusiasts
...
apnaride
...
7
...
Tech Mahindra IT major Tech Mahindra has
launched first of its kind ‗Tap N Pay‘ contactless
digital payment wallet MoboMoney for the Indian
masses
...
MoboMoney is a prepaid wallet
issued in the form of a Near Field Communication
(NFC) contactless tag that could be used to ‗Tap N
Pay‘ for goods and services
...
Shiva Keshavan Shiva Keshavan on 27
December 2015 grabbed a silver medal in the 18th
edition of the Asian Luge Championship held in
Nagano, Japan
...
On the other hand, South Korea's Kim Dong-hyeon
grabbed the third place
...
Which company has emerged as the country‘s
biggest company in terms of annual revenue as
per an annual list of 2015 Fortune 500
companies in India?
Indian Oil Corporation
State Bank of India
10
...
She was a
famous ____?
...
actress Veteran Bollywood actress Sadhna
Shivdasani (mononymously known as Sadhana)
passed away in Mumbai, Maharashtra
...
She was renowned for his style statement and
acting prowess in Bollywood in the 1960s and 70s
...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated
the new building of Afghanistan Parliament in
the capital city Kabul built by India
...
Safal Block
Achal Block
14
...
Sahaj Block
Syed Kishan
Atal Block
Anirudh Raj
None of these
Ans
...
It was inaugurated during Narendra Modi‘s first
official visit to Afghanistan after becoming Prime
Minister
...
12
...
Seychelles
China
Mauritius
Japan
None of these
Ans
...
In
this regard, Seychelles government has allocated a
plot of land on in its Assumption Island which will
help to enhance mutual security along our western
seaboard in IOR
...
Bangladesh's state-run Atomic Energy
Commission signed a deal with which country to
set up two nuclear power plants, each with 1,200
MW capacity?
...
Russia Bangladesh's state-run Atomic Energy
Commission signed a deal with Russia to set up two
nuclear power plants, each with 1,200 MW
capacity, an investment totalling $12
...
The Work will begin early next year at Ruppur in
Iswardi, 160km (100 miles) from Dhaka, said
Kamrul Islam Bhyian, spokesman for the ministry
of science and technology
...
Syed Kirmani Former Indian Wicket-Keeper
Syed Kirmani nominated for the 2015 Col
...
A decision
in this regard was taken at a meeting of the Col
...
The meeting was held
at the BCCI‘s headquarters in Mumbai
...
15
...
Nandagopal Lakshminarayanan
Nandagopal Sinha
Ramgopal Singh
Avadhesh Pratap Ruddy
None of these
Ans
...
He has been working as a
knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) associate at
Lincoln Security Ltd for the past two years, won the
Business Leader of the Future award at Innovate
UK's 'KTP Best of the Best Awards 2015' at a
ceremony in London
...
The Union government and the World Bank
have signed an agreement of how much amount
for a project named as Nai Manzil Scheme, for
helping young people from minority
communities complete their education and
improve their employment opportunities?
$60-million
$80-million
$50-million
$40-million
None of these
Ans
...
2
...
Delhi
The ambitious odd-even scheme of Delhi
government, a first such intervention in the country
to combat spiralling air pollution, got off to a
decent start on new year with volume of cars on the
city roads coming down significantly amid
deployment of thousands of policemen and
moderately augmented public transport
...
4
...
Above banks of Iran to set up branches
in India at which places
...
Both 1 and 2
Iran‘s leading banks will open branches in India to
energise commercial ties between New Delhi and
Tehran
...
After the
meeting led by External Affairs Minister Sushma
Swaraj and Iranian Finance Minister Ali Tayebnia,
India decided to allow the Pasargan Bank and
Parsian Bank of Iran to set up branches in New
Delhi and Mumbai
...
Which Pakistani singer recently gets Indian
Citizenship?
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Atif Aslam
Abida Parveen
Adnan Sami
3
...
The missile was codeveloped by India in collaboration with which
country‘s Aerospace Industries?
Russia
China
Israel
South Korea
None of these
Ans
...
The missile was fired from INS Kolkata
and it successfully intercepted an aerial target at
extended ranges
...
None of these
Ans
...
Mr
Sami, who has been staying in India since 2011,
will now have to fill a citizenship form at the Home
Ministry‘s office in Delhi and pay Rs 13,700
...
‖ Lahore-born Sami
first arrived in India on March 13, 2001 on a
visitor‘s visa with a validity of one year
...
India‘s central bank has asked the lenders to
open more brick and mortar branches in villages
with no banking facilities and with a population
of more than __________?
4000
6000
5000
2000
None of these
Ans
...
The banking regulator has asked banks
to submit a roadmap on how many branches they
will be opening by 31 March 2017
...
Who has recently been appointed as the new
CMD of defence PSU BEML Ltd?
D
...
Malhotra
D
...
Hota
K M Mani
Rajesh Roshan
None of these
Ans
...
K
...
K
...
He is currently Director
(HR) of the Bengaluru-based BEML
...
8
...
10
...
Mikhail Botvinnik
Magnus Carlsen
Viswanathan Anand
Vladimir Kramnik
None of these
Ans
...
The top seed had finished with seven
points, the same as Yu Yangyi of China, seeded
11th
...
11
...
India Post
The Drug Authentication and Verification
Application (DAVA)
Virat Kohli
Railways
Suresh Raina
Exim Bank
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
None of these
Ans
...
A
...
9
...
C
...
Nayudu Lifetime Achievement
Award 2015 given to _____?
Syed Kirmani
None of these
Ans
...
The
award was announced by Asia Pacific Council for
Trade Facilitation (APCTF) and Tehran based
(Iran) Electronic Business
...
Rajeev Lal
Shyam Kishor
Dileep Kumar
None of these
Ans
...
C
...
Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award
...
25 lakhs
...
Who has recently conferred with prestigious
2015 Sangita Kalanidhi award?
...
Sanjay Subrahmanyam Foremost south Indian
classical vocalists Sanjay Subrahmanyam has
conferred with prestigious 2015 Sangita Kalanidhi
award
...
13
...
This
Committee is headed by?
...
Kamlesh Chandra The Union Government has
constituted a committee to examine the wage
structure, service conditions of the Gramin Dak
Sevaks (GDS) in the Department of Posts (DoP)
...
14
...
Hari Singh
Ram Pal
Harpal Singh Kumar
Ram Lakan Singh
None of these
Ans
...
Mr
...
15
...
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
Andhra Pradesh
Telangana
None of these
Ans
...
The e-Vahan
Bima, an electronic motor insurance policy issued
in digital form with Quick Response (QR) code, has
been formally launched here by the Minister for IT,
K T Ramarao
...
Centre has set up a Committee to work out a
revamp plan and submit its report within two
months
...
Hari Krishna
2
...
Shyam Benegal
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The other members of the
Committee are Hindi film director Rakeysh
Omprakash Mehra, adman Piyush Pandey, film
critic Bhawana Somaaya, Nina Lath Gupta of
National Film Development Corporation and Joint
Secretary (Films)
...
Armament Research and Development
Establishment (ARDE) has recently successfully
test-fired Pinaka II multi barrel rocket launcher
(MBRL) System
...
CDAC, Pune
2
...
3
...
IRDAI, Hyderabad
5
...
ARDE, Pune
...
The
three-day long user assisted trials were conducted
at Pokhran in Rajasthan
...
They are developed
at a very low cost vis-a-vis other such rocket
systems in the world bestowed with shoot and scoot
capabilities
...
3
...
Uttar Pradesh
2
...
Uttarakhand
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) was signed between Union Ministry of
Power, Jharkhand department of energy and
Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (JBVNL) on
Tuesday (December 5) in the presence of Raghubar
Das, Chief Minister of Jharkhand
...
The Supreme Court-appointed a Committee
recommended sweeping reforms for the
controversy-ridden BCCI, suggesting a bar on
ministers from occupying positions, putting a
cap on the age and tenure of the office-bearers
and legalising betting
...
R M Lodha
2
...
Deepak Mohanty
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
In a series of drastic reforms, the
three-member panel, headed by Justice (Retd) R M
Lodha, also suggested one unit should represent
one state, while taking away the voting rights of
institutional and city-based units
5
...
T K Kurien
2
...
Ganesh Natarajan
3
...
N Chandrashekhar
5
...
Abidali Neemuchwala
India’s third largest IT services exporter – Wipro
has announced major management changes with
the elevation of the chief executive officer (CEO) T
K Kurien as the executive vice-chairman and chief
operating officer Abidali Neemuchwala as the new
CEO and member of the board
...
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development (NABARD) recently signed the
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) for
web-based monitoring of Indo-German
Watershed Development projects
...
Gujarat
2
...
Telangana
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The web-based monitoring
of Indo-German Watershed Development projects
will happen in three states- Gujarat, Rajasthan and
Telangana
...
Who has recently been taken charge as
Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of
state-owned power equipment maker Bharat
Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) for a period
of five years?
1
...
Mukul Singh
3
...
Rajesh Pratap
5
...
Atul Sobti
Atul Sobti on 1 January 2016 took charge as
Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of stateowned power equipment maker Bharat Heavy
Electricals Limited (BHEL) for a period of five
years
...
Prior to this appointment, Sobti was the
Director on the board of BHEL, where he headed
two crucial portfolios of Power and Finance
...
LIC is offering a ‗New Year gift‘ to the public
in the form of a limited-premium, non-linked
and with-profit endowment assurance plan
...
The Name of the new
endowment policy is?
1
...
Jeevan Labh
3
...
Jeevan Data
5
...
Jeevan Labh
LIC is offering a ‘New Year gift’ to the public in the
form of a limited-premium, non-linked and withprofit endowment assurance plan ‘Jeevan Labh’
from Monday
...
The plan is
available from ages 8 to 59 years with a choice of
policy term of 16, 21 and 25 years and premiumpaying terms of 10,15 and 16 years respectively
...
9
...
Russia
2
...
China
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Arunima started her
mission on the morning of 12 December 2015
and hoisted the Indian tricolour on 25 December
2015
...
10
...
Pakistan
2
...
China
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
In
the title clash played at Trivandrum International
Stadium of Kerala, India defeated defending
champions Afghanistan 2-1
...
Afghans won their first title in 2013
...
Sarosh Homi Kapadia passed away recently
in Mumbai
...
writer
2
...
Former Chief Justice of India
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
He
was 68
...
He retired on 29 September 2012
...
12
...
Akshay Singh
2
...
Pradeep Kumar
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
India has one of the
largest userbase for LinkedIn, which has more than
400 million members globally
...
Nokia Corporation recently announced that
it completed the regulatory formalities for
acquiring the telecom equipment company AlcaLucent
...
Finland
2
...
North Korea
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The deal, worth 15
...
With this acquisition, Nokia holds
79
...
97 percent of the French company's
voting rights
...
14
...
Sana Barra
2
...
Neeta Barra
4
...
None of these
2
...
Nepal
2
...
Pakistan
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Barra succeeds
Theodore Solso, who will continue serving as the
Lead Independent Director of the Board
...
15
...
Mary Barra
2
...
Aniket Singh
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
She fetched the award for A God in Ruins, a
story of war and its aftermath
...
Kate Atkinson was born in 1951
in York, England
...
Which States election commission recently
announced that toilets will be mandatory
requirement for eligibility to contest panchayat
elections?
1
...
Kerala
3
...
Haryana
5
...
Bihar
State election commissioner (SEC) Ashok
Kumar Chauhan on 4 January 2016 announced
that toilets will be mandatory requirement for
eligibility to contest panchayat elections
...
SEC said
that candidates have to give an undertaking
Ans
...
The service was
suspended 27 years ago in the wake of the IndoNepal Trade and Transit Treaty
...
To travel in these buses, no special
documents are required as both the countries
share open border
...
Annual Indian Science Congress (ISC) recently
held at which place?
1
...
Raipur
3
...
Mysore
5
...
Mysore
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate
the annual Indian Science Congress (ISC) at
University of Mysore campus in Karnataka on
Sunday
...
4
...
Filippo Rastogi
2
...
Hariharan Singh
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
High
Commissioner Grandi, who arrived at UNHCR's
headquarters office in Geneva earlier on
Monday (January 4), takes up the position at a
time of unprecedented displacement challenges
...
5
...
The theme of this year‘s event is
____?
1
...
“Science & Technology for Inclusive growth”
3
...
“Science & Technology for Advancement”
5
...
"Science & Technology for Indigenous
Development in India"
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate
the annual Indian Science Congress (ISC) at
University of Mysore campus in Karnataka on
Sunday
...
6
...
Sachin Tendulkar
2
...
Suresh Raina
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Addressing a press
conference here on Monday, Sachin Tendulkar
advised people to hit the gym or go for a long
walk to keep away from diabetes
...
India recently signed a MoU on Civil Aviation
sector with which country?
1
...
China
3
...
Malta
5
...
Singapore
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its expost facto approval for a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) that was signed with
Singapore in the field of civil aviation
...
8
...
Punjab National Bank
2
...
Andhra Bank
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The
service makes payments possible within fraction
of seconds with all the standards and integrity
maintained for security
...
It was started in
November 2010
...
9
...
49 carats was discovered in a mine
in which country?
1
...
Sri Lanka
3
...
Nepal
5
...
Sri Lanka
The world's largest blue star sapphire that
weighs 1404
...
The sapphire was found in August
2015 near Ratnapura city in the South of Sri
Lanka
...
The name
came from a Muslim belief that Adam arrived in
Sri Lanka after being sent away from the
Garden of Eden
...
10
...
J
...
Rowling
2
...
Harper Knee
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Around 1
...
The figures were based on US print unit
sales reported to Nielsen
...
The Union Minister of Water Resources,
River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Uma Bharti recently launched Ganga Gram
Yojana at which states?
1
...
Kerala
3
...
Jharkhand
5
...
Uttar PradeshThe Union Minister of Water
Resources, River Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation Uma Bharti on 5 January 2016
launched Ganga Gram Yojana at Village Puth in
Hapur district of Uttar Pradesh (UP)
...
12
...
100 metre
2
...
20 metre
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Chandela shot 211
...
13
...
Chhattisgarh
2
...
Karnataka
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The initiative came in news after more
than 240 youth in the age-group of 15 to 24 from
J&K met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi
in New Delhi
...
It essentially is a Youth
Exchange Programme under which the children
of militancy-hit victims, orphanages, and weaker
sections of society are identified by Jammu and
Kashmir State Rehabilitation Council as
beneficiaries under the programme in the state
...
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has
approved how much percentage reservation for
women in Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs)
at constable-level positions?
1
...
33%
3
...
30%
5
...
33%
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has
approved 33% reservation for women in Central
Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) at constable-level
positions
...
e
...
15
...
Kunal Shah
2
...
Malini Parthasarathy
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Shah succeeds Nishant Rao,
the ex-managing director of LinkedIn, who
recently moved to Freshdesk as the global Chief
Operating Officer, the association said in a
statement
...
The Global Communication Association
(GCA), a not-for-profit professional
organisation, to host the 11th international
conference of media experts and communication
specialists from around the world at which of the
following places?
1
...
Hyderabad
3
...
Jaipur
5
...
Mysuru
The Global Communication Association (GCA),
a not-for-profit professional organisation, to host
the 11th international conference of media
experts and communication specialists from
around the world at Mysuru on January 28-29
...
2
...
April 1, 2020
2
...
April 1, 2018
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The decision
was taken at an inter-ministerial meeting
chaired by Road Transport and Highways
Minister NitinGadkari, which was attended by
Oil Minister DharmendraPradhan, Heavy
Industries Minister AnantGeete and
Environment Minister PrakashJavadekar
...
The Centre has appointed which of the
following as the Chairman and Managing
Director of the state-run Madras Fertilzers for a
five-year term?
1
...
Ravi Khare
3
...
AB Khare
5
...
AB Khare
The Centre has appointed AB Khare as the
Chairman and Managing Director of the staterun Madras Fertilzers for a five-year term
...
AB
Khare will succeed I Vijay Kumar
...
Who has recently been elected as the General
President of the 105th Indian Science Congress
Association (ISCA) that is scheduled for 201718?
1
...
DrAchyutaSamanta
3
...
ShyamPrakashShukla
4
...
None of these
...
DrAchyutaSamanta
DrAchyutaSamanta was on 6 January 2016
elected as the General President of the 105th
Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) that
is scheduled for 2017-18
...
With this, Samanta becomes the second
person from Odisha to be elected as President of
the ISC in its 102 years history
...
5
...
Tilok Singh
2
...
Urjit Patel
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Pitroda was appointed as the
technology adviser for development of telecom,
electronics, IT, ITES sectors of the state
...
6
...
PavanTripathi
2
...
Laxmi Kant singh
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
MrKapoor, a 1990 batch Indian
Foreign Service Officer, is currently India's
High Commissioner in Mozambique capital
Maputo
...
7
...
Zhou Xiaochuan
2
...
Dr
...
Dr
...
None of these
Ans
...
The Banker is a prestigious
monthly magazine of the Financial Times
Group
...
In order to avoid duplication of work and to
improve efficiency, the government recently
merged the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs
(MOIA) with which of the following Ministry?
1
...
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
3
...
Ministry of External Affairs
5
...
Ministry of External Affairs
In order to avoid duplication of work and to
improve efficiency, the government on Thursday
merged the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs
(MOIA) with the Ministry of External Affairs
...
Therefore, I proposed to Hon‘ble Prime
Minister that MOIA should be merged with the
Ministry of External Affairs
...
Exercise Shakti-2016 the third edition in the
series of bilateral held between ______?
1
...
India and France
3
...
India and Russia
5
...
India and France
India and France on 8 January 2016 started
their eight-day counter-terrorism and counterinsurgency joint exercise Shakti-2016 in
Rajasthan
...
The exercise will be
focused on counter terrorism operations in
backdrop of semi-urban terrain under United
Nations Mandate
...
10
...
Kailash
2
...
Mahesh
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Sailesh, a 1985 batch IAS officer of AssamMeghalaya cadre, is presently Additional
Secretary in Home Ministry
...
11
...
Amitabh Chandra
2
...
Amitabh Kant
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
His appointment was approved by the
Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC)
...
On 1
January 2016, Kant was given the additional
charge of the CEO of NITI Aayog following the
completion of tenure of previous CEO
SindhushreeKhullar on 31 December 2015
...
Who has recently been appointed as
Chairman of fair-trade regulator Competition
Commission of India (CCI)?
1
...
Devender Kumar Sikri
3
...
Ritesh Singh
5
...
Devender Kumar Sikri
Devender Kumar Sikri was on 7 January 2016
appointed as Chairman of fair-trade regulator
Competition Commission of India (CCI)
...
Sikri will havetenure of about two and half
years, i
...
till he attains the age of 65 years
...
The Union Government recently allowed the
conduct of the traditional bull-taming sports,
Jallikattu, in Which States?
1
...
Tamil Nadu
3
...
Kerala
5
...
Tamil Nadu
The Union Government on 8 January 2016
allowed the conduct of the traditional bulltaming sports, Jallikattu, in Tamil Nadu
...
Jallikattu is celebrated around pongal in
southern state of Tamil Nadu
...
Who has recently been appointed as chief
operating officer (COO) of Wipro?
1
...
P K Mishra
3
...
Rakesh Singh
5
...
Bhanumurthy B M
The Bengaluru-headquartered company has
elevated company veteran Bhanumurthy B M as
its chief operating officer (COO) and president
apart from handing over a new role to G K
Prasanna, who is presently heading Global
Infrastructure Services as president and chief
executive
...
Who will be the chief guest at the National
Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and
Farmers‘ Welfare being held in Gangtok on
January?
1
...
ManoharParrekar
3
...
NarendraModi
5
...
PMNarendraModi
Prime Minister NarendraModi will be the chief
guest at the National Conference on Sustainable
Agriculture and Farmers‘ Welfare being held in
Gangtok on January 17-18, the Agriculture
Ministry said in a statement
...
1
...
Cristiano Ronaldo
2
...
RadamelFalcao
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Messi helped Barcelona to a
Spanish league, domestic cup and Champions
League treble plus the Club World Cup and also
led Argentina to the Copa America final, where
they lost to Germany
...
Veteran hindi poet BalkrishnaGarg was
conferred with the 2015
HarikrishnaDevsareBaalsahitya Award in New
Delhi for his collection _____?
1
...
Maa Re Geet
3
...
Daa Sun
5
...
Baa Geet
Veteran hindi poet BalkrishnaGarg was conferred
with the 2015 HarikrishnaDevsareBaalsahitya
Award in New Delhi
...
The award was presented by
SahityaAkademi President Vishwanath Prasad
Tiwari and National Book Trust (NBT) Chairman
BaldeoBhai Sharma
...
The colourful Kullu folk dance which saw
participation of 20,000 dancers during
KulluDussehra festival on October 26 last year,
has entered the Guinness book of world records,
Known as ______?
1
...
Nautanki
3
...
Bihu
5
...
Nati
The colourfulKullu folk dance (Nati), which saw
participation of 20,000 dancers during
KulluDussehra festival on October 26 last year,
has entered the Guinness book of world records
...
The jamboree of over 20,000 people
danced to spread the message of 'BetiHaiAnmol'
(Girl child is precious)
...
4
...
N Ravi
2
...
SachinBansal
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
On the other
hand, SachinBansal, who has been the CEO since
inception, will now take on the newly-created role
of Executive Chairman
...
Illumina, the world‘s largest DNA sequencing
company, announced the launch of the startup
named GRAIL to develop blood-based cancer
tests
...
US
2
...
China
4
...
None of these
Illumina, the world‟s largest DNA sequencing
company based on USA, on 10 January 2015
announced the launch of the startup named
GRAIL to develop blood-based cancer tests
...
6
...
Uttar Pradesh
2
...
Kerala
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The MoU envisages investment of
around 38500 crore rupees to take up various
projects at Visakhapatnam
...
7
...
NishantSaraf
2
...
AshishSaraf
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Saraf will look over the Group's existing
Make in India initiatives and conceive new ones
for all the businesses of Airbus Group India with
the aim to increase their industrial footprint in the
country
...
Which States has become the first State in
India to introduce compulsory gender education
at the graduate level?
1
...
Andhra Pradesh
3
...
Madhya Pradesh
5
...
US
Ans
...
In this regard, the state in second
week of January 2016 introduced a bilingual
textbook titled, Towards a World of Equals
...
9
...
Tamilnadu
2
...
Kerala
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The VicePresident, Mohammad Hamid Ansari has
officially declared the 100 per cent primary
education status achieved by Kerala
...
The equivalency programmes have
proved a huge success and the ultimate objective is
to achieve total plus-two education in the state
...
The 2016 edition of the Constro exhibition is
going to be held at which places which will be
focus on the Smart City concept?
1
...
Hyderabad
3
...
Lucknow
5
...
Pune
The 2016 edition of the Constro exhibition will be
held in Pune from January 14-17 and will focus
on the Smart City concept
...
11
...
World Bank
2
...
IMF
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
She said the industrial corridor,
meant to boost manufacturing activity and help
economic growth of the hinterland, will have four
nodes: Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, GannavaramKankipadu, and Yerpedu-Srikalahasti
...
National Youth Day (YuvaDiwas or Swami
Vivekananda Birthday) is celebrated with the
great joy and enthusiasm in India every year on
12th of January
...
Indian Youth for Development, Skill and
Harmony
2
...
Indian Youth for Nation Development
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
It is celebrated to
commemorate the birthday of Swami
Vivekananda, maker of the modern India
...
Since
then (1985), it is started celebrating as the
National Youth Day all over the country
...
13
...
Jain Acharya Krishna Kumar Maharaj
2
...
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
This is
the 300th book of RatnasundersuriswarjiMaharaj
...
The book, My India, Nobel India, will be
available in four languages - English, Hindi,
Gujarati and Marathi
...
The President of India, ShriPranab
Mukherjee inaugurated the three day long 88th
annual conference of Nikhil Bharat
BangaSahityaSammelan at which places?
1
...
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
3
...
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
5
...
Ranchi, Jharkhand
The President of India, ShriPranab Mukherjee
inaugurated the three day long 88th annual
conference of Nikhil Bharat
BangaSahityaSammelan today (January 10, 2016)
at Ranchi, Jharkhand
...
15
...
H R Khan
2
...
S SMundra
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Patel who joined RBI on 11 January 11,
2013 had headed a committee that paved the way
for the proposed monetary policy committee
...
1
...
This Committee is
headed by?1
...
Gopal Krishna Singh
3
...
Rahul Pangariya
5
...
ArvindPanagariya
The Prime Minister‟s Office has constituted a
committee under ArvindPanagariya, vicechairman of the NITI Aayog, to hasten the
Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor,
meant for bullet trains between the two cities
...
The
Railway Board chairman, secretary in the
department of expenditure, foreign secretary and
secretary (industrial policy) will be part of the
panel
...
Who has become the ‗most generous graduate‘
of Yale School of Management?
1
...
ChandaKochhar
3
...
IndraNooyi
5
...
IndraNooyi
The prestigious Yale School of Management will
name its deanship in honour of PepsiCo‟s Indiaborn CEO IndraNooyi as she gifted an
undisclosed amount to her alma mater, becoming
the school‟s biggest alumni donor and the first
woman to endow a deanship at a top b-school
...
She is also the first woman to endow
the deanship at a top business school, the school
said in a statement yesterday
...
The 20th National Youth Festival inaugurated
by Union Road Transport and Highways
Minister NitinGadkari at RajyostavSthal in
Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh to mark the National
Youth Day
...
12 January
2
...
18 December
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The five day long
annual festival is celebrated by the Union
Government in partnership with a state
government on the occasion of the birth
anniversary of Swami Vivekananda
...
4
...
AnupamKher
2
...
Aamir Khan
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Sporting president Sultan
Ahmed handed over the club‟s life membership to
Bachchan
...
Mohammedan
Sporting Club was founded in 1891 at Kolkata
...
5
...
Uttar Pradesh
2
...
Kerala
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The
announcement regarding the MoU was made at
Andhra Partnership Summit in Visakhapatnam
...
7
...
TCS
2
...
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
As part of the partnership,
Lenovo will launch a new smartphone that can
“see” and map out surroundings without external
signals like satellite-based global positioning
system (GPS)
...
The 22nd edition of Confederate of Indian
Industry (CII) Partnership Summit -cumSunrise recently held at which places?
1
...
Chennai
3
...
Lucknow
5
...
National Award on e-Governance 2015-16 was
given to which of the following Organizations?
1
...
Life Insurance Corporation (LIC)
3
...
Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)
5
...
Vishakhapatnam
The 22nd edition of Confederate of Indian
Industry (CII) Partnership Summit -cum-Sunrise
Andhra Pradesh Investment Summit was
concluded on 12 January 2016 at
Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
...
The
summit, which commenced on 10 January 2016,
was organised to showcase investment
opportunities in Sunrise Andhra Pradesh
...
Employees Provident FundOrganisation
(EPFO)
The Employees‟ Provident Fund Organization
won the National Award on e-Governance 201516 for launching the Universal Account Number
(UAN)
...
The EPFO
bagged the national award in the „innovative use
of technology in e-governance‟ category and the
retirement body will get a cash prize of 200000
9
...
This book is
published by ____?
1
...
Cambridge University Press India Pvt
...
(CUPIPL
3
...
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The focus of the book is on the role of
Jawaharlal Nehru, India‟s first Prime Minister,
on shaping the polity of modern India
...
10
...
Kerala was declared
fully literate state in which year?
1
...
2000
3
...
2005
5
...
1991
Vice President Hamid Ansari today declared
Kerala as the first state in the country to attain
'Total Primary Education', and described the
achievement as 'historic
...
11
...
The MoU
envisages investment of around
Rs
...
38500
2
...
47500
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The MoU envisages investment of
around 38500 crore rupees to take up various
projects at Visakhapatnam
...
12
...
Uttar Pradesh
2
...
Tripura
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
In the Nati, 10,000 men and women attired in
traditional Kullu dress performed at Dhalpur
Ground during KulluDussehra festival on October
26 last year
...
Which states has become India's first fully
organic state by converting around 75,000
hectares of agricultural land into sustainable
cultivation?
1
...
Manipur
3
...
Meghalaya
5
...
Ans
...
"We
have achieved fully-organic status in the end of
December
...
14
...
Syndicate Bank
2
...
State Bank of India
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
While
the wealth management service 'Exclusif' is
targeted at the fast-growing affluent segment in
the country, 'SBI InCube' -the branch for startups - would offer advisory services to the budding
entrepreneurs under one roof, SBI Chairman
Arundhati Bhattacharya told reporters here
...
Who was presented with the Danny Kaye
Humanitarian Leadership Award at the sixth
biennial UNICEF Ball in Los Angeles?
1
...
David Beckham
3
...
Neymar da Silva Santos
5
...
David Beckham
David Beckham on 12 January 2016 was
presented with the Danny Kaye Humanitarian
Leadership Award at the sixth biennial UNICEF
Ball in Los Angeles
...
1
...
$5 billion
2
...
$3 billion
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The report explored the impact of the
internet, mobile phones, and related technologies
on economic development across the world
including India
...
2
...
1
...
Bajaj Auto Limited
3
...
Yamaha Motor Company Limited
5
...
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd
Online marketplace Flipkart has tied up with auto
major Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd to exclusively
launch the latter's newest SUV- KUV100
...
Anil Goteti, Vice President Business, Flipkart said, "Online today is a must
have strategy for all players to respond to the
growing demand of their customers who are
spread across different cities and towns in the
country
...
”
3
...
Hyderabad
2
...
Agra
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
After inaugural of the Congress by Modi,
eminent scientist CNR Rao will deliver the Bharat
Ratna M Visvesvaraya Lecture on 'Doing Science
in India' on the opening day on January 3
...
China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank (AIIB), in which India and 56 countries
have joined as founding members, was formally
opened recently by Chinese President Xi
Jinping
...
Shanghai
2
...
Beijing
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The bank was formally established in
Beijing on December 25, 2015
...
Who was elected as the first Chairman of the
AIIB council?
1
...
Ram Prasad
3
...
Jin Liqun
5
...
Lou Jiwei
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
is an international financial institution that aims
to support the building of infrastructure in the
Asia-Pacific region
...
Chinese Finance Minister, Lou Jiwei, was elected
as the first Chairman of the AIIB council
...
Which of the following is the first president of
the AIIB?
1
...
Jin Liqun
3
...
ArunJaitley
5
...
Jin Liqun
China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank (AIIB), in which India and 56 countries
have joined as founding members, was formally
opened here today by Chinese President Xi
Jinping
...
China‟s former Finance Minister, Jin
Liqun, was elected the first AIIB president
...
Authorised capital of Beijing-based AIIB is
_________?
1
...
$100 billion
3
...
$200 billion
5
...
$100 billion
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
is an international financial institution that aims
to support the building of infrastructure in the
Asia-Pacific region
...
The
AIIB will work together with multilateral
development banks, including the World Bank
and the Asian Development Bank, to facilitate
Asian infrastructure construction and sustainable
development, Lou said
...
Which States election commission recently
announced that toilets will be mandatory
requirement for eligibility to contest panchayat
elections?
1
...
Kerala
3
...
Haryana
5
...
Bihar
State election commissioner (SEC) Ashok Kumar
Chauhan on 4 January 2016 announced that
toilets will be mandatory requirement for
eligibility to contest panchayat elections
...
SEC said
that candidates have to give an undertaking
regarding status of toilet by 1 January 2016 in
their home
...
Finance Minister ArunJaitley on Saturday
kick-started Prime Minister NarendraModi's
ambitious Start-Up India mission at
VigyanBhavan in New Delhi
...
Primary education
2
...
Entrepreneurship
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The Start Up India mission to be unveiled
on Saturday envisages to boost entrepreneurship
India
...
10
...
Nepal
2
...
Pakistan
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The service was
suspended 27 years ago in the wake of the IndoNepal Trade and Transit Treaty
...
To
travel in these buses, no special documents are
required as both the countries share open border
...
Which of the following bank has recently
launched India‘s first start-up exclusively bank
branch?
1
...
Punjab and Sindh Bank (P & Sindh B)
3
...
Indian Overseas Bank (IOB)
5
...
State Bank of India (SBI)
India‟s largest public sector lender the State Bank
of India (SBI),opened an exclusive branch to
serve start-up companies in Bengaluru
...
SBI also forayed into wealth management services
for the first time by opening a dedicated branch
for high networth individuals (HNI) in
Bengaluru
...
India‟s Anuradha Roy has won the DSC Prize
for South Asian Literature 2016 for her which
novel thatdeals with the subject of violence against
women?
1
...
Sleeping on Jupiter
3
...
The folded earth
5
...
Sleeping on Jupiter
India‟s Anuradha Roy has won the DSC Prize for
South Asian Literature 2016 for her novel,
sleeping on Jupiter, which deals with the subject
of violence against women
...
13
...
MCX stock exchange
2
...
Bombay Stock exchange(BSE)
4
...
None of these
...
Bombay Stock exchange (BSE)
Asia‟s oldest stock exchange BSE will get its own
postage stamp
...
1
...
Finance Minister
2
...
President
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
2
...
Hyderabad
2
...
Raipur
4
...
None of these
...
New Delhi
The 18th Session of the India-Iran Joint
Commission Meeting (JCM) was held on 28
December 2015 in New Delhi
...
Both
the leaders reviewed the progress in trade and
economic cooperation and a number of related
matters
...
3
...
The 9-member
committee was headed by?
1
...
Arvindsubramaniyan
3
...
P Bhaskar
5
...
Vijay Kelkar
The Union Ministry of Finance on 28 December
2015 released the report of the Committee on
Revisiting and Revitalising Public Private
Partnership (PPP) Model
...
The committee was constituted on 26 May 2015 to
review the experience of PPP Policy and suggest
measures to improve capacity building in
Government for their effective implementation
...
Ans
...
The service was launched at the Reliance
Corporate Park in Navy Mumbai to mark the birth
anniversary of DhirubhaiAmbani, founder of the
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)
...
4
...
National Development Council (NDC)
2
...
NITI Aayog
4
...
None of these
7
...
Asian Development Bank
2
...
World Bank
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Kant
will replace the incumbent NITI Aayog CEO
SindhushreeKhullar whose extended tenure will
end on 31 December 2015
...
The Best Player of the Year award in sixth
edition of Globe Soccer Awards 2015 given to?
1
...
Neymar da Silva Santos
3
...
Lionel Messi
5
...
Lionel Messi
The Globe Soccer on 27 December 2015 presented
the sixth edition of Globe Soccer Awards 2015 to
the winners at a ceremony held in Dubai, UAE
...
The awards conferred were based on the
performance of the players and football clubs in
2015
...
Which of the following telecom recently
launched 4G telecom service?
1
...
AirTel
3
...
Idea
5
...
World Bank
Union Government on 14 January 2016 signed a
loan agreement with World Bank in New Delhi for
the Neeranchal National Watershed Project
...
However, the nine
states, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujrat,
Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Odisha, Rajasthan and Telangana will benefit
more from the project as they are implementation
of large number of watershed schemes in their
states
...
Madhya Pradesh (MP) Government recently
signed four MOUs with which country to
collaborate in urban planning, skill
development,clean energy and food processing?
1
...
Japan
3
...
China
5
...
Singapore
Madhya Pradesh (MP) Government on 14
January 2016 signed four MOUs with Singapore
to collaborate in urban planning, skill
development, clean energy and food processing
...
9
...
1 tennis player Marat Safin
joined the International Tennis Hall of Fame
...
Pakistan
2
...
Spain
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
1 tennis
player Marat Safin joined the International
Tennis Hall of Fame
...
1 and seven-time major champion, and
Helena Sukova from the Czech Republic, who
won 14 major titles in doubles and mixed doubles
...
Under the "Make in India" initiative, Russian
firm Rostech State Corporation has tied up with
India's which company to manufacture 200
Kamov light helicopters?
1
...
ISRO
3
...
DRDO
5
...
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)
Under the "Make in India" initiative, Russian
firm Rostech State Corporation has tied up with
India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to
manufacture 200 Kamov 226T light helicopters
...
The deal is
estimated to be worth $1 billion, according to
Press Trust of India report
...
11
...
Pakistan
2
...
China
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
In the title clash played at Trivandrum
International Stadium of Kerala, India defeated
defending champions Afghanistan 2-1
...
Afghans won their first title in 2013
...
Sarosh Homi Kapadia passed away recently
in Mumbai
...
writer
2
...
Former Chief Justice of India
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
He
was 68
...
He retired on 29 September 2012
...
13
...
PavanTripathi
2
...
Laxmi Kant singh
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
MrKapoor, a 1990 batch Indian Foreign Service
Officer, is currently India's High Commissioner
in Mozambique capital Maputo
...
14
...
Zhou Xiaochuan
2
...
Dr
...
Dr
...
None of these
Ans
...
The
Banker is a prestigious monthly magazine of the
Financial Times Group
...
In order to avoid duplication of work and to
improve efficiency, the government recently
merged the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs
(MOIA) with which of the following Ministry?
1
...
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
3
...
Ministry of External Affairs
5
...
Ans
...
Announcing the merger, External Affairs Minister
SushmaSwaraj tweeted on Thursday, “As Minister
of External Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs, I
realised that a substantial work of MOIA is done
through our missions abroad
...
”
1
...
50 crore
2
...
20 crore
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The project aims to
bring all major government health services
under one umbrella
...
The Chief Minister will head the
SampoornaArogya Kerala Trust, which will
monitor and implement the project
...
2
...
Bhanumurthy B M
2
...
Chandrika Singh
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
3
...
RajeevRastogi
2
...
Kripal Singh
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
High
Commissioner Grandi, who arrived at UNHCR's
headquarters office in Geneva earlier on
Monday (January 4), takes up the position at a
time of unprecedented displacement challenges
...
4
...
The theme of this year‘s event is
____?
1
...
―Science & Technology for Inclusive growth‖
3
...
―Science & Technology for Advancement‖
5
...
"Science & Technology for Indigenous
Development in India"
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate
the annual Indian Science Congress (ISC) at
University of Mysore campus in Karnataka on
Sunday
...
5
...
49 carats was discovered in a mine
in which country?
1
...
Sri Lanka
3
...
Nepal
5
...
Sri Lanka
The world's largest blue star sapphire that
weighs 1404
...
The sapphire was found in August
2015 near Ratnapura city in the South of Sri
Lanka
...
The name
came from a Muslim belief that Adam arrived in
Sri Lanka after being sent away from the
Garden of Eden
...
Industries Minister AnantGeete and
Environment Minister PrakashJavadekar
...
The book ―Go Set a Watchman‖ written by
____________ was in news in the first week of
January 2016 as it topped the 2015 US bestseller
list?
1
...
K
...
R K Rowling
3
...
Harper Lee
5
...
The Centre has appointed which of the
following as the Chairman and Managing
Director of the state-run Madras Fertilzers for a
five-year term?
1
...
Ravi Khare
3
...
AB Khare
5
...
Harper Lee
The book Go Set a Watchman written by
Harper Lee was in news in the first week of
January 2016 as it topped the 2015 US bestseller
list
...
6 million copies of the book were
sold in the USA since it was published in July
2015
...
Ans
...
In
August last year, the government headhunter
Public Enterprise Selection Board (PESB) had
recommended the name of Khare for the post of
CMD at Madras Fertilizers Ltd (MFL)
...
7
...
Madhya Pradesh
2
...
Uttar Pradesh
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Under the
scheme, 1600 villages of UP situated along the
banks of river Ganga will be developed
...
In a bid to curb vehicular pollution, the Centre
has decided to implement stricter emission
norms of Bharat Stage (BS) VI from Which date
by skipping BS-V altogether?
1
...
September 1, 2020
3
...
January 1, 2018
5
...
April 1, 2020
In a bid to curb vehicular pollution, the Centre
today decided to implement stricter emission
norms of Bharat Stage (BS) VI from April 1,
2020, by skipping BS-V altogether
...
Who has recently been elected as the General
President of the 105th Indian Science Congress
Association (ISCA) that is scheduled for 201718?
1
...
DrAchyutaSamanta
3
...
ShyamPrakashShukla
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Samanta is also
currently serving as member of Executive
Council of Indian Science Congress Association
(ISCA)
...
On last occasion,
Prof PranaKrushnaParija, eminent Odia
scientist, was elected as President of the 47th
Session of the ISCA in 1960
...
Who has recently been appointed as
Registrar General and Census Commissioner of
India?
1
...
Mithlesh
3
...
Sailesh
5
...
Sailesh
Senior IAS officer Sailesh was today appointed
as Registrar General and Census Commissioner
...
He has been
appointed in place of C Chandramouli, who
completed his tenure today
...
Who has recently been appointed as the Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of NITI Aayog?
1
...
Krishna Chandra
3
...
Kapil Kant
5
...
Amitabh Kant
Amitabh Kant was on 7 January 2016 appointed
as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NITI
Aayog
...
Kant will take over the office of CEO in March
2016, when he retires from service
...
13
...
Rajesh Kumar Singh
2
...
Kapil Muni Sikri
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
He
succeeds Ashok Chawla, whose tenure as the
Chairman of CCI ended on 7 January 2016
itself
...
e
...
14
...
Russia
2
...
India
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The survey conducted by the UN
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
(DESA) said the number of international
migrants - persons living in a country other than
where they were born - reached 244 million in
2015 for the world as a whole, a 41 per cent
increase compared to 2000
...
Mumbai Rail Police recently launched safety
initiatives named SAMEEP and B-Safe with the
help of which of the following?
1
...
Sachin Tendulkar
3
...
Amir Khan
5
...
Sachin Tendulkar
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar on Wednesday
launched two initiatives by Mumbai Railway
Police -- SAMEEP (Safety Alert Messages
Exclusively For Passengers) and B-Safe
...
1
...
The Pinaka MBRL System has
been indigenously developed by?
1
...
ARDE-Pune
...
TRAI-Delhi
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Armament Research and Development
Establishment (ARDE) in the last week of
December 2015 successfully test-fired Pinaka II
multi barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) System
...
The system proved its
mettle during Kargil war while neutralising the
mountain peaks off the enemy
...
The Pinaka MBRL System has
been indigenously developed by the ARDE, Pune
...
Which states became one of the very first
states to officially join the UjwalDiscom
Assurance Yojana (UDAY) central
government‘s financial restructuring
programme for discoms, which will offer the
state a net benefit of approximately Rs 5,300
crore?
1
...
Kerala
3
...
Jharkhand
5
...
Banking Sectors
4
...
None of these
...
Jharkhand
Jharkhand became one of the very first states to
officially join the UjwalDiscom Assurance Yojana
(UDAY) central government‟s financial
restructuring programme for discoms, which will
offer the state a net benefit of approximately Rs
5,300 crore
...
Ans
...
Decision in this regard was taken by
CCEA meeting chaired by the Prime Minister
NarendraModi in New Delhi
...
3
...
$60-million
2
...
$50-million
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
4
...
Japan
2
...
Australia
4
...
None of these
...
Australia
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister
NarendraModi approved the India-Australia Civil
Nuclear Cooperation deal that came into force on
November 13, 2015
...
5
...
IT Sector
2
...
India‘s central bank has asked the lenders to
open more brick and mortar branches in villages
with no banking facilities and with a population
of more than __________?
1
...
6000
3
...
2000
5
...
5000
India‟s central bank has asked the lenders to open
more brick and mortar branches in villages with
no banking facilities and with a population of
more than 5,000
...
7
...
D
...
Malhotra
2
...
K
...
K M Mani
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
K
...
K
...
He is currently Director
(HR) of the Bengaluru-based BEML
...
8
...
Myanmar
2
...
Japan
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
Decision in this
regard was taken by Union Cabinet meeting
chaired by Prime Minister NarendraModi in New
Delhi
...
371
...
9
...
CRI Pumps
2
...
ECGC
4
...
None of these
...
CRI Pumps
Pump manufacturing major CRI Pumps has
bagged 'Export Quality Excellence' award for the
11th time in a row
...
10
...
Ola
2
...
Wicked Ride
4
...
None of these
...
Wicked Ride
Wicked Ride, a start-up founded in 2014 by
Vivekananda H
...
, Anil G and Varun Agni, has
launched its brand „Apna Ride‟ for utility bike
rentals, targeted primarily at budget conscious
bike enthusiasts
...
apnaride
...
11
...
Rajesh Keshavan
2
...
ArvindPratap
4
...
None of these
Ans
...
The first
place was claimed by defending champion
HidenariKanayama of Japan
...
12
...
Indian Oil Corporation
2
...
TCS
4
...
None of these
...
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
State-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has
emerged as the country‟s biggest company in
terms of annual revenue as per an annual list of
2015 Fortune 500 companies in India
...
4,51,911 crore
...
3,82,565 crore
...
Who has recently won the Qatar Masters
Open chess tournament, billed as the strongest
Open in history?
1
...
Magnus Carlsen
3
...
Vladimir Kramnik
5
...
Magnus Carlsen
World champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway won
the Qatar Masters Open chess tournament, billed
as the strongest Open in history
...
He drew his 10th and final
round encounter with former World champion
Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, while Yu defeated
Wesley So of the United States
...
eASIA Award under Trade Facilitation
category Given to which of the following?
1
...
The Drug Authentication and Verification
Application (DAVA)
3
...
Exim Bank
5
...
The Drug Authentication and Verification
Application
The Drug Authentication and Verification
Application (DAVA) project of The Department of
Commerce has won the 2015 eASIA Award under
Trade Facilitation category
...
The eASIA award is
administered by AFACT which aims to
development and promotion of trade facilitation,
electronic business policies and activities in the
Asia Pacific region
...
Who has recently conferred with prestigious
2015 SangitaKalanidhi award?
1
...
Sanjay Singh
3
...
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
5
...
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Foremost south Indian classical vocalists Sanjay
Subrahmanyam has conferred with prestigious
2015 SangitaKalanidhi award
...
1
...
Second schedule of RBI Act, 1934
2
...
5 Lakh Rupees
3
...
April 1, 1935
4
...
Government of India
5
...
RBI
6
...
Minimum Reserve System
7
...
SLR (Statutory Liquidity Ratio)
8
...
1955
9
...
Foreign currency assets, Gold, Special
Drawing Rights & Reserve Position in the IMF
10
...
Answer
...
A note which, has become dirty due to usage
and also includes a two piece note pasted
together wherein both the pieces presented
belong to the same note, and form the entire note
is known as?
Answer
...
What is the minimum age to open a bank
account?
Answer
...
Interest on Savings A/c is calculated on
__________?
Answer
...
Name the class of NBFC, which is a company
and has as its principal business the receiving of
deposits, under any scheme or arrangement or
in any other manner and not being Investment,
Asset Financing, Loan Company?
Answer
...
What is the maximum amount per transaction
limit for cash-based remittances to Nepal with
the help of NEFT?
Answer
...
50,000
6
...
e
...
Exchange Earners' Foreign Currency
Account (EEFC)
7
...
Current, Savings, Recurring or Fixed
deposit accounts
8
...
The Reserve Bank of India
9
...
Bhartiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran
Private Limited
10
...
Call Money Market
1
...
White Label ATMs
2
...
Doubtful asset
3
...
NEFT
4
...
Foreign Currency Non Resident (Bank)
Account – FCNR (B) Account
5
...
Stale Cheque
6) If anyone is not satisfied with the decision
passed by the Banking Ombudsman, he/she can
approach the appellate authority
...
Deputy Governor of the RBI
7
...
Commercial Paper
8
...
Treasury Bills
9
...
40 percent of Adjusted Net Bank Credit
10
...
Marginal Farmers
1
...
4%
2
...
Individual Banks
3
...
They
cannot accept deposits repayable on demand?
Answer
...
Name the institution which is a principal
financial institution in India for coordinating the
working of institutions engaged in financing
export and import trade?
Answer
...
Where is the Headquarter of Securities and
Exchange Board of India (SEBI) ?
Answer
...
Who is known as the "Micro-Finance
Regulatory Authority"?
Answer
...
Who is the regulator of Nidhi Companies?
Answer
...
Name the 9 digit numeric code that uniquely
identifies a bank branch participating in
electronic clearing scheme?
Answer
...
What is the full form of the CORE word in
CBS?
Answer
...
An account is maintained by an Indian Bank
in the foreign countries?
Answer
...
While consumers and governments are keen to
adopt mobile technology for government-to-person
(G2P) payments, intermediaries are creating
barriers as they end up losing a good source of
income
...
As
banks, mobile network operators (MNOs), NGOs
and for-profit firms build new services to seize the
opportunity to reach the large unbanked population,
they must take time to understand the needs of
customers
...
This has the potential to
unlock a large untapped market
...
The influx of so many players and services has
created confusion for customers, lack of
coordination among players and limited scale for a
single company
...
1
...
2) A person who buys goods or services from a
financial institution
...
4) Both 2 and 3
5) Other than given options
...
Which of the following is possibly the most
appropriate title for the passage?
1) Progress on banking
2) Banking in the future
3) Mobile banking
4) Integration between e-commerce firms and banks
5) Instant banking
3
...
Which of the following is most OPPOSITE in
meaning of the word given in bold as used in the
passage?
INFLUX
1) Invasion
2) Enlargement
3) Advance
4) Incline
5) Ebb
5
...
2) Smart users today have round-the-clock access to
their bank accounts and carry their bank in their
pockets
...
4) All of the above
5) Other than given options
Directions (Q
...
6
...
it concentrates his mind wonderfully
...
Supriya took a look at the economics and decided
it was lunacy in forgo the revenue
...
We have to ponder the question when
considering a college major or embarking on a
career
...
Many people want to make a lot of money, but
the benefits of having a high income is ambiguous
...
Some people are willing to make lifestyle
changes because the intrinsic awards of following a
passion or making a difference are more important
than a high salary in an unenjoyable career
...
1
2
...
2
4
...
5
6
...
2
8
...
3
10
...
Rolling out the BS VI
standard nationally, skipping BS V, has significant
cost implications for fuel producers and the
automobile industry, but its positive impact on
public health would more than compensate for the
investment
...
Thousands of premature deaths and rising rates of
asthma episodes highlight the urgent need to make
a radical and complete shift to modern fuels and
vehicle technologies
...
Higher sulphur results in high
volumes of fine respirable particulates measuring
2
...
5) being generated in
emissions
...
This has rendered their catalytic converters
incapable of absorbing pollutants
...
A bloated population of vehicles
using fossil fuels has affected travel speeds,
worsening pollution levels
...
Moreover,
the monitoring of diesel passenger and commercial
vehicles – the biggest contributors to total
emissions – for compliance with emissions
regulations remains poor
...
Equally, the distortions in urban
development policy that facilitate the use of
personal motorised vehicles rather than expanding
good public transport, walking and cycling, are
glaring
...
The panel also recommended appropriate
levies to fund the transition to cleaner, low sulphur
fuels
...
The government has
done well to advance the deadline for cleaner fuels
by three years
...
1
...
Implementation of BS V fuel failed all over the
country
II
...
commercial passenger and freight carriers are
using higher standard fuel
...
II and III
b
...
II only
d
...
All are true
2
...
New policy to clean the air
b
...
High level of Pollutants
d
...
None of the above
3
...
It will heavily reduce the cost of fuels
b
...
It will majorly improve public health
...
both a and b
c
...
Which of the following statements are NOT
TRUE according to the given passage?
I
...
II
...
III
...
a
...
III and II
c
...
III only
e
...
In view of author how improved air quality is
acheviable in big urban cities?
a
...
By reducing vehicles using fossil fuels
c
...
both b and c
e
...
6
...
administer
b
...
produced
d
...
catalyst
7
...
penalty
b
...
reimburse
d
...
collate
8
...
origin
b
...
weakness
d
...
practical
Directions (9-10): Choose the word which is most
opposite in meaning to the word printed in bold as
used in the passage
...
Diligence
a
...
assiduous
c
...
laziness
e
...
Obsolete
a
...
vigor
c
...
old
e
...
C
2
...
C
4
...
D
6
...
C
8
...
D
10
...
Upgrading fuel, keeping out trucks that transit
through Delhi and ending the practice of burning
crop residue in neighbouring areas will do more to
check pollution than restricting the use of private
cars
...
If cars are disallowed while an expanded
public transport is still not available, three-wheelers
and cabs will ply all the more
...
Every bus can be fitted with GPS and speed
governors and its movement tracked, to make sure
they neither race nor dawdle and stick to their
schedule
...
Seamless connectivity with the metro and
circular rail network must be ensured
...
Driving restrictions is not the silver bullet for
reducing either traffic congestion or air pollution
...
1
...
Implementing odd-even policy
b
...
Expanding public trasport
d
...
both b & c
2
...
Delhi's poor air quality and its causes
b
...
Delhi needs a comprehensive transportation
policy
d
...
None of these
3
...
There are so many private cars in delhi
...
There is no driving ristrictions in delhi
...
There is differently priced public transportation
...
All the above
e
...
According to the author, why there are many
private vehicles in delhi?
a
...
Bacause of low Metro trains
c
...
Because of high distances in delhi from one place
to another
...
None of these
5
...
There should be GPS fitted buses to track
movement
II
...
Bus routes should be rationalised
a
...
III only
c
...
II only
e
...
6
...
fight
b
...
assimilate
d
...
disperse
7
...
narrow
b
...
short
d
...
restricted
8
...
stagnation
b
...
transport
d
...
survey
Directions (9 to 10): Choose the word which is
most opposite in meaning of the word printed in
bold as used in the passage
...
Alleviate
a
...
mitigate
c
...
promote
e
...
Concentrated
a
...
entire
c
...
whole
e
...
b
2
...
e
4
...
d
6
...
d
8
...
e
10
...
P
...
D
...
Kohli was the founder director of the
CBI who held office from April 1, 1963 to May 31,
1968
...
It became the Delhi
Special Police Establishment and acquired its
popular current name, the Central Bureau of
Investigation through a Home Ministry resolution
dated April 4, 1963
...
One may not agree with all that Mr
...
He had said:
―He [the investigator] follows the golden rule that if
he gives a report that the accused is prima facie not
guilty, then questions are going to be raised about
him
...
Mr
...
―Departments of purchase,
defence and disinvestment have all suffered,‖ he
said
...
His description of
the fear psychosis that grips the bureaucracy is
no exaggeration
...
I agree
that apprehension by civil servants of the
consequences of taking a decision in a matter of
public importance — especially one that involves
huge expense to the public exchequer — has been a
roadblock to proactive and positive administration
...
Ironically, fear is the
hallmark of those more honest among civil servants
than the ones who are venal and bereft of values
...
In
cases like these, the official concerned has to be
punished within government and not in courts, that
too for lack of courage rather than of integrity
...
It places both on a par
...
I was struck by the distinction Mr
...
In the second time frame, the civil
servant at the higher levels had to take momentous
decisions to fast track liberalisation and quicken the
processes of a failing economy
...
Mr
...
He said, ―… the Act pre-dated
1991, when the economic reform process began
...
That Act has today to
evolve
...
‖
Unfortunately, necessary changes to the law were
not put in place and this failure to reform anticorruption law had its impact on the pace of public
administration and staff morale
...
The information
now is that the Union Cabinet has cleared the
suggested changes and has improved upon the
measures agreed upon by the UPA
...
Under this provision
of law, the investigating agency has to prove that a
civil servant whose conduct was in question took a
decision which ―obtains for any person any
valuable thing or pecuniary advantage without any
public interest‖ in order to proceed against him
under the Act
...
This, prima facie, is a negation
of the English jurisprudence which we inherited
and adopted
...
Section 20 of the Act, which deals with
presumptions that can be drawn against an accused
by the court, however refers only to clauses (a) and
(b) of subsection (1) of Section 13 and not to clause
(d)(iii) that punishes even an inadvertent act
causing loss to government
...
In turn, this has had an adverse impact
on civil servant morale
...
For this, the
civil servant should be lucky to get a
knowledgeable judge and an objective public
prosecutor — both of whom are now a vanishing
tribe
...
I am certain that there is political consensus
that this harsh provision will have to go sooner than
later
...
Q
...
Choose an appropriate title for the passage?
1) The Speech
2) CBI and its Acts
3) Corruption in CBI
4) Removing Ambiguities in Graft Law
5) What an ―ACT‖
Q
...
Which of the following is nearest to the
meaning of ―Venal‖?
1) Bribable
2) Cruel
3) Merciless
4) Barbaric
5) None of these
Q
...
Which of the following is true according to the
passage?
A) DP Kohli was the first director of CBI
...
C) Some changes are suggested by UPA
government in section 13(1)(d)(iii) of the Act that
has recently been approved by union cabinet
1) Only A and B
2) Only B and C
3) Only C and A
4) All A, B and C
5) None
Q
...
Which of the following is not true according to
the passage?
1) The information now is that the Union Cabinet
has cleared the suggested changes and has
improved upon the measures agreed upon by the
UPA
...
5
...
?
1) Civil servants decision which obtains for any
person any valuable thing or pecuniary advantage
without any public interest in order to proceed
against him under the Act
...
3) UPA Govt changed the criteria for the suspected
civil servants and their trials were to be transferred
to the area of concern
...
6
...
7
...
8
...
9
...
10
...
(4
2
...
(4
4
...
(1
6
...
(2
8
...
(5
10
...
Certain words/phrases have been printed
in bold to help you locate them while answering
some of the questions
...
With government funds being spent
on ill-administered and leakage-prone subsidy, at
the expense of investment in agriculture, there is
evidently much scope for revamping expenditure in
the farm sector to boost productivity and
production
...
Four kinds of policy-induced distortions plague
Indian agriculture, besides the subsidy-investment
tradeoff
...
Institutional
barricading of the farmer from the consumer, giving
assorted intermediaries the power of pricing and
profiteering is the second
...
And the fourth is irrational
policy on international trade, commodity markets
and crop insurance
...
Now that electricity is widely
available, potentially if not yet in practice, it is
possible to create huge capacity in climate
controlled storage and agro-processing in rural
areas, both vastly enhancing the farmer‘s pricing
power
...
There is, in fact, no need for the
government to wait for the Budget to tackle these
problems
...
Cooperative federalism should be invoked
to induce the states to make the needed changes in
policy that is for them to make at their level
...
What can be the suitable title of the above
passage?
a
...
Government subsidies:A big failure
c
...
Food inflation:biggest challenge
e
...
According to the passage, what are the effects of
the low level of processing?
a
...
It reduces the price and farmer's bargaining
power
c
...
Both a and b
e
...
According to the author ,What step/steps should
be taken to develop agriculture market?
I
...
II
...
There should be equal emphasis on developing
agriculture's market linkages
...
III and I
b
...
All the above
d
...
None of the above
4
...
There is negligance of other crops because of
attention on grains at fancy prices
...
Urgent attention should be given on fund
allocation for agriculture in buget
...
Indian agriculture needs favourable climate
conditions to boost productivity
...
I and II
b
...
I only
d
...
III only
5
...
Skewed policies for pricing, Low levels of
processing
b
...
Irratinal policies on international trade
d
...
None of the above
Direction(6-8): Choose the word which is MOST
SIMILAR in meaning of the word printed in bold
as used in the passage
...
Vagaries
a
...
impulsive
c
...
vary
e
...
In one such move, the government
had extended economic rights to women in live in
relation under the Protection of Women from
Domestic Violence Act 2005
...
Evident
a
...
concealed
c
...
conspicuous
e
...
In the same
year, the Ministry of Women and Child
Development was urged by the National
Commission of Woman to include female live in
partners in the definition of wife as described in the
Section 125 of Cr PC
...
Justice Mali math
Committee of the Supreme Court recommended
that this be turn into a law by all states
...
‖ The Mali math
Committee also recommended that the word ‗wife‘
under Cr
...
C
...
8
...
similar
b
...
diversified
d
...
kind
Direction(9-10): Choose the word which is MOST
OPPOSITE in meaning of the word printed in bold
as used in the passage9
...
largly
b
...
immensely
d
...
notably
10
...
invasion
b
...
disease
d
...
advantage
Answers
1
...
b
3
...
b
5
...
b
7
...
c
9
...
e
In India, live in relationships have been a taboo
right since the British raj
...
However, one can not deny that maintaining such
relationships in most of the country‘s rural areas
would be nothing but to invite loads of unwanted
attention, or may be even trouble
...
Superintendent Nari Niketan
Kandri Vihar Agra and Others trial (2002), the
Allahabad High Court ruled that ― a lady of about
21 years of age being a major, has right to go any
where and that anyone-man and woman even
without getting married can live together if they
wish
...
In another case just two years later,
Supreme Court ruled that if an unmarried couple of
opposite sexes live together for a prolonged period
of time, they can be considered as man and wife
...
1
...
2) Cohabitation has turned into a rare pattern
amongst people
...
4) Both 2 and 3
5) All of the above
2
...
2) Young couples try to know each other better in
live in relationship before marriage
...
4) All of the above
5) None of these
3
...
2) Stability in live in relationships
...
4) Marriage like live in relationship
...
4
...
2) Cohabitation is an offence
...
4) The social fabric of India is drastically different
...
5) None of these
5
...
2) There are no strong legal provisions for securing
the future of children born from live in
relationships
...
4) Both 1 and 3
5) Both 1 and 2
Direction: Choose the word which is MOST
SIMILAR in meaning of the word printed in bold
as used in the passage6
...
Cohabitation
1) Miscommunication
2) Affinity
3) Coitus
4) Compatibility
5) Familiarity
Direction: Choose the word which is MOST
OPPOSITE in meaning of the word printed in bold
as used in the passage-
8
...
Harmonize
1) Disagree
2) Fight
3) Unify
4) Cohere
5) Tune
10
...
4
2
...
1
4
...
5
6
...
3
8
...
1
10
...
Some of India's leading national banks have posted
a net profit rise of more than 40% over the last
quarter amid global turmoil
...
One of the main reasons behind the
success of these banks this quarter, would be their
direct banking by the Government of India
...
Other private banks in India have also reported a
substantial net profit over the last quarter
...
While others
are on a cost cutting spree and firing employees,
Indian companies are actually working on boosting
staffing in banking and broking sectors
...
The finance minister
has assured Indian public about the sound health of
all Indian Banks
...
We
definitely are not looking to thrive; rather we are
looking for growth
...
These are hard times to test
the hard
...
1
...
Which of the following statements is definitely
true in the context of the passage?
A
...
B
...
C
...
(1) Only A
(2) Only B
(3) Only C
(4) A and B
(5) B and C
3
...
Which of the following strengthens the finance
minister's statement about the sound health of
Indian Banks with respect to the passage?
A
...
B
...
C
...
(1) A and B
(2) A and C
(3) Only A
(4) Only B
(5) All of these
5
...
What does the phrase 'shot in the arm' as used in
the passage mean?
(1) Shock
(2) Fear
(3) Encouragement
(4) Anxiety
(5) None of these
Directions (7 to 8): Choose the word which is most
OPPOSITE in meaning of the word printed in bold
as used in the passage
...
Turmoil
(1)chaos
(2)riot
(3)bustle
(4)contentment
(5)rush
8
...
9
...
Mundane
(1)banal
(2)famous
(3)abnormal
(4)tiny
(5)extraordinary
Answers
1
...
2
3
...
1
5
...
3
7
...
3
9
...
1
Directions (Q
...
Caste in India is an enduring reality, a festering
problem that refuses to go away
...
An NCAER survey
had revealed that a quarter of Indian population still
practises untouchability at home
...
The offences listed in the Bill speak volumes about
caste-based vulnerabilities and include victimising
SC or ST persons in matters relating to voting,
wrongfully occupying their lands, and assault and
sexual exploitation of women
...
Some new offences listed in the Bill appear to have
been the result of recurring media reportage about
denying SC and ST persons entry into temples, and
even education and health institutions, and forcing
them to carry human or animal carcasses
...
Affirmative
action — namely, job reservations and a clutch of
welfare schemes for SC and ST persons — have
been effective, but only in a limited way
...
Similarly, though laws to prevent
atrocities are necessary, they will prove effective
only when victims are empowered to pursue legal
action
...
Similarly, besides social
reformers, progressive religious leaders should
strive towards creating an atmosphere conducive to
social inclusion
...
Source- Indian Express
1
...
SCs and STs are denied to enter in temples
II
...
III
...
a
...
III only
c
...
I only
e
...
What can be the suitable title of above passage?
a
...
Law Alone won't Empower SCs and STs
c
...
Untouchability:A major concern
e
...
What can be the conclusion of the passage?
a
...
b
...
c
...
d
...
None of these
4
...
SC and ST persons are allowed to enter in health
institutions
...
Laws will be effective only when victims are
empowered to take actions
...
Educated persons are opposed to Untouchability
...
II & III
b
...
I & III
d
...
None of these
Directions (5-7): Choose the word which is most
similar in meaning to the word printed in bold as
used in the passage
5
...
severe
b
...
assenting
d
...
reformed
6
...
harsh
b
...
strive
d
...
enormity
7
...
complex
b
...
heal
d
...
eternal
Directions (8-9): Choose the word which is most
oppsite in meaning to the word printed in bold as
used in the passage
8
...
decaying
b
...
permanent
d
...
repeated
9
...
connection
b
...
ensure
d
...
giving
10
...
Amendment bills have been passed
II
...
Religious leaders are creating conducive
environment
a
...
I only
c
...
I & II only
e
...
c
2
...
c
4
...
c
6
...
d
8
...
b
10
...
It is evident that science has revolutionised
modern life
...
Electricity is a wonder and what it is
doing would have appeared to be a fairy tale for our
forefathers
...
C
...
Human
suffering has greatly been alleviated
...
Artificial limbs can be fitted into the
disabled bodies, even kidneys, and hearts are being
performed
...
Means of
communication- The fax, The E-mail, The mobile
smart phones are really wonderful means given to
us by science
...
We have
begun to feel that life wirthout the modern scientific
gadgets is impossible
...
But there is
the other side of the picture too
...
Human labour has been
minimised but that has led to a more luxurious
living and lens of physical activity
...
We are unnecessarily using
chemicals for agriculture
...
The
worlds is getting exposed to the situations of great
alarms and dangers
...
Wild varieties can not be
allowed to go extinct
...
Can we ever forget what happened to
Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan during the World
War II ? Do we want to live under such further
threats of large-scale devastation and destruction?
Therefore, what is necessary is that we may use
science as our slave-take the utmost advantage from
it but should not permit it to become our master
...
Let science remain our 'slave' and not allow it to
become our master
...
1
...
2) Science is a bane but can be a boon
...
4) Science's ultimately going to enslave us
...
2
...
C
...
According to the passage why wild varieties can
not be allowed to go extinct?
1) GMOs are good for same crops
...
3) World is getting exposed to the situation of great
alarms
...
5) Radiations are fatal for mankind
...
According to the passage, which of the following
is an unwanted side effect of man becoming slave
to the machinery?
1) Human labour has been minimised
...
3) less physical activity
4) suffering from new ailments
5) large scale unemployment
...
Which of the following has been referred as
'genie' in the passage?
1) Science
2) Mankind
3) Earth
4) Alladin
5) World war II
Direction: Choose the word/group of words which
is MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the word/ group
of words printed in bold as used in the passage6
...
Startling
1) Amazing
2) Obvious
3) New
4) Alternate
5) Classical
8
...
Destruction
1) Construction
2) Obstruction
3) Concentration
4) Devastation
5) Deprivation
10
...
3
2
...
2
4
...
1
6
...
1
8
...
1
10
...
And try
as they might, our financial regulators have been
ineffectual at protecting them
...
A recent global
survey of 1,50,000 adults across 140 countries by
Standard & Poor‘s Ratings Services has shed new
light on just how widespread this problem is in
India
...
The survey showed that 76 per cent of Indians
aren‘t financially literate, going by their inability to
answer very basic questions on risk, inflation, and
simple and compound interest
...
The country has a
wide gender gap in financial literacy (while 27 per
cent of the men made the cut, only 20 per cent of
the women did)
...
These findings show that all the
time, money and effort regulators have expended on
investor awareness and education initiatives haven‘t
been very effective
...
Copious amounts of
money flow into the investor protection funds
maintained by the two stock exchanges, thanks to
mandatory contributions from trading members
...
SEBI,
which has been slapping market offenders with
huge penalties, deposits these into an investor
protection fund
...
02 per cent of assets that mutual funds
are required to spend on investor awareness
programmes and the scores of voluntary camps
conducted by other players
...
Camps from financial firms, for instance,
inevitably focus on convincing affluent urban
savers to try out insurance policies, systematic
investment plans or equities in place of
conventional instruments
...
Another interesting finding of the S&P survey is
that people who already have access to products
such as bank accounts and bank loans, even if poor,
have a far better understanding of financial
concepts than those who don‘t
...
So, financial inclusion initiatives
such as the Jan Dhan Yojana or the Jan Suraksha
Yojana, far from putting the cart before the horse,
are just what small savers need to escape the
clutches of Ponzi scheme operators and
moneylenders
...
According to the passage what is reason for
finacially illteracy in India?
a
...
Lack of literacy among people
c
...
Both a & b
e
...
What can be the suitable title of the above
passage?
a
...
Financial Awareness
c
...
Education initiatives
e
...
What is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
I
...
Lack of money in the investor protection fund
III
...
II only
b
...
III
d
...
All of the above
4
...
Poor people who hold accounts in banks have
better understanding of financial terms
...
Poor People are more literate than rich ones
...
76 percent of indians are financial literate
...
Both b & c
e
...
What is the key reason that most of the initiatives
are facing today?
a
...
Lack of basic financial literacy
c
...
None of these
e
...
6
...
scope
b
...
vogue
d
...
promote
7
...
meager
b
...
poor
d
...
ample
8
...
hoard
b
...
maintain
d
...
save
Directions (9 to 10): Choose the word which is
most OPPOSITE in meaning of the word printed in
bold as used in the passage
...
Affluent
a
...
rich
c
...
inevitable
e
...
Mandatory
a
...
optional
c
...
forcible
e
...
e
2
...
b
4
...
b
6
...
e
8
...
e
10
...
The two survivors who
have been a good friends, not knowing what else to
do, agreed that they had no other recourse but to
pray to God
...
The first thing they prayed for was
food
...
The other man‘s parcel of land
remained barren
...
The next day, another
ship was wrecked, and the only survivor was a
woman who swam to his side of the land
...
Soon the
first man prayed for a house, clothes, more food
...
However, the second man still had nothing
...
In the morning,
he found a ship docked at his side of the island
...
He considered the other man unworthy to receive
God‘s blessings, since none of his prayers had been
answered As the ship was about to leave, the first
man heard a voice from heaven booming, ―Why are
you leaving your companion on the island?‖
―My blessings are mine alone, since I was the one
who prayed for them,‖ the first man answered
...
‖
―You are mistaken!‖ the voice rebuked him
...
If not for
that, you would not have received any of my
blessings
...
Why did the first man think that he was the only
one who prayed to God?
I
...
Because all his wishes came true
III
...
I & III
b
...
III only
d
...
None of these
2
...
First man's wife was selfish
...
Two survivors became friends on the island
...
Second man's prayers were answered
...
II only
b
...
III only
d
...
All are true
3
...
he was kind hearted
...
he had good sense of humour
...
he was careless person
...
he was mean and selfish person
e
...
According to passage what is TRUE statement?
a
...
b
...
c
...
d
...
e
...
5
...
similar
b
...
stoppage
d
...
shift
6
...
fix
b
...
loose
d
...
sail
7
...
flatter
b
...
compliment
d
...
censure
Directions (8 to 10): Choose the word which is
most OPPOSITE in meaning of the word printed in
bold as used in the passage
...
booming
a
...
adding
c
...
growing
e
...
stay
a
...
break
c
...
vacant
e
...
wrecked
a
...
destroyed
c
...
repaired
e
...
d
2
...
d
4
...
d
6
...
e
8
...
d
10
...
He
was victorious in batttle
...
They
would be a part of the victory parade for his
subjects
...
Around his neck was a garland of
scarlet hibiscus and as was the custom for all, his
forehead was anointed with red sandal paste
...
At one spot, in a mango grove by the
wayside, they spied some children play
...
‖
The children had lined up two rows of clay dolls
and were playing warriors and battles
...
‖ The King asked,
―Who is winning and who is the loser ?‖ The
children puffed their chests up and said, ―Karnat
will win and Kanchi will lose
...
The King was soon joined by his troops and the
children were still immersed in their game
...
‖ The
children‘s parents came running from the nearby
village and said, ―They are naive, it was just a
game, please grant them pardon
...
‖ He went back to his camp
...
He bowed low in shame and said, ―Your
Majesty, with the exception of hyenas and vultures,
all lie silent in the village
...
‖ The priest said,
―The goddess has blessed our King
...
‖ The King asked, ―But why ?‖ The jester said,
―I cannot kill, I cannot maim, I can only laugh at
God‘s gift of life
...
‖
1
...
2) The people of the village to which the children
belonged developed great respect for the king
...
4) The jester was unhappy that the king had
defeated the army of Karnat
...
2
...
2) To show that he disapproved of the king‘s action
of punishing the children
...
4) He was no longer able to make the king laugh
...
Which of the following describes the Minister ?
(A) He was jealous of the jester
...
(C) He did not have a good sense of humour
...
Which of the following was/were the outcome(s)
of the soldiers beating the children ?
(A) The animals began to howl and wanted to
attack the soldiers
...
(C) The priest offered prayers to the goddess of the
temple
...
Why was the king angry with the children ?
1) Because the game they were playing was
dangerous
...
3) They did not recognise him
...
5) They were rude to him
...
6-10) : Choose the word which is
most nearly the SAME in meaning to the word
printed in bold as used in the passage
...
froze
1) nip
2) fixed
3) shivered
4) loose
5) chill
7
...
spied
1) ignored
2) kept watch
3) presumed
4) denied
5) overlooked
Directions (Q
...
9
...
pardon
1) punish
2) excuse
3) relief
4) intolerance
5) award
Answers:
1
...
5
3
...
4
5
...
2
7
...
2
9
...
1
The Global Nutrition Report (GNR) and India
Health Report on Nutrition, 2015 (IHR), offer a
critical analysis of the state of nutrition in India
...
It looks at disparities
in these outcomes and their multiple determinants
across geographical regions, socio-economic
classes, and demographic groups to help identify
strategic choices for policy-making at the State
level
...
It concludes that
while India is on track to meeting only two of the
eight global targets on nutrition, it has significantly
improved its nutrition performance in the past 10
years
...
Together, these reports paint several pictures
about India, a data-poor country
...
And this decline has
been faster than in many other countries
...
What cannot be
debated is the reality of deep, systemic inequality;
of inequality in the circumstances that children are
born into, that they live and grow in
...
Their poor nutrition stunts more than their bodies
...
Two other
things, both related to inequality, stand out as well
in the data
...
For example, sample
this for intra-State disparity
...
Less than 33 per cent of
children in Nagaland are fully immunised; in Goa,
it is more than 90 per cent
...
Why?
These are disparities across States that operate in
the same national framework, and there is, let‘s face
it, no good reason for this other than an inability or
an unwillingness to invest in changing ground
realities, for everyone and everywhere
...
Examples
abound from within India
...
No child should go without basic health care, food
security and things like water and a toilet
...
No society should condone
such inequalities in the basics
...
Source-The Hindu
1
...
Health and nutirition services
II
...
Inequality in education
a
...
II & III
c
...
I,II & III
e
...
The Global Nutrition Report focuses mainly on
the
a
...
comprehensive view of nutrition and its
determinants
c
...
Intra-State variability
e
...
Which of the following would be the suitable
title?
a
...
Global nutrition targets
c
...
Progressive India
e
...
According to author what is the biggest challenge
that India is facing?
a
...
Inability to invest in education and health services
c
...
High global nutrition targets
e
...
What is NOT TRUE according to the above
passage?
I
...
II
...
III
...
a
...
I,II & III
c
...
I & III
e
...
6
...
assiduous
b
...
interrupted
d
...
dogged
7
...
varied
b
...
separate
d
...
distant
8
...
edict
b
...
order
d
...
breach
Directions (9 to 10): Choose the word which is
most similar in meaning of the word printed in bold
as used in the passage
9
...
trivial
b
...
obligatory
d
...
assured
10
...
condemn
b
...
regard
d
...
censure
Answers
1
...
e
3
...
c
5
...
c
7
...
e
9
...
d
Right through history, imperial powers have clung
to their possessions to death
...
The independence struggle exposed
the hollowness of the white man‘s burden
...
Churchill resisted independence, but
the Labour Government of Atlee was antiimperialist by ideology
...
But politicomilitary explanations are not enough
...
The end of empire had
much to do with the fact that British imperialism
had ceased to be profitable
...
This
constituted a strong financial case for ending the no
longer-profitable empire
...
The US is spending
one billion dollar a day in operations in Iraq that
fall well short of fullscale imperialism
...
The investment was in armies and
conquest
...
No immorality was
attached to imperial loot and plunder
...
The bigger and richer the empire, the more
the plunderer was admired
...
Robert Clive was impeached for
making a little money on the side, and so was
Warren Hastings
...
It was
supposedly for the The Princeton Review CAT
sample paper 12 good of the conquered
...
On the one hand, the
empire needed to be profitable
...
An additional factor deterring loot was the 1857
Sepoy Mutiny
...
After 1857, the
British stopped annexing one princely state after
another, and instead treated the princes as allies
...
The empire
proclaimed itself to be a protector of the Indian
peasant against exploitation by Indian elites
...
Objective calculations by
historians like Angus Maddison suggest a drain of
perhaps 1
...
But land revenue was more or less fixed by the Raj
in absolute terms, and so its real value diminished
rapidly with inflation in the 20th century
...
Historically, conquered nations
paid taxes to finance fresh wars of the conqueror
...
But, as shown by historian Indivar Kamtekar, the
independence movement led by Gandhiji changed
the political landscape, and made mass-taxation of
India increasingly difficult
...
Far from taxing
India to pay for World War II, Britain actually
began paying India for its contribution of men and
goods
...
Britain paid in the form of nonconvertible sterling balances, which mounted
swiftly
...
Churchill opposed this, and wanted to tax
India rather than owe it money
...
Leo Amery, Secretary of State for India, said
that when you are driving in a taxi to the station to
catch a life-or-death train, you do not loudly
announce that you have doubts whether to pay the
fare
...
Britain, meanwhile, became the
biggest debtor in the world
...
1
...
2) The decreasing returns from imperial loot and
increasing costs of conquest
...
4) A growing awareness of the idea of equality
among peoples
...
Which of the following best expresses the main
purpose of the author?
1) To present the various reasons that can lead to
the collapse of an empire and the granting of
independence to the subjects of an empire
...
3) To highlight the contradictory impulse
underpinning empire building which is a costly
business but very attractive at the same time
...
5) None of these
3
...
2) That the land revenue from India would decline
dramatically
...
4) That India would be increasingly difficult to rule
...
Which of the following best captures the
meaning of the ‗white man‘s burden‘, as it is used
by the author?
1) The British claim to a civilizing mission directed
at ensuring the good of the natives
...
3) The resource drain that had to be borne by the
home country‘s white population
...
5) None of these
5
...
2) India had already paid a sufficiently large sum
during World War I
...
4) The British empire was built on the premise that
the conqueror pays the conquered
...
6-8): Choose the word which is
opposite in meaning to the word printed in bold as
used in the passage
...
proclaim
1) declare
2) clarion
3) trumpet
4) predicate
5) deny
7
...
hypocrisy
1) glibness
2) phoniness
3) honesty
4) quackery
5) deceit
Directions (Q
...
imperialism
1) developement
2) quackery
3) underprogress
4) failure
5) None of these
10
...
2; 1, 3 and 4 are stated in the third paragraph
...
4; Refer to the last line of the first paragraph, the
second
paragraph and the last line of the passage
...
3; Refer to the part it reminded the British
vividly
...
1; Refer to the part it was supposedly for the
good of the
conquered
...
3; Refer to the part India would resist payment,
and paralyze
the war effort
...
5
7
...
3
9
...
1
Public sector banks are back in focus, not for the
steep rise in bad loans, but for customer complaints
against them
...
But one reason why PSBs account for
about 65 per cent of the complaints is that these
banks have a lion‘s share — about three-fourths —
of the loans and deposits in the banking system
...
Complaints from the rural and semiurban population have witnessed an increase,
implying the wider participation from these
segments
...
While they account for about two-thirds of
the bank branches in India, less than 30 per cent of
the complaints were lodged from here
...
The ombudsman scheme, which
was launched two decades ago to provide a free
grievance redress system in the face of rising
complaints against banks, will now have to use the
data to improve its functioning
...
For years now, debit/credit card
operations (21 per cent of complaints) and unfair
banking practices (29 per cent) have made up a
large chunk of the complaints
...
The BCSBI was
set up a decade ago to supplement the ombudsman
scheme
...
What it
highlights is the need for the RBI to follow up more
stringently on ensuring that banks conform to
norms
...
While the report shows that the scheme
disposed 96 per cent of the complaints in 2014-15,
rejections were as high as around two-thirds,
because the solution to many of the grievances fell
outside the jurisdiction of the banking ombudsman
...
SOURCE-THE BUISNESS LINE
1
...
Ombudsman scheme
b
...
Beyond just numbers
d
...
Major challenge
2
...
Rural population is participating more in banking
II
...
Unfair banking practices lead to large number of
complaints
a
...
II & III
c
...
I, II & III
e
...
What would be the best way to resolve
complaints effectively?
I
...
Banks should adhere to fair practices
III
...
a
...
II & III
c
...
I, II & III
e
...
which of the following is TRUE according to the
passage?
a
...
BCSBI was set up by RBI a decade ago
c
...
PSBs account for less than 65 percent of the
complaints
e
...
5
...
gentle
b
...
abrupt
d
...
gadual
6
...
same
b
...
penalty
d
...
worse
7
...
strong
b
...
long
d
...
abiding
Directions (8 to 10): Choose the word which is
most OPPOSITE in meaning of the word printed in
bold as used in the passage
...
ensure
a
...
arrange
c
...
guard
e
...
stringent
a
...
easy going
c
...
critical
e
...
chunk
a
...
portion
c
...
whole
e
...
c
2
...
a
4
...
c
6
...
e
8
...
b
10
...
Automobilemakers have, in recent years, been building (from
scratch, in a few cases) and scaling up their
production capacities for diesel cars, driven by the
surge in demand for diesel-powered vehicles as the
fuel was subsidised and far cheaper than petrol
...
But diesel vehicles, including the sport
utility vehicles, or SUVs, that are ubiquitous status
symbols in the National Capital Region and
beyond, now constitute 50 per cent of the auto
industry‘s passenger car sales
...
The tribunal
has asked the Delhi and Central governments to
decide whether a more permanent injunction
prohibiting the registration of diesel vehicles in the
NCR would be advisable, given the ―serious
contribution of vehicular pollution‖ to the city‘s air
quality
...
Industry has reacted predictably,
terming the move as unfair and discriminatory, and
calling for a more holistic solution, while
questioning the overall policy approach to diesel
...
Rating agency ICRA expects the share
of diesel vehicles in annual auto sales to decline to
30-35 per cent by 2017 as the price difference
between diesel and petrol narrows further
...
By way of
comparison, the U
...
has decided to curb
emissions from vehicles by moving towards higher
fuel efficiency standards for new cars, though
economists say it may only encourage people to
drive even more
...
In the
backdrop of the latest climate change
commitments and the toxic air that hangs over
Delhi, it could be an opportune moment for Indian
policymakers to use the tools of behavioural
economics to alter people‘s commuting preferences
...
But it‘s perhaps time to take a bolder step and levy
a hefty green tax on diesel-fuelled private vehicles
and SUVs
...
What was the reason behind the deregulation of
disel prices in 2013?
a
...
b
...
c
...
both a and b
e
...
Why Indian policy makers using the tools of
behavioural economics?
a
...
b
...
c
...
d
...
e
...
Which of the following would be the suitable
title?
a
...
Get smart on diesel cars
c
...
Reducing diesel demand
...
NGT decision: A big relief
4
...
ICRA expects increase in diesel vehicles by
2017
...
CNG and LPG are contributing in reducing
Pollution
...
Diesel is 22 per cent heaper than petrol
...
All the above
e
...
According to the passage, Which of the following
is not true?
a
...
b
...
c
...
S is moving towards higher fuel efficiency
standards for new cars
...
Both A and C
e
...
6
...
decrease
b
...
growth
d
...
decline
7
...
weaken
b
...
enable
d
...
aid
8
...
unhappy
b
...
convenient
d
...
disadvantage
Directions (9 to 10): Choose the word which is
most OPPOSITE in meaning of the word printed in
bold as used in the passage
...
Curb
a
...
hindrance
c
...
stop
e
...
Stringent
a
...
infexible
c
...
callous
e
...
e
2
...
b
4
...
a
6
...
a
8
...
c
10
...
When the government
stepped into these sectors in the first flush of
Independence, it was with a view to creating basic
capacities
...
Today, the benefits of the
government stepping back in sectors like telecom
and aviation are evident
...
Today, the mobile phone is a ubiquitous feature of
rural and urban India
...
The time is ripe for the government to
ease itself out of banking as well
...
This will further consolidate the
organised labour aristocracy and its tendency to act
as a law unto itself
...
Today, that system has
outlived its utility, as agriculture is a transformed
occupation with new risks and opportunities
...
Small farmers all over the
country are in distress, as rural banks lend to
moneylenders instead of dealing directly with them
...
Private players have made lending more
competitive and customer-friendly
...
Credit is readily available to
business, in varying packages to suit different
needs
...
With a number of players in
rural credit, entrepreneurs who come forward with
proposals for food processing and cold storage
would benefit
...
A spirit of enterprise in rural
banking can transform rural India
...
Given the chance, it could do the same here
...
That the mobile phone is a ubiquitous feature of
rural and urban India today shows that
1) people have no interest in landline phone these
days
...
3) technology can invade all the barriers
...
5) mobile phone has taken the place of landline
phone everywhere
...
Which of the following seems to be false in the
context of the passage?
1) Agriculture sector has witnessed much change
over the years
...
3) The government is facing competition in
telecom, aviation, banking etc
...
5) None of these
3
...
2) Credit through banks is readily available for even
small farmers these days
...
4) Gramin Banking has failed in India
...
What message does the author want to convey to
the government through this passage?
1) Govt should compete with private players in
telecom, aviation, banking etc
...
3) Govt should allow private players in all the areas
of business
...
5) None of these
Directions (Q
...
5
...
ACCESSIBLE
1) convincing
2) deliberate
3) targeted
4) approachable
5) distributed
7
...
8-10): Choose the word which is the
opposite in meaning of the word given in bold as
used in the passage
...
RIPE
1) lengthy
2) inappropriate
3) rare
4) hard
5) umpteen
9
...
READILY
1) deliberately
2) strictly
3) strangely
4) supposedly
5) hardly
Answers:
1
...
5
3
...
3
5
...
4
7
...
2
9
...
5
The tech-savy state of Karnataka will incubate
about 20,000 start-ups by 2020 to create six lakh
direct and 12 lakh indirect jobs, Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah said on Tuesday
...
biz 2015 here
...
"With hundreds of entrepreneurs with creative ideas
setting up start-ups here, Bengaluru is emerging
also as the country‘s start-up capital over a decade
after it became IT capital," the chief minister
asserted
...
The start-up policy is the outcome of the state
government‘s ‗Karnataka I-4‘ initiative launched in
2014, spanning IT, IT-enabled services (back office
and business process outsourcing), innovation and
incentives
...
5 million
direct jobs and 2
...
"Bengaluru has the distinction of being the
country‘s largest IT cluster, with 350 of the Fortune
500 firms locating their R&D and offshore
development operations, thanks to its talent pool,
research and academic institutions in the
government and private sectors and best higher
education system, including universities," the chief
minister told about 500 delegates at the inaugural
event
...
-Source, The Statesman
1
...
(2) Recently Bangalore flaged off 18th edition of
Bagaluru ITE biz 2015
...
(4) Karnataka will create 6 lakh direct and 12 lakh
indirect job
...
According to the passage Which of the following
is true?
(1) Tech Savy of Karnataka will incubate about
20,000 start-up by 2030
...
(3) Bengalure has distinction of being the Country‘s
largest I
...
(4) Country‘s first electronic city was setup 1990
...
Which of the following would be the suitable
title?
(1) Bangaluru intiative in providing job
(2) Tech-Savy Karnataka
(3) Karnataka is best in start-up policy
...
(5) No business in karnataka
4
...
(2) Karnataka chief minister is very knowledgeable
and loyal towards his constituency
...
T
...
(4) Karnataka is best place startup policy which is
outcome of state government 1-4 intiative
(5) None of these
Directions (5to 7): Choose the word which is most
OPPOSITE in meaning of the word printed in bold
as used in the passage
...
Ventures
(1) Jeopard
(2) hazard
(3) peril
(4) gamble
(5) shield
6
...
Incubate
(1) Endorse
(2) uphold
(3) patronize
(4) underwrite
(5) hinder
Directions (8to 10): Choose the word which is most
similar in meaning of the word printed in bold as
used in the passage
8
...
Foster
(1) forbid
(2) snuff
(3) suppress
(4) oppose
(5) boost
10
...
3
2
...
4
4
...
5
6
...
5
8
...
5
10
...
A few months later a
man arrived at court
...
He
impressed the Emperor with his witty remarks and
was appointed a courtier
...
One day the newly appointed minister said, ―Your
Majesty, you are destined for great things
...
I have learnt the art of fortune
telling
...
Travel, see the world and conquer
...
They will bless
you for rescuing them from the tyranny of their
rulers
...
The
courtiers too were astonished to hear this and began
debating among themselves
...
Perhaps there is truth in this
...
After hearing several repeated arguments in favour
of this idea the Emperor finally agreed
...
So the newly appointed minister
planned the first campaign against a smaller
neighbouring kingdom
...
Having the
superior army he easily defeated the king
...
But the campaign did not stop there
...
The soldiers grew
tired after over two years at war but did not
complain out of respect and loyalty to their ruler
...
With no one to look after the daily
administration and to resolve disputes, signs of
neglect began to be seen
...
He would plunder
their riches to fund his wars
...
An old man who had been a minister in the
Emperor‘s father‘s court grew worried and decided
to do something about this situation
...
He greeted him like
an old friend and inquired what he was doing there
...
―I am
listening to their conversation‖
...
―They
are negotiating the marriage of their children
...
To which the second one replied that he would
have to gift her one hundred and fifty as the villages
were in ruins and as such were worthless but with
the Emperor as ruler there would be many such
villages
...
He returned home
immediately, rewarded the old minister putting him
in charge of reconstructing the ruined villages and
dismissed the fortune teller from his court
...
Which of the following is TRUE in the context
of the passage?
1) The Emperor‘s father inherited his kingdom at a
very young age
...
3) It took time at first to convince the Emperor to
conquer other kingdoms
...
5) After his father‘s death the Emperor had to wage
many wars to ensure his kingdom remained
peaceful
...
What was the Emperor‘s reaction when he saw
the old minister?
1) He was ashamed to see him because he had
replaced him with a new minister
...
3) He felt sorry for the old man because he was
talking to birds
...
5) None of these
3
...
2) The money was needed for the benefit of the
Emperor‘s subjects and to ensure the kingdom did
not fall into debt
...
4) It was his father‘s last wish
...
4
...
3) He felt sorry for his plight in his old age and
wanted to do something to help
...
Under what circumstances did the Emperor
inherit his kingdom?
1) His father was suddenly killed in battle
...
3) He inherited the kingdom on reaching a
particular age
...
5) None of these
Directions: Choose the word which is most nearly
the SAME in meaning to the word given in bold as
used in the passage
...
urge
1) advice
2) need
3) prey
4) encourage
5) praise
7
...
stunned
1) fainted
2) surprised
3) pleased
4) unconscious
5) injured
Directions: Choose the word which is most
OPPOSITE in meaning of the word given in bold as
used in the passage
...
favour
1) mistake
2) bias
3) appeal
4) punishment
5) against
10
...
3
2
...
3
4
...
5
6
...
1
8
...
5
10
...
At midnight he went to the palace
and began to drill a hole in the side wall of the
treasury
...
He was dressed in a simple
nightgown and the thief could not recognise him
...
The latter said, ―Sir, I am a thief and intend to loot
this treasury
...
No matter, let
us both go inside and we shall share the loot
equally
...
Inside a locker they found three big diamond
pieces
...
Let us leave one diamond piece for the poor king
and share the rest equally
...
As Kalu had taken a vow of telling only
the truth, he gave the correct information
...
Next morning he asked his Prime
Minister to inspect the treasury as he had heard
some strange sounds during the previous night
...
He put
the diamond in his own shirt pocket as its loss could
be ascribed to the thief and nobody would suspect
the Prime Minister
...
The king particularly enquired, ―Do you
mean that the thief has completely denuded the
treasury of its valuables and not a single item has
been left ?‖ The Prime Minister confirmed it
...
When Kalu came he was unable to recognise the
king as his accomplice of the previous night
...
The
Prime Minister interrupted saying, ―Your Majesty,
this thief is lying
...
The king asked the police chief to search
the pockets of the Prime Minister, from where the
missing diamond was recovered
...
‖
1
...
(B) it was difficult for them to carry the third piece
of diamond
...
1) None
2) All the three
3) A only
4) B only
5) C only
2
...
2) A piece of diamond left in the locker
...
4) The fact that the king suspected him of stealth
...
Which of the following was the false report given
by the Prime Minister to the king ?
1) The thief had left one diamond piece inside the
locker
...
3) The thief had stolen all the valuables without any
exception
...
5) None of these
4
...
(B) He had stolen all the valuables except one
diamond
...
1) Only (A)
2) Only (B)
3) Only (C)
4) Both (A) and (B)
5) Both (B) and (C)
5
...
6-8) : Choose the word which is
most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word
given in bold as used in the passage
...
denuded
1) stolen
2) stripped
3) destroyed
4) discarded
5) abandoned
7
...
accomplice
1) co-traveller
2) associate
3) controller
4) coordinator
5) commuter
Directions (Q
...
9
...
truthful
1) unbelievable
2) irresponsible
3) dishonest
4) candid
5) sincere
Answers:
1
...
1
3
...
4
5
...
1
7
...
2
9
...
3
I worked as health secretary for about five years
from the middle of 1962 to the middle of 1967
...
Indiscipline was rampant in the health
department
...
Ministers,
legislators, senior officers and other influential
people openly pleaded the cause of their proteges
...
He approved my proposals to bring about
some system and objectivity in postings and
transfers and put an end to lobbying
...
Doctors succeeded in getting desired postings by
resorting to bribery
...
They were in conflict with
the guidelines and quite a few were confusing in as
much as two doctors were posted to the same place,
or one person was posted to more than one post
...
I submitted a note to
Chief Minister through the Chief Secretary pointing
out why the orders should not be implemented
...
The Chief Minister
decided that the minister‘s orders should not be
implemented
...
In several other departments
also corruption became widespread
...
Now
bribes were freely offered to secure transfer to
particular posts, and even for getting promotions
...
Financial
discipline had evaporated
...
To my dismay I
found that collectors were freely drawing money
for all manner of trivial purposes under Rule 27 of
the Treasury Code
...
All checks and balances had disappeared
...
Resorting to a number of harsh
measures I could restore a measure of financial
discipline
...
1
...
2) He worked as health secretary before he took
over as finance secretary
...
4) He worked as health secretary for about five
years
...
2
...
How did the doctors succeed in getting desired
postings?
1) Through dedicated service
2) By working in the health minister‘s constituency
3) By joining hands with the underworld criminals
4) By resorting to sycophancy
5) By resorting to bribery
4
...
(B) He did not carry out the orders
...
1) Only (A)
2) Only (B)
3) Only (A) & (B)
4) Only (B) & (C)
5) Only (A) & (C)
5
...
2) The author arranged a tea party to celebrate his
victory
...
4) The health minister submitted his resignation
...
Directions (Q
...
6
...
Success
1) Defeat
2) Succeed
3) Abrupt
4) Failure
5) Difficult
8
...
9-10): Choose the word which is
MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the word given in
bold as used in the passage
...
Supported
1) Advocated
2) Betrayed
3) Helped
4) Abandoned
5) Proposed
10
...
4
2
...
5
4
...
5
6
...
4
8
...
3
10
...
That may not be
quite true (in 2010, 3
...
1% of married people
divorced), but it's certainly the case that the British
are loth to swap their current accounts
...
Human inertia has a lot to do with this –
there's always something more exciting to do than
read one's statements, even if it's only collecting
lint
...
It
was also a theme of the Vickers review – which has
prompted this week's overhaul of the current
account switching service
...
It should also be
better at handling the migration of direct debits
...
Even so, this particular overhaul deserves only one
cheer
...
For another,
it is hard to see what incentive there is to swap
banks, when there are so few big banks to choose
from
...
Let us deal
with the monitoring point first: the payments
council, which sets the strategy for how bank
payments are made in the UK, is also largely
funded by banks and building societies
...
They comprise: whether
customers know about the service; whether
customers feel confident in the service; and how
well it performs
...
This
would appear to be a classic case of the financial
industry setting its own homework and making sure
the questions aren't too hard
...
Why the
wait? Moreover, why not take up the challenge
from the Treasury select committee, and allow
customers to carry their account numbers with them
wherever they go – which would have been a big
step forward
...
1
...
Direct tranfer of money in a day to bank accounts
b
...
Switching service that will help to deposit money
in other banks
d
...
None of these
2
...
It is difficult to choose banks as they are in small
numbers
...
Success of switching service depends on number
of customers using it
...
Only 3
...
d
...
e
...
Which of the following would be a suitable title
of the passage
...
New Financial industry- a boon for your money
b
...
Current account money- safe or unsafe
d
...
Current account switching-move your money
4
...
Current account swtiching should be encouraged
b
...
Switching bank account depends on how effective
and easier the service is for customers
...
Switching bank account service is easier and
helpful for customers
...
None of these
5
...
There sholud be more funded banks and building
societies
...
It should not be allowed to customers to carry
their money in cash
...
customers should be allowed easier services
without breaking the big banks
...
I only
b
...
III only
d
...
I, II & III
Directions (6 to 7): Choose the word which is
most SIMILAR in meaning of the word printed
in bold as used in the passage
...
Overhaul
a
...
agenda
c
...
break
e
...
Unsurprising
a
...
vexed
c
...
upset
e
...
8
...
trade
b
...
unexchanged
d
...
revise
9
...
action
b
...
swiftness
d
...
leisure
10
...
prudent
b
...
intricate
d
...
indolent
1
...
c
3
...
c
5
...
c
7
...
d
9
...
c
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