QUESTION DISCUSSION – 25.03.2015 TO 30.03.2015

QUESTION DISCUSSION

25.03.2015 TO 27.03.2015 9. The Germany Airline plane which crashed in a remote area of French ALPS killing 1. The Parliamentary panel has 150 person belong to which airline recommended to grant which status to the (a) Lufthansa (b) Thaiair Kashmir Pandits in J & K (c) Air Asia (d) GoAir (a) SC (b) ST (e) None of these (c) OBC (d) Minority 10. The 18th round of border talk was held (e) General recently between and 2. The new capital of Andhra Pradesh will be (a) Pakistan (b) Nepal named as (c) Bangladesh (d) China (a) Avanti (b) Amaravati (e) Myanmar (c) Vijaini (d) Ratnagiri 11. USA law maker urged to send lethal (e) None of these weapons to 3. Supreme Court has recently struck down (a) Cuba (b) Netherland which section of the Information (c) Ukraine (d) Tunisia Technology Act (e) None of these (a) 56A (b) 66A 12. Who won the British Literary Prize 2015? (c) 76A (d) 86A (a) Anil Sharma (b) Akhil Sharma (e) 96A (c) Gobind Sharma (d) Manoj Sharma 4. A system of e-patrolling of Tiger Reserves (e) Mahesh Sharma in India has been proposed by which Tiger 13. Central Sector PSU were allocated how Reserve many coal blocks by the govt. recently (a) Similipal (a) 46 (b) 38 (b) Ranthambhor (c) 72 (d) 63 (c) Gir (e) 48 (d) Sundarban 14. Which of the following received the most (e) Satkoshia efficient Navaratna Award 2015. 5. Chief Election Commissioner of India H.G (a) NTPC (b) BHEL Brahma declared to complete the linking (c) SAIL (d) NMDC of Aadhar with Electoral Photo Identity (e) ONGC Card by 15. Which bank has decided to raise Rs. 1800 (a) June 2015 (b) July 2015 cr. through long-term bond for funding (c) August 2015 (d) September 2015 infrastructure projects (e) January 2015 (a) SBI (b) UCO 6. Central govt. has approved to establish (c) PNB (d) BOI how many Mega Food Parks for Food (e) None of these processing across India 16. Who get best actor award at the 62nd (a) 57 (b) 67 National Film Award 2014 recently? (c) 87 (d) 17 (a) Mamuthi (b) Vijay (e) 27 (c) Amir Khan (d) Shiva 7. Union govt. has granted Rs. 2000 cr. as (e) None of these assistance to the drought affected state of 17. Nargis Dutta Award for Best Feature Film (a) Bihar (b) Haryana in National Integration was given to (c) Gujarat (d) Maharashtra Chotoder Chobi in which language (e) Odisha (a) Malayalam (b) Telugu 8. PM announced for the establishment of the (c) Kannada (d) Bengali Saheed Bhagat Singh PG Institute for (e) Assam Horticultural Research and Education in 18. Tylor Prize for 2015 has been given to (a) Haryana (b) Punjab (a) Madhah Gadgil (c) Meghalaya (d) Bihar (b) Udhab Gadgil (e) Rajasthan (c) Somnath Gadgil (d) Mahesh Gadgil (e) None of these

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19. Name the Indian American elected as the (c) Kiewit (d) Qatar chairperson of the Board of Directors of (e) Singapore American Council in Education 29. Recently prisoners exchange agreement (a) Rashmi Khator (b) Renu Khator was signed between India and (c) Abha Sen (d) Roshni John (a) Iran (b) Pakistan (e) None of these (c) Bangladesh (d) Qatar 20. World TB Day is observed on (e) None of these (a) 24th March (b) 25th March 30. Nigerian military clam to have destroyed (c) 26th March (d) 27th March the Boko Haram militant head quarter in (e) 27th March (a) Shama (b) Gaza 21. India govt. has directed its citizens living (c) Gwoza (d) Doha in which country to leave due to war (e) None of these (a) Libya (b) Cyprus (c) Congo (d) Yemen 28.03.2015 TO 30.03.2015 (e) Iraq 22. Which Union Ministry has received the 31. e-ration card service was launched by Web Ratna Award for most outstanding which state recently content on the govt. website (a) Delhi (b) Punjab (a) Home (c) Haryana (d) Gujarat (b) Commerce (e) Odisha (c) Defence 32. Which state has amended the (d) External Affairs Panchayatiraj Act putting minimum (e) Agriculture educational qualification for contesting 23. Which programme has been launched by candidates in the election the central govt. to develop ports, transport (a) Gujarat (b) Rajasthan in waterways etc. (c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Uttar Pradesh (a) Sagarsampad (b) Sagarpath (e) West Bengal (c) Sagarmala (d) Sagarseva 33. To address the grievances of the common (e) None of these man PM has launched which platform 24. Which agency has been selected to receive recently this year’s Gandhi Peace Prize? (a) PRATHAM (b) PRAGATI (a) NTPC (b) DRDO (c) PRATIVA (d) PRERANA (c) BARC (d) ISRO (e) None of these (e) Indian Post 34. Which High Court became the first in 25. The Finance Minister of which state has India to set up dedicated commercial been appointed as the Chairman of the bench Empowered Committee of State Finance (a) Punjab & Haryana Ministers on GCT (b) (a) Odisha (b) Kerla (c) (c) Maharashtra (d) Gujarat (d) Delhi (e) Bihar (e) Odisha 26. Pvt. Power Producers will get subsidy up 35. Who is the new Chairman of the to what in 2 years time from the govt Empowered Committee on GST (a) Rs. 5000 cr. (b) Rs. 7500 cr. (a) Abdul Karim Khan (c) Rs. 8000 cr. (d) Rs. 9000 cr. (b) Sushil Modi (e) Rs. 10,000 cr. (c) Biman Basu 27. SBI has decided to reduce its share in the (d) K.M. Mani SBI General Insurance to (e) None of these (a) 49% (b) 76% 36. Central govt. has granted financial aid of (c) 74% (d) 26% what amount to the Polavoram project in (e) None of these AP 28. Recently India has signed 6 agreements to (a) Rs. 1000 cr. (b) Rs. 700 cr. enhance cooperation in sectors like (c) Rs. 500 cr. (d) Rs. 250 cr. defence, security, trade it with (e) Rs. 100 cr. (a) Yemen (b) Iran

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37. RBI has signed a $ 400 million currency 46. Union govt. has decided to develop swap agreement with the Central Bank of connectivity to how many religious places (a) Pakistan (b) Nepal through water cruise (c) Afghanistan (d) Japan (a) 5 (b) 6 (e) Sri Lanka (c) 7 (d) 8 38. Central govt. has announced a Rs. 400 cr. (e) 10 project for production of Geo-Textiles in 47. P5 + 1 reached a tentative agreement on (a) Gujarat the nuclear weapon issue of (b) Andhra Pradesh (a) Iraq (b) Iran (c) North Eastern States (c) Libya (d) Nigeria (d) Odisha (e) China (e) Bihar 48. Which country is leading the 10 nation 39. Who won the Folio Prize in literature for coalition forces against the Shia Houthi 2015? rebels in Yemen (a) Meera Nair (b) Arundhari Ray (a) Iran (b) Saudi Arab (c) Vikram Seth (d) Govind Mishra (c) Libra (d) Jordan (e) Akhil Sharma (e) Lebanan 40. Which country won the prestigious women 49. Australia won the World Cup cricket in parliament award for regional defeating New Zealand by leadership (a) 5 wickets (b) 6 wickets (a) Pakistan (b) India (c) 7 wickets (d) 8 wickets (c) Afghanistan (d) Bangladesh (e) 4 wickets (e) Nepal 50. Serve flood affected normal life in which 41. French award Knight of the order of Arts Indian state recently and Letter has been recently given to (a) Bihar (b) Assam (a) Bharti Kher (c) J & K (d) Meghalaya (b) Gopaldas Neerja (e) None of these (c) Arundhati Ray 51. Govt. of India has rejected which (d) Govind Mishra company’s application to sale jet fuel (e) None of these (a) HPCH (b) BPCH 42. Able prize 2015 has been given to (c) IOCL (d) BP (a) John F. Nach Jr (e) SHELL (b) Barrak Obama 52. GUJCOCA is a anti-terror law passed by (c) Vladimr Putin which state recently (d) Shinzo Abe (a) Rajasthan (b) Gujarat (e) None of these (c) Bihar (d) UP 43. The Curiosity rover which found Nitrogen (e) Delhi gas in Mars was sent by 53. Bibek Debroy committee is related to (a) India (b) Japan reform and restructuring in (c) USA (d) Russia (a) IT (b) Defence (e) China (c) Commerce (d) Railway 44. What was the theme of this year (e) Civil Aviation International Slavery Day 54. HRD Ministry Committee to receive the (a) Save the Slave working of which regulator body has (b) Women & Slavery recommended to replace it (c) Slave are Human (a) NCVT (b) UGC (d) End Slavery (c) MCI (d) CSIR (e) None of these (e) None of these 45. Hepevir drug recently released by Cipla is 55. Core sector of Indian economy reported a against growth of what percentage in the last (a) Cancer (b) Dengu month (c) Ebola (d) Hepatitis-C (a) 4.2% (b) 3.6% (e) Malaria (c) 3.2% (d) 2.6% (e) 1.4%

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56. India has stopped crude oil import from 65. 3rd India-Africa Forum Summit will be which country recently held in in (a) Iraq (b) Saudi Arab (a) April 2015 (b) June 2015 (c) Kuwait (d) Iran (c) August 2015 (d) October 2015 (e) Venezuela (e) December 2015 57. RBI has allowed banks to use up to what 66. Janet Yellen is the head of the Central percentage of their provisioning buffer at Bank of the end of December 2014 to meet NPA (a) UK (b) USA (a) 30% (b) 40% (c) Japan (d) China (c) 50% (d) 60% (e) Germany (e) 20% 67. BSE decided to delist which company 58. SEBI has proposed an Alternative Capital recently Raising Platform for (a) Infosys (a) IT company (b) TCS (b) Biotech company (c) Ranbaxy (c) Pharma company (d) Dr. Reddy’s Laboratory (d) Startups (e) Capla (e) All of these 68. Who won the 2015 59. SIDBI has signed a MOU with which (a) Aafreen Rachel Vaz international institution for $ 500 million (b) line of credit (c) (a) IMF (b) World Bank (d) Poonam Sen (c) IDA (d) Asian Bank (e) None of these (e) BRICS Bank 69. Adoor Gopalkrishnan who won the 60. Govt. of which country has signed an Bhupen Hazarika International Solidarity agreement recently with 16 rebel groups Award is a famous (a) Sri Lanka (b) Afghanistan (a) Writer (b) Film Producer (c) Myanmar (d) Pakistan (c) Comedian (d) Painter (e) Nepal (e) None of these 61. ISRO has launched the IRNSS-1 D 70. Australia won the ICC Cricket satellite from Sriharikota which will be Championship for the used for (a) 3rd time (b) 4th time (a) Weather Forecasting (c) 5th time (d) 6th time (b) TV & Radio Service (e) 7th time (c) Telephone (d) Navigation (e) All of these 62. Which ministry of India govt. has approved the setting up of Rs. 500 cr. Price Stabilisation Fund (a) Commerce (b) Agriculture (c) Industry (d) Finance (e) Defence 63. Dr. Aziz Qureshi has been sacked by the Union govt. from the office of Governor of which state (a) Manipur (b) Meghalaya (c) Mizoram (d) Tripura (e) Assam 64. Union Defence minister approved Rs. 5113 cr. fund for which project recently (a) Battle tank (b) Submarine (c) Aircraft carrier (d) AWACS (e) None of these

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ANSWER KEYS

1. (d) 19. (b) 37. (e) 55. (c) 2. (b) 20. (a) 38. (c) 56. (d) 3. (b) 21. (d) 39. (e) 57. (c) 4. (a) 22. (d) 40. (d) 58. (d) 5. (c) 23. (c) 41. (a) 59. (b) 6. (d) 24. (d) 42. (a) 60. (c) 7. (d) 25. (b) 43. (c) 61. (d) 8. (b) 26. (b) 44. (b) 62. (b) 9. (a) 27. (d) 45. (d) 63. (c) 10. (d) 28. (d) 46. (c) 64. (d) 11. (c) 29. (d) 47. (b) 65. (d) 12. (b) 30. (c) 48. (b) 66. (b) 13. (b) 31. (a) 49. (c) 67. (c) 14. (d) 32. (b) 50. (c) 68. (c) 15. (c) 33. (b) 51. (d) 69. (b) 16. (b) 34. (d) 52. (b) 70. (c) 17. (d) 35. (d) 53. (d) 18. (a) 36. (d) 54. (b)

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