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Mock General Knowledge BMS SpecialMock (Current General Affairs, GeneralKnowledge Awareness &Set Business Awareness – 1) 1. The Union Government entered into an (a) Science and Technology for the Indegenous agreement with the World Bank to finance Development of India which scheme, aimed to improve Education and (b) Harnessing Modern-Day Technology in Skills Training among Minorities? Indian Agriculture (a) Nav Manzil (c) Tapping 21st century Technology in the (b) AMRUT Scheme Search for Sustainable Development (c) Nai Manzil (d) Nurturing Nature for the Future through (d) HRIDAY Scheme Science and Technology Answer: Nai Manzil Answer: Science and Technology for the Under this agreement, the credit will be Indegenous Development of India facilitated by the International Development Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) is a Association (IDA), World Bank’s concessionary premier scientific organisation of India with lending arm. The loan funds will be used for headquarters at Kolkata, West Bengal. The interventions under this scheme improve the association started in the year 1914 employability and performance of minority in Kolkata and it meets annually in the first week youth in the labour market. of January. It has a membership of more than Nai Manzil Scheme- The central scheme is 30,000 scientists. designed to address educational and livelihood 4. When is World Braille Day observed? needs of minority communities lagging behind in (a) January 8 terms of educational attainments. (b) January 12 It aims to provide educational intervention by (c) January 4 giving the bridge courses to the trainees and (d) January 9 getting them Certificates for Class XII and X Answer: January 4 from distance medium educational system. World Braille Day is annually celebrated on 2. The Union Government announced the Direct January 4, the birthday of Braille inventor, Louis Benefit Scheme (DBT) for which of the Braille. The day recognizes the contributions of following from April 1, 2016? Louis Braille in helping blind and visually (a) LPG impaired people to read and write. (b) Kerosene Braille is a code that uses bumps and indentation (c) Petrol on a surface to represent letters, which can be (d) Diesel recognized by touch. Louis Braille, a French man Answer: Kerosene who was blinded in an accident at a very young The Union Government has rolled out LPG-like age, invented it. Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme for 5. India won against whom in the South Asian kerosene from 1st April 2016. Under the Football Federation final in Thiruvananthapuram? scheme, People will buy kerosene at market (a) Afghanistan rate (un-subsidised price) but will get subsidy (b) Pakistan directly in their bank accounts. The cash subsidy (c) Sri Lanka paid to users under it will be equivalent to the (d) Bhutan difference between current Public Distribution Answer: Afghanistan System (PDS) price and market rate of The 2015 SAFF Championship (officially known kerosene. as the SAFF Suzuki Cup 2015 for sponsorship 3. What was the theme of the 103rd edition of the reasons) was the 11th edition of the SAFF Indian Science Congress, inaugurated by PM Championship, the biennial international Narendra Modi in Mysuru, Karnataka? men's football championship of South Page 1 of 29 BMS SpecialMock (Current General Affairs, GeneralKnowledge Awareness &Set Business Awareness – 1) Asia organized by SAFF. It is being held 8. A friendship bus service is to restart after 27 in India from 23 December 2015 to 3 January years between India and which country? 2016. (a) Pakistan India beat defending champions Afghanistan 2-1 (b) Nepal in the finals of South Asian Football Federation (c) Myanmar Cup for the seventh time, in (d) Bhutan Thiruvananthapuram. Answer: Nepal 6. Mountaineer Arunima Sinha created the World A friendship bus service between India and Record of being the First Female Amputee Nepal via Champawat in Uttarakhand resumed Mountaineer to climb 5 mountains as a part of in January 2016 after a gap of 27 years, much to which programme? the delight of people on either side of the (a) 5 Summits Mission border who have family and trade ties with each (b) Mission 7 Summits other. These air-conditioned buses with free (c) Mission 5 Summits Wi-Fi facility, painted with Indian and Nepalese (d) 7 Summits Mission flags, will enter the Nepalese district of Answer: Mission 7 Summits Kanchanpur at 6 a.m. everyday and start for As part of her Mission 7 Summits, India's star Delhi, and return from there at 6 p.m., in-charge amputee mountaineer, Arunima Sinha created a of Sharda barrage international police station. world record by becoming the first female 9. Which is the 1st state to sign a MoU with the amputee to climb 5 mountains of the world. Union Government on Ujwal Discom Assurance Arunima started climbing the mountain on Yojana (UDAY) scheme in order to fulfill the December 12, 2015 and accomplished her electricity requirements of the state? mission on December 25. Born in 1988 in Uttar (a) Chhattisgarh Pradesh, Arunima Sinha became the first female (b) Madhya Pradesh amputee to climb Mount Everest in 2013. She is (c) Odisha also the first Indian amputee to climb Mount (d) Jharkhand Everest. Answer: Jharkhand 7. Who was appointed the 8th Chief Information Jharkhand has become the first state to sign a Commissioner (CIC) by the President of India? memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Ujwal (a) Vijai Sharma Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY) scheme with (b) M S Ranjan the central government. Under the UDAY (c) R K Mathur scheme, the Union government is trying to (d) Vikramjit Thakur reduce the load of debt from the State Answer: R K Mathur Electricity Boards (SEBs), which is tantamount to Former Defence Secretary Radha Krishna almost 4.3 trillion rupees. The UDAY scheme Mathur (62) has sworn in as the eight Chief was launched on November 20, last year, to Information Commissioner (CIC) of the Central help financially weak distribution companies to Information Commission. He was administered supply adequate power to households at the oath of office by the President Pranab affordable rates. Mukherjee at a ceremony held in Rashtrapati 10. The Union Government is to reserve what % of Bhavan in New Delhi. Mr. Mathur as the CIC the Constable posts for women in the Central will have tenure of about three years i.e. till Armed Police Forces (CAPFs)? 2019 till he attains the age of 65 years. He (a) 50% succeeds Vijai Sharma as he has retired after (b) 66% completion of his tenure. (c) 25% Page 2 of 29 BMS SpecialMock (Current General Affairs, GeneralKnowledge Awareness &Set Business Awareness – 1) (d) 33% (c) Antonio Guterres, Portugal Answer: 33% (d) Irina Bokova, Bulgaria The Union Government has reserved 33 per Answer: Antonio Guterres, Portugal cent posts of Constables for women in Central The UN has announced the appointment of Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) to enhance their Filippo Grandi as the new UN refugee chief, representation. The proposal in this regard was tasked with handling the world’s worst approved by Union Home Minister Rajnath ever refugee crisis. The 58-year-old diplomat Singh and shall come into effect with immediate would replace Antonio Guterres, of Portugal, effect. who was high commissioner for refugees since This horizontal reservation for women comes in 2005, said Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general. lines with the recommendation of Committee 13. Who became the only British writer to win the on Empowerment of Women. The committee Costa Award thrice, this time for “A God in had recommended urgent need to provide Ruins”? proper representation to women in paramilitary (a) Mary Westmacott forces. (b) Beatrix Potter 11. The Union Government has ex-post facto (c) Kate Atkinson approved the MoU with which country for the (d) Donna Tartt operation of Border Haats (rural markets)? Answer: Kate Atkinson (a) Bangladesh British writer Kate Atkinson on 4 January 2016 (b) Nepal won the novel-of-the-year prize at Britain's (c) Pakistan Costa Book Awards 2015 for the second time in (d) Myanmar three years. She fetched the award for A God in Answer: Bangladesh Ruins, a story of war and its aftermath. With this, The Union cabinet has given its ex-post-facto Atkinson became the first author to receive the approval to Memorandum of Understanding Costa novel prize three times: for A God in (MoU) with Bangladesh for Mode of Operation Ruins in 2016, Life After Life in 2013 and Behind of Border haats on India-Bangladesh Border the Scenes at the Museum in 1995. signed in 2010. The MoU also seeks to establish 14. Which Indian ace shooter has set a new world new Border Haats along the border after record in the women’s 10 metre air rifle event identification of suitable locations in consultation at the 2015 Swedish Cup Grand Prix? with Bangladesh Government and concerned (a) Anjali Bhagwat State Governments. (b) Heena Sidhu The Border Haats in Indian Language means (c) Apurvi Chandela Rural Market. It aims at promoting the well- (d) Tejaswini Sawant being of the people dwelling in remote areas Answer: Apurvi Chandela across the borders of two countries. It seeks to Indian ace shooter Apurvi Chandela has set a establish traditional system of marketing the new world record in the women’s 10 metre air local produce thorough local markets in local rifle event at the 2015 Swedish Cup Grand Prix. currency or according to barter basis. She set the new record after winning gold medal 12. Filippo Grandi of Italy has taken charge as the in the women’s 10 metre air rifle event shooting new chief of the UN High Commissioner for score of 211.2. Her winning score has surpassed Refugees (UNHCR). He has replaced whom and previous world record of 211 score set by which country is (s)he from? Chinese Olympic gold medallist Yi Siling.
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