1. Who has been appointed as the Director of ISRO Satellite Centre?
a) SK Shivakumar
b) AK Hari Shankar
c) Mylsamy Annadurai|
d) Kumar Gupta
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Answer c) Mylsamy Annadurai. Dr Mylsamy Annadurai is the new Director of ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bengaluru. He led two of the India’s much celebrated space projects. ie The Mars mission and the Chandrayaan-1. An ISRO Press release states that he took charge as Director of ISAC on April 1 from S.K. Shivakumar, who retired on March 31.
2. Who takes over as the President of CII?
a) Rajeev Shukla
b) Vignesh Naidu
c) Sumit Mazumder
d) Narendra Nath Tripati
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Answer c) Sumit Mazumder. Sumit Mazumder has been elected as the President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2015-16. He replaced Mr Ajay Shriram as the new President. Mazumder is also the Chairman and Managing Director of Tractors India Limited.
3.The Nuclear Fuel Complex, the major supplier of Nuclear Fuel to reactors in India is in
a) Rajasthan
b) Bengaluru
c) Hyderabad
d) Chennai
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Answer c) Hyderabad. The Hyderabad-based Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) has produced more than 30 per cent fuel compared to its 961.023 MT production in 2013-14. NFC is the major producer of Nuclear Fuel in India and it supplies the fuel to 18 operating PHWRs and the two Boiling Water Reactors at Tarapur.
4.The SAARC Health Ministers Meeting was held in
a) New Delhi
b) Mumbai
c) Kolkata
d) Chennai
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Answer a) New Delhi. The fifth SAARC Health Ministers Meeting was held in New Delhi. The two-day summit was attended by the health ministers from all member countries of SAARC. Topics related to health issues such as prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases,health infrastructure, immunisation for vaccine preventable diseases, HIV/AIDS, mental health..etc.
5.TRAI recommends ____ as India’s single emergency number.
a) 108
b) 110
c) 100
d) 112
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Answer d) 112. The telecom regulatory of India (TRAI) has proposed a single emergency number ‘112’ for all kind of emergency phone calls across India, including for police, fire and ambulance, similar to the all-in-one emergency number ‘911’in the United States of America.
6.GOI has allowed the pharma companies to hike the rates of 509 essential medicines by _____%.
a) 2.83
b) 3.84
c) 4.85
d) 5.86
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Answer b) 3.84%. Union government has allowed the pharmaceutical companies to hike the rates of 509 essential medicines by 3.84%. These medicines used for treating various ailments like hepatitis B and C, fungal infections, diabetes, and cancer.
7.India has signed an Memorandum of Cooperation with _____ on Transportation.
a) Germany
b) United Kingdom
c) United States
d) Italy
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Answer c) United States. India and United States (US) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) on transportation between both countries. The MoC was signed by Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari and US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx in New Delhi.
8.Writer Jayakanthan, who passed away recently, belongs to which Indian state?
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Karnataka
c) Tamilnadu
d) Kerala
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Answer c) Tamilnadu. Eminent Tamil Writer Jayakanthan was passed away in Chennai on 8th April 2015 after a prolonged illness. Jayakanthan was the recipient of the prestigious Jnanpith and Sahitya Akademi awards. Jayakanthan was born in Manjakuppam in Cuddalore on 24 April, 1934.
9. What is India’s rank in Social Progress Index?
a) 100
b) 101
c) 102
d) 103
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Answer b) 101. Social progress Index was released by Non-Profit Social Profit imperative (SPI). India Ranks at 101 in the list showing the lowest social progress while the U.S. stand at 16 despite of having the highest GDP among 133 Countries.
10. Which country tops the Social Progress Index?
a) Norway
b) Sweden
c) Switzerland
d) Iceland
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Answer a) Norway. The top 5 countries in Social Progress Index are Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Iceland and New Zealand. The index is based on the writings of Amartya Sen, Douglass North, and Joseph Stiglitz.
