1. Surakshit Khadya Abhiyan is a campaign to create awareness about
a) Organic Fertilizers
b) Effects of Smoking
c) Importance of Girl Education
d) Benefits of Safe and Hygienic Food
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Answer d) Benefits of Safe and Hygienic Food. Government of India has launched the Surakshit Khadya Abhiyan, a nation wide campaign, to create mass awareness and capacity building for safe and hygienic food. The campaign was launched by Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan.
2. ISRO is planning a mission to
a) Mercury
b) Venus
c) Saturn
d) Jupiter
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Answer b) Venus. After the hugely successful Mars Orbiter Mission, which completed 300 days in the Martian orbit on July 21st, ISRO is now planning a mission to Venus and even an asteroid for exploration.
3. Who won the 2015 American Book Award?
a) Cersei Lannister
b) Arya Stark
c) Naomi Klein
d) Danaerys Targereyan
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Answer c) Naomi Klein. Naomi Klein has been named as the winner of an American Book Award by the California-based Before Columbus Foundation. She has been named for environmental work This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.
4. PayPal Holdings, Inc., the digital payments company, has separated from which of the following e-Commerce company?
a) Amazon
b) eBay
c) Flipkart
d) Sanp Deal
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Answer b) eBay. PayPal Holdings, Inc., the digital payments company, has separated from eBay, the e-commerce company that acquired PayPal in 2002 for $1.5 billion. It is now an independent public company trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ‘PYPL’.
5. What is NPS?
a) National Phone Service
b) National Prepaid System
c) National Payment Service
d) National Pension System
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Answer d) National Pension System. Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority’s (PFRDA) Chairman Hemant Contractor has announced that Non-resident Indians (NRIs) can invest in National Pension System (NPS) to get a social security cover.
6. What is NPR?
a) National Payment Receipt
b) Net Product Repository
c) National Population Register
d) National Phone Register
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Answer c) National Population Register. Government has decided to update the National Population Register (NPR) and seed the Aadhaar number in the NPR database. The MoS for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary told Rajya Sabha that the initiative would cost Rs 951.35 crore and the field work would be completed by March 2016.
7. FCRA is associated with
a) Food Corporation
b) Finance Commission
c) Foreign Contribution
d) Forest Conservation
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Answer c) Foreign Contribution. FCRA stands for Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. It is an Act to consolidate the law to regulate the acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution or foreign hospitality by certain individuals or associations or companies.
8. Defence Minister will inaugurate the Mai Bhago Armed Forces Preparatory Institute at
a) Jaipur
b) Ahmadabad
c) Varanasi
d) Mohali
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Answer d) Mohali. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar will inaugurate the Mai Bhago Armed Forces Preparatory Institute at Mohali on July 25. The institute, set up on the line of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Armed Forces Preparatory Institute, will impart specialized training to females aspiring to join the National Defence Academy (NDA).
9. Yakum Memon is associated with Bombai Blast
a) 1993
b) 2006
c) 2008
d) 2013
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Answer a) 1993. Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon’s Curative Petition was rejected by the Supreme Court’s bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu. Memon had applied for curative petition after his review petition was rejected earlier by the SC upholding the death sentence to him. Memon, who is currently lodged in the Nagpur central jail, will be executed by hanging on 30 July 2015.
10. The Louis berger bribery case is associated with which of the following state?
a) Kerala
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Goa
d) West bengal
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Answer c) Goa. Goa Crime Branch has filed an FIRagainst an unidentified former minister of the state and officials of US-based company Louis Berger, which is at the centre of a bribery scandal. Louis Berger has been charged with bribing Indian officials with several crores to secure two major water developmental projects – one each in Goa and Guwahati.
