1. Who is the President of Kazakhstan?
a) Karim Massimov
b) Nursultan Nazarbayev
c) Salim Nurbeztev
d) Saadin Chikomiv
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Answer b) Nursultan Nazarbayev. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana on the second day of his Central Asian Countries Tour. Kazakhstan invited India for investments in green economy development, mining and agriculture development.
2. India is in talks with which country to lease World-class Nuclear Attack Submarine?
a) France
b) Germany
c) Russia
d) United States
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Answer c) Russia. India is in final talks with Russia to lease a newly built, customised submarine, unlike in the past when older vessels were refurbished and handed over. The talks on leasing a new submarine under the ‘Chakra 3′ project are in advanced stages.
3. What is the name of the App launched by National Dairy Development Board?
a) Cow App
b) i-Gaay
c) i-Dhoodh
d) Pashu Poshan
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Answer d) Pashu Poshan. The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has launched a mobile application called ‘Pashu Poshan’. The mobile app will recommend a balanced diet for cows and buffaloes to help boost dairy farmers’ income by raising milk yield and cutting feed cost.
4. Which bank has recently created a dedicated payments gateway for the mobile banking transaction?
a) Axis
b) HDFC
c) ICICI
d) SBI
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Answer c) ICICI Bank. India’s largest private sector bank, ICICI, has created a dedicated payments gateway for the mobile banking transaction. This system will enable much faster transactions for its customers.
5. Name the launch vehicle which is going to launch 5 satellites of UK from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on July 30’ 2015?
a) PSLV C25
b) PSLV C26
c) PSLV C27
d) PSLV C28
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Answer d) PSLV C28. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C28 (PSLV C28) will launch the five satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. This will be the space agency’s biggest commercial mission in 2015.
6. Who has been appointed as the MD and CEO of National Housing Bank?
a) Balakrishanan
b) Muthu Raman
c) Sriram Kalyanaraman
d) Muthu Sethupathy
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Answer c) Sriram Kalyanaraman. Government of India has appointed Sriram Kalyanaraman as the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of National Housing Bank (NHB), India’s Housing finance regulator. Sriram is the first appointee to the newly created post of Managing Director and CEO in NHB.
7. What is India’s contribution in the BRICS Nations’ $100 billion forex pool?
a) $15 billion
b) $18 billion
c) $20 billion
d) $22 billion
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Answer b) $18 billion. The BRICS Nations have signed an agreement to create a USD 100 billion forex pool to help each other “in case of any problems with dollar liquidity”
8. Who becomes the first British Asian Asian Appointee to join the England and Wales Cricket Board?
a) Lord Swaraj Paul
b) Lord Rakesh Verma
c) Lord Kamlesh Patel
d) Lord Dhruva Mishra
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Answer c) Lord Kamlesh Patel. Professor Lord Kamlesh Patel of Bradford, a leading voice on health, social care and community cohesion in the UK, has become the first British Asian to join the England and Wales Cricket Board.
9. Fergusson College has been accorded the special heritage status by the University Grants Commission. Where is it?
a) Nagpur
b) Pune
c) Mumbai
d) Kolkata
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Answer b) Pune. Pune’s Fergusson College, founded in 1885, has been accorded the special heritage status by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The college, with buildings of Gothic architecture on its leafy, 65-acre campus, has long been regarded as a landmark educational institution in Maharashtra
10. Which state government has inked a pact with International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics to promote IT-based information for farmers?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Kerala
c) Telangana
d) Madhya Pradesh
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Answer c) Telangana. The MoU seeks to provide Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-based knowledge sharing platforms and other agricultural innovation initiatives to farmers in order to improve their productivity.
11. Who has been appointed as the Home Secretary of Delhi?
a) Murali Krishnan
b) Pragna Reddy
c) Sanjeev Nandan
d) Abhishek Gautham
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Answer c) Sanjeev Nandan. Senior IAS officer Sanjeev Nandan Sahai was today appointed as the new Home Secretary of Delhi, ending a bitter tussle between Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung and the AAP government.
12. Which country has launched a campaign for safe selfies?
a) Germany
b) Russia
c) Italy
d) France
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Answer b) Russia. Russia has launched a campaign urging people to take safe selfies, which uses mock road signs to warn against dangerous poses, after a number of people were killed or injured while clicking photos of themselves.
13. India has signed an MoU with which country for funding of Hydro Generation Projects?
a) Italy
b) Sweden
c) Norway
d) Russia
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Answer d) Russia. In a significant step in economic cooperation, Russia’s Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) today signed an MoU with India’s Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) for funding of hydro-generation projects.
14. Who has been appointed as MD and CFO of Bharti Enterprises?
a) Rahul Bhatnagar
b) Sonam Sinha
c) Ankita Singh
d) Suhane Shome
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Answer a) Rahul Bhatnagar.
15. Gennady Padalka has entered Guinness World Records for spending 804 days on International Space Station. He is from
a) France
b) Denmark
c) Austria
d) Russia
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Answer d) Russia
16. The Film Society of _________ has been conferred with the Pritiman Sarkar Award 2014-15 for the fourth time for being the best film society in Northern Region.
a) Bhuvaneshwar
b) Jodhpur
c) Maratha
d) Surat
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Answer b) Jodhpur.
17. Who is the author of the book Central Asia Relations: The Economic Dimension?
a) Amartya Sen
b) Amiya Chandra
c) Alok Kejriwal
d) Lal Jose
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Answer b) Amiya Chandra. The book focuses on the economic dimensions of the ties. The author through the book wants to say that India can compete with China if it focuses on quality instead of quantity and improves credit line.
18. Who has been appointed as the new Finance Minister of Greece?
a) Euclid Tsakalotos
b) Alexis Tsipras
c) Prokopis Pavlopoulas
d) Tywin Lannister
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Answer a) Euclid Tsakalotos
19. Who has been appointed as the MD and CEo of PTC India Financial Services?
a) Kumar Gupta
b) Dhananjay Singh
c) Ashok Haldia
d) Mohammad Yunus
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Answer c) Ashok Haldia
20. Which IT Giant has signed a multi-year agreement with Deutsche Bank?
a) TCS
b) CTS
c) Infosys
d) HCL
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Answer c) Infosys. Under the terms of the deal, Infosys will provide services like development, application maintenance, digital and mobility, package implementation and testing services across the Deutsche Bank Group.
