1. Name the three districts to be added to National Capital Region?
a) Fariadabad, Hisar, and Karnal
b) Jind, Karnal and Muzaffarnagar
c) Karnal, Sonipat, and Jind
d) Rohtak, Ambala, and Bhiwani
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Answer b) Jind, Karnal and Muzaffarnagar. National Capital Region (NCR) Has increased its arena as the nod has been given for the inclusion of Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh and the Jind and Karnal districts of Haryana as part of the NCR.
2. Who invested in the T&T franchise in Caribbean Premier League?
a) Aamir Khan
b) Salman Khan
c) Saif Ali Khan
d) Sharukh Khan
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Answer d) Sharukh Khan. Sharukh Khan’s company Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt Ltd -along with KKR co-owners Juhi Chawla and her husband Jay Mehta -has invested in the T&T franchise in Caribbean Premier League. The next edition of the tournament is scheduled from June 20 to July 26.
3. Richard Johnson, who passed away recently, was a/an
a) Economist
b) Historian
c) British Actor
d) Journalist
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Answer c) British Actor. British actor Richard Johnson has died on 7th June 2015. He was 87. Johnson passed away at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea, west London after a short illness. Johnson was a founding member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and played several lead roles, including Romeo and Mark Anthony in “Julius Caesar”.
4. Who was recently conferred with Dr Dierk Lindemann Welfare Personality of the Year Award?
a) Chirag Bahri
b) Abhinav Bindra
c) Vikram Singh
d) Sathya Dev
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Answer a) Chirag Bahri. Indian maritime expert Chirag Bahri has won a prestigious international award for his efforts to rescue and support victims of piracy on the high seas. he received the Dr Dierk Lindemann Welfare Personality of the Year Award at a ceremony organized at the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
5. Name the law Minister of Delhi, who has been arrested in an alleged fake degree case?
a) Krishna Kumar
b) Dhananjay Singh
c) Pranav Gupta
d) Jitendra Singh Tomar
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Answer d) Jitendra Singh Tomar. Delhi Law Minister Jitendra Singh Tomar has been arrested in an alleged fake degree case. He was remanded in four-day police custody by a city court.
6. Union Cabinet has approved an interest-free loan of how much Rupees to enable sugar mills pay arrears to farmers?
a) 1000 Crores
b) 3000 Crores
c) 6000 Crores
d) 9000 Crores
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Answer c) 6000 Crores. In a Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a decision to provide soft loan of 6,000 crore rupees was approved. Cabinet also approved hike in prices of Ethanol.
7. Who has been appointed as the Non-Executive Chairman of ICICI Bank?
a) KN Sheshayee
b) KV Tripathi
c) KL Mishra
d) Mahendra Kumar Sharma
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Answer d) Mahendra Kumar Sharma. Mahendra Kumar Sharma has been appointed as non-executive chairman of India’s largest private sector lender Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) Bank. He will replace KV Kamath who has been joined as the President of the Shanghai based New Development Bank established by the BRICS nations.
8. Who has been appointed as the Non-Executive Director India Cements Limited (CIL)?
a) Kiran Kumar Chaudhary
b) RK Karunakaran
c) PL Subramanian
d) J Thomas Roe
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Answer c) PL Subramanian. PL Subramanian has been appointed as Non-Executive Director of India Cements Limited (CIL). He joined India Cements in 1986 and had served in various responsibilities. He had retired from service in May 2015 after serving as Executive Director (Operations) of the company.
9. Padmasree Warrior has stepped down from her post of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at global IT giant _______?
a) Oralce
b) IBM
c) Symantec
d) Cisco
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Answer d) Cisco. Padmasree Warrior resigned after a significant restructuring of top management of Cisco under incoming CEO Chuck Robbins. Now she will have advisory post in Cisco till September 2015.
10. Union Government has given its approval for promulgation of Ordinance to amend Negotiable Instruments Act, _______.
a) 1981
b) 1841
c) 1881
d) 1941
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Answer c) 1881. The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, defines bills of exchange, promissory notes, cheques and creates penalties for issues such as bouncing of cheques. It also specifies circumstances under which complaints for cheque bouncing can be filed.
