1. Indian Basketball Players Association has been launched in
a) Mumbai
b) Kolkata
c) Bengaluru
d) New Delhi
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Answer d) New Delhi. Indian Basketball Players Association (IBPA) have set its feet with the official launch at Indian Medical Association, New Delhi. The launching ceremony was attended by Arjuna awardees, Dhyan Chand awardees, Asian all-star player, former Indian captains and a number of international and national players.
2. Who has been conferred with 2015 Sant Namdev National Award?
a) Kalyan Singh
b) Prakash Singh Badal
c) Jaswant Singh
d) Mulayam Singh Yadav
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Answer b) Prakash Singh Badal. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has been conferred with the prestigious 14th Sant Namdev National Award in Pune, Maharashtra. He was awarded for promoting peace, communal harmony and universal brotherhood. The award was given by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on behalf of the Sarhad Foundation.
3. Which ban launches a digital payment and purchase solution called PayZapp?
a) ICICI Bank
b) HDFC Bank
c) SBI
d) Axis Bank
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Answer b) HDFC Bank. HDFC Bank launched Pay Zapp on 10th June 2015. PayZaap is a complete digital payment and purchase solution, a one-stop online portal offering customers ‘great deals at one place’. It is a two factor authentication. Customers don’t have to enter their information again and again. It is one click app.
4. Hemant Kanitkar, who passed away recently, was associated with which sports?
a) Badminton
b) Chess
c) Weight Lifting
d) Cricket
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Answer d) Cricket. Former Maharashtra stumper Hemant Kanitkar, passed away on 10th June 2015. He had a 15-year first class career but played in only two Tests as a batsman in the home series against Clive Lloyd’s West Indies in 1974-75. He passed away in Pune at his residence.
5. What is the name of the recently launched 16th Fast Patrol Vessel of Indian Coast Guard?
a) ICGS DURGA
b) ICGS ANMOL
c) ICGS AGNI
d) ICGS ARNVESH
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Answer d) ICGS ARNVESH. Cochin Shipyard has launched the sixteenth of the 20 Fast Patrol Vessels (BY 516) of the Indian Coast Guard. The name of the vessel is ‘ICGS ARNVESH’ and was launched by K Belina, wife of R-Admiral K Ravikiran.
6. Who is Vincent Musetto (He passed away recently)?
a) Cinematographer
b) Cricketer
c) Economist
d) Editor
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Answer d) Editor. Vincent Musetto, a retired editor at The New York Post who wrote the most anatomically evocative headline in the history of American journalism — HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR — died on Tuesday in the Bronx. He was 74.
7. Name India’s first indigenous Aircraft Carrier that has been undocked from Cochin Shipyard recently?
a) INS Vikramaditya
b) INS Vikrant
c) INS Arjuna
d) INS Bheema
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Answer b) INS Vikrant. India has reached a historical milestone in defence shipbuilding by undocking the first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant at the Cochin Shipyard. The carrier is slated for induction in end-2018. will undergo a series of fitment and trial processes before it is ready for propulsion and inducted into the Navy.
8. According to the World Bank, the top five countries with the highest investment commitments in 2014 are India, Brazil
a) Turkey, Indonesia, and South Africa
b) Turkey, Peru, Chile
c) Peru, Argentina, Colombia
d) Turkey, Colombia, Peru
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Answer d) Turkey, Colombia, Peru. Clive Harris of World Bank said that the top five countries with the highest investment commitments in 2014 are Brazil, Turkey, Peru, Colombia and India. The report says these five countries together attracted 78 billion dollar. It represents 73 percent of the investment commitments in developing world in 2014.
9. Anshu Jain has resigned as the Co-CEO of
a) Axis bank
b) ICICI Bank
c) HSBC Bank
d) Duetsche Bank
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Answer d) Duetsche Bank. India-born Anshu Jain had resigned as the Co-CEO of Germany’s biggest bank – Deutsche Bank. He will be replaced by former UBS banker John Cryan, who will serve as the Co-CEO and will become the “sole CEO” after May 19. Cryan, 54, has been on the bank’s supervisory board since 2013.
10. Anuj Mathur has been appointed as the CEO of
a) Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance
b) IOB ICICI NIACL Insurance
c) BOB Axis General insurance
d) Kotak Mahindra ING Vysya Insurance
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Answer a) Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance. Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company has appointed Anuj Mathur as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Anuj Mathur will take charge on July 1, 2015 and he will succeed the current CEO, John Holden. The company is a joint venture between Canara Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce and HSBC Insurance (Asia Pacific) Holdings.
11. The BBIN Agreement between Bangladesh, Burma, India, and Nepal is associated with
a) Preventing Cross Border Terrorism
b) Preventing Human Trafficking across borders
c) Regulation of Vehicle Traffic
d) Sharing of Electricity
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Answer c) Regulation of Vehicle Traffic. The Union Cabinet of India has approved the signing of the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) Motor Vehicle Agreement. The main objective of the The BBIN Motor Vehicle Agreement is to regulate passenger, personal and cargo vehicular traffic amongst BBIN. The agreement will be signed on June 15 at the BBIN Transport Ministers meeting in Thimpu, Bhutan.
12. Who has been appointed as the Director of the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT)?
a) Sri Hari Krishna Kumar
b) Srivari Chandra Sekar
c) Sri Moorthy Reddy
d) Ramanujam
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Answer b) Srivari Chandra Sekar. Senior scientist Srivari Chandrasekhar has been appointed as the Director of the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT). He was named to the top post by PM Narendra Modi, who is the default President of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The CSIR functions under Union Ministry of Science and Technology.
13. Indian army conducted a cross border operation against militant groups along the border of
a) Bhutan
b) Nepal
c) Myanmar
d) Bangladesh
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Answer c) Myanmar. Indian army conducted a cross border operation against militant groups along the Myanmar border in the country’s northeast. The special forces of the Indian Army entered Myanmar and performed “surgical strikes”. The troops are believed to have neutralized a high number of militants.
14. Indian Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been ranked at _____ position in Forbes’ List of 100 highest paid athletes in the world.
a) 20th
b) 21st
c) 23rd
d) 27th
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Answer c) 23rd. MSD has been ranked at 23rd position in Forbes’ List of 100 highest paid athletes in the world. He is the only Indian sportsman on the list. The top position is maintained by American boxer Floyd Mayweather with earnings of $300 million.
15. How many African countries signed The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA)?
a) 23
b) 26
c) 29
d) 32
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Answer b) 26. African countries have signed The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) that give enhancements for creation of Africa’s largest free-trade zone. The pact was signed in Egypt. It is basically done to ease the movement of goods among 26 member countries which represent more than half the continent’s GDP.
