Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Oct 22, 2014
Q1. Who has been chosen as the new Chief Minister of Haryana during a meeting by BJP legislative party leaders in Chandigarh on 21stOct’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Manohar Lal Khattar. He won the Karnal seat in his debut assembly election by 63,000 votes. He joined the RSS in 1980, and has spent nearly 35 years as an active pracharak.
Q2. Name the chief coach of Indian Hockey team who has resigned from his post on 21stOct’14 because of a pay dispute with Sports Authority of India?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Terry Walsh. The 60-year-old Australian, himself a noted Olympian, submitted his resignation in dramatic fashion, saying that he was finding it difficult to adjust to the decision making style of the sporting bureaucracy in the country.
Q3. With which country, India have signed the Power Trade Agreement (PTA), allowing exchange of electricity and opening up new vistas of cooperation in the hydro-power sector on 21stOct’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Nepal. The two sides had agreed to sign the agreement during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Nepal in August.
Q4. Who has proposed to make paid news an electoral offence to provide a legal playing field for political parties?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Election Commission of India. Chief Election Commissioner, V S Sampath said that the Commission has proposed to the Law Ministry that paid news should be made an electoral offence.
Q5. By what percent Union Government has increased the fellowship amount of research scholars?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Up to 50%. The scholarship of Junior Research fellowship has increased to twenty five thousand rupees from 16 thousand rupees while Senior Research fellowship will get thirty thousand rupees from 18 thousand which will be effective from 1st of this month.
Q6. By which year China has to open new route for Kailash Manasorvar?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 2015. China has assured India that all preparatory steps are being taken to open the new route for pilgrims of Kailash and Mansarovar in Tibet through Sikkim.
Q7. For how many years India has been re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 2 years; from 2015 to 2017. The elections were held in the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday, and India was competing in the Asia-Pacific group in which four seats were up for election. India received the highest, 162 votes. The other countries competing in the group were Indonesia, Bangladesh, Qatar, Thailand, Kuwait, Cambodia, Philippines and Bahrain. Out of them, India, Bangladesh, Qatar and Indonesia made it to the UNHRC.
Q8. Name the football player received the European Golden Boot Award for being the top scorer in 2013 season?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Luis Suarez, Barcelona Football Club Player.
Q9. Against which country’s cricket board BCCI decided to initiate legal proceedings for abrupt cancellation of their tour to India?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). It also decided to suspend all bilateral tours between BCCI and West Indies Cricket Board.
Q10. Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders Prevention day has been observed on ______.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 21st October. The day was observed to create awareness of the need to prevent iodine deficiency.
