Current Affairs Questions & Answers - Nov 08, 2015

ANSWER: Heena Sindhu

Explanation:
Indian shooter Heena Sindhu on 6th November 2015 won the gold medal at the 10m air pistol women’s event at the 13th Asian Shooting Championship. Championship commenced on November 1 and will be held for up to 2 weeks in Kuwait City. She had previously won the gold medal at the 10m air pistol event in the 8th Asian Air Gun Championship held in September 2015 at New Delhi. Other Indian medal winners included Nivetha (10m air pistol junior women’s event), Shivam Shukla (25m pistol men’s junior event). Angad Bajwa secured gold in the junior skeet men’s competition.

ANSWER: 150 wickets

Explanation:
Off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on 6th November 2015 became the first Indian to reach the 150 wicket mark in the Indian test cricket history. This feat was attained when Imran Tahir’s wicket was taken by him in the first innings of the first test against South Africa in Mohali, Punjab. Ashwin also became the first bowler to reach 50 wickets after opening the bowling in a century. This feat was attained in 12 matches off 1888 balls. Previous record was held by Colin Blythe who captured 74 wickets between 1902 and 1910 in 13 tests. This is part of the 4 match test series for winning the Freedom Trophy.

ANSWER: 130.2 million

Explanation:
Census data indicates 130.2 million workers literate but below matric secondary level

Newly released census data on literacy status and educational levels of numerous types of workers and non workers in the country has revealed the following:

- Nearly 130.2 million of the total 362.6 million main workers are literate but below matric secondary level.
- Census data further shows 104.3 workers are illiterate which constitutes 28.8% of the main workers
- Around 71.5 million or 19.7% are matriculate secondary below graduate level.

Newly released census data also found that of 55.5 million marginal workers available for work in the nation, around 21.9 million or 39.4% are illiterates followed closely by 20.9 million or 37.6% literates bellow matric secondary and 8 million or 14.5% matrics secondary below graduate level. Among 60.7 million non workers seeking availability of jobs in India, a majority constitutes literates below matric secondary level followed by matric-secondary below graduate and illiterate. Between 2001-2011, there was a 59.2 million increase in literate workers of which a majority (20.5 million rise) was reported under the category matric secondary below graduate followed by 16.2 million below matric-secondary and 11 million as graduate and above other than technical degree. The overall data shows that 4.5% of the nation’s population is educated to the point of graduation or above while only 32.6% of the population has not received education till primary school level.

ANSWER: 0.5%

Explanation:
Activities that attract service tax will become more expensive from November 15 as a 0.5% Swachh Bharat cess has been imposed by the centre. Levy has been announced in the Budget for meeting goals of the sanitation and cleanliness drive announced for the nation. In the last budget, service tax rate was increased from 12% to 14%.