General Awareness (April - 15) - Set 5

ANSWER: 113

Explanation:
India is ranked at 113th with a penetration of 3.2 per 100 inhabitants. India ranks 125th in the world for fixed broadband penetration. In fact Bhutan and Sri Lanka are ahead of us.

ANSWER: First

Explanation:
Pakistan and Russia on 16 April 2015 agreed to hold first-ever joint military exercises as a part of their enhanced defence cooperation.

ANSWER: Satya Nadella

Explanation:
He is one of the 12 local Champions of Change who were honoured for their exemplary leadership.

ANSWER: Vishal Sikka

Explanation:
Vishal Sikka is a Chief Executive Officer of Infosys. ECNU is a prestigious Chinese university.

ANSWER: Imphal

Explanation:
Mr. Shah also released a book entitled Birth of Bharatiya Janata Party written by party’s state unit president Th. Chaoba Singh.

ANSWER: Sitaram Yechury

Explanation:
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) elected senior politburo member Sitaram Yechury as the new General Secretary replacing Prakash Karat who has completed his three terms as the Party General Secretary.

ANSWER: Iran

Explanation:
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Ban Ki Moon in a letter that Tehran stands ready to help the United Nations restore peace to Yemen, where the rebels have taken over the capital and driven President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi into exile.

ANSWER: 18th April

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Seventh

Explanation:
In the classification match for the seventh/eighth positions at Hastings in New Zealand, the Indian team beat Japan 3-2. India had also beaten Japan to win the bronze at the 2014 Asian Games.

ANSWER: Three

Explanation:
Three Indian race walkers, Khushbir Kaur, Manish Rawat and Sandeep Kumar have qualified for 2016 Rio Olympics.

ANSWER: Ashish Jakkar

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Novak Djokovic

Explanation:
Novak Djokovic beat Tomas Berdych to win his second Monte Carlo title.

ANSWER: International

Explanation:
The airports in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Kolkata have been identified for development as major international hubs for travel to and from India.

ANSWER: 3.2%

Explanation:
Nearly 23 lakh foreign tourists visited India between January and March this year.

ANSWER: New Delhi

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Shanghai

Explanation:
AP State Energy Secretary, Ajay Jain, who accompanied the Chief Minister on his six-day tour to China, said several national and international companies are keen to invest in the State.

ANSWER: Poland

Explanation:
The foreign ministry said Mr Comey had suggested in a Washington Post article that some Poles were accomplices. After the summons US envoy Stephen Mull said he made it clear the US believed Nazi Germany alone was responsible.

ANSWER: Transgender

Explanation:
A division bench of chief justice Dr DY Chandrachud and Justice Narain Shukla passed the judgment on a PIL, seeking direction to make available food security and ration cards to the transgender including their column as male/female/third gender.

ANSWER: Kerala

Explanation:
Liquor consumption has alarmingly increased in Kerala over the years and has spread to all sections of the society. Subodham project aims to free one lakh people each year from alcohol addiction, through comprehensive, systematic awareness campaigns. The aim is to achieve the ambitious target of making the state totally alcohol free over the next ten years.

ANSWER: Neeraj Kumar

Explanation:
The decision to appoint Neeraj Kumar to the top post was taken at the Governing Council Meeting of the Indian Premier League New Delhi, which was chaired by IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla.

ANSWER: Tamil Nadu

Explanation:
The Tamil Nadu Government today cancelled the permission granted to Coca-Cola to set up a beverages plant at Perundruai in Erode district. The Managing Director of the state owned industries promotion corporation issued an order cancelling permission to the company, after it failed to start construction in the stipulated six months time.

ANSWER: e-Samiksha

Explanation:
The portal will mainly focus on Budget Review, Board Meetings, Zonal Railway Review, Infrastructure Targets and Project Implementation Review. The Minister said, E-Samiksha is a real time, on-line system for monitoring of follow-up action on the decisions taken during the presentations made by different ministries to the Prime Minister.

ANSWER: Janaki Ballabh Patnaik

Explanation:
Mr Patnaik served the nation in different capacities during his long public life as a Parliamentarian, Union Minister, Governor and able administrator. He was Member of Legislative Assembly, Minister and Chief Minister of Odisha and made immense contribution for the welfare and development of the people and State of Odisha. He was also the former Governor of Assam.

ANSWER: Pakistan

Explanation:
Initially executions were limited to terrorism offences but on March 10 the government decided to implement death penalty in all cases following the Peshawar school massacre on December 17 last year.

ANSWER: Andrew Cuomo

Explanation:
Mr Cuomo led a delegation of businessmen from his state, New York, to the island where he held talks with Cuban minister of external trade. Mr. Cuomo said that the 50 years of isolating Cuba have been unsuccessful. Relations between Havana and Washington have improved since December, when President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro announced their intention to normalise diplomatic ties.

ANSWER: Japan

Explanation:
Japan's state-of-the-art Maglev train clocked a new world speed record in 21st Apr’15 in a test run near Mount Fuji, smashing through the 600 kilometre per hour mark. The new record came less than a week after the company recorded a top speed of 590 kph, breaking its own 2003 record of 581 kilometre per hour.

ANSWER: Haryana

Explanation:
Haryana government had announced on April 13 it would give Ramdev the status of cabinet minister. He was earlier made the state’s brand ambassador to promote yoga and Ayurveda.

ANSWER: 230 per Quintal

Explanation:
The FRP for the last sugar season was Rs 220 per quintal.

ANSWER: Ankit Keshri

Explanation:
Ankit Keshri had a collision with his team-mate Sourabh Mondal on 17 April, attempting a catch during Cricket Association of Bengal knockout match between East Bengal and Bhowanipore.

ANSWER: Bangladesh

Explanation:
In the second ODI played at Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Bangladesh chased down 240 to beat Pakistan by seven wickets and clinch the 3 match ODI series.

ANSWER: Egypt

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: 21st April 2015

Explanation:
The day is observed by all Civil Services to re-dedicate and re-commit themselves to the cause of the people.

ANSWER: 16 years

Explanation:
Union Cabinet has approved lowering of age of juveniles from eighteen to sixteen years for heinous crimes. It cleared the amendment to the Juvenile Justice Act in this regard during a meeting in New Delhi this evening. Official sources said that the amendment seeks to try juvenile in the age group of 16 to 18 years as adults for heinous crimes.

ANSWER: AAP

Explanation:
The incident occurred when the rally was going on in the presence of AAP Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other party leaders. The man was immediately rushed to Ram Manohar Lohia hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. The farmer who attempted suicide was from Dausa in Rajasthan.

ANSWER: ISO 9001:2008

Explanation:
The Ministry has put in place a well defined procedure and measures for ensuring quality of services offered to the customers on the basis of ISO 9001:2008. It will ensure delivery of services by the Ministry in a qualitative manner.

ANSWER: IIIT-Hyderabad

Explanation:
The information on the level of shaking will come from seismological inputs in a particular area. The device is now being tested for its efficacy.

ANSWER: S-300

Explanation:
President Vladimir Putin signed a decree lifting the ban on the sale of S-300 air defence systems to Tehran that Moscow imposed in 2010, joining UN-imposed arms embargo on Iran amid concerns that the country was developing nuclear weapons.

ANSWER: Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation

Explanation:
The MoU provides for export of petroleum products from NRL’s Marketing Terminal in Siliguri to Bangladesh Petroleum’s Depot at Parbatipur in Bangladesh through the proposed ‘Indo-Bangla Friendship Pipeline.

ANSWER: Singapore

Explanation:
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will launch the Centre as a focal point for the Indian community, and a platform to learn more about the diverse Indian heritage in Singapore. Indian architecture and artifacts would be showcased at the Indian Heritage Centre. The first of its kind museum in the country will be inaugurated on 7th May’15.

ANSWER: Saraswati

Explanation:
The excavation work to revive the ancient river Saraswati has started in the village of Rolaheri in Yamunanagar district. South Indian Scholar Dr. Ratnakar has shown deep interest in initiating work on the project. Haryana Government has prepared a Rs 50 crore ‘Saraswati Revival Project’ for it however the initial excavation work have been taken up under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.