General Awareness Test (April - 15) - Set 2

ANSWER: Delhi International Airport Limited

Explanation:
The award will be presented to (Delhi International Airport Limited) DIAL by the UAE Minister for culture, youth and development Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan at a specially organized presentation ceremony to be held in Dubai on April 20.

ANSWER: Serena Williams

Explanation:
World number one Serena Williams lifted the Miami Open title for the eighth time. She defeated Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain. This was Serena's 66th Singles trophy. She is sixth in the overall rankings, the first in the list being Martina Navratilova with 167 titles.

ANSWER: Money Order

Explanation:
It was started in the year 1880. Now this service will be replaced by Electronic Money order and Instant Money Order.

ANSWER: Sri City

Explanation:
Sri City is situated in Andhra Pradesh.

ANSWER: 6th Apr’15

Explanation:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greeted the party workers and well wishers on the occasion.

ANSWER: Chit Fund Scam

Explanation:
A bench of Justices T S Thakur and C Nagappan said there is no reason to allow the application seeking court's monitoring of the probe. The court had earlier rejected a similar plea of West Bengal government. The bench gave time to the agency to come out with suggestions to ensure effective investigation of huge number of such cases in West Bengal.

ANSWER: National Geoscience Award

Explanation:
The awards were given to them for their outstanding contribution in the field of mining and allied areas.

ANSWER: National Council for vocational training-Management information system

Explanation:
The portal also provides information to the general public on details of various ITI's, their affiliation details and number of seats available in the those institutes. Mr Dattatreya said that students can get E-Certificates after completion of course and the employers will also be able to cross check genuinity of candidates by using the portal.

ANSWER: 201

Explanation:
According to the health Ministry, these districts have been selected under the programme, keeping in view that nearly 50 percent of all un-vaccinated or partially vaccinated children are in these 201 districts. It said, of them 82 districts are concentrated in the four states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The immunisation programme aims at covering all children below two years of age who have either not been vaccinated or partially vaccinated against seven diseases which can be prevented through vaccines. The diseases are Diphtheria, Tetanus, Polio, Measles, Whooping Cough, Hepatitis B and Tuberculosis.

ANSWER: 10

Explanation:
The index will cover Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Faridabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The index will be later expanded to 46 more cities having a population of more than one million, besides 20 state capitals.

ANSWER: Malli Mastan Babu

Explanation:
He went missing in the Andes Mountains on 24th March during a climbing mission and was found dead on 4th Apr’15.

ANSWER: FabIndia

Explanation:
The Goa Police summoned two top officials of Fabindia in connection with the voyeurism case. Four employees of the store were arrested and booked by the police under various sections. However, they were later granted bail by a local court. Fabindia has denied that it had placed hidden cameras in any of its stores.

ANSWER: Dronavalli Harika

Explanation:
In the event held at Sochi, Russia, both the players won the medal by virtue of making it to the semifinals. Harika had lost to the eventual winner Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine in the semifinals. Harika got 20,000 US Dollars for the Bronze medal finish.

ANSWER: Rajeev Shukla

Explanation:
Former Union Minister and Congress leader Rajeev Shukla was the IPL chairman till 2013 when he resigned from the post in the aftermath of the IPL 'spot-fixing' scandal. Sourav Ganguly was a new entrant to the IPL Governing Council while the senior national selection committee led by Sandeep Patil was retained for another season. Team India Director Ravi Shastri also remained in the IPL Governing Council. Another former captain Anil Kumble has been retained as chairman of the Technical committee while Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia will head the powerful finance committee.

ANSWER: Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis

Explanation:
The top-seeded Indo-Swiss pair defeated the second placed Russian duo of Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova.

ANSWER: Novak Djokovic

Explanation:
He defeated Andy Murray in the finals. It was Djokovic’s fifth Miami trophy.

ANSWER: 7th April

Explanation:
This year the theme of the World Health Day is food safety, which highlights the need of safe food that is free from microbes, viruses and chemicals.

ANSWER: Kalvari

Explanation:
Kalvari, first of the Indian Navy’s Scorpene class stealth submarines being built under the Project 75, under collaboration with M/s DCNS, France, achieved a major milestone on 6th Apr’15 with her ‘undocking’ at the Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL).

ANSWER: 6%

Explanation:
With this hike, the DA now has gone up to 113 per cent of the basic pay from 107 per cent. A decision in this regard was taken at the Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. The increase is in accordance with the accepted formula based on the recommendations of the 6th Central Pay Commission. According to an official release, the decision will benefit 48 lakh government employees and 55 lakh pensioners in the country. The impact on the exchequer on account of increase will be of over 6762 crore rupees annually.

ANSWER: 112

Explanation:
TRAI said in its recommendations that similar to the '911'an all-in-one emergency service in the US, government can integrate all existing emergency numbers such as 100, 101, 102 and 108 into the proposed '112'helpline number. The regulator suggested existing emergency numbers can be retained as secondary numbers.

ANSWER: MUDRA Bank

Explanation:
MUDRA is abbreviated as Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency Ltd. It will be set up through a statutory enactment, and be responsible for developing and refinancing all Micro-finance Institutions which are in the business of lending to micro and small business entities. MUDRA will also partner with state and regional level coordinators to provide finance to Last Mile Financiers of small and micro business enterprises. Around 5.77 crore small business units will be provided access to institutional finance through MUDRA Bank.

ANSWER: Wheat

Explanation:
If quality of wheat is affected due to unseasonal rains or any other reason, relaxation in the norms is considered. Centre has asked Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh governments to test samples of wheat jointly with FCI immediately on its arrival so that relaxation in quality norms can be considered for procurement. Quality norms for procurement of wheat during current Rabi season have already been relaxed in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. Government relaxes norms for food grain procurement time to time in view of interest of farmers.

ANSWER: Trade with a third country

Explanation:
The modified deal will enable Bangladesh to use Indian territories for transiting goods to Nepal and Bhutan, while India would be able to send goods to Myanmar through Bangladesh. Cabinet Secretary Musharaf Hossain Bhuiyan said both countries would be able to use each other's rail, road and waterway networks for transporting the goods for a fee.

ANSWER: Bangladesh

Explanation:
A similar credit line agreement for development of infrastructure and transport sector was signed between New Delhi and Dhaka in 2010 under which 15 projects are being undertaken. Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs Sujata Mehta said that the fresh line of credit is expected to be finalized during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Dhaka.

ANSWER: Deep Kumar Upadhyay

Explanation:
Nepal President Dr Ram Baran Yadav has formally appointed Deep Kumar Upadhyay as ambassador to India and Dr Arjun Kumar Karki as ambassador to the United States of America. The appointments have been made on the recommendation of cabinet as per the Article 150 of the Interim Constitution.

ANSWER: Unchanged

Explanation:
Meanwhile the RBI governor nudged banks to lower their lending rates, and rejected their contention that the cost of funds remains high. Earlier on 7th Apr’15 Chiefs of major banks-SBI, ICICI and HDFC had said that lowering of interest rate will not be possible just as yet. Major Banks including the State Bank of India, HDFC and ICICI Bank have announced cut in their lending rates after RBI governor Dr. Raghuram Rajan expressed strong disappointment over non-transmission of policy rates. India’s biggest lender, the State Bank of India has lowered its base lending rate by 0.15 percentage point to 9.85 per cent. The new rate will be effective from 10th April. The private sector HDFC Bank has cut lending rate by 0.15 per cent to 9.85 percent effective from April 13 while the ICICI Bank announced cutting base lending rate by 0.25 percentage point to 9.75 percent.

ANSWER: Kolkata

Explanation:
The eight teams will be involved in an intense battle in the 47 day long tournament. Overall, 60 matches are to be played in the tournament. The Final is slated to be played at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata, on May 24.

ANSWER: Rajesh Tomar

Explanation:
The decision was taken at a meeting of the PCI's executive committee in Bengaluru. It has been alleged that the participants were accommodated in unfurnished flats with unhygienic facilities. The Paralympic Committee of India has constituted a three-member inquiry committee to investigate the matter. Mr Tomar denied the charges and stated that the organisational committee headed by Mr Satyanarayan, the Director of Competition, was fully responsible for the event along with the Uttar Pradesh Paralympic Association.

ANSWER: Gujarat

Explanation:
Gujarat beat Punjab in the final held on 7th Apr’15 in Bhubaneswar.

ANSWER: Dena bank

Explanation:
This is applicable to account holders who are aged 18 to 50 years.

ANSWER: Uttar Pradesh

Explanation:
Gopal Das Neeraj was also conferred with Padma Bhushan Award. Prior to this, Chief Minister of U.P. also unveiled the poetry book of Gopal Das Neeraj named 'Geetsri'in Lucknow on 8th Apr’15.

ANSWER: New Delhi

Explanation:
It was organized at NASC Complex, Pusa, New Delhi. The Conference was inaugurated by Shri Radha Mohan Singh, Union Minister of Agriculture and also addressed by Shri M.K. Kundariya, Minister of State for Agriculture.

ANSWER: Rural Electrification Corporation

Explanation:
The Rs 1,550-crore share sale in Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) was subscribed more than 5.5 times thanks to demand from domestic institutions and investors.

ANSWER: Kansas

Explanation:
Kansas became the first state on 8th Apr’15 to ban a common second-trimester abortion procedure that critics describe as dismembering a fetus.

ANSWER: Liu Xiang

Explanation:
The 31-year-old won the country's first Olympic men's athletics gold in the 110m hurdles in Athens in 2004 and added a world title in 2007. He has been affected by an Achilles problem ever since it caused him to pull out of his first heat at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

ANSWER: Mayilsamy Annadurai

Explanation:
He succeeded S K Shivakumar, who superannuated on 31st March’2015.

ANSWER: Snapdeal

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Sumit Mazumdar

Explanation:
Sumit Mazumdar is a Chairman & Managing Director of TIL Limited. He succeeds Mr Ajay Shriram as the new President.

ANSWER: Amitabh Bachchan & Dilip Kumar

Explanation:
The Awards were announced in January 2015.

ANSWER: United States of America

Explanation:
The Memorandum aims to foster cooperative work on key issues of mutual interest for all modes of transportation, coordinating public and private sector resources and expertise to advance safe, secure, efficient and integrated transportation systems.