General Awareness Test (April - 15) - Set 3

ANSWER: Six

Explanation:
The decision was taken by the Home Ministry on 9th Apr’15 after it was found that the NGO has prejudicially affected the public interests and economic interests of the country in violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. According to the show cause notice served by the ministry, the licence of Greenpeace India will be cancelled permanently if it fails to make a satisfactory presentation to the government.

ANSWER: Dhanush

Explanation:
It is a naval variant of Prithvi-II, was launched by personnel of the Strategic Forces Command from an Offshore Patrolling Vessel. Dhanush, a manoeuvring missile, can carry a nuclear payload of 500 kg and target both land-based and sea-based targets. The missile has already been inducted into the armed forces.

ANSWER: Nasim Zaidi

Explanation:
The President has appointed the senior-most Election Commissioner, Dr. Nasim Zaidi as the Chief Election Commissioner. A 1976 batch IAS officer, Dr Zaidi has worked in the Civil Aviation Ministry for a long time. The incumbent Chief Election Commissioner Harishankar Brahma will demit the office on the 18th of this month.

ANSWER: 90%

Explanation:
India has made a significant progress in increasing the net ratio of children in primary education globally. UNESCO's 2015 Education for All, EFA global Monitoring Report, which was released by Minister of Human Resource Development on 9th Apr’15. Globally, just one third of countries have achieved all of the measurable Education for All goals set in 2000. While releasing the report, HRD Minister Smriti Irani said that India has successfully moved toward reaching the EFA goals especially backed by the Right of Children to free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. The one measurable EFA goal India did not reach was to reduced its adult illiteracy by 50 percent. Since 2000 India has reduced its adult illiteracy rate by 26 percent.

ANSWER: Canada

Explanation:
Two Canadian CF-18s successfully targeted an Islamic State (IS) garrison near Raqqa, Syria. In March the Canadian Parliament agreed to expand the country's campaign against IS into Syria. Canadian air strikes against IS were previously limited to Iraq. Canada is the first NATO country, other than the US, to strike inside Syria. Canada's mission against IS has also been extended for one year, beyond October's election and well into 2016.

ANSWER: Nepal

Explanation:
State-run China Daily reported that a proposed extension of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway to the China-Nepal border through Tibet would boost bilateral trade and tourism as there is currently no rail line linking the two countries. The rail line is expected to be completed by 2020. The 1,956-km long Qinghai-Tibet railway already links the rest of China with the Tibetan capital Lhasa and beyond.

ANSWER: Jayakanthan

Explanation:
Jayakanthan authored over 35 novels and novellas, innumerable short stories and two autobiographies besides writing articles and composing poems.

ANSWER: Navin Sinha

Explanation:
On 9th April’15 Justice Navin Sinha sworn-in as Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court. Governor Balramji Das Tandon administered the oath of office to Mr. Sinha at Rajbhawan today. Till now Justice Sinha was the acting Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High court.

ANSWER: Rafale

Explanation:
India has agreed to buy 36 multi-role Combat Aircraft in a flyaway condition as soon as possible. The two countries also agreed on setting up of six units of nuclear power plants totaling 1650 MW at Jaitpur in Maharashtra.

ANSWER: Francois Hollande

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: 11th April

Explanation:
The objective of the day is to create awareness on proper healthcare and maternity facilities to pregnant and lactating women.

ANSWER: Hrushikesh Moolgavkar

Explanation:
Air Chief Marshal Hrushikesh Moolgavkar was commissioned in the Royal Indian Air Force on 30 Nov 1940. He served in the Indian Air Force for 38 Years during which he fought bravely against the Japanese Army in 1941. He also became the first Indian pilot among a group of three pilots to fly faster than sound or crossing the sound barrier.

ANSWER: Richie Benaud

Explanation:
He was a leg-spinning all-rounder and made his first-class debut for New South Wales at the age of 18 before making his national debut at 21.

ANSWER: Songs and Dances of North East

Explanation:
This initiative is one of the outcomes of the recommendations of the M.P. Bezbaruah Committee on the North East, set up by the Ministry of Home Affairs to work out modalities for building a strong social bond between the people of North East and the rest of the country.

ANSWER: Minimum Monthly Pension Scheme

Explanation:
The scheme was launched with effect from September 2014, hiking the pension amount to a flat Rs 1,000 per month for those who were getting lower amount earlier. This decision will hit about 32 lakh Pensioners.

ANSWER: Thane

Explanation:
Thane city won the bid among the three finalists Thane, Pune and Rajkot in the Earth Hour City Challenge (EHCC) 2015 conducted by World Wide Fund. Meanwhile, total 13 cities had been participated in the 2015 Earth Hour Challenge.

ANSWER: Seoul

Explanation:
Total 163 cities from 16 countries participated. The city of Balikpapan, Indonesia was recognized as the Most Loveable City for 2015 and Thane city was named as the National Earth Hour Capital 2015 of India.

ANSWER: Nitrogen

Explanation:
Nitrogen Gas (Nitrogen-induced Hypoxia). The Nitrogen gas chambers will become the primary backup method for execution for Oklahoma.

ANSWER: Kalyana Malla

Explanation:
Kalyana Malla also wrote the Ananga Ranga in 15th or 16th Century. The Suleiman Charitra book has been translated from Sanskrit to English by diplomat-writer A.N.D. Haskar.

ANSWER: Tree of Life

Explanation:
The painting, pigments on silk, has been done by an artist, Bhaskar Mahapatra of Raghurajpur in Puri district of Odisha. The message behind gifting it seemed to be the emphasis on sustenance of life and clean environment ahead of the global meet on climate change that France will be hosting in December this year. The tree, as a divine gift central to human life, is a recurring element in Indian artistic practice.

ANSWER: President

Explanation:
The new 18-point set of rules notified by Home Ministry said Governors will have to stay in their respective states for at least 292 days in a year. The requests for permission to travel outside the state will have to be sent to Rashtrapati Bhavan anywhere between one week and six weeks before the date of travel.

ANSWER: Guwahati

Explanation:
The event is an annual function held every year during the month of April.

ANSWER: Metal Mine

Explanation:
Malajkhand Expansion Project will be largest underground base metal mine of the country. Five lakh ton iron ore will be extracted every year from the mine.

ANSWER: Muhammad Quamaruzzaman

Explanation:
Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its Students' Wing Islami Chhatra Shibir vandalised several vehicles and blasted crude bombs in Dhaka's Sobhanbhag and Mirpur areas on 12th Apr’15. At the same time thousands of people took to streets to applaud the government action.

ANSWER: China

Explanation:
The aim is to prevent people unqualified in medicine from posing as doctors. Chinese patients are accustomed to seeking medical advice on the Internet, which is widely popular in the country.

ANSWER: Chuka Lhyakhmo

Explanation:
Chuka Lhyakhmo stands for Clean River. Operation Chuka Lhyakhmo, is an initiative of District Police Kargil in collaboration with District Administration aiming to clean river Suru and make people aware about the importance and relevance of a neat and clean Suru River.

ANSWER: Gandhi Nagar

Explanation:
IFSC has become operational at GIFT City in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. IFSC rules allow companies incorporated outside India to raise money in foreign currencies by issuance and listing of their equity shares on stock exchanges within the IFSC, where individual and institutional investors from India and abroad including NRIs, would be allowed to trade.

ANSWER: Third

Explanation:
India produced a spirited performance to beat Korea in the penalty shoot-out to finish a creditable third in the 24th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament. With this India won the Bronze Medal.

ANSWER: New Zealand

Explanation:
In the final match, New Zealand defeated Australia.

ANSWER: Sania Mirza

Explanation:
The top-seeded Indo-Swiss pair blew away the challenge of Casey Dellacqua and Darija Jurak in the final match. Sania is also first female player from the country to win Grand Slam tournaments. It is Sania's third successive title win with Hingis and they have not lost as a single match since joining forces in March. Before Sania, only Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhuapthi had achieved the top rank when they dominated men's doubles circuit in the last 90s.

ANSWER: Lewis Hamilton

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: 1919

Explanation:
The army fired on the crowd on the orders of British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, killing hundreds in the cold blood .That was also the day of Baisakhi.

ANSWER: Air Pegasus

Explanation:
The airline, subsidiary of Bangalore based Decor Aviation, commenced operation on 12 April 2015 with inaugural flight between Bangalore and Hubli. Initially it is going to serve 3 southern cities (Bangalore, Hubli and Thiruvananthapuram) with a fleet of ATR 72-500.

ANSWER: Arun Kumar Jha

Explanation:
He is currently working as Director General, National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development under the MSME Ministry.

ANSWER: Malala Yousafzai

Explanation:
The Asteroid named ‘316201 Malala’ is located in the Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter. It orbits around the Sun every 5.5 years and is more-than 2 mile wide.

ANSWER: 17

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: 14th Apr’15

Explanation:
He was born on April 14, 1891 at Mhow in Madhya Pradesh. BR Ambedkar is also known as the Father of the Indian Constitution.

ANSWER: National Judicial Appointments Commission

Explanation:
The NJAC membership will include two senior most Judges of the Supreme Court, the Union Minister of Law and Justice, two eminent persons to be nominated by a committee of the Prime Minister of India, the Chief Justice of India, and the Leader of the Opposition in the House of the People. However, the new body may take some time to come into being.

ANSWER: Literature

Explanation:
He made his literary reputation with "The Tin Drum," published in 1959. Three decades after its release, in 1999, the Swedish Academy honored Grass with the Nobel Prize for literature, praising him for setting out to revive German literature after the Nazi era.

ANSWER: Washington

Explanation:
Finance Minister, RBI Governor and other senior officials of the Finance Ministry and the Reserve Bank will participate in the meeting which is likely to focus on the steps needed to give a push to the global economy. International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde had described the India as a 'growth bright spot' during her visit last month.