General Awareness Test (April - 15) - Set 6

ANSWER: Maharashtra

Explanation:
Maharashtra government told the Bombay High Court that it is not a fundamental right of a citizen to eat beef and the state legislation can regulate consumption of flesh of animals.

ANSWER: Hyderabad

Explanation:
The Chief Minister, who held a meeting in Hyderabad with reputed doctors and officials, favoured manufacturing medical devices like stents in the state and the production of the medical devices would reduce the medical expenses.

ANSWER: National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resource

Explanation:
In Haryana, National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resource (NBAGR), Karnal has developed a technology to differentiate between beef and buffalo meat. The technology is based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and it can easily differentiate accurately between the beef and buffalo meat. The international patent registration of the technology is underway. The technologies already available for it were expensive, while it would be economical.

ANSWER: Zimbabwe

Explanation:
No Test team has toured Pakistan since March, 2009 when militants attacked the Sri Lankan team in Lahore.

ANSWER: 48

Explanation:
Permanent Account Number (PAN) is a 10-digit alpha numeric number, issued in the form of a laminated card by the Income Tax Department. Besides, special camps will be organised throughout the country, including rural areas, to help people get PAN cards.

ANSWER: Jammu & Kashmir

Explanation:
Jammu and Kashmir will host this year's Federation Cup football championship in Srinagar.

ANSWER: Heyuan

Explanation:
A nest containing 43 dinosaur egg fossils was found in the city in southern China's Guangdong province. These eggs are large in size and one even has a diameter of 13 cm. All the eggs, which were found on April 2015 have been sent to the museum for further preservation and further research. Nearly 17,000 dinosaur eggs have been found in Heyuan since 1996, when a group of children playing at a building site first came across some fossils. The museum has been recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records for its collection of 10,008 dinosaur egg fossils, the largest in the world.

ANSWER: Vivek Murthy

Explanation:
Murthy has become the youngest-ever in-charge of the country's public health. He is now the highest ranking Indian-American in the Obama Administration.

ANSWER: Meghalaya

Explanation:
Meghalaya Chief Minister Dr. Mukul Sangma asserted that the project will make differences in the lives of the people in the State and will give an opportunity to the youth to unleash their talent.

ANSWER: Rajeev Gandhi & Indira Gandhi

Explanation:
According to a Home Ministry order, the 'Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Puraskar' and 'Rajiv Gandhi Rashtriya Gyan-Vigyan Maulik Pustak Lekhan Puraskar', launched more than two decades ago, have given away for 'Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar' and 'Rajbhasha Gaurav Puraskar'.

ANSWER: Rajaji National Park

Explanation:
The NTCA has accorded final approval to Kudermukh National Park in Karnataka and Rajaji National Park in Uttarkhand for being declared as tiger reserves by respective states.

ANSWER: VARUNA

Explanation:
The scope of Exercise VARUNA includes the entire gamut of maritime operations from Aircraft Carrier Operations, Anti Submarines Warfare Exercises, Maritime Interdiction Operations to multi-ship replenishment exercise.

ANSWER: 24th April

Explanation:
The Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992 that came into force with effect from 24th April, 1993 has vested constitutional status on Panchayati Raj institutions. This date thus marks a defining moment in the history of decentralization of political power to the grassroots level.

ANSWER: Jaya Prada

Explanation:
She has acted in over 200 films and also ventured into regional film industry like Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada.

ANSWER: 22nd April

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: 23rd April

Explanation:
This day is celebrated because it marks the death anniversary of Miguel De Cervantes and William Shakespeare.

ANSWER: Bhalchandra Nemade

Explanation:
Mr Nemade will receive the country's highest literary award for his outstanding contribution towards Indian literature. His novel, Kosala, written in 1963 was considered as a path breaking in Marathi literature. The award includes 11 lakh rupees and a citation.

ANSWER: 57%

Explanation:
The number the cases reported in 2011 are around 1.16 lakh as compared to 2.74 lakh in 2000.

ANSWER: Calbuco Volcano

Explanation:
Calbuco has had at least 10 eruptions since 1837. One of the largest historical eruptions in southern Chile took place there in 1893–1894.

ANSWER: 25th April

Explanation:
As per the UNICEF Report, Worldwide more than 1200 children die every day from Malaria. According to the recent report by the World Health Organization, since 2000, Malaria deaths worldwide declined by 47 percent. In Africa alone, Malaria deaths during the period declined by 54 percent.

ANSWER: 24th April 2015

Explanation:
Armenians worldwide are marking the centenary of the massacre of up to 1.5 million of their people by Ottoman forces. On 24th Apr’15, in the capital Yerevan, Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and first lady Rita Sarkisian laid a wreath at a hilltop memorial at the start of a solemn ceremony marking the mass killings that began in 1915.

ANSWER: 5%

Explanation:
It will result into an inflow of around five thousand crore rupees into the stock markets during this fiscal. As per estimates, the EPFO's incremental deposits for 2014-15 would be around 80 thousand crore rupees.

ANSWER: Lamjung

Explanation:
The earthquake occurred around 11.41 hours on 25th Apr’15 with epicenter at Lamjung at distance of 77 km from Nepal capital Kathmandu.

ANSWER: Maitri

Explanation:
The operation was launched shortly after the 7.9-magnitude quake hit Nepal at 11.56 am on 25th Apr’15, and the first military plane carrying relief materials and Indian experts landed in Kathmandu before 6pm. The Indian Air Force has mobilised its Il-76, C-130J Hercules and C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft and Mi-17 helicopters for Operation Maitri, the name for the relief efforts in Nepal.

ANSWER: Vinod Kumar Maheshwari

Explanation:
This slogan was prepared by Vinod Kumar Maheshwari of Rewari (Haryana).

ANSWER: Nawaj Shaikh

Explanation:
Nawaj Shaikh of Pune, Maharashtra based on whose entry, the Logo was finalised would be awarded Rs. 10,000.

ANSWER: Educate Encourage Enlighten

Explanation:
Ms. Vipitha Devi, Paravur based in Kerala would be awarded Rs. 10,000. The entry of Ms. Vipitha Devi is for Slogan but the Committee & the Hon’ble HRM felt it was more appropriate for the Tagline.

ANSWER: 27th April

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: 27th April

Explanation:
The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has extended his greetings and felicitations to the King Willem-Alexander on the eve of King’s Day of Netherland.

ANSWER: Rajya Sabha

Explanation:
Located on Talkatora Road in Zone-D of the Master Plan 2021, these 14 flats are constructed by CPWD in a Ground + seven story ‘Y’ shaped block. The cost of the project was Rs. 28.42 crores.

ANSWER: Anil Kapoor

Explanation:
Every year on the occasion of her father's death anniversary, the Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar honours distinguished artistes from various walks of life. This year on the occasion of her father Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar's death anniversary on April 24, the Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar has decided to honour Anil Kapoor.

ANSWER: Gopinath Pillai

Explanation:
At present he is serving as Ambassador-at-Large of Singapore and special envoy to Andhra Pradesh.

ANSWER: Spain

Explanation:
Spain has proposed cooperation with India in developing smart and sustainable cities in the country and presented a draft of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in this regard. The MoU relating to urban development was presented during the meeting of a Spanish delegation led by its Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Jose Garcia-Margallo Marfil with the Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu in Parliament House in New Delhi.

ANSWER: Omar-Al-Bashir

Explanation:
With this win, Omar al-Bashir extends his 25-year rule. Omar faces war crimes charges and is wanted by the International Criminal Court.

ANSWER: India

Explanation:
Rakesh Kumar in 69 kg weight class and Harpal Singh in 75kg category struck gold on the final day of the competition as Indian team logged 33 points to finish ahead of second-placed Mongolia.

ANSWER: Radio Iran

Explanation:
Radio Iran says Baghdadi died in an Israeli hospital in the occupied Golan Heights where he had been hospitalized for treatment after sustaining severe injuries during a joint attack of the Iraqi army and US-coalition airstrike. The sources added that al-Baghdadi has been declared by his Israeli physicians and surgeons as to be now clinically dead. The terrorist leader was targeted in an airstrike in Western Iraq on 18th March.

ANSWER: Ratan Tata

Explanation:
Ratan Tata becomes the first Indian to pick up a stake in China's largest smartphone maker Xiaomi. He has already made personal investments in homegrown e-commerce players like Snapdeal, Urban Ladder, Bluestone and Cardekho.com. In March this year, he also invested in mobile commerce firm Paytm.

ANSWER: Indian Oil Corporation

Explanation:
The Paradip refinery is the most sophisticated of Indian Oil's 11 plants. With the commissioning of the Paradip refinery, IOC's overall refining capacity has been increased to 1.61 million bpd, about 35 percent of the country's 4.6 million bpd capacity.

ANSWER: 9000

Explanation:
In an order, the Ministry of Home Affairs said, the registration of the NGOs that had neither filed their annual returns for three years nor given any explanation for the delay, stood cancelled with immediate effect. The Ministry has also directed the district magistrate concerned to manage the assets of these NGOs in any manner considered necessary and in public interest. The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act requires every registered NGO to submit its returns annually, irrespective of whether it received foreign funding in that year.

ANSWER: Mohammad Ashraf Ghani

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!