General Awareness Test (Feb - 15) - Set 2

ANSWER: April

Explanation:
The first bi-monthly monetary policy statement for fiscal year 2015-16 was released on 7th April, 2015.

ANSWER: Usha Thorat

Explanation:
She is a former Deputy Governor of RBI.

ANSWER: Dr. Nachiket Mor

Explanation:
He is a Director of Central Board, RBI.

ANSWER: $2,50,000

Explanation:
Earlier the limit was $1,25,000 per year per person. Now it has increased to $2,50,000.

ANSWER: United Kingdom

Explanation:
This process will reduce genetic diseases from mother to Child. This proposal was accepted by 382 MPs and 128 MPs were against this.

ANSWER: Booking of Train Tickets

Explanation:
This facility is available in more than 200 cities. Main aim is to make the bookings faster. New Website launched for this purpose is www.bookmytrain.com.

ANSWER: United States

Explanation:
The United States led this list with as many as 537 billionaires. US was followed by China with 430 billionaires. India was third in the list with 97 billionaires.

ANSWER: Bihar

Explanation:
The government would reimburse the financial loss to such universities/colleges after gathering the actual information about it. This will cost the state exchequer Rs 29 crore annually.

ANSWER: L.C. Goyal

Explanation:
He is a 1979-batch IAS officer of the Kerala cadre. Before this appointment, he was the Rural Development Secretary. He succeeded Anil Goswami.

ANSWER: Jordan

Explanation:
The two prisoners executed by hanging early on 4th Feb’15 are Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad al-Karbouly.

ANSWER: Moaz Al-Kassasbeh

Explanation:
Jordan had earlier offered to swap Al-Rishawi, a failed suicide bomber, for the pilot, Lt. Moaz-al-Kaseasbeh, but wanted proof that the pilot was still alive. Al-Rishawi had been sentenced to death after her 2005 role in a triple hotel bombing in Amman that killed 60 people.

ANSWER: Pakistan

Explanation:
Bangladesh Foreign Ministry sources said the High Commission of Pakistan has notified it that the concerned official Mohammad Mazhar Khan serving as an Attache in the Mission has left Dhaka along with his family on 31st January.

ANSWER: Prasar Bharti

Explanation:
The court passed the order on the plea of BCCI, ESPN and Star who had contended that cable TV operators were getting live feeds through DD channels free of cost, resulting in loss of revenue for them. It also refused to grant relief of striking down a 2000 notification issued by Prasar Bharati which made it mandatory for cable operators to carry DD National and DD News channels.

ANSWER: Micromax

Explanation:
Micromax’s market stood at 22% while the leader till now Samsung stood at 20%.

ANSWER: Saloni Dalal

Explanation:
The 12-year-old, Saloni won a Bronze medal in the 200 meter breast stroke swimming event.

ANSWER: Sculptor

Explanation:
She studied art at MS University and mural design under KG Subramanyan. In 1994-95, she was invited by the Museum of Modern Art at Oxford to mount an exhibition of her sculptures that later travelled to other cities in the UK.

ANSWER: Air Marshal Jasjit Singh Kler

Explanation:
He was commissioned into the Helicopter stream of the IAF on 13 December 1980 and was promoted to the rank of Air Marshal and assumed the appointment of Director General (Inspection & Safety) on 02 February 15.

ANSWER: Ajay Shukla

Explanation:
He is a senior officer of 1979 batch of Indian Railway Traffic Service. He has rich and varied experience of working on several important posts in the Indian Railways, like Chief Passenger Traffic Manager and Chief Safety Officer, Northern Railway; Divisional Railway Manger, Dhanbad, East Central Railway; Chief Operations Manager, North Western Railway and South East Central Railway; Additional General Manager, East Central Railway.

ANSWER: Great Indian Hornbill

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: PAHAL Yojana

Explanation:
Till now over 10 crore citizens have been registered as a part of the PAHAL Yojana. PAHAL Yojana will bring an end to black-marketeering and subsidy will reach people more effectively.

ANSWER: Mr Laurent Fabius

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Dr. M. O. Garg

Explanation:
Dr. Garg, an outstanding chemical engineer, has contributed significantly in bringing together CSIR and the petroleum industry with a focus on indigenization of core technologies in this area of strategic importance to the country.

ANSWER: Clause (1) of Article 222

Explanation:
Transfer of Shri Justice Vineet Saran, Judge of the Allahabad High Court, as a Judge of the Karnataka High Court will assume charge of his office in the Karnataka High Court on or before 18th February, 2015.

ANSWER: New Delhi

Explanation:
The minister Shri Anantan G Geete also released the Special Edition of KALEIDOSCOPE magazine based on the theme of the summit i.e. “HR for the Future – Unleashing Human Potential”.

ANSWER: Dr. Zakir A. Naik

Explanation:
He won this award for his service to Islam. He is the president of Islamic Research Foundation of India.

ANSWER: 4th Feburary

Explanation:
Theme of this year is Not beyond Us. Aim of this day is to reduce number of deaths due to Cancer by 2020.

ANSWER: Anil Goswami

Explanation:
Now L.C. Goyal is appointed as the Union Home Secretary.

ANSWER: Roongta Committee

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Pluto

Explanation:
The new images, taken with New Horizons’ telescopic Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), are the first acquired during the spacecraft’s 2015 approach to the Pluto system which culminates with a close flyby of Pluto and its moons on 14 July 2015.

ANSWER: Ant Financial Group

Explanation:
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s online financial service company Ant Financial Services Group (Ant Financial) acquired 25% stake in Paytm Company.

ANSWER: 6th February’15

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Bhalachandra Nemade

Explanation:
He is the 50th recipient of the award. Mr Nemade occupies a unique place in Marathi literature and his hugely celebrated works include novels Kosala and Hindu. He has also been conferred with Padma Shri and Sahitya Academi award. His important literary works include Kosala (1963), Hool, Bidar (1967), Zarila (1977), Zhool (1979) and Teeka Swayamvara (volume on literary criticism)

ANSWER: Narendra Modi

Explanation:
This year, the theme of the conference was Diplomacy for Development. The three-day conference focussed on what diplomacy can do for India. Usually the focus had been how international issues are shaping up and their impact on India and what India can do globally.

ANSWER: Vapi

Explanation:
Inaugurating the 9th edition of Plast India 2015 at Gandhinagar, Gujarat CM said that Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation-GIDC will offer 40 acre land at concessional rate to set up this university at Vapi in South Gujarat.

ANSWER: Raipur

Explanation:
The Union Ministry of AYUSH in collaboration with Directorate of AYUSH, Government of Chhattisgarh and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) has organized the AROGYA RAIPUR, a four days comprehensive health fair on Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy from the 6th – 9th February, 2015 at Raipur, Chhattisgarh.

ANSWER: Lebanon

Explanation:
During the period 2013-14, India’s total export of agricultural commodities to Lebanon was US$ 69.41 million and during the same period agricultural import from Lebanon was US$ 0.47 million.

ANSWER: MySecurity.gov.in

Explanation:
The MySecurity platform is being created for individuals, companies, students, NGOs etc to develop and deploy security applications which may be useful to people.

ANSWER: 4

Explanation:
Senior officials from India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal met on 2-3 February at Raichak near Kolkata to finalize a Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA) for a seamless transit of passenger and cargo vehicles between their countries and draw up plans for its speedy implementation. It is expected Agreement to be signed at a meeting of Transport Ministers of the four countries to be held soon this year.

ANSWER: Gwalior Military Cantonment

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: 6th Feb’15

Explanation:
The first meeting of the body held under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi and was attended by its first vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya, fulltime member Bibek Debroy and CEO Dr. V.K. Saraswat. Numerous eminent economists were part of this meeting and included Vijay Kelkar, Nitin Desai, Subir Gokarn, Parthasarathi Shome, G.N. Bajpai, Bimal Jalan, Rajiv Lall, R. Vaidyanathan, P. Balakrishnan, Rajeev Kumar, Ashok Gulati and Mukesh Butani.