General Awareness Test (Feb - 15) - Set 5

ANSWER: January

Explanation:
It happened due to falling prices of food items. But inflation in food articles remained high. Food inflation rose to scale a six month high of 8 per cent in January, according to government data released on 16th Feb’15.

ANSWER: Professor Srikanth Jagabathula

Explanation:
He received the award for developing data-driven modelling and learning techniques to improve the accuracy of operational decision making.

ANSWER: Chhattisgarh

Explanation:
The state was considered for this award on the basis of criteria fixed by 13th Finance Commission headed by Vijay Kelkar.

ANSWER: Balasubramaniam Venkataramani

Explanation:
He succeeded Manoj Vaish. He was Chief Business Officer of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

ANSWER: Dhanak

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Bengaluru

Explanation:
This time Aero Show is placing special emphasis on Make in India and encouraging small and medium industries to invest in defence manufacturing base.

ANSWER: Russia

Explanation:
The Indian Coast Guard on 17th Feb’15 intercepted a Russian vessel around 110 nautical miles from the Mumbai coast. MV Sevastopol was intercepted when it was trying to cross the Indian waters in the wee hours.

ANSWER: Shri G. Srinivasan

Explanation:
The President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee received the first copy of a book “Vedic Astrology: A Journey Through History, Principles and Mathematical Foundations” authored by Shri G. Srinivasan at a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan on February 17, 2015.

ANSWER: Nay Pyi Taw

Explanation:
The meeting was co-Chaired by Minister of Commerce & Industry Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman and Myanmar Union Minister of Commerce U Win Myint. The 5th JTC was preceded by a meeting of senior officials of India and Myanmar on 16th February, 2015.

ANSWER: Udaan

Explanation:
The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and the Ministry of Home Affairs are undertaking a special recruitment drive in Kupwara area of Jammu and Kashmir. Over 10 corporates from across India will be visiting Kupwara for a two day recruitment drive on 18th and 19th February 2015. The corporates from various sectors including Finance, Tourism, Human Resource, Construction, Automation and Information Technology & IT Enabled Services will be scouting for fresh talent from the border district of Kupwara.

ANSWER: Rajinder Puri

Explanation:
He was associated with ‘The Hindustan Times’, ‘The Statesman’ and later with ‘Outlook’ magazine.

ANSWER: Jamat-e-Islami

Explanation:
Jamaat-e-Islami leader was sentenced to death in Bangladesh. The 79-year old incumbent Vice-President of Jamaat-e-Islami was the Vice-Chairman of the infamous Peace Committee in Pabna, western Bangladesh, which collaborated with the Pakistani army to perpetrate crimes during the Liberation War. He was charged on nine counts of war crimes including genocide, murder, looting, arson, abduction, torture, and setting houses on fire in Pabna.

ANSWER: Lok Sabha

Explanation:
Legendary producer, multi-talented film doyen and former Lok Sabha member Daggubati Ramanaidu died in Hyderabad.

ANSWER: H1N1

Explanation:
The first case of the flu in India was found on the Hyderabad airport on 13 May 2009 when a man traveling from US to India was found H1N1 positive.

ANSWER: Bangladesh

Explanation:
These decisions were taken at the two day India-Bangladesh Joint Working Group meeting and the Home Secretary-level talks held in New Delhi which ended on 17th Feb’15.

ANSWER: Bihar

Explanation:
The Cabinet presided by Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi also decided to hike MLA development fund from the existing 2 crore rupees in a year to 3 crore rupees from the next financial year.

ANSWER: Soil Health Card Scheme

Explanation:
The Soil Health Card scheme will be launched at a rally in Suratgarh town in Sriganganagar district of Rajasthan. The scheme is aimed at providing soil health cards to over 14 crore farmers in the next three years to check overuse of fertilisers in farm lands. Under the scheme, farmers will be issued a card after scientific analysis of the soil of their farms.

ANSWER: EPFO

Explanation:
Using the help desk, holders of the inoperative accounts can trace their accounts and go in for either settlement or transfer of PF to their present accounts. The inoperative accounts are those accounts wherein the contribution has not been received for 36 months.

ANSWER: NPCI

Explanation:
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is the nodal agency for all retail payment systems under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana. The physical plastic RuPay card carries a 16-digit number. Under its virtual form, there will be no need of a physical card and a transaction can be done with the help of this 16-digit number alone. Currently, only around 20 per cent of the total transactions of around 8,000 crore rupees are taking place through IMPS or immediate payment service per month.

ANSWER: Yes Bank

Explanation:
This proposed Green Infrastructure Bond is claimed to be the first such bond in the country and the money will be used to fund renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.

ANSWER: China

Explanation:
At midnight on 18th Feb’15, hundreds of millions of people will celebrate the end of the year of the horse and the dawn of the year of the sheep.

ANSWER: Indira Gandhi International Airport

Explanation:
Mumbai Airport was also placed in the top five list.

ANSWER: Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic

Explanation:
She was sworn in as Croatia's first female president on 15th Feb’15 after a surprise election victory in the European Union's newest member state.

ANSWER: Prithvi-II

Explanation:
Prithvi-II has a strike range of 350 km and is 8.56 metres in length, 110 cm in girth and weighs 4,600 kg. It is thrusted by liquid propulsion twin engines and uses advanced inertial guidance system with manoeuvring trajectory. The Prithvi-II missile, developed by the DRDO, has already inducted into the Indian Armed forces.

ANSWER: 19th Feb’15

Explanation:
Democracy Day or Rashtriya Prajatantra Diwas is celebrated in country to commemorate the day of the end of 104-year-long Rana autocracy on February 18, 1951.

ANSWER: Uttar Pradesh

Explanation:
The scheme will provide opportunity to the shortlisted agriculture graduates to run the agriculture junctions. Lucknow based State Agricultural Management and Training Institute will provide training to the shortlisted agriculture graduates.

ANSWER: 11

Explanation:
The portal will provide four services from Ministry of Corporate Affairs, two services of Central Board of Direct Taxes, two services of Reserve Bank of India and one service each from Directorate General of Foreign Trade, Employees Provident Fund Organization and Petroleum and explosives Safety Organization. A business user can avail the service any time from now onwards.

ANSWER: Anil Kumble

Explanation:
Anil Kumble who is now the Chairman of ICC, is the fourth India cricketer to be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. He joins the ranks of illustrious cricketers like Bishen Singh Bedi, Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar who were inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2009.

ANSWER: Airtel

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: MRIDAPARIKSHAK

Explanation:
Mridaparikshak is a digital mobile quantitative minilab/soil test kit to provide soil testing service at farmers’ doorsteps and determines all the important soil parameters i.e. soil pH, EC, organic carbon, available nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur and micronutrients like zinc, boron and iron.

ANSWER: exclusively.com

Explanation:
With this acquisition, Snapdeal.com aims to further strengthen its fashion business and reach 2 billion US dollars in gross merchandise value in the fashion category in 2015.

ANSWER: SAFAR-Air

Explanation:
SAFAR is an acronym for System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research which was first launched in Delhi in 2010 during the Commonwealth Games. At present the App service is available only for Pune and Delhi city and it will be available in Mumbai by May 2015.

ANSWER: 3

Explanation:
The name of Indian people are Ritika Singh, Shradha Prasad and Taranjeet Singh Bhatia. Fifty men and fifty women have been selected from over 2 lakh candidates globally to take this trip to Mars in 2024.

ANSWER: Haryana

Explanation:
The march was organised to protest against NDA government at the Centre promulgating an ordinance to amend the land acquisition act of 2013. The march, organised under the banner of PV Rajgopal's Ekta Parishad, will reach Jantar Mantar in Delhi on 23rd Feb’15.

ANSWER: Jitan Ram Manjhi

Explanation:
Now Mr. Nitish Kumar will take oath as the new Chief Minister of the State on 21st Feb’15.

ANSWER: All That Could Have Been

Explanation:
All That Could Have Been' has been written by Mahesh Bhatt and Suhrita Sengupta.

ANSWER: 20th Feb’15

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: 20thFeb’15

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Mr. Tapan Misra

Explanation:
Mr Tapan Misra was awarded Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai research Award in 2004 and ISRO Merit award in 2008 for his contribution to the development of SAR technology.

ANSWER: Kailash Mansarovar Yatra

Explanation:
Kailash Mansarovar Yatra through the new route via Nathula Pass in Sikkim will begin from June 18.