General Awareness Test (July - 15) - Set 1

ANSWER: Indo Nissin

Explanation:
Indo Nissin Foods has ordered the withdrawal of its instant noodles brand Top Ramen from the Indian market following an advisory from central food safety regulator Food Safety and Standards Authority of India. A statement from Indo Nissin Foods Private Limited said, they had sought clarification from FSSAI since Top Ramen product approval is pending with them. It said, FSSAI has requested them to withdraw the product until it gives the approval.

ANSWER: Lala Lajpat Rai

Explanation:
Lala Lajpat Rai was the first President of the organisation. The 94 year old welfare organisation was established by Punjab Kesari Lala Lajpat Rai. Some prominent personalities who had been President of the Mandal include Rajarshi Purushottam Das Tandon, former Gujarat Chief Minister Balvant Rai Mehta, former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and renowned socialite and eminent journalist Dr.Radhanath Rath. The Mandal has branches in Delhi, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Odisha which are engaged in various health and developmental works.

ANSWER: Bombay High Court

Explanation:
While continuing with the ban on sale of Nestle’s 2-minute Maggie noodles in India, Bombay High Court today granted permission to Nestle India to export the product. The court was hearing the petition filed by Nestle India against food safety regulator FSSAI's country-wide ban of Maggi noodles demanding revoking of the ban of the sale of Maggie in the country.

ANSWER: Airtel

Explanation:
Airtel has hit the 300 million mobile subscriber’s mark just six years after hitting the 100 million subscribers mark in 2009.

ANSWER: Prof. Sanjeev Galande

Explanation:
Prof. Sanjeev Galande of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune has been selected for G D Birla Award for Scientific Research - 2014. Mr. Galande has been selected for his significant contribution in the area of Epigenetics and Molecular Cell Biology.

ANSWER: Greece

Explanation:
Greece has defaulted on a 1.7 billion dollar payment to the International Monetary Fund becoming the first developed nation to do so. The deadline was missed by Athens hours after Eurozone Finance Ministers refused to extend its bailout. Greece is now formally in arrears, and there are fears that this could put Greece at risk of leaving the Euro.

ANSWER: China

Explanation:
China being the largest shareholder at 30.34 percent and it has retained 26.06 percent of the voting rights. With Japan, the other large Asian economy besides China, opting out of the Bank's membership, India is its second largest shareholder with a stake of 8.52 percent and voting share of 7.5 percent.

ANSWER: World Bank

Explanation:
AIIB will have authorised capital of 100 billion US Dollars, and Asian countries will contribute up to 75 per cent of the total capital. Each member will be allocated a share of the quota based on their Economic size and not contribution to the Bank's authorised capital. AIIB is expected to go into operation later this year.

ANSWER: Beti Bachao Beti Padhao

Explanation:
The digital Board has been popularized in the district of Jalgaon, Maharashtra and works as a platform for dissemination of IEC Material on BBBP as well as updating monthly birth statistics.

ANSWER: Dr Anup K Pujari

Explanation:
Before joining the Ministry of MSME, Dr. Pujari was holding the charge of Secretary, Mines. Dr Anup K Pujari IAS (KN 80) joined as Secretary MSME here on 1st July’15. He succeeds Shri Madhav Lal who superannuated on June, 30 2015.

ANSWER: Cuba

Explanation:
WHO defines “elimination” of transmission as “reduction of transmission to such a low level that it no longer constitutes a public health problem.” A panel of international health experts visited Cuba in March and concluded that the country met the standards required for validation. In 2013, only two babies were born with HIV and five with congenital syphilis.

ANSWER: Matti Makkonen

Explanation:
Matti Makkonen was a Finnish engineer in the field of mobile communications. He became famous as the father of SMS after developing the idea of sending messages via mobile networks.

ANSWER: 20Gbps

Explanation:
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) defined the speed of 5G (Fifth Generation) standard for mobile networking as 20 Gigabits per second (Gbps). A decision was taken in this regard at an ITU conference on 5G standard held at San Diego in California of USA between 10 June and 18 June 2015.

ANSWER: Maharashtra

Explanation:
The state Minorities Affairs Minister Eknath Khadse told reporters that madrasas not teaching modern subjects would be considered as "non-schools" and children studying in them as "out of school" students.

ANSWER: 19

Explanation:
Last year, the Ministry had launched the online application system for Environmental Clearance for Category 'A' projects. While applications for Category 'A' projects come to the Ministry for approval, applications under Category ‘B’ projects do not come to the Ministry and are dealt with at the State level itself.

ANSWER: Bihar

Explanation:
In Bihar, on 2nd July’15 JD(U) kicked off "Har Ghar Dastak, (a knock on every door)," an ambitious campaign to reach three crore voters for the state elections to be held later this year. Chief Minister Nitish kumar started this campaign at Paschim Darwaja locality in Patna. Mr. Kumar knocked ten doors of the locality. He highlighted his government’s achievement before people. The party has instructed its Ministers, MPs, Legislators and office bearers to visit at least ten doors of the state. This campaign will continue for one month with an interval of ten days.

ANSWER: Darshan Jain

Explanation:
The teacher, Darshan Jain and other winners will receive a ten-thousand Dollars award each from the National Science Foundation. Obama has named 108 Mathematics and Science teachers as recipients of the Award.

ANSWER: 3rd July 2015

Explanation:
Presently, users can change their operator while retaining the same number only in the same State or telecom circle. To avail of the new facility, subscribers will have to visit a store of their telecom operator or call the customer care number concerned. The deadline earlier was May 2nd to roll out full MNP was delayed by 2 months after the Cellular Operators Association of India asked for extension from Department of Telecom as telecom operators needed to make some technical changes to their networks to implement the service.

ANSWER: Anisa Rasouli

Explanation:
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani nominated her name as the female judge of the nine-member bench Supreme Court and now, Rasouli’s nomination will require an approval from the Parliament.

ANSWER: The Food Standards Agency of United Kingdom

Explanation:
FSA in its release said that levels of lead in the product are well within European Union permissible levels and would not be a concern to consumers. United Kingdom Food Standards Agency (UK FSA) decided to test a selection of Maggi Noodles as a precaution after the product was banned in India on 5 June 2015.

ANSWER: Haryana

Explanation:
With this, Haryana became the first state in the country to launch such an innovative voluntary scheme. The state will bear an additional expenditure of 15 to 20 lakh rupees per village for implementation of this scheme. The scheme aimed at providing 24 hour uninterrupted power supply to rural domestic consumers in a phased manner with their active participation.

ANSWER: Chandrasekaran Ramakrishnan

Explanation:
With this, he will continue as Chief Financial Officer and Key Managerial Personnel for Tata Motors Limited.

ANSWER: 2014

Explanation:
The World Bank data disclosed that the size of Indian economy stood at $2.06 trillion at the end of 2014. It has almost doubled in size since the financial crisis hit the country in 2008, and has more than quadrupled from the start of this millennium.

ANSWER: Abhijeet Gupta

Explanation:
He won the Gold Medal after a quick draw with his opponent Arghyadip Das.

ANSWER: Manipur

Explanation:
Nearly 24 years after prohibition was imposed in Manipur, the state, for the first time, is planning to lift the ban on the manufacture and sale of liquor, with Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh tabling a proposal for the same in the Assembly.

ANSWER: 4th July 2015

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: 4th July

Explanation:
Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendra Nath Datta was an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th century saint Ramakrishna.

ANSWER: CDAC, Silchar

Explanation:
C-DAC, Silchar is the only such centre in entire North-eastern region. C-DAC is a research and development organisation under the Department of Electronics and Information Technology. The digital design project was meant only for weavers and craftsmen.

ANSWER: Brazil

Explanation:
In the first week of July 2015 Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has unveiled the torch to be used at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

ANSWER: State Bank of India

Explanation:
The project will help home loan applicants to get the loan within 10 days after receipt of application form and relevant supporting documents.

ANSWER: eMigrate System

Explanation:
India in June 2015 launched online registration system named eMigrate system (www.emigrate.gov.in) for foreign employers (FEs) who wants to recruit Indian workers, including nurses. Under the system, FEs will have to register in the eMigrate system.

ANSWER: Prandtl-m Aircraft

Explanation:
Prandtl stands for the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars and it was developed by NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Centre. It is a prototype of the Prandtl-m aircraft, touted as the first airplane to be launched on Mars between 2020 and 2024.

ANSWER: Haridwar & Rishikesh

Explanation:
It also fixed a penalty of 5000 rupees on anyone found violating the order. The penalty will be charged as compensation for degradation of environment.

ANSWER: Punjab

Explanation:
Punjab Government has launched a state-wide novel campaign to motivate people in general and vehicle drivers in particular to pledge their eyes and other body parts to benefit lakhs of visually impaired people of the country and other patients in dire need of transplantation of various body parts.

ANSWER: Chile

Explanation:
This was also Chile's first ever international trophy. Chile created history by winning the Copa America tournament for 2015 on 4 July 2015.

ANSWER: Ira Singhal

Explanation:
Ira Singhal belonged to Delhi while second and third places were secured by Renu Raj (Kerala) and Nidhi Gupta (Delhi).

ANSWER: Lewis Hamilton

Explanation:
Lewis Hamilton took British Grand Prix glory for the third time in a pulsating competition at Silverstone.

ANSWER: Arun Sharma

Explanation:
His body was found in his room at Uppal Hotel near the Indira Gandhi International airport. He was the dean of MS Medical College in Jabalpur, assisting the Special Task Force set up to probe the recruitment scam in the Madhya Pradesh Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal (Vyapam) by providing documents on fake medical entrance examinees in the state-run medical college.

ANSWER: R Paul Singh

Explanation:
GCHERA stands for Global Confederation for Higher Education Associations for Agriculture and Life Sciences. The award will be officially presented on 20 September 2015 during the GCHERA World Agricultural Prize Award Ceremony that will take place at Nanjing Agricultural University, China. GCHERA stands for Global Confederation for Higher Education Associations for Agriculture and Life Sciences. The award will be officially presented on 20 September 2015 during the GCHERA World Agricultural Prize Award Ceremony that will take place at Nanjing Agricultural University, China.

ANSWER: Maharashtra

Explanation:
Microsoft agreed to provide technology support for health care services in remote tribal areas; it will setup a pilot project at Melghat in Amravati district in this regard. Microsoft has adopted Melghat village.