General Awareness Test (June - 15) - Set 5

ANSWER: Prof. Abdul Haq

Explanation:
The book is the Urdu Translation of Mohammed Iqbal’s writing in English tilted ‘Stray Reflections’.

ANSWER: NOWCAST

Explanation:
The Mission Mode Project in Agriculture under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP-A) aims to achieve rapid development of agriculture in India through the use of ICT by ensuring timely access to agriculture related information for the farmers of the country.

ANSWER: Tamil Nadu

Explanation:
The order was passed by Justice N Kirubakaran who directed the State Home Secretary to make the public aware of the happening through media under Section 129 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.

ANSWER: Japan

Explanation:
The bill that seeks revision of the public office election law was passed by the House of Councilors (upper house) after being approved in the House of Representatives (lower house).

ANSWER: Sharad Pawar

Explanation:
Veteran leader of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Sharad Pawar was on 17 June 2015 re-elected as the President of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA).

ANSWER: Three

Explanation:
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on 17 June 2015 approved inclusion of Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh in the list of States to be covered under the National Dairy Plan- I (NDP-I).

ANSWER: Spain

Explanation:
Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 17th June’15 approved the agreement between India and Spain on abolishing visa requirements for the holders of diplomatic passports.

ANSWER: 143

Explanation:
India slipped by two positions this year. In South Asia Bhutan has been ranked as the most peaceful country.

ANSWER: Tanzania

Explanation:
The MoUs signed included a loan agreement between Exim Bank and Tanzanian government on a line of credit for 268.35 million dollars for extension of Lake Victoria pipeline project. The two countries inked eight MoUs in various fields including Agriculture, Tourism and Hydrography to expand engagement in different sectors. The agreements were signed after delegation level talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President of Tanzania Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete in New Delhi.

ANSWER: Jharkhand

Explanation:
It would help generate employment for the poor and tribal, who are engaged in making leaf plates.

ANSWER: Niraj Antani & Janak Joshi

Explanation:
Niraj Antani, an Ohio State legislature and Janak Joshi, a Colorado State legislature, were on 18 June 2015 appointed to the board of the 2015-2016 Future Majority Project. The Board of FMP is chaired by T W Shannon, Chairman and former Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

ANSWER: Chinese

Explanation:
The book was released by Indian Ambassador to China Ashok K. Kantha. The book was translated by Chinese Professor Wang Zhu Cheng and Ling Hai of the Zhejiang University in Shanghai and was published by the Sichuan People’s Publications.

ANSWER: Bill Gates

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Anandpur Sahib

Explanation:
Anandpur Sahib (Ropar district, Punjab) is a town deeply revered by Sikhs all over the world. It was founded on this day in 1665 by ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Teg Bahadur.
The city is known as “the holy City of Bliss” and is one of the Sikh’s most important sacred places.

ANSWER: Golden State Warriors

Explanation:
Golden State Warriors celebrated its first N.B.A. championship in 40 years. This was fourth overall NBA title for Golden State Warriors and the first title since 1975. The team is based on Oakland, California and has now won NBA titles in 1947, 1948, 1975 and 2015.

ANSWER: Housing for All by 2022

Explanation:
The mission comes out from a key promise in BJP’s manifesto for 2014 Lok Sabha elections to provide a “pucca” house for every family by the 75th year of Independence, i.e. by year 2022.

ANSWER: State Bank of India

Explanation:
The name of the service is SBI eforex . It is the Internet-based forex (foreign exchange) platform launched by the SBI that facilitates the customers of the bank to obtain forex rates without having to physically visit the branch and enable customers to book their foreign exchange transactions online.

ANSWER: Aamir Khan

Explanation:
The Minister of State for Tourism (Independent Charge), Culture (Independent Charge) and Civil Aviation, Dr. Mahesh Sharma launched the new edition of “Atithi Devo Bhava” television commercials.

ANSWER: Aakar Patel

Explanation:
Journalist and writer Aakar Patel was appointed as Executive Director of Amnesty International (AI) India 18 June 2015. He will head AI India’s operations and its efforts to end human rights abuses in India and worldwide.

ANSWER: 21st June’15

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: 2

Explanation:
International Yoga day celebrations at Rajpath in New Delhi have set two Guinness World Records. Firstly the participants were largest in numbers with 35,985 and secondly 84 nationalities attended the mega event.

ANSWER: 192

Explanation:
Out of the 193 UN member countries, celebrations were held in 192 countries - the exception is Yemen, because of the conflict there.

ANSWER: 11th Dec 2014

Explanation:
International Yoga Day, June 21, was declared as the International Day of Yoga by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 2014. The declaration of this day came after the call for the adoption of 21 June as International Day of Yoga by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his address to UN General Assembly on September 27, 2014.

ANSWER: Egypt

Explanation:
Ahmed Mansour, who works for the channel's Arabic-language service, was detained as he tried to board a flight from Berlin to Qatar. A court in Egypt's capital Cairo sentenced him to 15 years in prison in absentia last year on torture charges. The news channel claims that charges made against Mr Mansour, who has dual British and Egyptian citizenship, are absurd and false.

ANSWER: Justice Gian Prakash Mittal

Explanation:
He tendered his resignation from the office of the Judge of Delhi High Court, in pursuance of provision (a) to clause (1) of article 217 of the Indian Constitution.

ANSWER: France

Explanation:
People using earphones while driving a vehicle or riding a cycle will be fined 135 Euro (214 US dollar) and lose three license points. However, use of phone while having the caller on loud speaker will be allowed.

ANSWER: China

Explanation:
BX1E electric passenger aircraft was designed together by Shenyang Aerospace University and Liaoning General Aviation Academy located in the northeastern Liaoning Province of China.

ANSWER: Christiano Ronaldo

Explanation:
Cristiano Ronaldo is also known as CR7 after his initials and jersey number. CR7 is three times brighter than the brightest distant galaxy known till now, called Himiko. This brightest galaxy was discovered in the early universe that contains the first generation of stars.

ANSWER: Turkey

Explanation:
He served as the President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000, but before that he also held the post of Prime Minister of the country several times in the 1960s and 1970s.

ANSWER: Nico Rosberg

Explanation:
He defeated his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton (Britain) and is now just 10 points behind him in this year’s F1 season.

ANSWER: B Jayant Baliga

Explanation:
He was recognized as the inventor of the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), which he developed while working at the General Electrical research & development center in New York in 1983.

ANSWER: Harmony of the Seas

Explanation:
It is the name of the mammoth cruise liner of Royal Caribbean that is being constructed since 2013. The ship will carry 6,360 passengers along with 2,100 staff.

ANSWER: Nine

Explanation:
Tribal affairs secretary Arun Jha has written to the chief secretaries of Bihar, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Uttarakhand, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand to implement the act immediately. The move comes in the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi directing the Ministry to implement the Act in a campaign mode and give land rights to tribals over the next two months. The Act is aimed at ensuring that forest-dwellers, including Scheduled Tribes, get their rights over forest land and non-timber forest produce.

ANSWER: 22nd June’15

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: HAL

Explanation:
The Orbiter Craft Module is a three-tonne category bus structure made out of a central composite cylinder, shear webs and deck panels. The Orbiter with scientific payloads will orbit around the moon and the Lander will soft land on the planet at a specified site and deploy the Rover. According to Indian Space Research organisation's plans, Chandrayaan-2 will be launched by a Geo-Stationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-MKII) during the next two to three years.

ANSWER: Nepal

Explanation:
India has agreed to Nepal's request for allowing the movement of vehicles imported from a third country into Nepal through four border points by amending the bilateral Treaty of Transit. According to the press release, the movement of vehicles on their own power to Nepal has been allowed through Raxaul-Birgunj, Jogbani-Biratnagar, Sunauli-Bhairahawa and Nepalgunj Road-Nepalgunj border points.

ANSWER: Europe

Explanation:
A recent US study found there were at least 46,000 accounts on Twitter linked to the militant group, many of which help to recruit new IS members. The European police agency “Europol” will now work with unnamed social media companies to track the accounts. They aim to get new accounts closed down within two hours of them being set up.

ANSWER: Brussels

Explanation:
An emergency summit on the Greek debt crisis in Brussels on 22nd June’15 is to prevent Greece from defaulting on its debt with a June 30 payment deadline fast approaching. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on 21st June’15 presented new proposals to European leaders aimed at ending his country's debt crisis, on the eve of a summit that could determine whether Greece crashes out of the euro zone.

ANSWER: Assam

Explanation:
Approx. 8 to 10 lakh devotees from various states are expected to arrive in Guwahati during Ambubachi.

ANSWER: National Stock Exchange

Explanation:
The facility will enable traders, especially small investors, to invest even for a single night in liquid funds. A similar product was introduced last month by Bombay Stock Exchange, BSE. The exchange has seen daily transactions worth 400-500 crore rupees in the product so far.