General Awareness Test (June - 15) - Set 7

ANSWER: Sachin Tendulkar

Explanation:
The former Indian skipper got the highest number of votes to emerge on top of the list of the 100 best Test players since 2000, in a poll conducted by the website. Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara received the second highest votes, followed by Adam Gilchrist of Australia in the third position.

ANSWER: Zaheer Abbas

Explanation:
He is the Former Pakistan captain. The decision was taken on 24th June’15 during the third day of the ICC Annual Conference week in Barbados. From 1969 to 1985, Zaheer played 78 Tests for Pakistan in which he scored 5,062 runs, while in his 62 ODIs, he made 2,572 runs. With 108 centuries, Zaheer is the only Asian batsman to score a century of first-class centuries as he finished his 22-year career with 34,843 runs.

ANSWER: 26th June

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Pharma Price Data Bank

Explanation:
This is the first data bank of Pharma industry that will help the manufacturers, regulator as well as the common masses. Now manufacturers can fill their mandatory forms online, the Government and NPPA can have comprehensive data, and consumers can benefit by having full information about the medicines.

ANSWER: 25th June

Explanation:
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) observed the “2nd Commemoration Day of Rescuers Day” to pay homage to the NDRF personnel who were martyred during Rescue Operations in Kedarnath two years ago.

ANSWER: Kathmandu

Explanation:
The Conference was organised by the Government of Nepal to raise funds for carrying out rebuilding of areas devastated by the April 25 earthquake of magnitude 7.8 on Richter scale, which claimed nearly 9000 lives.

ANSWER: Australia

Explanation:
It will contribute 930 million Australian dollars (718.5million US dollars) as paid-in capital to the institution over five years and will be the sixth largest shareholder.

ANSWER: Anshula Kant

Explanation:
She succeeded P K Gupta, who was promoted as Chief Executive Officer of SBI Capital.

ANSWER: Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan

Explanation:
On 25 June 2015 Union Government requested the Chief Ministers of Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan to encourage supply of free milk in the Mid Day Meal to school children. The decision was made in a review meeting in which it was found that the State Milk Federations of these states have surplus stock of skimmed milk powder. At present, two states Karnataka (under project Ksheerabhagya started in 2012-13) and Madhya Pradesh provides free milk products to school children under the Mid Day Meal scheme.

ANSWER: Ladakh

Explanation:
Hemis festival is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of Guru Padmasambhava. During this festive season, Lamas called 'chhams,' perform masked dances and sacred plays to the accompaniment of cymbals, drums and long horns. The head lama presides over the function.

ANSWER: Assam

Explanation:
The basic objective of the project is to save society from hazards and pollution created by the huge amount of increasing municipality solid waste.

ANSWER: Andhra Pradesh

Explanation:
The MoU was signed during AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu's meeting with an Australian delegation led by Steven Ciobo, Parliamentary Secretary to the Australian Trade and Investment Minister.

ANSWER: Authorised Dealer Category I

Explanation:
Earlier, AD Cat-I Banks were allowed to borrow from IFIs/MFIs for a short period in 2013 with prior permission from the RBI on a case-by-case basis. Now as per the recent notification, the banks can borrow without any such prior approvals from the RBI.

ANSWER: Leander Paes

Explanation:
The 42-year-old Leander Paes achieved this land mark feat when he joined Marcel Granollers of Spain in a match against Treat Huey and Scott Lipsky at the Aegon Open in Nottingham, the UK.

ANSWER: United States

Explanation:
The MoU is signed to enhance cooperation in areas such as cancer research, infrastructure development, training, capacity building and better assessment and application of new diagnostic technologies.

ANSWER: Veselin Topalov

Explanation:
Topalov secured 6.5 points while Anand ended the tournament in second place with 6 points.

ANSWER: Cafe Coffee Day

Explanation:
The Cafe Coffee Day, has filed a draft prospectus with SEBI for an initial public offering to raise as much as 11.5 billion rupees ($181 million). The application process with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) could take two to three months.

ANSWER: China

Explanation:
The top 10 emitters are China followed by US, European Union, India, Russia, Japan, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico and Iran.

ANSWER: United States

Explanation:
With this ruling, gay people can marry in all 50 states of US.

ANSWER: Jharkhand

Explanation:
Foundation stone of the campus of Institute will be laid by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi on 28th June, 2015 at Goriya Karma village in Barhi, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.

ANSWER: 1st July

Explanation:
The Prime Minister would launch the Digital India Week on 1st July with a view to empower the people of the country through the Digital India Programme.

ANSWER: Thailand

Explanation:
Over 600 scholars from 60 countries are participating in the conference.

ANSWER: Barbados

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Shanta Kumar

Explanation:
Mr. Shanta Kumar is a senior BJP leader and MP from Kangra in Himachal Pradesh. In a letter written to the Speaker , he said that in last few days this subsidies has been the subject of discussion in the media and people's representatives are being mocked in the country. He said that MPs are able to spend on their refreshments and food therefore there is no need of such subsidy.

ANSWER: Punjab

Explanation:
Punjab Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal said they have been pursuing this agenda since long so as to empower the states for ensuring the welfare of people in a far more effective manner.