General Awareness Test (March - 15) - Set 1

ANSWER: 1st March

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Mufti Mohammed Syed

Explanation:
PDP leader Mufti Mohamemd Sayeed took oath as Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. Nirmal Singh of BJP has been made the Deputy Chief Minister in PDP-BJP government. Along with Sayeed, 24 Ministers, 13 from PDP and 11 from BJP and its supporters also took oath. Governor NN Vohra administered the oath of office at General Zorawar Singh Auditorium in Jammu University on 1st Mar’15.

ANSWER: Digvijay Singh

Explanation:
In Madhya Pradesh, an FIR has been lodged against former chief minister Digvijay Singh, former Speaker of the state Legislative Assembly Shriniwas Tiwari and 17 others, in connection with alleged irregularities in appointments in the State Assembly Secretariat. Different Sections of the IPC, including Section 420, have been slapped against the accused.

ANSWER: Amitava Roy

Explanation:
Now the Supreme Court Judges increased to 29.

ANSWER: Gopinath Pillai

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Amazon

Explanation:
Indian Railways Catering &Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Railways and country's largest travel and ticketing site, has appointed Amazon.in as its official shopping partner for two years.

ANSWER: South Africa

Explanation:
South Africa was the only contender to host the CWG 2022.

ANSWER: Monetary Policy Framework

Explanation:
The Agreement, which was signed on February 20 but made public on 2nd Mar’15, veers round to RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan’s view that India too should move towards inflation targeting, which is common in developed economies. Currently, the Centre and the RBI give inflation estimates, but don’t set targets.

ANSWER: Arun Singh

Explanation:
At present, Mr Arun Singh is the Indian Ambassador to France. A 1979-batch IFS officer, Mr Singh will be replacing S. Jaishankar, who was appointed as Foreign Secretary on 28th Jan’15.

ANSWER: Anna Hazare

Explanation:
Anna declared on his blog that march will lead Sevagram in Wardha to New Delhi. The march will take up to three months to cover the distance. At the end of the long march Jail Bharo Andolan will be organised at Ramlila Maidan.

ANSWER: Maharashtra

Explanation:
Now anyone found to be selling beef or in possession of it, can be jailed for five years and fine upto 10,000 rupees. The new act will however allow slaughter of water buffaloes, which provides carabeef, generally seen as inferior quality meat.

ANSWER: Haryana

Explanation:
The objective of the programme is to bring out a totally error-free and authenticated electoral roll. The Election Commission attaches highest priority to the maintenance of electoral roll without any defects, errors and multiple entries. The programme would take into consideration the summary revision of electoral rolls with respect to January 1, 2015.

ANSWER: ISM Dhanbad

Explanation:
As per the draft prepared for 12th 5-year plan (DRAFT Twelfth Five Year (2012-17), Planning Commission, Yojana Bhawan, Government of India), there is a proposal to upgrade ISM Dhanbad to IIT.

ANSWER: Atal Innovation Mission

Explanation:
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), an innovation promotion platform in the NITI Aayog, with an initial fund of Rs 150 crore for research and development.

ANSWER: 25%

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Baldev Sharma

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Jagmohan Dalmiya

Explanation:
Jagmohan Dalmiya made his grand comeback after 10 years in Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) after he was unanimously elected president of the BCCI. Anuarg Thakur is appointed as the BCCI Secretary. Anurag Thakur is BJP Lok Sabha MP from Himachal Pradesh.

ANSWER: Arvind Virmani

Explanation:
Arvind Virmani, who served as the country's Chief Economic Advisor and Principal Advisor in the Planning Commission, will now mentor Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (Ficci's) public policy & economic work.

ANSWER: Kannan Ramesh

Explanation:
Indian-origin lawyer Kannan Ramesh was on 27 February 2015 appointed as Judicial Commissioner to Singapore’s Supreme Court bench with effect from 22 May 2015. He will serve the office for two years.

ANSWER: 10

Explanation:
Three automatic weather stations have been installed on trial basis, the INCOIS information has been very accurate and helpful during the recent Cyclone Hud-Hud that created havoc on Andhra Pradesh.

ANSWER: India

Explanation:
This injectible vaccine is a part of Polio Endgame Strategy of the World Health Organisation and is based on recommendations by National Technical Advisory Group on

ANSWER: 3

Explanation:
Captain Niloofar Rahmani from Afghan Air Force, Journalist and women's rights activist Nadia Sharmeen from Bangladesh and Tabassum Adnan, founder, Khwendo Jirga from Pakistan, would receive the prestigious award in the presence of First Lady Michelle Obama in Washington DC on 10th of March.

ANSWER: Telangana

Explanation:
Telangana government has decided to launch the E-Panchayat programme in 18 Village Panchayats in Domokonda of Nizamabad district initially. All the e-panchayat centres will be managed only by literate women members of the village after giving necessary training.

ANSWER: 3rd March

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Election Commission of India

Explanation:
During the programme, EPIC data of electors will be linked with Aadhar data of UIDAI for the purpose of authentication. NERPAP will focus on improving image quality of electors along with sorting issues like corrections of errors etc.

ANSWER: Kewal K Sharma

Explanation:
At present, He is the chief secretary of Goa. He was appointed as the Goa chief secretary on 1 January 2015.

ANSWER: Faridabad

Explanation:
The flag weighs 48 kilograms and has 96 feet by 64 feet dimension. It was hoisted at a height of 250 feet (75 meters), making it the largest and the highest hoisted Indian flag in the world.

ANSWER: Madhya Pradesh

Explanation:
The first phase of project will be inaugurated at Dongliya village in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh. The Shri Singaji Thermal Power Project will give impetus to the state government’s Atal Jyoti Abhiyan which aimed at providing 24 X 7 power supply across the state. The first phase of the Shri Singaji Thermal Power Project is of 12 hundred mega watt capacity. The Madhya Pradesh Power Generation Company has incurred 7820 crore rupees on this phase. With commissioning of two plants of this phase, the total thermal power generation capacity of the state will be 4500 mega watt.

ANSWER: IRNSS-1D

Explanation:
The Indian Space Research Organisation has postponed the launch of India’s fourth Navigation Satellite IRNSS-1D onboard PSLV-C27. The launch was originally scheduled for 9th Mar’15 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

ANSWER: National Urban Renewal Mission

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: 25 Basis Point

Explanation:
The Reserve Bank of India on 4th Mar’15 cut repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.5 percent, signaling that it was convinced by the fiscal consolidation measures announced in the Budget. This is the second out of turn 25 basis point-cut after the one in January.

ANSWER: Unchanged

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Spain

Explanation:
The agreement was signed between visiting Spanish Defence Minister Pedro Moremes and his Indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar. Defence Ministry officials said that this is the primary pact that a country agrees to before embarking on deeper talks on defence cooperation.

ANSWER: Muslims

Explanation:
The court had stayed the Maharashtra state's decision to provide a five percent job reservation to Muslims in government service, but it allowed quotas for them in educational institutions.

ANSWER: BBC

Explanation:
A BBC statement from London said the channel was responsible only for airing the documentary in UK and said the film had handled the issue "responsibly". "The BBC will broadcast Storyville - India's Daughter, in the UK on BBC Four.

ANSWER: Rani Mukherjee

Explanation:
She was awarded this for creating awareness about child trafficking in capital city of India. She was also acclaimed for her performance in movies like Mardaani. Others who won this award include Anna Hazare, Pratibha Patil, Mahashweta Devi and Pandit Jasraj.

ANSWER: Innovation

Explanation:
It will provide a common platform for the interaction of the various stakeholders, right from students to bankers with unique ideas from grassroots innovators which will be showcased in an exhibition focusing on three major subjects Make in India, Swachch Bharat and Adarsh Gram. India ranks 76th on the Global Innovation Index, much below countries like Malta, Lithuania, Greece and Brazil.

ANSWER: NIRDPR

Explanation:
The Hyderabad-based National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj would help in developing model villages and provide handholding guidance in implementation of the model village scheme.

ANSWER: DAWN

Explanation:
The U.S. Space Agency’s Dawn has taken 7.5 years to reach its destination. Ceres is the first of the dwarf planets to be visited by a spacecraft.

ANSWER: Keith Vaz

Explanation:
People from around the world will be reminded of Mahatma Gandhi's incredible legacy on the 14th March. Keith Vaz is the Britain's longest-serving Indian-origin MP.