General Awareness Test (May - 15) - Set 2

ANSWER: Tathagatha Roy

Explanation:
Tathagata Roy will be the Governor of Tripura.

ANSWER: Rafael Nadal

Explanation:
Rafael Nadal had originally been scheduled to pick up the award in November last year but the ceremony was called off after he had to undergo surgery to remove his appendix. Spain's conservative government decided to award him the honour in June 2014, which aims to highlight an "exemplary performance" in any job or profession.

ANSWER: 7th May

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Achal Kumar Jyoti

Explanation:
He is a Former Chief Secretary of Gujarat. He earlier worked as the Managing Director of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited. He also served as chairman of Kandla Port Trust. With this appointment, the strength of three members Election Commission has now gone to two. In the coming days, the government will appoint one more Election Commissioner to fill up the last vacancy.

ANSWER: 56

Explanation:
United States is on top with its share of 579 companies. .Japan slid to the third spot. Reliance Industries, the topmost India company is ranked 142 on the list, down from last year's 135th spot. Reliance is followed by State Bank of India. Major banks ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and HDFC Bank, PSUs like Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum, NTPC and others like Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services ,Bharti Airtel ,Infosys, Wipro ,Tata Steel and Adani Enterprises make it to the 'Global 2000'list.

ANSWER: Chennai

Explanation:
In terms of vehicle density, Chennai tops the list with 2093 followed by Pune with 1260, Mumbai with 1014, Hyderabad with 723, Kolkata with 355 and Delhi with 245. The reason for this is Delhi's enormous advantage in road length. Compared to 1800 km in Chennai and Pune, 2000 km in Mumbai and a mere 1400 km in Kolkata, Delhi boasts around 30,000 km of road length.

ANSWER: Haryana

Explanation:
Assembly Speaker Kanwar Pal Gurjar had inaugurated the excavation work of 'Saraswati Revival Project' at Rullaheri village on April 21. The river length in Yamunanagar would be 55 km and would pass through 43 villages. It is believed that the river passes underground through Kurukshetra, Jind, Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa districts before entering Rajasthan and Gujarat.

ANSWER: Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2014

Explanation:
The bill ensures that no child is sent to jail and remains within the JJ system till the age of 21 years no matter what the verdict is. It is proposed that every state and UT will have atleast one place of safety to keep children who commit heinous crimes. Also, under the new law there will be no provision for death sentence or life imprisonment. At the age of 21 years, their behaviour will be assessed, and, if an offender has reformed, his sentence may be curtailed.

ANSWER: Mazen Darwish

Explanation:
The UN's cultural body on Sunday awarded its annual press freedom prize to Mazen Darwish, a Syrian journalist and rights activist who has been jailed by the regime for more than three years.

ANSWER: Jonathan Trott

Explanation:
He struggled on his return to the Test arena during England's 1-1 drawn series with the West Indies in the Caribbean concluded on May’15, managing just 72 runs in six innings including three ducks.

ANSWER: Nirmal Ganga Sahbhagita

Explanation:
The initiative aims at sensitizing the ULBs about the pollution in river Ganga arising primarily due to dumping of solid waste in the river/nallas and to involve them in a long term engagement in stoppage of the solid waste flow from nallas/drains to the river.

ANSWER: 2017-18

Explanation:
Chandrayaan-2 is planned to be launched during 2017- 2018 timeframe by Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

ANSWER: Maharashtra

Explanation:
The law is going to be drafted by the end of May. In India, the marriages of Muslims, Catholics and Parsis are covered under Hindu Marriage act but not Buddhist marriages. Buddhist community is demanding separate marriage law for them since long. The first proposal for separate law was put forth in 2007 by then cabinet minister Nitin Raut.

ANSWER: Shashi Kapoor

Explanation:
In the presence of his illustrious family and who’s who of the Hindi film industry, veteran Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor received the prestigious Award.

ANSWER: Jansurakhsha

Explanation:
The schemes were launched simultaneously at 115 places in the country with Central and State Chief Ministers and senior ministers attending the functions.

ANSWER: FM Towers

Explanation:
By FM people can access radio on mobile phones and car’s stereos. Mr. Rathore said his ministry has set a target of covering 67 percent of the country by FM radio in the next 2 and a half years from 45 percent at present.

ANSWER: Three Times

Explanation:
The Pentagon says that China's official defence budget last year was 136.3 billion dollars while that of India was 38.2 billion dollars. The Pentagon said in its annual report to the Congress that China has significantly increased its defence budget over the past several decades and now has reached a position to pose threat to the American national security interest in the region.

ANSWER: Vikas Gowda

Explanation:
Chad Wright of Jamaica was second, while Jared Schuurmans of United States was third.

ANSWER: Namaste India

Explanation:
The President said Indian culture and its heritage of art, music and cinema have enjoyed love and appreciation across Russia over centuries.

ANSWER: West Bengal

Explanation:
IISCO plant is situated in Burnpur, West Bengal.

ANSWER: Hindustani Awam Morcha

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Gujarat

Explanation:
The commissioning of INS Sardar Patel would enable it to qualitatively augment its infrastructure and organisational effectiveness in Gujarat, which would improve coordination and synergy with other maritime agencies of the government.

ANSWER: National Green Tribunal

Explanation:
A bench, headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar said that these units have even not cared to take the steps to install rainwater harvesting systems even after several reminders. The green panel imposed a fine of 7.50 lakh rupees each on Jaypee Siddharth, Piccadily Hotel while Tirupati Infraprojects Pvt Ltd was imposed 5 lakh rupees as fine. The Tribunal also imposed a fine of 5 lakh rupees each on hospitals B M Gupta Hospital Pvt Ltd, Indraprastha Medical Corporation Ltd Santom Hospital, and Jaipur Golden Hospital while Holy Family hospital was imposed 3 lakh rupees.

ANSWER: Justice K G Balakrishnan

Explanation:
Justice K G Balakrishnan had joined the Commission as its chief on the June 7, 2010 after his retirement as the Chief Justice of India.NHRC member Justice Cyriac Joseph has been authorised by President Pranab Mukherjee to act as the Chairperson of the Commission with effect from 12th May’15 until the appointment of a new Chairperson.

ANSWER: 12th May

Explanation:
The IND theme for 2015 is Nurses: A Force for Change: Care Effective, Cost Effective. Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing, was born on 12th May, 1820 and hence this day is celebrated as International Nurses Day all over the world.

ANSWER: 1973

Explanation:
The Health Ministry had instituted the awards in 1973 as a mark of recognition for the meritorious services of nurses.

ANSWER: Sitara-e-Pakistan

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Priti Patel

Explanation:
Prime Minister David Cameron has promoted one of Britain's most prominent Indian-origin MPs Priti Patel by making her the new Employment Minister, as he unveiled the first all-Conservative Cabinet in nearly 20 years with his top four aides retaining their previous portfolios.

ANSWER: Nagaland

Explanation:
The unanimous resolution was adopted during a closed door meeting of the legislature parties and Independent MLAs constituting Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN), held at Chief Minister's residential office in Kohima on 11th May’15.

ANSWER: Andhra Pradesh

Explanation:
The online portal to be launched soon by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, will help in the verification process during registrations or while applying for loans from banks.

ANSWER: K.V.Kamath

Explanation:
The Leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) had meeting in 2014 and reached an agreement to establish the New Development Bank, with its headquarters in Shanghai. As per the agreement, India got the right to nominate the first president.

ANSWER: Andy Murray

Explanation:
He had never beaten Rafael Nadal in six previous meetings on the surface.

ANSWER: India

Explanation:
A Memorandum of Understanding is set to be signed with Brazilian representatives in New Delhi. The MoU will be signed by Project Leader and Tournament Organiser, Joao Gilberto Vaz and Secretary General ASSOCHAM, DS Rawat, in the presence of Sports Secretary Ajit Sharan. All India Football Federation General Secretary Kushal Das will also be present.

ANSWER: 11th May

Explanation:
The National Technology Day is held every year on May 11 to celebrate India's achievements in science and technology and also commemorates the successful carrying out of nuclear tests at Pokhran.

ANSWER: Liberia

Explanation:
In Liberia no new cases of Ebola were reported in past 42 days which is twice the number of days the virus requires to incubate.

ANSWER: Karnataka High Court

Explanation:
Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa and three of her associates were acquitted in an illegal assets case by a single judge of the Karnataka High Court on Monday morning.

ANSWER: 10th May

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: Gir Wildlife Sanctuary

Explanation:
The population of Asiatic lions has been found to have increased considerably in the Gir wildlife sanctuary — from 411 during the last census in 2010 to 523 in 2015.

ANSWER: Droupadi Murmu

Explanation:
Former Odisha Minister Droupadi Murmu will be the new Governor of Jharkhand. She will replace Dr Syed Ahmed who has been transferred to Manipur for remaining period of his term.

ANSWER: Mr J P Rajkhowa

Explanation:
Mr J P Rajkhowa has been appointed as the new Governor of Arunachal Pradesh who will replace Lt. General (Retd.) Nirbhay Sharma who has been transferred and appointed as Governor of Mizoram for the remainder of his term.