Current Affairs Questions and answers - Aug 17, 2014
Q1. Which university has planned to introduce graduate degree programmes for sex workers?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
Q2. Name the states that have signed a MoU for rural livelihood mission in India?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Kerala and Karnataka.
Q3. Name the Pakistan High Commissioner in India who has invited Kashmiri separatist leaders for a meeting in New Delhi on 19thAug’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ4. Independence Day of Indonesia is observed on ____.
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ5. Parsi New Year ‘Navroz’ will be celebrated on ____.
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ6. Who has inaugurated the New Hostel Building of the National Institute of Plant Health Management (NIPHM) in its campus at Hyderabad on 17thAug’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu, Union Minister of Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation.
Q7. Name the river that flows in the Balrampur district of Uttar Pradesh and is on the unprecedented level with a rising trend on 17thAug’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ8. Who has been chosen for the International Mathematical Union’s Nevanlinna Prize, which is given “for outstanding contributions in mathematical aspects of information sciences”?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Subhash Khot, an Indian-American theoretical computer scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.
Q9. What is the result of Five Test-Match Series between India and England concluded on 17th Aug’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 1-3. India has won only 1 Test Match and England has won 3 matches.