Current Affairs Questions and answers - Aug 17, 2014

Current Affairs Questions and answers - Aug 17, 2014


Q1. Which university has planned to introduce graduate degree programmes for sex workers?

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ANSWER: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).




Q2. Name the states that have signed a MoU for rural livelihood mission in India?

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ANSWER: 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?

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ANSWER: Abdul Basit.




Q4. Independence Day of Indonesia is observed on ____.

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ANSWER: 17thAug’2014.




Q5. Parsi New Year ‘Navroz’ will be celebrated on ____.

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ANSWER: 18thAug’2014.




Q6. Who has inaugurated the New Hostel Building of the National Institute of Plant Health Management (NIPHM) in its campus at Hyderabad on 17thAug’2014?

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ANSWER: 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?

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ANSWER: Rapti River.




Q8. Who has been chosen for the International Mathematical Union’s Nevanlinna Prize, which is given “for outstanding contributions in mathematical aspects of information sciences”?

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ANSWER: 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?

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ANSWER: 1-3. India has won only 1 Test Match and England has won 3 matches.


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