Current Affairs Questions and answers - Aug 2 & 3, 2014
Q1. Name the first Indian woman mountaineer to scale Mount Everest awarded with the Bharat Gaurav award by the Kolkata based football East Bengal Club?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ2. Name the CMD of Syndicate Bank on whom CBI has registered a case for alleged bribery case?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: S K Jain, Chairman and Managing Director.
Q3. Name the famous Indian filmmaker who has been selected for Rajiv Gandhi National Sadhbhavana Award for his contribution towards the promotion of communal harmony, peace and goodwill?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ4. Name the person who has been allowed by Supreme Court to use Conference Room in Tihar jail for asset sale talks?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ5. Name the first person to win a gold medal for India in 56 years in Men's Athletics after Milkha Singh?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Vikas Gowda. He won a gold medal in discus throw in Men’s Track events at 2014 Common Wealth Games at Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
Q6. In which state, India’s largest solar power plant is planned?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Rewa, Madhya Pradesh. The plant will produce 700 MW of electricity and require an investment of Rs. 4000 Crore.
Q7. In which state, the country’s biggest solar plant with a capacity of 130MW is situated?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Neemuch district, Madhya Pradesh.
Q8. Name the Prime Minister of Nepal?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Shri Sushil Koirala.
Q9. What formula has been given by Shri Narendra Modi for Nepal to help build highways, information highways and transmission lines during his visit to Nepal?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: HIT formula. The Prime Minister announced that India will give Nepal 10,000 crore Nepali rupee concessional line of credit, for its development.
Q10. Name the river of Bihar in which flood situation takes place?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ11. Name the Mumbai’s historic dock that has to be revamped as a modern fishing dock in the country?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Sassoon Dock. Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, Mr. Nitin Gadkari on 2ndAug’14 inaugurated the redevelopment project under the aegis of the Mumbai Port Trust.
Q12. What are the medal standings of India at the end of Glasgow Commonwealth Games?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 5th Rank with 15 Gold, 30 Silver and 19 Bronze Medals.
Q13. Name the Bollywood actor against whom a complaint was filed in a local court on 3rdAugust over an obscene poster of his upcoming movie ‘PK’?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ14. In which city, HDFC Bank is planning to open a school under the CBSE stream?
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