Current Affairs Questions and answers - Aug 25, 2014
Q1. Name the person who has been appointed as the new chief of Joint Intelligence Committee.
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ2. Who has awarded with the ICSI Life Time Achievement Award 2013 for Excellence in Corporate Governance by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Shiv Nadar, HCL Founder and Chairman.
Q3. With which e-commerce company, Textile Ministry has inked a pact to provide an online marketing platform to handloom weavers across the country in order to boost the handloom sector?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ4. Name the player who has won the Belgian Grand Prix held on 24thAug’14.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Daniel Ricciardo, Australian Driver.
Q5. Name the temple located in Madhya Pradesh where many people died due to stampede on 25thAug’14.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Kamtanath Pahad Temple.
Q6. On which day, Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana will be launched across the nation?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 28thAugust’2014. The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has written an email to all bank officers, referring to his Independence Day announcement of the Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana – the National Mission on Financial Inclusion with the objective of covering all households in the country with banking facilities, and having a bank account for each household.
Q7. On how many car companies, Competition Commission of India imposes penalty of Rs. 2544.64 crores?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 14 Car Companies. It has found 14 Car Companies to be in contravention of the provisions of the Competition Act, 2002 (‘the Act’).
Q8. Who has been appointed as the new Director of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: TVS Krishna Kumar.
Q9. Who has appointed as the New Financial Services Secretary of Public Sector banks?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ10. 20th Annual Delhi Book Fair began in New Delhi on ____.
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ11. Who has termed that coal blocks allocated by screening committee from 1993 to 2010 as illegal on 25thAug’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Supreme Court of India.
Q12. Name the American distance swimmer created a World Record on 23rdAug’14 in Women’s 1500 Meter Freestyle at the 2014 Pan Pac Championships on the Gold Coast, Australia?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ13. The first seaplane Mumbai –Lonavala seaplane service was launched from ____.
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