Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Jan 15, 2015
Q1. ARMY Day is observed on ______.
A. 15th January.
B. 13th January.
C. 14th January.
D. 16th January.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 15th January.
It was on this day in 1949 when Lt. General (later Field Marshal) KM Cariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army post Independence.
Q2. Name the India's open water swimmer to set a world record by swimming 1.4 miles in 52 minutes in one degree temperature in the Antarctic Ocean?
A. Richa Mishra
B. Shikha Tandon
C. Nisha Millet
D. Bhakti Sharma
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Bhakti Sharma.
She bettered the earlier record of British open water swimmer Lewis Pugh and American swimmer Lynne Cox. The 24-year old is now the first Asian girl and youngest in the world to have achieved this feat.
Q3. What is the deadline proposes by Centre to Supreme Court for cleaning the Ganga River on 14th Jan’15?
A. 2017
B. 2020
C. 2018
D. 2016
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 2018.
The Centre on 14th Jan’15 told the Supreme Court that it proposes to clean Ganga by 2018.
Q4. Name the DRDO Chief who has been sacked by the Government 16 months before end of tenure?
A. Dr. N Prabhakar
B. Avinash Chander
C. Dr. Satish Kumar
D. Dr. Sudershan Kumar
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Avinash Chander.
Avinash Chander known as the man behind the Agni series of missiles.
Q5. Who has been appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India on 14th January 2015?
A. Harishankar Brahma
B. V. S. Sampath
C. Navin Chawla
D. S.Y. Quraishi
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Harishankar Brahma.
He is the second person from the North-East to become an Election Commissioner, after J. M. Lyngdoh.
Q6. Name the Indian Golf Player who has been voted as 2014 “Asian Tour Players’?
A. Anirban Lahiri
B. A.S. Lehal
C. Arjun Atwal
D. Jeev Milka Singh
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Anirban Lahiri
Premier Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri on 12th Jan’15 voted the 2014 Players’ Player of the Year for his successful exploits on the Asian Tour where he won two titles and finished second on the Order of Merit.
Q7. Name the Indian-born missionary who became the first Saint from India after the announcement made by Pope Francis on 14th Jan’ 2015 at a huge Mass held in Colombo?
A. Barlaam.
B. Anchal Achan
C. Saint Alphonsa
D. Jospeh Vaz
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: D. Jospeh Vaz.
He was born in 1651 in India’s Goa, then a Portuguese colony. He travelled south at the age of 36 to Sri Lanka.
Q8. Name the Former CBI Chief who resigned from Union Public Service Commission in January’2015?
A. Amar Pratap Singh
B. Ranjit Sinha
C. Ashwani Kumar
D. T. N.Mishra
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Amar Pratap Singh.
Mr. Singh resigned four years before the completion of his term.
Q9. Name the electronics company that launched the first mobile phone powered by its Tizen Operating System in India on 14th Jan’15?
A. LG Electronics.
B. Micromax
C. Samsung Electronics
D. Karbonn
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Samsung Electronics.
It is a key step in the company’s strategy to break free from the Android platform, which powers Samsung’s flagship Galaxy devices and most other smart phones on the market.
Q10. Name the Indian drug company engaged in production of generic drugs that was recently barred by the Delhi High Court from making or selling a cheaper copy of Novartis AG’s respiratory drug Onbrez domestically?
A. Bharat Immunologicals & Biologicals Corpn. Ltd
B. Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprises Ltd
C. Coral Laboratories Ltd
D. Cipla Ltd.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Cipla Ltd.
Delhi High Court on 14th Jan’15 sought the response of Switzerland-based drug major Novartis AG on the plea of Indian pharma firm Cipla Ltd. against an order restraining it from making its respiratory disease drug, Indaflo, till it obtains a compulsory licence. Novartis has been selling the medicine in India as an inhalation powder and inhaler under the trademark name of "Onbrez" through its licencee Lupin Ltd, since 2010.
Q11. By what basis points, Reverse Repo Rate was cut by Reserve bank of India on 15th January’2015?
A. 50 basis points
B. 70 Basis points
C. 80 basis points
D. 25 basis points
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 25 basis points.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut the reverse repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.75%. The move comes at a time when inflation is steadily coming down and cries for a rate cut were growing loud.
Q12. What changes have been made on Cash Reserve Ratio by Reserve bank of India on 15th Jan’15?
A. 0.20%
B. 0.50%
C. Unchanged
D. 0.75%
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Unchanged
Cash Reserve Ratio by Reserve bank of India keeps remains unchanged at 4%.
Q13. Name the country that approved its largest ever defence budget in 2015 on 14th Jan’2015?
A. Sri Lanka
B. Japan
C. India
D. China
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Japan.
The defence budget includes plan to buy surveillance aircraft, drones and F-35 fighter jets to help counter rising assertiveness of China.
Q14. With which country, India’s trade deficit increased to 37.8 billion US dollars in 2014 despite the increase in bilateral trade by 7.9 percent?
A. China.
B. United States of America
C. Pakistan
D. Bangladesh
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: China.
India-China trade increased all time high of 73.9 billion US dollars in 2011 but declined to 66.57 billion US dollars in 2012 and 65.49 billion US dollars in 2013.
