Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Jan 18 and 19, 2015

ANSWER: Answer: D. Nepal.

ANSWER: B. 2015-16.

ANSWER: A. January 19, 2015.
The National Disaster Response Force is a specialized disaster response which has proven its worth by rescuing thousands of people in several parts of country.

ANSWER: D. January 19, 2015.

The first NIA Day was celebrated on completion of five years of the agency`s existence, on January 20, 2014. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) was set up by the National Investigation Agency Act, 2008, which was enacted as India’s law enforcement response to terrorism in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Late Shri R. V. Raju took over as the first Director General of the NIA on January 19, 2009.

ANSWER: C. 6.

NIA has six branches, in Hyderabad, Guwahati, Kochi, Mumbai, Lucknow and Kolkata.

ANSWER: A. Lucknow.

The last meeting of the Zonal Council was held in New Delhi in the year 2010.

ANSWER: D.5.

There are five Zonal Councils, namely Eastern, Western, Northern, Southern and Central Zonal Council which are advisory bodies and discuss any matter in which some or all of the States represented in a Council have a common interest.

ANSWER: A. 18th January, 2015.

Children of less than 5 years age have been given polio drops as part of the Government of India’s drive to sustain polio eradication from the region.

ANSWER: B. A B de Villiers.
The 30-year-old South African captain hit Century in just 31 balls against West Indies -- five balls fewer than Corey Anderson's hundred for New Zealand against the West Indies in 2013/14.

ANSWER: A. Mattek-Sands and S. Mirza.

Sania Mirza has equalled her career-best doubles rank of five today, following her stupendous title win at the WTA Apia International with Bethanie Mattek-Sands in Sydney.

ANSWER: A. The Theory of Everything.

It features Stephen Hawking’s romance with Jane (wife) and his struggle to live with motor neuron disease.

ANSWER: C. 2014.

The global average temperature for 2014 was roughly 1.24°F (or 0.69°C) warmer than the 20th-century average that included record heat in the western United States, Europe, Australia, and much of the Pacific Ocean.

ANSWER: B. Deep Kumar Upadhyay.

The post was lying vacant for more than 3 years when the Maoist-led government called back its ambassador to India Rukma Shukshere Rana in August 2011.

ANSWER: A. R.K. Tyagi.

The award has been instituted by Jindal Global Business School (JGBS) and Top Rankers’ Management Consultants.

ANSWER: B. Petra Kvitova

She won the title defeating Karolina Pliskova of Czech Republic.

ANSWER: C. New Delhi.

Jual Oram, Union Tribal Affairs Minister, had inaugurated this festival.