Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Jan 24, 2015
Q1.The 5th National Voters Day will be celebrated in India on _____.A. 24th January’15.
B. 25th January’15.
C. 26th January’15.
D. 27th January’15.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: B. 25th January’15.
The Election Commission of India is celebrating 5th National Voters’ Day ( NVD) across the country and the theme for the 5th NVD is ‘Easy Registration, Easy Correction’.
A. 28th January’15.
B. 27th January’15.
C. 26th January’15.
D. 25th January’15.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: D. 25th January’15.
25th January is also the foundation day of the Commission, which came into being on this day in 1950.
A. United Kingdom
B. United States
C. Myanmar
D. Japan
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: B. United States
This Joint Declaration of intent made for a period of next five years would help in strengthening industrial, technological, research & innovation and economic cooperation between India and U.S. in the ICTE sector.
A. 23rd Jan’15
B. 24th Jan’15
C. 25th Jan’15
D. 26th Jan’15
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: B. 24th Jan’15
The national flag will be flown at half mast on 24.01.2015 throughout India and there will be no official entertainment on the day.
A. 1950
B. 1957
C.1965
D. 1975
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: B. 1957
This Award is given annually by the Government of India and Indian Council of Child Welfare. This year, 24 children selected for the awards include 4 awardees who have been rewarded posthumously for their acts of bravery.
A. Dudi Sela
B. Andy Murray
C. Rafael Nadal
D. Andreas Seppi
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: D. Andreas Seppi
It was the Italian player Seppi’s first win against Federer in 11 matches.
A. Lee Wan Koo
B. Chung Hong-Won
C. Park Geun Hye
D. None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: A. Lee Wan Koo
He succeeds Chung Hong-Won. Chung Hong-Won had offered to resign over a ferry disaster that killed more than 300 people in Apr’14.
A. 2012
B. 2013
C. 2014
D. 2015
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: D. 2015.
India's foreign exchange reserves touched an all time high of 322.135 billion US Dollars for the week ended 16thJanuary’15. Strong FII inflows and reduction in import burden due to a record fall in oil prices have led to accumulation of the record forex reserves.
A. SEBI
B. NABARD
C. RBI
D. Ministry of Finance
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: C. RBI.
Reserve bank of India made it compulsory for banks to set out every possible cost in respect of the loan in a fact sheet at the processing stage and they also have to publish the ‘annual percentage rate’ representing the total cost of credit to an individual borrower.
A. Central bank
B. Federal bank
C. European Central Bank
D. None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: C. European Central Bank.
ECB would purchase sovereign debt starting from March 2015 until the end of September 2016 in an effort to release €60 billion euros ($68 billion) a month into the European economy.
A. Karnataka
B. Punjab
C. Maharashtra
D. Kerala
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: D. Kerala
Chota ATM enables kirana store owners, taxi drivers, small businessmen, traders who are dealing with customers to turn their mobile device into both a cash withdrawal point as well as a credit/debit card payment terminal.
