Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Jan 31, 2015

ANSWER: D. Babu Jagjivan Ram Chhatrawas Yojana.

The court directed the centre and State governments to carry out a survey and inform about the status of hostels being constructed under the scheme within four months. A social justice bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and U U Lalit also directed that construction of new hostels under the scheme should be expedited and posted the matter for further hearing on 20th July.

ANSWER: B. Jayanthi Natarajan.

She claimed that she followed Rahul Gandhi’s directions on green nod to projects but was humiliated and sidelined by central leadership. Jayanthi Natarajan has also quit as the trustee of the Tamil Nadu unit Congress.

ANSWER: C. Pakistan.

The attack came as Mr Sharif visited the city of Karachi, the capital of Singh province.in the Shikarpur district.

ANSWER: D. 23

Growth was down by 4.3 percentage points compared to 2012 and 1.6 percentage points lower than that for 2013. China's annual economic growth slowed to 7.4 percent last year, the weakest expansion in 24 years. The Ministry said, slower growth is in line with the weak performance of industrial output, consumption, investment and corporate profits.

ANSWER: B. 2011-12.

The base year was last revised in January 2010. Earlier, year 2004-05 was the base year for computing the economic growth rate. India Ratings (Ind-Ra), a leading rating agency of the county, on 28th Jan’15 said that the revision in base year of India’s national accounts will increase the size of the economy to Rs. 111.7 trillion in the financial year 2014-15.

ANSWER: D. 6.9%.

These changes follow a revision in the base for calculating national accounts to 2011-12 from 2004-05.

ANSWER: B. Shri R Gandhi.

The committee will examine the line of businesses that UCBs may be permitted to undertake and their benchmark in terms of size of business, capital requirement, regulatory regime etc. It will also suggest the appropriate size up to which a UCB may be able to grow without undue risk to the system. The committee will further suggest the criteria for allowing voluntary conversion by a UCB. RBI has also asked the committee to examine whether the time is opportune to give license to new UCBs.

ANSWER: B. 1.07 times.

This is the biggest share sale by any private or public sector company in the country, and exceeds the previous stake sale record of over Rs 15,000 crore by Coal India itself, in 2010.

ANSWER: D.26%.

ANSWER: B. China.

China toppled the US in 2014 as the world's largest recipient of the FDI- a position that the US had been holding almost consistently since the 1980's- though with a modest increase of 3 per cent. The top five FDI hosts in 2014 were China with 128 billion US dollar, followed by Hong Kong 111 billion dollar, the United States 86 billion, Singapore 81 billion dollar and Brazil 62 billion dollar.

ANSWER: A. Telepresence.

Telepresence offers a more engaging video conference with cutting edge technology, so that the parties involved feel the immersive presence of participants at different locations. The service is designed to improve collaboration, save executive time, reduce costs and carbon footprint with no capital investment and obsolescence risk.

ANSWER: B. Kumar Sangakkara.

He achieved his 473rd dismissal in ODIs when he caught Corey Anderson in the final ODI against New Zealand that was played at Wellington.

ANSWER: C. Dr VK Saraswat.

ANSWER: D. Krishna Chaudhary

The 1979-batch Bihar cadre officer is presently working as the Director General of the Railway Protection Force. The post of ITBP DG has been vacant since January 1 after the retirement of Subhas Goswami on December 31 last year.