Current Affairs Questions and answers - July 03, 2014
Q1. Name the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook has met with the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 3rdJuly’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ2. Name the person for whom wreath laying ceremony to commemorate the death anniversary was organised at Jamia Malia Islamia University Cementry on 3rdJuly’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Late. Brigadier Mohammad Usman, MVC. He is known as the savior of Naushera and was responsible for the recapture of Jhangar & Naushera (J&K) during 1947-48 war with Pakistan.
Q3. Name the three-day B2B event of the India Trade Promotion Organizations (ITPO) inaugurated by the Shri Kalraj Mishra, Union Minister for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises on 3rd July’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: India International Leather Fair. “Trend Wall” is the theme of the fair, highlighting Indian expertise in the design development of elegant and high quality leatherwear from finished leather through leather products.
Q4.On 3rdJuly’14, the Union, State and Union Territory governments today unanimously agreed to work together to provide housing for all by the year _________.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 2022. To this effect, Ministers of Urban Development and Housing of the Union, States and Union Territories have unanimously adopted a three page ‘National Declaration on Urban Governance and Housing for All’.
Q5. Under which Act, the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development proposes amendments to give additional powers to National Commission for Women (NCW)?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: National Commission for Women Act 1990. The proposed changes have been uploaded on the website of the Ministry (wcd.nic.in) inviting comments/suggestions from Civil Society Organisations, other interested groups and individuals latest by 15thJuly’2014.
Q6. Between which stations, Indian Railways successfully conducted test run of semi-high speed train on 3rdJuly’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: New Delhi and Agra. The train was flagged off from New Delhi Railway Station at 11:45 am, which reached Agra at 1 pm and the speed of this semi-high speed train is 160 kilometer per hour.
Q7.Name the one-man commission set up by Tamil Nadu Government to probe Chennai Building Collapse?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Retd Justice R. Raghupathy’s Commission. The 11-storey building collapsed in Moulivakkam suburb of Chennai on 29thJune 2014 that has claimed about 56 lives.
Q8. Name the satellite that has been launched by NASA on 2ndJuly’14 to track CO2 which is responsible for Global Warming?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite.
Q9. Name the woman became the first female four-star admiral in US Navy on 1stjuly’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Michelle Howard. Before this she was Vice-Admiral.
Q10. What are the four vaccines that has decided by the government on 3rdJuly’14 to introduce all four as part of India’s Universal Immunization Programme?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Among four Vaccines, Three of them will be provided to all children to protect them from rotavirus, rubella and polio, while fourth vaccine is for adults to protect them against Japanese Encephalitis. With this decision, the government will now provide free vaccines against 13 life threatening diseases to 27 million children annually under the programme.
Q11. In which country, the sixth and final round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the six powers group has begun on 3rdJuly’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ12. With which firm, Reliance Capital announced the merger of its global film and media services business through Reliance MediaWorks (RMW) on 2ndJuly’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Prime Focus Ltd. (PFL), a global media and entertainment industry services leader.
