Current Affairs Questions and answers - July 07, 2014
Q1. Name the Gas Company that has been penalized for more than 25 Crore Rupees for violating competition norms?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Adani Gas Company. Competition Commission of India, CCI, has imposed a penalty on Adani Gas.
Q2. For which exams, Union Public Service Commission have put up the marksheets of 2013 exam online?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Civil Services Examination, 2013.
Q3. Name the country that has now formally become the 19th permanent member of Abu Dhabi based UN renewable agency, IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency)?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: India. India’s Ambassador to UAE T.P. Seetharam presented his credentials as the Permanent representative of India to the Director General of IRENA, Adnan Z. Amin at a function in Abu Dhabi on 6th July’14.
Q4. In which district, Officials of the Land Records and Survey wing of Assam and Bangladesh completed a routine survey on 7thJuly’14 to settle various disputes along the international border shared by the two neighbours in the district?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Cachar District, Assam. Cachar district shares 32-km international border with Bangladesh.
Q5. Name the bill, which has unanimously been passed in the Rajya Sabha on 7thJuly which aimed at declaring the Ahmedabad-based National Institute of Design as an institution of national importance?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: National Institute of Design Bill, 2013.
Q6. Name the Israeli foreign minister who has resigned from his post and ended his party’s alliance with Likud party on 7thJuly’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Avigador Lieberman.
Q7. Between which city and island, the Central Govt. has decided to lay Under-Sea Fibre Optic Cables?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: From Chennai to the strategically located Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Q8. As per the latest ICC test rankings released on 7thJuly’14, which team has topped the list?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Australia, followed by S. Africa, England with India in the fourth place.
Q9. As per the latest ICC test rankings released on 7thJuly’14, who has been named as the top ranked bowler and batsman?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Dale Steyn (Bowler) and A B Devilliers (Batsman). Among Batsman, India’s Cheteshwar Pujara is at number seven while Virat Kohli figures at number ten and Among Bowlers India’s Ravichandran Ashwin is placed seventh in the ranking.
Q10. What position has been achieved by Indian tennis player Sania Mirza in the WTA Doubles Chart released on 7thJuly’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 5th Position. Sania Mirza entered the top-five for the first time in her career.
Q11. Name the three cities that will compete to win the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, as announced by the International Olympic Committee on 7thJuly’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Beijing, Oslo and Almaty. The winner will be announced on July 31, 2015 at an IOC session in Kuala Lumpur.
Q12. What type of Courts have been termed illegal by Supreme Court of India as announced on 7thJuly’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Shariat Courts. Supreme Court objected to Shariat court from passing orders against innocent person.
Q13. Name the Committee to review the Methodology for Measurement of Poverty that presented its report to the Union Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh in the first week of July 2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: C Rangrajan Committee.
Q14. As per the C Rangarajan Committee report, what is the daily per capita expenditure for the rural poor and urban poor people?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 32 rupees for the rural poor and at 47 rupees for the urban poor. Poverty line based on the average monthly per capita expenditure is pegged at 972 rupees for rural India and 1407 rupees for urban India.
Q15. Which team has won the match played to celebrate 200-years (bi-centenary) of Lord’s Cricket Ground on 5thJuly’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Marylebone Cricket Club XI led by Sachin Tendulkar, defeating Rest of the World XI led by Shane Warne.
Q16. How many companies have made it to the latest Fortune Global 500 list of world’s biggest companies list published on 7thJuly’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 8 Companies. Names of the Companies are Indian Oil Corporation, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Reliance Industries, Bharat Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum and State Bank of India. Indian Oil Corporation is the only Indian company featuring in the top 100 at the 96th position.
