Current Affairs Questions and answers - July 14, 2014
Q1. On which company, government has slapped an additional penalty of 579 million dollar for producing less than targeted natural gas from its KG-D6 block?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Reliance Industries. Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan informed the Lok Sabha that with this, the total penalty on RIL for missing the target in four fiscal years beginning April 1, 2010 now stands at a cumulative 2.376 billion dollar.
Q2. Name the country that has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sri Lanka for setting up a Faculty of Agriculture and a Faculty of Engineering for the University of Jaffna?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: India. The project will directly benefit the students in the war torn northern region of Sri Lanka and help develop the region as a whole through capacity building.
Q3. Name the new governors who have been appointed in Uttar Pradesh and Chattisgarh?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Ram Naik, Senior BJP leader and former Union Minister will be the new Governor of Uttar Pradesh while former Punjab Minister Balramji Dass Tandon, the Governor of Chhatisgarh.
Q4. Name the new governors who have been appointed in Gujarat and West Bengal?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Om Prakash Kohli, former BJP Delhi Chief will be the new Governor of Gujarat and Keshari Nath Tripathi, former U.P. Assembly Speaker has been appointed as the Governor of West Bengal.
Q5. Name the new governor of Nagaland?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya.
Q6. What growth rate has been registered by Indian Railways in its earning during first quarter of this financial year 2014-15?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 9.48%. Total approximate earnings were 36,674 crore rupees as against 33,500 crore rupees during the same period last year.
Q7. Name the bill that proposes the merger of some villages from Khammam district of Telangana with Andhra Pradesh to facilitate Polavaram multi-purpose project that has been passed on 14thJuly in Rajya Sabha?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill 2014. The Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha on 11thJuly’2014.
Q8. Name the project that will be soon set up by Delhi Government across the national capital to ensure women safety at public places?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: ‘Mahila Suraksha Dal’. One Surkahsa Dal each in all 11 Districts of the city will be launched on the day of Raksha Bandhan as a pilot program.
Q9. What is the inflation rate observed in the month of June’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 5.43%, in June mainly on account of decline in prices of food items and vegetables with the exception of potato and onion after rising to a five-month high in May. It was at 5.16 per cent a year ago in June 2013.
Q10. Name the South African Nobel Prize-winning author who died at the age of 90 on 14thJuly’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Nadine Gordimer. She was best known for novels such as Burger's Daughter, July's People and My Son's Story. She won the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991.
Q11. Name the first Indian origin basketball player to join National Basketball Association on the second week of July’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ12. Name the player who won the ‘Golden Boot’ at the FIFA World Cup 2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: James Rodriguez, Colombia.
Q13. For which scheme, Supreme Court ordered Union government on 11th July’14 to bring wages on par with minimum wages existing under different States?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
Q14. Name the private spacecraft launched in Virginia in United States that is carrying provisions for the orbiting space station crew and other freight?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ15. International Jawa Day has been observed on ____.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Second Sunday of July. It is celebrated every year to celebrate the legacy and power of the 175, 250 and 350cc bikes.
