Current Affairs Questions and answers - June 05, 2014
Q1. From which day, online system for environment clearances for industrial and infrastructure projects has become fully operational?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 5th June’2014. Environment clearances can now be sought online.
Q2. World Enviornment Day was observed on _____.
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ3. To which country Vice President of India flagged off an 'artificial limb fitment' team of Jaipur's Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) for providing artificial limbs to amputees?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Afghanistan. The team will provide 1000 artificial limbs to amputees in Kabul free of charge at a camp.
Q4. In which city, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) is organizing the 12th Agricultural Science Congress?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Karnal at National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI). The theme of the 2015 Agriculture Science Congress has been specifically chosen as “Sustainable Livelihood Security for Small Holder Farmers”. It was informed by Dr S. Ayyappan, President of NAAS while addressing NAAS Foundation Day Celebration on 5th June’2014.
Q5. Name the institute that has unveiled a new super computer in India?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K). The computer has been ranked fifth in the country in terms of performance and 130th in the list of world top 500 supercomputers.
Q6. Who has won the presidential election in Syria?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: President Bashar al-Assad. He has won the presidential election for the third time. Presidential election results announced on 4thJune’2014.
Q7. Who has been given the additional charge of Union Ministry of Rural development?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Nitin Gadkari, has been given additional charge of the Ministries of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation on 4 June 2014.
Q8. Three ancient Hindu temple statues were returned to Cambodia from the United States on 3rd June’2014. Name the three statues?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Duryodhana, Balarama and Bhima. These three statues were stolen from the Koh Ker Temple in Siem Reap province temple in 2004.
Q9. Name the Indian-American appointed as the member of the US Holocaust Memorial Council on 3rd June’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ10. Name the Indian appointed as the member of a UN Expert Panel on Technology and Innovation in United Nation Peacekeeping on 5th June 2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Abhijit Guha, Retired Lieutenant General of Indian Army.
