Current Affairs Questions and answers - June 28, 2014
Q1. Name the commission that has asked the Delhi University to continue four Year B. Tech course for those students who are already enrolled for academic session 2013-14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: University Grants Commission (UGC).
Q2. In which city, 61st National Film Festival has to be held?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: New Delhi. The four day film festival starts from 29thJune’14 and fifty award winning feature and non-feature film will be screened during the festival. This festival has been organized by the Directorate of the Film Festival in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Q3. Where will the two day orientation programme for the first time Lok Sabha MPs, begin from 30thJune’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Parliament House, New Delhi. The objective of this programme is to make them aware about the Parliamentary procedures. Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan will inaugurate the programme.
Q4. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India have suggested cancelling nationwide broadband spectrum allocated to the company, for allegedly rigging the auction and violating rules. Name the company?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Infotel Broadband Services, now a Reliance Industries company. Infotel Broadband Services Pvt Ltd emerged winner of pan-India broadband spectrum by paying 5,000 times of its net worth. RIL, which acquired Infotel Broadband Services within hours of it winning the spectrum, later renamed it Reliance Jio.
Q5. Name the organization that has opposed the Women and Child Development ministry's proposal for lowering the age of a juvenile from 18 to 16 years?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: ‘The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights’. The Women and Child Development ministry has proposed a draft bill to repeal the Juvenile Justice Act 2000, calling for lowering the age of a juvenile in cases of heinous crimes from 18 to 16.
Q6. At present (year 2014), what is the population of Indian Community in China?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 40,000. Indian community in China has increased from 300 persons thirty years ago to 40,000 persons at present.
Q7. Name the then Vice-president of India who had visited China in 1994?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Shri K. R. Narayanan. Since 1994, there was no visit from Indian Vice-President. In June’2014 Shri Hamid Ansari, present Vice President of India is on a five day visit to China.
Q8. In which city, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje inaugurated the new civil air terminal on 29thJune’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Bikaner, Rajasthan.
Q9. As per the announcement made by the Home Ministry, how many women personnel will join Delhi Police by next year (2015)?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 3000 Women Personnel. This move is a part of the government's efforts to strengthen the capital's police force to deal with crime, especially against women.
Q10. Name the aircraft carrier company that has suspended its flights to Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar with effect from 28thJune’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Saudi Arabian Airlines. It has become the fourth airline from the Gulf to suspend its flights to Peshawar after a Taliban attack on a PIA plane.
Q11. Name the present Director General of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Chandrajit Banerjee.
Q12. Name the player who has won the Australian Open Super Series title on 29thJune’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Saina Nehwal, defeating Carolina Marin of Spain. She has won her second title of the year.
Q13. Name the Indian player who is set to join Cricket team of India in England as Consultant in a mentoring role ahead of the much-awaited Five-Test series beginning from 9thJuly’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ14. Name the company that has bagged Rupees 441 crores contract on 28thJune’14 from Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for rehabilitation and up gradation of 80 Km road on the National Highway Connecting Uttar Pradesh?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: PNC Infratech Limited.
Q15. Name the city that has won the CNBC Awaaz Best City Award for the year 2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ16. Name the player who has won the IBSF World 6-Red snooker Championship held in Eygpt on 29thJune’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Pankaj Advani. He has created history by becoming first player to win world titles in the long and shorter formats of both billiards and snooker.
Q17. Name the sand artist who has won the People's Choice prize at the World Cup of Sand Sculpting-2014 held in the Atlantic City of the United States?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Sudarshan Patnaik. He has received this award for his work based on the theme "Save Tree, Save the Future".
Q18. Which college in India becomes first to include the category of third gender in its application forms for 2014-15 academic programs on 26thJune’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Fergusson College, Pune.
Q19. What upgradation has been done in the National Industrial Classification by the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry on 27thJune’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Upgradation of the National Industrial Classification -1987 (NIC-1987) to NIC-2008. NIC-2008 will assist new businesses, being more investor friendly as compared to the previous version of NIC Code.
Q20. Name the person named as the next president of the European Commission on 26thJune’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Jean-Claude Juncker. He is a former Luxembourg Prime Minister.
Q21. As per the report released by UNESCO on 26thJune’14, how many children from India are out of school?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Over 1 million. The data was presented by the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, at a press conference in Brussels, France.
