Current Affairs Questions and Answers - June 30, 2015

ANSWER: B. 29th June’15

The Statistics Day commemorates the birth anniversary of Late Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis.

ANSWER: D. November’15

Direct air services between India and Canada, would resume in November when Air Canada starts a non-stop flight to New Delhi from Toronto.

ANSWER: C. 30th June 2015

June 30 this year will officially be a bit longer than usual because an extra second, or 'leap' second, will be added to the day. Daniel MacMillan of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre said that the Earth's rotation is gradually slowing down a bit, so leap seconds are a way to account for that. Strictly speaking, a day lasts 86,400 seconds. That is the case, according to the time standard that people use in their daily lives - Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC. However, the mean solar day - the average length of a day, based on how long it takes Earth to rotate, is about 86,400.002 seconds long.

ANSWER: A. Ajinkya Rahane

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the Indian Cricket team on 29th June’15. The Indian cricket team will tour Zimbabwe for three One-Day Internationals (ODI) and two Twenty-20 Internationals.

ANSWER: D. Goa

Tournament Director of FIFA U17 World Cup Javier Ceppi on 29th June’15 announced Goa as the sixth venue and handed over a provisional selection contract to the Sports Minister of Goa. Delhi, Kolkata, Navi Mumbai, Guwahati, and Kochi have already been provisionally selected for the tournament. FIFA is to ratify the venues after inspecting the selected grounds and stadium in September 2016. In all 52 matches will be played in venues in India during 2017 Under 17 FIFA World Cup and India with a direct entry will be participating first time in a FIFA World Cup.

ANSWER: B. Sangharsh Ke Prayog

The book is a collection of selected speeches by Prof. Ram Gopal Yadav, MP (RS) delivered at various places during past three decades including a few in Parliament.

ANSWER: D. Dr. Vishwanath Tripathi

Vyomkesh Darvesh is a fictional biography of noted Hindi critic Acharya Hazariprasad Dwivedi. Born on February 16, 1931, Dr. Tripathi has a number of original
creations like Lokwadi Tulsidas, Meera Ka Kavya, Kuch Kahaniya Kuch Vichar and several others to his credit.

ANSWER: C. United Bank of India

United Bank of India's 21.5 per cent assets are either bad or have been restructured to save them from turning non-performing assets (NPAs).The other banks that have significant amount of gross NPAs and restructured loans include, Central Bank of India (21.30 per cent), Indian Overseas Bank (19.40 per cent), Punjab & Sind Bank (18.74 per cent) and Punjab National Bank (17.94 per cent), as of March 2015.

ANSWER: C. Vijender Singh

Vijender Singh, the superstar of Indian amateur boxing, has now turned professional. The announcement for this lucrative deal was signed at a star-studded media conference in London on 29th June’15.

ANSWER: A. Chennai

Chennai became the 7th Indian city to have the metro rail system after Kolkata, Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Mumbai and Jaipur.