Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Mar 12, 2015

ANSWER: B. Mauritius.

The agreements signed included one on Ocean economy which will help utilize the rich marine resources of the Indian Ocean island nation. MoUs for improvement in Sea and Air Transportation Facilities at Agalega Island in Mauritius, boosting the cultural co-operation between the two countries for the next three years, co-operation in the field of Traditional System of Medicine and Homeopathy, and protocol for import of fresh mangoes from India were also signed between the two countries.

ANSWER: A. 60.

At present, a formal sector worker covered under the EPS-95 can make contributions towards pension scheme till the age of 58 years and can claim pension thereafter. After the amendment to the pension scheme, a formal sector worker can choose to contribute towards it till 60 years of age. This will provide him a benefit of 4 per cent enhanced pension per year.

ANSWER: B. United States of America.

The US Treasury Department released a list on 11th Mar’15 of 14 people, including eight Ukrainian separatists, and two entities, including Russian National Commercial Bank, a Russian bank operating in Crimea, the Black Sea-peninsula Moscow annexed from Ukraine last year.

ANSWER: C. Kolkata.

Coins and fresh Notes amounting to 1 crore 7 lakhs 50 thousand rupees were exchanged in the Mela in which around 2 thousand 5 hundred people have been benefited.

ANSWER: D. Life Insurance Corporation of India.

LIC has taken the task of supporting Indian Railways and it is a commercial decision. The investment would be done in bonds issued by various railway entities such as Indian Railways Finance Corporation, beginning next fiscal. A MoU was signed in this regard in the presence of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu.

ANSWER: C. 7.2%.

Last year, IMF had forecast a growth rate of 5.6 percent for the current fiscal, and 6.4 per cent for the next fiscal. In its annual assessment report for the country, IMF said that India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing big emerging market economies and the growth rate would grow by 7.5 per cent.

ANSWER: A. Coal Scam.

The court also summoned industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, former coal secretary PC Parakh, two officials of Hindalco for alleged offences of criminal conspiracy, cheating etc. Manmohan Singh was reportedly questioned by the CBI in January and the agency is said to have asked him about a coal field in Talabira block that was allotted in 2005 to Hindalco, whose chairman is KM Birla.

ANSWER: D. Shaheen-III.

Pakistan has test-fired a ballistic missile that can deliver a nuclear warhead to any part of India, and even as far away as Israel. The Shaheen-III missile with a range of up to 2,700 kilometres is an updated version of the indigenously produced Shaheen-I and Shaheen-II.

ANSWER: C. Kumar Sangakkara.

With a century in match against Scotland on 11th Mar’15, Sangakkara became the first batsman in history of ODI to score 4 consecutive centuries.

ANSWER: A. David Hale.

He has currently been the US ambassador to Lebanon since Aug. 1, 2013. He will succeed Richard Olson, who has been US ambassador in Islamabad since September 2012.

ANSWER: B. Markandey Katju.

He said “I submit that Gandhi was objectively a British agent who did great harm to India”.