Current Affairs Questions and Answers - May 15, 2015

ANSWER: C. Extension of their spectrum licenses.

Petitioners were seeking extension of their 20-year spectrum licenses by another 10 years. The telecom operators had also challenged the government's decision to reject their applications for extension of their licenses and auction the spectrum surrendered by them.

ANSWER: A. Xian

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks at Xian in China. The talks lasted for about 90 minutes during which the two leaders discussed wide ranging issues including peace and tranquility on the border, trade imbalance and investment climate.

ANSWER: C. Telangana

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will begin his 15-kilometre padyatra in Telangana's Adilabad district to highlight the issues of farmers. Rahul will meet the families of farmers who have allegedly committed suicide due to agrarian distress in the State and will address farmers at Koratikal village at the end of his padyatra.

ANSWER: C. Ustad Yojna

Under the scheme, the artisans and weavers will not only get training and skill orientation but also they will be given help to sell their products.

ANSWER: A. Tolkappiyar Award

President Pranab Mukherjee on 14th May’15 conferred the Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil for the years 2011-12 and 2012-13 on scholars for their outstanding contribution to the development of Classical Tamil language and literature.

ANSWER: B. Eva Maria Wilden

Kural Pitam Award is given to eminent scholars of Classical Tamil of non-Indian origin

ANSWER: D. Gurgaon

The National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE) is the apex National Centre of research and development in Solar Energy under administrative control of the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, Government of India. It coordinates solar energy research & technology related work in the country under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM).

ANSWER: B. Amtrak Train

According to safety experts an Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia, killing at least seven people, was travelling at twice the speed limit.

ANSWER: A. Sikkim.

The Khangchendzonga National Park was reportedly selected as one of the top 100 Green destinations in the world last year, while a proposal to nominate it as a World Heritage Site has been posed to the UNESCO. The conference assumes significance in view of a proposal from the State Government for declaration of the Kanchenjungha National Park as a World heritage site remains under consideration of the UNESCO.

ANSWER: C. Rajasthan.

The division bench headed by Chief Justice Sunil Ambwani gave the orders while hearing a PIL which had raised suspicion on the credibility of the societies in terms of the deposits taken from non-members.

The court observed that these societies are carrying out banking activities without any permission from RBI.

The court also considered the ATM installations by these societies as a banking activity. In its order, the bench said that the societies' directors will have to return the entire deposited amount to the depositors as per rules.

ANSWER: D. Panchkula

The work to set up museum at Panchkula would commence within next 3 to 4 months, the work on museum at Rakhigarhi would be taken up within a month. A state-level museum at a cost of Rs 5 crore will also be set up at Rakhigarhi village in Hisar district to display various items excavated at Rakhigarhi which is the biggest site of Harappan civilization in the South-east Asia.

ANSWER: A. -2.65%.

This was largely due to a fall in the prices of fuel and manufactured items. Inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index, was 5.55 per cent in April 2014.

ANSWER: B. 5.25%.

India's food grain production is estimated to have declined by 5.25 per cent to 251.12 million tonnes in 2014-15 crop year. The country had registered a record food grain production of 265.04 million tonnes in 2013-14 crop year. The production of most of the Kharif crops fell because of the poor monsoon last year and Rabi crops due to the recent unseasonal rain and hailstorms.

ANSWER: D. Tejaswini.

In the event that concluded at Pattaya, Tajaswini - Aurangabad-girl defeated Kavinya Miyuni Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka in the ninth and final round.

ANSWER: C. Punjab