Current Affairs Questions and Answers - May 22, 2015

ANSWER: A. First

Saina secured the numero uno spot for the first time early last month. But she slipped from the coveted position subsequently. The Olympic bronze medallist, however, climbed to the number one ranking on 21st May’15 once again ahead of the Australian Open, starting on May 26. Meanwhile, P V Sindhu lost a position to be on 12th place in the Rankings. In men's singles, K Srikanth has retained his fourth place. P Kashyap maintained his 13th place and H S Parnnoy also held on to his 15th spot.

ANSWER: B. 2016

The mid-year update of the UN World Economic Situation and Prospects, released on 21st May’15, said India's economy is projected to grow by 7.6 per cent this year and 7.7 percent in 2016, overtaking China. China is projected to grow by 7 per cent this year and 6.8 per cent next year. The report termed South Asia's economic outlook as largely favourable.

ANSWER: D. Uttar Pradesh

As per FSDA commissioner at Lucknow PK Singh, samples of Maggi noodles of particular lot of March 2014 were taken for testing and found contaminated at testing labs at Gorakhpur and Kolkata.

ANSWER: C. Himachal Pradesh

The situation in some parts of Una and Kinnaur Districts is alarming in the state as the girl Child Sex Ratio is declining. Therefore the state government has geared up its machinery in these districts to improve the Child Sex Ratio. Besides it, representatives of Panchayti Raj Institutions in all the 3,243 panchayats were also sensitized for proper implementation of Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao.

ANSWER: B. 6th position

As per the Department of Science and Technology, India is elevated from tenth to sixth position in terms of publishing scientific research papers in different journals.

ANSWER: A. 40-60%

The Government is planning to increase the total number of the Jan-Aushdi stores to 3,000, and at these stores essential medicines will be provided at 40 to 60 per cent lower rates.

ANSWER: D. Mirage-2000

The operations were conducted with active support from the government of Uttar Pradesh, Yamuna Expressway Authority, toll authorities of JP Infratech and Civil Police.

ANSWER: C. State Bank of India

Customers of State Bank of India (SBI) can now use their debit cards on PayPal for buying products from overseas websites. The partnership will also allow SBI's Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) customers to use PayPal's secure payment solutions.

ANSWER: A. ASTROSAT

It is significant to note that ASTROSAT is the first mission to be operated as a space observatory by ISRO. The satellite is planned to be launched during the second half of 2015 by PSLV C-34 to a 650 km near equatorial orbit around the Earth.

ANSWER: D. Protons collided at the record breaking energy of 13 TeV.

Scientists at Cern in Switzerland achieved test collisions between protons - the ‘hearts’ of atoms - at 13 tera-electron volts (TeV) for the first time.

ANSWER: B. United States

Barack Obama debuted on Social Media Platform Twitter with @POTUS account. He beat the previous record, which was set in April 2014 by Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr., after the actor reached a million followers in 23 hours and 22 minutes.

ANSWER: C. Astra

Astra is India’s first beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) that is capable of engaging its target at ranges of 37 km or beyond. It has operational range of 60km. The all-weather missile has been indigenously designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

ANSWER: D. Assam

In the proposed Joint Venture, a PSU of Department of Fertilizers namely Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation Limited (BVFCL), Government of Assam and Oil India Limited (another PSU) shall have 11%, 11% and 26% equity holding respectively and balance 52% by private/public sector entity(ies) which would be inducted through a competitive bidding process.

ANSWER: A. Australia

The three-month show features 101 paintings done between the 17th and 19th centuries, and is the first major initiative under a recently-inked pact on culture between India and Australia.