Current Affairs Questions and answers - May 23, 2014
Q1. In which country Indian Consulate has been attacked by terrorists on 23rd May’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Herat, Afghanistan.
Q2. Name the India’s biggest e-commerce companies that has merged to create a single entity on 22ndMay’14.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Flipkart and Myntra.
Q3. In which country former Prime Minister and their family ministers have been detained by the country’s military force?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Thailand. Thailand's military has announced on 22ndMay that it is taking control of the government and has suspended the constitution. Meanwhile, the United States has suspended 3.5 million dollars in military assistance to Thailand.
Q4. By what rate coal import is increased in the financial year 2013-14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 17.9%. Coal import in 2013-14 financial year increased by 17.9 per cent to 171 million tonnes amid the widening demand-supply gap in the country.
Q5. In which country, the first legislation aimed at ending the National Security Agency's bulk collection of their country’s phone records has been passed by the House of Representatives?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ6. Who won the Agzamov Memorial International Open Chess tournament on 23rdMay’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Abhijeet Gupta, India defeating Oleg Korneev, Russia.
Q7. In which Tournament, Indian Badminton players had to settle for a Bronze Medal in New Delhi on 23rd May’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ8. Name the Indian leader that has donated Rs 21 lakh from his personal savings for the education of daughters of drivers and peons working with the Gujarat government?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ9. Which Indian project has won the second rank in the 2014 United Nations Public Service Award?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Mobile Seva Project under the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY).
Q10. Which Indian Monument will be digitally recreated in Scotland, United Kingdom under the project called The Scottish Ten?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Rani ki Vav, Gujarat.
Q11. World Turtle Day has been observed across the world on ____.
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