Current Affairs Questions and Answers - September 1, 2015

ANSWER: A. Justice A P Shah

Chairman of the Commission Justice A P Shah said, in the last decade the Supreme Court has on numerous occasions expressed concern over the arbitrary sentencing in death penalty cases. The recommendation by the nine member panel was, however, not unanimous, with three members dissenting and supporting retention of capital punishment.

ANSWER: B. 7

GDP at constant prices for April to June this year rose by 7 percent compared to a growth rate of 7.1 percent for the same period in last fiscal. GDP at constant prices at the end of first quarter in june this year stood over 27 lakh crore rupees.

ANSWER: C. Rajiv Mehrishi

ANSWER: D. Pramod Muthalik

A bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu refused Sri Ram Sene Chief Muthalik's plea and told him to come after six months. Muthalik had moved the Supreme Court challenging the order of the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court which on 2nd July had refused to interfere with the prohibitory order imposed on him and his associates by the state police.

ANSWER: C. Hindi Jagat: Vistar evam sambhavnai

The 10th World Hindi Conference (WHC) is to be organized by the Ministry of External Affairs, in partnership with the Government of Madhya Pradesh.

ANSWER: D. Government Railway Police

Through Rakshak Scheme security personnel who are on duty in the running trains will be linked with the railway police control rooms. Railway police is taking this project initially as a pilot project and the project has been launched from Allahabad Division of railway police.

ANSWER: B. Denali

President Barack Obama has said the 20,000 feet peak will revert to the original name given to it by Native Alaskan's, Denali. He made the announcement on the eve of a visit to Alaska for a conference of Arctic Nations. The central Alaska Mountain has officially been called Mount McKinley for almost a century.

ANSWER: B. Punjab

The other four areas in which Punjab bagged awards includes achieving highest cumulative grid connected solar rooftop power capacity, deployment of highest cumulative numbers of Solar Water Pumps, highest capacity addition of off-grid waste to energy plants and achieving highest capacity addition in grid connected solar power in the country.

ANSWER: A. Delhi

The Chief Minister also said that the government will provide the technical support to them for ensuring effective implementation of the Citizens Charter. He also said the departments, can add new points in the Citizens Charter next year but it will be mandatory to implement whatever will be mentioned in this charter.

ANSWER: B. Decreased

Growth of the country's infrastructure sector slowed to a 3-month low of 1.1 per cent in July, as the output of crude oil, natural gas and steel contracted. The eight core sectors, which contribute about 38 per cent to the overall industrial production, had grown at 4.1 per cent in July last year.