INTERNATIONAL

1) Pakistans National Assembly on 6 May 2014 approved a resolution to lift a ban on video-sharing website
YouTube.YouTube has been banned in Pakistan for how many times?
Ans:- Three times
2) Which country President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar on 9 May 2014 agreed on a peace deal that proposes
to end five months of conflict ?
Ans:- South Sudan
3) Which Afro-Arabian country on 1 May 2014 adopted a landmark new electoral law, which requires party lists for
legislative elections to be half women and half men?
Ans:- Tunisia
4) China on 19 May 2014 set up a 1.6 billion dollars (10 billion Yuan) fund that will support projects related to ?
Ans:- Maritime Silk Road development of China
5) Which country on 22 May 2014 suspended the 12th bull fight festival after matadors got injured by bulls ?
Ans:- Spain
INDIA & WORLD
1) The new protocol Declaration on Automatic Exchange of Information in Tax Matters on tax data exchanges has been
signed on 6 May 2014 in ?
Ans:- Paris
2) Recently, which country has imposed ban on import of chilli pepper from India?
Ans:- Saudi Arabia
3) Which country has topped the list of World Mothers Index-2014?
Ans:- Finland
4) To pay tribute to the 100 years of Indian cinema, which country on 5 May 2014 released two postage stamps designed
by an Indian graphic designer ?
Ans:- Brazil
NATIONAL
1) The Union Cabinet on 1 May 2014 approved the proposal for setting up of the ?
Ans:- Polavaram Project Authority (PPA)
2) Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on 7 May 2014 issued guidelines to operastors for ?
Ans:- Real Time Tracking of Aircrafts
3) The Constitution Bench of Supreme Court of India on 6 May 2014 upheld the Constitutional validity of the ?
Ans:- Right to Education (RTE) Act
4) Revised norms of National Capital Region (NCR) Planning Board on 14 May 2014 restricted tourism in in NCR ?
Ans:- Green Zones
5) The Union Home Ministry on 14 May 2014 extended the ban imposed on the in India for five more years ?
Ans:- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
STATES
1) The Supreme Court on 6 May 2014 held that the government cannot impose mother tongue on linguistic minority for
imparting primary education. A bench of the apex court gave this order while hearing the government orders of which state
pertaining to this issue?
Ans:- Karnataka
2) Election Queue Management System, a first of its kind initiative was introduced in India recently in which state?
Ans:- West Bengal
3) BHEL commissions first of the two unit of 600 MW capacity for Jindal Thermal Power Project at Angul in which state ?
Ans:- Odisha
4) According to latest report, which state has reported highest tiger mortality rate in the country?
Ans:- Tamil Nadu
CONFERENCES
1) Group of 77 developing countries plus China (G77+China) summit to be held on 14 and 15 June 2014 in ?
Ans:- Santa Cruz ( Bolivia )
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Which film was on 3 May 2014 given award for the Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment in National
Film Awards 2014 ?
Ans:- Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
2) Name the Indian american cardiologist was recently won Gregory Bradeb Memorial Fellow of the Year Award 2014 ?
Ans:- Mitul Kadakia
3) Caparo Group won the International Business of the Year award 2014 at the Asian Business Awards Midlands in
Birmingham on 9 May 2014. This group is founded by which industrialist of Indian origin?
Ans:- Lord Swaraj Paul
4) Pranab Mukherjee, the President of India on 12 May 2014 conferred on 35 nursing personnel from across the
country for their meritorious services ?
Ans:- National Florence Nighangle Awards 2014
5) Arabian travel Market (ATM) awarded India with on 8 May 2014 ?
Ans:- New Frontiers Award 2014
SPORTS & GAMES
1) 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games are to be held from 16th to 28th August 2014 in - ?
Ans:- Nanjing, China
2) What was the ranking of India in the ICC Test rankings annual updated list issued on 1 May 2014?
Ans:- 5th
3) Who won the womens doubles title at the WTA Portugal Open 2014 held in Portugal on 3 May 2014 ?
Ans:- Sania Mirza of India and Cara Black of Zimbabwe
4) Who was crowned World Snookers Player of the Year at the sports annual awards ceremony in London on 8 may 2014
?
Ans:- Ronnie OSullivan
5) Which team on 12 May 2014 won the 20th Senior National Womens Football Championships title at the Golaghat
Stadium in Assam ?
Ans:- Manipur
ECONOMY
1) Which airline became the newest to have won an operating permit for airline services in India?
Ans:- AirAsia India
2) Indias Adani Group got approval for a $15.46 billion coal mine development project in which state of Australia recently?
Ans:- Queensland
3) IPL franchisee Delhi Daredevils recently launched a co-branded cricket credit card in partnership with which commercial
bank?
Ans:- The Ratnakar Bank Ltd
4) According to the Sunday Times Rich List published on 11 May 2014, who edged out steel-baron Lakshmi Niwas Mittal to
emerge the richest people in the United Kingdom?
Ans:- Hinduja Brothers
5) Which country was ranked as the cheapest among the major world economies in a latest report by Germanys Deutsche
Bank?
Ans:- India
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
1) Recently Indian scientists have found 14 new species of Dancing Frogs in the - ?
Ans:- Western Ghats
2) Researchers at The have succeeded in replicating deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) which contained artificially
inserted synthetic pair of DNA letters, or bases, not found in nature ?
Ans:- Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
3) What is the name of Worlds first ever electric aircraft that has successfully taken its maiden voyage on 12 May 2014 ?
Ans:- E-Fan
4) Astronomers led Dr Mark Vogelsberger of MIT/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics on 8 May 2014 created the
first realistic virtual Universe using a computer simulation called ?
Ans:- Illustris
5) Which country Scientists had recently developed Silver nanowires-based nanoscale fingerprints ?
Ans:- South Korea
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who becomes the Wholetime Member (Finance) of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA)
?
Ans:- RV Verma
2) Who was elected as the President of the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) on 6 May 2014?
Ans:- Lalit Modi
3) Who was appointed as the President of International Technology Law Association on 14 May 2014 ?
Ans:- Sajai singh
B) RESIGNS
1) Who was resigned as MD and CEO of MCX on 1 May 2014 ?
Ans:- Manoj Vaish
C) DEATHS
1) Actor Bob Hoskins, whose varied career ranged from Mona Lisa to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, who died recently was
from which country ?
Ans:- Britain
D) VISITORS
1) Name the Turkmenistan President visited China from 11 14 May 2014 ?
Ans:- Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) What is the name of the first-ever woman Additional Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), who was
restrained from discharging her duties by the Supreme Court on 9 May 2014?
Ans:- Archana Ramasundaram
PLACES IN NEWS
1) Archaeologists have recently discovered a granary with walls of mud-bricks during just-concluded excavation at
Rakhigarhi village a Harappan civilisation site, in which state ?
Ans:- Haryana
ABBREVIATIONS IN NEWS
1) What is the full form of UNESCO ?
Ans:- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) A book entitled A Stamp is Born authored by was released on 6 May 2014 by Vice President of India, M Hamid
Ansari ?
Ans:- C. R. Pakrashi
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) A high-level committee recommended recasting of the Index of Industrial Production and (IIP) Wholesale Price Index
(WPI) with an objective to present a more realistic picture of the economy. Who is heading this high-level committee which
recently submitted its report?
Ans:- Saumitra Chaudhuri
DAYS & DATES
1) World Press Freedom Day was observed on ?
Ans:- 3 May 2014








Japan won the Thomas Cup 2014 of badminton
Japan won AFC Womens Asian Football Cup 2014
Novak Djokovic won the Men's Italian Tennis Open 2014
Serena Williams won the Women's Italian Tennis Open 2014 for the third time
Maria Sharapova won the Mutua Madrid Open Tennis title by defeating Simona Halep for 1-6, 6-2,
6-3
Maya Angelou,the renowned American author and poet died at 86
Hiroshi Naka appointed as the Vice President and Auditor General of World Bank
Father of Malaysian hockey Sultan Azlan Shah died at 86
Mukul Rohatgi appointed as the 14th Attorney-General of India
Ahmed Maitiq was sworn-in as the new Prime Minister of Libiya
9th State Legislative Assembly of Sikkim was constituted on 28 May 2014
Mauritius decided to provide automatic tax information exchange to India
Brazil announced measures to make FIFA World Cup 2014 eco-friendly
Italian scientists designed kidney dialysis machine for newborn babies
World Turtle Day observed across the World on 23 May
On 21st May 2014 Russian and China signed a 30-year deal on natural gas worth 400 billion US
dollars
Slovakia and Ukraine signed a Framework Interconnection Agreement on gas supply
DRDO successfully test-fires Akash air defence missiles
Pakistan successfully test-fired surface-to-surface Ballistic Missile named Hataf-III
First indigenously developed air-to-air missile Astra successfully test fired on 4 May 2014
India successfully test fired its medium range surface-to-air missile called Akash
Scientist created First realistic virtual universe called ILLUSTRIS