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In which state the first Non-Government Railway Project of Indian Railways has
been commissioned recently?
Which Indian city has been chosen as City of Music by UNESCO?
Sheila Ramani passed away. She was a / an____________.
Which of the following has been named as the most reputable nation in the world?
Indian-origin ____ has made it to the list of Asias top 10 wealthiest millennials.
In which state, India's first One stop Centre for women has been launched?
Which state government has appointed Parineeti Chopra as its brand ambassador for
the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign?
Which of the following has bagged 2015 Pacific Asia Travel Association award?
Formula One driver Jules Bianchi passed away. He belonged to which country?
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) retained its India GDP growth projection for
FY 2015-16 at _________.
Who has been appointed as the new Director of Film and Television Institute of India?
Name the Indian-origin doctor who has received the honorary fellowship by University
of Central Lancashire, England?
Who has been given additional charge of Chairperson of Food Safety and Standards
Authority of India (FSSAI)?
Who has been named IMFs next chief economist?
Which Indian Wrestler has won WWP Commonwealth Championship in South Africa?
Name the career portal launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently.
Who has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Hero Motors Group?
India has jumped to the ______ position for tourist arrivals in Australia till May 2015.
Tom Moore passed away. He was a ________.
Which space agency has developed GSLV Mark-III?
Which country has begun building the worlds largest amphibious aircraft?
Who won the British Open Golf title for 2015?
Who has been re-elected as President of Western India Football Association (WIFA)?
How many Indian companies have made to the list of worlds 500 largest companies,
according to a list compiled by Fortune?
Ibrahim Rowther passed away. He was a Tamil ______________.
Which Indian state is at the top in terms of total suicides in the country in 2014?
Expand NPS.
Who has won the worlds oldest scientific prize, the Royal Societys Copley Medal?
Who has been sacked as the chief of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)?
Major Dhyan Chand is associated with which sport?
Who has won the International Junior Golf Academy World Stars event in Las Vegas?
Who has won the Provogue Personal Care Mr India 2015 title?
First All Women Trans Continental Road Expedition from Delhi to _________was
flagged off.
What is the rank of India (Mens) in the latest International Hockey
Federation rankings?
Who has been named the Wind Power Person of the year 2015?

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Varanasi
actress
Canada
John Paul Alukkas
Chhattisgarh
Haryana
Kerala Tourism
France
7.8 percent
Prashant Pathrabe
Shiv Pande
Bhanu Pratap Sharma
Maurice Obstfeld
Sangram Singh
National Career Service
Pankaj Munjal
8th
cartoonist
ISRO
China
Zach Johnson
Praful Patel
7
film producer
Maharashtra
National Pension System
Peter Higgs
R.K. Pachauri
Hockey
Shubham Jaglan
Rohit Khandewal
London
8th
Ravi Kailas

How many Indians have been selected for this years prestigious Ramon Magsaysay
Award?
With which country Google signed a MoU to launch the Google Loon project in
the country?
Clive Rice passed away. He was the former cricket captain of ________.
Who has been named a new special envoy to Syria by US?
According to a new Forbes report who has been named as the highest-paid singer?
What is the rank of India in attracting Foreign Direct Investment during 2014?
Name the lone Indian author among 13 international authors shortlisted for the
2015 Man Booker Prize.
Expand GST.
Which country has set up the worlds first unmanned factory that is operated by robots?
According to WHO what is the rank of India among 22 high TB burden countries
globally?
Which two countries implemented their landmark Land Boundary Agreement
on 01 August 2015?
Which day has been decided by Union Government to celebrate as first National
Handloom Day?
Master Prabhroop, who is associated with roller skating is from which Indian city?
Which country will host 2022 Winter Olympics?
Ravichandran Ashwin was presented the Arjuna Award. He is associated with
which field?
Sir Peter OSullevan, an iconic ____Horse Racing commentator passed away.
Automobile manufacturer Renault India roped which actor as its brand
ambassador?
Who has been appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Mines?
Who has been selected for USA Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics
and Science Teaching?
Ghosts of Calcutta has been authored by ..
Locale, Everyday Islam and Modernity has been authored by whom?
Inshore patrol vessel . was inducted into the Indian Coast Guard.
Which city of UP has been included in UNESCOs field of excellence plan?
2nd Sohra Marathon was held in ..
Ottappalam is situated in which state?
Who had launched Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan focused on developing spirit of
innovation and experimentation among students?
Indias first air freight station in private sector will be opened in which state?
Which state has approved Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Jan Van Vikas Scheme?
Santosh Kumar Gangwar laid foundation stone for Apparel and Garment Making
Centre in which state?
Ministry of Home Affairs extended disturbed area status of which state for one more
year (Till June 30, 2016)?
Patnitop Tunnel in Udhampur district of .. will be Indias longest road tunnel
after its opening in 2016.

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Sri Lanka
South Africa
Michael Ratney
Garth Brooks
11th
Anuradha Roy
Goods and Services Tax
China
14th
India and Bangladesh
7th August
Lucknow
China
Cricket
British
Ranbir Kapoor
Balvender Kumar
Darshan Jain
Sebastian Ortiz
M. Raisur Rahman
Rani Durgavati
Varanasi
Meghalaya
Kerala
A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Tamilnadu
Maharashtra
Mizoram
Nagaland
Jammu and Kashmir

Which city has become first nomination to be received by Urban Development Ministry
for a Smart City Mission?
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu inaugurated Integrated Security System (ISS) at
6 railway stations in which state?
Which state may implement Maharashtras Jal Yukt Shivar Abhiyan for water
conservation and Integrated water management scheme?
Worlds largest flower Amorphophallus Titanum bloomed for first time in 5 years
at Jindai botanical gardens in which country?
World Trade Organisation approved membership of as its 162nd member.
United States of America designated which country as 16th Major NonNATO
Ally (MNNA)?
Nikkei media group of buys UKS Financial Times owned by Pearson in a
$1.3 billion Deal.
Gadhimai Temple Trust of which country has banned animal sacrifice during
Gadhimai festival?
Which country has approved Defence White Paper 2015 describing security issues
around it as increasingly tough?
The Union Government brought how many more drugs under the price control
regime?

Puducherry
Mumbai
Rajasthan
Japan
Kazakhstan
Tunisia
Japan
Nepal
Japan
39

The Union Cabinet gave its approval for redevelopment of how many railway
stations?

400

The CCEA approved the creation of an intra state transmission system in how many
states of the country?

seven

An indigenously designed and developed Visibility Measuring System _________

was installed at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport.

DRISHTI

IGI Airport is in ___________

New Delhi

With which country India signed Technical Agreement on sharing white-shipping

information?

Singapore

Who launched the Surakshit Khadya Abhiyan?

Ram Vilas Paswan

What is the rank of India in the World in terms of power generation from nuclear sources?

12th

Bijoy Krishna Handique passed away in Jorhat, Assam. He was former _________

Union Minister

Expand UNSC.

United Nations Security

Council

India signed a loan agreement of ___________ with Asian Development Bank.

300 million US dollars

Who has been appointed as the new Secretary of Railway Board?

Who has been chosen for the states highest literacy award, Bharat Bharti?
Government launched a new mobile app named Disha to promote digital literacy in
__________.
Rural Development Minister launched which web portal?
Delhi Chief Minister inaugurated the first _____________
Name the scheme launched by government to bring students closer to nature?
Who took charge as the Chairperson of Delhi Commisson fo Women (DCW).
Bhalchandra Pendharkar passed away. He was associated with ____________

Ganga Ram Agarwal

Kashinath Singh

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SAMANVAY
Aam Aadmi Clinic
School Nursery Yojana
Swati Maliwal
Marathi theatre

Which states Government announced that it is trying to make Beas Belt as a habitat
of Gharials?
Tamil Nadu government instituted a youth award in the name of former President _____
United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution ------------Which edition of the Fortune 500 list for the year 2015 is released?
The Worlds Largest Radio Telescope, Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical
Telescope (FAST), is being constructed in which country?
Which country became the Olympic movement`s 206th member?
Which states political parties agreed to remove the word secularism from the
yet-to-be framed Constitution?
The European Union banned the marketing of around ----------------- medicines?
Which countrys Parliament has adopted a new anti-terror law, which seeks to counter
the threat posed by militants especially jihadist threat?
Which country has successfully tested the power system of Long March-5?
SHEFROL-based waste water treatment plant built in which city?
Forbes released the list of 2015 Worlds Highest-Paid Actors, that includes names
of how many global actors?
A new species of cyprinid fish christened as PuntiusDolichopterus was discovered
from Kayamkulam city of .
Amitava Ghosh is appointed as Vice President-engineering of Domestic e-commerce
portal ---------------Which city has became the first Indian city to be a member of Beijing headquartered
World Tourism Cities Federation Council.
.. part of Sundarbans forest witnessed a rapid decline in the tiger population
between 2004 and 2015. This was revealed by the Tiger Census 2015.

Punjab
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
2231 (2015).
61st
China
South Sudan
Nepal
700 generic
Tunisias
China
Puducherry
34
Kerala
Snapdeal
Kochi
Bangladesh

The aim of Skill India Mission is to equip 500 million Indians with skills by
which year?

2022

Name the committee constituted by RBI to work out a medium-term (five-year) action
plan for financial inclusion?
Recently CCI slapped ___________ penalty on four state-run insurance companies.

Deepak Mohanty Committee

Rs. 671 crore

With which country has India signed an agreement to manufacture 200 helicopters?

Russia

India and Russia have fixed a trade target of $30 billion to be achieved by _______.

2025

What is the cost of the project that has been launched by Stephen Hawking for search
of aliens?

USD 100 million

Recently a set of ________ corporate governance principles for the banking sector has
been unveiled by BCBS.

13

Pakistan announced to buy eight submarines from _______that will boost Pakistani
navys maritime capabilities.

China

Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of
India (TRAI)?

Ram Sewak Sharma

Who has been appointed as the Chairman of Food Safety and Standards Authority
of India (FSSAI)?

Ashish Bahuguna

Union Government has announced to roll out e-tourist visa facility to ______ nationals.

Chinese

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Which automobile group replaced Toyota to emerge as the worlds largest-selling

8%

vehicle maker in the first half of 2015?

Volkswagen

BNP Paribas is a bank of which country?

France

Anand Krishnamurthy is appointed as MD and CEO of which bank?

Who has been appointed as secretary in Ministry of Micro. Small & Medium Enterprises?

Catholic Syrian Bank

Anup K Pujari

A committee under RBI executive director . will prepare a 5 year action plan
to spread the reach of financial services across country.

Deepak Mohanty

Which bank has signed a USD 200 million loan agreement of seven years with Asian
Development Bank?

Axis Bank

Which company launched a prepaid card linked mobile wallet service, which includes
pay for services as well as withdraw cash of up to Rs 1 lakh?

BSNL

Government capped the subsidy payout on kerosene at what rupees per litre?

12 rupees

Government has decided to infuse capital of .. in public sector banks by

September 2015.

Rs 20,000 crore

With which bank, Mudra Bank signed an agreement for refinancing of loans given
to small enterprises?
Indias Jewellery company Rajesh Exports accquired Valcambi, the worlds largest

IDBI Bank

gold refining company for Rs

$400 million

Which bank has appointed Ashok Kumar Lahiri as Chairman and Chandra Shekhar
Ghosh as MD and CEO?
World Bank approved US$ 250 million (ApproxRs. 1500 Crores) assistance to India

Bandhan Bank

for which states Disaster Recovery Project?

Andhra Pradesh

Japan committed help of how many dollar for Mekong Region countries in next
three years during the seventh Mekong Japan Summit in Tokyo?

6.1 billion USD

Digital signatures certifying firm launched eSign services as part of Digital

India Vision.

eMudhra

Which fast food chain tied up with IRCTC to start delivery system for passengers?

KFC

Government sanctioned Rs.1,000 crore for a 15km railway project across borders
with which country?

Bangladesh

. has overtaken US to become worlds third largest steel producer after

China and Japan?

India

The Reserve Bank of India signed a Special Currency Swap Agreement with the
Central Bank of which country?

Sri Lanka

Indian drug company Lupin acquired US generics company GAVIS Pharmaceuticals

and Novel Laboratories (GAVIS) for

880 million US dollars

Reliance Unmanned Systems signed an MoU with Augur Overseas Operation to

manufacture Aerostats and Airships in which country?

India

IDFC became second lender to enter the banking sector since which year?

2005

CCI imposed a penalty of what amount on Hyundai Motors India Ltd (Hyundai)?

420.26 crore rupees

SEBI cancelled the Certificate of Registration of which company?

Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) launched a mobile banking app named

Sahara Mutual Fund

Kotak Bharat

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---------------

Indian Army

Snapdeal tied-up with retailer ------------------ Ltd to launch a digital marketplace.

Shoppers Stop

Union Cabinet approved setting up ___________ Rupees National Investment and

Infrastructure Fund to support that stressed projects by infrastructure companies.
Which bank has launched NRI Family Card,as a prepaid card for Non-resident

20000 Crore

Indians and their families?

State Bank of Travancore

Who has launched a new Central Sector Scheme NaiManzil in Patna?

Najma Heptulla

Union Government and World Bank signed __________credit agreement.

Government approved Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana scheme with

308.40 million US dollar

outlay of Rs. ....... over five years (2015 16 to 201920).

50,000 crore

Xiaomi Corp tied up with Foxonn to set up first Assembly line in which state?

Andhra Pradesh

Rekha M Menon was appointed as the chairperson of which company?

Private insurer SBI Life Insurance launched which Insurance policy?
Who won prestigious PGA Championships 2015?

Accenture India
Smart Humsafar
Jason Day

Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Public Enterprises

Selection Board (PESB)?

Ajit Kumar Seth

At which of the following places the International Islamic Climate Change

Symposium was held?

Istanbul, Turkey

Which gas is present in Moons thin atmospheric layer according to NASA?

Neon

Recently Paravoor Bharathan passed away. He was a ___________.

Malayalam actor

Who has been elected as the President of International Association of Athletics

Federation (IAAF)?

Sebastian Coe

Who is the first Indian to be elected in the IAAF Council?

Adille Sumariwalla

According to the new Hurun Rich List who is the richest Chinese in the world?

Wang Jianlin

Who has been crowned Miss India-Canada 2015?

Manasvi Noel

In Lonely Planets Ultimate Travelist list what is the rank of Taj Mahal as worlds
best tourist attractions?

Fifth

Who has been appointed as Australias inaugural ambassador to India on education?

Adam Gilchrist

With which country Pakistan has signed a defence deal that includes the sale of four
Mi-35 Hind-E attack helicopters to Pakistan?

Russia

Who has emerged as winner in the Parliamentary elections of Sri Lanka?

Ranil Wickremesinghe

Who won Britains oldest literary award the James Tait Black award 2015?

Zia Haider Rahman

Who has been appointed as the UN ambassador of the HeForShe campaign for
gender equality?

Anupam Kher

Who has become the first transgender to be appointed as White House staff member?

Raffi Freedman
Gurspan

Who has been appointed as the new chief of national carrier Air India?

Ashwani Lohani

Which of the following won Spanish Super Cup 2015?

Athletic Bilbao

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Babasaheb Purandare has been awarded with Maharashtra Bhushan Award 2015.
He is a ___________.

writer

Recently who has been appointed as Advisor to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed?

Amitabh Mattoo

Arthur Morris passed away. He was the batsman of which country?

Australia

Who is the author of the book Making India Awesome released recently?

Chetan Bhagat

Who won Cincinnati Masters Tennis title 2015?

Roger Federer

Who has been appointed as chairman of Indias Oscar jury?

Amol Palekar

Who won gold medal in 100m title at IAAF World Championships at Beijing?

Usain Bolt

Which team won the STAR Sports Pro-Kabaddi League (PKL) title for 2015?

U Mumba

Who won British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship?

Aditi Ashok

Which cricket team won 2015 Ashes Test series?

England

Which Indian airport became the first in the world to operate completely on solar
power?

Cochin International
Airport

Which city will host the 2015 FIH Hockey World League (HWL) Finals?

Raipur

Who won Womens 100 meters gold at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics?

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Who has been appointed as chief executive officer of the Dubai Gold and Commodities
Exchange in the UAE?

Gaurang Desai

Which Indian-American appointed as the full-time federal judge of California court

by President Barack Obama?

Vince Chhabria

Who won Cincinnati Women Tennis Tournament title 2015?

Serena Williams

Who won the Belgian Grand Prix?

Lewis Hamilton

Which countrys writer won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel?

China

According to the Census 2011 what is the total population of India?

121.09 crore

How many villages will be developed by Tata Trust as per the agreement signed by
it with Andhra Pradesh government?

264

Zaina Erhaim has been awarded 2015 Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and
Ethical Journalism. She belongs to which country?

Syria

Which stock exchange has signed a MoU with GIFT City for developing an
international exchange in it?

MCX

According to Census 2011 what percent of Indias population have no faith in any
religion?

0.24%

Who has been appointed by UNICEF as goodwill ambassador for the UN Fund for
Children?

Novak Djokovic

Who has assumed charge as the Director General of the CSIR?

Dr. Girish Sahni

Name the Indian- American who won 2015 Stockholm Junior Water Prize?

Perry Alagappan

________ Research Centre Imarat (RCI) received the PSU summit award 2015.

DRDOs

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Which country will host the Commonwealth Youth, Junior and Senior Weightlifting
Championship 2015?

India

Who won 200 metres race at the 2015 Beijing World Athletics Championships?

Usain Bolt

Recently ISRO successfully launched GSAT-6. It is a ______.

communication satellite

Sanjeev Nandan Sahai is appointed as Home Secretary of which state?

Delhi

Who has been appointed as Chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women?

Swati Maliwal

Who has been appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Information & Broadcasting?

Sunil Arora

Telangana Government appointed .. as Director of Nizams Institute of

Medical Sciences (NIMS).

Kandakatla Manohar

Vassiliki Thanou has been appointed as ..'s First female prime minister.

Greece

Government conferred Arjuna Awards to 17 sportspersons this year including

cricketer

Rohit Sharma

Noted Historian .. has been conferred with Maharashtra Bhushan Award 2015 by
Maharashtra Government.

Babasaheb Purandare

_________'s journalist ZainaErhaim won Peter Mackler Award 2015 for Courageous
Journalism and training citizen reporters in his war-ravaged country?

Syria

_____Government approved amended guidelines for Begum Akhtar Award.

Uttar Pradesh

Zhanna Nemtsova has been awarded with 's Solidarity Prize 2015 for her
work for democracy and human rights?

Poland

INS Trikand visited . for four day stay visit and Training.

Israel

India-US Combined Military Training Exercise . 2015 held from 09 to 23 Sep

2015 in USA.

YUDH ABHYAS

Indias first Integrated Underwater Harbour Defence and Surveillance System

(IUHDSS) commissioned in which state?

Kerala

Which country has became first Asian country to be conferred the Associate Membership
by European Organisation for Nuclear Research?

Pakistan

Social security pact between India and ........... came into force after two years of
waiting.

UK

Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad launched Disha mobile app to promote digital
literacy in which state?

Bihar

Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad released a commemorative Rs. 5 postal stamp
on Indian emperor ..

Ashoka

Operation . launched as an initiative by railway police to trace missing and

destitute children and reunite them with parents.

Muskaan

Which state assembly passed Public Grievance Redressal Bill, 2015 for speedy
redressal of public grievances by government servants?

Bihar

Sri Lankan cricketer retired from International Cricket during ongoing Test
series against India?

Kumar Sangakkara

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Who won the second version of Star Sports Pro Kabaddi by defeating Bengaluru
Bulls?

U Mumba

Who has been ranked as No. 1 Golf Player in the World Surpassing Rory McIlroy?

Jordan Spieth

Lewis Hamilton from . has won Belgian Grand Prix 2015?

England

Indian Men's Hockey Team won three match series of their European Tour 2-1
against which country?

France and Spain

Narendra Modi is the first Prime Minister of India to visit UAE after how many years
...........

34

India-Paraguay Foreign Office Consultations (IPFOC) was held in ........... between

India and Paraguay.

New Delhi

Which committee has recommended that MAT should not be imposed on FIIs.

A.P. Shah

As per the Census 2011, the Total Population in 2011 was ...............

121.09 crores.

Which Summit 2015 is an initiative to reduce child and maternal deaths across the
world...........

Call to Action

Who has launched the digital version of epic 'Ramcharitmanas'?

Narendra Modi

Union Government has declared the names of ......... for its ambitious Smart Cities
Project

98 cities

Which has received Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy?

Punjabi University

Who has been appointed India's new Home Secretary?

Rajiv Mehrishi

Who is the Chief Minister of Kerala.

P. Sathasivam

Who has been appointed Chairman and Managing Director of India Trade Promotion
Organisation (ITPO)?

L.C. Goyal

Air India Express commenced direct non-stop flights from Varanasi to ..........

Sharjah

Pakistan signed a landmark defence agreement with which country that includes the
sale of four Mi-35 Hind E attack helicopters to Pakistan?

Russia

Indian-American .................. was appointed as the full-time federal judge of

California

Vince Chhabria

Which has allowed women to register to stand in local elections?

Saudi Arabia

Abdul Aziz Haqqani, a top leader of Pakistan-based dreaded Haqqani network, has
been named as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the ..

USA

The G20 grouping launched the W20 (Women20) in Ankara...............

Turkey

Queen Elizabeth II became longest-reigning monarch of the which country ?

United Kingdom

The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2015 ended with which theme?

equality

The White House has appointed its first openly ............ staff member

Transgender

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the wealthiest individual under
the age of ..................

35

Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad released a commemorative postal stamp
on which emperor ?

Ashoka

Rajiv Mangla is appointed as chief technology officer (CTO) of .

Snapdeal

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For the first time in .s history, a university has awarded an M.Phil degree
in Hindi.
Government created a policy framework to promote e-marketing of

Pakistan

products through e-commerce firms.

Handloom

..sigend an agreement with USA's Jasper Technologies to offer Internet

of Things (IoT) services in India.

Reliance
Communications

Smart Vault, a locker facility with latest robotic technology in India was launched
by .........

HDFC Bank.

Birla Corporation signed an agreement with which french based group?

Lafarge Group

Real estate listing portal acquired customer relationship management

software company HomeBuy360.

Housing.com

Which city will be the first city in India to enjoy free high-speed internet from Uber,
powered by Airtel 4G?

Mumbai

YouTube tied-up with Whistling Woods International (WWI) to set up YouTube

Space in in which city...........

Mumbai

How many Indian companies figure in Forbes' annual list of The World's Most
Innovative Companies.............

Three

Tata Consultancy Services ranked .. in Forbes' annual list of The World's

64th

Most Innovative Companies.

High Powered Committee on Urban Cooperative Banks (UCBs) headed by RBI
Deputy Governor ............ submitted its report.

R Gandhi

Government announced to implement from 2016-17 to replace existing

system of Appointment of top level posts in Public Sector Banks.

Bank Board Bureau

Government announced seven pronged plan called ..mission for Revival of

Public sector banks.

Indradhanush

The Adani Group has announced an investment of ............... for two major projects
in Chhattisgarh

Rs 25,200 crore

PayU India tied-up with online bus ticketing platform ........... to offer cash-back
discounts.

redBus

Bandhan along with IDFC (Infrastructure Development Finance Company) were

granted banking licenses in 2014 by the

RBI

generated its highest single-day electricity generation of over 733 million

units through its 18 coal-based, 8 solar and hydro and 7 gas-based power Plants.

NTPC

Public lender Indian Bank has launched ........... a mobile application service

IndPay

NITI Aayog Vice Chairman ..launched second version of India Energy

Security Scenarios 2047 (IESS 2047) as an open source web based tool aims to
explore range of potential future energy scenarios for India. ?

Arvind Panagariya

IRB Infrastructure Developers has executed concession agreement with ................

NHAI.

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Which company/bank start lending operation from October 01, 2015?

IDFC Bank

Union Government has released what amount rupees to Employees

crore

Pension Scheme, 1995, 2,000

Which financial institution has launched unit linked insurance plan (ULIP) product called
as New Endowment Plus that offers provides dual benefits of investment and insurance
to the policy Holder?

Life Insurance Corporation

IRDAI(Headed by ) allowed banks to tie up with multiple insurers from

three segments - life, nonlife and standalone health. Earlier, Banks were allowed to
tie up with max One Insurer.

T.S. Vijayan

Moodys Investors Service expect Indian economy would grow at .............per cent in the
current fiscal.

The Reserve Bank of India will put into circulation Rs 5 coins to commemorate
golden jubilee of ...........

Indo-Pak War 1965.

Indirect Tax Revenue collections (Customs, Excise and Service Tax) increased by
in July 2015 as compared to July 2014.

39.1%

What was introduced on 1 July 2015 by the RBI?

Base Rate

____s chairman Naina Lal Kidwai announced to launch green bonds in India for
raising funds for investments in environmental projects?

HSBC India

India and UAE decided to increase their bilateral trade to nearly ___________ in
five years.

$100 billion

According to ASSOCHAM which state led in employment generation in manufacturing

sector in the country in 2012-13?

Tamil Nadu

Recently government has launched two funds by SIDBI, a fund of funds with total
corpus of ___________.

Rs. 12,000 crore

Name the mobile wallet recently launched by SBI?

State Bank Buddy

Which of the following has recently launched its new endowment plus ULIP policy?

LIC

Recently RBI granted its in-principle approval to setting up Payments Banks to how
many entities?

11

Which government has launched Annapurna Bhandar Yojna?

Rajasthan government

Recently Alexis Tsipras has resigned. He is the Prime Minister of which country?

Greece

Initially how many PSU banks have integrated their educational loan products to the
Vidya Lakshmi portal?

RBI notified that banks can extend loan repayment period up to ____ years in case
50% crop is damaged due to natural calamities.
India has removed the name of which country from the list of countries put under the
restricted visa category?
Who has become the new Prime Minister of Australia?
Who has topped the list of most powerful women in Asia Pacific prepared by
the global magazine Fortune?
EKUVERIN 2015 is a military exercise between which two countries?
Who awarded the Rajbhasha Kirti Award 2014-15 to the Ministry of Railways?

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Chanda Kochhar
India and Maldives
President of India

Which city of America has declared 10 September as Anupam Kher Day?

Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away. She was popular for which dance form?
Who has become the first person of Indian-origin to become mayor of Germanys
major city Bonn?
At which places 2022 Asian Games will be organised?
Aditi Ashok is associated with which sport?
Which countrys Prime Minister has been conferred with the United Nations Champions
of the Earth award?
What is the name of Chinas most sophisticated observation satellite launched by it ?
What is the venue of 55th National Open Athletics Championship?
Name the second generation anti-tank guided missile, indigenously developed by
Bharat Dynamics Limited.
Name the Indian-origin person who has been appointed as the shadow chief secretary
for Treasury in London?
Which state government has launched M-Shiksha-Mitra mobile app for teachers?
Who is Dutee Chand?
Aqeela Asifi was awarded with the 2015 Nansen Refugee Award. She is a _________
refugee.
Which state government approved Victim Compensation Scheme?
Which team has won the Moin-ud Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament 2015-16?
Which Indian- American teen was awarded with the Champions of Change Award
of US at the White House?
With which country India has created a joint challenge coin?
Who has been elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for 2015-16?
Peace and Friendship 2015 is the first joint military exercise between which two
countries?
Which is the most expensive city in the world according to a report by Swiss Bank
UBS?
Bal Pandit passed away. He was a ______ Cricket commentator.
Name the Metro Man of India.
Who won mens title in Beijing International Marathon 2015?
Who won mens 10m Air Rifle event of the Asian AirGun Championships?
Which country defeated India in the Davis Cup World Group playoff tie?
Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away. He was the former President of ................
Who won Korea Open Badminton Tournament 2015?
Who won Emmy Award in the Outstanding Lead female actor category in a
Comedy Series?
Who has been conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014?
Belgium created history by entering the finals of the prestigious Davis Cup for the
first time in last _____________.
Who has been elected as the President of the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of
India (FMSCI)?
How many gold medals were won by Indian Wushu team at the Fifth International
Pars Wushu Cup?

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Madhya Pradesh
Sprinter
Afghan
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India Cements
Swetha Prabhakaran
America
P.V. Chandran
China and Malaysia
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Marathi
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Mariko Kipchumba
Abhinav Bindra
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BCCI
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Dr. Kamal Kishore
Goenka
111 years
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Who has been appointed the new Chairman of Finance Industry Development
Council (FIDC)?
Which has been declared as the national animal of Nepal according to its new
constitution?
Who has been conferred with DRDOs Lifetime Achievement Award for 2015?
Who has been appointed as Chairman of All India Gems & Jewellery Trade
Federation (GJF)?
Robert Lewandowski is associated with which game?
What is the rank of India in individuals using the Internet in 2014?
Who has been appointed as Head of National Commission for Protection of Child
Rights (NCPCR)?
Which country successfully launched a new model of carrier rocket Long March-11?
Who has been appointed as Indias new High Commissioner to the United Kingdom?
Harold Stapleton passed away. He was the oldest cricketer of which country?
Who has been appointed as the Sherpa for G-20 talks?
Who has been appointed as the President of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB)?
In which country the 9th Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (RPBD) will be held?
Who has been elected as President of Bihar Cricket Association (BCA)?
Which has been formally merged with SEBI?
Which state Government won Skoch Order-of-Merit national award for
e-Governance and IT initiatives in state?

Raman Agarwal
Cow
V.S. Arunachalam
Sridhar GV
Football
136th
Stuti Narain Kacker
China
Navtej Sarna
Australia
Arvind Panagariya
Sourav Ganguly
USA
Abdul Bari Siddiqui
FMC
Haryana

Who has been named as Australian of the Day by Commonwealth Bank for feeding
homeless in Darwin for past three years?
Indian-American author .. has been selected for 2014 National Humanities
Medal of White House?
India won UNESCO prize Award of Excellence 2015 for conservation efforts of
SreeVadakkunnathan Temple in ..
Which state Government has announced annual State Best Teachers Awards on the
occasion of Teachers Day 2015 (Sep 5, 2015)?
Who is appointed as CMD of Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited?
Who has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Indian
Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO)?
Disaster Mitigation conference of member countries of South Asian Association on
Regional Cooperation (SAARC) held in .
Which country will organize South Asian Annual Disaster Management Exercise
(SAADMEx-2015) in November 2015?
Who has been appointed as interim Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC)?
Which Indian has been appointed as global chief technology officer by the Swiss
Engineering Company ABB?
G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors held in Ankara. Ankara is a
city of which country?
China and launched their joint air exercise Shaheen (Eagle)-4 in China.

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Jhumpa Lahiri
Kerala
Puducherry
Dinesh Kumar Likhi
L C Goyal
New Delhi
India
A K Jha
Bazmi Husain
Turkey
Pakistan

INS Trikand Visited United Kingdom to participate in Annual Indo-UK Navy

Execrise .
India and ..agreed to Maintain Peace along borders and minimize ceasefire
violations during Visit of Umar Farooq Burk to India.
DMFs stands forUnder the chairmanship of whom an Expert Group has been set up to suggest for
checking Cyber crimes?
Which Abhiyan focuses on building accessible government buildings for persons
with disabilities?
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions constituted a committee
under whom to revisit the civil services examination pattern?
Noted .poet Viren Dangwal passed away.
Minister of State for Defence Pedro Arguelles Salaverria visited India. He belongs to
which country?
Government released commemorative postal stamp on .
Researchers from Manipal University and Giessen from ..discovered four
new atomic nuclei to be added to nuclei charts.
As per recent study, population of marine creatures have declined by how many
percent since 1970?
Which country has launched its newly-developed smaller version of carrier rocket
Long March-6?
Shane Watson announced retirement from Test cricket. He belongs to which country?
Asian Boxing Championships 2015 held in which country?
Lewis Hamilton from won Italian Grand Prix 2015.
Levan Aronian of won Sinquefield Cup International Chess Tournament at
St. Louis (USA).
won BuchiBabu Memorial Trophy by defeating Tamil Nadu Cricket
Association Districts (TNCA) XI.
30 Women in Power has been written by whom?
Globalisation, Democratization and Distributive Justice has been authored by
..acquired Silicon Valley-based startup Reduce Data, a programmatic
display advertising platform.
. General Insurance tied up with Catholic Syrian Bank (CSB) for sale of
Insurance products through Over 430 branches of Kerala Based Catholic Syrian
Bank.
Reserve Bank of India will issue coins of . denomination to commemorate
golden jubilee (50th) year of Indo-Pak War 1965.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) bought 15 % stake in which countrys
second-largest oil firm Rosneft for about 1.35 billion USD?
With which UN-based organization for Digitization of Payments and to promote
financial inclusion programme Pradhan Mantri Jan-DhanYojana (PMJDY).
Who has been honoured with the lifetime achievement award at the Forbes India
Leadership Awards, 2015?

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Pakistan
District Mineral
Foundations
Gulshan Rai
Sugamya Bharat
B S Baswan
Hindi
Spain
BR Ambedkar
Germany
49%
China
Australia
Thailand
England
Armenia
Mumbai
Naina Lal Kidwai
Mool Chand Sharma
Snapdeal

ICICI Lombard
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Russia
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Which state govt. has launched the Digitised NFSA Ration Card recently?
Which city will host 13th World Spice Congress?
Which state has imposed the Drought Tax?
Who inaugurate the National Conference on Human Trafficking?
Union Government decided to provide additional ................. of unskilled manual

Odisha
Ahmedabad
Madhya Pradesh
Rajnath Singh

work in the financial year 2015-16 in drought-hit areas under MGNREGA scheme.

50 days

India and Cambodia signed ................ MoUs.

two

NGT passed slew of directions to prevent pollution in River .....................

Yamuna

Navtej Sarna has been appointed as the new High Commissioner to the ....................

United Kingdom

How many agreements were signed between India and Germany?

18

The male and female literacy rate in rural areas was ................... and ...................
respectively in India.

79.1 percent, 60.6 percent

Who launched Indian Railway Knowledge Portal?

Minister of Railways

Who has organised the Indo-German Summit 2015 in Bengaluru?

The Union Government declared the National Socialist Council of .......................

NASSCOM

an unlawful organisation.

Nagaland-Khaplang

(NSCN-K)
Mulayam Singh Yadav inaugurated the 660 MW first unit of the ................... Power

Generation Company
Ltd. Lalitpur

Which state government declared that it will develop Gurgaon as a smart city?

Haryana

The Odisha Government decided to implement ................ sub-schemes for empowerment of transgenders.

five

Worlds highest terrestrial Research and Development centre has been established in
which Indian state?

Jammu & Kashmir

Which state Government increased the pension given to the ex-servicemen or

widows of soldiers who took part in World War I and World War II.
In how many districts the second phase of Mission Indradhanush has been launched?
Governor of ........... V. Shanmuganathan was appointed as the Governor of Manipur.

Haryana
352
Meghalaya

Who has launched a Citizen Portal?

Naveen Patnaik

Who chaired the first meeting of the National Sagarmala Apex Committee held in
New Delhi?
NPA stands for Ashish Bahuguna is the Chairman of the food regulator ...................

Nitin Gadkari
Non-Performing Assets.
FSSAI

Flipkart appointed Sriram Venkataraman as its ................................

Chief Financial Officer.

Twitter announced ..................... as its permanent Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Jack Dorsey

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated how many Pakistan-China Friendship

Tunnels?
Malcolm Turnbull was sworn in as the 29th Prime Minister of which country?
Sharif Ismail sworn in as Prime Minister of which country?

five
Australia
Egypt

Michel Kafando was reinstated as the President of which country?

Burkina Faso

RBI inked an agreement with which bank on exchange of supervisory information?

Meena Hemchandra is the Executive Director of ....................

Nepal Rastra Bank

RBI

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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) granted in principle approval to how many entities to set
up small finance banks?
RBI giving nod to how many entities for launching Payments Banks?
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has entered into an agreement with ....................
Expand FMCReserve Bank of India cancelled license of . due to several irregularities and
ignoring financial rules and regulations.
Corporation Limited
Which bank has launched Design Your Own Loan scheme?
Blackstone Group LP repurchased the India-based BPO operations of the which
countrys Serco Group Plc?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, launched a significant financial inclusion initiative in
which city?
As per a statement by Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu, World Bank will provide aid
of . to Railways for completing ongoing infrastructural projects.
Hero Cycles has acquired ...................... to strengthen its fast-growing premium
cycling segment in India.
Indra Nooyi and Shobhana Bharatia have been presented with the 2015 Global
Leadership Award of the ...........................
Council.
Shobhana Bharatia is the chairman of which group?
Central Board of Trustees enhanced Insurance benefits under Employees Deposit
Linked Insurance Scheme for EPF members from 3,60,000 to Rs ..
during 208th meeting of Central Board of Trustees in Hyderabad ?
SEBI imposed a penalty of ....................... on PACL for illegal and fraudulent
mobilisation of funds from the public.
Committee headed by _______ recommended to amend section 115JB of Income-tax
Act to clarify the inapplicability of MAT (Minimum Alternate Tax) provisions to
FIIs/FPIs for period prior to 01.04.2015.
NDTV Convergence signed a strategic deal with the ................... content
recommendations engine Taboola.
Which state has started scheme for adoption of wild animals in zoos and deer parks?
Seychelles was admitted as the . Member of WTO in April 2015.
The government received 638 declarations of black money and assets abroad worth
.................
Who has launched Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity - Survey of States
Report.
European Union has imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of up to .
on imports of water and sewage pipes from India.
Which company was selected as member of the global Dow Jones Sustainability Index
2015.
Qualcomm announced that it will invest what amount for Indian start-ups?
SEBI was set up in ...... as a non-statutory body for regulating the securities markets.
India signed a 123.51 million US dollar loan agreement with ................................

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11 entities
InSite Vision
Forward Markets Commission
Sahara India Financial
HDFC Bank
UKs
Varanasi
$30 billion
Firefox Bikes
US India Business
Hindustan Times Group.

6,00,000
Rs 7,269.5 crore

A.P. Shah
US-based
Haryana
161st
Rs 3,770 crore.
Piyush Goel
31.2 per cent
Wipro Limited
150 million US dollars
1990
Asian Development Bank.

Which bank registered the highest increase in gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) in
percentage terms against total loans in the 2014-15 fiscal year?
Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) is expected to take ................ stake in the

UCO bank

TAPI project.
Indirect Tax Revenue Collections increased to Rs. 2,63,089 crore during April-August
2015 from Rs.1,92,677 crore in April-August 2014 (______ up).
Ashok Vemuri resigned from his position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of .......
.. and Tata Trusts launched a scholarship programme to educate Indian
students in Android development in collaboration with Udacity for offering 1000
scholarships.
According to World Bank which state emerged as number 1 state in terms of ease of
doing business in India?
With which countrys central bank RBI inked an agreement on exchange of
supervisory information?
What is the amount allocated for Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission (SPMRM)?
How many entities have got RBIs approval to set up Small Finance Banks?
How many channels will be provided to cable operators through HITS digital
broadcasting platform?
What is OECDs world growth forecast for the year 2015?
What is the rank of India in the Global Innovation Index 2015?
How much amount has been allocated to Integrated Power Development Scheme
(IPDS)?
What is Standard Chartereds Current Account Deficit (CAD) forecast for India for
the FY 2015-16?
Who has been appointed the new Chairman of Finance Industry Development
Council (FIDC)?
With which country India has signed a MoU on energy security, climate change and
clean energy?
In its biggest ever fine SEBI imposed a penalty of __________ on PACL Ltd.
Government has launched Swavlamban Health Insurance Scheme for ___________
Who has topped Forbes Magazines India top 100 rich list?
Who has been appointed as Additional Secretary in NITI Aayog?
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) comprises of how many broad goals?
Which state Government won highest capacity addition in grid connected solar
rooftop power in the country during the financial year 2014-15?
Who is appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers
(SIAM)?
Who has been appointed as Finance Secretary replacing Rajiv Mehrishi?
SEBI provisioned fine of Minimum Rs. ..for companies without a woman
director on board.
..launched RE60 quadricycle named Qute at a free-on-board (FoB) cost of

10 percent

1.35 lakh).
Which financial institution has organized MUDRA credit camp in Karnatakas

Bajaj Auto

Dakshina Kannada District for those setting up small business units?

Syndicate Bank

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27 %
iGATE Corporation.

Google
Gujarat
Nepal Rastra Bank
Rs. 5142.08 crores
10
more than 500
3.0%
81st
Rs. 45,000 crore
1.5%
Raman Agarwal
US
7,269 crore rupees
People with Disabilities
Mukesh Ambani
Yudhvir Singh Malik
17
Punjab
Vinod Dasari
Ratan P Watal
50000

Recently the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar renamed the DRDO Missile
Complex in _________ as Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Missile Complex.

Hyderabad

Which company topped the Worlds Best Multinational Workplaces List?

Google

Which Indian actress has been nominated for Peoples Choice Awards Favourite
Actress In A New TV Series for the American thriller series?

Priyanka Chopra

With which country India signed an agreement on a cultural exchange programme

for 2015-2018?

Israel

Name the roadshow started by USA in India to attract Indian investors.

Select USA

Who has been appointed as the Assistant Director of the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO)?

Kundhavi Kadiresan

The navies of which countries participated in Malabar exercise 2015?

India, USA and

Japan

Which country has the worlds largest middle class population?

China

Who has been selected for the prestigious Harvard Humanitarian of the Year Award?

Kailash Satyarthi

Who has been appointed as executive chairman of Twitter?

Omid Kordestani

Which has been declared as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?

National Judicial

-ments Commission

Appoint

With how much corpus the Reserve Bank of India formed a single Financial
Inclusion Fund (FIF)?

2000 crore rupees

Who has been appointed as the President of the Asian Council of Exercise and Sports
Science (ACESS)?

G.L. Khanna

Punam Yadav is a __________.

Weightlifter

Nissan signed an eight-year deal with the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Nissan is a carmaker company of which country?

Japan

Zaheer Khan announced his retirement from International cricket.

He belongs to which country?

India

Which ministry launched a scheme called Central Victim Compensation

Fund (CVCF)?

Ministry of Home Affairs

With which country Pakistan signed a major agreement to build a 1,100-kilometre

gas pipeline from Lahore to Karachi?

Russia

Who has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan
Petroleum Corp Ltd?

M.K. Surana

Which state launched My Brick My Amaravati scheme?

Andhra Pradesh

Who has became the first female Speaker in the parliamentary history of Nepal?

Onsari Gharti Magar

What was the theme of World Food Day (WFD) 2015?

Social Protection and

Agriculture

FIFA suspended which football association?

Kuwait Football Association

Who has become Canadas new Prime Minister?

Justin Trudeau

Which country won Vietnam Open tennis trophy in the mens singles category?

India

Who has been named as the President of the All India Council of Sports by the
union government?

Vijay Kumar Malhotra

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Vivo Mobiles is the new title sponsor of IPL. It is a smartphone company of which
country?

China

Which junior mens hockey team won Sultan Johor Cup Hockey Tournaments title?

Britain

Which Indian bagged a bronze medal at the Flemish Open fencing championship
2015?

S.A. Bhavani Devi

K.S.L. Swamy passed away. He was a Kannad __________.

Film Director

Name the only Indian batsman to score a triple-century in Test matches,

who announced his retirement from international cricket?

Virender Sehwag

Which railway zone announced to establish George Fernandes Institute of Tunnel

Technology?

Konkan Railway

Name the leader of Indias first expedition to Antarctica who passed away.

Syed Zahoor Qasim

Who has been chosen for this years Tata Literature Live Lifetime Achievement
award?

Kiran Nagarkar

Name the Indian-American who has been featured in the Forbes list of Highest-Paid
Comedians 2015.

Aziz Ansari

K. Chockalingam was conferred with the prestigious Paul H Appleby Award.

He is a _____.

Criminologist

Who has been appointed as the new Lokayukta of Delhi?

Reva Khetrapal

Who has been crowned Mrs. Earth 2015?

Priyanka Khurana Goyal

Which country announced to build the United Kingdoms first nuclear power plant
since 1980s?

China

Who took the charge as Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission?

Dr. Sekhar Basu

Which team won Under-18 Girls Junior National Football Championship title?

Manipur

Which country announced that it will permanently station a military unit in the
Arctic by 2018?

Russia

Who won the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix title?

Lewis Hamilon

Who won French International Badminton title?

Lee Chong Wei

When the first women pilots are expected to officially fly a fighter aircraft of the IAF?

June 2017

Which country has awarded Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe 2015 Confucius
Peace Prize?

China

What is the venue of 3rd India-Africa Forum Summit?

New Delhi

Maureen OHara passed away. She was the actress of which country?

Ireland

Who has been appointed as Secretary in Department of Atomic Energy and Chairman
of Atomic Energy Commission (Nuclear Chief)?

SekharBasu

Who has been elected as President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
for second term?

Shashank Manohar

Who is appointed as Chief Justice of Guwahati (Assam) High Court?

TinlianthangVaiphei

CSIR announced Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology 2015
for how many scientists?

11

.. won Popular Choice Awards at Climate CoLab of Massachusetts Institute

of Technology (Cambridge UK).

Nualgi

The Clintons War on Women has been written by .. and Robert Morrow.

Roger Stone

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Autobiography of Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India has

been released.

Sam Pitroda

. Government approved Swadhar Greh scheme to assure economic and social

security to women in distress.

Haryana

Who has been appointed as the Maintenance Head of IAF?

Virender Mohan Khanna

Which State Government has announced to set up bio-ethanol

refinery in the state?

Punjab

India and . conducted inaugural Navy exercise from October 17 18, 2015
in Andaman Sea during expanded version of coordinated patrol (CORPAT).

Indonesia

A sweet banana species with orange pulp Musa indandamanensis discovered in

Andaman

Which country launched its new communication satellite APSTAR9 by Long March
3B carrier rocket?

China

NASAs New Horizon Spacecraft images revealed blue skies and numerous small
exposed regions of water ice on which planet?

Pluto

UNHRC adopted resolution on . on report submitted by UN High

Commissioner for Human Rights.

Sri Lanka

World Health Organisation removed all limitations on eligibility for Antiretroviral

Therapy among people living with .

HIV

.s flag was raised for first time at United Nations headquarters in

New York.

Palestine

Powerful Typhoon Koppu (also known as Lando) hit which countries with speed
of 240 kph.?

Spain

President Pranab Mukherjee visited Jordan, Palestine and .., accompanied

by Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Israel

..India Africa Trade Ministers Meeting held in New Delhi.

4th

First National Tribal Carnival will be held in from February 12 to 17, 2016.

Delhi

Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference 2015 held in ..

Mexico

Which states government banned Ketoprofennonsteroid drug to save endangered

vulture population?

Tamil Nadu

Which company opened Indias largest data center in Mumbai?

NTT Communications

Who is the Director General of National Investigation Agency (NIA)?

Sharad Kumar

Who has been appointed as CEO and MD of Jabong?

Sanjeev Mohanty

Who has become the first scientist of country who announced to return his Padma
Bhushan award?

P.M. Bhargava

Who has been elected as Regional President of Indo-American Chamber of

Commerce (IACC) (South India) for 2015-16?

N.V. Srinivasan

...lawmakers unanimously elected a former guerrilla fighter Onsari Gharti

as the countrys first woman speaker of Parliament of a new government.

Nepalese

BRICS nations Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa signed Declaration
for co-investment of resources for supporting multilateral Research and
Development (R&D) Projects in mutually agreed areas.

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The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker welcomed the

signing of the grant agreement on the GIPL. GIPL stands for

Gas Interconnector
Poland Lithuania

Which country has appointed Nasser Khan Janjua as the new

National Security Advisor (NSA)?
TRAI has made it mandatory for telecom operators to compensate
consumers by one rupee for call drops with effect from __________.

Pakistan
1st January 2016

With which country NITRA under the Textile Ministry signed a MoU to promote
Indian textile enterprises in that country?

Tajikistan

In partnership with which company, Tata Housing launched Social sell

campaign?

Facebook

Which has been made mandatory by the government in order to start a new business?

Aadhar card number

NATO allies and partner nations launched the Alliances Trident Juncture joint
military exercise at the Trapani air force base in _______.

Italy

As per the official data released by the Chinese Govt. the GDP growth rate of China
was _____during the first half of 2015.

7%

Name Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva 2015?

Urvashi Rautela

Which ministry reconstituted the Central Press Accreditation Committee (CPAC)?

Ministry of Information
and Broadcasting

Who has been appointed as brand ambassador of MRF Limited?

AB de Villiers

Which two countries inked an agreement on air security during the air strikes on
ISIS bases in Syria?

Russia and USA

Bharti Airtel has struck a deal to sell ______ towers in seven of the 13 countries it
operates in across Africa.

8,300

NABARD sanctioned a loan of ___to the Haryana government under Rural Infrastructure
Development Fund for 2015-16.

Rs. 134.64 crore

What is the rank of India on global business optimism Index?

Second

How many British-Indians have secured a spot in top 10 of the GG2 Power 101 list?

Who has been appointed as the first-ever male member of the National Commission
of Women?

Alok Rawat

For which amount Reliance Capital Asset Management announced takeover of

Goldman Sachs Asset Management India?

Rs. 243 crore

According to a report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch what will be the growth rate
of India in this financial year?

7.4%

World Bank projected that remittances to India are expected to increase by how much
percent this year?

2.5%

Which country has offered $15 billion loan for Indias first bullet-train network?

Japan

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Which department for the first time has drafted a National Policy on Capital
Goods?

Department of Heavy Industry

Which software service firm appointed Ranganath D Mavinakere as Chief Financial

Officer (CFO)?

Infosys

Telenor India appointed .. as new CEO.

Aradhana Johri

Which bank conferred its Maharaja Sayajirao Bhasha Samman to poet and lyricist
Prasoon Joshi?

Bank of Baroda

Coventry City (England) honoured to whom with its highest award for his contributions to
West Midlands region of central England?

Ratan Tata

Government appointed committee under . submitted report for improving

monitoring of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) spending.

Anil Baijal

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting reconstituted Central Press Accreditation

Committee that issues Press Information Bureau (PIB) cards to journalists .
is the chairman of committee.

Frank Noronha

Which state government launched Mission Abaas urban housing mission to provide
affordable houses to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS)?

Odisha

Utkal Alumina International Limited (unit of Aditya Birla Group) launched Saksham
project for welfare of communities in ..

Odisha

and Special Economic Zone inked a Memorandum of Understanding with

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) to oversee operations of Kattupalli Port in Tamil Nadu.

Adani Ports

. and Special Economic Zone signed an agreement with India Pulses and
Grains Association to handle import and exports of pulses across its ports in India.

Adani Ports

. launched online fashion store Abof.com.

Aditya Birla Group

Which bank became second bank after HDFC Bank to join Chillr payment platform
that enables payments through a mobile application?

Bank of Baroda

Central Board of Excise and Customs increased limits for making any Tax Evader
liable for arrest and prosecution to from existing 25 lakh (Central Excise),
10 lakh (Service Tax and Customs Duty).

1 Crore

Government increased basic customs duty on wheat from 10% to for upto
31.03.2016.

25%

turned to United Nations over alleged obstruction of a key border trade point with
India which has resulted in shortage of essential goods like fuel and Others.

Nepal

ecommerce platform tied up with Mumbai metro to offer online recharges of

Smart Cards.

Paytm

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Who has been appointed as the wise chairman of the bank for International
Settlements (BIS)?

Raghuram Rajan

Which state proposed Rs.405.17 crore plan on enhancing water supply in 11 AMRUT cities
during 2015-16?

Telangana

Which bank received RBI approval to set up a mutual fund, asset management company
(AMC) and a trustee company?

YES Bank

UN General Assembly elected Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and as

nonpermanent members on Security Council for 2 years beginning 1 January 2016.

Uruguay

Which corporation acquired SanDisk Corporation for 19 billion USD?

Western Digital

Which company topped the list as worlds best company to work for third straight year?

Google

Which country proposed 4point Peace Initiative with India for better relationships during
UN General Assembly?

Pakistan

Which country became first European and 17th Overall country to sign Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) on Nalanda University?

Portugal

Tata Power launched LED tube light scheme in for providing five lights to
each household at 525 rupees per piece.

Mumbai

Which states government announced 50 % subsidy on purchase of seeds to reduce

input costs for farmers?

Telangana

Government announced to implement National Food Security Act 2013 in three

phases in which state?

Uttar Pradesh

PM Narendra Modi laid foundation stone of fourth terminal of countrys largest container
port Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in which city?

Mumbai

President promulgated two ordinances, one for constitution of and another

to amend Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996.

Commercial courts

Which country has imposed the state of emergency for 30 days?

Maldives

Who has been appointed as the new MD & CEO of Andhra Bank?

Suresh N Patel

Who has been appointed chairperson of a committee to draft the new education policy?

T.S.R. Subramanian

How many fee slab has been opened by the Indian Government for E-tourist Visa?

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) announced that the eight
core industries of Index of Industrial Production (IIP) grew by percent in
September 2015 as compared to 2.6 percent in September 2014.

3.2

Which bank has won the banking technology excellence award?

Kerala Grameen Bank

RBI notified that the Foreign Institutional Inves tors (FIIs)/Registered Foreign
Portfolios Investors (RFPIs) can now invest up to . percent of the paid
up capital of DEN Networks Limited under the Portfolio Investment Scheme (PIS).

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. has emerged as the most-watched Hindi channel in terms of time spent

per viewer ahead of top general entertainment channels (GEC).

Doordarshan

Which company has to pay $234 million in patent lawsuit?

Apple

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