Current affairs 2016

1.Which country’s government has announced tough new punishments for foreign investors breaking rules on buying property in the country on 3 May 2015?
India
United States
Australia
Sri Lanka
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2.Victory Day is an important secular holiday of which of the following coutries?
Britain
Russia
Japan
United States of America
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3.Which region has become first in the world to declare Rubella?
Africa
America
Europe
Australia
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4.China has significantly increased its defence budget. The budget is now more than how many times in comparison to India?
Two Times
Three Times
Four Times
Five Times
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5.Which position was India placed at in the 2015 Mother’s Index in the State of the World’s Mothers (SOWM) report titled 'The Urban Disadvantage"?
140th out of 190
135th out of 179
140th out of 179
135th out of 190
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6.For the development of which port in Iran have India and Iran signed a Memorandum of Understanding?
Port of Chabahar
Port of Sultan Qaboos
Port of Sohar
Gwadar Port
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7.With which Indian Channel, China Central Television (CCTV) has signed an agreement for exchange of television programmes related to art, culture and development?
Times Now
Doordarshan
Sony
Colors
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8.Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on 1 May 2015 extended the date of implementation of the full Mobile Number Portability (MNP) by two months till?
April 1, 2016
October 2, 2015
July 3, 2015
January 1, 2016
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9. Under which programme Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 9 May 2015 unveiled three social security schemes two on insurance and one on pension at a function organised in Kolkata?
Rashtra Nirman
Jansurakhsha
ManavRaksha
Pension Scheme
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10.Prime Minister Narendra Modi released a commemorative coin to mark the birth centenary of which of the following spiritual leaders?
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Chinmayananda
Advaita Vedanta
None of the above
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11.India’s first satellite-controlled solar power plant was inaugurated in which state on 6 May 2015?
Maharashtra
Kerala
Assam
Punjab
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12.Which state govt. launched ‘Niramaya’, a free drug distribution scheme to cover whole state on 1 May 2015?
Uttar Pradesh
Assam
Manipur
Odisha
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13.Which state’s Chief Minister launched seven IT based e-services in its state on 2 May 2015?
Uttar Pradesh
Haryana
Madhya Pradesh
Odisha
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14.Which state government recently issued a circular banning the use of the phrase “Horn Ok Please” on the rear side of commercial vehicles?
Gujarat
Tamil Nadu
Maharashtra
Delhi
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15.In which state, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited has commissioned a thermal unit of Kanti Bijlee Utpadan Nigam Limited (KBUNL)?
Uttar Pradesh
West Bengal
Chhattisgarh
Bihar
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16.Which state has signed MoU with UNICEF and Global Alliance Against Malnutrition(GIAN) to fight against malnutrition?
Haryana
Punjab
Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan
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17.Which is the venue for the 16th Asian Banker Summit 2015?
Hong Kong
Shanghai
New Delhi
Dhaka
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18.Name the Indian who won the Whitley Award 2015 for using innovative communication systems to enable human-elephant coexistence in southern India?
Pramod Patil
Nagesh Kunoor
Ananda Kumar
Suresh Kumar
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19.Which scientist of India has been awarded Japan’s highest Civilian Award, the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star?
Narayan Krishnamurthy
S Radhakrishnan
C.N.R Rao
Amartya Sen
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20.Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) was recently adjudged the world's best airport for the year 2014, under the category of handling 25 to 40 million passengers per annum. IGIA is situated at?
Mumbai
Chennai
Delhi
Bengaluru
21.Journalist Mazen Darwish, who won 2015 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, is from which country?
Yemen
Egypt
Peru
Syria
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22.The winner of World Welterweight title of Boxing is __?
Floyd Mayweather
Muhammad Khan
Mike Tyson
None of these
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23.Who has won Istanbul Open Tennis men's single title 2015?
Sidney Wood
Roger Federer
Novak Djokovik
Rafael Nadal
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24.Which country is venue for the first ever Asian Youth Athletic Championship-2015?
Qatar
China
Jordan
Japan
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25.Name the tennis player who has claimed his first victory over Rafael Nadal on clay to win the Madrid Masters Men's Singles Title?
Novak Djokovic
Roger Federer
Andy Murray
Stanislas Wawrinka
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26.Name the company that announced to launch new web browser named Edge?
Samsung
Microsoft
Apple
Google
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27.Which Indian has recently acquired a stake in Xiaomi Technology, the No. 3 global smartphone maker?
Azim Premji
Mukesh Ambani
Sunil Bharti Mittal
Ratan Tata
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28.State Bank of India on 7 May 2015 launched a RuPay Platinum debit card in association with?
RBI
IRDA
NPCI
SIDBI
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29.According to the Forbes's annual list issued in New York, how many Indian companies figured in the world's 2000 largest and most powerful public companies?
12
43
49
56
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30.Ping Pay service has been launched most recently by which of the following banks?
HDFC
AXIS Bank
ICICI
HSBC
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31.Indian Army signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the Defence Salary Package with which of the following banks?
Bank of India
Union Bank
State Bank of India
Punjab National Bank
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32.Name the NASA’s spacecraft that ended a four-year mission to Mercury by crashing into Mercury after running out of fuel?
Messenger
Progress 59
Columbia
Mercury Craft
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33.Indian Army on 5 May 2015 inducted which indigenously developed supersonic surface-to-air missile which is capable of targeting enemy helicopters, aircraft and UAVs from a range of 25 km?
Tejas
Pinaka
Akash
Dhanush
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34.Which country unveiled Al Amal mission to send an unmanned probe to Mars?
UAE
Iran
Italy
Iraq
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35.Who took over as Director General (DG) of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on 1 May 2015?
Arvind Ranjan
Surender Singh
Ranjith Sinha
Suresh Prabhu
Question was not answered
36.Name the Oscar-winning writer of 'Dances With Wolves' novel who died in Tucson, Arizona, after a long battle with cancer on 2 May 2015?
Michael Blake
John Clooney
Robin Samson
None of these
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37. Name the social media platform of China joined by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 4 May 2015?
Sina Weibo
Telegram
QZONE
RENREN
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38. What is full form of Wi-Fi ?
Wireless Fidelity
Wired Fidelity
Wireless Focus
Wired Focus
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39.Name the author of the Book titled "China – Confucius in the Shadows" which was released by the Vice President M. Hamid Ansari on 1 May 2015?
Roopa Kumari
Poonam Surie
Sri Anand Kumar
Sri Amritanshu
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40.Who is the chairman of BCCI technical committee that has recommended several changes in Ranaji format?
Sachin Tendulkar
Anil Kumble
Rahul Dravid
Ajay Jadeja
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