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3501. Who became the first woman to lead the ceremonial guard of honour at the Rashtrapati Bhavan?
Answer: Wing Commander Pooja Thakur. She led the Guard of Honour for the US President Barack Obama.
3502. How many persons were conferred Padma Awards this year?
Answer: 104 (Padma Vibhushan-9, Padma Bhushan-20, Padma Shri-75)
3505. Major Mukund Varadarajan and Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh have been posthumously awarded which peacetime military honour?
Answer: Ashok Chakra
3506. The Church of England ended its male domination by appointing which person as the first female bishop?
Answer: Libby Lane
3507. Which popular cartoonist, illustrator and humorist, known for the creation, The Common Man, passed away recently?
Answer: R.K Laxman
3509. Name the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka who was recently reinstated, after she had been removed from office by the former President Mahindra Rajapakse in 2013?
Answer: Shirani Bandaranayake
3510. Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh took over the additional charge of the Governor of which state?
Answer: Himachal Pradesh
3511. Which veteran Malayalam actor who acted in close to 400 film, passed away on 28 January?
Answer: Mala Aravindan
3512. Name the Foreign Secretary of India whose tenure has been curtailed by the Government of India?
Answer: Sujatha Singh, Subrmanyan Jaishankar has been appointed as the new Foreign Secretary.
3513. Name the freedom fighter and martyr whose 150th birth anniversary was observed on 28 January?
Answer: Lala Lajpat Rai
3514. Which two states shared the Gold Cup at the 55th State School Arts Festival?
Answer: Kozhikode and Palakkad.
3515. Chile has decided to reopen an investigation into the death of which eminent writer and Nobel literature?
Answer: Pablo Neruda.
3516. Which airport is set to open the world’s first ever terminal exclusively for animals?
Answer: John F. Kennedy Airport, New York
3518. Who won the singles titles in the Syed Modi International India Masters Badminton Tournament?
Answer: Women’s Singles-Saina Nehwal.
3519. Name the Indian women’s cricket team captain, who was awarded Padma Shri this year?
Answer: Mithali Raj
3520. Name the Bollywood actors who received the 2014 Padma Vibhushan?
Answer: Dileep Kumar and Amitabh Bachhan
3521. Which former Chief Minister of Punjab was conferred the 2014 Padma Vibhushan?
Answer: Prakash Singh Badal
3522. Who received the 2014 Padma Vibhushan under the discipline, Science and Engineering?
Answer: Prof. M.R Sreenivasan
3523. Name the foreigner who received Padma Vibhushan this year?
Answer: Prince karim Al Husseini Aga Khan
3524. International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust was observed on ……………?
Answer: 42762
3529. Who is the new head of the UN Human Rights Council panel for inquery into the 2014 Gaza conflict?
Answer: mary Mc Gowan
3530. As per the recent report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, which country emerged as the top destination for foreign direct investment (FDI)?
Answer: China
3531. Which renowned chemist, known as the father of birth control pill, passed away recently?
Answer: Carl Djerassi
3533. Who heads the high level panel constituted by the Reserve Bank of India on Urban co-operative Banks?
Answer: R. Gandhi, He is currently the Deputy Governor of RBI
3534. After Punjab, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh, which is the fourth state to give permission to conduct field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops?
Answer: Maharashtra
3535. The RIC Forum, which had its meeting in February first week, consists of which nations?
Answer: Russia, India and China
3536. The first large scale human trials of the experimental vaccines of Ebola have begun in which country?
Answer: Liberia
3537. Which Malaysian player created record by being world No.1 in women’s squash for the successive 106 months?
Answer: Nicol David
3538. What was the name of the National Theatre festival held in Delhi, organized by the National School of Drama?
Answer: Bharat Rang Mahotsav
3539. The canisterised version of which missile was recently successfully test fired by India?
Answer: Agni-V
3540. Name the former DRDO chief who has been appointed full-time member of NITI Aayog?
Answer: V.K Saraswat
3541. Krishna Chaudhary has been appointed Director General of which central armed police force?
Answer: Indo Tibetan Border Police
3543. Name the founder of the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) who passed away recently?
Answer: Subhash Ghishing
3544. Packaging of food grains and sugar using which material has been made mandatory by the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs?
Answer: Jute
3545. The central government has decided to sell up to how much percentage of the shares in Coal India Limited?
Answer: Ten
3546. The Maharashtra government has recently decided to buy London House, the three story bungalow situated on 10, king Henry Road, London. What is special about this bungalow?
Answer: B.R Ambedkar lived in this house during 1921-22.
3547. Which cricketer created record by affecting the most number (474) of dismissals in ODI as a wicket keeper?
Answer: Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)
3548. Who took over the ownership of SpiceJet from Kalanithi Maran and KaL Airways?
Answer: Ajay Singh
3549. Scientists have recently found five earth-sized planets orbiting around which ancient star in Milky Way?
Answer: Kepler-444
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