You Are On Question Answer Bank SET 67
3353. Which neighboring country has amended the constitution to reduce the power of the President?
Answer: Sri Lanka
3354. In which state has the National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently banned the burning of waste in open including garbage, leaves, plastic and crop residues?
Answer: Delhi
3356. Name the Indians who received the 2015 Whitley Awards for Wildlife conservation?
Answer: Pramod Patil and Ananda Kumar
3357. Name the renowned Indian scientist who was conferred Japan’s highest civilian award, The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star?
Answer: CNR Rao
3358. Surender Singh has been appointed Director General of which central armed police?
Answer: Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
3359. Which has recently been recognized as a sport in India by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports?
Answer: Motor Sports
3360. Which monument in Nepal, considered to be the world’s oldest Buddhist shrine, was damaged in the recent earthquake?
Answer: Swayambhunath Stupa
3361. Name the Syrian journalist who was awarded 2015th UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize?
Answer: Mazen Darwish
3362. India won how many gold medals in the international shooting competition held at Hanover in Germany?
Answer: Three
3363. Which Oscar winning American writer, popular for the novel ‘Dance with Wolves’ passed away recently?
Answer: Michael Blake
3364. Which railway station in Karnataka has been renamed as ‘Krantiveera Sangoli Rayanna’?
Answer: Bangalore City Railway Station
3365. Which Indian airport was presented the award for the world’s best airport, under the category of handling 25 to 40 million passengers per annum?
Answer: Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi
3366. Which eminent crime thriller writer from Britain, known for the creation of the fictional character Inspector Wexford, passed away recently?
Answer: Ruth Rendell
3367. Which world renowned Russian ballet dancer, who is considered to be one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century, passed away on May 2?
Answer: Maya Plisetskaya
3369. Name the surface to air missiles system which was recently inducted into the Indian Army?
Answer: Akash
3370. The 100th Constitution Amendment, unanimously approved by the Parliament, operationalises the Land Boundary Agreement with which neighbouring country?
Answer: Bangladesh
3372. India and Iran signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of which port in Iran?
Answer: Chabahar
3375. Name the advanced variant of the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile which was successfully test fired from the Car Nicobar Islands recently?
Answer: BrahMos Block III
3377. Which country where more than 4700 people died were killed by the Ebola virus, has recently been declared Ebola-free by the WHO?
Answer: Liberia
3378. Name Pension scheme, launched by the Government of India, under which the pension subscribers will get a fixed minimum monthly pension ranging from 1000 rupees to 5000 rupees at the age of 60 years?
Answer: Atal Pension Yojana
3379. Name the six month long Indian cultural festival in Russia, inaugurated by the President of India?
Answer: Namaste Russia Festival
3380. Who was appointed as the first president of the New Development Bank (NDB) of BRICS nations?
Answer: K.V Kamath
3381. Who won the singles tennis titles in the Madrid Open?
Answer: Women’s Singles- Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic)
3382. The Romanian Florin Mergea, along with which Indian tennis player won the Madrid Open Men’s Doubles Title?
Answer: Rohan Boppanna
3383. Who has been re-nominated as chairman of Public Accounts Committee for a second term?
Answer: K.V Thomas
3384. Which bill recently passed by Parliament, seeks to deal with the menace of black money and replace the Income Tax Act, 1961 for the taxation of foreign income?
Answer: Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets (Imposition of Tax) Bill, 2015
3385. Who was appointed as acting Chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)?
Answer: Justice Cyriac Joseph
3386. K Soja Baby from Kerala was conferred which national award by the President of India on May 12?
Answer: Florence Nightingale Award for Nursing Personnels
3387. Who heads the committee constituted by the Government of India, to look into the issue of Minimum Alternate tax (MAT) on Foreign Institutional Investors?
Answer: Justice A.P Shah
3388. Which district in West Bengal was declared winner of the 2015 UN Public Service Award, in the category of improving delivery of public services?
Answer: Nadia. The district got the award for its initiative ‘Sabar Shouchagar’.
3389. Who was appointed Director General of Bureau of Police Research and Development?
Answer: Navnet Rajan Wasan
3392. Which Indian contemporary srtist was awarded ‘Chevalier des Arts et Lettres’ (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters), the highest cultural award of France?
Answer: Bharti Kher
3395. Which central government agency has been selected for the 2014 Gandhi Peace Prize?
Answer: ISRO
3396. Who is the first Indian to become World No.1 in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) ranking in the women’s singles category?
Answer: Saina Nehwal
3397. The Supreme Court has struck down which section of the IT Act 2000, finding it unconstitutional and untenable?
Answer: Section 66 A
3398. Which neighboring country has won the Women in Parliaments (WIP) Award in the South and South East Asia Category?
Answer: Bangladesh
3399. Which filmmaker was awarded the Bhupen Hazarika International Solidarity Award?
Answer: Adoor Gopalakrishnan
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