You Are On Question Answer Bank SET 69
3451. Where was Aero India 2015, the 10th biennial air show and aviation exhibition, held?
Answer: Bengaluru
3452. Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic was sworn in as the President of which European country?
Answer: Croatia
3453. Which eminent film producer and Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner, who produced more than 150 films in 13 Indian languages, passed away recently?
Answer: D Ramanaidu
3454. Which Indian cricketer has recently been inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame?
Answer: Anil Kumble
3457. The Competition Commission of India has given approval for the merger between which two private sector banks?
Answer: Kotak Mahindra and ING Vysya
3458. Name the Indian American who won the 2015 J Calvin Giddings Award instituted by the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry?
Answer: Purnendu Dasgupta
3459. Tortoise festival was organized in February on the banks of Hajong Lake in which state?
Answer: Assam
3460. Which movie won the best movie award in the 87th Academy Awards?
Answer: Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance. The movie was directed by Alejandro G Inarittu
3461. Who became the first batsman to score a double century in the ICC World Cup Cricket?
Answer: Chris Gayle. He scored 215 against Zimbabwe.
3462. Who won the Raja Bhalendra Singh Trophy by topping the overall medal tally in the 35th National Games held in Kerala?
Answer: Services Sports Control Board
3463. Sajan Prakash, the swimmer from Kerala, became the top medal winner in the National Games by winning how may medals?
Answer: Eight
3465. The Government of India recently imposed anti-dumping duty on the import of which commodity?
Answer: Graphite electrodes
3466. Which government to business (G2B) portal under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry launched 11 government services for those who need to start business in India?
Answer: eBiz
3467. Which state won the Krishi Karman Awards 2013-14 for producing more than 10 million tons annually?
Answer: Punjab
3469. Name the former President of Maldives who was arrested in Male under anti-terror law?
Answer: Mohamed Nasheed
3471. Name the Reuter bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan who was found dead in Islamabad?
Answer: Maria Golovnina
3473. The Government of India has recently approved construction of seven stealth frigates and how many nuclear powered submarines for the Indian Navy?
Answer: Six
3474. Name the card launched by the central government which carries crop wise recommendations of nutrients/fertilizers required for their farms?
Answer: Soil Health Card
3475. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of Sangeeth Natak Academy, the country’s premier institution for Performing arts?
Answer: Shekhar Sen
3476. Who is the Author of the new book “Two years Eight months and 28 Nights” based on Arabian Nights?
Answer: Salman Rushdie
3477. The Universe in a single atom: The convergence of Science and Spirituality is a book written by whom?
Answer: Dalai Lama or Tenzin
3478. The Union Budget 2015-16 proposed the lowering of the corporate tax from 30 percent to:
Answer: 25 percent.
3481. As per the recent statement of the Government, how many Indian satellites are currently operational?
Answer: Twenty Seven
3482. Which country signed a deal with Russia to allow Russian naval ships to use its ports in the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer: Cyprus
3485. Who won the 2014 Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership?
Answer: Hifikepunye Phamba
3486. Who retained the title as the richest person in the Forbes 2015 billionaire list?
Answer: Bill Gates
3487. What does NERPA, the programme launched by the Election Commission of India, stand for?
Answer: National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme
3488. As per the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill passed by the Loksabha, the Foreign Direct Investment has been raised from 26 percent to:
Answer: 49 percent
3489. Which Indian American has been re-nominated as the Alternate Executive Director at International Monetary Fund?
Answer: Sunil Sabharwal
3490. Which spacecraft of NASA has completed its orbit around CERES, the dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter?
Answer: Dawn
3494. Name the Solar powered aircraft which is on a journey around the earth?
Answer: Solar Impulse-2
3497. Which Indian sociologists was appointed to the advisory panel to review UN Peace Building Architecture?
Answer: Saraswati Menon
3498. The RBI recently lifted the ban on carrying Indian currency notes of Rs. 1000 and Rs. 500 to and from which neighbouring countries?
Answer: Nepal and Bhutan
3499. Who won the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry?
Answer: Arundhathi Subramaniam
3500. India decided to provide Rs. 1500 crore to the Pancheshwar multi purpose project on which river in Nepal?
Answer: Mahakali river
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