DAILY FREE CURRENT AFFAIRS 29 JULY 2015 (DAILY NEWS IN INDIA)

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 29 JULY 2015

DAILY NEWS IN INDIA

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1.  SWATI MALIWAL TOOK CHARGE AS CHAIRPERSON OF DELHI COMMISSION FOR WOMEN (DCW)

i.   Swati Maliwal is appointed as new Chairperson of DCW .

ii.  She is the wife of Aam Admi Party Leader Navin Jaihind.

Delhi Commission for Women is constituted with aim to investigate and examine all matters relating to the safeguards provided for women under the constitution and other laws.

2. ASHISH BAHUGUNA APPOINTED AS CHAIRMAN OF FOOD SAFETY REGULATOR FSSAI.

i.   Ashish Bahuguna appointed as chairman of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)

·         FSSAI was established under Food Safety and Standards Act 2006 which consolidates various acts and orders related to food issues.

·         FSSAI comes under the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

·         Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare: J.P NADDA

3.  INDIA SIGNED LOAN AGREEMENT OF $ 300 MILLION WITH ADB FOR NATIONAL URBAN HEALTH MISSION (NUHM)

i. Asian development Bank has signed an agreement of $ 300 million for NUHM

NUHM :It was started in 2013.Its aim is to improve the health status of country’s urban population and providing quality health services to the urban poor .It covers all 779 cities with a population of above 50,000.

ADB:Established in 1966

Headquarter of ADB at Manila,Philippines

4.  WOMEN’S RECURVE ARCHERY TEAM QUALIFIES FOR RIO OLYMPICS

i.    The Indian women’s recurve archery team qualified for 2016 Rio Olympics by reaching the final of the World Archery championship at Copenhagen in Denmark.

ii.  The women’s trio comprising Laxmi Rani, Rimil Buriuly and Deepika Kumari qualified for 2016 Summer Olympics.

·         2016 summer Olympics at Rio de Janerio , Brazil

·         Motto: Live your Passion

·         Mascot: Vinicius and Tom

5.  SEBI CANCELS LICENSE OF SAHARA MUTUAL FUNDS

i.  Securities exchange board of India cancels Registration of Sahara Mutual funds, as it was no longer fit and proper to carry out its business.

ii.  Sahara India Company is involved in the high profile alleged investor fraud case involving estimated Rs 24000 crore of 3 crore investors.

iii.  Subrata Roy : Chief of Sahara Group.

6.  SURFACE TO AIR MISSILE TO BE TESTED IN ISRAEL:

i. The long range surface to air missile LR-SAM developed with the help of Israel is to be tested in Israel .

ii.  The missile can reach targets upto 70 km is developed by DRDO and Israel Aero Space industry.

DRDO – Defense Research Development Organization Headquarter at New Delhi.

·         President of Israel : Reuven Rivlin

·         Capital of Israel : Jerusalem

·         Currency of Israel : Israeli new Shekel

·         India and Israel both countries are good partners .India is the largest buyer of Israeli Military equipment and Israel is 2^nd largest defense supplier to India after Russia.

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WEEKLY GK QUIZ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (23 - 29 JULY 2015 )

WEEKLY GK QUIZ 29 - JULY
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1. Who has been appointed as new Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in Credit Information bureau of India (CIBIL)?

      A) Satish Pillai                              B) M.V. Nair

      C) Anoop Mishra                         D) GK Pillai

2. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Bandhan Bank?    

      A) Ashok Lahiri                           B) Pratyush Sinha

      C) R.K. Singh                                D) Arvind Mayaram

3. Who was Bashar Navaaz?

      A) artist                                        B) novelist

      C) scientist                                   D) poet

4. Which Country will be hosting the 8^th BRICS summit in 2016?

      A) India                                        B) South Africa

      C) Russia                                      D) China

5. Name the Indian President who has launched the Rashtriya Aviskar Abhiyan (RAA) in New Delhi?

      A) APJ Abdul Kalam                    B) Pratibha Patil

      C) Pranab Mukherjee                 D) Ramaswamy Venkataraman

6. Name the women’s player who won a sixth women’s Wimbledon Title 2015?

      A) Victoria Azerenka                  B) Garbine Muguruza

      C) Serena Williams                      D) Maria sharapova

7. Which Player has won the Men’s single title of the Wimbledon tennis tournament 2015?

      A) Novak Djokovic                      B) Roger Federer

      C) Rafael Nadal                            D) Stan Wawrinka

8. Which company has won the Golden Peacock Environment Management Award 2015?   

      A) SAIL                                         B) HAL

      C) BHEL                                        D) Tata Steel

9. Who is the Author of the book Green Signals: Ecology, Growth and Democracy in India?

      A) Vinod Rai                                B) Anant Geete

      C) Jairam Ramesh                       D) Salman Khurshid

10. Which Indian Minister has launched the GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) system?

      A) Radha Mohan Singh               B) Ashok Gajapathi Raju

      C) Anant Geete                            D) Smriti Irani

11. HRIDAY Scheme is launched in which recently by Union Minister of Finance Arun Jaitely?

A) Amritsar                                  B) UP

C) Maharastra                             D) Bihar

12. Who was the head of Committee appointed by Supreme Court to investigate IPL spot fixing scandal?

A) R.M.Lodha                               B) Sri Ram Kalyan

C) Rajnath Singh                          D) Neha Sharma

13. When is the world population day observed?

A) 11 July                                     B) 21 June

C)  2 July                                       D) 22 April

14. Which state started operation Talash to find out the missing plane of Indian Coast Guard?

A) Goa                                          B) Tamil Nadu

C)  J & K                                        D) West Bengal

15. Who won 2015 Wimbledon Boys Double title?

A) Ashwini Kumar                       B) Deepak Kumar

C) Sumit Nagal                             D) Harash Kumar

16. Who is appointed as MD and CEO of Gift City?

A) Ajay Kumar                             B) U K Sinha

C) Y V Reddy                                D) Rama Kant

17. Which country has recently tied up with India for Pace setter fund?

A) USA                                          B) Iran

C) UK                                            D) China

18. Who got France’s highest civilian award?

A) Sayed Haider Raja                  B) Annu Malik

C) C N R Rao                                D) Kailash Kumar

19. Who is appointed as MD and CEO of National Housing Bank?

A) Sriram Kalyan Raman            B) K C Neogi

C) Ashok Lahiri                           D) Ashwini

20. In which state India started Earthquake warning system?

A)  Punjab                                                B) Haryana

C) Uttarakhand                            D) Maharashtra

 

ANSWER

1) A

2) A

3) D

4) C

5) A

6) C

7) A

8) D

9) C

10) B

11) A

12) A

13) A

14) B

15) C

16) A

17) A

18) A

19) A

20) C

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DAILY FREE CURRENT AFFAIRS 28 JULY 2015 (DAILY NEWS IN INDIA)

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 28 JULY 2015

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1.  RAM SEVAK SHARMA IS APPOINTED AS CHAIRMAN OF TRAI:

i.   Ram Sevak Sharma is appointed as Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) 

2. CSL AND HCL FORMED JOINT VENTURE TO PROVIDE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES SOLUTIONS TO BANKS:

i.   Computer Science corporation and Hindustan Computer limited inked an agreement to form a joint venture company to provide technology services and solution to Banking Industry.

ii.  This agreement will advance digital Banking in india

Joint Venture: A business arrangement in which two or more parties agree to pool their resources for the purpose of accomplishing a specific task.

3.  FORMER INDIAN PRESIDENT APJ ABDUL KALAM PASSED AWAY:

i.  Former Indian President Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam Passed Away. He was collapsed during a lecture in the Indian Institute of Management , Shillong.

He is also known as Missile Man.

Kalam authored inspirational Books such as India 20-20, Wings of Fire, Ignited Minds.

He remained 11^th President of India from 2002 to 2007

4.  TERROR ATTACK IN PUNJAB’S DINANAGAR TOWN IN DISTRICT OF GURDASPUR:

i.  Militants have killed seven persons, 3 civilians and four policeman including Superintendent  of Police ‘Baljit Singh’.

ii.  All militants were killed, they attacked a passenger bus and stormed a police station in Dinanagar.

5.  UNION GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED 1000 CRORE RUPEES FOR INDO-BANGLA RAIL LINK:

i.  Union Government Sanctioned 1000 crore rupees for the laying of 15.06 km long track to connect Indian Railways with Bangladesh to north east India.

ii.  The Project will completed by 2017.

·         Indian Railway Union Minister: Suresh Prabhu.

·         PM of Bangladesh – Sheikh Hasina

·         Currency of Bangladesh – Bangladeshi taka

·         Capital of Bangladesh - Dhaka

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DAILY FREE CURRENT AFFAIRS 26-27 JULY 2015

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 26, 27 JULY 2015

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1.  AJAY MATHUR BECOMES DIRECTOR GENERAL OF TERI:

i.   Ajay Mathur is appointed a the Director General of TERI.

ii.  Ajay Mathur has succeeded R K Pachauri who was removed from the top most position over sexual harassment charges.

TERI- The Energy and Resources Institute.

2.  DEENDAYAL UPADHYAYA GRAM JYOTI YOJANA:

i.   PM Narendra Modi launched Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana in Patna.

ii.  The Scheme has an outlay of 76000 crore rupees out of which Union Government will provide 63000 crore rupees.

3.  ASIA’S FABULOUS 50 LIST 2015:

i.  Forbes Asia’s Fabulous 50 list of the year 2015 is released.

ii.  The list is dominated by 25 Chinese firms followed by India’s 10.

iii.  The most valuable company on the list is Tencent Where as the biggest is Lenovo.

4. PETER HIGGS RECEIVED ROYAL SOCIETY’S GOPLEY MEDAL:

i. Nobel Prize Winner Professor Peter Higgs won the Royal Society’s Copley Medal.

ii.  Royal Society’s Copley Medal is the World’s oldest Scientific Prize.

iii. With the Medal, Higgs joined the ranks of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

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DAILY FREE CURRENT AFFAIRS 24-25 JULY 2015

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 24, 25 JULY 2015

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1.  NATIONAL BROADCASTING DAY:

i.   National Broadcasting Day was observed on 23^rd July 2015 across the country.

ii.  On this day, the Indian Broadcasting Company stated radio broadcasting from Bombay station.

iii. To mark the day, All India Radio (AIR) organized a symposium on the subject Creation of New India and Broadcasting medium in New Delhi.

2.  WORLD BOOK CAPITAL 2017:

i.   CONAKRY is named as World Book Capital for 2017 by UNESCO.

ii.  CONARKY is the capital city of the Republic of Guinea.

iii.  This is the 17^th World Book Capital.

Note: World Book Capital for 2015- Incheon

World Book Capital for 2016 – Wroclaw

3.  FORTUNE 500 LIST RELEASED:

i.  61^st Edition of Fortune 500 list 2015 is released

ii.  Fortune 500 list 2015 includes 7 Indian Companies in the list:

iii.  Retail giant Walmart topped the list.

Note: Indian Companies included in the list are: Indian oil, Reliance Industries, Tata Motors, State Bank of India, Bharat Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum and ONGC.

4. INDIA RANKED 12^TH IN TERMS OF POWER GENERATION FROM NUCLEAR SOURCE;

i. India is placed at 12^th position in terms of power generation from nuclear source.

ii.  India’s total power generation from nuclear reactor is 5308 MW.

iii.  USA topped the list followed by France and Japan.

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