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General Awareness Current Affairs of Last Six Months

Books and Authors :-

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

A Stamp is Born - C. R. Pakrashi

The Silkworm - JK Rowling

Crusader or Conspirator : Coalgate and other truths - P.C. Parakh

On Hinduism - Wendy Donige

"India Junction A Window to the Nation". - Mr. Arunendra Kumar

"The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh",
- Sanjaya Baru


Complied list of Cabinet ministers of Narendta Modi :
Rajnath Singh: Home affairs
Sushma Swaraj: External affairs, overseas Indian affairs
Arun Jaitley: Finance, corporate affairs, defence
M Venkaiah Naidu: Urban development, housing and urban poverty
alleviation, parliamentary affairs
Nitin Gadkari: Road transport and highways, shipping
D V Sadananda Gowda: Railways
Uma Bharati: Water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation
Najma A Heptulla: Minority affairs
Gopinathrao Munde: Rural development, panchayati raj, drinking water and
sanitation
Ram Vilas Paswan: Consumer affairs, food and public distribution
Kalraj Mishra: Micro, small and medium enterprises
Maneka Gandhi: Women and child development
Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and fertilizers
Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and information technology, law and
justice
Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil aviation

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Anant Geete: Heavy industries and public enterprises
Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food processing industries
Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, steel, labour and employment
Jual Oram: Tribal affairs
Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture
Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social justice and empowerment


Committee :-

Amitabh Kundu Committee - An anti-discrimination law for Muslims on lines of SC/ST
law

Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee:- The committee which investigated allegations
of spot-fixing and betting in the Indian Premier League (IPL) submitted its report
to the Supreme Court on 10 February 2014


General Awareness Questions :-
[1] Who launched SMS based service named "Polling at your Fingertips" in
Shillong, Meghalaya?
Ans - Mr P Naik (The Chief Electoral Officer)

[2] Who has been selected as the national icon for the Lok Sabha elections,2014 by
Election Commission?
Ans - Amir Khan

[3] Who is the author of the book : "The Accidental Prime Minister: the making
and unmaking of Manmohan Singh"?
Ans - Sanjaya Baru

[4] According to World Bank Report released on 29th April 2014, India has
displaced which country to become the world's third biggest economy in terms of
purchasing power parity (PPP)?
Ans Japan

[5] Who has been appointed as the new Director General of the country's largest
border guarding force BSF by government of india?
Ans - IPS officer D K Pathak

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[6] Who has been appointed as theboard member of China-backed Boao Forum?
Ans - Ratan Tata

[7] Who has been re-elected as Prime Minister of Hungary for the second
consecutive four- year term?
Ans- Viktor Orban

[8] Who took over as the 22nd Chief of Indian Navy?
Ans - Admiral Robin K Dhowan

[9] Who has been appointed as the First ambassador to ASEAN and East Asia
Summit?
Ans - Suresh Kumar Reddy

[10] Who has been appointed as President and CEO of Nokia Corporation?
Ans - Rajeev Suri

[11] Which bank launched Instant Money Transfer (IMT) scheme in Mumbai?
Ans - Bank of India (BoI)

[12] A book entitled Akbar, The Aesthete was released by??
Ans - Hamid Ansari, the Vice President of India

[13] World Forestry Day or International Day of Forests is celebrated worldwide
every year on which date?
Ans - 21st of March

[14] Where was the Third Nuclear Security Summit held?
Ans - The Hague, Netherlands from 24 to 25 March 2014.

[15] Which country will hold the 18th SAARC Summit on 14th November?
Ans Nepal

[16] Who has assumed the charge as Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural
Gas?
Ans - Saurabh Chandra

[17] Who has been elected as President of the Indian Meteorological Society for
2014-16?

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Ans - Akhilesh Gupta

[18] Who was unanimously elected as the first women President of Indian
Journalists Association (IJA) in London?
Ans - Aditi Khanna

[19] Who has been appointed as the new Revenue Secretary?
Ans - Shashikantadas

[20] Who won Windham Campbell Literature Prize 2014 in non-fiction category?
Ans - Indian writer Pankaj Mishra

[21] Name the Czech priest won the Templeton Prize for 2014?
Ans - Tomas Halik

[22] Who bagged the Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013?
Ans - Gyan Correa

[23] Who won the 2014 edition of the UN-Water Water for Life Best Practices
Award for their
sustainable practices of water resources?
Ans - India and Singapore

[24] Who was selected for the 23rd G D Birla Award for scientific research for the
year 2013?
Ans - Physicist Rajesh Gopakumar

[25] Name the renowned Hindi author will receive Sarawasti Samman for the year
2013 for his book Dhool Paudho Par published in 2008?
Ans - Govind Mishra

[26] Who was conferred India's Global Icon of the Year award at the NRI of the
Year awards
in Mumbai?
Ans - Amitabh Bachchan

[27] Who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014?
Ans - Japanese architect Shigeru Ban

[28] Which country lifted the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2014?

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Ans - : South Africa

[29] Who has been appointed coach of the National mens hockey team?
Ans - Olympian and former India captain Jude Felix

[30] Name the company who has bagged a multi-year deal from Volvo Cars?
Ans - : Infosys

[31] Which telecom service provider has launched its popular mobile money
transfer and payment service M-Pesa partnering with private sector ICICI Bank?
Ans Vodafone


Who won the Texas Open Squash tournament?- Nour El Sherbini
Mickey Rooney died in California at the age of 93. Who was he?- Actor
Who won the 34th London Marathon?- Wilson Kipsang
The 35th London Marathon will be held on- 26 April 2015
Who won third WTA title at the Family Circle Cup?- Andrea Petkovic
Who has been re-elected as Prime Minister of Hungary? - Viktor Orban
Marie-Lousie Coleiro Preca was sworn-in as President of Malta
Viswanathan Anand is associated with which game?- Chess
Former ----- wicketkeeper Gareth Hopkins has announced his retirement from
cricket- New Zealand
Which country celebrated the 100th birth anniversary of late Nobel Laureate
Octavio
Who have won the Mixed Doubles title of the Australian Open 2014?- Kristina
Mladenovic and Daniel Nestor
Who have won the Men's Doubles title of the Australian Open 2014?- Lukasz
Kubot and Robert Lindstedt
Who has won the Men's Singles title of the Australian Open 2014?- Stanislas
Wawrinka
Who has won the Women's Singles title of the Australian Open 2014?- Li Na
Currently, how many people die from cancer worldwide every year?- 7.6 million
By which year, premature cancer deaths are projected to increase to 6 million per
year?- 2025
Who has taken over as the new chief of the National Security Guard?- J. N.
Choudhury

15th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards 2014 The 15th
International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards 2014 was held in Tampa Bay,

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US. It was held from 23rd April to 26th April 2014. This was held for the first time
in US . The IIFA awards are presented by the International Indian Film Academy
every year. These were presented to both artistic and technical excellence of
professionals in Bollywood. Following were the awards under different categories

Lifetime Achievement - Shatrughan Sinha
Best Picture - Viacom 18 Motion Pictures & Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra- Bhaag
Milkha Bhaag
Best Direction - Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra - Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Performance in a Leading Role (Male) - Farhan Akhtar - Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Performance in a Leading Role (Female) - Deepika Padukone - Chennai Express
Performance in a Supporting Role (Male) - Aditya Roy Kapoor - Yeh Jawaani Hai
Deewani
Performance in a Supporting Role (Female) - Divya Dutta - Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Performance in a Comic Role - Arshad Warsi - Jolly LLB


PLACES IN NEWS

1) Which country on 14 February 2014 announced a plan to build the longest
underwater tunnel of the World ?
Ans:- China

2) Archaeologists have recently discovered a granary with walls of mud-bricks
during just-concluded excavation at Rakhigarhi village a Harappan civilisation site,
in which state ?
Ans:- Haryana

3) In the month of April Archaeologists discovered a 3500-year-old inscription on
a stone block in which country and claimed that it is the oldest weather report of
the world ?
Ans:- Egypt

4) What is the name of the proposed 70-storey temple, billed to be the tallest shrine
in the world, which was inaugurated on 16 March 2014 at Vrindavan in UP?
Ans:- Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir


Death :-

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1) Name the the author of the Fatal Vision died on 10 March 2014 at UMass
Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, US ?
Ans:- Joe McGinniss

2) Balu Mahendra, who passed away on 13 February 2014 at Chennai , was
associated with which field?
Ans:- Films

3) Name the Nobel prize-winning Colombian author died on 17 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

4) Name the Former Liberian President, who led a peacetime government after two
ruinous back-to-back civil wars, died on 16 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Gyude Bryant

5)Actor Bob Hoskins, whose varied career ranged from Mona Lisa to Who
Framed Roger Rabbit, who died recently was from which country ?
Ans:- Britain

Ques. : 1 Who among the following has won the mens singles title of the
Wimbledon tennis tournament recently?
1) Stan Wawrinka 2) Roger Federer
3) Rafael Nadal 4) Novak Djokovic
5) None of these Answer:- 4) Novak Djokovic
Ques. : 2 The panel headed by who among the following presented new formula
to estimate poverty in India recently? As per the panel estimates three out of 10 in
India are poor.
1) Suresh Tendulkar 2) C Rangarajan
3) KC Chakrabarty 4) Bimal Jalan
5) None of these Answer:- 2) C Rangarajan
Ques. : 3 The RBI increased the cash reserve ratio (CRR) for non-scheduled
urban co-operative banks (UCBs) to what per cent of their total demand and time
liabilities recently? Effective Jul 12, the increase will bring them on par with
scheduled primary (urban) co-operative Banks.
1) 3 per cent 2) 4 per cent
3) 4.5 per cent 4) 4.75 per cent
5) None of these Answer:- 2) 4 per cent

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Ques. : 4 Which of the following banks has become the biggest employer in the
private banking space with more than 72,000 employees in 2013-14?
1) ICICI 2) HDFC
3) Kotak Mahindra Bank 4) Axis Bank
5) None of these Answer:- 1) ICICI
Ques. : 5 Which of the following state govts has announced 12 per cent
reservation in all state govt jobs and posts in public sector undertakings for
candidates living below poverty line (BPL) recently?
1) Mizoram 2) Tripura
3) Sikkim 4) Nagaland
5) None of these Answer:- 3) Sikkim
Ques. : 6 Indian Navy's ambitious naval infrastructure project, Seabird in Karwar
(Phase-II), has got environment clearance. One of the largest naval bases of India
which will house warships including INS Vikramaditya, it is located in the state of
1) Maharashtra 2) Karnataka
3) Tamil Nadu 4) Gujarat
5) None of these Answer:- 2) Karnataka
Ques. : 7 Name the Indian scientist who has been elected to UN entity, the
Commission on the Limits of Continental Shelf (CLCS) recently?
1) Rasik Ravindra 2) Rajan Sivaramakrishnan
3) Jayant Narlikar 4) Anil Kakodkar
5) None of these Answer:- 1) Rasik Ravindra
Ques. : 8 Five Indian women have featured in 2014 Forbes 100 most powerful
women in the world list. Who among the following is NOT among these five
women?
1) Arundhati Bhattacharya 2) Chanda Kocchar
3) Padamshree Warrior 4) Sushma Swaraj
5) None of these Answer:- 4) Sushma Swaraj
Ques. : 9 Who among the following has been conferred with the Baileys Women's
Prize for Fiction for her novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing recently?
1) Eimear McBride 2) Donna Tartt
3) Eleanor Catton 4) Jhumpa Lahiri
5) None of these Answer:- 1) Eimear McBride
Ques. : 10 The Day of the Seafarer is observed across the world on
1) 20 Jun 2) 23 Jun
3) 25 Jun 4) 26 Jun
5) None of these Answer:- 3) 25 Jun

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Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) won Navratna Award 2013

President Pranab Mukherjee presents Padma awards 2014 at Delhi

Novak Djokovic defeated Nadal to win fourth Miami Masters crown

Lewis Hamilton Won Malaysian Grand Prix 2014 at Malaysia

List of winners of inaugural Times Now NRI Award 2014

Indonesian Shuttler Simon Santoso won Malaysia Grand Prix gold 2014

Heena Sidhu Won Air Pistol Women final of ISSF World Cup

Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014-Shigeru Ban, Japanese architect won the
Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014

Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) Won 4th Hockey India Senior Women
National Championship

Govind Mishra Won Sarawasti Samman 2013 For Dhool Paudho Par Book

Malala Yousafzai And 104 Others Honored With Pakistans Civil Awards 2014

Shubranshu Choudhary The Indian Journalist Won digital Activism Award 2014

Chain Singh And Heena Sindhu Won Gold Medal At 7th Asian Air Gun
Championship

Mizoram Won Santosh Trophy 68th senior National football championship

International Women of Courage Award-Laxmi Indian acid attack victim Won
International Women of Courage Award 2014

Protein Science Young Investigator Award 2014 Madan Babu won Protein
Science Young Investigator Award 2014

Delhi Waveriders Won Hockey India League 2014 (HIL 2014)

Vadodara Municipal Corporation Listed In Guinness Book Of World Record

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Sikkim Won Indian National Tourism Award For 2012- 2013

International Gandhi Award 2013-VV Dongre and Guocheng Zhang won
International Gandhi Award 2013

Yuzuru Hanyu-Yuzuru Hanyu Of Japan Won Gold Medal In Sochi Olympics

Krishi Karman Awards-President Of India Distributed Krishi Karman Awards for
2012-13 At WCA-2014

*****SPORTS & GAMES QUIZ****

1) Who won the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship doubles title on 1 March
2014 ?

Ans:- Indo-Pak duo Rohan Bopanna and Aihsan ul Haq Qureshi

2) On 2 March 2014 which club won the Capital One football Cup in the final held
at Wembley?

Ans:- Manchester City

3) Which Indian shuttler won the German Open Grand Prix Mens singles title held
on 2 March 2014 ?

Ans:- Arvind Bhat

4) Which country won the Asia Cup 2014 title after defeated Pakistan by five
wickets in the final at the Shere Bangla National Stadium Mirpur, Bangladesh on 8
March 2014 ?

Ans:- Sri Lanka

5) Which country won the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2014 ?

Ans:- South Africa