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Set 1
1) Who among the following was appointed as the new chairman of Sangeet
Natak Akademi on 29 January 2015?
(A) Shekhar Sen
(B) N Gopalaswami
(C) Leela Samson
(D) S Jayasankar
2) Which country was confirmed as the host for the 2016 Twenty20 World Cup
recently?
(A) Bangladesh
(B) West Indies
(C) Australia
(D) India
3) On 28 January 2015, nation paid tributes to which national martyr of freedom
movement on his 150th birth anniversary?
(A) Mangal Panday
(B) Lala Lajpat Rai
(C) Subhash Chandra Bose
(D) Bhagath Singh

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4) Shirani Bhandaranayake, who was reinstated by the new government led by
President Maithiripala Sirisena on 28 January 2015, was the first woman Chief
Justice of which country?
(A) Bangladesh
(B) Pakistan
(C) Srilanka
(D) Nepal
5) Who has assumed charge as the new Chairman and Managing Director of
National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) recently?
(A) Rehman Khan
(B) Hanumanthu Purushotham
(C) DP Sinha
(D) Rohit Upadhyaya
6) Nation on 29 January 2015 paid rich tributes to ______, who was martyred in
an encounter with militants a day after he got his gallantry award on Republic
Day?
(A) Col. MN Rai
(B) Major Mukund Varadarajan
(C) Major Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh
(D) None of these
7) Which Messenger service has recently rolled out free voice-calling, a month
after its first acquisition of a free calling app - Zip Phone?
(A) Whatsapp
(B) We Chat
(C) Hike
(D) Viber
8) Kalyan Singh took additional charge as Himachal Governor on 28 January
2015. He was originally the Governor of which state?
(A) Goa
(B) West Bengal
(C) Punjab
(D) Rajasthan

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9) Which company reported quarterly profits of $18 billion on 27 January 2015
which is the largest profit in global corporate history?
(A) Microsoft
(B) Facebook
(C) Apple
(D) Google
10) Veteran actor Mala Aravindan who passed away on 28 January 2015 is from
which industry?
(A) Malayalam
(B) Telugu
(C) Tamil
(D) Kannada

Set 2
1) Who was appointed as the new foreign secretary of India on 28 January 2015?
(A) H S Brahma
(B) Sujatha Singh
(C) S Jaishankar
(D) DP Sinha

2) R K Laxman, the country's best-known cartoonist, passed away on 26 January

2015. He is best known for creation of which among the following
iconic character?
(A) Common Man
(B) Amul girl

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(C) Chacha Chaudhari
(D) Suppandi
3) Alexis Tsipras was recently sworn in as prime minister of which country?
(A) Brazil
(B) Malaysia
(C) Egypt
(D) Greece
4) Who won the men's singles of Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold badminton
tournament on 25 January 2015?
(A) HS Pranoy
(B) Kidambi Srikanth
(C) Parupalli Kashyap
(D) Lee Chong Wei
5) Who recently won the Allan Border Medal for the Australian player of the
year?
(A) Mitchell Johnson
(B) Steve Smith
(C) Brad Haddin
(D) James Faulkner
6) Which International Airport has recently emerged as the busiest international
airport in the world?
(A) Dubai International Airport
(B) United Kingdom London Heathrow Airport
(C) Hong Kong International Airport
(D) Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
7) Name the winter snow storm recently hit the northeastern states of the USA?
(A) Athena
(B) Juno
(C) Brutus
(D) Nemo

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8) Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic recently defeated which top seeded player
in the quarterfinals of Australian Open 2015?
(A) Rafael Nadal
(B) Roger Federer
(C) Andy Murray
(D) Novak Djokovic
9) Which cricket player recently pulled out of West Indies World Cup squad
saying he needed more time to work on his bowling action?
(A) Darren Sammy
(B) Sulaiman Benn
(C) Jerome Taylor
(D) Sunil Narine
10) After deciding to split into three, which company recently became the first
Indian listed company to solely focus on life insurance?
(A) Max India
(B) Reliance
(C) Bajaj
(D) Aviva

Set 3
1) India on 26 January 2015 celebrated its 66th Republic Day. Who among the
following was the Chief Guest at this year's Republic Day Parade?
(A) Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand
(B) King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk, Bhutan
(C) Shinzo Abe, Japan
(D) Barack Obama, United States
2) Paulina Vega who was crowned Miss Universe recently is from which
country?
(A) Venezuela
(B) South Africa
(C) Colombia
(D) Ukraine

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3) Major Mukund Varadarajan and Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh, the two army
personnel who laid down their lives combating militants in Kashmir Valley,
were on 26 January 2015 awarded Ashok Chakra posthumously. Ashok Chakra
is awarded as a?
(A) Wartime Gallantry Award
(B) Peacetime Gallantry Award
(C) Wartime distinguished service medal
(C) None of these
4) Government on 26 January 2015 appointed whom as special director with
Intelligence Bureau?
(A) Durga Prasad
(B) DP Sinha
(C) R.K. Upadhyay
(D) Syed Asif Ibrahim
5) Who among the following is not a Padma Vibhushan awardee this year?
(A) Sanjay Leela Bhansali
(B) L. K. Advani
(C) Amitabh Bachchan
(D) Prakash Singh Badal
6) Saina Nehwal recently defeated Carolina Marin of which country to retain the
Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament?
(A) Malaysia
(B) Singapore
(C) Serbia
(D) Spain
7) World Leprosy Day 2015 was recently observed on?
(A) 25 January
(B) 27 January
(C) 26 January
(D) 24 January

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8) US and India recently signed pact for developing 03 smart cities inIndia.
Which city is not included in this list?
(A) Ajmer
(B) Visakhapatnam
(C) Varanasi
(D) Allahabad
9) Edgar Lungu was recently sworn in as the new president of which country?
(A) Zambia
(B) Kenya
(C) Zimbabwe
(D) Turkey
10) Barack Obama during his recent 03 day Indian visit, became the ____ sitting
U.S. president to visit India twice?
(A) Fourth
(B) First
(C) Third
(D) Second

Set 4
1) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 24 January 2015 has lifted ban on carrying
Indian bank notes of Rs 1,000 and 500 denominations to and from which
countries?
(A) Nepal and Bhutan
(B) Pakistan and Bangladesh
(C) China and Srilanka
(D) Myanmar and Thailand
2) National Girl Child Day was observed on?
(A) January 26
(B) January 25
(C) January 24
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3) Who is now the worlds oldest living monarch following the death of King
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, at age 90 recently?
(A) Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, King of Bhutan
(B) Elizabeth II, Britains Queen
(C) Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said, King of Oman
(D) Sonja, Queen of Norway
4) Who has recently won the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for
Poetry?
(A) Amita Kanekar
(B) Jhumpa Lahiri
(C) Priya Davidar
(D) Arundhathi Subramaniam
5) Who will inaugurate the 35th National Games, to be hosted by Kerala from
January 31 to February 14, as announced recently?
(A) Pranab Mukherjee
(B) Arun Jaitley
(C) Venkaiah Naidu
(D) Narendra Modi
6) Hockey India League 2015 started on 22 January 2015 at Kalinga Stadium in
_____ with inaugural match between Kalinga Lancers and Ranchi Rays?
(A) New Delhi
(B) Bhubaneswar
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(D) Ahamedabad
7) TRAI recently issued draft rules for full mobile number portability. Full
mobile number portability is set to start from which date?
(A) May 3, 2015
(B) August 15, 2015
(C) April 1, 2015
(D) March 8, 2015
8) Who recently won his seventh senior National snooker title beating Varun
Madan by six frames to three?
(A) Subhash Agarwal
(B) Pankaj Advani
(C) Geet Sethi
(D) Aditya Mehta
9) National Voters Day (NVD) was observed on 25th January 2015. What was
the theme for the day this year?
(A) Ethical Voting
(B) Inclusion
(C) Greater Participation for a Stronger Democracy
(D) Easy Registration, Easy Correction
10) Which Wing Commander on 25 January 2015 became the first woman officer
to lead the ceremonial Guard of Honour at Rashtrapathi Bhavan?
(A) Pooja Thakur
(B) Sandhya Chauhan
(C) Divya Ajith
(D) Sneha Shekhawat

Set 5
1) Name the Special deposit scheme for girl children launched by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on 22 January 2015?
(A) Sukanya Samriddhi Account
(B) Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Account
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(D) Rajya Mahila Samman Account
2) Which session of Parliament is set to begin on February 23, 2015?
(A) Winter Session
(B) Budget Session
(C) Monsoon Session
(D) Summer Session
3) Who among the following joined as full time member of NITI Aayog on 21
January 2015?
(A) Bibek Debroy
(B) Arvind Panagariya
(C) Sindhushree Khullar
(D) Aravind Subramanian
4) Which Union Ministry on 21 January 2015 launched the National Heritage
Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) that seeks to preserve and
rejuvenate the rich cultural heritage of the country?
(A) Union Ministry of Tourism
(B) Union Ministry of Culture
(C) Union Ministry of Home Affairs
(D) Union Ministry of Urban Development
5) South Korean steel major Posco and state-run SAIL recently decided to jointly
set up a 3-million-tonne integrated plant in which state, with an estimated
investment of about Rs 18,000 crore?
(A) Gujarat
(B) Bihar
(C) Jharkhand
(D) Andhra Pradesh
6) __th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival began on 21 January 2015?
(A) 6th
(B) 8th
(C) 12th
(D) 7th

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7) Which company topped global vehicle sales in 2014 as per report released
recently?
(A) Toyota Motor
(B) General Motors
(C) Volkswagen
(D) Maruti Suzuki
8) Who among the following is the chairman of the committee that has submitted
its report on restructuring of Food Corporation of India, recently?
(A) TSR Subramanian
(B) Bimal Jalan
(C) Ashok Kumar Mathur
(D) Shanta Kumar

9) Jhumpa Lahiri's which book won 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
on 22 January 2015?
(A) The Namesake
(B) Interpreter of Maladies
(C) The Lowland
(D) The White Tiger
10) PM Modi launched 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' campaign on 22 January 2015
at which place?
(A) Idukki, Kerala
(B) Gandhinagar, Gujarat
(C) Panipat, Haryana
(D) Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir

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Set 6
1) Which bank on 19 January 2015 announced the launch of banking services
on Twitter, the first of its kind service, in India?
(A) HDFC Bank
(B) ICICI Bank
(C) SBI
(D) Punjab National Bank
2) Reserve Bank of India, on 19 January 2015, asked banks to notify the Base Rate,
or the minimum lending rate, at least once in every ___ months based on the cost
of funds?
(A) three
(B) two
(C) four
(D) five

3) Who will be BJP's Chief Minister candidate in Delhi assembley elections as

announced by BJP president Amit Shah on 19 January 2015?
(A) Prashanth Bhusan
(B) Harsh Vardhan
(C) Hema Malini
(D) Kiran Bedi
4) Who among the following recently broke the record of fastest half century in
ODI cricket held by Sanath Jayasurya(17 balls), by smashing fifty in just 16 balls?

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(A) Rohit Sharma
(B) Glenn Maxwell
(C) AB de Villiers
(D) Chris Gayle
5) Periyar Tiger Reserve which recently bagged the National Tiger Conservation
Authority (NTCA) biennial award is in which state?
(A) Kerala
(B) TamilNadu
(C) Karnataka
(D) Madhya Pradesh
6) Which Microblogging site on 20 January 2015 has acquired Indian startup
ZipDial, a mobile value added services company based out of Bangalore?
(A) Instagram
(B) Tumblr
(C) Twitter
(D) Wordpress
7) Which scheme launched by Narendra Modi government found a place
in Guinness Book of World Records on 20 January 2015?
(A) Sansad Adarsh Grama Yojana
(B) PM Jan Dhan Yojana
(C) Make in India
(D) Digital India
8) Which company recently overtook Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) to become the
countrys most profitable private company for the quarter ended December
2014?
(A) Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
(B) Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL)
(C) State Bank of India (SBI)
(D) Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
9) Which state in India has the largest number of tigers as per Country Wide
Tiger Assessment Report (CWTAR) for 2014 released recently?

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(A) Gujarat
(B) Karnataka
(C) Kerala
(D) Madhya Pradesh
10) World Toilet Summit was recently held in which Indian city?
(A) New Delhi
(B) Pune
(C) Bengaluru
(D) Hyderabad

Set 7
1) South African cricketer AB de Villiers has hit the fastest century in ODI history
on 18 January 2015 and broke whose previous record?
(A) Shahid Afridi
(B) Corey Anderson
(C) Sanath Jayasurya
(D) Chris Gayle
2) Which bank was ranked at highest place among Indian banks in the list of the
Top 50 Most Valued Global Banks (in terms of market capitalization) that was
released by Bloomberg on 17 January 2015?
(A) ICICI Bank
(B) SBI
(C) Axis BAnk
(D) HDFC Bank
3) Who was on 19 January 2015 appointed chairperson of the censor board, days
after Leela Samson resigned from the post?
(A) Pahlaj Nihalani
(B) Ashoke Pandit
(C) Chandra Prakash Dwivedi
(D) Vani Tripathi Tikoo
4) Name the Union Social Justice Minister who on 16 January 2015 launched a
scheme 'Venture Capital Fund for Scheduled Castes', under which members of

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the reserved community will be offered concessional finance to start new
business ventures?
(A) Jual Oram
(B) Prakash Javedkar
(C) Thaawar Chand Gehlot
(D) Maneka Gandhi
5) R K Tyagi who was recently conferred with 'JGBS-Top Rankers' Excellence
Award for CEO of the year is the chairman of?
(A) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
(B) Indian Oil Corporation
(C) Air India
(D) Coal India Limited
6) Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation, Ms Uma Bharati on 17 January 2015 announced which year as 'Jal
Kranti Varsh'?
(A) 2015-16
(B) 2016-17
(C) 2017-18
(D) 2018-19
7) Faten Hamama who died on 17 January 2015 is the Iconic actress from which
country?
(A) Italy
(B) Egypt
(C) France
(D) South Africa
8) Rajni Kothari who passed away on 19 January 2015 was an eminent?
(A) Film Director
(B) Writer
(C) Political scientist
(D) Physicist

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9) Which state government recently signed a pact with International Crop
Research Institute for Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT) to provide assistance in
making agriculture sustainable and profitable?
(A) Madhya Pradesh
(B) Gujarat
(C) Karnataka
(D) Andhra Pradesh

10) Pankaj Advani recently won the seventh Senior

Championship. Where was the event held?
(A) Bengaluru
(B) Kolkata
(C) Dehradun
(D) Mussoorie

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Set 8
1) Who was appointed as the Indian men's football team head coach on 16
January 2015?
(A) Roelant Oltmans
(B) Wim Koevermans
(C) Stephen Constantine
(D) Ricky Herbert
2) Country's first woman IPS officer, Kiran Bedi recently joined which political
party?

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(A) Bharatiya Janata Party
(B) Aam Aadmi Party
(C) Indian National Congress
(D) Trinamool Congress
3) Sania Mirza along with whom recently won Sydney International Tennis
Tournament?
(A) Bethanie Mattek-Sands
(B) Abigail Spears
(C) Raquel Kops-Jones
(D) Bruno Soares
4) Biopic movie The Theory of Everything which was released in India on 16
January 2015 is based on the life of which iconic physicist?
(A) Albert Einstein
(B) C.V Raman
(C) Enrico Fermi
(D) Stephen Hawking
5) First indigenously-built Light Combat Aircraft Tejas was handed over to
Indian Air Force by Defence Minister Manohar Parikkar on 18 January 2015.
Tejas was developed by?
(A) Mahindra Aerospace
(B) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
(C) Ashok Leyland
(D) Raj Hamsa Ultralights
6) National Immunization Day for the year 2015 was recently observed on?
(A) 17 January
(B) 16 January
(C) 18 January
(D) 19 January
7) 24 Children, including 8 girls were selected for National Bravery Awards 2014
on 17 January 2015. The award was instituted in which year?
(A) 1947

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(B) 1957
(C) 1951
(D) 1964
8) Government on 16 January 2015 approved raising buffer stock and strategic
reserve limits of Food Corporation of India for both wheat and rice. Government
had last changed the buffer norms in which year?
(A) 2003
(B) 2011
(D) 2009
(D) 2005
9) Who won Hindu Literary Prize 2014 for his debut collection of 13 short stories,
Book of Common Signs on 17 January 2015?
(A) Ashok Srinivasan
(B) Jerry Pinto
(C) Anees Salim
(D) Manu Joseph
10) Name the Union Minister of Tribal Affairs who recently inaugurated the
Tribal Food Festival-2015 in New Delhi?
(A) Anant Geete
(B) Nitin Gadkari
(C) Harsh Vardhan
(D) Jual Oram

Set 9
1) Who among the following resigned as Chairperson of Central Board of Film
Certification (CBFC) on 16 January 2015?
(A) Shaji N Karun
(B) Leela Samson
(C) Ira Bhaskar
(D) Isha Sharwani
2) Anupam Shrivastava was recently appointed as the CMD of?
(A) BSNL

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(B) Coal India Ltd
(C) Air India
(D) Niti Ayog

3) Which state government has recently appointed Baba Ramdev as its brand
ambassador?
(A) Gujarat
(B) Madhya Pradesh
(C) Jharkhand
(D) Haryana
4) What is the name of the worlds newest jetliner that took to the skies on 15
January 2015?
(A) Airbus A350
(B) Airbus A525
(C) Boeing 747
(D) None of these
5) Which Australian cricket player has announced his retirement from all the
formats of game, ending a 20-year long career on 15 January 2015?
(A) Adam Gilchrist
(B) Ricky Ponting
(C) Brett Lee
(D) Shane Warne
6) RBI on 15 January 2015 decided to cut the benchmark interest rate (Repo Rate)
by 0.25 per cent to ___ per cent with a view to boost growth?

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(A) 8%
(B) 7.75%
(C) 7.50%
(D) 7%
7) Which state government on 15 January 2015 lifted the 17-year-old ban on
consumption of liquor in the state?
(A) Kerala
(B) Karnataka
(C) Gujarat
(D) Mizoram
8) Microsoft on 15 January 2015 suspended "mainstream support" of its which
popular operating system, meaning neither new features nor free help will be
given to users using this OS?
(A) Widows 8
(B) Windows 7
(C) Windows Vista
(D) Windows XP
9) Army Day was recently observed on?
(A) 11 January
(B) 13 January
(C) 15 January
(D) 17 January
10) Controversial book on Sonia Gandhi 'The Red Saree' is set to be released in
India by Roli Books soon. The book was first published in Spanish with the title
'El Sari Rojo' in which year?
(A) 2008
(B) 2010
(C) 2004
(D) 2014

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1) Name the Director General of Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO), who was sacked from his post on 13 January 2015 by
Union Government?
(A) GS Malik
(B) Avinash Chander
(C) N Prabhakar
(D) Satish Kumar
2) Microsoft has recently tied up with which telecom company for enabling the
telco's 34 million data users to purchases apps and pay for them through
monthly bills or prepaid balances?
(A) Idea
(B) Airtel
(C) Aircel
(D) Vodafone
3) Indian Space Research Organisation was recently conferred 'Space Pioneer
Award' by the National Space Society (NSS) of which country over the historic
feat on successfully sending an orbit to Martian atmosphere in its very first
attempt?
(A) France
(B) European Union
(C) China
(D) USA
4) Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has recently flagged off the first CNG
(Compressed Natural Gas) based two trains from Rewari station in which state?
(A) Bihar
(B) Jammu and Kashmir
(C) Haryana
(D) Gujarat
5) Who among the following on 13 January 2015 took charge as the first vicechairman of the newly-created NITI Aayog?
(A) V. K. Saraswat
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(C) Sindhushree Khullar
(D) Arvind Panagariya
6) Which search engine launched its flight search tool in India on 13 January
2015, that allows users to find and compare airfares online and book tickets
directly?
(A) Yahoo
(B) Google
(C) Bing
(D) Ask
7) Who took over as Director General Air Operations at the Air Headquarters on
13 January 2015?
(A) Air Marshal Anil Khosla
(B) Air Marshal Anoop Kumar
(C) Air Marshal Vikram Singh
(D) Air Marshal Sandeep Thyagi
8) Name the Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation who inaugurated the India Water Week 2015 recently with the
theme Water Management for Sustainable Development"?
(A) Uma Bharti
(B) Ram Vilas Paswan
(C) Maneka Gandhi
(D) Smrithi Zubin Irani
9) Amid concerns over turning yellow due to increasing pollution, the district
administration has recently banned burning of cow dung cakes near which
historical monument in Delhi?
(A) Rashtrapathi Bhavan
(B) Jantar Mantar
(C) Red Fort
(D) Taj Mahal

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10) Samsung launched Z1, its first smartphone running on its own operating
system named ___ in India on 14 January 2015?
(A) Bolt
(B) MeeGo
(C) Tizen
(D) Palm

Set 11
1) Idukki which has become India's first district to be linked to the National
Optic Fibre Network (NOFN), the ambitious government project to offer highspeed broadband connectivity in all the villages in the country, is in which state?
(A) Gujarat
(B) Kerala
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Goa
2) British Global magazine Central Banking has recently honoured whom with
Governor of the Year award for 2015?
(A) Raghuram Rajan
(B) Jim Yong Kim
(C) Janet Yellen
(D) Mario Draghi
3) Who was on 12 January 2015 appointed as the new Secretary of the
Department of Space as also Chairman of the Indian Space Research
Organisation?
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(B) S. Ramakrishnan
(C) A.S. Kiran Kumar
(D) M.Y.S. Prasad
4) Cristiano Ronaldo who won FIFA Ballon d'Or award on 12 January 2015 is the
player from which country?
(A) Argentina
(B) Brazil
(C) Colombia
(D) Portugal
5) Election Commission (EC) on 12 January 2015 announced the Assembly
elections of National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi and as per the schedule the
polling will be held on Feb 7 and counting on Feb 10. Total how many assembly
seats are there in Delhi?
(A) 110
(B) 70
(C) 95
(D) 64
6) Justice S K Sinha was on 12 January 2015 appointed as the Chief Justice of
which country thus becoming the first Hindu to hold the highest judicial post in
the Muslim-majority country?
(A) Indonesia
(B) Pakistan
(C) Maldives
(D) Bangladesh

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7) 72nd edition of Golden Globe Awards organized at Beverly Hills, California
were held on 11 January 2015. Which film won the award for Best Motion Picture
Drama?
(A) The Grand Budapest Hotel
(B) Leviathan
(C) Boyhood
(D) None of these
8) January 12 was observed as National Youth Day in India to remember the
birth anniversay of?
(A) Madam Mohan Malaviya
(B) Swami Vivekananda
(C) Aurobindo
(D) Gopala Krishna Gokhale
9) Anirban Lahiri has been voted the 2014 Players Player of the Year on 12
January 2015. He is related to which sport?
(A) Golf
(B) Chess
(C) Shoting
(D) Badminton
10) Ramesh Abhishek was given three-month extension as Forward Markets
Commission (FMC) chairman on 12 January 2015. Where is the headquarters of
FMC?
(A) Kochi
(B) New Delhi
(C) Hyderabad
(D) Mumbai

Set 12
1) Who won the Chennai Open Tennis championship on 11 January 2015
defeating Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia?
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(C) Stan Wawrinka
(D) David Goffin
2) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently inaugurated a canal-top 10-MW
solar power project near Sardar Sarovar project canal in which state?
(A) Maharashtra
(B) Gujarat
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Bihar
3) Who among the following was appointed as member(actuary) in Insurance
Regulatory Authority of India (IRDA) recently?
(A) Pournima Gupte
(B) Sindhushree Khullar
(C) Jyotsna Suri
(D) None of these

4) Which team won the Federation Cup football tournament 2014-15 on 12

January 2015?
(A) Churchill Brothers
(B) East Bengal
(C) Salgaocar SC
(D) Bengaluru FC
5) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 11 January 2015 inaugurated the 7th edition
of Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2015 at Gandhinagar. Vibrant Gujarat Summit (VGS)
is a biennial global business summit, being held since which year?
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(B) 2004
(C) 2003
(D) 1994
6) People from 11 countries have recently taken part in the First "Buddha
Heritage Walk" held in which state?
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Uttarakhand
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Bihar
7) Who was recently selected for the prestigious Vikram Sarabhai Memorial
Award for 2015 presented by the Indian Science CongressAssociation (ISCA)?
(A) M.Y.S. Prasad
(B) K. Radhakrishnan
(C) A.P.J Abdul Kalam
(D) Tessy Thomas
8) Which Union Minister on 11 January 2015 adopted four villages in Vadodara
district of Gujarat (viz.Karnali, Pipaliya, Valida, Baglipura) under the Sansad
Adarsh Gram Yojana for MPs?
(A) Smrithi Zubin Irani
(B) Venkaiah Naidu
(C) Arun Jaitley
(D) Rajnath Singh
9) Which country on 11 January 2015 registered record T20 chase against South
Africa beating Indias previous record against Sri Lanka in 2009?
(A) Australia
(B) New zealand
(C) Srilanka
(D) West Indies
10) Death anniversary of which former Prime Minister of India was observed on
11 January 2015?
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(B) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(C) I K Gujaral
(D) PV Narasimha Rao

Set 13
1) Name the new antibiotic which was created recently & is the first newclass
of antibiotic announced in three decades, the last being in 1987?
(A) Teixobactin
(B) Trimethoprim
(C) Tinidazole
(D) Tigecycline
2) NASA's Kepler spacecraft has recently achieved a milestone by discovering its
......th alien planet?
(A) 100
(B) 500
(C) 1000
(D) 5000
3) World Congress on International Law was recently (Jan 2015) held at?
(A) Newyork
(B) Brisbane
(C) Tokyo
(D) New Delhi
4) World Hindi Day was observed every year on?
(A) 10 January
(B) 11 September
(C) 25 January
(D) 14 August
5) Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has recently
successfully tested an advanced electronic warfare (EW) suite onboard countrys
which Light Combat Aircraft?
(A) Dhwani- XV
(B) Tejas-PV1

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(C) Dhruv - BVI
(D) None of these

6) Who was on 10 January 2015 appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
of the newly-formed NITI Aayog?
(A) Thawar Chand Gehlot
(B) Smriti Zubin Irani
(C) Sindhushree Khullar
(D) Arvind Panagariya
7) Australia recently clinched the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2014-15 defeating
India. Who was declared the Man of the Series?
(A) Virat Kohli
(B) Steve Smith
(C) Mohammed Shami
(D) David Warner
8) Railway minister Suresh Prabhu recently inaugurated a mobile application for
women commuters named?
(A) Himmat
(B) Mobile One
(C) Nirbhaya
(D) m-Indicator
9) Who among the following was not included in the list of 15 prominent nonresident Indians (NRIs) who received Pravasi Bharatiya Samman 2015 recently?

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(A) Satya Nadella
(B) Donald Rabindernauth Ramaotar
(C) Ban Ki Moon
(D) Rajaram Sanjaya
10) Which Indian diplomat was appointed as Under-Secretary-General in a
department of the United Nations (UN) recently?
(A) Richard Verma
(B) Atul Khare
(C) Robin Krishna
(D) None of these

Set 14
1) Tatas Vistara airline has started domestic flight operation in India on 9
January 2015 after first flight took off from Delhi to Mumbai. Vistara airline is a
joint venture of Tata Sons and?
(A) Singapore Airlines
(B) Malaysian Airlines
(C) Indonesian Airlines
(D) Air India
2) Who took over as the new President of Sri Lanka on 9 January 2015?
(A) Mahinda Rajapaksa
(B) Ranil Wickramasinghe
(C) Sirimavo Bandaranaike
(D) Maithripala Sirisena
3) Prominent Chinese theoretical physicist Yu Min, who is famously known as
Chinas Father of Hydrogen bomb, was recently awarded State
Preeminent Science and Technology Award for 2014. Chinas first hydrogen
bomb was developed in which year?
(A) 1939
(B) 1947
(C) 1967
(D) 1987

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4) Governor's rule was imposed on 9 January 2015 in Jammu & Kashmir under
which section of the Constitution of J&K?
(A) Section 90
(B) Section 92
(C) Section 81
(D) Section 63
5) Union Government has recently merged PIO card-holders with Overseas
Citizens of India (OCI) card-holders by issuing notification on the concluding
day of 13th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas. Expand PIO?
(A) Person in Outside Country
(B) People of Indian Origin
(C) Persons of Indian Origin
(D) None of these

6) Virat Kohli has recently bettered whose record of scoring most runs in a series
in Australia?
(A) Sachin Tendulkar
(B) VVS Laxman
(C) Sunil Gavaskar
(D) Rahul Dravid
7) PM Narendra Modi on 8 January 2015 inaugurated the state-of-the-art "Dandi
Kutir", a museum on the life and works of Mahatma Gandhi at which place?
(A) Gandhinagar, Gujarat
(B) Pune, Maharashtra

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(C) Gangtok, Sikkim
(D) Raipur, Chhattisgarh
8) 19th National Youth Festival has begun in which city on 8 January 2015?
(A) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
(B) Guwahati, Assam
(C) Ludhiana, Punjab
(D) Bhubaneswar, Odisha
9) Krishna Kant Paul was on 8 January 2015 sworn in as the sixth Governor of
which state?
(A) West Bengal
(B) Mizoram
(C) Chattisgarh
(D) Uttarakhand
10) 2015 is marking the ........ years of Mahatma Gandhis homecoming from
South Africa?
(A) 100
(B) 125
(C) 150
(D) 120

Set 15
1) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 8 January 2015 inaugurated the 13th
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas at Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Who among the following was
the chief guest at the event?
(A) Joko Widodo, President of Indonesia
(B) Donald Ramotar, President of Guyana
(C) Epeli Nailatikau, President of Fiji
(D) Tony Abbott, Prime Minister of Australia
2) Satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that came under attack by two masked
gunmen on 7 January 2015 resulting in the death of papers editor and 11 other
people is the newspaper in which country?
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(B) Canada
(C) Italy
(D) France

3) Who was named as business person of the year for 2014 by Fortune magazine
recently?
(A) Jack Ma
(B) Mark Zuckerberg
(C) Larry Page
(D) Bill Gates
4) Shareholders have recently approved the merger of Kotak Mahindra Bank
with which other bank?
(A) ING Vysya Bank
(B) Tailnadu Mercantile Bank
(C) South Indian Bank
(D) Vijaya Bank
5) Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi on 7 January 2015 dedicated his Nobel Peace
prize to the nation by presenting his medallion to President Pranab Mukherjee.
Name the NGO in which Kailash Satyarthi is associated?
(A) Bandhua Mukti Morcha
(B) Bachpan Bachao Andolan
(C) Mukti Caravan
(D) None of these
6) Which among the following was the theme of the Indian Science Congress2015 held recently at Mumbai?

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(A) Science and Technology for Human Development
(B) Innovations in Science & Technology for Inclusive Development
(C) Science for shaping the future of India
(D) Planet Earth
7) Dinesh Oraon was unanimously elected as the Speaker of which state
assembly on 7 January 2015?
(A) Maharashtra
(B) Haryana
(C) Jammu and Kashmir
(D) Jharkhand
8) Which bank launched the countrys first contactless debit and credit cards on
7 January 2015, enabling customers to make electronic payments by waving the
cards near a merchant terminal instead of dipping or swiping these?
(A) State Bank of India
(B) ICICI Bank
(C) HDFC Bank
(D) Axis Bank
9) 'Qantas' was named as the worlds safest airline in a report published by
AirlineRatings.com that was released on 7 January 2015. Qantas is the national
airline of which country?
(A) Indonesia
(B) Switzerland
(C) Australia
(D) Saudi Arabia
10) Which country has retained the iconic Reliance ICC Test Championship mace
and has won a cash award of 500,000 US dollar for being at No.1 spot at the end
of the year?
(A) Sri Lanka
(B) England
(C) Australia
(D) South Africa

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Set 16
1) Who took charge as Coal India Limiteds full-time Chairman andManaging
Director (CMD) on 5 January 2015?
(A) Praphul Patel
(B) Sutirtha Bhattacharya
(C) Sindhushree Khullar
(D) Meenakshi Sharma

2) Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan was appointed as the brandambassador

for health sector of which state on 6 January 2015?
(A) Kerala
(B) Gujarat
(C) Maharashtra
(D) Andhra Pradesh
3) Which state has recently become the first state in India, to completely ban the
sale of loose cigarettes (even as single sticks) and loose tobacco?
(A) Himachal Pradesh
(B) Punjab
(C) West Bengal
(D) Rajasthan
4) Name the Union Minister of State for petroleum and natural gas, who on 5
January 2015 launched a scheme to provide new LPG connections to BPL
families?

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(A) Suresh Prabhu
(B) Harsh Vardhan
(C) Dharmendra Pradhan
(D) Jual Oram
5) Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced Indian squad for
the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 on 6 January 2015. Who will captain the squad?
(A) M S Dhoni
(B) Virat Kohli
(C) Ishant Sharma
(D) Suresh Raina
6) President Pranab Mukherjee has recently signed the ordinance that amends
Citizenship Act, ___?
(A) 2013
(B) 1947
(C) 1955
(D) 2004
7) Union cabinet meeting has recently approved setting up of India-based
Neutrino Observatory (INO) project in Bodi West Hills of which state?
(A) Karnataka
(B) Andhra Pradesh
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Kerala
8) A commemorative coin on which famous Indian industrialist was released by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 6 January 2015?
(A) Dhirubhai Ambani
(B) Jamsetji Tata
(C) Aditya Vikram Birla
(D) Walchand Hirachand
9) Keshari Nath Tripathi was sworn in as the Governor of which state on 6
January 2015?
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(B) West Bengal
(C) Mizoram
(D) Sikkim
10) Trade unions of which among the following sector went on a five-day strike
on 6 January 2015 in protest against disinvestment and restructuring?
(A) Insurance
(B) Railways
(C) Bank
(D) Coal

Set 17
1) Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara scored his 11th Test double century recently.
Who is the only player above him holding the record of 12 double centuries in
Test match cricket history?
(A) Sachin Tendulkar
(B) Mahela Jayawardene
(C) Don Bradman
(D) Brian Lara
2) Which Asian country celebrated its 67th Independence Day on 4 January 2015?
(A) Japan
(B) Myanmar
(C) Bhutan
(D) Nepal
3) Who among the following was on 5 January 2015 named vice-chairman of Niti
Aayog, an institution that came into being on January 1 and replaced the 65-year
old Planning Commission?
(A) Arvind Panagariya
(B) Bibek Debroy
(C) VK Saraswat
(D) Radha Mohan Singh
4) Upendra Trivedi who passed away on 4 January 2015 was a renowned actor of
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(A) Malayalam
(B) Gujarati
(C) Kannada
(D) Marathi

5) Sports Ministry has recommended whose name for Padma Bhushan on 05

January 2015?
(A) Sushil Kumar
(B) Vijendar Singh
(C) PV Sindhu
(D) Saina Nehwal
6) Which city will host the International Hindi Conference in April 2015 with the
theme of "Expanding World of Hindi: Possibilities and Challenges"?
(A) Tel Aviv
(B) Brisbane
(C) New Jersey
(D) Brussels
7) Justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir was on 5 January 2015 appointed as the Chief
Justice of which high court?
(A) Jammu & Kashmir
(B) Kerala
(C) Karnataka
(D) Himachal Pradesh
8) New age e-passports are expected to be rolled out in the country by which
year as announced recently?

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(A) 2019
(B) 2022
(C) 2018
(D) 2016
9) Union Cabinet on 5 January 2015 approved the largest ever telecom spectrum
auction which will cover?
(A) 4G
(B) 2G
(C) 3G
(D) All of these
10) Habib Essid was nominated as the new Prime Minister of which country
recently?
(A) Tunisia
(B) Sudan
(C) Kenya
(D) Vietnam

Set 18
1) Government has recently decided to accept the recommendations of the
Bezbaruah Committee that was set up to look into the safety and securityof
people from North East India. In which year Bezbaruah Committee was set up?
(A) November 2013
(B) February 2014
(C) July 2014
(D) December 2011
2) R Koteeswaran has recently taken charge as the Managing Director and Chief
Executive Officer of which bank?
(A) Union Bank of India
(B) Indian Bank
(C) Vijaya Bank
(D) Indian Overseas Bank

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3) Kumar Sangakkara on 3 January 2015 has broken whose record to become the
fastest to reach 12,000 Test runs?
(A) Vivian Richards
(B) Rickey Ponting
(C) Sachin Tendulkar
(D) Both B & C
4) Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on 3 January 2015 inaugurated the ___ edition
of the Indian Science Congress at Mumbai?
(A) 102nd
(B) 100th
(C) 125th
(D) 112th
5) Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy governor Shyamala Gopinath was
on 2 January 2015 appointed as the non-executive chairperson of which bank?
(A) Canara Bank
(B) ICICI Bank
(C) HDFC Bank
(D) Axis Bank
6) Aamir Khan's film PK has recently surpassed the collections of which film to
become highest Bollywood grosser ever in two weeks post its release?
(A) Dhoom 3
(B) Chennai Express
(C) 3 Idiots
(D) 2 States

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7) Bikaners camel festival, described by travel guide Lonely Planet as the third
best fair in the world, is set to begin on 4 Jan 2015. Bikaner is in which state?
(A) Punjab
(B) Haryana
(C) Bihar
(D) Rajasthan
8) A two-day banking retreat to discuss the new initiatives for banking industry
was recently held at?
(A) Kochi, Kerala
(B) Pune, Maharashtra
(C) Ahemadabad, Gujarat
(D) Panaji, Goa
9) Who was elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for 201415 on 2 January 2015?
(A) Kiran Bhai Vadodaria
(B) PV Chandran
(C) Ravindra Kumar
(D) Mamen Mathew
10) RBI on 3 January 2015 has relaxed KYC rules for Non-Banking Financial
Companies. As per the relaxed rules, KYC exercise will be required to be done
for high-risk individuals and entities in at least how many years?
(A) 2 years
(B) 1 year
(C) 3 years
(D) 5 years

Set 19
1) Which Sri Lankan cricketer recently become only the fifth cricketer to make
12,000 runs in Test cricket?
(A) Kumar Sangakkara
(B) Mahela Jayawardene
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(D) Angelo Mathews
2) Footballer Steven Gerrard on 2 January 2015 has announced his decision to
leave which football club that has been his home for last many years?
(A) Manchester City
(B) Chelsea
(C) Liverpool
(D) Sunderland
3) Union Government has recently extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers)
Act, 1958 for another one year in which state and has declared the entire state as
a Disturbed Area?
(A) Mizoram
(B) Assam
(C) Chattisgarh
(D) Arunchal Pradesh
4) Post office savings bank accounts can now be operated through ATMs
following a recent gazette notification amending which Post Office rules?
(A) Post Office Savings Bank General Rules, 1981
(B) Indian Post Office Rules, 1933
(C) Indian Post Office Act, 1898
(D) Post Office Guide Part-I
5) Sports Ministry on 2 January 2015 cleared the National Boxing Federations
new name called?
(A) Indian Boxing Association
(B) Board of Control for Boxing in India
(C) Association for National Boxing
(D) Boxing India
6) Dr. Vasant Ranchod Gowarikar who passed away in Pune, Maharashtra on 2
January 2015 was an eminent?
(A) Film Director
(B) Writer
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(D) Historian

7) Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently dedicated "Akodara Village" in which

state as "ICICI Digital Village to the nation at an event which was organised to
celebrate the ICICI Groups 60 years of partnering India in its progress?
(A) Maharashtra
(B) Gujarat
(C) Odisha
(D) Madhya Pradesh
8) Union Water Resources Ministry will launch an initiative called ____ to be
adopted in every district of the country during the India Water Week from
January 13 to 17?
(A) 'Jal He To Kal He, Jal Nahi To Kuch Nahi'
(B) 'Aap Paani Ko Bachao Or Paani apko Bachayega'
(C) ' Jal Jeevan ka Anmol Ratan'
(D) 'Hamara Jal, Hamara Jeewan'
9) Who recently (Jan 2015) became the first cricketer to cross 5 million followers
on Twitter?
(A) Virat Kohli
(B) Chris Gayle
(C) Sachin Tendulkar
(D) MS Dhoni
10) Suburban train service in which metropolitan city was affected on 2 January
2015 as commuters turned violent protesting a snag caused in electric supply to
trains?

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(A) Kolkata
(B) Delhi
(C) Mumbai
(D) Chennai

Set 20
1) Health ministry on 31 December 2014 released a draft of the National Health
Policy 2015 according to which government plans to make health a fundamental
right. Similarly government enacted Right to Education Act, to make education a
fundamental right of every child, in which year?
(A) 2010
(B) 2005
(C) 2009
(D) 2004
2) According to recent reports, Microsoft is set to replace its which popular
browser with new browser in Windows 10 called "Spartan"?
(A) Internet Explorer
(B) Google Chrome
(C) Bing
(D) Yahoo

3) Name the mobile application of Delhi Police that was launched by Union
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on 1 January 2015, that will allow women to send a
distress call to Police Control Room and their relatives in case of any emergency?
(A) Nirbhay
(B) Himmat
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(D) Shakti
4) Which state government on 1 January 2015 launched an online facility for
making application under the Right to Information Act?
(A) Kerala
(B) Gujarat
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Maharashtra
5) Union government on 1 January 2015 has renamed Planning commission as?
(A) NITI Yojna
(B) NITI Sansad
(C) NITI Aayog
(D) NITI Adhikaar
6) Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has been recently
renamed as?
(A) Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI)
(B) Indian Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IIRDA)
(C) Regulatory and Development Authority for Insurance in India (RDAII)
(D) None of these
7) Who among the following has been recently appointed as the new chairman of
railways board?
(A) A K Mittal
(B) V K Gupta
(C) Arunendra Kumar
(D) Rajesh Agarwal
8) India's maiden mission to Mars, Mangalyaan, on 1 January 2015 successfully
completed 100 days in the orbit of the Red planet. On which date Mangalyaan
had entered Mars orbit?
(A) 1 November 2014
(B) 24 September 2014
(C) 15 August 2014
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9) Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme for LPG has recently been renamed as?
(A) SAMPATH
(B) SDBTL
(C) PAHAL
(D) None of these
10) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 1 January 2015 has extended the deadline for
the submission of applications to open small finance banks and payments banks
to 2 February from 16 January. What is the minimum capital must for setting up
niche banking entities?
(A) Rs. 50 crore
(B) Rs. 10 crore
(C) Rs. 500 crore
(D) Rs.100 crore

Set 21
1) Mahendra Singh Dhoni on 30 December 2014 announced immediate
retirement from which format of the cricket?
(A) ODI
(B) Twenty-20
(C) Test
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2) Commercial power generation in Kudankulam nuclear power plantstarted on
30 December 2014 after getting approval from the Nuclear Power Corporation.
Kudankulam nuclear power plant is situated in which state?
(A) Maharashtra
(B) Karnataka
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Tamil Nadu
3) Finance ministry has recently decided not to extend excise duty cuts on
automobiles beyond December 31. The interim Budget of former finance minister
P Chidambaram had reduced the excise duty on small cars, scooters, motorcycles
and commercial vehicles to __% from 12%?
(A) 8%
(B) 6%
(C) 9%
(D) 10%
4) Uttrakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi was on 30 December 2014 shifted to which
state?
(A) Kerala
(B) Arunachal Pradesh
(C) Mizoram
(D) Gujarat
5) Union government on 31 December 2014 has blocked access to how many
websites for carrying anti-India views and spreading banned terrorist outfit
Islamic State of Iraq and Syrias (ISIS) propaganda?
(A) 15
(B) 32
(C) 45
(D) 63
6) Government has on 31 December 2014 decided to separate the post of
Chairman and Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
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in public sector banks other than which bank will be a part- time board member
henceforth?
(A) NABARD
(B) State Bank of India
(C) United Bank of India
(D) Indian Overseas Bank
7) M Sathiyavathy has recently become first woman to be appointed as Director
General (DG) of?
(A) Department of Posts
(B) Central Information Commission
(C) Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)
(D) Pay Commission
8) President Pranab Mukherjee on 31 December 2014 has given his assent to
NJAC Bill, 2014 that seeks to scrap the collegium system of appointing?
(A) Judges to higher judiciary
(B) Central Vigilance Commission
(C) Director of CBI
(D) Chief Information Commissioner
9) Amidst row and demonstrations over Aamir Khan-starrer 'PK', which state
government has recently decided to exempt the movie from entertainment tax?
(A) Delhi
(B) Bihar
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Jammu and Kashmir
10) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Radhakrishnan
retired on 31 December 2014. Who will hold additional and interim charge as
Chairman of ISRO for a month or until a regularchief is named?
(A) R.S. Sharma
(B) S. Ramakrishnan
(C) M. Chandra Dathan
(D) Shailesh Nayak