GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
*The
winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize –
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The
78-year-old stock exchange which was allowed to
exit
by SEBI recently – Madras Stock Exchange
The
new rate of service tax effective Jun 1 – 14 per cent
The
Indian city where Google has announced to set up
its
largest campus outside the US – Hyderabad
The
amount South Korea has offered to provide for
infrastructure
projects in India – USD 10 bn
The
country where 12-day annual multi-nation military
exercise
‘Eager Lion’ was held recently – Jordan
The
present PM of Mongolia – Chimed
Saikhanbileg
The
bank whose first branch in China was inaugurated
by
PM Modi in Shanghai recently – ICICI
Bank
World
Telecommunication and Information Society Day
(WTISD)
– 17 May
The
new MD and CEO of Syndicate bank – Arun
Shrivastava
Winner
of the 2015 Sudirman Cup badminton tournament
–
China
The
veteran singer and guitarist who died recently – BB
King
India’s
position on the 124-nation global Human Capital
Index
2015 – 100th
The
new president of Japan’s SoftBank Corp – Nikesh
Arora
The
new chairman of the National Safety Council (NSC)
–
Satish Reddy
National
Technology Day which commemorates Nuclear
Tests
in Pokhran – 11 May
International Nurses Day – 12 May
Chief of the BRICS
Bank or the New Development Bank
– KV Kamath
RBI introduced the
banking ombudsman scheme in –
1995
The founding father
of the European single currency
euro who died recently – Alexandre
Lamfalussy
The only Indian firm
in the world’s top-10 list of consumer
finance firms compiled by Forbes – HDFC
(ranked 7th)
– The firm that has topped the list – American
Express
The veteran actor who
was presented with Dada Saheb
Phalke award for 2014 – Shashi
Kapoor
The Indian tech
billionaire ranked as Asia’s wealthiest
entrepreneur under the age of 40 as per
Wealth-X – Arun
Pudur
The Indian-origin
woman who got Cabinet rank in the
new David Cameron govt in the UK – Priti
Patel
The hockey team India
defeated 3-0 in a 4-match series
recently – Japan
The winner of the
Spanish Grand Prix F1 championship
on 10 May – Nico
Rosberg
The skill training
scheme for members under 35 yrs of
age of households that have completed
100 days’ work
in 2014-15 under MGNREGA – Livelihoods
In Full
Employment
(LIFE)
The typhoon that hit
Philippines on 10 May – Noul
The bilateral trade
between EU and India at present –
100
bn euros
The year by which the
NOFN (National Optical Filere
Network) project aims to connect 2.5
lakh gram
panchayats
– 2016
The country where a
contingent of the Nine Grenadiers
regiment of the Indian Army marched in
an international
military parade on 9 May – Russia
The state where a
strategically important new naval base
INS Sardar Patel was commissioned on 9
May – Gujarat
The Naxal hotbeds
where the PM initiated welfare
projects worth about `25,000 cr on 9 May – Dantewada
The former Gujarat
Chief Secretary appointed as the
Election Commissioner of India recently
– Achal
Kumar
Jyoti
The 119th Constitution
(Amendment) Bill passed by the
Parliament – LBA
Bill
The French Defence
Minister who visited India on 5
May – Jean-Yves le
Drian
The date after which
banks have to issue only EMV
chip-based and PIN-enabled debit and
credit cards – 1
Sep
2015
The woman wrestler
who won bronze in Asian
championship in Doha on 6 May – Geeta
Phogat
The winner of
Sportsperson of the Year award at inaugural
TOISA awards presented on 7 May – Jitu
Rai
The deadline for new
model cars to pass minimum frontal
and side crash tests – Oct
2017
The new Prime
Minister of UK whose Conservative Party
won 331 out of 650 seats recently – David
Cameron
The state where the
Polavaram multipurpose project will
come up – Andhra
Pradesh
The head of the
Committee looking after the issue of
MAT on FIIs – AP
Shah
India’s current
position in the global list of countries in
terms of their travel and tourism
competitiveness – 52nd
Mother’s Day – Second
Sunday of May
The country where
President Pranab Mukherjee attended
the Victory Day parade recently – Russia
The country which has
topped the biennial Travel &
Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI)
2015 – Spain
The bank which has
launched a product that could
process personal loans in 10 seconds – HDFC
Bank
As per the RBI, gross
non-performing asset (GNPA) ratio
as on Mar 15 – 4.45
per cent
The port to be
developed by India in Iran – Chabahar
PM Narendra Modi has
become the first Indian PM to
visit this country – Mongolia
– The capital city of Mongolia – Ulan
Bator
The book written by
Vikas Swarup which was made into
Oscar-winning
film Slumdog
Millionaire –
Q&A
The
only category that showed a growth in excise duty
collections
during FY14 as per CAG – Petroleum
products
India’s
position in global market capitalisation (m-cap)
ranking
as on May 2015 – Tenth
The
new threshold for FDI for which approval of CCEA
is
compulsory – Rs.3,000 cr
The
four states whose territories come under the ambit
of
the LBA Bill – Assam, West Bengal, Tripura and
Meghalaya
The
surface-to-air short-range missile defence system
inducted
into Army’s arsenal recently – Akash
The
Chinese micro-blogging site equivalent to Twitter –
Sina Weibo
The
insurance firm that raised its stake in the insurance
JV
with Bharti group to 49 per cent recently – AXA Group
The
moon of Jupiter whose lava lake’s detailed
observations
was captured recently – lo
The
state with the least number of married 19-year-old
girls
as per data from the census 2011 – Nagaland
India’s
position in terms of number of reactors in
operation
globally as per IAEA data – 7th
The
company that has come up with the free Internet
access
site, Internet.org – Facebook
The
country which is buying 24 Dassault Rafale jets
from
France in $7.02 bn – Qatar
The
two retail majors who have announced their merger
in
a `750-cr
all-stock transaction – Future
and Bharti
Retail
The
name of Royal baby of Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge
of the UK – Charlotte Elizabeth Diana
The
veteran investor who was killed in a recent accident
in
the US – Parag Parikh
The
new cleanliness initiative of West Bengal on the
lines
of Swachch Bharat Mission – Mission
Nirmal
Bangla
The
amount the Centre would invest to revamp road
infrastructure
in the Northeast – `20,000 cr
The
new web browser unveiled by Microsoft – Edge
The
upper limit on withdrawals at micro-ATMs fixed by
the
banks – `10,000
The
161st member of the World Trade Organisation
(WTO)
which joined it on 27 Apr – Seychelles
International
Day of Yoga – 21 Jun
India’s
position in generating electricity from nuclear
source
as per IAEA data – 13th
World Dance Day – 29 Apr
The new limit for FDI
in the pension section – 49 per
cent
The prominent social
and human rights activist of
Pakistan who was shot dead in Karachi
recently – Sabeen
Mahmud
The first
African-American woman to become the US
attorney general (83rd) recently – Loretta
Lynch
Winner of the women’s
singles title at the Badminton
Asia Championships in China on 26 Apr –
Ratchanok
Intanon
The name of India’s
rescue operation in quake-hit Nepal
– Operation Maitri
The Indian 155mm,
45-calibre artillery gun which
successfully cleared Indian Army’s
tests recently –
Dhanush
Winner of the Shamkir
Chess tournament on 26 Apr –
Magnus
Carlsen
Winner of the Asian
Banker Achievement Award 2015
for ‘Technology Implementation’ – Bharatiya
Mahila
Bank
The state where the
Indian Army on 26 Apr conducted a
major exercise, ‘Akraman-II’ – Rajasthan
The Indian honoured
by France with the Officier de la
Légion d’Honneur (Officer of the Legion
of Honour) –
Yashwant
Sinha
The sports body
suspended by the govt recently –
Paralympic
Committee of India (PCI)
The Malaysian ace
shuttler banned by the Badminton
World Federation for doping recently – Lee
Chong Wei
The bank which has
made its global foray by opening its
first overseas representative office in
Abu Dhabi – YES
Bank
The city where the
4th International Wind Conference
will be held on Jun 22-23 – Coimbatore
The re-elected
president of Kazakhstan – Nursultan
Nazarbayev
Winner of the men’s
singles title of the Badminton Asia
Championships in China on 26 Apr – Lin
Dan
The Indian-origin
scientist at MIT who won the 2015
Heinz Award – Sangeeta
Bhatia
The first woman
officer (Indian Navy) to die in the line of
duty recently – Kiran
Shekhawat
The UNESCO recognised
site in Kathmandu which
collapsed in 25 Apr earthquake – Dharahara
Tower
(Bhimsen
Tower)
The Afghan president who visited India
recently – Ashraf
Winner
of the 2015 edition of the Pandit Deenanath
Mangeshkar
Award – Anil Kapoor
The
President of the International Olympic Committee
(IOC)
who visited India recently – Thomas
Bach
India’s
ranking in the recently released World Happiness
Report
2015 – 117th
The
Marathi writer who was presented the 50th Jnanpith
Award
by the PM on 25 Apr – Bhalchandra Nemade
The
state awarded as the Best e-Panchayat state – Assam
National
Panchayati Raj Diwas – 24
Apr
The
10-day naval exercise conducted between India and
France
recently – Varuna
The
country which has topped the 2015 World Happiness
Report
– Switzerland
The
country that marked the centenary of the Ottoman
massacre
of up to 1.5 million people on 24 Apr – Armenia
World
Malaria Day – 25 Apr
The
country where the Calbuco volcano erupted for the
first
time in more than 42 years recently – Chile
The
country to which India on 9 Apr delivered three
Cheetal
helicopters – Afghanistan
Earth
Day – 22 Apr
The
batsman who scored most runs (547) in the ICC
Cricket
World Cup 2015 – Martin Guptill
The
bowlers who took most wickets (22 each) in the ICC
Cricket
World Cup 2015 – Mitchell Starc and Trent
Boult
The
Indian-American sworn in as the Surgeon-General
of
US on 22 Apr – Vivek Murthy
The
country which hosted the Bandung Conference
recently
– Indonesia
The
firm which has bought the telecom equipment
business
of Alcatel-Lucent – Nokia
The
country to which the Indian embassy in Yemen has
been
shifted – Djibouti
The
country which has launched the construction of its
first
nuclear power plant in Mersin province – Turkey
The
country where BHEL, with the Russian company
INTMA,
will set up a gas-based power project –
Kazakhstan
India’s
new Ambassador to France – Mohan
Kumar
The
Indian scientist (co-creator of element 117) who has
won
Hevesy Medal Award 2015 – Susanta
Lahiri
The
former PM of Nepal who died on 16 Apr – Surya
Bahadur Thapa
The
new name of the tourist visa on arrival scheme –
e-tourist visa
