Current Affairs

February 2015

SET VIII

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1) Who won the Best Actor (Female) award at the 60th Filmfare Awards announced
recently?

(A) Anushka Sharma
(B) Alia Bhatt
(C) Kareena Kapoor
(D) Kangana Ranaut


2) RBI on 3 February 2015 doubled the amount of foreign exchange that an individual
can remit in a year under a scheme that allows asset purchase outside India. An
individual can now remit up to ____ a year under the Liberalised Remittance
Scheme?

(A) $250,000
(B) $250,00
(C) $250,0
(D) $250


3) Who will chair the RBI External Advisory Committee (EAC) to evaluate applications
received for payment banks as announced on 3 Feb 2015?

(A) Raghuram Rajan
(B) D Subbarao
(C) Y V Reddy
(D) Nachiket Mor


4) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 3 February 2014 released its 6th Bi-monthly
Monetary Review. RBI reduced the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) of scheduled
commercial banks by 50 basis points to?

(A) 21.5%
(B) 7.75%
(C) 22.0%
(D) 6.75%


5) Mrinalini Mukherjee passed away in New Delhi on 2 February 2015 was noted?

(A) Academician
(B) Bureaucrat

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(C) Historian
(D) Sculptor


6) Which private airlines co-owner Kal Airways recently decided to sell and
transfer their entire holding of 58.46 per cent in the airline to co-founder Ajay
Singh?

(A) Indigo
(B) Vistara
(C) Deccan Charters
(D) SpiceJet


7) PETA -an international animal rights and conservation group and the Bannerghatta
Biological Park in which state, have joined hands to create India's first `fenced'
elephant sanctuary in a forested space?

(A) Karnataka
(B) Kerala
(C) Assam
(D) Madhya Pradesh


8) Leander Paes along with whom recently won the Australian Open 2015 mixed
doubles title?

(A) Martina Hingis
(B) SaniaMirza
(C) Cara Black
(D) Elena Vesnina


9) Second Phase of JNNURM Project is set to be named after which former Prime
Minister of India as reports suggested recently?

(A) Rajiv Gandhi
(B) Moraji Desai
(C) AtalBihari Vajpayee
(D) LalBahadurShastri


10) World wetland day (WWD) was observed every year on?

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(A) 31 January
(B) 4 February
(C) 1 February
(D) 2 February


11) Robert Mugabe who was appointed as the new chairman of the 54-nation
African Union on 30 January 2015 is the president of which African Nation?

(A) Kenya
(B) South Africa
(C) Zimbabwe
(D) Nigeria


12) Sergio Mattarella was recently elected as the new President of?

(A) Greece
(B) Italy
(C) France
(D) Canada


13) Who among the following on 31 January 2015 took charge as chairman of
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL)?

(A) R K Tyagi
(B) Jiji Thomson
(C) T SuvarnaRaju
(D) None of these


14) India on 31 January 2015 successfully carried out the maiden canister-based
trial of its most potent missile Agni-V from?

(A) Wheeler Island, Odisha
(B) Sreeharikota, Andhra Pradesh
(C) Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu
(D) Thumba, Kerala


15) Carl Djerassi, 91, the chemist widely considered the father of the ______, died
on 31 January 2015?

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(A) Anti-Biotics
(B) Birth control pill
(C) Band Aid
(D) Injection Needle


16) Nation observed the death anniversary of the Father of the nation, Mahatma
Gandhi, on 30 January 2015 as?

(A) Non Violence Day
(B) Martyrs' Day
(C) Anti-Leprosy Day
(D) Ant-Terrorism Day


17) Krishna Chaudhary was on 30 January 2015 appointed as Director General of?

(A) Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
(B) Border Security Force (BSF)
(C) Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)
(D) Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)


18) Union Govt. recently sold its 10% stake in which company, becoming the
biggest ever share sale by any private or public sector company in India?

(A) Bharat Earth Movers (BEML)
(B) Indian Oil Corporation
(C) National Insurance Company
(D) Coal India Limited (CIL)


19) Anti-Leprosy Day was observed recently on?

(A) 28 January
(B) 29 January
(C) 30 January
(D) 31 January


20) Reserve Bank on 30 January 2015 constituted a high-powered panel to
reexamine and recommend appropriate set of businesses, size, conversion and
licensing terms for the urban cooperative banking sector. Who is the chairman of

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the committee?

(A) V K Saraswat
(B) R Gandhi
(C) BimalJalan
(D) ShyamalaGopinath

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