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INTERNATIONAL
1) The Health Ministry of Japan on 1
January 2014 estimated that a quarter of
the population is currently aged over 65
and the figure is expected to reach nearly
40 percent by ——– ?
Ans:- 2060
2) Which government recently announced
to build a new sanctuary to save World‘s
rarest Javan rhinos?
Ans:- Indonesia
3) Parliamentary elections in North Korea,
creating the 13th Supreme People‘s
Assembly, will be held on ———- ?
Ans:- 9 March 2014
4) The Parliament of Europe on 14
January 2014 signed a new carbon dioxide
restriction treaty which seeks to slash
emissions for a segment of transport
across the European Union (EU) by 28%
from year 2020. The treaty focuses on
which transport segment?
Ans:- Commercial Vans
5) The term ‗Euromaidan‘ came to news
recently, which stands for a huge spat of
civil unrest and anti-government protests in
a country.Which country is associated with
these protests?
Ans:- Ukraine
INDIA & WORLD
1) India on 1 January 2014 decided to
send a team of senior officials to assess
the political and security situation in ———
—- ?
Ans:- South Sudan
2)Which country and India on 2 January
2014 signed an agreement on labour
cooperation for domestic service workers
recruitment ?
Ans:- Saudi Arabia
3) Which country and India on 13 January
2014 signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for co-
operation in Iron and Steel Sector ?
Ans:- Canada
4) Which country decided to be one of the
partners in the proposed National
Investment and Manufacturing Zones
(NIMZ) in Andhra Pradesh on 6 January
2014?
Ans:- China
5) Which country and India on on 18
January 2014 agreed to promote
cooperation in renewable energy,
especially in areas of solar energy and
wind power ?
Ans:- United Arab Emirates (UAE)
NATIONAL
1) Pranab Mukherjee, the President of
India on 1 January 2014 gave his assent to
which bill which aims at regulating
corruption in public domain?
Ans:- Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2013
2) The Cabinet Committee on Economic
Affairs has approved the proposal for
construction of a 220kV Transmission
system from ——— on 2 January 2014 ?
Ans:- Alusteng (Srinagar) to Leh
3) The Government of India on 10 January
2014 notified the new natural gas pricing
formula.This new price mechanism would
come into effect from which date?
Ans:- From 1 April 2014
4) Name the programme for young persons
of Overseas Indians introduced by
Government of India in Pravasi Bharatiya
Divas (PBD) on 8 January 2014?
Ans:- Know India programme
5) Union Ministry of Petroleum & Natural
Gas launched LPG Connection Portability
Scheme across the country on 22 January
2014. Name the present Union Minister for
Petroleum & Natural Gas?
Ans:- M Veerappa Moily
STATES
1) Union Ministry of Development of North
Eastern Region (DoNER) officially
launched the North Eastern Region
Community Resource Management Project
(NERCORMP) at —— on 6 January 2014
?
Ans:- Changlang in Arunachal Pradesh )
2) Which state will launch its adult
vaccination drive against Japanese
Encephalitis (JE) from 22 February 2014 ?
Ans:- Assam
3) Which state Government on 15 January
2014 decided to increase the reservation of
Other Backward Classes (OBC) from 19.5
percent to 27 percent ?
Ans:- Goa
4) Which state on 9 January 2014 became
the first State in India to provide Universal
Health Coverage to its population ?
Ans:- Karnataka
5) The pilot project of Amul‘s first ―Any
Time Milk‖ (ATM) vending machine to
dispense milk on 24X7 basis was on 19
January 2014 installed at ——- ?
Ans:- Anand, Gujarat
CONFERENCES
1) International Petroleum Conference
2014 (PETROTECH-2014) was held from
12th – 15th January 2014 at which place ?
Ans:- New Delhi
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Which film has been adjudged ―Best
Motion Picture ‖ at 71st annual Golden
Globe Awards ?
Ans:- 12 Years a Slave
2) Who has won the DSC prize 2014 for
South Asian literature for his book
Chronicles of a Corpse Bearer on 18
January 2014?
Ans:- Cyrus Mistry
3) Name the Indian Noted author and
journalist has been awarded a Fellowship
of King‘s College London, the British
institution‘s highest honour on 16 January
2014 ? Ans:- Khushwant Singh
4) Which state bagged 3rd Krishi Karman
Award for 2012-13 for being the best
performing state in overall agricultural
production in the country on 18 January
2014?
Ans:- West Bengal
5) Name the Indian born Scientist and
Professor (Emeritus) at Stanford University
on 21 January 2014 was awarded with
prestigious ‗ 2014 Marconi Society Prize ‗
for developing the theory and application of
MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output)
antennas ?
Ans:- Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Corey Anderson ,who hit the fastest
century in one-day international history on
1 January 2014 , belongs to which country
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Ans:- New Zealand

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2) Which player was awarded the Order of
Prince Henry, one of the Portugal‘s highest
honours, by the Portugal‘s president office
on 3 January 2014?
Ans:- Cristiano Ronaldo
3) Who won the Sydney International
Tennis Tournament Women‘s singles title
on 10 January 2014 ?
Ans:- Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria
4) Who retained the Volvo Golf Champions
title at the Durban Country Club held on 12
January 2014?
Ans:- South Africa‘s Louis Oosthuizen
5) Which Australian cricketer won the
coveted Allan Border medal 2014 on 20
January 2014?
Ans:- Mitchell Johnson
ECONOMY
1) Which entity was on 6 January 2014
selected by the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) to act as a local operating unit for
issuing globally compatible Legal Entity
Identifiers (LEIs) in India?
Ans:- The Clearing Corporation of India
Limited – CCIL
2) According to data provided by the
Marine Products Export Development
Authority (MPEDA) and Seafood Exporters
Association of India on 9 January 2014,
which country has recently overtaken
South – East Asia as the largest market for
Indian seafood exports?
Ans:- The United States
3) POSCO, the South Korean steel maker
giant on 10 January 2014 received
environment clearance from the Union
Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF)
in which state ?
Ans:- Odisha
4) What is the name of world‘ first Bitcoin
storage service that insures deposits of the
digital currency against hackers and
accidental loss, which was opened on
London on 12 January 2013?
Ans:- ‗Elliptic Vault‘
5) Which state became the first state to
withdraw FDI in Multibrand Retail on 13
January 2013?
Ans:- Delhi
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
1) Name the software to predict weather
developed by researchers from National
Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
recently?
Ans:- Monitoring Climate Change (Moclic)
2) Which Meteorological Data Processing
System was dedicated to the nation on 15
January 2014 on the occasion of 139th
Foundation Day of India Meteorological
Department (IMD)?
Ans:- INSAT 3D
3) What is the name of India‘s satellite-
based flight navigation system which has
been certified by aviation regulator DGCA,
recently ?
Ans:- GAGAN
4) Which country has recently carried out
another successful test of its advanced
missile defense system named ‗ Arrow 3 ‗
designed to intercept long – range missiles
?
Ans:- Israel
5) Name India‘s supercomputer rated 1st in
India, 9th in the Asia Pacific Region and
44th in the world among the most power
efficient computer systems as per the
Green500 List?
Ans:- Param Yuva-II
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who has been elected as the Speaker
of the Delhi Assembly on 3 January 2014?
Ans:- M.S. Dhir
2) Who was appointed as the new Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of Uninor on 8
January 2014 ?
Ans:- Morten Karlsen Sorby
3) Who has been appointed as the
Managing Director and Chief Executive
Officer of private insurer Future Generali
India Life Insurance on 7 January 2014?
Ans:- Munish Sharda
B)RESIGNS
1) Garry Kenneth Toomey on 16 January
2014 resigned as the CEO of a prominent
Indian airline company.Which airline is
this?
Ans:- Jet Airways
C) DEATHS
1) Namdeo Dhasal, the firebrand writer and
fierce fighter for Dalit rights who passed
away on 15 January 2014 was a famous
poet in which language?
Ans:- Marathi
D) VISITORS
1) Name the South Korean President
visited India from 15 – 18 January 2014 ?
Ans:- Park Geun-Hye
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) Who retired as Deputy Governor of the
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 20 January
2014?
Ans:- Anand Sinha
PLACES IN NEWS
1) Which Indian railway station‘s platform
number one has become the world‘s
longest platform as announced by Limca
Book of Records on 11 January 2014?
Ans:- Gorakhpur railway station, Uttar
Pradesh
ABBREVIATIONS IN NEWS
1) What is the full form of ‗ NASSCOM ‗ ?
Ans:- National Association of Software and
Services Companies
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) ‗Driven‘, a book released recently, has
been written by a former a Civil Servant
Turned Entrepreneur. Who is he?
Ans:- Jagdish Khattar
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) Who was the head of RBI‘s committee
on strengthening monetary policy
framework, which in its recommendations
has suggested that the target for inflation
should be set at 4% with a band of +/- 2%
around it ?
Ans:- Urjit Patel, Deputy Governor of the
RBI
DAYS & DATES
1) ‗ National Girl Child Day ‗ is
observed on ———— ?
Ans:- January24
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1) Which two countries have on 5 February
2014 agreed to hold reunions of families
separated since the Korean War ?
Ans:- North Korea and South Korea
2) Which country has topped in terms of
intellectual property (IP) environment in the
list of 25 countries released recently?
Ans:- US
3) In the month of February 2014 South
African president Jacob Zuma announced
the general elections will be held on ———
—- ?
Ans:- 2014 May 7
4) In the month of February 2014 which
country has agreed to develop biggest
cargo airport in Afghanistan on Herat
airport that is located in Western part of the
country ?
Ans:- Italy
5) Which country‘s Parliament on 19
February 2014 passed a law that made it
mandatory to put graphic warning on
cigarette packs?
Ans:- Sri Lanka
INDIA & WORLD
1) Which two countries have signed two
umbrella agreements for financial and
technical co-operation on 5 February 2014
?
Ans:- India and Germany
2) Which country and India on 11 February
2014 signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) as part of their efforts
to intensify bilateral cooperation in the area
of renewable energy ?
Ans:- Netherlands
3) India was ranked —— in the list of ten
countries in terms of digital governance on
11 February 2014 ?
Ans:- 8th
4) Which insurgent group from India
ranked fourth among the top ten most
active non-state armed groups in 2013,
according to the IHS Jane‘s latest ‗Global
Terrorism and Insurgency Attack Index,‘ –
a major defence and business risk think-
tank?
Ans:- The Communist Party of India
5) What was India‘s rank among 180
countries in the World Press Freedom
Index 2014 released on 12 February 2014?
Ans:- 140
NATIONAL
1) On 7 February 2014 the Supreme Court
of India upheld recommendations made by
the Justice Majithia wage board. The
Majithia wage board is related to hiking
salaries for ____?
Ans:- Journalists and non-journalists
2) India‘s anti-corruption watchdog Central
Vigilance Commission (CVC) completed
how many years of its establishment on 11
February 2014?
Ans:- 50 years
3) Which railway on 9 February 2014
launched a new android-based
smartphone app named ‗HYLITES‘, which
is claimed to be the first of its kind of app
on Indian Railways offering most of the
enquiry needs of city-based passengers?
Ans:- South Central Railway – SCR
4) India Post (Dept. of Posts) on 13
February 2014 launched electronic Indian
Postal Order (e-IPO) for Indian Citizens
living in India. e-IPO facilitates paying
online fee for which purpose?
Ans:- For seeking information under the
RTI
5) Which major port of the country was
renamed Kamarajar Port as announced by
the Union Government on 20 February
2014?
Ans:- Ennore Port in Chennai
STATES
1) India‘s first monorail – Mumbai Monorail
was opened for the general public on 2
February 2014 after being inaugurated on
1 February.Which authority owns and
operates this monorail project?
Ans:- Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Development Authority (MMRDA)
2) Shri Kapil Sibal, Minister of
Communications & Information Technology
on 4 February 2014 launched a special
service of the Speed Post for booking and
delivery of Notices/ Summons of which
High Court with ‗Proof of Delivery‘ (PoD)
facility?
Ans:- Delhi High Court
3) Which State Police on 6 February 2014
launched a helpline number +91-
8750871111 for foreign nationals in
distress ?
Ans:- Delhi
4) Union Cabinet approved the Telangana
Bill on 7 February 2014. As per the bill
which will be the joint capital of Telangana
and Andhra Pradesh?
Ans:- Hyderabad
5) The Union Ministry of Urban
Development gave an in-principle approval
to the Phase – I of the —- Metro Rail
Project on 12 February 2014 ?
Ans:- Pune
CONFERENCES
1) The 2014 G20 Finance Ministers and
Central Bank Governors meeting was held
from 22-23 February 2014 at ———- ?
Ans:- Sydney, Australia
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Name the director of Research Centre
Imarat (RCI), the avionics hub of DRDO‘s
missile complex, on 3 February 2014
received Indian Science Congress
Association‘s Homi J. Bhabha Memorial
Award for 2013-14 ?
Ans:- G. Satheesh Reddy
2) Who was conferred Award of Honour by
Ron Burton, President of Rotary
International on 11 February 2014 in New
Delhi ?
Ans:- President Pranab Mukherjee
3) Malala Yousafzai has been nominated
for the World Children‘s Prize on 7
February 2014. In which year World
Children‘s Prize, also known as the
‗Children‘s Nobel Prize‘ was founded?
Ans:- 2000
4) Who were received the International
Gandhi Award for the year 2013 on 15
February 2014 ?
Ans:- Dr. Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre and
Prof. Guocheng Zhang
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Who won the Winnipeg Winter Club
Open trophy on 3 February 2014 ?
Ans:- India‘s Squash player Joshna
Chinappa
2) Who became the youngest Russian
athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter
Olympics 2014 at Sochi, Russia on 9
February 2014 in free skating in the team
figure skating competition ?
Ans:- Yulia Lipnitskaya

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3) International Olympic Committee (IOC)
revoked ban on Indian Olympic Association
(IOA) after how many months on 11
February 2014?
Ans:- 14 months
4) The 2014 Winter Olympics was held
from 7 – 23 February 2014 at ——— ?
Ans:- Sochi, Russia
5) Which player came out as the most
expensive player for the 7th edition of IPL,
auction for which was held on 12 February
2014?
Ans:- Yuvraj Singh
ECONOMY
1) Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
(CCEA) on 6 February 2014 approved
100% FDI in which mobile company thus
making it the country‘s first telecom player
to be fully owned by a foreign company?
Ans:- Vodafone
2) Which two Northeastern states are set
to come on rail map as part of Railways‘
extension of network in the Northeastern
States as announced in the interim Railway
Budget for 2014-15, which was presented
in the Lok Sabha on 12 February 2014?
Ans:- Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh
3) What is the name of India‘s first public
sector unit (PSU), the revival plan for which
was approved by the Cabinet Committee
on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on 13
February 2014?
Ans:- ITI Limited
4) Reserve Bank on 4 February 2014 has
issued ‗certificate of authorisation‘ to four
non-bank entities to set up White Label
ATMs (WLAs) in the country. Which among
the following was not in that list of non-
bank entities?
Ans:- Varkeys Ventures
1) What is the name of the supersonic
cruise missile was successfully fired on 6
February 2014 from a naval warship INS
Trikand in salvo mode in the Arabian Sea ?
Ans:- BrahMos
2) Union Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare launched third-line drug therapy
for people living with ——— on 12
February 2014 ?
Ans:- HIV/AIDS
3) Which country scientist have recently
discovered a pre-leukemic stem cell that
may be at the root of acute myeloid
leukemia ?
Ans:- Canada
4) India‘s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM),
also called Mangalyaan, completed 100
days in space on ————- ?
Ans:- 12 February 2014
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who took over as Asian Development
Bank‘s new Country Director for India on 3
February 2014?
Ans:- Teresa Kho
2) Who was appointed as the new CEO
and Managing Director of MCX Stock
Exchange (MCX-SX), the country‘s newest
full-fledged stock exchange on 2 February
2014?
Ans:- Saurabh Sarkar
3) John Thompson was appointed as the
Chairman of which tech giant on 5
February 2014?
Ans:- Microsoft )
4) Who was selected as the new President
of the Institute of Company Secretaries of
India (ICSI) on 7 February 2014?
Ans:- R Sridharan
B)RESIGNS
1) Who resigned as the Director General
of Cricket in the Pakistan Cricket Board
(PCB) on 15 February 2014?
Ans:- Javed Miandad
C) DEATHS
1) Balu Mahendra, who passed away on
13 February 2014 at Chennai , was
associated with which field?
Ans:- Films
D) VISITORS
1) Name the Foreign Minister of Kyrgyz
Republic visited India from 13 to 15
February 2014 ?
Ans:- Erlan Abdyldaev
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) Which cricketer joined hands with an
NGO Navbharat Sewa Samiti to roll out a
campaign named ―Cancer Mukt Purvi Dilli‖
focussing on awareness, education and
early detection of the disease on 10
February 2014?
Ans:- Yuvraj Singh
PLACES IN NEWS
1) Which country on 14 February 2014
announced a plan to build the longest
underwater tunnel of the World ?
Ans:- China
1) What is the full form of ‗PFRDA‘ ?
Ans:- PFRDA – Pension Fund Regulatory
and Development Authority
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) What is the name of second book
written by celebrated writer JK Rowling
under pseudonym which will be released
during June 2014?
Ans:- ―The Silkworm‖
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) 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.Who headed this
committee?
Ans:- Justice Mukul Mudgal
DAYS & DATES
1) International Mother Language Day
(Bhasha Divas) was observed on—- ?
Ans:- 21 February 2014
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1) Which country announced on 11 March
2014 a plan to lease Himalayan peaks to
private companies to ease traffic on Mount
Everest and to boost tourism ?
Ans:- Nepal
2) The Supreme Court of ——- on 9 March
2014 sacked the Election Commissioner
Fuwad Thowfeek and his deputy Ahmad
Fayaz ?
Ans:- Maldives

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3) Who won the El Salvador‘s presidential
election on 17 March 2014 ?
Ans:- Salvador Sanchez Ceren
4) Which country Forces on 17 March 2014
handed over its two important military
bases in southern Helmand province to
Afghan security forces and closed down
another base ?
Ans:- Britain
5) Which country and New Zealand
announced a landmark deal on 18 March
2014 that allows the direct trading of the
two countries‘ currencies ?
Ans:- China
INDIA & WORLD
1) India, Sri Lanka and Maldives on 6
March 2014 held national security advisor-
level meet on maritime security
cooperation in ——- ?
Ans:- New Delhi
2) According to the latest data from the
National Bomb Data Centre (NBDC)
released on 5 March 2014, which country
has turned out to be the third most
dangerous country in the world in terms of
bomb blasts cases (per year) only ?
Ans:- India
3) What was India‘s rank in the recently
released report of the global anti-money
laundering body Financial Action Task
Force (FATF) pertaining to progress in
combating money laundering in the world ?
Ans:- 34
4) Which country was recenlty ranked
fourth in a Microsoft report in the list of the
countries sending out spam e-mails ?
Ans:- India
5) Which country and India have signed on
18 March 2014 an agreement to work
together in software, information
technology and infrastructure ?
Ans:- China
NATIONAL
1) The Union government has on 4 March
2014 launched the ―Maulana Azad Sehat
Scheme‖ a health scheme for ____?
Ans:- Minority Student‘s
2) Recently, Union government has
launched a nation-wide campaign
awareness campaign to curb the spread of
dengue disease.The campaign has been
named as—– ?
Ans:- U and ME against Dengue
3) Election Commission on 5 March 2014
announced the dates for Lok Sabha polls.
Over 814 million voters — constituting the
biggest electorate in the world — will
exercise their franchise to elect 543
members to the 16 th Lok Sabha in how
many phases?
Ans:- 9
4) The Government of India (GoI) recently
announced to build how many low cost
airports in the next 20 years ?
Ans:- 200
5) In the month of March 2014 government
has approved to set up country‘s second
nuclear f uel complex to reprocess atomic
fuel in —— ?
Ans:- Rajasthan
STATES
1) The government has recently approved
the National Mission for Sustaining the
Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE) to sustain
the Himalayan ecosystem, continuously
assess it s health status.The NMSHE
covers how many states of India?
Ans:- Twelve
2) Name the new health scheme launched
on 6 March 2014 by North Delhi Municipal
Corporation (NDMC) for women?
Ans:- Stri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna
3) Which state government on 3 March
2014 launched a novel scheme ‖ Dial a
doctor‖ which will enable the public to seek
health-related advice over phone round-
the-clock from doctors by dialling a toll-free
number ?
Ans:- Kerala
4) Which state approved the Backward
Class (BC) status for the Jat and Jat Sikhs
of the State on 5 March 2014 ?
Ans:- Punjab
5) For how many years, Hyderabad is
envisaged as the common capital for
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as per
Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014?
Ans:- 10 years
CONFERENCES
1) The 3rd Summit meet of Bengal
Initiative for Multi-sectoral Technical and
Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) was
held from 1 – 4 March 2014 at — ?
Ans:- Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Alfonso Cuaron won the Best director
award in Oscars 2014 for which movie?
Ans:- Gravity
2) Who won the 2014 Templeton Prize ?
Ans:- Tomas Halik
3) Who has been selected for the 17th
Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013 for
his debut film as a director, The Good
Road in Gujarati ?
Ans:- Gyan Correa
4) What is the name of the Indian journalist
who won the prestigious Google Digital
Activism Award for 2014 beating likes of
Edward Snowden?
Ans:- Shubhranshu Choudhary
5) Which water-based initiative from India
won the 2014 UN-Water ―Water for Life‖
Best Practices Award as announced on 21
March 2014?
Ans:- International Water Management
Institute (IWMI)-Tata Water Policy
Programme
SPORTS & GAMES
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) Which club won the Capital One football
Cup in the final held at Wembley on 2
March 2014 ?
Ans:- Manchester City
3) Name the Indian shuttler won the
German Open Grand Prix Men‘s singles
title 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
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1) Who is the World‘s top richest Billionaire
with worth of 76 billion dollars according to
Forbes magazine‘s 28th Annual World
billionaires list released on 3 March 2014?
Ans:- Bill Gates
2) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 13
March 2014 hiked the trade related
remittance limit from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs. 5
lakh per transaction.What was the reason
for this increase?
Ans:- Increase in the number of
transactions handled by exchange houses
3) Bharti Airtel and which international
telecom giant signed a pact on 4 March
2014 to set up a multi-service regional
network infrastructure node in India?
Ans:- Etisalat
4) Government of India on 4 March 2014
hiked the interest rates on fixed deposit
scheme that is offered by post offices by
up to —- percent?
Ans:- 0.2 %
5) Which state scored the highest in
monthly per capita consumer expenditure
(MPCE) for urban areas in the recently
released ranking by the by the National
Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)?
Ans:- Haryana
1) In the month of March 2014 World
Longest aircraft Airlander or HAV304 was
unveiled at ———- ?
Ans:- Cardington in Bedfordshire, Britain
2) Name the Indian-American scientist on 6
March 2014 developed the first 3D model
of a human fingerprint called Phantom ?
Ans:- Anil Jain
3) Scientists in the ——- community
discovered a way to rebuild ears and
noses using stem cells from body fat on 4
March 2014 ?
Ans:- British
4) Which seemingly impoverished country
recently made a surprising entry into the
high-tech world with its own manufactured
Android tablet named Surtab?
Ans:- Haiti
5) Name the student of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) on 17 March
2014 developed a robot that can swim like
fish ?
Ans:- Andrew Marchese
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who assumed charge as the new
Secretary General of the South Asian
Association for Regional Cooperation
(SAARC) on 3 March 2014?
Ans:- Arjun Bahadur Thapa
2) Who was appointed as the Chairman of
Financial Planning Standards Board India
(FPSB) on 11 March 2014 ?
Ans:- Justice (Retd.) BN Srikrishna
B)RESIGNS
1) Nandan Nilekani on 13 March 2014
resigned as Chairman of Unique
Identification Authority of India
(UIDAI).When he took charge as the first
Chairman of UIDAI?
Ans:- In 2007
C) DEATHS
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
D) VISITORS
1) Name the United Nations General
Assembly (UNGA) President visited India
from 19 – 22 March 2014 ?
Ans:- John Ashe
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) Misao Okawa, the oldest woman in the
world, turned 116 on 6 March 2014. She is
from which country?
Ans:- Japan
PLACES IN NEWS
1) 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
1) What is the full form of ‗ IBRD ‗ ?
Ans:- International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) What is the name of another book
written by Wendy Doniger, whose
publisher on 10 March 2014 announced it
will not reprint this book until an acceptable
resolution pertaining to the alleged
controversies in this book are found?
Ans:- ― On Hinduism ‖
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) Which committee has recently
recommended an anti-discrimination law
for Muslims on lines of SC/ST law?
Ans:- Amitabh Kundu Committee
DAYS & DATES
1) World Water Day was observed
on ——- ?
Ans:- 22 March
April 2014 Current Affairs Bit Bank
INTERNATIONAL
1) In which country the Multilateral
Humanitarian Assistance / disaster relief
(HA/DR) Exercise, KOMODO was
conducted from March 28th to 3 April 2014
?
Ans:- Indonesia
2) What is the name of the biblical epic
movie which was banned by Malaysia and
Indonesia on 7 April 2014 for its visual
depiction of the prophet?
Ans:- ‗Noah‘
3) Which country Parliament on 8 April
2014 voted to reject the request by the
Catalan authorities to hold a referendum
on independence on 9 November 2014 ?
Ans:- Spain
4) Which country on 9 April 2014 taking a
novel approach to protecting doctors from
growing levels of violence from angry
patients: volunteer ―Guardian Angels‖ ?
Ans:- China
5) A comprehensive legislation on Internet
privacy for both service providers and
Internet Users was on 23 April 2014
passed by which country ?
Ans:- Brazil
INDIA & WORLD
1) Recently, India and which country have
reached an agreement to include a new
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Kush Himalayan Region ?
Ans:- Nepal and Bhutan
2) As per the latest data released by
SIPRI, country with highest military
expenditure in 2013 is —— ?
Ans:- USA
3) Which country and India on 22 April
2014 signed an agreement for the
development of joint hydropower projects
in a bid to further strengthen their bilateral
strategic partnership ?
Ans:- Bhutan
4) Which country was rated lowest for
average internet speed in the Asia Pacific
region in a recently conducted study done
by US firm Akamai?
Ans:- India
5) Which country President and Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on 25 April
2014 issued a Joint Statement
emphasizing robust trilateral relation with
India ?
Ans:- US
NATIONAL
1) Government on 13 April 2014 sanctions
the recruitment of women as combat
officers in ———– ?
Ans:- Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)
2) Name the programme was launched by
Election Commission of India (ECI) on 15
April 2014 ?
Ans:- Election VIsitors Programme (EVP)
2014
3) Union Ministry of Civil Aviation on 2 April
2014 approved the Tata and Singapore
Airlines (SIA) joint venture called?
Ans:- Tata SIA Airlines Ltd
4) The Election Commission has launched
on 17 April its own internet-based media
arm called ——– ?
Ans:- ‗ Voter Education Channel ‗
STATES
1) Which North-eastern state capital on 7
April 2014 became the second in the
region to have rail-connectivity?
Ans:- Itanagar, the capital of Arunachal
Pradesh
2) Recently the Union Ministry of
Environment and Forest accorded
environmental clearance (with some
conditions) to the expansion of
Bhubaneshwari opencast project in which
state ?
Ans:- Odisha
3) Name the stone-age tribes of Andaman
& Nicobar (A&N) islands who for the first
time casted their votes in Great Nicobar on
10 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Shompens
4) Which state has achieved the highest
rate of increase in the number of electors
in the country in the past five years as
stated in the electoral data released early
this year?
Ans:- Tamil Nadu
5) Which state has recorded the highest
growth rate of milk production and per
capita availability during the five year
period of 2006-10, according to Assocham
study ?
Ans:- Andhra Pradesh
CONFERENCES
1) In which country the International Hindi
Conference was held from 25 – 27 April
2014 ?
Ans:- US
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Renowned poet-lyricist and filmmaker
Gulzar was on 12 April 2014 selected for
the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award
for 2013.What is the real name of Gulzar?
Ans:- Sampooran Singh Kalra
2) Which film was selected as the Best
Film for 61st National Film Awards
announced on 16 April 2014?
Ans:- Ship of Theseus
3) Who won special jury award of Times
Now NRI Awards 2014?
Ans:- Zubin Mehta
4) ) Randstad Awards 2014 for most
attractive employer in India goes to ——-
for the 4th consecutive year ?
Ans:- Microsoft
5) The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-2014 has
been awarded to Donna Tartt, for her novel
——— ?
Ans:- The Goldfinch
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Who won the India Super Series
Badminton tournament women‘s Singles
title on 6 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Shixian Wang (China)
2) Which team won the 4th Hockey India
Junior Men National Championship 2014
(Division A) on 6 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Punjab
3) Which country on 6 April 2014 won the
T20 cricket world cup 2014 ?
Ans:- Sri Lanka
4) Which English Premier League club was
denied the permission to change its name
by the Football Association Council (FAC)
on 9 April 2014?
Ans:- Hull City
5) Which team won the National T20 title
for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on 14
April 2014?
Ans:- Baroda
ECONOMY
1) The Reserve Bank of India on 2 April
2014 granted in-principle approval of bank
licences to which two entitites?
Ans:- IDFC Limited and Bandhan
Financial Services Private Limited
2) What is the proposed additional tax on
those earning over Rs 1 crore through
dividend income in the draft of the Direct
Taxes Code (DTC), which was released on
1 April 2014?
Ans:- 10%
3) Reserve Bank of India on 1 April 2014
adopted which index as the key measure
of Inflation?
Ans :- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
4) Which firm became the first Indian retail
e-commerce to file for an initial public
offering (IPO) on NASDAQ and to be listed
on this US stock exchange?
Ans:- HomeShop18
5) India retained the top spot in the world in
foreign exchange remittances from its
migratory workforce during 2013. How
much remittance was received by India
during the year?
Ans:- $70 billion
1) A vast liquid ocean was found on which
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as published by ‗Science‘ magazine on 3
April 2014?
Ans:- Enceladus
2) After its ten and half years service in
orbit, on 1st April 2014 ISRO
decommissioned which Communication
Satellite?
Ans:- INSAT-3E
3) What is the name of the deadly virus for
which the Computer Emergency Response
Team of India (CERT-In) issued an
advisory on 11 April 2014 to all Internet
users in the country?
Ans:- Heartbleed
4) Name the professor at Stanford
University alongwith his students, invents a
dirt cheap microscope named ‗ Foldscope ‗
on 15 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Manu Prakash
5) Which country Scientists on 17 April
2014 created a 3D model of the human
malaria parasite genome for the first time ?
Ans:- US
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who was named as the captain of the
ICC World T20 team on 7 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
2) Name the Indian-American was on 5
April 2014 nominated by President Barack
Obama to a key post as US Alternate
Executive Director at the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) ?
Ans:- Sunil Sabharwal
B)RESIGNS
1) Which country Prime Minister Serik
Akhmetov, has announced his resignation
on 2 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Kazakhstan
C) DEATHS
1) Name the Nobel prize-winning
Colombian author died on 17 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2) 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
D) VISITORS
1) Name the Namibian Prime Minister
visited China on 8 – 9 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Hage Geingob
E) MISCELLANEOUS
Which two former Popes were declared
Saints by the Pope Francis at the Vatican
on 27 April 2014?
Ans:- John XXIII and John Paul II
PLACES IN NEWS
1) 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
1) What is the full form of ‗ IRNSS ‗ ?
Ans:- Indian Regional Navigational Satellite
System
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) What is the title of the book written by
former Coal Secretary P.C. Parakh in
which he claimed that Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh‘s inability to take on
vested interests led to the coal block row?
Ans:- ―Crusader or Conspirator : Coalgate
and other truths‖
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) Who is the Chairman of the committee
appointed by Supreme Court on 22 April
2014 to monitor the steps taken by the
centre and state government to ensure
road safety and curb growing number of
accidents ?
Ans:- Justice Radhakrishnan
DAYS & DATES
1) World Malaria Day (WMD) was
observed on ——– across the world ?
(Ans:- 25 April 2014 )
MAY 2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS BIT
BANK
INTERNATIONAL
1) Pakistan‘s National Assembly on 6 May
2014 approved a resolution to lift a ban on
video-sharing website YouTube.YouTube
has been banned in Pakistan for how many
times?
Ans:- Three times
2) Which country President Salva Kiir and
rebel leader Riek Machar on 9 May 2014
agreed on a peace deal that proposes to
end five months of conflict ?
Ans:- South Sudan
3) Which Afro-Arabian country on 1 May
2014 adopted a landmark new electoral
law, which requires party lists for legislative
elections to be half women and half men?
Ans:- Tunisia
4) China on 19 May 2014 set up a 1.6
billion dollars (10 billion Yuan) fund that will
support projects related to ——?
Ans:- Maritime Silk Road development of
China
5) Which country on 22 May 2014
suspended the 12th bull fight festival after
matadors got injured by bulls ?
Ans:- Spain
INDIA & WORLD
1) The new protocol ―Declaration on
Automatic Exchange of Information in Tax
Matters‖ on tax data exchanges has been
signed on 6 May 2014 in —–?
Ans:- Paris
2) Recently, which country has imposed
ban on import of chilli pepper from India?
Ans:- Saudi Arabia
3) Which country has topped the list of
World Mothers Index-2014?
Ans:- Finland
4) To pay tribute to the 100 years of Indian
cinema, which country on 5 May 2014
released two postage stamps designed by
an Indian graphic designer ?
Ans:- Brazil
NATIONAL
1) The Union Cabinet on 1 May 2014
approved the proposal for setting up of the
———— ?
Ans:- Polavaram Project Authority (PPA)
2) Directorate General of Civil Aviation
(DGCA) on 7 May 2014 issued guidelines
to operastors for ———– ?
Ans:- Real Time Tracking of Aircrafts

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3) The Constitution Bench of Supreme
Court of India on 6 May 2014 upheld the
Constitutional validity of the ——— ?
Ans:- Right to Education (RTE) Act
4) Revised norms of National Capital
Region (NCR) Planning Board on 14 May
2014 restricted tourism in ——– in NCR ?
Ans:- Green Zones
5) The Union Home Ministry on 14 May
2014 extended the ban imposed on the —
——– in India for five more years ?
Ans:- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE)
STATES
1) The Supreme Court on 6 May 2014 held
that the government cannot impose mother
tongue on linguistic minority for imparting
primary education. A bench of the apex
court gave this order while hearing the
government orders of which state
pertaining to this issue?
Ans:- Karnataka
2) Election Queue Management System, a
first of its kind initiative was introduced in
India recently in which state?
Ans:- West Bengal
3) BHEL commissions first of the two unit
of 600 MW capacity for Jindal Thermal
Power Project at Angul in which state ?
Ans:- Odisha
4) According to latest report, which state
has reported highest tiger mortality rate in
the country?
Ans:- Tamil Nadu
CONFERENCES
1) Group of 77 developing countries plus
China (G77+China) summit to be held on
14 and 15 June 2014 in ———– ?
Ans:- Santa Cruz ( Bolivia )
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Which film was on 3 May 2014 given
award for the Best Popular Film Providing
Wholesome Entertainment in National Film
Awards 2014 ?
Ans:- Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
2) Name the Indian american cardiologist
was recently won Gregory Bradeb
Memorial Fellow of the Year Award 2014 ?
Ans:- Mitul Kadakia
3) Caparo Group won the International
Business of the Year award 2014 at the
Asian Business Awards Midlands in
Birmingham on 9 May 2014. This group is
founded by which industrialist of Indian
origin?
Ans:- Lord Swaraj Paul
4) Pranab Mukherjee, the President of
India on 12 May 2014 conferred ———–
on 35 nursing personnel from across the
country for their meritorious services ?
Ans:- National Florence Nighangle Awards
2014
5) Arabian travel Market (ATM) awarded
India with ——— on 8 May 2014 ?
Ans:- New Frontiers Award 2014
SPORTS & GAMES
1) 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games are
to be held from 16th to 28th August 2014 in
———- ?
Ans:- Nanjing, China
2) What was the ranking of India in the ICC
Test rankings annual updated list issued
on 1 May 2014?
Ans:- 5th
3) Who won the women‘s doubles title at
the WTA Portugal Open 2014 held in
Portugal on 3 May 2014 ?
Ans:- Sania Mirza of India and Cara Black
of Zimbabwe
4) Who was crowned World Snooker‘s
Player of the Year at the sport‘s annual
awards ceremony in London on 8 may
2014 ?
Ans:- Ronnie O‘Sullivan
5) Which team on 12 May 2014 won the
20th Senior National Women‘s Football
Championships title at the Golaghat
Stadium in Assam ?
Ans:- Manipur
ECONOMY
1) Which airline became the newest to
have won an operating permit for airline
services in India?
Ans:- AirAsia India
2) India‘s Adani Group got approval for a
$15.46 billion coal mine development
project in which state of Australia recently?
Ans:- Queensland
3) IPL franchisee Delhi Daredevils recently
launched a co-branded cricket credit card
in partnership with which commercial
bank?
Ans:- The Ratnakar Bank Ltd
4) According to the Sunday Times Rich List
published on 11 May 2014, who edged out
steel-baron Lakshmi Niwas Mittal to
emerge the richest people in the United
Kingdom?
Ans:- Hinduja Brothers
5) Which country was ranked as the
cheapest among the major world
economies in a latest report by Germany‘s
Deutsche Bank?
Ans:- India
1) Recently Indian scientists have found 14
new species of ‗Dancing Frogs‘ in the ——
—- ?
Ans:- Western Ghats
2) Researchers at The ————– have
succeeded in replicating deoxyribonucleic
acid (DNA) which contained artificially
inserted synthetic pair of DNA ―letters,‖ or
bases, not found in nature ?
Ans:- Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
3) What is the name of World‘s first ever
electric aircraft that has successfully taken
its maiden voyage on 12 May 2014 ?
Ans:- E-Fan
4) Astronomers led Dr Mark Vogelsberger
of MIT/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics on 8 May 2014 created the
first realistic virtual Universe using a
computer simulation called ——– ?
Ans:- Illustris
5) Which country Scientists had recently
developed Silver nanowires-based
nanoscale fingerprints ?
Ans:- South Korea
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who becomes the Wholetime Member
(Finance) of the Pension Fund Regulatory
and Development Authority (PFRDA) ?
Ans:- RV Verma
2) Who was elected as the President of the
Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) on 6

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May 2014?
Ans:- Lalit Modi
3) Who was appointed as the President of
International Technology Law Association
on 14 May 2014 ?
Ans:- Sajai singh
B) RESIGNS
1) Who was resigned as MD and CEO of
MCX on 1 May 2014 ?
Ans:- Manoj Vaish
C) DEATHS
1) Actor Bob Hoskins, whose varied career
ranged from ―Mona Lisa‖ to ―Who Framed
Roger Rabbit, who died recently was from
which country ?
Ans:- Britain
D) VISITORS
1) Name the Turkmenistan President
visited China from 11 – 14 May 2014 ?
Ans:- Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) What is the name of the first-ever
woman Additional Director of the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI), who was
restrained from discharging her duties by
the Supreme Court on 9 May 2014?
Ans:- Archana Ramasundaram
PLACES IN NEWS
1) 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
1) What is the full form of ‗ UNESCO ‗ ?
Ans:- United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) A book entitled A Stamp is Born
authored by —— was released on 6 May
2014 by Vice President of India, M Hamid
Ansari ?
Ans:- C. R. Pakrashi
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) A high-level committee recommended
recasting of the Index of Industrial
Production and (IIP) Wholesale Price Index
(WPI) with an objective to present a more
realistic picture of the economy. Who is
heading this high-level committee which
recently submitted its report?
Ans:- Saumitra Chaudhuri
DAYS & DATES
1) World Press Freedom Day was
observed on —– ?
Ans:- 3 May 2014
JUNE 2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS BIT
BANK
INTERNATIONAL
1) Which country on 2 June 2014
announced a series of resolutions against
the new Palestinian Unity government ?
Ans:- Israel
2) Quebec province of which country on 5
June 2014 adopted legislation Right-to-Die
that allows terminally ill patients to kill
themselves with a doctor‘s help ? Ans:-
Canada
3) Which country Queen on 5 June 2014
announced to introduce a new legislation
bill Recall of Member of Parliament (M.P.)
Bill ?
Ans:- Britain
4) Who was elected as the new Prime
Minister of Finland on 14 June 2014 to
replace outgoing Prime Minister Jyrki
Katainen?
Ans:- Alexander Stubb
5) What is the name given to a major
operation started by the Pakistani military
from 15 June 2014 to flush insurgents out
of the volatile region of North Waziristan
bordering Afghanistan?
Ans:- Zarb-e-Azb
INDIA & WORLD
1) Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayta
Samiti (BMVSS) will provide Jaipur Foot to
1000 amputees in which country free of
cost ?
Ans:- Afghanistan
2) Last US Prisoner of War in Afghanistan
Bowe Bergdahl was freed on 1 June 2014
in swap deal with ——— ?
Ans:- Taliban
3) Which state Government on 10 June
2014 announced that it will donate one
crore rupees for restoration of Tolstoy
Farm in South Africa, the place where
Mahatma Gandhi first began his
Satyagraha ?
Ans:- Madhya Pradesh
4) Which country on 13 June 2014 became
a permanent signatory to Washington
Accord ?
Ans:- India
5) Recently which country has been
elected to the Intergovernmental
Committee for Safeguarding of the
Intangible Cultural Heritage for the next
four years (2014-18) ?
Ans:- India
NATIONAL
1) Central Information Commission on 4
June 2014 ruled that the private schools
which were governed by a law such as the
Delhi Education Act come under the
provisions of ———— ?
Ans:- Right to Information (RTI) Act
2) Name the Portal was launched by Indian
Army on 5 June 2014 ?
Ans:- Army Veterans Grievance Handling
(AVGH)
3) Union Health Minister Harshvardhan on
17 June 2014 gave consent for setting up
of the Regional Institute of Paramedical
Sciences in ———- ?
Ans:- AIIMS Bhopal
4) Project Seabird Phase II in ———- on 9
June 2014 got environment clearance by
the Union Ministry of Environment and
Forests ?
Ans:- Karwar, Karnataka
5) Name the Union Water Resources
Minister was on 17 June 2014 launched a
nationwide tree plantation drive and public
awareness programme to save rivers ?
Ans:- Uma Bharti
STATES
1) Which state Government on 5 June
2014 notified to provide 12 percent
horizontal reservation for below poverty
line (BPL) candidates in all state
government jobs and posts in public sector
undertakings ?
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2) Which project was in news due to its
approval by the Delhi‘s Lt. Governor
Najeeb Jung on 11 June 2014 ?
Ans:- Regional Rapid Transit System
(RRTS)
3) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
on 13 June 2014 commissioned 68 MW
Unit at the Rampur Hydro Electric Project
in ——- ?
Ans:- Himachal Pradesh
4) Which state government on 12 June
2014 clears Bill to put a complete ban on
dance bars across the State ?
Ans:- Maharashtra
5) Which two state governments have
recently signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) to ensure
identification and repatriation of women
and children who are victims of trafficking ?
Ans:- West Bengal and Maharashtra
CONFERENCES
1) The 18th SAARC Summit will be held at
——- in November 2014 ?
Ans:- Kathmandu, Nepal
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) UN General Assembly on 7 June 2014
announced an award in honour of ——– ?
Ans:- Nelson Mandela
2) Who was conferred with the prestigious
Bharat Ratna JRD Tata Award for 2013 by
the Aeronautical Society of India (ASI) on 9
June 2014?
Ans:- Somasundaram of Airports Authority
of India (AAI)
3) Name the leading NRI industrial was
honoured with the Lifetime Achievement
Award by a UK-based business
association on 13 June 2014 ?
Ans:- Lord Swraj Paul
4) Name the Indian-origin businessman
has been honoured by Queen Elizabeth II
on 14 June 2014 ?
Ans:- Hari Dutt Seth
5) Which Airport recently won the Airport
Service Quality (ASQ) Award by Airport
Council International (ACI) in the category
of the best improved airport in Asia Pacific
Region ?
Ans:- Kolkata Airport
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Who won the Orange Cap in IPL 2014
for scoring highest number of runs?
Ans:- Robin Uthappa
2) Which city would host the World Chess
Championship rematch between Indian
chess veteran Viswanathan Anand and
title-holder Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
during November 2014?
Ans:- Sochi, Russia
3) India ended its campaign at the FIH
Hockey World Cup on 14 June 2014 by
playing their last classification match. India
finished at which place in this World Cup?
Ans:- Ninth
4) The goal-line technology, introduced for
the first time in the FIFA World Cup,
awarded the first international goal in its
history on 15 June 2014.This goal was
awarded to which country?
Ans:- France
5) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 12
June 2014 released commemorative
postage stamps on the 2014 FIFA World
Cup.What is the slogan of FIFA World Cup
2014?
Ans:- All In One Rhytm
ECONOMY
1) Which mobile phone operator signed a
two-year agreement with Indian Oil
Corporation Ltd (IOC) to deploy its
enterprise mobility platform to company‘s
LPG customers?
Ans:- Idea Cellular
2) In its second bi monthly policy review on
3 June 2014, RBI has slashed Statutory
Liquidity Ratio by …… basis points to
make it 22.5 per cent of deposits? Ans:-
50bps
3) The World Bank lowered its growth
forecast for developing countries during
2014 in its Global Economic Prospects
(GEP) report which was released on 11
June 2014. The growth forecast was
lowered from the January estimate of 5.3%
to – ?
Ans:- 4.8%
4) With over 3 lakh employees Indian IT
company TCS has become the world‘s
third largest employer in the technology
sector. Which is the leading employer in
this segment?
Ans:- IBM
5) The railway passenger fare was
increased by 14.2% in all classes while
freight charge was hiked by 6.5% on 20
June 2014 by the union govt.This hike
comes into effect from which date ?
Ans:- 25 June 2014, i.e., post midnight of
24 June 2014
1) What is the name of NASA‘s
Spectrograph launched recently to study
birthplace of stars?
Ans:- CHESS
2) What is the name of the World‘s first
supersonic car which can run at 1,609
kmph (1,000 mph), which was unveiled on
13 June 2014 in Bristol (UK)?
Ans:- Bloodhound SSC
3) Who was on 14 June 2014 dedicated
INS Vikramaditya to the nation ?
Ans:- Prime Minister Narendra Modi
4) New titanium Oxide tiles were recently
developed by the research team from ——
—- to fight against Air Pollution ?
Ans:- University of California
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who took over the charge of Western
Naval Command (WNC) as Commander-
in-Chief on 6 June 2014 ?
Ans:- Vice Admiral Anil Chopra
2) Name the Indian-origin judge was on 25
June 2014 appointed as 8th Attorney-
General of Singapore ?
Ans:- V K Rajah
B) RESIGNS
1) Renowned journalist Shekhar Gupta
was heading which newspaper as its
Editor-in-Chief, from which he officially
resigned on 15 June 2014?
Ans:- ‗Indian Express‘
C) DEATHS
1) Alexander Shulgin, who passed away
recently, was popularly known as_____?
Ans:- Godfather of ecstasy
D) VISITORS

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1) Name the Deputy Prime Minister of
Russia visited India from 18 June to 19
June 2014 ?
Ans:- Dmitry O Rogozin
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) According to the latest survey report
released by a US travel website
‗whichairline.com‘, which airline emerged
as the cheapest in the World?
Ans:- ‗Firefly‘ of Malaysia
PLACES IN NEWS
1) What is the name assigned to a tropical
cyclone which initiated in the east-central
Arabian Sea on 11 June 2014?
Ans:- Nanauk
1) What is the full form of …… ‗ FIPB ‗ ?
Ans:- Foreign Investment Promotion Board
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) Name the autobiography of iconic
Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar – has been
released in Mumbai on 10 May 2014 ?
Ans:- The Substance and the Shadow
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) Which former Indian cricketer joined the
Supreme Court-appointed Mudgal
committee as a member on 8 June 2014?
Ans:- Sourav Ganguly
DAYS & DATES
1) World Blood Donor Day was observed
across the world on ——-?
Ans:- 14 June
JULY 2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS BIT
BANK
INTERNATIONAL
1) Which country has recently banned use
of Burqa in the country ?
Ans:- France
2) Recently, which country has launched
the ―Operation Barkhane‖ a counter
terrorism operation in against Islamist
militant in Northern Africa?
Ans:- France
3) 15-member United Nations Security
Council (UNSC) uanimously adopted the
—— in New York on 14 July 2014?
Ans:- Resolution 2165
4) Which country on 17 July 2014 became
world‘s first developed nation to repeal
carbon laws that put a price on
greenhouse-gas emissions?
Ans:- Australia
5) Diplomats from Iran and five permanent
members of the UN Security Council plus
Germany (P5+1) on 18 July 2014 reached
an agreement to extend the Iran nuclear
talks till which date?
Ans:- 24 November 2014
INDIA & WORLD
1) Recently, India has been developing
―Maitri missile programme‖ with which
country ?
Ans:- France
2) Recently, India and which country has
signed an agreement on cooperation in the
field of environment?
Ans:- Brazil
3) Which country and India on 8 July 2014
decided to launch negotiations for civil
nuclear cooperation ?
Ans:- UK
4) Which country has recently decided to
―Honour ‗Mahatma Gandhi‘s memory with
Statue‘ in front of its Parliament?
Ans:- UK
5) Which country was placed at first place
in a list of countries with the highest
prevalence of child marriages in the world
released by the UNICEF on 22 July 2014?
Ans:- Niger
NATIONAL
1) Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
(CCEA) on 2 July 2014 approved the
inclusion of onion and potato under the
purview of Essential Commodities Act, —-
?
Ans:- 1955
2) Recently, the union government has
given in-principle approval for the creation
of two new tiger reserves at—– ?
Ans:- Ratapani and Sunabeda
3) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
(TRAI) has recently notified that the
minimum broadband speed in the country
has been raised to —– kilo bit per second
(kbps)?
Ans:- 512 kbps
4) Air India on 11 July 2014 formally joined
the airline group Star Alliance as its ——
member?
Ans:- 27th
5) In the month of July 2014 Nagoya
Protocol has received necessary
ratifications, it is related to —— ?
Ans:- Conservation of Biodiversity
STATES
1) According to State of Forest report-
2013, which state has lost maximum forest
cover in the country?
Ans:- Andhra Pradesh
2) The Jayaprakash Narayan National
Centre for Excellence in Humanities, that
was proposed in the Union Budget 2014-
15, would be established in which state?
3) Which state has decided to setup 320
Mahila Suraksha Dals for women safety on
14 July 2014?
Ans:- Delhi
4) Parliament has passed a bill related to
Polavaram Project on 14 July 2014.On
which of the following rivers Polavaram
Project is established ?
Ans:- Godavari
5) Recently, it was reported in the
newspaper that over 670 large dams
across the country fall under high-intensit y
seismic zones.Which state has highest
number of dams falls under high-intensity
seismic zone?
Ans:- Gujarat
CONFERENCES
1) 7th India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA)
summit will be held in —— in 2015?
Ans:- New Delhi, India
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Which Bank was conferred ―Best Bank
– Public Sector‖ award in BFSI Awards-
2014 by World HRD Congress recently?
Ans:- Bank of Maharashtra

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2) Who has been honoured with Gandhi
Peace Prize 2013 on 15 July 2014 ?
Ans:- Chandi Prasad Bhatt
3) Name the Eminent Carnatic musician
and acclaimed mridangam exponent has
been chosen for the Sangita Kalanidhi
award of the Music Academy for 2014?
Ans:- T V Gopalakrishnan
4) Who has won Prem Bhatia Award for
2014 ?
Ans:- Smita Gupta
5) Name the Rajya Sabha MP has been
felicitated with ‗One of the Best Indian in
the World for a Social cause‘ award at the
Global Excellence Summit held in London
recently?
Ans:- K D Singh
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Name the Germany‘s football team
captain has announced his retirement on
18 July 2014 ?
Ans:- Philipp Lahm
2) Who has won German Grand Prix 2014
?
Ans:- Nico Rosberg of Germany
3) Name the two new technologies used
for the first time at a World Cup in 2014?
Ans:- Goal-line technology and vanishing
foam for free kicks
4) Miroslav Klose who recently became the
all-time leading scorer in the history of
FIFA World Cup -2014 with 16 goals is
from which country?
Ans:- Germany
5) Who won the first gold medal for India at
the 20th Commonwealth Games being
held at Glasgow, Scotland?
Ans:- K. Sanjita Chanu, woman weightlifter
ECONOMY
1) The minimum export price (MEP) on
onion was raised to $500 per tonne on 2
July 2014 as the price of onion in the
domestic market continues to rise. What
was the present MEP on onion which was
announced by the Union Govt. on 17 June
2014?
Ans:- $300 per tonne
2) Which bank on 1 July 2014 introduced
mobile banking service for its customers, to
commemorate 50 years of its journey in the
Indian financial sector? Ans:- IDBI Bank
3) What is the name given to the ambitious
high speed rail network that has been
proposed in the Rail Budget of 2014-15?
Ans:- Diamond Quadrilateral
4) How many sectors for proposed high-
speed trains were proposed in the Rail
Budget 2014-15?
Ans:- Nine
5) What is the proposed name of a new
24X7 channel for northeast region that was
announced in the Union Budget 2014-15?
Ans:- ―Arun Prabha‖
1) What is the measure of the smallest
force detected by researchers with the
Lawrence Berkely National Laboratoary
and the University of California Berkely,
using a combination of lasers and a unique
optical trapping system?
Ans:- 42 yoctonewtons
2) Recently, NASA has launched world‘s
first flying observatory ―SOFIA‖ to study
____?
Ans:- Stars
3) Name the country‘s first indigenously
built warship, that has been handed over to
the Indian Army, on 12 July 2014 ?
Ans:- INS Kamorta
4) ―INS Kamrota‖ has been handed over to
Navy on 12 July 2014, it is a ——— ?
Ans:- Anti-Submarine Warship (ASW
5) Recently, NASA has launched Ship-
Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR)
experiment to probe ____?
Ans:- Ocean Ecology and Carbon Cycle
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who took charge as Chairman of Indian
Oil Corporation (IOC), the India‘s largest oil
firm on 17 July 2014?
Ans:- B Ashok
2) Which former Indian sportsman has
been elected as the newest member of
Laureus World Sports Academy, becoming
the 47th member of the elite panel?
Ans:- Rahul Dravid
B) RESIGNS
1) Vakkom B. Purushothaman, who
resigned on 11 July 2014, was the
Governor of which state?
Ans:- Mizoram
C) DEATHS
1) Eduard Shevardnadze, the last Foreign
Minister of the erstwhile Soviet Union
(USSR), who passed away on 7 July 2014,
was the former President of which former
Soviet Republic?
Ans:- Georgia
D) VISITORS
1) Name the Facebook Chief Operating
Officer (COO) visited India from 1 – 5 July
2014 ?
Ans:- Sheryl Sandberg
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) Name the Taiwanese poet who
translated 1330 couplets of Tirukkural (one
of the collection of sangam literature) and
the poems of poet Subramanya Bharathi in
Mandarin recently?
Ans:- Yushi
PLACES IN NEWS
1) An Air Algerie passenger aircraft en-
route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso
to Algiers crashed on 24 July 2014 killing
116 people on-board. This crash took
place in deserts of which country?
Ans:- Mali
1) What is the fullform of ‗ CRAC ‗ ?
Ans:- Cyber Regulation Advisory Council
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) Who is the author of the book ‗Economic
Nightmare of India‘?
Ans:- Charan Singh
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) The revival of the Kisan Vikas Patra
(KVP) was announced in the Union Budget
2014-15 on 10 July 2014.The KVP was
discontinued from November 2011 on the
recommendation of which committee‘s
recommendations?
Ans:- The Shyamala Gopinath Committee

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DAYS & DATES
1) World Population Day was observed
across the world on ——?
Ans:- 11 July
AUGUST 2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS BIT
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INTERNATIONAL
1) The World Health Organisation (WHO)
has issued an International Health
Emergency on 8 August 2014 over Ebola
outbreak. Ebola virus was first discovered
in which country?
Ans:- Democratic Republic of Congo
(1976)
2) Which Project has been unveild in
Britain on 4 August 2014 to commemorate
100 years of first World War ?
Ans:- Lights Out
3) Mexico‘s Congress on 6 August 2014
gave final approval to a historic reform that
would open up an important state-
controlled sector to foreign investment for
the first time since 1938. Which sector is
this?
Ans:- Energy Sector (comprising of oil and
natural gas)
4) Which country has destroyed Syrian
chemical weapons on 7 August 2014?
Ans:- UK
5) What is the name of the newly
constituted act which was signed into law
by the U.S. President Barack Obama on 8
August 2014 and which authorises the
President to appoint a Special Envoy in the
near East and South Central Asia?
Ans:- ‗Near East and South Central Asia
Religious Freedom Act‘
INDIA & WORLD
1) Defence procurements from which
Italian company were put on hold by the
Union Government on 5 August 2014?
Ans:- Finmeccanica
2) Recently, India has agreed to lend $69
million grant to supply iodated salt to curb
iodine deficiency disease in which country?
Ans:- Nepal
3) Recently India rejected World Trade
Organization (WTO) offer. What was it
related with?
Ans:- signing Trade Facilitation Agreement
(TFA)
4) Which country and India on 19 August
2014 signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) on technical
cooperation in railway sector ?
Ans:- Czech Republic
5) According to Renewables 2014 Global
Status Report, India ranked 5th among top
ten wind power producers in world. Which
country is the leading wind power producer
in world ?
Ans:- China
NATIONAL
1) The Union government has recently
launched a new scheme‖ Padho Pardesh‖
to provide interest subsidy on educational
loans for overseas studies for student
belongs to ____?
Ans:- Minority communities
2) Indian Railways recently launched a
contact-less smart card enabling
passengers to pay for reserved as well as
unreserved travelling train tickets as part of
a pilot project. What is the name of this
smart card with lifetime validity?
Ans ‗Go-India‘
3) The Parliament has recently cleared a
constitution amendment bill that will
facilitate setting up of National Judicial
Appointment Commission (NJAC) for
appointment of judges. The NJAC will
comprise of how many members?
Ans:- Six
4) The major objective of newly announced
―Pradhanmantri Jan-Dhan Yojana‖ is _?
(Ans:- To provide a bank account to every
poor in the country )
5) ―Swach Bharat Mission‖ is targetted to
complete by 2019. It plan to celebrate
150th anniversary of whom ?
Ans:- Mahatma Gandhi
STATES
1) Palghar became the 36th and the
newest district of Maharashtra on 1 August
2014. It was carved out from which district,
which was India‘s most populous district?
Ans:- Thane
2) What is the name of the 45 megawatt
hydro-electricity project in J&K that was
dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on 12 August 2014?
Ans:- Nimoo Bazgo Hydroelectric Project
3) What is the name of the controversial
survey conducted by the Telangana
Government throughout the state on 19
August 2014 and due to which various
sections of the state were scared and
apprehensive?
Ans:- ―Samagra Kutumbh Survey‖ or
―Intensive Household Survey‖
4) Which state government on 21 August
2014 announced proposal to clamp
complete prohibition on liquor in various
phases?
Ans:- Kerala
5) What is the name of the new initiative by
IDBI and UNICEF in Uttar Pradesh to
provide safe drinking water,sanitation and
hygiene ?
Ans:- WASH – Water, Sanitation and
Hygiene
CONFERENCES
1) The 18th BASIC (Brazil, South Africa,
India and China) Ministerial Meeting on
Climate Change was held on 7-8 August
2014 in—?
Ans:- New Delhi, India
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) 55 gallantry awards (peacetime) were
announced on the eve of 68th
Independence Day on 14 August 2014.
Who was conferred the lone Ashok
Chakra, India‘s highest peacetime gallantry
award?
Ans:- Late Maj. Mukund Varadarajan
2) Which Iranian-born professor became
the first woman ever to win the Fields
Medal of the International Mathematical
Union (IMU), which is considered the top
prize in the field of mathematics?
Ans:- Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani
3) Name the Carnatic vocalist has been
chosen for the fifth Indira Sivasailam
Endowment Medal and Concert on 25
August 2014 ?
Ans:- T. M. Krishna
4) Who was honoured on 25 August 2014
with ‗Institute of Company Secretaries of
India (ICSI) Life Time Achievement Award
2013′ for Excellence in Corporate
Governance?

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Ans:- Shiv Nadar, Founder & Chairman,
HCL
5) 19th Rajiv Gandhi National Quality
Awards for the year 2012 were announced
by the Union Government on 26 August
2014. Which organisation has won the
highest prize under this Award category?
Ans:- Rail Wheel factory (Ministry of
Railways), Bangalore
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Which was the venue of the closing
ceremony of 20th Commonwealth Games
held on 3 August 2014?
Ans:- Hampden Park
2) What was the motto of 20th
Commonwealth Games ?
Ans:- People, Place, Passion
3)Which batsman on 9 August 2014 broke
cricketing-great Sir Don Bradman‘s 66-
year-old record for most scores of 190
plus?
Ans:- Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka
4) Jacques Kallis, who announced his
retirement from all formats of international
cricket recently, is a greatest all rounder of
all times, belongs to which country?
Ans:- South Africa
5) The 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games
was held from 16 to 28 August 2014 in —-
?
Ans:- Nanjing, China
ECONOMY
1) Name the anytime anywhere bill
payment system for which Reserve Bank
of India (RBI) on 7 August 2014 issued
draft guidelines?
Ans:- Bharat Bill Payment System (BPPS)
2) Tata Sons-Singapore Airlines joint
venture on 11 August 2014 unveiled the
brand name of its new airline as —-?
Ans:- Vistara
3) Which international finance entity
launched a $2.5-billion onshore Indian
rupee bond programme on 20 August 2014
so as to strengthen the capital market and
support infrastructure development in
India?
Ans:- International Finance Corporation
(IFC)
4) How many Indian companies were listed
among Forbes‘ list of the ‗World‘s 100 Most
Innovative Companies‘ released on 20
August 2014?
Ans:- Five
5) Which of the India Company will
implement the Eastern India Energy
Highway ?
Ans:- Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL)
1) What is the name of NASA‘s vintage
spacecraft which successfully completed a
return visit to the earth-moon system
during August 2014?
Ans:- ISEE-3
2) Recently, it was reported in newspaper
that use of antibiotics in poultry industry
might be strongly linked to growing
antibiotic resistance in Indians. What
purpose antibiotics have been used in
poultry industry?
Ans:- Growth promotion
3) Recently, the Rosetta spacecraft made
history as it became the first probe to
rendezvous with a comet on it s journey
around the sun.Rosetta spacecraft
was launched by ____?
Ans:- European Space Agency
4) Under the Stockholm Convention on
Persistent Organic Pollutants, India had
agreed to phase out use of Endosulfan by
the year — ?
Ans:- 2017
5) Recently, which country has launched a
mission to map the Arctic seabed to
support it s bid to extend it s territory up to
the North Pole?
Ans:- Canada
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Vishal Sikka, who took charge as CEO
and MD of Infosys on 1 August 2014, is the
——-head of the company?
Ans:- Fifth
2) Who took charge as the fourth Deputy
Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) recently?
Ans:- Subhash Sheoratan Mundra
3) Who was assumed charge as the new
Executive Director of Bharatiya Mahila
Bank Ltd on 14 August 2014?
Ans:- SM Swathi
4) Who was was appointed as Chairman of
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on 20
August 2014?
Ans:- Senior Congress leader KV Thomas
B) RESIGNS
1) Sheila Dikshit tendered her resignation
on 26 August 2014 as the Governor of
which state?
Ans:- Kerala
C) DEATHS
1) Actor Richard Attenborough died on 24
August 2014.How is related to India?
Ans:- Director and Producer for Gandhi
Movie
D) VISITORS
1) Name the Britain Deputy Prime Minister
visited India from 25 – 27 August 2014?
Ans:- Nick Clegg
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) Which country has announced 3 year
residence for Edward Snowden on 7
August 2014 ?
Ans:- Russia
PLACES IN NEWS
1) Which of the China‘s province has been
affected by earthquake of magnitude 6.1 ?
Ans:- Yunnan
1) What is the fullform of ‗ ICBM ‗ ?
Ans:- Inter Continental Ballistic Missile
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) ‖ Munger Through The Ages ‖ book has
been written by –?
Ans:- Devendra Prasad Yadav
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 18
August 2014 constituted a 15-member
inter-regulatory committee to monitor the
growing phenomenon of shadow banking.
Who has been appointed as the Chairman
of this committee?

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Ans:- P. Vijaya Bhaskar (Executive
Director, RBI)
DAYS & DATES
1) World Humanitarian Day was observed
across the world on–?
Ans:- 19 August 2014
SEPTEMBER 2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS
BIT BANK
INTERNATIONAL
1) Which parliament reappointed Abdullah
al-Thinni as the Prime Minister on 1
September 2014?
Ans:- Libya
2) Boko Haram-the deadly terror group in
Nigeria has recently declared an Islamic
Caliphate in a small town in the country
which has been wrestled backby the armed
forces. What is the name of the place?
Ans:- Gwoza town
3) Which country Parliament on 16
September 2014 approved a new anti-
terror bill aimed at preventing jihadists from
travelling to Iraq, Syria or elsewhere by
confiscating their passports?
Ans:- French
4) Which country has decided to have
Referendum for changing its National Flag
on 21 September 2014?
Ans:- New Zealand
5) How much per cent reduction in salt
intake was recommended by the World
Health Organisation (WHO) in an official
communiqué to all countries released on
the occasion of World Heart Day (29
September)?
Ans:- 30%
INDIA & WORLD
1) What is the name of a new branch of Al-
Qaeda that was announced by the group
on 4 September 2014 to wage jihad in the
Indian subcontinent?
Ans:- ―Qaedat al-Jihad in the Indian
Subcontinent‖
2) According to recent WHO report, Which
country reported highest suicides in world?
Ans:- India
3) India and Vietnam has signed MOU on
exploration of oil fields in which sea?
Ans:- South China Sea
4) What was the percentage drop in
mortality rates for children under-five years
worldwide as stated in the pertaining report
released by the United Nations
Organisation on 16 September 2014?
Ans:- 49%
5) Which country would be the partner
nation for the Delhi International Book Fair
2016?
Ans:- China
NATIONAL
1) Government of India has named a new
programme ―Neeranchal‖ with an initial
outlay of Rs.2142 crores. What does the
programme aim to achieve?
Ans:- To give impetus to watershed
development
2) According to a recent Supreme Court
verdict what quota has been alloted to
disabled persons in all government jobs?
Ans:- 3%
3) Under which brand name Union
Government is going to launch Electronic
Toll Collection in India?
Ans:- FASTag
4) Which act associated with setting up of
a tribunal was struck down by the Supreme
Court through its order delivered on 25
September 2014?
Ans:- National Tax Tribunal Act – NTTA
5) The Indian Railways has begun the trial
run of booking meals through phone or
SMS also known as ―E-Catering‖ on how
many trains?
Ans:- Six
STATES
1) An indigenously made nuclear plant unit
of India recently made history by running
continuously for a period 765 days, or a
little over two years. This unit is associated
with which power plant of India?
Ans:- Rawatbhata Nuclear Power Plant in
Rajasthan
2) Recently, which state has launched
need based development plan for
villagers?
Ans:- Delhi
3) The integration of Border Security Force
(BSF) with which state level geo-
informatics agency of Gujarat was done on
11 September 2014?
Ans:- Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space
Applications and Geo informatics (BISAG)
4) The new project Sech-Bandhu Prakalpa
launched by the Government of West
Bengal is a great gift to farmers in the state
which will increase yields.What does the
project provide to farmers?
Ans:- Better irrigation
5) Which railway station of India on 26
September 2014 became the first one to
offer free Wi-Fi Internet access?
Ans:- Chennai Central
CONFERENCES
1) The 13th edition of the Pravasi
Bharatiya Divas (PBD) will be held from
January 7-9 January 2015 at –?
Ans:- Gandhinagar, Gujarat
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Mumbai‘s Esplanade House, which
recently bagged the UNESCO Asia Pacific
Heritage Awards, once served as
residence of–?
Ans:- Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata
2) Which two countries have been
honoured on 10 September 2014 by World
Health Organisation (WHO) for excellence
in public health?
Ans:- Bangladesh and Timor Leste
3) Which Organistaion has received Indira
Gandhi Rajbhasha Award on 14
September 2014?
Ans:- Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL)
4) Which film was selected as India‘s
official entry for OSCAR film awards 2015?
Ans:- ‗Liar‘s Dice‘
5) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award is
given in the field of–?
Ans:- Science
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Who won the Italian F1 Grand Prix on 7
September 2014?
Ans:- Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes team
2) Which doubles duo created history by
claiming their 100th doubles title after they
won the U.S. Open men‘s doubles title on
7 September 2014?
Ans:- Mike Bryan and Bob Bryan

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3) Which Indian player has been selected
by International Tennis Federation for
Davis Cup Commitment Award?
Ans:- Rohan Bopanna
4) The 2018 Asian Games will be the 18th
staging of the regional, multi-sport event to
be hosted by —?
Ans:- Jakarta, Indonesia
5) Which Indian snooker player has
recently announced his retirement from
professional snooker ?
Ans:- Pankaj Advani
ECONOMY
1) Nifty, the 50-scrip benchmark index of
the National Stock Exchange (NSE)
crossed which milestone mark for the first
time on 1 September 2014?
Ans:- 8,000 mark
2) Recently which industry major
announced that it will accept Bitcoins
henceforth?
Ans:- Paypal
3) What was India‘s rank in the latest
Creative Productivity Index prepared by
Asian Development Bank in collaboration
with Economist Intelligence Unit?
Ans:- 14 out of 24 countries
4) What amount did Chinese e-commerce
giant Alibaba‘s IPO fetch to make it the
world‘s largest such event?
Ans:- 25 Billion USD
5) What is the new name of MCX Stock
Exchange (MCX-SX) that was approved by
capital market regulator Securities and
Exchange Board of India (SEBI) recently?
Ans:- Metropolitan Stock Exchange of India
(MSXI))
1) Which method has been developed on 2
September 2014 by Japan Researchers to
detect Ebola virus in 30 minutes?
Ans:- RT-LAMP
2) ‖ Scientific Assessment of Ozone
Depletion 2014 ‖ report has been released
on 10 September 2014 by which
Organisation?
Ans:- United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) and World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) )
3) Recently scientist gave ―Ikrandraco
avatar‖ name to an ancient creature. It is
inspired from which movie?
Ans:- Avatar
4) World‘s first water-based nuclear battery
was developed by Jae W. Kwon‘s research
group at the —?
Ans:- University of Missouri (MU)
5) What is the name of the recently
discovered dinosaur who is now said to be
more aquatic than terrestrial?
Ans:- Spinosaurus aegyptiacus
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who was elected as the new Chairman
of the Advertising Standards Council of
India (ASCI) on 12 September 2014?
Ans:- Narendra Ambwani
2) Who was appointed as the first women
Chairperson of Indian Institute of Advanced
Study (IIAS) on 4 September 2014?
Ans:- Chandrakala Padia
B) RESIGNS
1) Name the Co-founder and leader of
Oracle Corporation on 18 September 2014
stepped down as Chief Executive Officer
(CEO)?
Ans:- Larry Ellison
C) DEATHS
1) International Personality Bala Thampoe
has died on 1 September 2014, he was
associated with which field?
Ans:- Trade Unionist
D) VISITORS
1) Name the German Foreign Minister
visited India from 6-8 September 2014?
Ans:- Frank-Walter Steinmeier
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) The leader associated with scotland
independence movement was ?
Ans:- Alex Salmond
PLACES IN NEWS
1) The revived Nalanda University on 1
September 2014 started its first session
with 15 students in its makeshift campus at
which place?
Ans:- Buddhist pilgrim town of Rajgir, about
100 km from Patna
1) What is the full form of NATO ?
Ans:- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah on
12 September 2014 released his
autobiography.What is the name of this
book?
Ans:- And then One Day: A Memoir
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) Which committee was on 8 September
2014 submitted its report on the status of
deemed universities in India?
Ans:- H Devaraj Committee
DAYS & DATES
1) World Tourism Day (WTD) was
observed on?
Ans:- 27 September
OCTOBER 2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS BIT
BANK
INTERNATIONAL
1) USA has lifted 40 year ban on arm sales
to which country for boosting defence in
south china sea?
Ans:- Vietnam
2) As per the World Health Organization
(WHO), which country accounts for 80%
for polio cases globally?
Ans:- Pakistan
3) Srilankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa
on 13 October 2014 flagged off which train
from Palai after 25 years?
Ans:- Yal Devi Express
4) What is the name of the Syrian town
which has become the centre of the Syrian
Civil War, with the ongoing siege between
the militants of Islamic State (IS) and
Syrian Kurds?
Ans:- Kobani
5) Recently state emergency was declared
in ―Sinai Peninsula‖. In which country it is
located?
Ans:- Egypt

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INDIA & WORLD
1) India has launched Container Service on
7 October 2014 with which country to
increase trade?
Ans:- Myanmar
2) Which country on 12 October 2014
pledged 4 million US dollar aid for
reconstruction of Gaza Strip that was
destroyed during the Palestine and Israel
conflict which started in June 2014?
Ans:- India
3) Which country has launched the Gandhi
Inspired Tourist Attraction project on 18
October 2014?
Ans:- South Africa
4) Which country has agreed to provide 4
million Euros and services of international
experts to help in effective implementation
of sanitation programmes in urban areas of
India?
Ans:- Germany
5) Recently, India offered to help which
Polio affected country?
Ans:- Pakistan
NATIONAL
1) What is the minimum monthly pension
notified recently by Labour Ministry for
subscribers of the Employees‘ Pension
Scheme?
Ans:- Rs.1000
2) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 3
October 2014 addressed the nation over
radio for the first time in his programme
named?
Ans:- Mann Ki Baat
3) Under which government scheme the
power ministry has decided to provide
bulbs using LED technology to
households?
Ans:- Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyuthikaran
Yojana (RGGVY)
4) Name the website launched by Union
Government on 7 October 2014 to monitor
attendance of government employees in
real time?
Ans:- attendance.gov.in
5) By what percent Union Government has
increased the fellowship amount of
research scholars?
Ans:- Up to 50%
STATES
1) Which party opened its account in
Maharashtra Assembly by winning two
seats for the first time?
Ans:- The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul
Muslimeen (AIMIM)
2) Recently, Which state Chief Minister has
declared year 2015 as the Tourism Year in
the State?
3) In which state the Arogya Gram Yojna
Organic Farming scheme was launched on
18 October 2014?
Ans:- Jammu & Kashmir
4) Which state government has decided
recently to set up a commission on the line
of Right to Information Commission, to
ensure time bound delivery of public
services to citizen?
Ans:- West Bengal
5) Manipur and Nagaland were cut-off from
the rest of the country from 27 October
2014 due to the 1000-hour district
blockade called in a district of Assam from
5 am. Which district is this?
Ans:- Karbi Along district
CONFERENCES
1) The state govt. of Madhya Pradesh on 9
October 2014 organised Global Investors
Summit 2014 (GIS 2014), a huge summit
of top corporate houses. This meet is held
at which city of MP?
Ans:- Indore
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Who was conferred with Euromoney‘s
Central Bank Governor of the Year Award
2014 in Washington 10 October 2014?
Ans:- RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan
2) Who has been awarded with ‗America‘s
Top Young Scientist‘ award on 22 October
2014 for his innovative design of an eco-
friendly device that will reduce carbon
footprint while offering power for household
usage?
Ans:- Sahil Doshi
3) Name the ministry that has been
awarded with the ISO 9001:2008 certificate
on 22 October 2014?
Ans:- Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises
4) Who became the first Indian woman to
win prestigious Wildscreen Panda Award
on 24 October 2014?
Ans:- Ashwika Kapur
5) Who was honoured with the National
Kishore Kumar Award for the year 2012-
13?
Ans:- Noted lyricist Sameer
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Which Indian player refused to accept
Medal at the podium to protest the loss of
semi-finals at Incheon Asian Games?
Ans:- Sarita Devi
2) Who was chosen as the Most Valuable
Player (MVP) of India‘s Incheon Asian
Games campaign at a felicitation of the
medal winners by contingent sponsors,
Samsung India on 13 October 2014?
Ans:- MC Mary Kom
3) International Cricket Council (ICC) on 10
October 2014 awarded the global
broadcast agreement rights for ICC Events
from 2015 to 2023 to?
Ans:- Star India and Star Middle East
4) Sania Mirza along with Cara Black
clinched the WTA finals doubles title on 26
October 2014. Cara Black is from which
country?
Ans:- Zimbabwe
5) Name the Indian Boxer was suspended
by International Boxing Association (AIBA)
for protesting at ASIAN GAMES 2014?
Ans:- Sarita Devi
ECONOMY
1) What is the name of the new global
service launched by the World Bank on 9
October 2014 which aims at mobilising the
private sector to help tackle the massive
infrastructure deficit facing developing
countries?
Ans:- Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF)
2) Which is the only Indian-owned entity to
have its brand in an elite annual club of
world‘s 100 most valuable brands list for
2014 compiled by leading brand
consultancy Interbrand?
Ans:- Tata Group
3) What is the new price of domestically
produced natural gas fixed by the Union
Government as announced on 18 October
2014?
Ans:- $5.61 a unit

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4) Which bank on 14 October 2014
launched Facebook-based funds transfer
platform KayPay?
Ans:- Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB)
5) Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba
Group Holding Ltd changed the name of its
Alipay financial services unit as announced
on 16 October 2014. What is the new
name of this financial services unit?
Ans:- Ant Financial Services Group
1) Which Earth observing Instrument has
been installed on 1 October 2014 by NASA
on International Space Station (ISS)?
Ans:- ISS-RapidScat (ISS Rapid
Scatterometer)
2) India on 7 October launched an
Indigenous Microscope that uses
peacock‘s feather technology.What are the
features of microscope?
Ans:- It generates 3D Images of Objects
3) How many pollutants the recently
launched ―National Air Quality Index‖ will
track?
Ans:- 8
4) World‘s first womb-transplant baby was
born to a 36-year-old woman from which
country recently?
Ans:- Sweden
5) What is the theme of the Living Planet
Report 2014 released by World Wildlife
Fund (WWF)?
Ans:- Species and Spaces, People and
Places
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who has been appointed has first Hindu
Priest of GeorgeTown University USA on 1
October 2014?
Ans:- Pratima Dharm
2) Who has been appointed as the head of
‗Future Earth Engagement Committee‘ a
global research platform panel on
sustainable development on 26 October
2014?
Ans:- Former Union Minister Jairam
Ramesh)
B) RESIGNS
1) Name the Minister of Economy, Trade
and Industry of Japan on 20 October 2014
resigned from her position following the
allegations that her support groups
misused political funds?
Ans:- Yuko Obuchi
C) DEATHS
1) Benjamin Bradlee died recently. He was
associated with which of the following
newspapers?
Ans:- The Washington Post
D) VISITORS
1) Name the Vietnam Prime Minister
visited India on 27-28 October 2014?
Ans:- Nguyen Tan Dung
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) What is the name of the revamped
version of Google‘s Android software that
was unveiled by the company on 15
October 2014?
Ans:- Lollipop
PLACES IN NEWS
1) India‘s largest ferris wheel was
inaugurated on 2 October 2014 at Kalindi
Kunj in Delhi. What is the name given to
this giant wheel?
Ans:- Delhi Eye
1) What is the fullform of ‗WIPO ‗?
Ans:- World Intellectual Property
Organisation
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) A book titled ‗Syntheism – Creating God
in The Internet Age‘ authored by —?
Ans:- Alexander Bard
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently
released which report on Capacity Building
in banks and non-banks?
Ans:- Gopalakrishna Committee report
DAYS & DATES
1) World Food Day was observed across
the world on –?
Ans:- 16 October
NOVEMBER 2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS
BIT BANK
INTERNATIONAL
1) Under the new NATO mission Resolute
Support, US Army will give training and
support to which country‘s army to fight
extremism?
Ans:- Afghanistan
2) Which Country formally ends 13 year
War in Afghanistan?
Ans:- Britain
3) Which nation was in news for scrapping
a much controversial proposed legislation
to introduce ―Internet Tax‖?
Ans:- Hungary
4) Which country‘s parliament has passed
a law on 4 November 2014 that could block
the release of Palestinian prisoners
convicted for murder, in any future peace
negotiations?
Ans:- Israel
5) Which country and Australia on 18
November 2014 signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) on bilateral Antarctic
cooperation?
Ans:- China
INDIA & WORLD
1) India‘s first Bio-refinery is to be
established with the support of —?
Ans:- Norway
2) The Trilateral Coast Guard exercise
‗Dosti-XII‘ involved which three nations?
Ans:- India, Maldives, Srilanka
3) UNESCO recently collaborated with
Ministry of Urban Development for which
scheme?
Ans:- Heritage Development and
Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY)
4) With which country, the Union Cabinet
gave its approval for cooperation in the
field of oil and gas for a period of five
years?
Ans:- Mozambique
5) Name the country that has banned its
senior government officials from higher
studies in mainland China, citing national
security reasons?
Ans:- Taiwan
NATIONAL

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1) ―Saksham‖ and ―Pragati‖ are newly
launched initiatives of the Ministry of HRD.
What kind of schemes are they?
Ans:- Scholarship Scheme
2) Union Health Minister has launched a
new mission in line with government‘s
vision to eliminate Tuberculosis from India.
What is the name of mission?
Ans:- TB-Mission 2020
3) Government on 18 November 2014
relaunched the Kisan Vikas Patras, to tap
household savings for funding
infrastructure development in the country.
To begin with, KVP will be sold through?
Ans:- Post Offices
4) What is purpose of recently launched
―Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana‖?
Ans:- Welfare of Tribals
5) The Rajya Sabha on 27 November 2014
passed the Delhi Special Police
Establishment (Amendment) Act.It is
concerned with the appointment process
of?
Ans:- CBI Director
STATES
1) Name the company that bagged the
work order recently by Gujarat government
for construction of the 182-metre-tall
Statue of Unity of Sardar Vallabhbhai
Patel?
Ans:- Larsen &Toubro Company
2) ‗Namsai‘ on 25 November 2014 became
the 18th district of which state?
Ans:- Arunachal Pradesh
3) Union Cabinet on 4 November 2014
approved dissolution of legislative
assembly of which state?
Ans:- Delhi
4) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was
on 13 November 2014 elected unopposed
to Rajya Sabha from which state?
Ans:- Uttar Pradesh
5) The International Film Festival of India
(IFFI) was held on 20 – 30 November 2014
at Goa, which is the permanent venue for
hosting the IFFI. This is which edition of
IFFI?
Ans:- 45th
CONFERENCES
1) In which country the 83rd INTERPOL
General Assembly was held from 3 – 7
November 2014?
Ans:- Monaco
2) 6th World Ayurveda Congress & Arogya
Expo was held from 6-9 November 2014 in
—-?
Ans:- New Delhi
3) Which country will host the G-20 Summit
in 2015?
Ans:- Turkey
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Who was formally conferred the title of
Honorary Professor by the Peking
University, one of the oldest Chinese
universities on 5 November 2014?
Ans:- Former President of India Dr.APJ
Abdul Kalam
2) Name the Indian NGO won United
Nations Lighthouse Activities award for the
year 2014 on 25 November 2014?
Ans:- Aaranyak
3) Who has won the Shanti Swarup
Bhatnagar Award 2014 for Biological
Science?
Ans:- Roop Mallik
4) Name the child has been selected for
the first-ever bravery award given by
Assam government on 17 November
2014?
Ans:- Gunjan Sharma
5) Name the Boxer was received the
Arjuna Award on 26 November 2014?
Ans:- Manoj Kumar
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Where the Commonwealth Games 2018
are going to be held?
Ans:- The Gold Coast, Australia
2) Which player received his 2013-14
European Golden Boot award on 5
November 2014?
Ans:- Cristiano Ronaldo
3) Which football player on 22 November
2014 became the all-time highest scorer in
the history of La Liga – the Spanish
Football League?
Ans:- Lionel Messi
4) Who won this year‘s ATP World Tour
finals on 16 November 2014 after Roger
Federer withdrew from the title clash due to
a back injury?
Ans:- Novak Djokovic
5) The World Chess Championship 2014
was held from 7 – 28 November 2014 at —
?
Ans:- Sochi, Russia
ECONOMY
1) Which bank became the first Listed
Indian Company in the list of 30 companies
having more than 75% shareholding by
Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs)?
Ans:- HDFC
2) Which private-sector bank got the RBI
approval on 25 November 2014 to form a
subsidiary to enter the General Insurance
business?
Ans:- Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB)
3) Which private bank has on 20
November 2014 announced its plan to
acquire ING Vysya Bank?
Ans:- Kotak Mahindra Bank
4) Bharatiya Mahila Bank Ltd (BMB) on 19
November 2014 launched its internet
banking facility by the name?
Ans:- ‗BMBSmartBanking‘
5) From which date are RBI guidelines
pertaining to levying of penal charges for
non-maintenance of minimum balance
coming into effect?
Ans:- 1 April 2015
1) Name the Institute of India that became
the first to be made a full member of the
CMS collaboration of CERN, the European
Organization for Nuclear Research?
Ans:- IIT Madras
2) The Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft
(FGFA) being jointly developed by India
and which other nation ?
Ans:- Russia
3) The first zero gravity 3D printer has
been installed by?
Ans:- NASA
4) Name the Migratory Bird whose route
has been tracked for the first time by the
scientists?
Ans:- Amur Falcon

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5) What proportion of the Global
Greenhouse gas burden does India emit?
Ans:- 6%
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who was appointed as the new
Chairman of National Chemical Weapon
Convention (NCWA) on 3 November
2014?
Ans:- GS Sandhu
2) Name the Former Uttar Pradesh chief
secretary was appointed as new Secretary
General of the 16th Lok Sabhaon 26
November 2014?
Ans:- Anoop Mishra
B) RESIGNS
1) What is the full name of Manohar
Parikar who resigned as CM of Goa and
became Defence Minister on 9 November
2014?
Ans:- Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu
Parrikar
2) Name the US Defence Secretary was
resigned from his post on 24 November
2014?
Ans:- Chuck Hagel
C) DEATHS
1) What was the real name of noted
Bollywood actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar who
passed away on 3 November 2014?
Ans:- Ganesh Kumar Narwode
2) M.S.S. Pandian passed away on 10
November 2014. He was a famous –?
Ans:- Social Scientist
D) VISITORS
1) Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited in
which country on 19 November 2014?
Ans:- Fiji
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) Currently, Tianhe-2 is fastest
supercomputer in world. It belongs to
which country?
Ans:- China
2) Which magazine has been named
‗Mangalyaan‘ among the 25 best
inventions of 2014?
Ans:- Times Magazine
PLACES IN NEWS
1) Ashtamudi Estuary‘s short neck clam
fishery on 5 Nov 2014 became the first
Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)
certified fishery in India. It is in which
state?
Ans:- Kerala
2) Name the tallest building in the US
which was reopened for business thirteen
years after the original twin towers were
destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attack?
Ans:- World Trade Center
1) What is the Full form of ‗ CDRI ‗?
Ans:- Central Drug Research Institute
2) What is the Full form of ‗ AAFI ‗?
Ans:- Amateur Athletics Federation of India
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) Who is the author of the Book ―Art &
Railways – A Bangalore Saga‖, launched
on 4 November 2014?
Ans:- Mr.S.Mani & Ms.Lily Pandeya,
Railway Officers
2) The book titled ‗Black Tornado: The
Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11′ was
released on 23 November 2014.Who is the
author of the book?
Ans:- Sandeep Unnithan
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) The Goverment set up a committee to
assess compensation for Coal Blocks that
were running or ready to produce from
April 2015.It is headed by —?
Ans:- Pratyush Sinha
2) Recently, U.N. Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon has set up a 14-member
committee to –?
Ans:- Review peacekeeping operations
worldwide
DAYS & DATES
1) National Education Day (NED) was
observed on —-?
Ans:- 11 November 2014
DECEMBER 2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS
BIT BANK
INTERNATIONAL
1) Name the group declared as a terrorist
organization by the Egypt Court recently?
Ans:- Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
2) Which country and Maldives on 2
December 2014 signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) for a preliminary
study of a proposed bridge connecting the
international airport to Maldives capital
Male?
Ans:- China
3) Which country was recently hit by acute
water crisis after a fire broke out in the
country‘s water treatment plant, causing
extensive damage leading to disconnection
of water supply?
Ans:- Maldives
4) Name the Kenyan President on whom
the International Criminal Court has
withdrawn charges against humanity?
Ans:- Uhuru Kenyatta
5) Name the country that has become most
dangerous country in the world as per the
report published on 9 December 2014 by
Intel Center, a Washington-based
company working for intelligence
agencies?
Ans:- Iraq
INDIA & WORLD
1) Recently, India was re-elected to
ECOSOC along with 13 other new
members. ECOSOC is a primary organ of
__?
Ans:- United Nations
2) The recently announced ―Newton-
Bhabha Fund‖ is a collaboration between
India and which country?
Ans:- United Kingdom
3) Which country and Russia on 5
December 2014 signed an Inter-
Governmental Agreement for designing,
developing and producing the Multi Role
Fighter Aircraft?
Ans:- India
4) United Nations Organisation (UNO) on
11 December 2014 declared which day as
World Yoga Day?
Ans:- June 21

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5) The theme of the 2013 Travel & Tourism
Competitiveness Index is?
Ans:- Reducing Barriers to Economic
Growth and Job Creation
NATIONAL
1) Supreme Court on 3 December 2014 set
up a special ‗Social Justice Bench‘ to
exclusively hear cases concerning social
issues particularly those related to women,
children and underprivileged.The bench
will assemble every week on?
Ans:- Friday
2) Round the clock all India Security
helpline ‗1800-111-322‘ was recently
launched by?
Ans:- Indian Railways
3) Which leader‘s birthday was observed
as National Good Governance Day on 25
November 2014?
Ans:- Atal Behari Vajpayee
4) The Supreme Court on 3 December
2014 directed the Union to complete
prosecution of black money hoarders
abroad under the Income Tax Act, 1961 by
—?
Ans:- 31 March 2015
5) What is the lock-in period in the
revamped Kisan Vikas Patra scheme?
Ans:- 2.5 years
STATES
1) The recently banned militant outfit
Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO)
operates in __?
Ans:- West Bengal and Assam
2) Name the village adopted by the
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi in
his parliamentary constituency Amethi in
Uttar Pradesh on 3 December 2014 under
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna (SAGY)?
Ans:- Jagdishpur Village
3) Union Cabinet on 5 December 2014
relaxed norms for e-rickshaw drivers in
which state?
Ans:- Delhi
4) Name the district of Uttar Pradesh
whose name has changed to ‗Bhadohi‘ by
U.P. Cabinet on 6 December 2014?
Ans:- Sant Ravidas Nagar
5) Name the India‘s first e-governance
project launched by the President of India
on 8 December 2014?
Ans:- Karnataka Mobile One
CONFERENCES
1) Who will host the 19th South Asian
Association for Regional Cooperation
(SAARC) summit in 2016?
Ans:- Islamabad ,Pakistan
2) Where was the World Diamond
Conference 2014 held on 11 December
2014?
Ans:- New Delhi
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Which movie has won top honours at
the New York Film Critics awards on 1
December 2014?
Ans:- Boyhood
2) The 2014 Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha
Award has been given to __?
Ans:- Rubber Board
3) Name the film artist who has won 2014
Turner Prize for a video that reflects on
African art and includes a dance sequence
inspired by Karl Marx?
Ans:- Duncan Campbell
4) Kailash Satyarthi of India and Malala
Yousafzai from Pakistan on 10 December
2014 received the Nobel Peace Prize for
2014. At which city of Norway, Nobel
Peace Prize is presented?
Ans:- Oslo
5) Who was named Time Magazine‘s
Person of the Year for 2014 on 10
December 2014?
Ans:- Ebola Fighters
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Who became the oldest player to score
a century in the One-Day International
(ODI) cricket?
Ans:- Khurram Khan, UAE Captain
2) Which state recently won the 30th
National Junior Athletics Championship
2014, for the third time in a row?
Ans:- Kerala
3) What are the name of mascots of the
2016 Rio Olympic and Paralympics
Games?
Ans:- Vinicius and Tom
4) Name the chess player who won his
maiden London Classic title after defeating
British Grandmaster Michael Adams on 15
December 2014?
Ans:- Vishwananthan Anand
5) The 2014 Men‘s Champions Trophy was
held on 6 – 14 December 2014 in Odisha‘s
capital Bhubaneswar.This is which edition
of Champions Trophy?
Ans:- 35th
6) Name the Sri Lanka batsman on 3
December 2014 became the fourth
batsman to complete 13000 One-Day
Internationals (ODI) runs?
Ans:- Kumar Sangakkara
ECONOMY
1) World e-commerce leader Amazon was
in news for its plan to acquire which Indian
e-commerce player?
Ans:- Jabong
2) RBI recently doubled the Pre-Paid Card
limit to Rs—-?
Ans:- 1 lakh
3) According to the SEBI, what is the
minimum asset size for a Real Estate
Investment Trust (REIT)___?
Ans:- Rs.500 Crore
4) Subsidiary of the investment banking
arm of which bank recently launched an
online Will creation service, the first of its
kind in the country?
Ans:- State Bank of India ( SBICap Trustee
is the name of the subsidiary) )
5) Reserve Bank of India, on 4 December
2014, asked banks to make the registration
process for which banking service easy?
Ans:- Mobile Banking
6) According to the recently released
―Global Wealth Databook 2014‖ by Swiss
banking entity Credit Suisse, how much of
India‘s wealth is held by country‘s 10% rich
people?
Ans:- Around 75%
1) India‘s Drug Technical Advisory
Committee has recently waived-off the
clinical tests of two drugs Aflibercept and
Trastuzumab emtansine.These drugs are
used for the treatment of __?
Ans:- Cancer

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