Current affair! for the third month of march 2015!

1. The week That was!
BY: ARKO BISWAS
BTECH 3RD YEAR
Time flows fast but this will go faster! :p

2. Ready?

3. Google doodle to commemorate
what this week?

4. Answer
 St. Patrick’s day

5. ‘X’- one of the most towering figures in world politics - now has an eternal home in our
country, with the unveiling of his statue in Parliament Square today. On whose official
social networking page was it uploaded?

7. Give company ‘X’.
 ‘X’ has bought mapping and location company deCarta in a bid to both
improve its employees performance and develop new services.
 California-based DeCarta holds a variety of data pertaining to mapping,
local search and turn-by-turn navigation. Its global location based
services were used by Google Maps (2005-2008) and are used today by
GM OnStar, Ford Sync, Samsung, Inrix, Blackberry and over 25 mobile
operators worldwide.
 ‘X’ app currently gets it’s mapping from a number of sources including
google,apple and ‘X‘ itself.

8. Answer
 UBER

9. Q
 On 18th march 2015 playing against South Africa,the Sri Lankan spinner
Tharindu Kaushal Joined Wayne Larkins in a certain exhaustive list.
 What is list is being talked about?

10. Answers
 Only 2nd player to debut in cricket world cup knockout stages.

11. Give x & y
’X’ and Swiss ‘Y’ merged together . The deal would create the world's largest
manufacturer in terms of sales and manufacturing capacity in it’s segment.
 In 2013, ‘X’ and ‘Y’ combined for US$44 billion of sales in cement and
related markets such as stone, gravel, and sand. Their combined 275
million tons of product sold eclipsed the third largest producer, Heidelberg
Cement, by nearly a 3:1 margin.
 The merging is expected to wrap up in coming weeks.

12.  X-Lafarge Y-Holcim

13. Why is it viral? Can you give the specific
name attached to it?

14. The mystery of Myanmar’s missing
umbrella!

15. Connect!

16. BBC (news tarnishing its image)
 An imposter Nadeem Alam posing as a former Pakistan cricketer Nadeem
Abassi and repeatedly conned the BBC into paying him to appear on air
as a pundit during World cup.
 The character stig protesting the sacking Jeremy Clarkson famous for top
gear aired on BBC.
 Ml singh ,the defence lawyer of the rapist in Nirbhaya Documentary case