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July 8, 2014

General Awareness Question - 1

1. Who is the author of the book : "The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh"?
=> Sanjaya Baru


2. Who is New CEO of Infosys ?
=> Vishal Sikka

3. Who launched SMS based service named "Polling at your Fingertips" in Shillong, Meghalaya?
=> Mr P Naik (The Chief Electoral Officer)



4. Which Bank Got Best Bank Awar
=> Bank of Maharashtra

5. Who has been selected as the national icon for the Lok Sabha elections,2014 by Election Commission?
=> Amir Khan


6. Who has been elected as President of the Indian Meteorological Society for 2014-16?
=> Akhilesh Gupta

7. According to World Bank Report released on 29th April 2014, India has displaced which country to become the world's third biggest economy in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP)?
=> Japan


8. Which country launched 1st Humonoroid (Emo Robot)
=> Japan (Pepper Robot)

9. Who has been appointed as the new Director General of the country's largest border guarding force BSF by government of india?
=> IPS officer D K Pathak


10.Who has been appointed as President and CEO of Nokia Corporation?
=> Rajeev Suri 

11. Give the name of the train recentley launched by indian PM Narendramodi Between Udhampur-Katara railway line to join Jammu and Kashmir ?

=> Shree Shakti

12. Who has been appointed as theboard member of China-backed Boao Forum?
=>  Ratan Tata

13. Who has been re-elected as Prime Minister of Hungary for the second consecutive four- year term?
=> Viktor Orban


14. Which country will hold the 18th SAARC Summit on 14th November?
=> Nepal

15. Who has been appointed as the First ambassador to ASEAN and East Asia Summit?
=> Suresh Kumar Reddy

16. Who took over as the 22nd Chief of Indian Navy?
=> Admiral Robin K Dhowan

17. Which bank launched Instant Money Transfer (IMT) scheme in Mumbai?
=> Bank of India (BoI)


18.  Who bagged the Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013?
=> Gyan Correa

19. Which telecom service provider has launched its popular mobile money transfer and payment service M-Pesa partnering with private sector ICICI Bank?
=>  Vodafone

20. Who won the 2014 edition of the UN-Water ―Water for Life‖ Best Practices Award for their  sustainable practices of water resources?
=> India and Singapore

21. Where was the Third Nuclear Security Summit held?
=> The Hague, Netherlands from 24 to 25 March 2014.


22.  Name the renowned Hindi author will receive Sarawasti Samman for the year 2013 for his book ‗Dhool Paudho Par‘ published in 2008?
=> Govind Mishra

23.  Who has assumed the charge as Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas?
=> Saurabh Chandra


24. Who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014?
=> Japanese architect Shigeru Ban


25.  Who was unanimously elected as the first women President of Indian Journalists‘ Association (IJA) in London
?
=>  Aditi Khanna


26. Who was conferred India's Global Icon of the Year award at the NRI of the Year awards 
in Mumbai?
=>  Amitabh Bachchan


27. A book entitled Akbar, The Aesthete was released by??
=> Hamid Ansari, the Vice President of India

28. Who was selected for the 23rd G D Birla Award for scientific research for the year 2013?
=> Physicist Rajesh Gopakumar


29. Which country lifted the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2014?
=> South Africa


30.  Who has been appointed as the new Revenue Secretary?
=>  Shashikantadas

31.  Name the company who has bagged a multi-year deal from Volvo Cars?
=>  Infosys


32.  Who won Windham Campbell Literature Prize 2014 in non-fiction category?
=> Indian writer Pankaj Mishra


33.  World Forestry Day or International Day of Forests is celebrated worldwide every year on which date?
=>  21st of March


34. Name the Czech priest won the Templeton Prize for 2014?
=> Tomas Halik


35.  Who has been appointed coach of the National men‘s hockey team?
=> Olympian and former India captain Jude Felix

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