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Quiz 58: on Current Affairs 2014-15 for SSC CGL, UPSC, IBPS, MAT, CAT and other competitive exams









GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ


Who was recently appointed as the Railway Minister of India?


M.S. Gill

Beni Prasad Verma

Milind Deora

Dinesh Trivedi

Who is the Chief Minister of Puducherry?

V. Vaithilingam

Rajiv Kumar

N. Rangaswamy

None of the above

John Key was re-appointed as the Prime Minister of …………… pursuant to the victory in the 2011 general elections.

South Africa

Australia

Austria

New Zealand

 Name the Chief of Staff of Turkey who stepped down recently?

General Tayyip Erdogan

General Isik Kosaner

General Fevzi Turkeri

General Ilker Basbu

Who is the newly Chairperson of the National Commission for Women?

Mamta Sharma

Girija Vyas

Nirmala Venkatesh

Poonam Priya Sen

Ranjan Mathai, India’s new Foreign Secretary, was India’s former Ambassador to ?

France

Pakistan

Nepal

Germany

Who was recently appointed as the Secretary of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs?

Mr. D.K. Mittal

Mr. K. Kichiboya

Mr. Naved Masood

None of the above

The new Chief of Staff Committee(COSC) of India is

Admiral Nirmal Verma

Gen. V.K. Singh

Gen. A.B. Tripathi

Admiral Ashwini Kumar

Name the Russian Finance Minister who was suspended after he openly expressed his reservation on serving Mr.Dmitry Medvedev, if he were to become the Prime Minister in the 2012 elections.

Alexei Kudrin

Viktor Zubkov

Igor Shuvlov

Sergey Lavrov

 ............... is the recently appointed Indian Ambassador to France.

Rakesh Sood

P.V. Naik

Shashi Tharoor

Nirupama Rao

Who is the newly appointed Director of Film andTelevision Institute of India (FTII)?

D.J. Narain

Pankaj Rag

Iftekar Ahmed

R.K. Verma

The new Chief of Air Staff of India is ?

Arjan Singh

N.A.K. Browne

L.S. Gowda

None of the above

The newly appointed Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India is

Dr. Subir Gokarn

Dr. K.C. Chakraborty

Shri Usha Thorat

Harun Rashid Khan

Who is the Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on Goods and Service Tax (GST)?

Sushil Kumar Modi

Vilasrao Deshmukh

Shivraj Singh Chauhan

Raghavji

Who is the newly appointed Defence

Secretory of India?


Mr. Shashikant Sharma

Mr. G.K. Pillai

Mr. K.L.S. Lal

None of the above

Who is the Chairperson of the committee appointed by the Union Minister of Justice and Empowerment to submit a draft bill on the rights of the disabled?

Dr. H.K. Alam

Dr. K.P.S. Gautam

Dr. (Mrs.) Sudha Kaul

None of the above

The new Chairman of the Railway Board is

Mr. Vivek Sahai

Mr. D.M. Rawatia

Mr. Anand Dayal

Mr. Vinay Mittal

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on 8 February 2013 arranged the first of its kind Live Twitter Conference. What was the theme of the conference?

Urban Mobility India (UMI) Conference

Community Radio: Road Travelled & Way Forward

Climate Change and Sustainable Development Conference

Live Twitter Conference

My India Initiative-A Digital Volunteer Programme was launched by which ministry of the Government of India?

Information and Broadcasting Ministry

Agricultural Ministry

Science and Technology Ministry

New and Renewable Energy

The Union Cabinet of India on 6 February 2013 gave its nod to the proposal of decreasing the headcounts to what numbe in habitations under the government's flagship programme, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, PMGSY

125

100

143

136

I&B Ministry Constituted Expert Committee to Review Functioning of Prasar Bharti under the chairmanship of?

Sam Pitroda

Shekhar Kapur

Shri Jawhar Sircar

Dr. B.K. Gairola

Night blindness drying of the conjunctiva, dry and scaly skin and loss of
hair are some of the symptoms of


Vitamin K deficiency

Vitamin A deficiency

Iron deficiency

Folic acid deficeiency

What is the condition known as, in which the body does not get its fair share of nutrients, either from starvation, or as a result of poor absorption

Marasmus

Malnutrition

Kwashiorkor

Malnutrition & Marasmus

Deficiency of Vitamin D gives rise to

Rheumatism

Arthritis

Hernia

Rickets

Using purgatives on a regular basis is harmful to health. Which deficiency does it cause ?

Iron

Potassium

Iodine

Chromium




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