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Quiz 59: on Current Affairs 2014-15 for SSC CGL, UPSC, IBPS, MAT, CAT and other competitive exams









GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ


Justice Katju has recently been appointed as the


Chairman of Planning Commission

Chairman of Press Council of India

Chairman of National Human Right Commission

Chairman of Minority Commission

The new Vice Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army is

Lt. Gen. S.K. Singh

Lt. Gen. V.K. Sharma

Lt. Gen. A.B. Ranawat

None of the above

Which Tennis icon has recently been named as UNICEF’s National Goodwill Ambassador?

Serena Williams

Venus Williams

Sania Mirza

Adriana Barna

 The newly appointed President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) is

Ashish Bagga

N. Ram

Arun Shourie

Shekhar Gupta

Who was recently elected as the President of Singapore?

Tony Tan Keng Yam

S.R. Nathan

Lee Hsien Loong

None of the above

Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri was the Chief Minister of ............... till March, 2012.

Arunachal Pradesh

Meghalaya

Uttarakhand

Jharkhand

 Who is the recently appointed advisor to the Prime Minister?

Yugul Jain

S.P. Sinha

T.K.A. Nair

S. Swamy

 Mr. Ranjit Kumar Bhatia recently retired as the

Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)

Chief of Army Staff

Director General of Shipping

None of the above

Jhala Nath Khanal, who recently resigned from his post,
was the ............... of Nepal


Prime Minister

President

Military Chief

None of the above

Parkash Singh Badal, who recently was sworn in as the
oldest Chief Minister of Punjab, is from which of the
following political parties?


Shiromani Akali Dal

Indian National Congress

Bhartiya Janta Party

Bahujan Samaj Party

The appointment of ............... as the Lokayukta of the
state by the Governor has been challenged by the Gujarat
government in the Gujarat High Court.


Justice (retd.) Santosh Hegde

Justice (retd.) R.A. Mehta

Justice (retd.) L.C. Bhadoo

None of the above

M. Ramadoss of ............... was suspended recently on the charge of irregularities in granting credit insurance cover to Paramount Airways.

Life Insurance Corporation of India

ICICI Bank

Citibank

New India Assurance Co.

M.P. Veerendrakumar has recently been appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of

The Times of India

Press Trust of India

ICICI Bank

Canara Bank

Who is the new CMD of Air India?

Mr. Arun Jadhav

Mr. Anoop Shrivastava

Mr. Amol Sharma

Mr. Rohit Nandan

Who is the recently appointed Director of Bharat Earth Movers Limited?

G.V. Naidas

N.M. Bose

Archana Priyarajan

P.R. Naik

Okram Ibobi Singh was recently sworn in as the Chief
Minister of ……………. for the third consecutive term.


Arunachal Pradesh

Tripura

Manipur

Mizoram

The Minister who recently took an additional charge as
Textiles Minister, after Dayanidhi Maran resigned from the
post, is:


Srikant Jena

P.V. Krishnan

Anand Sharma

S. Jaipal Reddy

 Peru’s newly elected President is

Ollanta Humala

Alan Garcia

Alejandro Toledo

Valentin Paneiagua

Who is the newly appointed Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences?

Vilasrao Deshmukh

M. Veerappa Moily

Srikant Jena

None of the above

The newly appointed Secretary of Defence of the United States of America is

Robert Michael Gates

Greame Cripps

Leon Panetta

None of the above

Sadanand Gowda, the new Chief Minister of Karnataka, is a Lok Sabha MP from

Bangalore Urban

Bellary

Chikamagalur

Hassan

Who is the Minister for Urban Development in India?

Jairam Ramesh

Kamal Nath

Ghulam Nabi Azad

Sushil Kumar Shinde

Yoshihiko Noda recently became the Prime Minster of  Japan, becoming its ............... Prime Minister in the last five years.

Seventh

Sixth

Eighth

Second

Who is the new Chief of the Arab League?

Mr. Nabi Al-Arabi

Mr. Amr Moussa

Mr. Khilji-al-Rasam

None of the above

Who is the Chairman of the Public Health Foundation of India?

N.R. Narayan Murthy

Rajat Gupta

Y.V. Reddy

G.B. Sinha




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