Quiz 61: on Current Affairs 2014-15 for SSC CGL, UPSC, IBPS, MAT, CAT and other competitive exams

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ

Kevin Rudd, who recently resigned as the Foreign Minister of Australia, was also the erstwhile …………… of Australia.

President

Chancellor

Prime Minister

none of these

Name the Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council.

Sam Pitroda

Anand Sharma

C.Rangarajan

None of the above

 Who has recently been appointed as the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)?

Mahela Jayawardene

Shahid Afridi

Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Malik

 T.R. Ramachandran, a veteran journalist, has recently been re-elected   as the President of

Press Council of India

Press Trust of India

Press Information Bureau

Press Club of India

 Name the current Chairman of TRAI, due to retire on May 14th.

R. Ashok

V. Ranganathan

J.S. Sarma

S.S. Sodhi

Mohamed Nasheed recently resigned as the President of …………… following violent protests.

Syria

Maldives

Indonesia

Thailand

The Commerce Secretary of India is ?

Rahul Khullar

Anand Sharma

G.K. Pillai

None of the above

Name the current Union Minister of Labour and Employment of India.

Harish Rawat

Samad Patel

Mallikarjun Kharge

None of the above

Christian Wulff, a prominent politician and lawyer who resigned from his post, was the erstwhile President of

France

Germany

Poland

Spain

Sushobhan Sarkar has been appointed as the new Managing Director of ?

BHEL

LIC

SAIL

Air India

 Name the Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Matscience), which recently completed 50 years of its existence.

E.C.G. Sudarshan

Ramachandran Balasubramanian

S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan

L. Mahadevan

Who has been named as the new Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in North Korea, following the death of Kim Jong-il?

Kim Jong-chul

Kim Han-sol

Kim Sul-song

Kim Jong-un

Who is India’s new Revenue Secretary?

Sunil Mitra

Debashish Prusty

R.S. Gujral

None of the above

Name the Union Cabinet Minister of Water Resources of India.

Pawan Kumar Bansal

Ambika Soni

C.P. Joshi

Dinesh Trivedi

Who is the current Chairman of the National commission on Farmers?

Mr. Sharad Joshi

Mr. Sompal Shastri

Mr. M.S. Swaminathan

None of the above

 Name the Indian ambassador to the United Nations.

Dilip Lahiri

Hardeep Singh Puri

Jayanti Natarajan

Shashi Tharoor

Cyrus Pallonji Mistry has been appointed as the next Chairman of Tata Group. What is his nationality?

English

Swedish

Irish

Australian

The newly appointed President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is ?

Shashank Manohar

N. Srinivasan

Sanjay Jagdale

Sharad Pawar

Which South Korean diplomat recently began his second term as the Secretary-General of the United Nations?

Boutros-Boutros Ghali

Kofi Annan

Ban Ki-moon

Lee Myung-bak

Name the new U.S. commander of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

David Patraeus

John Allen

David Cripps

None of the above

Portia Simpson Miller has recently been elected as the new Prime Minister of

Egypt

Jamaica

Syria

Nigeria

Subramanian Swamy, in controversy over an article published in DNA, an English newspaper, is the President of

AICC

Janta Party

CPI (M)

National Congress Party

Who is India’s recently appointed Foreign Secretary?

Sushma Swaraj

Ranjan Mathai

Nirupama Rao

R.S. Gujral

Name the recently appointed Indian ambassador to the United States, immediately replacing Meera Shankar.

Nirupama Rao

Shiv Shanker Menon

M.K. Narayanan

Ranjan Mathai

 Joao Cravinho has been appointed as the Ambassador – Head of Delegation of the European Union in India. He is an ex-member of the …………… Parliament.

Portuguese

German

Austrian

Italian




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