****Current Affairs**** - 1. Which Baltic nation has been given permission by the European Union for adopting Euro as its currency? Answer: Latvia. The country will replace its currency the lat, with the euro on 1 January 2014. 2. The Indian Grandmaster who won the Commonwealth Chess Championship? Answer: Abhijeet Gupta 3. Who was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand? Answer: Hemant Soren 4. Who is selected for the Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony 2013? Answer: Zubin Mehta 5. Who is appointed as the new coach of the Indian’s Men’s Hockey Team? Answer: Maharaj Krishan Kaushik 6. Jeane Claude Juncker, who resigned recently, was the Prime Minister of …………….? Answer: Luxembourg 7. The Swiss made solar powered air craft which has been in the news for completing a successful trip across the United States? Answer: Solar Impulse 8. World Population Day was observed on ………….? Answer: July 11 9. The Typhoon that caused widespread damage in Taiwan and East China in July, was named …………? Answer: Soulik 10. Where will be the cartoon museum set up by Kerala Lalitakala Academy in honour of cartoonist R. Sankar inaugurated? Answer: Kayamkulam 11. The recently released book ‘An uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions’ is jointly written by ………. and ………… ? Answer: Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze 12. What is the name given to the largest virus ever seen on the earth, recently discovered by scientists? Answer: Pandoravirus 13. Which Indian tennis pair clinched their first ever ATP tournament by winning the doubles title in the 2013 Claro Open, held in Bogota, Colombia? Answer: Purav Raja and Diviji Sharan 14. Pi Approximation Day was celebrated worldwide on ………..? Answer: 22 July The Mathematical symbol ‘Pi’ represents the mathematical equivalent 22/7, which is similar to the date 22nd July. 15. Nelson Mandela International Day was observed on …………..? Answer: July 18 16. Which Indian won Gold in the Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Medellin, Colombia? Answer: Deepika Kumari 17. Which central Government agency has collaborated with the Tata Motors in developing India’s first Hydrogen powered bus? Answer: ISRO 18. The political party launched by Julian Assange to contest in the Australian elections this year? Answer: WikiLeaks Party 19. Which Afghan woman won the 2013 Magsaysay Award? Answer: Habiba Sarabi. She is the first and only woman governor in Afghansitan. 20. Who has been elected as the new President of Pakistan? Answer: Mamnoon Hussain 21. Who has been selected for the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award 2013? Answer: Amjad Ali Khan 22. The Government of India has announced the setting up of a new Marine Training Academy at: Answer: Tuticorin 23. The advanced weather satellite recently launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation? Answer: INSAT-3D 24. Who is the first woman to be appointed as the Managing Director of the State Bank of India? Answer: Arundhati Bhattacharya 25. The mobile healthcare system launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare-India to vaccinate children at their doorsteps is called …………….? Answer: National Teeka Express 26. The ICC World Cup 2015 will be jointly hosted by ………….. and ……………..? Answer: Australia and New Zealand 27. Who has been named as the President of the Indian Hockey Federation? Answer: K.D Singh 28. Who has sworn in as the President of Iran, succeeding Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad? Answer: Hassan Rouhani 29. Who has been re-elected as the President of Zimbabwe? Answer: Robert Mugabe 30. Rajeev Rishi has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of which Bank? Answer: Central Bank of India 31. Who has been appointed as the new chief of the National Investigation Agency (NIA)? Answer: Sharad Kumar 32. Who has been selected for this year’s Lokmanya Tilak Award? Answer: E. Sreedharan 33. Which Indian won Gold in the 2013 World Games held in Cali, Colombia? Answer: Aditya Mehta 34. India’s recently test fired indigenously developed multi-barrel rocket launcher? Answer: Pinaka 35. The all-women bank to be set up by the Government of India is named ………….? Answer: Bhartiya Mahila Bank 36. In which state is the nation’s first cyber forensic laboratory set up? Answer: Tripura 37. The Indian shuttler who won bronze in the World Badminton Championships held in Guangzhou, China? Answer: P.V Sindhu 38. ......... has become the first state to disburse salary to Government employees through Aadhar linked Bank accounts? Answer: Maharashtra 39. Who won the men’s 100 metre sprint title at the IAAF World Athletic Championship held in Moscow? Answer: Usain Bolt 40. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been elected as the new President of .........? Answer: Mali 41. The Indian player who won the International Tennis Federation (ITF) women’s tennis tournament held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt? Answer: Sowjanya Bavisetti 42. What is the name of India’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier, recently unveiled at Kochi? Answer: INS Vikrant 43. Which American daily newspaper has been bought by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon? Answer: The Washington Post 44. Who won this year’s PGA (Professional Golfers Association) championship held in New York? Answer: Jason Dufner 45. Who is appointed as the new Governor of the Reserve Bank of India? Answer: Raghuram Govinda Rajan 46. The winner of the 100 metres women’s race in the World Athletic Championships? Answer: Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce 47. The world record holder from Russia, who won the women’s pole vault title in the World Athletic Championship? Answer: Yelena Isinbayeva 48. ........ will be India’s 29th State? Answer: Telangana 49. India’s first DNA Forensic Laboratory established in: Answer: Gurgaon 50. Who won the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize 2013? Answer: Malala Yousafzai 51. Who received the prestigious Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation? Answer: Brigalia Bam 52. Which country Won Bronze Medal at Junior Women Hockey World Cup? Answer: India 53. Who won the Rogers Cup Tennis Tournament Women’s singles title? Answer: Serena Williams (U.S) 54. Who won the Rogers Cup Tennis Tournament Men’s Singles title? Answer: Rafael Nadal (Spain) 55. Who is the author of the book ‘My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions’ that released recently? Answer: Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
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