LAST WEEK BULLET POINTS ************************************** 1) Who was appointed as the Vice-Chairman of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog on 5 January 2015? - Arvind Panagariya 2) Who was named as the Business person of the Year for 2014 on 6 January 2015 by Fortune magazine? - Larry Page 3) 102nd Indian Science Congress (ISC) was recently held at? - Mumbai Note: The theme of the ISC was Science and Technology for Human Development. 4) Name the French satirical weekly magazine in Paris which was attacked by three masked gunmen on 7 January 2015? - Charlie Hebdo 5) Which bank on 7 January 2015 launched contactless credit cards and debits cards called Coral Contactless Credit Card and Expressions Wave Debit Card respectively in India? - ICICI Bank 6) Who has sworn-in as the 7th President of Sri Lanka on 9 January 2015? - Mithripala Sirisena 7) Name the joint venture of Tata-SIA which started its flight operation in India on 9 January 2015? - Vistara Airline 8) Who was on 10 January 2015 appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog with effect from 1 January 2015? - Sindhushree Khullar 9) Which city will host International Hindi Conference in April 2015? - New Jersey 10) Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 5 January 2015 approved to set up the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) in which state? - Tamil Nadu 11) Who was named as the Brand Ambassador of Andhra Pradesh (AP) health sector on 6 January 2015? - Amitabh Bachchan 12) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 6 January 2015 released a commemorative coin to mark the 175th birth anniversary of which industrialist? - Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata 13) Which airline was named as the world’s safest airline by AirlineRatings on 6 January 2015? - Qantas Note: It is Australia’s national airline. 14) Name the new antibiotic discovered by scientists nearly after two decades? – Teixobactin 15) Which Indian film was on 8 January 2015 nominated for British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards 2015 under non-English best film category? - Lunchbox 16) Which bank secured its shareholders approval for amalgamation with ING Vysya Bank recently? - Kotak Mahindra Bank Prepared by: currentaffairs4examz 17) Name the Chinese nuclear physicist who was on 9 January 2015 presented with the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award 2014 by Chinese President Xi Jinping? - Yu Min 18) Who presented the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards 2015 to sixteen personalities on 9 January 2015? - Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari 19) Who resigned as Director General of Sports Authority of India (SAI) on 2 January 2015? - Jiji Thomson 20) Board of Control for Cricket in India on 6 January 2015 announced the 15-man squad for the Cricket World Cup 2015. Who will captain the team? - MS Dhoni 21) Which country will host the 42nd World Bridge Championships in Sep-Oct 2015? – India 22) PM Narendra Modi on 8 January 2015 inaugurated a state-of-the-art museum Dandi Kutir at which place? - Gandhinagar, Gujarat 23) Who won 7th Chennai International Open Grandmaster Chess title on 6 January 2015? - Popov Ivan of Russia 24) Who was sworn in as the sixth Governor of Uttarakhand on 8 January 2015? - Krishan Kant Paul 25) Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on 5 January 2015 launched the sale of subsidised 5 kg cooking gas cylinders for BPL families under which scheme? - Free Trade LPG (FTL) 26) Who took charge as Coal India Limited’s full-time Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) on 5 January 2015? - Sutirtha Bhattacharya 27) Who was on 7 January 2015 appointed as the United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General, Department of Field Support (DFS)? - Atul Khare 28) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 8 January 2015 released Commemorative Postage Stamps to mark ___ Years of Mahatma Gandhi’s Return from South Africa to India? – 100 29) Who won his maiden National Sub-Junior Billiards title at the BRC Gloster National Billiards & Snooker Championship 2015 recently? - S Shrikrishna 30) Who was elected as the Speaker of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly on 7 January 2015? - Dr. Dinesh Oraon of BJP 31) Which firm launched Chinas first online bank named WeBank to boost small businesses on 6 January 2015? - Tencent Holdings 32) Governors rule was recently imposed in which state on 9 January 2015? - Jammu and Kashmir 33) Who was appointed as the Prime Minister of West African nation Mali on 8 January 2015? - Modibo Keita
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