General Awareness Test (June - 15) - Set 8

ANSWER: VARTTAVALI

Explanation:
The programme named "VARTTAVALI" includes news, features and discussions and focuses on events from around the world.

ANSWER: Greater Noida

Explanation:
The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation on 25 June 2015 approved a proposal for setting up a second international airport at Jewar in the National Capital Region.

ANSWER: U.S. Dept. of Defense

Explanation:
U.S. Department of Defense is world’s largest employer with around 3.2 million employees on its roll. It is followed by People’s Liberation Army (the Chinese military) with 2.3 million. In 3rd place is Walmart (2.1 million). The Indian Railways is the 8th largest employer in the world with 1.4 employees.

ANSWER: Ravi Thapar

Explanation:
Ravi Thapar is India’s High Commissioner to New Zealand, was recalled after allegations of assault were levelled against his wife, Sharmila, by a member of the couple's domestic staff.

ANSWER: SpaceX Falcon 9

Explanation:
The 19th Falcon 9 rocket of privately-owned SpaceX company was on its mission to the International Space Station (ISS) when it exploded about two minutes after lifting-off from Cape Canaveral air base in Florida.

ANSWER: Jwala Gutta & Ashwni Ponappa

Explanation:
In the final played at Calgary the third seeded Indian duo ousted top Dutch pair of Eefje Muskens and Selena Piek. This was their first title of this season.

ANSWER: 425 dollar per tonne

Explanation:
According to a notification issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade the MEP for export of all varieties of onions will be 425 dollar per tonne. MEP is the rate below which no exports are allowed.

ANSWER: London

Explanation:
Defending champion and world number one Novak Djokovic will open the play at the Centre Court against Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber. Women's world number one Serena Williams will also be seen in action in the opening round today against Russian Margarita Gasparyan. In the Doubles, Rohan Bopanna will begin India's campaign in this oldest and the most prestigious tennis tournament.

ANSWER: Tamil Nadu

Explanation:
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Ms. Jayalalithaa will inaugurate the metro rail service in Chennai. She will be inaugurating the first stretch of 10 kms through video conferencing from the secretariat.

ANSWER: China

Explanation:
President Xi Jinping is scheduled to meet the heads of the delegations representing the prospective founding members of the bank. A meeting of Finance Ministers of the 57 countries involved is also scheduled to take place. The China-proposed bank is expected to begin operating later this year with startup capital of around 100 billion US dollars.

ANSWER: 29th June’15

Explanation:
The Statistics Day commemorates the birth anniversary of Late Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis.

ANSWER: November’15

Explanation:
Direct air services between India and Canada, would resume in November when Air Canada starts a non-stop flight to New Delhi from Toronto.

ANSWER: 30th June 2015

Explanation:
June 30 this year will officially be a bit longer than usual because an extra second, or 'leap' second, will be added to the day. Daniel MacMillan of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre said that the Earth's rotation is gradually slowing down a bit, so leap seconds are a way to account for that. Strictly speaking, a day lasts 86,400 seconds. That is the case, according to the time standard that people use in their daily lives - Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC. However, the mean solar day - the average length of a day, based on how long it takes Earth to rotate, is about 86,400.002 seconds long.

ANSWER: Ajinkya Rahane

Explanation:
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the Indian Cricket team on 29th June’15. The Indian cricket team will tour Zimbabwe for three One-Day Internationals (ODI) and two Twenty-20 Internationals.

ANSWER: Goa

Explanation:
Tournament Director of FIFA U17 World Cup Javier Ceppi on 29th June’15 announced Goa as the sixth venue and handed over a provisional selection contract to the Sports Minister of Goa. Delhi, Kolkata, Navi Mumbai, Guwahati, and Kochi have already been provisionally selected for the tournament. FIFA is to ratify the venues after inspecting the selected grounds and stadium in September 2016. In all 52 matches will be played in venues in India during 2017 Under 17 FIFA World Cup and India with a direct entry will be participating first time in a FIFA World Cup.

ANSWER: Sangharsh Ke Prayog

Explanation:
The book is a collection of selected speeches by Prof. Ram Gopal Yadav, MP (RS) delivered at various places during past three decades including a few in Parliament.

ANSWER: Dr. Vishwanath Tripathi

Explanation:
Vyomkesh Darvesh is a fictional biography of noted Hindi critic Acharya Hazariprasad Dwivedi. Born on February 16, 1931, Dr. Tripathi has a number of original creations like Lokwadi Tulsidas, Meera Ka Kavya, Kuch Kahaniya Kuch Vichar and several others to his credit.

ANSWER: United Bank of India

Explanation:
United Bank of India's 21.5 percent assets are either bad or have been restructured to save them from turning non-performing assets (NPAs). The other banks that have significant amount of gross NPAs and restructured loans include, Central Bank of India (21.30 percent), Indian Overseas Bank (19.40 percent), Punjab & Sind Bank (18.74 percent) and Punjab National Bank (17.94 per cent), as of March 2015.

ANSWER: Vijender Singh

Explanation:
Vijender Singh, the superstar of Indian amateur boxing, has now turned professional. The announcement for this lucrative deal was signed at a star-studded media conference in London on 29th June’15.

ANSWER: Chennai

Explanation:
Chennai became the 7th Indian city to have the metro rail system after Kolkata, Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Mumbai and Jaipur.

ANSWER: Y C Modi

Explanation:
He is a 1984 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre. Y C Modi, who had been part of a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) that probed 2002 Gujarat riots cases, has been appointed as Additional Director in the CBI.

ANSWER: Deepak Malaviya

Explanation:
He was elected at the General Council Meeting held in New Delhi yesterday. He is the youngest President of the organisation. The 94 year old welfare organisation was established by Punjab Kesari Lala Lajpat Rai. Octogenarian Sarvodaya leader and socialite Kirti Bhai Pandya has been elected as Vice President and journalist and littérateur Niranjan Rath as National Secretary of the organisation.

ANSWER: 71%

Explanation:
The literacy rate in the rural areas was pegged at 71% last year, compared to 86% in the urban areas. It said that among the age group of seven year and above, the male literacy rate was registered at 83 percent vis-a-vis the female literacy rate of 67 percent. According to the survey, in the rural areas nearly 4.5 percent of males and 2.2 percent of females completed education level of graduation and above, while in urban areas 17 percent of males and 13 percent of females completed this level of education.

ANSWER: State Bank of India

Explanation:
The partnership between SBI and MakeMyTrip.com includes partnership with personal banking unit for consumer facing propositions – including EMIs on purchase of holidays & international travel, customized travel products.