Current Affairs Questions and answers - Sep 25, 2014

ANSWER: 25th September’14.

ANSWER: 12 Million US Dollar. This includes 2 million dollar for purchase of protective gear to tackle Ebola disease and 10 Million US Dollar for contribution to UN Secretary General’s Fund.

ANSWER: The Southern System University of Louisinia. This degree will be given for his work in the field of inclusive growth especially for empowering women and minorities in Gujarat.

ANSWER: Integral Humanism and contribution towards serving Society.

ANSWER: The spectacles of Mahatma Gandhi with its bridge in the Tricolor signify the nation uniting to achieve the vision of Mahatma Gandhi for a Clean India. Cleanliness and India were like his two eyes through which he envisioned a clean India.

ANSWER: Cyprus.

ANSWER: Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF).

ANSWER: 25thSep’14. The objective of ‘Make in India’ campaign is to make India a manufacturing hub by attracting foreign investments to set up their manufacturing units in India.

ANSWER: Tumkur, Karnataka.

ANSWER: New Delhi. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Minister of State for Culture Shripad Naik.

ANSWER: Steve Waugh. As announced by the Bradman Foundation, only two players are selected i.e; Steve Waugh and Sachin Tendulkar

ANSWER: Suresh Prabhu. He was a Cabinet minister in the previous NDA government. Sherpa is a senior official responsible for preparing the agenda for leaders to consider during the summit.

ANSWER: Madathil Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair. He is a noted writer and filmmaker.

ANSWER: Bamiyan. Bamiyan is situated in Afghanistan. The decision was taken at the 3rd Meeting of the South Asian Association Regional Cooperation Culture Ministers in New Delhi on 25thSep’14.

ANSWER: Supreme Court. Under NTTA a tribunal was set up to decide tax-related cases by taking away jurisdiction of high courts in such matters. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha said, the Act passed by Parliament in 2005 is unconstitutional as the National Tax Tribunal encroaches upon the power of higher judiciary, which can only decide issues involving substantial laws and not a tribunal.

ANSWER: Pacific Ocean. Barack Obama will sign a proclamation designating the marine reserve in the south-central Pacific Ocean, thereby making it off-limits to development and commercial fishing, according to a statement from the White House.

ANSWER: The bug Shellshock can be used to remotely take control of almost any system using Bash. The flaw has been found in a software component known as Bash, which is a part of many Linux systems as well as Apple's Mac operating system. Early estimates suggest that Shellshock could hit at least 500 million machines.

ANSWER: Edward Snowden. He is an American computer professional who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA), starting in June 2013.

ANSWER: China.

ANSWER: 1. To declare 2016–17 as the SAARC Year of Cultural Heritage. To note that for 2015–16, Bamiyan will be the SAARC cultural capital and the inauguration ceremony of Bamiyan as SAARC cultural capital will take place in April 2015.
2. To formulate proposals for transnational nominations for the world heritage list and a regional list of heritage sites. To recognize the impact and contribution of maritime routes and the monsoon as also other inland relations, especially through the centuries of trade, both maritime and inland, migration, colonialism, and modern statecraft, through enhanced interaction between member countries by redefining cultural linkages through transnational nominations.
3. To promote SAARC culture online by launching a dedicated SAARC website on culture, with emphasis on digitization of rare manuscripts, rare books and other articles of intangible cultural value.
4. To strengthen cultural institutions in the SAARC region, promote cultural festivals showcasing themes that are unique to the region within SAARC member states, and enable meaningful exchange programmes for artists, performers, writers and scholars.
5. To establish a SAARC Cultural Heritage Committee (SHC) and build cultural institutions, which, in turn, will bolster efforts in preservation, maintenance, as well as digital mapping of historic sites in member countries, and simultaneously develop inventories of cultural assets in museums and other repositories of the region and apply best practices and standards therein.
6. To promote the literatures produced in the local languages of the regions, and make them available to readers across the world through translations, not only into English, but also through direct translation from one SAARC language to another, and also to provide financial support to writers to work on creative projects, collaborate with other writers and provide them increased exposure to other cultures.
7. To accord the highest priority to the preservation of folklores and other oral traditions that embody local narratives and local cultures, both in order to facilitate a better understanding of our shared past in this age of global cultural memes, and to envision the cultural future of the region anew.
8. To promote visual and performing arts from the SAARC region in other parts of the world to mirror the vast riches – both cultural and geographic – that adorn these lands, as part of a sustained campaign of cultural diplomacy to attract tourists to these places and stimulate SAARC tourism.
9. To support, on mission-mode, the improvement of literacy of SAARC populaces, and further, promote a reading habit among the citizens by providing access to books and other reading materials through establishing libraries in remote places.
10. To promote the urge and interest of the SAARC country visitors to archeologically important places and heritage sites by fixing a common rate for entrance therein.