Current Affairs Questions and answers - Oct 15, 2014
Q1. Where and when an agreement on exemption of visa requirement for holders of diplomatic and official passports has been signed between India and Norway?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Oslo on 14thOct’14. This agreement was signed in the presence of President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg.
Q2. Which country has agreed to provide 4 million Euros and services of international experts to help in effective implementation of sanitation programmes in urban areas of India?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Germany. Both countries have signed an implementation Agreement on Support to National Urban Sanitation Policy.
Q3. Who has won the Man Booker Prize for his wartime novel ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Richard Flangan, Australian Author. This was the first year that the Man Booker prize had been open to all authors writing in English, regardless of nationality.
Q4. Who along with his wife is donating 25 million US Dollars to help US efforts to contain the deadly Ebola epidemic?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Mark Zuckerberg, Co-founder Facebook. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last month pledged 50 million US dollars to help boost the fight against the Ebola outbreak.
Q5. Which court has dismissed the pleas of State Bank of India and Punjab National Bank, challenging an Allahabad high court order, directing sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh to sell the sugar stock to reclaim their dues from farmers on 14thOct’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Supreme Court. A bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu observed that the right to life of sugarcane cultivators was more important than the banks' right to carry on business.
Q6. From which city of Uttarakhand, direct AIR India flight to Delhi has been started on 14thOct’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Pantnagar. The flight will be operational on 4 days a week. Pantnagar is a gateway to the famous Jim Corbett National Park and picturesque tourist destinations including Nainitial, Ranikhet and Bheemtal.
Q7. Which state government has decided to set up an animal trauma care centre?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: West Bengal Government. On 14thOct’14, the State Animal Resources Development Minister Mr. Swapan Debnath told that the proposed 500 bedded care centre will come up at Belgachhia in North Kolkata soon.
Q8. The Wholesale Price Index based inflation comes down to five year low of ___% in Sept’14.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 2.38%. The WPI based inflation was at 3.74 % in August and 7.05% in Sep’2013.
Q9. By what percent India’s exports rise in September’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 2.73%. India's exports rose marginally by 2.73 per cent to 28.9 billion dollars in Sep’14. During the period from April to September’14, exports registered a growth of 6.47 per cent to a total of 163.7 billion dollars.
Q10. As per the 2014 Global Hunger Index released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), what rank has been achieved by India among 76 countries?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 55th Position. The 2014 GHI presented a multidimensional measure of national, regional, and global hunger.
Q11. Who is the author of the book ‘Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector’?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Dr.U.D.Choubey, the Director General of SCOPE (Standing Conference of Public Enterprises). This book was released by the Vice President of India on 14thOct’14. The book provides a clear presentation of the overall environment and workings of the Public Sector that the author experienced.
Q12. The 3rd International Tourism Mart, organized by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, in association with the North Eastern States and West Bengal was officially inaugurated in ______.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Shillong, Meghalaya. The Mart is being held from 13th – 15th October, 2014.
Q13. In which 3 cities TATA Value Homes, a subsidiary of Tata Housing Development Company, plans to launch new ‘Value Home’ projects?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Delhi NCR region, Kolkata and Mumbai Metropolitan area.
Q14. Who was appointed as the Prime Minister of Yemen on 13thOct’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Khaled Bahah. He was serving as permanent representative of the Republic of Yemen to the United Nations.
