Current Affairs Questions and Answers - 25 & 26 Dec, 2014
Q1. Who will be the new Chief Minister of Jharkhand?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER:Mr. Raghubar Das. Mr. Das is an MLA from Jamshedpur and has been the Deputy Chief Minister earlier. The decision was taken on 26th Dec’14.
Q2. Name the mission that aims to cover all those children by 2020 who are either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated against seven vaccine preventable diseases?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Mission Indradhanush. The diseases are diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B.
Q3. Good Governance day in India was observed on ______.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 25th December 2014. Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's 90th birthday was celebrated today as Good Governance Day.
Q4. Which scheme has become the world's largest direct benefit transfer with 2.5 crore households getting about 550 crore rupees since 15th Nov’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Direct Benefit Transfer on LPG (DBTL). The scheme was rolled out in 54 districts and will be extended all over the country from next year 1st January. The scheme has surpassed number of beneficiaries in direct benefit transfer programmes in China and Brazil.
Q5. 10th Tsunami Anniversary in Sri Lanka is being observed on _____.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 26th Dec’14. The survivors and family members of the victims of the 2004 Tsunami marked the 10th anniversary of the tragedy with memorial services across Sri Lanka.
Q6. In which state, the Winter Line Carnival was launched on 26th December 2014.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Mussorie, Uttarakhand. The carnival will be held till December 30 and will witness the participation of singer Kailash Kher, veteran Bollywood actor Tom Alter, and some local performers.
Q7. Name the person announced as the Brand Ambassador of Winter Line Carnival, Mussorie?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Ruskin Bond, Author.
Q8. What is the new deadline for withdrawal of pre-2005 currency notes of various denominations?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 30th June’2015. According to Central bank, currency notes issued before 2005 do not have the year of printing on the reverse side. The RBI said, post-2005 notes have added security features and help in curbing the menace of fake currency.
Q9. Name the personalities who have been conferred with the Bharat Ratna, country’s highest civilian honour on 24th Dec’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Atal Behari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister and Madan Mohan Malviya, Educationist and Social reformer. With this 45 other personalities have received Bharat Ratna.
Q10. Which militant group carried out a series of massacres on 23rd & 24th Dec’14 in Assam and killed over 70 tribal people?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Bodo Militants belonging to the National Democratic Front of Bodoland.
Q11. What important recommendation was made by I.M.G. Khan Committee which was constituted in February 2014 to review the existing test system of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC)?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: SSC should be conducted online. The committee made recommendation to conduct SSC exam through online mode.
Q12. Name the airline service that introduced world’s first-of-its-kind three-room suite service on its planes during December 2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Etihad. Etihad’s A380 will start its daily operations to London Heathrow from 27 Dec’2014.
Q13. Which country has launched its largest Missile Warship Tuo Chiang in Dec’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Taiwan. The 500-tonne corvette missile is the first of its kind ever produced by Taiwan.
Q14. Name the leader appointed as Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, the lower house on 23rd Dec’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, Congress Leader.
Q15. Which e-commerce company launched the online Agri Store offering agricultural products to the farmers on 23rd Dec’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Snapdeal. The Agri Store aims to offer wide variety of farm items from seeds to fertilisers, farming tools and irrigation tools.
Q16. The 29th National Consumers Right Day was observed across India on _____.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 24th Dec’14. The day provides an opportunity to highlight the importance of the consumer movement and the need to make every consumer more aware of their rights and responsibilities.
Q17. Which department has launched an SMS-based warning system on 25th Dec’14 that will provide alerts on cyclones, tsunami and other weather-related natural calamities?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Union Ministry of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences. Under this web-based operational system, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) will send SMS to individuals who register themselves at the weather forecaster's official website www.imd.gov.in.
Q18. Name the train flagged off by the Union Ministry of Mines and Steel on 25th Dec’14 from from Gwalior that marks the birthday of former PM Shri Atal Bihari Bajpai?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Sushaasan Express. The train will run between Gwalior and Gonda via Hazrat Nizamuddin and Lucknow.
Q19. What is the economic growth observed in the third quarter of the 2014 in United States?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 5%. It is the higher GDP growth rate for US economy in 11 years.
Q20. Name the celebrity who received the Yash Chopra Memorial National Award on 25th Dec’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Amitabh Bachchan.
