Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Jan 10, 2015

Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Jan 10, 2015


Q1. Name the Prime Minister of Bhutan who will be on a visit to India from 10th Jan’15?

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ANSWER: Tshering Tobgay. Mr Tobgay and his delegation will visit Ahmedabad to participate in the Vibrant Gujarat Summit, where he will meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.




Q2. Name the new SriLankan President sworn into office on 9th Jan’15?

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ANSWER: Maithripala Sirisena. He received 51.2 percent of the votes in presidential election and Rajapaksa got 47.5 percent.




Q3. Under which article of the constitution governor’s rule imposed in Jammu & Kashmir on 9th Jan’15?

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ANSWER: Section 92 of Jammu and Kashmir Constitution. It allows the Governor to proclaim it in case of failure of Constitutional machinery in the state. It has been imposed in the state for the sixth time since 1977.




Q4. INDIA WATER WEEK to be celebrated in India from _____.

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ANSWER: 13th Jan-17th January 2015. The theme for water week will be “Water Management for Sustainable Development". India Water Week-2015 will address the issues of sustainability of water resources development and management in line with Sustainable Development Goals 2015 being finalized by UN.




Q5. Name the brothers who attached on Charlie Hebdo Magazine Office in Paris and killed on 9th Jan’2015?

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ANSWER: Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi. They were killed at a Paris supermarket where he was holding shoppers at gunpoint and threatened to kill them unless police let the Koachis go.




Q6. The first Airline of joint venture of Tata Group and Singapore Airline (SIA) started its first operation between which two cities in India on 9th Jan’15?

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ANSWER: Delhi to Mumbai.




Q7. Who has launched the Delhi City’s First Public Bicycle Sharing Scheme on 8th Jan’15?

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ANSWER: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). he eco-friendly project, inaugurated from the Saket Metro Station in south Delhi, seeks to provide connectivity to and from the metro stations in areas in its vicinity.




Q8. Name the British hate preacher gets life imprisonment in United States on Jan’15?

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ANSWER: Abu Hamza. Judge Katherine Forrest jailed him for life, saying he will never be released, eight months after he was convicted by a jury after a four week New York trial.




Q9. Which insurance company would soon insure about one third of India’s population by partnering with Prime Minister's Jan Dhan Yojana?

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ANSWER: Life Corporation of India (LIC).




Q10. Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2015 would be held in Gujarat from _____.

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ANSWER: 11th -13th January 2015. It will be the 7th Summit.


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