Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Feb 07, 2015

ANSWER: C. Bhalachandra Nemade.

He will be the 50th recipient of the award. Mr Nemade occupies a unique place in Marathi literature and his hugely celebrated works include novels Kosala and Hindu. He has also been conferred with Padma Shri and Sahitya Academi award. His important literary works include Kosala (1963), Hool, Bidar (1967), Zarila (1977), Zhool (1979) and Teeka Swayamvara (volume on literary criticism)

ANSWER: B. Narendra Modi.

This year, the theme of the conference is Diplomacy for Development. The three-day conference will focus on what diplomacy can do for India. Usually the focus had been how international issues are shaping up and their impact on India and what India can do globally.

ANSWER: A. Vapi.

Inaugurating the 9th edition of Plast India 2015 at Gandhinagar, Gujarat CM said that Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation-GIDC will offer 40 acre land at concessional rate to set up this university at Vapi in South Gujarat.

ANSWER: A. Raipur.

The Union Ministry of AYUSH in collaboration with Directorate of AYUSH, Government of Chhattisgarh and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) has organized the AROGYA RAIPUR, a four days comprehensive health fair on Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy from the 6th – 9th February, 2015 at Raipur, Chhattisgarh.

ANSWER: B. Lebanon.

During the period 2013-14, India’s total export of agricultural commodities to Lebanon was US$ 69.41 million and during the same period agricultural import from Lebanon was US$ 0.47 million.

ANSWER: D. MySecurity.gov.in

The MySecurity platform is being created for individuals, companies, students, NGOs etc to develop and deploy security applications which may be useful to people.

ANSWER: B. 4.

Senior officials from India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal met on 2-3 February at Raichak near Kolkata to finalize a Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA) for a seamless transit of passenger and cargo vehicles between their countries and draw up plans for its speedy implementation. It is expected Agreement to be signed at a meeting of Transport Ministers of the four countries to be held soon this year.

ANSWER: D. Gwalior Military Cantonment.

ANSWER: C. 6th Feb’15.

The first meeting of the body held under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi and was attended by its first vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya, fulltime member Bibek Debroy and CEO Dr. V.K. Saraswat. Numerous eminent economists were part of this meeting and included Vijay Kelkar, Nitin Desai, Subir Gokarn, Parthasarathi Shome, G.N. Bajpai, Bimal Jalan, Rajiv Lall, R. Vaidyanathan, P. Balakrishnan, Rajeev Kumar, Ashok Gulati and Mukesh Butani.

ANSWER: A. 53.

This move enables no speculative trading for ‘T’ group shares and delivery of shares and payment of consideration amount are mandatory.

ANSWER: B. Yemen.

From now a five-member council would act as the president for an interim period. The situation in Yemen escalated last month when the Houthis seized a key aide of President Hadi, in an attempt to block a draft constitution. They later took the presidential palace and other key buildings, prompting Mr Hadi's resignation. Yemen has been riven by instability since protesters inspired by the Arab Spring forced the overthrow of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2011, who is believed to have been backing the Houthis.

ANSWER: A. Ajaypal Singh Banga.

His appointment was announced by the US President Barack Obama. Presently, Banga is President and CEO of MasterCard since 2009.

ANSWER: C. Pfizer.

Hospira has a fast-growing biosimilars business in Europe.