Current Affairs Questions and Answers - August 26, 2015

Current Affairs Questions and Answers - August 26, 2015

Q1. Name the telemedicine initiative launched by the government on 25th Aug’15 in collaboration with Apollo Hospitals to provide healthcare facilities in rural areas?

A. Swasthya
B. Swasth
C. Sehat
D. Poshan

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ANSWER: C. Sehat

Under the initiative people will be able to consult doctors through video link and also order generic drugs. The initiative was launched by Communication and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. With this initiative the tele-consultation services are being extended to 60,000 centres across the country.



Q2. Centre has informed Supreme Court that political parties should not be brought under the ambit of Right to Information, RTI Act by terming them __________.

A. Public Authorities
B. Private Authorities
C. Independent Authorities
D. Democratic Authorities

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ANSWER: A. Public Authorities

In an affidavit, Department of Personnel and Training said that bringing political parties under the RTI will not only hamper their smooth working but help political rivals to file pleas with malicious intention to seek information. The government said, when the RTI Act was enacted, it was never visualised that political parties would be brought within the ambit of the transparency law. The affidavit said, there are provisions in Representation of the People Act 1951 and Income Tax Act which brought necessary transparency about the financial aspects of a political party.



Q3. Name the typhoon that hit the Japan's southern main island of Kyushu on 25th Apr’15?

A. Soudelor
B. Halola
C. Pirana
D. Goni

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ANSWER: D. Goni

People in Japan's southern main island of Kyushu are facing strong winds and heavy rains as Typhoon Goni rips through the region. The storm is causing gusts of nearly 200 kilometers per hour.



Q4. Which country would be compensated by Russia for seizing a ship belonging to the pressure group, Greenpeace, during a protest against Arctic oil drilling, as ordered by an International court of arbitration in The Hague?

A. Ukraine
B. Latvia
C. Germany
D. Netherland

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ANSWER: D. Netherland

Russian commandoes seized the Dutch-flagged ship in September 2013 and detained the 30 Greenpeace activists and journalists onboard after a protest at an offshore oil rig owned by Russian state oil giant Gazprom.



Q5. Which of the following countries has condemned deportations of its citizens after Venezuela closed its border with its eastern neighbour last week?

A. Colombia
B. Brazil
C. Guyana
D. Panama

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ANSWER: A. Colombia

The crossings were shut after an attack by smugglers left three soldiers and a civilian injured. Since then around 1,000 Colombians living in Venezuela have been expelled as part of a crackdown on smugglers and criminal gangs in the region. The two countries are due to hold talks on the issue on 26th Aug’15.



Q6. As per the report by Alzheimer Disease International, by which year number of people suffering from dementia in the world would triple to more than a hundred and thirty million?

A. 2022
B. 2050
C. 2056
D. 2060

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ANSWER: B. 2050

Alzheimer Disease International says dementia will saw as people live longer posing serious challenges to health and social care systems. Ten million news cases are expected this year alone.



Q7. Which of the following countries released its last known Ebola patient from a hospital on 24th Aug’15?

A. Sierra Leone
B. Guinea
C. Liberia
D. Senegal

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ANSWER: A. Sierra Leone

It allows the nation to begin a 42-day countdown to being declared free of the virus that has killed nearly 4,000 people here. President Ernest Bai Koroma presented a certificate of discharge to Adama Sankoh, 40, who contracted Ebola after her son died from the disease late last month.



Q8. Who has been sworn in as the new Lokayukta of Maharashtra on 24th Aug’15?

A. Justice Vinod Tawde
B. Justice Madanlal Laxmandas Tahaliyani
C. Justice Ravindra Singh
D. Justice P B Gaikwad

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ANSWER: B. Justice Madanlal Laxmandas Tahaliyani

Justice Madanlal Laxmandas Tahaliyani, a retired judge of the Bombay High Court was sworn in as the new Lokayukta of Maharashtra. Governor Vidyasagar Rao administered the oath of office to Justice Tahaliyani at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai. . Justice Tahaliyani succeeds Justice PB Gaikwad, whose term as Lokayukta ended on July 1, 2014.



Q9. Who among the following would not be conferred by Dronacharya Award for the year 2015?

A. Anoop Singh
B. Harbans Singh
C. Swatantar Raj Singh
D. Romeo James

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ANSWER: D. Romeo James

Dhyan Chand Award 2015 will be given to Mr Romeo James for Hockey. Dronacharya Awards will be conferred on Athletics Para-sports coach Naval Singh and Wrestling coach Anoop Singh. An official release issued by the Sports Ministry said, Coach Harbans Singh will be given Dronacharya Awards for his life time contribution to Athletics, Coach Swatantar Raj Singh for Boxing and Coach Nihar Ameen will be conferred Dronacharya Awards for his life time contribution in Swimming.



Q10. Who among the following would not be conferred by Dhyan Chand Award for the year 2015?

A. Shiv Prakash Mehra
B. T.P.P. Nair
C. Romeo James
D. Ajay Vishwakarma

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ANSWER: D. Ajay Vishwakarma

The awardees will receive their awards from the President Pranab Mukherjee at a function at Rashtrapati Bhawan on 29th Aug’15. Dhyan Chand Award 2015 will be given to Mr Romeo James for Hockey, Mr Shiv Prakash Mishra for Tennis and Mr T.P.P Nair for Volleyball.



Q11. Name the woman journalist who won the prestigious 2015 Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism?

A. Zaina Erhaim
B. Anjana Kashyap
C. Christiane Amanpour
D. Barbara Walters

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ANSWER: A. Zaina Erhaim

Over the last two years, she has trained about 100 citizen reporters from inside Syria, approximately a third of them women, in print and TV journalism, and has helped establish many of the new emerging independent newspapers and magazines in the war torn country. Erhaim is also the Syria project coordinator for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), an international organization that support journalists in countries undergoing conflict, crisis, or transition.


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