Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Dec 30, 2014
Q1. Name the movie by the Sony pictures released during the last week of Dec’14, that has become its most successful online release ever?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: ‘The Interview’. A controversial comedy about a plot to assassinate the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, this has become Sony's most successful online release ever.
Q2. Police firing on which movement was termed worse than the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre by the Judicial Commission set up in West Bengal,?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER:Youth Congress Movement in Kolkata in 1993. Before submitting the report to the State Government, the one-man Commission of Retired Justice Sushanta Chatterjee stated that the collective responsibility lies with the then officials of the Home Department and the Police Headquarters.
Q3. Name the Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi) who resigned on 28th Dec’14 amid a controversy following some reports that held two alleged requests from the Union Govt. responsible for it?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER:Raghunath K. Shevgaonkar.
Q4. Name the officer appointed as the Secretary to the Department of School Education and Literacy with effect from 29th Dec’14, under the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER:Vrinda Sarup, Senior IAS Officer. She succeeded R. Bhattacharya whose retirement is due on 31st Dec'14.
Q5. Birth Anniversary of Kaniyalal Maneklal Munshi is being observed on _______.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 30th December. He is popularly known as Kulapati Dr. K. M. Munshi. He was an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer and educationist from Gujarat.
Q6. The 43rd Death Anniversary of Vikram Sarabhai, an Indian Physicist is being observed on ____.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 30th Dec’14. He is considered as the father of India's space programme.
Q7. Which ordinance has been approved by the Union Government on 29th Dec’14 in order to strike a balance between the interests of farmers and the industrial growth?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Land Acquisition Act. The decision to amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 was taken at a Cabinet Meeting held in New Delhi on 29th Dec’14.
Q8. Name the US led mission that will be replaced by a NATO ‘Training and Support’ Mission from 1st Jan’2015?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Combat Mission.
