Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Nov 02, 2014
Q1. Name the person awarded with the 2014 Marconi Society’s Paul Baran Young Scholar Award for contributing to point-to-point and multi-channel coding and source coding problems?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Himanshu Asnani. He is an Indian doctoral candidate at Stanford University Electrical Engineering School.
Q2. Name the India-born scientist awarded with the prestigious 2014 Marconi Society Prize for developing the theory and applications of MIMO antennas?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj. His idea for using multiple antennas at both the transmitting and receiving stations - which is at the heart of the current high speed WiFi and 4G mobile systems – has revolutionized high speed wireless delivery of multimedia services for billions of people.
Q3. Name the person appointed as chairman of India Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) on 27 October 2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Lokesh Chandra. He was a Member of Parliament of Rajya Sabha for two terms (1974 and 1980) and earlier served as Chairman of Indian Council for Historical Research and Vice President of ICCR.
Q4. Name the country that became the 3rd Country to complete the first return mission to the moon?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER:China. China has completed its first return mission to the moon. United States and former Soviet Union had completed this operation 40 years ago.
Q5. Name the leader whose birth anniversary will be observed as Bal Swachhta Mission?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. On 1st Nov’14, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting of the National Committee for commemoration of the 125th birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
Q6. With which neighboring country’s capital, is India planning to launch a direct bus service by the end of the November month?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ7. Which state has launched the 'State Nutrition Mission' to check the malnutrition amongst children in the state on 1stNov’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Uttar Pradesh. Senior IAS officer Kamran Rizwi has specially been posted as 'Director General of State Nutrition Mission' to monitor the whole programme and the government had also invited DG state nutrition mission of Maharashtra to share her experiences where the result have been very heartening.
Q8. From which day Bangalore is officially declared as ‘Bengaluru’?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 1st November’14. Mysore is now called Mysuru, Belgaum is now changed into Belagavi and Mangalore is changed to Mangaluru.
Q9. Madhya Pradesh State Foundation Day was observed on ____.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 1st November. The date November 1, 1956 is important not only for Madhya Pradesh but 14 other states in the country. The states that were formed on this day were; Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Bombay (later Maharashtra and Gujarat), Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Madras (later renamed Tamil Nadu), Mysore (later renamed Karnataka), Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal & Jammu & Kashmir.
Q10. Among which three countries, ‘DOSTI-XII’ a four day trilateral coast guard exercise concluded on 31st Oct’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: India, Maldives and Sri Lanka. The exercise between the Indian Coast Guard and the Maldives National Security Service (Coast Guard) code named ‘DOSTI’ was institutionalized in 1991 and thereafter conducted on biennial basis. Since then 11 editions of the exercise have taken place. Sri Lanka joined the 11th edition of exercise in 2012, thus making it a trilateral exercise.
