Current Affairs Questions and answers - Oct 17, 2014
Q1. Who has been appointed as the Chief Economic Adviser for a period of 3 years?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Dr. Arvind Subramanian. He is the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development. His award-winning book Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China`s Economic Dominance was published in September 2011 and has printed 130,000 copies world-wide in four languages. Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of the world`s top 100 global thinkers in 2011.
Q2. The 30th Raising Day of the National Security Guard (NSG) in India is celebrated on _____.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 16thOctober’14. The Government is considering raising the strength of women commandos in the elite force. Since the induction of women began in 2003, the NSG today has 25 women commandos.
Q3. Who has been appointed as adviser to the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Government of India?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Shri Shriram Vedire. He worked as an Engineer for 15 years in USA and returned to India in 2009. He was associated with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources and advised it on various aspects of Water Management.
Q4. Name the famous Telugu writer and former radio artist who passed away at a private hospital in Hyderabad at the age of 80?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Turaga Janaki Rani. She was Assistant Director of AIR. She was popularly known as the ‘Radio Akkayya’.
Q5. To which ministry Arvind Mayaram, Finance Secretary and Economic Affairs Secretary has been transferred?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Tourism Ministry. Now the New Finance Secretary and Economic Affairs Secretary is Rajiv Mehrishi.
Q6. World Food Day is observed on _____.
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ7. Name the 10-year old terminally ill boy became Hyderabad Police Commissioner for a day on 15th Oct’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Sadiq. He is suffering from life-threatening cancer and is undergoing treatment at state-run MNJ Institute of Oncology. His last wish was fulfilled by the help of an NGO, Make a Wish Foundation that decided to fulfill Sadiq’s dream on humanitarian ground.
Q8. How many agreements between India and Norway were signed to promote bilateral talks?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 13. These include agreement between Defence sector of two countries and an agreement on exemption of visa requirement for holders of diplomatic and official passports.
Q9. Name the Indian-origin Singaporean poet who will be awarded Cultural Medallion (the country’s highest cultural award)?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: K.T.M. Iqbal, Tamil Poet. It is the highest recognition for the 74-year-old Tamil poet whose achievements include more than 200 children’s songs written for Radio Singapore in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as seven collections of poetry.
Q10. The two days talks on border mechanism between India and China will began from ____.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 16thOctober’14. The two-day talks, under the framework of Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs, are being held to discuss various issues pertaining to the maintenance of peace and tranquility in the border areas.
Q11. Name the vegetable which will be imported for the first time to augment domestic availability?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Potato. Potato will be imported from Pakistan and European countries and imports will be done to ensure sufficient supply till January.
Q12. What is the name given to the US fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: ‘Operation Inherent Resolve’.
Q13. Name the boy who became the World’s new mental math champion?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Granth Thakkar. He achieved this at the Junior Mental Calculators World Championship 2014 (JMCWC-2014) held in Dresden in Germany last week.
