Current Affairs December
Today we publish some Current Affairs of December of 1 st week.
Q.1. Who has been appointed as India's new ambassador to Russia?
Pankaj Saran
Q.2. Who has been awarded the 'Freedom of the City' award of
cape town?
Ahmed Kathrada
Q.3. Who has been elected as Vice-President of the International
Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA)?
Rakesh Kapur
Q.4. Which foreign bank announced shutting of its private
banking operations in India?
HSBC Holdings Plc.
Q.5. Recently Union Govt. extended the usage criterion of the
RuPay debit cards under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana in order to avail
of the in-built insurance cover to _______ days.
90 days
Q.6. Which Indian Cricketer has been appointed as brand
ambassador of Dubaibased hospitality and event management company Grand Midwest
Group?
M.S. Dhoni
Q.7. Agni-I is a _________ missile.
surface-to-surface
Q.8. Who has been named as World Athletes of the Year by the
IAAF?
Ashton Eaton and Genzebe Dibaba
Q.9. Recently Prof. Y. Sudershan Rao resigned from his post. He
was the Chairman of which of the following?
Indian Council of Historical Research
Q.10. Japan will give how much Official Development Loan
Assistance to India for Chennai and Ahmedabad Metro Rail Projects?
Rs. 5,536 crore
Q.11.
Which country will be the first head of the Asian Youth Hostelling Union?
India
Q.12.
Which of the following has been conferred with CSI-Nihilent e-Governance
Awardsfor 2014-15 under the category of state for sustained excellence in
e-governance?
Chandigarh
Q.13.
Recently ADB kept its economic growth forecast for India unchanged at ________for
the current financial year.
7.4
per cent
Q.14.
With which of the following GAIL launched 'Bhuvan-GAIL Portal'?
National
Remote Sensing Centre
Q.15.
Arvind Subramanian Committee is associated with which of the following?
Goods
and Services Tax
Q.16.
What was the venue of the first India International Science Festival (IISF)?
IIT-Delhi
Q.17.
Recently Water Resilience Focus event was held under the Lima to Paris Action
Agenda on __________.
water
conservation and hydroelectricity
Q.18.
With which state government's Chief Minister Microsoft founder Bill Gates met
recently?
Bihar
Q.19.
Along with Japan’s SoftBank which of the following is promoting the alliance
made by Ola with the four companies of different countries?
China’s
Alibaba
Q.20.
Which of the following has replaced Mauritius as the top source of FDI into
India?
Singapore
Q.21.
Neil Robertson has won UK Snooker Championship- 2015. He belongs to which
country?
Australia
Q.22.
Which of the following has become the second state to join union government’s
Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana?
Jharkhand
Q.23.
Recently Vyachakurahalli village has been officially declared as India’s first
“smokeless village”. This village is in which state?
Karnataka
Q.24.
Which country won the finals of FIH Hockey World League 2015?
Australia
Q.25.
What was the venue of NSA-Meet-India-Pakistan-2015?
Bangkok,
Thailand
Q.26.
Who won the men’s singles final of Yonex Indonesian Masters BWF Grand Prix
Gold?
Tommy
Sugiarto
Q.27.
Which bank announced a donation of Rs. 2 crore to the Tamil Nadu Chief
Ministers Relief Fund to help the Chennai flood victims?
Karur
Vysya Bank
Q.28.
Who has been appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Earth Sciences?
M.
Nair Rajeevan
Q.29.
From which country India received its first uranium consignment of about 2730
tonnes?
Canada
Q.30.
Who was awarded Female Player of the Year award by World Badminton Federation?
Carolina
Marin
Q.31.
Who won gold medal of the 200-meter butterfly event at the U.S. Winter National
Swimming Championships?
Michael
Phelps
Q.32.
Recently Fitch forecasted that India’s GDP growth will be ____ in the current
fiscal year.
7.5%
Q.33.
Which of the following entered into 5-year partnership agreement with Khan
Academy, a free online education initiative for making localised content accessible
to students across India?
Tata
Trust
Q.34.
India defeated which of the following to win the 4-test match series played at
Delhi’s Feroz Shah Kotla stadium?
South
Africa
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