MARCH – 2014

  • ISRO successfully launched GSLV – D 5 rocket with cryogenic engine, from Sriharikota.
  • South Korean giant POSCO won environmental clearance to build Rs 52000 cr. steel plant in Odisha.
  • Largest nuclear power plant foundation was laid by PM in fatehabad district of Haryana.
  • CristianoRonaldo wins FIFA Balloon d’Or award 2013
  • Cyrus Mistry gets DSC prize 2014 for south Asian literature, for his book ‘Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer’.
  • StansilasWawrinka of Switzerland clinched men’s singles title of Chennai open 2014.
  • Li Na won her second grand slam title as she defeated Slovakia’s DominmikaCibulkova in women’s singles, StanislasWawrinka defeated Rafael Nadal men singles title in the Australian open 2014 .Stanislas was the first man to beat both Nadal and Djokovic at the same grand slam.
  • India signed a labour cooperation pact with Saudi Arabia.
  • B.K. S. Iyengar & Dr. Radhunath A. Mashelkar have been honoured with Padma Vibhushan 2014.
  • ArunaBahuguna – becomes first woman chief of National Police Academy
  • The Netherlands emerged champion of the hero hockey world league held in N. Delhi.
  • Latvia officially joined the Eurozone as its 18th member.
  • Sodhi comm. report on insider trading regulations. To review the SEBI regulations, 1992.
  • Employees provident fund organization has announced a rise in interest rate on PF deposits to 8.75%.
  • Rashtriyakishorswasthyakaryakram a new health programmed for adolescents launched by govt.
  • R Chandrashekhar – new president of NASSCOM
  • Siddharth Birla – charge of FICCI

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1. Name the environmentalist and social activist who was selected for the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2013?

A. Chandi Prasad Bhatt

2. Who received the Israel’s highest civilian honour, the Israeli Presidential Medal of Distinction on25 February 2014 in Jerusalem?

A. Angela Merkel

3.Arrange the following countries in terms of their standing at Sochi Winter Olympics 2014.

I. USA II. Russia III.Canada IV. Norway

A. II - IV - III - I

4.) Consider the following statements about Sochi Winter Olympics 2014. I. It is the first Olympics in

Russia since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.

II. A total of 98 events in 15 winter sport disciplines were held during the Games.

III. A total of 12 new competitions were introduced during the Games.

IV. Official Slogan: Hot. Cool. Yours.was unveiled on 25 September 2012. Which is/are correct?

A. All of the above

5.) On 26 February 2014, the largest 130-MW Solar Power Plant of India was launched in

A. Madhya Pradesh (Correct Answer)

6.The mishap on which Indian Navy submarine on 26 February 2014 led to the resignation of Indian

Naval Chief

A. INS Sindhuratna

7.) National Centre for Good Governance (NCGC) was inaugurated at

A. Mussorrie

8.Which apex bank formed the Joint Liability Group (JLG) on 24 February 2014 to provide

institutional credit to the small farmers?

A. NABARAD (Correct Answer)

APRIL – 2014

1. International Mother Earth Day observed across the world on?

A. 22 April 2014

2. What is KOI-3278?

A. Self-lensing binary star system

3. The biennial conference of the 21-member Western Pacific Naval Symposium from 21 April to 25 April washeld in which country?

A. China

4. The Chariman of Rajya Sabha, HamidAnsari in April 2014 administered oath to four members as RajyaSabha member on four vacant seats of Odisha in his Chamber in Parliament House. One of the four members whotook the oath of the Upper House of the Parliament is also a Chairman of IPL, name him?

A. RanjibBiswal

5. Who was appointed as India's first Ambassador to the separate Indian Mission to Association of SoutheastAsian Nations (ASEAN) & East Asia Summit?

A. Suresh Kumar Reddy

6. M S Subbulakshmi Foundation announced M S Subbulakshmi Award 2014. Who was selected for the award?

A. MathangiSathyamurthy (Answer)

7. Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha was sworn-in as the 41st Chief Justice of India as the successor of?

A. Justice P. Sathasivam

8. Name the Indian who on 28 April 2014 won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for the year 2014that is commonly called as the Green Nobel.

A. Ramesh Agrawal

9. Mahatma Gandhi PravasiSurakshaYojana (MGPSY) was launched in a country in April 2014 in tie up of aleading Indian financial and health care service player. Name the country?

A. UAE

10. Name the African country that will use India-made Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the countriesPresidential Election, scheduled in November 2014

A. Namibia (Answer)

11. Archaeologists have discovered a granary with walls of mud-bricks during just-concluded excavation at a

Harappan civilisation site. The excavation work was done from January to April 2014. Name the place where thegranary was discovered?

A. Rakhigarhi

12.Recently one of the stone-age tribes of India casted their votes for the first time for the Lok Sabha Elections2014. What is the name of the tribe?

A. Shompens

13.Name the demographer who died recently and was known for coining the term BIMARU to indicate the lowlevel of progress in some States of Northern India?

A. Asish Bose

14. Name the first aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy that was sold for 60 crore rupees in the first week of April2014?

A. INS Vikrant (Answer)

15. Name the renowned cinematographer and Dada SahebPhalkeawardee, who died on 7 April 2014 at hisresidence in Shankarapuram?

A. V K Murthy

16. Name the novel of Indian American novelist, JhumpaLahiri’s that has been shortlisted for the 2014 BaileysWomen's Prize for Fiction on 8 April 2014.

A. Lowland

17. Name the city which on 7 April 2014 received its first passenger train?

A. Itanagar the capital of Arunachal Pradesh

18. Recently Iran and Pakistan conducted a Joint Military Exercise to promote the military cooperation betweenTehran and Islamabad. Where was the exercise held?

A. Strait of Hormuz

19. Which country won the T20 Women Cricket World Cup 2014

A. Australia

20. The book titled The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh' is authored by

A.SanjayaBaru

21. A state Government has refused to repatriate all the Bru refugees lodged in six Tripura relief camps withinthree months. Name the state that has refused to repatriate the Bru Refugees within 3 months?

A. Mizoram

22. What is the name of new Earth-size planet found in the habitable zone on 17 April 2014?

A KEPLER-186f

23. India born poet Vijay Seshadri on 14 April 2014 won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry categoryfor his collection of poems published in 2013. Name the collection of the poems for which he was awarded?

A. 3 Sections

24. Name the author of the book Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths?

A. PC Parekh (Answer)

25. Supreme Court of India on 17 April 2014 said that the national auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General(CAG) is empowered to audit the revenues of

A. Private Telecom Companies

  • Pulitzer prize 2014 – Vijay Seshadri
  • DSC prize 2014 – Cyrus Mistry
  • International Gandhi Award for science & techonology – Dr. Vijay kr, VinayakDongre, Prof. Guocheng Zhang.

MAY – 2014

  • Indian journalist association in London has elected AditiKhanna president on march 20, 2014.
  • Financial planning standards board of india appointed BN Srikirishna chairman.
  • Former DG of CISF Rajiv was appointed as vigilance commissioner in CVC .
  • NALCO got its first woman director as Soma Mondal.
  • Khushwantsingh (writer, journalist) died. His famous books – train to Pakistan, a history of the Sikhs, delhi etc.
  • Gandhi peace prize for 2013 has been given to an environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhatt ( he was associated with Chipko movement).
  • Human development indicators on the upswing in BIMARU states (Bihar, MP, Rajasthan, UP)
  • Scheme ‘Saksham’ (self reliance individual) launched.
  • India, Sri Lanka & Maldives held 3 national security advisor level meet on maritime security in N. Delhi (Mauritius, Seychelles will soon join the group).
  • 3rd BIMSTEC summit held at Myanmar in March’14. (Bay of Bengal initiative for multi sectoral technical and economic cooperation – India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Bhutan, Nepal.
  • Indian effort under name of operation searchlight to hunt for the Malaysian airliner MH 370.
  • India and Saudi Arabia signed MoU on defence cooperation
  • Delhi announced a new health scheme for women named ‘streeswasthyasurakshayojana’.

1. Name the Indian who on 28 April 2014 won the prestigious Goldman Environmental

Prize for the year 2014 that is commonly called as the Green Nobel.

A. Ramesh Agrawal

2. Name the recipient of the 2014 Canada India Foundation Chachalani Global Indian

Award?

A. NR Narayana Murthy

3. Mahatma Gandhi PravasiSurakshaYojana (MGPSY) was launched in a country in

April 2014 in tie up of a leading Indian financial and health care service player. Name the country?

A. UAE

4. 228 light-weight aircraft Nabhrathna was handed over to Defence Research andDevelopment Organisation (DRDO). Which organization has developed Nabhratna?

A. Hindustan Aeronautical Limited

5.What is RuPay? Consider the following statements:

1. An Indigenous Card payment System

2. RuPay is the coinage of two terms Rupee and Payment

3. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCL) developed the Rupay platform

4. Rupay is the seventh card payment system in the world

Choose the correct Statements:

A. All are correct

6. Air-to-Air missile Astra was successfully test fired from a Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jet.

Consider the following statements about Astra:

1. Astra is India's first Beyond Visual Range (BVR) Air-to-Air missile. It was designed and

developed indigenously by the DRDO.

2. India becomes the fifth country to have BVR missile.

3. The 60-km plus range missile possesses high Single Shot Kill Probability (SSKP) which

makes it highly reliable.

4. Astra is an all-weather missile with active radar terminal guidance.

Choose the correct statements:

A. All are correct

6. The Supreme Court of India on 7 May 2014 quashed the law passed by KeralaAssembly on the Mullaperiyar dam and ruled that the water level of the dam can be raised.

As per the decision of SC the water can be raised to what level?

A. 142 feet

7. Supreme Court of India on 7 May 2014 banned use of bulls for Jallikattu (bullfighting) events or bullock-cart races across the country terming that the rights guaranteed to the bulls under an Act could not be taken away or curtailed. Name the Act?

A. Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act 1960

8. Recently Supreme Court gave a judgement that Candidates fighting elections can bedisqualified if they fail to disclose information about assets and liabilities of even their

spouse and dependent children. According to which Article of the Constitution of India, dothe citizens have the right to know the information about candidate’s assets and liabilities?

A. Article 19 (a)

9. On 18 May 2014, President of India, PranabMukherjee dissolved the 15th Lok Sabha. The dissolution of Lok Sabha was done by the President in accordance with which

Article of the Constitution of India?

A. Article 85 (2)(b)

10. Two postage stamps were released in Brasilia to observe the completion of 100 yearsof Indian cinema. Name the Indian graphic designer who designed the postage stamps?

Q.101) President of India on 20 May 2014 appointed NarendraModi as the Prime Ministerof India. He appointed Modi as the Prime Minister in accordance to which Article of

Constitution of India?

A. Article 75 (1)