1. Safari India South Asia Travel Award 2015 was awarded to ?
Ans: Goa Tourism.
2. Which Global giant launched a new parent company called Alphabet Inc that separates its highly profitable search and advertising business which will help the company to keep tremendous focus on the extraordinary opportunities and products?
Ans: Google Inc.
3. Who is the current CEO of Google ?
Ans: Larry Page.
4. Bhalchandra Pendharkar was related with?
Ans: Veteran Marathi stage actor, singer and drama producer .
5. Wildlife Institute of India (WII) is located at?
Ans: Dehradun .
6. CCEA stands for ?
Ans: Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.
7. e-FMS ?
Ans: electronic Fund Management System .
8. NASA ?
Ans: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
9. ‘Roscosmos’ is the space agency of which country?
Ans:: Russia.
10. NASA inks US $490 million contract with which Space Agency to carry US astronauts to the International Space Station due to lack of Congressional funding?
Ans: Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos).
11. Which e commerce Indian company launched’ Findmystyle.in’ website?
Ans:Snapdeal.
12. Who was colonel Harwant Singh (retd)?
Ans: A World War-II veteran colonel Harwant Singh (retd) who was honoured with the Military Cross – the highest award of the British Arm passed away.
13. Who was awarded with Solidarity Prize 2015 of Poland ?
Ans: Russian journalist, Zhanna Nemtsova for championing democracy and human rights.
14. Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) for the first time has entered into an APA with the two US MNCs. What does APA stands for?
Ans: Advance Pricing Agreements.
15. Who has been appointed as the new chairperson of Accenture’s India subsidiary?
Ans: Rekha M. Menon .
16. Which Retirement fund body hits the stock market in august 2015 with an estimated amount of Rs 5,000 crore?
Ans:”Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)”.
17. Which Travel major acquired Kuoni’s travel business in India and Hong Kong?
Ans: Thomas Cook (India) Ltd .
18. Who has been appointed as US Ambassador to Maldives and Sri Lanka ?
Ans: Indian American Atul Keshap.
19. Which organization has developed a poly-herbal medicine for the treatment of leucoderma (white patches on skin )?
Ans: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) .
20. What is India’s Ranking in Wheat Production in the world?
Ans: India is the world’s second largest wheat producer and consumer after China.
21. Which Indian state legislative assembly unanimously passed a resolution against death penalty and proposed the centre to replace the death penalty under Indian Penal Code Section 302 with lifetime imprisonment?
Ans: Tripura .
22. Which North eastern state withdrawing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) recently?
Ans: Tripura .
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