1. The first electronic mail (email) was sent from one computer to another on which date?
Ans: On October 29, 1969.
2. International Internet Day is observed on ?
Ans: On October 29.
3. Easwar committee is related with?
Ans: simplify the provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
4. Mr.Jacob Zuma is the President of which country?
Ans: South Africa.
5. What is the latest Inida’s Ease of Doing Business Ranking?
Ans: 130 .
6. According to the govt, India’s fastest train, Gatimaan Express, will start operating by the end of this financial year (March 2016) , will be running between which two stations?
Ans: between New Delhi- Agra Cantt stations.
7. Which is the current fastest train of India?
Ans: Bhopal Shatabdi(takes 2 hours six minutes to travel from New Delhi station to Agra Cantt station, a 195 km route. Gatiman Express will do this trip in about 1 hour 45 minutes). Its speed is150 kilometre per hour.
8. National Seed Congress (NSC) meeting held at?
Ans: Hyderabad.
9. Who is known as the father of India’s nuclear program?
Ans: Homi J. Bhabha.
10. Birth anniversary of Homi J. Bhabha is celebrated on ?
Ans: 30th Oct(1909).
11. South Asian Rugby 7’S Championship in 2016 will held in which state?
Ans: Jammu and Kashmir.
12. Who is the new CEO of Barclays Bank?
Ans: James Staley.
13. Who has been elected as Nepal’s first woman president ?
Ans: Bidhya Bhandari .
14. The Railways ministry announced that India’s first AIR-conditioned double-decker Shatabdi train will run between which two stations?
Ans: Mumbai to Goa.
15. India’s first double-decker train was flagged off in October 2011 and it still operates between which stations?
Ans: Howrah in West Bengal and Dhanbad in Jharkhand.
16. The First Shatabdi Express was flagged off in 1988 to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of which Indian Prime minister ?
Ans: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
17. IAFS is?
Ans: India Africa Forum Summit .
18. MNRE is?
Ans: ministry of new and renewable energy.
19. Joshana Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal are related with which sports?
Ans: Squash.
20. Economic Affairs Secretary, Mr.Shaktikanta Das has been nominated to the Central Board of Directors by Govt in which bank?
Ans: Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
21. Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is located in ?
Ans: Mumbai.
22. The documentary, titled “Caste on the Menu Card” who’s screening was recently banned by The Information and Broadcasting Ministry was made by?
Ans: by students of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).
23. The Lunar rover “Yutu” which has been operating on the moon for almost two years, setting a record for the longest stay by a rover, belongs to which country?
Ans: China.
24. Lunokhod 1, a lunar rover was sent by which country which spent 11 months on the moon?
Ans: USSR in 1970.
25. Which country is planning to become the first country to land a lunar probe on the far side of the Moon, or “dark side of the Moon,” which is never visible to Earth?
Ans: China.
26. Mr. “John Magufuli” was elected as the president of which country?
Ans: Tanzania.
27. “Dodoma” is the capital of which country?
Ans: Tanzania.
28. Currency of Tanzania is?
Ans: Tanzanian shilling.
29. Who won European Union’s Sakharov prize for human rights and freedom of thought for the year 2015?
Ans: Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger and activist who has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for insulting Islam and for cyber crime.
30. Who was selected for the International Writer of Courage award and was co-recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize?
Ans: Raif Badawi.
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