Current Affairs Online Test – December 2015

Dena Bank ties up with ________ for Group Life Insurance to its Housing Loan customers under “Dena Grihaswami Suraksha Yojana”.

Who will be made a saint of a Roman Catholic Church in September 2016?

Who will be honoured with Yash Chopra Memorial Award for the year 2015?

Rannotsav festival is famous in

Nasa’s Mars Curiosity rover has found high concentrations of ________ in the planet’s surface.

Who has been named 2015 BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year?

Who has been named the “most fascinating person” of 2015 by Barbara Walters on her annual ABC special?

Which country has lifted it’s forty year old ban on oil export?

India’s biggest wildlife rescue centre has been commissioned in __________.

Which state government has banned the use of polythene bags across the State?

Who has been appointed as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC)?

Jimmy Hill, who passes away recently, was associated with

Who has been named as India’s skipper in the ICC World T20 2016?

The Government of India has cleared the purchase of S-400 Triumf missile systems from which country?

Which of the following Indices has been launched by NSE?

__________ has unanimously adopted a resolution aimed at disrupting revenues that ISIS receives from oil and other resources.

Who took oath as the new Lokayukta of Delhi?

The Lok Sabha has passed the Arbitration and __________ (Amendment) Bill, 2015 to make dispute resolution in the country quicker and easier.

December 18 is observed as the International Day of

Tata Starbucks has appointed _________ as Chief Executive Officer.

Noorul Huda, who passed away recently, was a

The GOI has lowered its economic growth forecast for 2015-16 to _________ per cent from 8.1-8.5 per cent.

The smartphone-based Apple Pay electronic payment system will be launched in China in _________.

Which Asian country’s central bank has warned that the country faces the grim prospect of stagflation?

The Reserve Bank of India’s new MCLR system will replace the present

The foreign equity cap for Non-scheduled Air Transport Service and Ground Handling Services has been increased to _______.

Cricket Australia (CA) has appointed Sridharan Sriram and __________ as WT20 consultants?

The United States and _______ are close to a deal on restoring regularly scheduled commercial flights. 

The cabinet has given its approval for the introduction of Constitution (SC) Order Amendment Bill, 2015 in the Parliament. The Bill seeks to amend the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, ______.

Cabinet has approved a policy framework for development of UCG in India. It is associated with

Loon is the project of

Who received the Garwood Award for Outstanding Global Leader from UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business?

Cabinet has approved signing of an MoU between India and __________ on cooperation in port matters.

Who is the present Law and Justice Minister?

Cabinet has approved the revised model text for the Indian BIT. It is associated with

Cabinet has approved an MoU for strengthening and further developing of energy saving and energy efficiency cooperation with __________.

_______________ is observed on December 17.

Which two cities sign pact to be sister cities?

Honda car India introduces an app. Name it.

Lok Sabha passed a bill that will allow _______ to have collaboration with other PSUs in the nuclear field.

World Bank approves _____ sum to support clean India campaign.

Who won the women’s gold in air rifle in the 59th National shooting championship on December 15′ 2015?

Who is the CEO of Google?

Full form of SAARC.

Name the Japaneses firm which won its first solar power project in India.

Which country has reopened its embassy in Iraq after 25 years.

Transactions above Rs. ________need PAN from January 1

SC bans diesel vehicles above ________ engine upto 31st March 2016.

Who has been appointed as the Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)?

Who has been appointed as as UP Lokayukta?

Vijay Diwas was observed on______.

India has been ranked __________in the latest report of UNDP’s Human Development Index.

Which is the first state to submit Smart City plan?

Pakistan has successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile. Name it.

Who won Order of Merit crown of Asian tour for the year 2015?

Mahindra group has acquired the Italian auto design firm. Name the firm.

The National Energy Conservation Day is observed on

ISRO is all set to launch how many Singapore Satellites from Sriharikota?

Losar Festival is celebrated in

Who has been appointed as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia?

___________ has invested USD 3 million in US based wearable device startup firm WHOOP to pick up a minority shareholding in the company.

Olympic medallist Vijay Kumar has won gold medal in the 59th National Shooting Championship, held in ________.

Japan’s Kento Momota and Nozomi Okuhara emerged champions in the men’s and women’s singles categories, respectively, in the BWF Superseries Finals, held in _______.

Which country has evacuated more than 700,000 people ahead of the powerful typhoon Melor?

Who has been selected as the new national president of IIMM?

________ has got approval from the DCGI to sell generic version of Daclatasvir, hepatitis C treatment drug.

Name the Indian Origin politician, who has been appointed as South Africa’s new Finance Minister by President Jacob Zuma?

India sign MoU with which country to set up Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail link ?

Application for Notaries to become Online from which date ?

Shinzo Abe is on three-day official visit to India from 11th December 2015. He is Prime Minister of which country ?

Which Bollywood veteran has been conferred with the Padma Vibhushan by the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh ?

How many nations reached a landmark accord that will commit nearly every country to lowering planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions ?

Which country declared itself as a ‘Islamic republic’country ?

The MoU beween ________ state forest and environment department and WTI was signed and as per the agreement management plans will be prepared for protected areas as well as areas outside it.

In which city, LOGO and MASCOT of 12th South Asian Games, 2016 has launched ?

Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) project is commencing after how many years of the inception of the project ?

Which country has hosted “International Conference on Policy of Neutrality”?

Who has taken charge as Chairman of SAIL?

The Venue for 2016 SAARC Summit is __________.

English Access Programme has been launched in Bihar in collaboration with

The recently launched communication satellite “ChinaSat 1C” satellite was carried by the Long March-______ carrier rocket.

The Venue for Fifth Heart of Asia conference is

Afghanistan cricket team has shifted its home base from Sharjah to the UPCA stadium in _______.

ICC has announced OPPO as Global Partner from 2016 to _______.

Name the Sri Lankan player who has been awarded honorary life membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)?

Who becomes co-owner of PWL franchise Bengaluru Yodhas?

Mauricio Macri has sworn in as the President of which country?

Who has invested an undisclosed amount in India’s services marketplace UrbanClap?

The International Anti-Corruption Day is observed on

Which bank has announced to mobilize 5 billion US dollars for climate action by 2020?

_____________ has received approval from DCGI to market generic version of Gilead’s Harvoni, a drug used in the treatment of Hepatitis C in India.

Chen Long is associated with which of the following games?

According to the report released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Glaciers in Mount Everest shrink ______ % in 40 years due to climate change.

International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide is observed on _______.

Who is the present PFRDA Chairman?

GOI has established a mechanism to be known as SETU under NITI Aayog. What is T in SETU?

Who will be conferred with Uttar Pradesh Ratna Award?

Scientists of _________ have genetically modified malaria-causing mosquitoes to become infertile and pass on the trait rapidly.

Who is the present Law Minister?

A Central Research Institute in Yoga and Naturopathy to be set up in Khordha District of ________