Current Affairs Online Test – September 2016

 Which Island was declared the largest river island in the world, by Guinness World Records?

Who has been sworn in as the new president of Brazil?

 In which country Buddhists celebrated Pancha Daan festival?

La Tomatina festival celebrated in ____________

The two-day “BRICS Convention on Tourism” held at ________________

The first BRICS film festival held in _____________

Who is the new President of Gabon Country?

Microsoft plans to open a cybersecurity centre in _______________

Former Indian cricketer ________________ launched SRT Sports, his own sports management company

Lal Zakir who passed away recently was a/an

Islam Karimov who passed away recently, he was a president of _____________

Solung festival celebrated in _____________

India and _____________ signed 12 Agreements to boost bilateral ties

E-retailer ____________ has launched its own private cloud platform called Cirrus

______________ has become the 17th state after Orissa to ratify the GST Bill

India and ____________ agreed to expand defence cooperation

The Puducherry Assembly becomes ______ state to ratified the Constitution Amendment Bill on the Goods and Services Tax

India sends _____ athletes to Rio Summer Paralympic Games

Teachers Day is observed on?

________________________has won the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy

_________________ High Court becomes the fourth state to provide E-stamp facility

Lt Governor Kiran Bedi launched ‘Shramdaan movement’ in _____________ village

India’s first International conference on cooking gas held in _____________

Which Bank has launched a card-less mobile-based payment solution ‘mVisa’, to make payments at retail outlets easier?

A two-day world coin and currency exhibition-cum-auction is being held in _____________

 As many as _____ states in the country have agreed to form a joint venture with the Railways for creating more infrastructure facilities

Which country airport is experimenting with Hitachi’s EMIEW3 humanoid robot assistants in its passenger terminal?

Which telecom company has made an offer of less than ₹1 per GB stating that from September 9?

Which country recently unveiled its first ever driverless bus service, which will be deployed in the city for a month-long trial period?

India ranked _________ in income inequality list

Olympic gold-medallist Abhinav Bindra announced his retirement. He was related to the game of ____________

Who won the Italian Grand Prix title 2016?

Nalinidhar Bhattacharyya who passed away recently, he was a noted ___________ poet

The World Health Organization has certified ___________ as a malaria-free nation

_______________ launched one-step offline payments with ‘Bubble Pin’

Which State Government has decided to develop 340 villages as Horticulture Villages?

______________education department has partnered with US-based technology firm Cisco to promote digital learning across the state using virtual digital room solutions

Which IT company has partnered with Thanjavur-based SASTRA Deemed University to train over 2,000 teachers from Tamil Nadu?

Which University remained India’s top ranked university according to the QS World University Rankings 2016-17?

Which country has ranked on top in terms of offering the least-expensive flight prices?

Which team put up a total of 263/3 against Sri Lanka at the Pallekele stadium, thereby registering the highest ever score in T20I history?

Lindsay Tuckett who passed away recently was a/an

_____________ has become the country’s first female cricketer to be awarded life membership of the Lord’s-based Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

Consumers in India can now dial _______ and get an update from their respective power distribution companies about outages in their area through the ‘Urja Mitra Helpline’.

Government of India has approved projects worth about _______ crore under ‘Swadesh Darshan’ scheme for five states

_____________has completed its $67-billion deal to acquire EMC Corp, creating the world’s largest privately-controlled technology company

2016 G-20 Summit held in Hangzhou, China. What is the theme of the summit?

India and __________ agreed to expand their bilateral preferential trade agreement (PTA)

India has launched its advanced weather satellite _____________

How many countries are participating in the second World Nomad Games being held in Kyrgyzstan?

Which Stock exchange has introduced a new risk-based model for supervising the market, based on the market regulator Sebi’s directions?

Which State celebrated the festival of Nuakhai?

Which Indian language included in United Nations charter recently?

Who won the prestigious J.C. Daniel Award for his overall contribution to the Malayalam film industry?

Who has been appointed as a brand ambassador for Arunachal Pradesh Tourism?

PepsiCo CEO and chairman Indra Nooyi is the _____ most powerful woman in Fortune list

Which State has been ranked the best among 26 Indian states in the sanitation survey conducted by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO?)

Which State government has signed a MoU to develop education infrastructure in the state?

Which State government launched the “Scooty for College Girls” Scheme?

_______________has become the first state in the country to roll out the ambitious“Twitter Seva” project

CBDT has launched ____________ facility to resolve income tax grievances

A newly found asteroid, named ____________, came within 40,000 km of Earth

Robots have been used to perform kidney transplants for the first time in ________

Joint Indian-US army exercise _______________ to begin in Uttarakhand

Cabinet approved MoU between India and _________ on cooperation in the field of National Housing Policy Development and Management

__________ and ___________ have started naval drills in the disputed South China Sea

Digital payments and e-commerce platform __________ launched an Aadhaar-based eKYC (E-Know Your Customer) service

After introducing ‘Twitter Sewa’ for redressal of telecom and postal grievances, the government launched a toll-free number ________ to register postal complaints

Who has been honoured with the ‘Tamil Ratna’ award in USA?

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs met and approved the proposal for initiation of the ______ Phase of Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP).

___________ and Reliance Jio signed an intra-circle roaming agreement for 2G and 4G services

According to a new IRCTC directive, ____________ would soon become mandatory for booking rail tickets.

Which State tourism department is organising its first Vintage Bike and Car Festival on October 1?

Ramsewak Shrivastava who passed away recently was a/an

The third edition of BRICS Urbanisation Forum Meet with the Theme _____________________________ has begun in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

The fifth edition of Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) will begin on ____________

India’s top women bankers, ________________________________________are among the ‘50 most powerful women’ based outside the US

Hindi Diwas is observed on?

Reliance Communications board approved a merger with _________, making it the largest-ever consolidation deal in India’s telecom sector

Which company has agreed to buy Samsung’s printer business for $1.05 billion (£788 million)?

 In line with the Centre’s ‘Start Up India’ initiative, Chhattisgarh CM ____________launched the ‘Start Up Chhattisgarh’ programme to encourage entrepreneurs in the state

The Union Rural Development Ministry has allowed cash payment to job card holders under MGNREGA in ______________

Which city has been named the most sustainable city in the world by global design and consultancy firm Arcadis?

The Indian football team to be ranked _______ as per the latest Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) rankings

Which Bank has bagged the second prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar for the year 2015-16?

Which State Vikas Grameena Bank has bagged four awards for inclusive insurance for 2016 from Skoch Group?

Global taxi aggregator Uber is teaming up with ______________ to push up the number of drivers on its platform to over one million

Which country celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Who will be representing India at the upcoming 17th Summit of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held at Margarita Island in Venezuela?

__________________has won the Platinum Award for Inclusive Insurance at the SKOCH Insurance Awards 2016

______________________ was formally appointed UNODC Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking

Indian Test captain Virat Kohli has been appointed the brand ambassador of ____________

State Bank of India (SBI) has cut deposit rates by up to ___ basis points (bps) in some maturities, even as credit growth remains sluggish

Which State government will confer this year’s ‘Banga Bibhushan’ award to legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar?

Who won the Singapore Grand prix Title 2016?

Indian shooters have won _________ medals in the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup in Azerbaijan

Who has been chosen for the prestigious N Mohanan Suvarna Mudra Award 2016?

First Indian music and dance festival starts in _______________

Which company unveiled a prototype of the world’s first 1 TB SD memory card?

Charkhi Dari is 22nd district of ______________