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Which space agency designed the Bed Rest research to study the effects of prolonged exposure to micro-gravity?

NASA




Under this study participant requires to remain horizontal for a period of 70 days.

Who emerged as winner of the 2015 Time magazine 100 reader’s poll?

Vladimir Putin

Which country receives maximum inward remittances?

India




As per the report NRIs sent $70.4 billion to India in 2014, which is 12% of global remittances which stood at $583 billion. Top 5 remittance receiving countries are India, China, Philippines, Mexico and Nigeria.

Ramman is a religious festival and ritual theatre of ____?

Uttarkhand

Who among the following served as first Prime Minister of Nepal under the Panchayat System?

Surya Bahadur Thapa

Meenakshi Madan Rai has been appointed as first woman judge of which court?

Sikkim High Court

Who won the Laureus Sportsman of the Year award?

Novak Djokovic




This is for the second time Djokovic won the award. He was first bestowed the honour in 2011.

Who is the chairman of the Panel set up to look into various contentious issues relating to inter-linking of rivers?

B N Navalawala

Which body publishes the Global Networked Readiness Index?

World Economic Forum

Recently, which country has agreed to hold first ever joint military exercise with Pakistan?

Russia




The agreement was reached during a meeting in Moscow between Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu.

Which of the following stadia is India’s first solar powered sporting venue?

Chinnaswamy stadium, Bengaluru

In terms of number of subscribers, the top telecom operator in the World is?

China mobile

Who has been chosen for “Champions of Change” by US President?

Satya Nadella

World’s largest single exposure of limestone bedrock “Nullarbor Plain” is in which country?

Australia

Which Indian Cricketer has been inducted into Laureus Sports Academy recently?

Sachin Tendulkar

What is the average Intelligence Quotient (IQ) of normal persons?

90 to 110

In which country Prime Minister Modi inaugurated Hannover Industrial Fair-2015?

Germany




The Hannover Fair is the world’s largest industrial fair held in Germany.

Apurvi Chandela is related to which among the following sports?

Shooting

Which state of India is known for highest per capita alcohol consumption?

Kerala

World Earth Day is observed on which of the following days?

April 22

Recently, the European Union has proposed a 10 point action plan to stem ___?

Migrant crisis

The 13th United Nations congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice was concluded in ____?

Doha, Qatar




Doha declaration

As of 2015, how many Presidents of China have been conferred with the Pakistan’s highest civilian award Nishan-e-Pakistan?

Three





The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action(VDPA) is a declaration related to ____?

Human Rights

Which bank announced the launch of “Tap n Pay” new innovative NFC (Near Field Communication) based contactless payment system?

ICICI Bank with Tech Mahindra

The Pollution Management and Environmental Health (PMEH) program has been launched by which of the following bodies?

World Bank

Which state recently launched the campaign ‘Subodham’ to help people overcome alcohol, drug abuse?

Kerala

Which country in SAARC has the highest GDP (PPP) per capita ?

Maldives

Which among the is highest urbanized country?

Brazil

Under which project India is developing guided missile destroyers?

Project 15B





The Titanium sponge is an ideal material to produce?

Aircraft manufacture

Who has been awarded with Kalashree Award by the Dada Saheb Phalke Film Foundation?

Jaya Prada

Recently, the first meeting of BRICS environment ministers was held in ______?

Moscow

Who is the author of the novel “All the Light We Cannot See”?

Anthony Doerr




It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

BRICS countries account for what fraction of global GDP?

20%




The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) five countries account for 26 per cent of the land area, 46 per cent of population and approximately 20% of the gross world product.

Which country generates highest per capita e-waste?

Norway




Norway topped the world’s electronic waste mountain in 2014,

Which of the following is Indian navy’s biggest guided missile destroyer?

INS Visakhapatnam

Who among the following has won the 2015 Bahrain Grand Prix?

Lewis Hamilton

Which is the highest e-waste generating country in Asia?

China




The top three Asian nations with the highest e-waste generation in absolute quantities are China (6.0Mt), Japan (2.2Mt) and India (1.7Mt).

Karot hydroelectric project is located in which country?

Pakistan

E-Samiksha is an online project monitoring system launched by ____?

Indian Railways




an online project monitoring system with an aim of monitoring implementation of various ongoing projects including Rail Budget proposals.




Apart from budget-related projects, the E-Samiksha can also be used for monitoring the infrastructure target and board meeting follow-up.

In which country a boycott Andaman and Nicobar Island campaign was launched?

Britain

The NTCA has recently declared which two national parks as tiger reserves?

Kudremukh(karnataka) and Rajaji(Uttrakand)

India is implementing “Capacity Building for Industrial Pollution Management (CBIPM)” project with the support of __?

World Bank

The campaign Call to Action for TB free India aims to make country Tuberculosis free in how many years?

Five

Who was awarded with the prestigious Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Award 2015?

Anil Kapoor




This was the 73rd edition of the awards. Besides Anil Kapoor, Marathi actor Dilip Prabhalkar was also conferred with the award.

Which state has maximum certified area under organic farming?

Madhya Pradesh

India and which country finalised a draft pact on coastal shipping, recently?

Bangladesh

Which country has been named happiest country in the world as per latest World Happiness Report?

Switzerland/158




India comes in at the 117th

Which movie has won maximum awards at the International Indian Film Awards?

Haider

Which state has been awarded best e-Panchayat state in 2015 on national Panchayati Raj diwas?

Assam

To which Japanese automobile company, India has become the top global market both in terms of volumes as well as revenues?

Suzuki

Who is the new chief of United Nations mission to fight Ebola (UNMEER)?

Peter Jan Graaff

Who was the only U.S President to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize?

John F. Kennedy

Recently, India has delivered three Cheetal military choppers to which neighbouring country?

Afghanistan