Weekly Update: Abbreviation: Week2, January 2016

Ques. What is the abbreviation of IAMAI?

Ans. Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)

GK update 9th January 2016

Ques. Who has been named as the Most Generous Indian?
Ans. Azim Premji

Ques. Azim Premji topped the the list of Most Generous Indian. He is the chairman of which company?
Ans. Wipro

Ques. In order to avoid duplication of work and to improve efficiency, the government on Thursday merged the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) with which ministry?
Ans. Ministry of External Affairs.

Ques. What is the name for the Indo-French military exercise?
Ans. Shakti 2016

Ques. Where is the Indo-French military exercise Shakti 2016 being held?
Ans. Rajasthan

Ques. Who was appointed as Registrar General and Census Commissioner.
Ans. Sailesh

Ques. Which company has won Prime Minister’s Trophy for being the ‘Best Performing Integrated Steel Plant’ in the country for the performance year 2013 – 2014.
Ans. Tata Steel

Ques. Who has been appointed as CEO of NITI Aayog?
Ans. Amitabh Kant

Ques. Who has been appointed as Chairman of Competition Commission of India?
Ans. Devender Kumar Sikri

Ques. INS Kadmatt is a _________?
Ans. Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvette

Ques. Ban on which traditional sport has been lifted in Tamil Nada?
Ans. Jallikattu

Ques. Jallikattu is a ______ sport.
Ans. Bull-taming sport

Ques. Commonfloor.com has been acquired by which company?
Ans. Quikr

Ques. Who has won Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of the Month
Ans. Miguel Tabuena

Ques. Pavan Kapoor has been appointed as India’s new ambassador to which country?
Ans. Israel

Ques. Who has been elected as the General President of the 105th Indian Science Congress Association for 2017-18?
Ans. Dr. Achyuta Samanta

Ques. The Union Cabinet approved the conversion of MUDRA Ltd, a non- banking financial company (NBFC), into ______?
Ans. MUDRA bank

Ques. RBI governer Raghuram Rajan was felicitated with which award by the Financial Times Group's monthly publication The Banker
Ans. Central Banker of the Year Award

Ques. The government of India has approved the closure of which PSU?
Ans. HMT watches

Ques. AB Khare has been appointed as the CMD of which state run company?
Ans. Madras Fertilizers

GK update 8th January 2016

Ques. Which company has made a helmet that provides a X-ray like vision?
Ans. Intel

Ques. Who has been appointed as the new COO of Infosys ?
Ans. Bhanumurthy BM

Ques. As projected by the World Bank what will be the economic growth rate of India during 2016-17?
Ans. 7.8%

Ques. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed who passed away recently was the Chief Minister of which Indian state?
Ans. Jammu & Kashmir

Ques. From which of the following dates the union government will implement Bharat Stage (BS) VI emission norms?
Ans. 1 April 2020

Ques. Which country has claimed that it has successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test?
Ans. North Korea

Resting Palces

Name	Memorial name	Meaning	Title	Year of death
Mahatma Gandhi	Raj Ghat	Royal Steps	Mahatma	1948
Jawaharlal Nehru	Shantivan	Garden of Peace	Prime Minister of India	1964
Lal Bahadur Shastri	Vijay Ghat	Victory Platform	Prime Minister of India	1966
Sanjay Gandhi	—	—	Member of Parliament	1980
Indira Gandhi	Shakti Sthal	Place of Power	Prime Minister of India	1984
Jagjivan Ram	Samta Sthal	Place of Equality	Deputy Prime Minister of India	1986
Choudhary Charan Singh	Kisan Ghat	Farmer’s Platform	Prime Minister of India	1987
Rajiv Gandhi	Veer Bhumi	Land of Brave	Prime Minister of India	1991
Giani Zail Singh	Ekta Sthal	Place of Unity	President of India	1994
Shankar Dayal Sharma	Karma Bhumi	Land of Duty	President of India	1999
Devi Lal	Sangharsh Sthal	Place of Struggle	Deputy Prime Minister of India	2001
P. V. Narasimha Rao	P.V. Ghat		Prime Minister of India	2004
Chandra Shekhar	Jannayak Sthal	Place of People's leader	Prime Minister of India	2007
I. K. Gujral	Smiriti Sthal	Place of Remembrance	Prime Minister of India	2012

GK update 7th January 2016

Ques. Who won the gold at Swedish air-rifle championship?
Ans. Apurvi Chandela

Ques. By how much amount has the central government cut the support to railways this financial year?
Ans. Rs. 12000 crore

Ques. Ratan Tata has invested in which company?
Ans. Tracxn

Ques. Which Mumbai cricketer has become the first batsman in the country to score 1000 plus runs in an innings in any form of cricket?
Ans. Pranav Dhanawade

Ques. Which prominent educationist and social reform’s 200th birth anniversary celebrations were held on January 6, 2016 at Nadia, WB?
Ans. Pandit Madan Mohan Tarkalankar

Ques. The 7th National Conference on Women in Police is being held at which location in Kadarpur Gurgaon from Jan 6-8, 2016?
Ans. CRPF Academy

Ques. Indian space agency ISRO is setting up the country’s first space park at which location?
Ans. Bengaluru

Ques. Traces of which animal were found for the first time in China’s Jilin province by forest officials?
Ans. Serbian Tiger

Ques. Following the Rann Utsav, the second edition of the Polo Utsav is being celebrated. What is its other name?
Ans. Green Festival

Ques. Which NASA observatory has found evidence of powerful has blasts produced by supermassive black holes 26 million light years from earth, triggering the formation of new stars?
Ans. Chandra

Ques. For what purposes Tata Trusts signed an agreement with Mars, Incorporated?
Ans. Development of agriculture in India

Ques. In which state Ganga Gram Yojana has been launched?
Ans. Uttar Pradesh

Ques. Which city has topped top-30 list of the World’s most powerful, productive and connected cities prepared by JLL?
Ans. Tokyo

Ques. Which has become the first state to sign a MoU with the Union Government for UDAY scheme?
Ans. Jharkhand

Ques. Who has been appointed as Chairman of General Motors (GM)?
Ans. Mary Barra

Ques. Who has been awarded with the 2015 Col. CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award?
Ans. Syed Kirmani

Ques. Recently LinkedIn appointed ________ as Country Manager for India.
Ans. Akshay Kothari

Ques. Recently former Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia passed away. In which year he was appointed as CJI of India?
Ans. 2010

Ques. Recently how many agreements have been signed between Pakistan and Sri Lanka?
Ans. Eight

Ques. Recently Pakistan has declared its capital Islamabad as sister city of Minsk. Minsk is the capital city of which country?
Ans. Belarus

GK update 6th January 2016

Ques. Who has been named the new chairman of IAMAI?
Ans. Kunal Shah

Ques. What is the abbreviation of IAMAI?
Ans. Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)

Ques. The Negotiable Instruments Amendment Bill 2015 was passed by which body?
Ans. Rajaya Sabha and Lol Sabha

Ques. MHA minister Rajnath Singh has approved 33% reservation for women in CAPF. What does CAPF stand for?
Ans. Central Armed Police Forces

Ques. GOI has constituted a Committee headed by which film personality for holistic interpretation of Cinematograph Act and Rules?
Ans. Shyam Benegal

Ques. Which famous mountaineer from India has just conquered Mount Aconcagua in Argentina?
Ans. Arunima Sinha

Ques. Which veteran BJP MLA passed away at Korka district at 63?
Ans. Raghunandan Mandal

Ques. Which ex CJI was appointed as judge of CS in 2003 and recently passed away on 5th January 2016?
Ans. SH Kapadia

Ques. Name the associate bank of SBI on which RBI has imposed a penalty of 1 crore rupees?
Ans. State Bank of Travancore

Ques. Filippo Grandi took over as Chief of the office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He belongs to which country?
Ans. Italy

Ques. Who has been appointed as new CEO of Wipro?
Ans. Abidali Neemuchwala

Ques. According to the recommendations made by R.M. Lodha Committee for whom betting in cricket is not legalised?
Ans. Cricket players, Cricket officials and Cricket administrators

Ques. Recently __________ became the first in the country to become eligible for the Power Ministry’s incentive programme under which power transmission projects achieving early completion will be incentivized.
Ans. Rajasthan Atomic Power Project

Ques. Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Novo Nordisk's campaign 'Changing Diabetes', initiated by it in India?
Ans. Sachin Tendulkar

GK update 5th January 2016

Ques. Who sworn in as the eighth Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of India?
Ans. R.K. Mathur

Ques. Recently India's first urban yacht marina project will come up in Howrah on the banks of the __________ river.
Ans. Hooghly

Ques. Who was named ‘Person of the Year’ for 2015 in Israel?
Ans. Vladimir Putin

Ques. Who took charge as CMD of BHEL?
Ans. Atul Sobti

Ques. Which country won the 2015 South Asian Football Federation Cup (SAFF Cup)?
Ans. India

Ques. Recently Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan passed away. He was a __________.
Ans. Politician

Ques. Who was conferred with the 2015 Sangita Kalanidhi award?
Ans. Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Ques. How many teams are participating in the second edition of Premier Badminton League (PBL)?
Ans. 6

Ques. At which of the following places the foundation stone for the new helicopter unit of HAL was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
Ans. Tumakuru, Karanataka

Ques. Which mobile app has been launched by PNB that will enable the customer to locate PNB ATM?
Ans. PNB ATM Assist

GK update 1st January 2016

Ques. What is the venue of the 60th Senior National Wrestling Championship 2015?
Ans. New Delhi

Ques. Bjorn Isberg has been appointed as the Tournament Director of 4th edition of the Coal India Hockey India League (HIL). He belongs to which country?
Ans. Sweden

Ques. Who has been elected as the first Vice-Chairman of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF)?
Ans. Jetha Bharwad

Ques. Recently the Union Cabinet has approved the signing of a Protocol amending the Convention between India and _________ for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income.
Ans. Slovenia

Ques. Recently O.P. Malhotra passed away. He was associated with which of the following?
Ans. Indian Army

Ques. Who is the author of the recently released book ‘Kargil: Turning the Tide‘?
Ans. Lieutenant General Mohinder Puri
Ques. Which Indian-origin cancer research expert has received a Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his work on cancer?
Ans. Harpal Singh Kumar

Ques. Recently Laxmi Ratan Shukla announced his retirement. He is associated with which sport?

Ans. Cricket

Ques. Recently the Union Cabinet has approved the signing and ratification of an Agreement for the exchange of information between India and ___________ with respect to taxes.
Ans. Maldives