Monday 13 April 2015

General Awareness Questions - Secretariate Assistant Exam 2015

Deodhar Trophy is related to which sports event?

Cricket
The World Health Organisation has recently declared that India and 10 other    Asian countries are free of which disease?

Polio
World Autism Awareness Day was observed on ……………

April 2

India’s navigational satellite recently launched from Sriharikota

IRNSS -1D
Which two U.S newspapers shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service this year, for their articles on the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance activities based on the leaks of Edward Snowden?

The Washington Post and The Guardian
Which Indian born poet won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category?

Vijay Seshadri
Which Indian businessman was honoured by ‘Knight Grand Cross’, one of UK’s highest civilian awards?

Ratan Tata
The book Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and Other Truths is written by …………….?

P.C Parekh
World Haemophilia Day was observed on …………….

April 17
Who is the author of the book, and former US secretary of State, titled Hard Choices?

Hillary Rodham Clinton
India’s first double decker flyover was inaugurated in which city?

Mumbai
Which American company bought Titan Aerospace, a maker of high altitude solar powered drones, to bring internet access to remote parts?

Google
What is the name of the text to speech (TTS) software application jointly developed by IIT-Madras, IIT-Kharagpur, C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram and C-DAC Mumbai for the benefit of farmers?

Sandesh Pathak
India successfully tested the first indigenous air-to-air Beyond Visual Range (BVR) missile named …………..?

Astra
Who is appointed as the Chief of the Indian Army?

Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag
Who is sworn in as the first woman Chief Minister of Gujarat?

Anandiben Patel
Who is sworn in as the Chief Minister of Odisha for the fourth term in a row?

Naveen Patnaik
Which country won women’s Asian Football Cup (AFC) 2014?

Japan
Who became the youngest female mountaineer to scale the Mount Everest?

Malavath Purna (13) from Andhra Pradesh
Who is appointed as the new Attorney General of India (AGI)?

Mukul Rohatgi
Anti Terrorism Day observed throughout the nation on: ?

May 21

Which Indian environmentalist is among the six people around the world to be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize, often called ‘The Green Nobel’?

Ramesh Agrawal


Who has been appointed as India’s first Ambassador to ASEAN? 

Suresh K Reddy 

Who is the new prime minister of Iraq? 

Haider Al-Abadi 

Who is the newly appointed governor of Maharashtra? 

Vidyasagar Rao 

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