Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Mar 24, 2015

Q. : 1 Name the veteran Hindi film actor who has been named for the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award recently.

1) Manoj Kumar 

2) Dharmendra

3) Amitabh Bachchan 

4) Shashi Kapoor

5) Rishi Kapoor 

Q. : 2 _________won the 35th Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) Inter Unit T20 cricket tournament in Pune recently.

1) Oil India 

2) Hindustan Petroleum

3) Bharat Petroleum 

4) IOC

5) ONGC 

Q. : 3 The Union Cabinet on 20 Mar cleared what per cent reservation for women in the direct recruitment for non-gazetted posts in the police forces of all Union Territories, including Delhi?

1) 10 per cent 

2) 25 per cent

3) 33 per cent 

4) 49 per cent

5) 50 per cent 

Q. : 4 Which of the following is NOT a major Bill cleared by Parliament in the first part of the Budget session in 2015 (Feb 23-Mar 20)?

1) Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Bill 

2) Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill

3) Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 

4) Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill

5) None of these 

Q. : 5 In Nov 2014, RBI had asked banks to follow from Apr 1 some new norms. Which of the following is one of them?

1) Imposing a penalty proportionate to the shortfall in minimum balance in the account. 

2) Informing the accountholder through email/SMS of imminent charges when the balance requirement is breached.

3) Banks are barred from creating negative balances by imposing charges on the grounds that charges will be deducted from future deposits. 

4) All the above

5) None of these 

Q. : 6 What is the full form of CDR as used in banking and financial world?

1) Composite Debt Restructuring 

2) Corporate Debt Restoration

3) Corporate Debt Restructuring 

4) Cumulative Debt Restructuring

5) None of these 

Q. : 7 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on 24 Mar projected India's economy to grow by what per cent for 2015-16?

1) 7.8 per cent 

2) 8.1 per cent

3) 8.5 per cent 

4) 7.2 per cent

5) 6.8 per cent 

Q. : 8 The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan met for the first time in nearly three years in ____________on 21 Mar.

1) Seoul 

2) Tokyo

3) New York 

4) Beijing

5) Shanghai 

Q. : 9 Malcolm Fraser, who died recently, was the former Prime Minister of

1) England 

2) Australia

3) Spain 

4) Norway

5) Sweden 

Q. : 10 As announced by the Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers Ananth Kumar, the Centre plans to start how many pharmaceutical clusters with an outlay of Rs 120 cr in the next one year?

1) 5 

2) 7

3) 10 

4) 12

5) 20 

Answer:-

1. (4) Shashi Kapoor
2. (5) ONGC
3. (3) 33 per cent
4. (5) None of these
5. (4) All the above
6. (3) Corporate Debt Restructuring
7. (1) 7.8 per cent
8. (1) Seoul
9. (2) Australia
10. (3) 10