CURRENT AFFAIRS - 2015 (Chapter-2)

Current Affairs - 2015 (Chapter-02)

26. Which Indian state will be hosting the 36^th  National Games?

 Goa (2016)

27. Which popular monument in India celebrated its 90^th birth anniversary recently?

Gateway of India

28. Which is the last Indian state to get Railway Line?

Meghalaya

29. Who is the author of the Malayalam novel “Aarachaar”?

 K.R Meera

30. The Marathi writer who was given the2014 Jnanapith Award was -

Bhalchandra Nemade

31. Bollywood actors who were selected for the 2014 Padma Vibhushan are -

Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan

32. Who are declared the best male and female athletes in the 35^th

  National Games?

Sajan Prakash (Kerala), Aanksha Vora (Maharashtra)

33. Who was selected as the Miss Universe 2015?

 Paulina Vega (Columbia)

34. Who is the newly appointed Chief Election Commis- sioner of India?

 Harisankar Brahma

35. Which Indian district was declared as the country’s first district with high-speed rural broadband network?

Idukki

36. Which European country adopted the Euro as the official currency from 1^st

 January 2015 onwards?

Lithuania

37. The newly appointed chairman of ISRO is

 A S Kiran Kumar

38. Name the malayali who received these years Pravasi Bharatiya Samman?

 Ashraf Thamarassery

39. “Get Set Play” is the motto of the National Games. What is the slogan of the National Games?

Together in Sport

40. Name the first African country that used Electronic Voting Machines in the general elections?

Namibia

41. Which film has won the Golden Peacock Award for best picture in the International Film Festival of India- Goa in 2014?

Leviathan

42. Name the cricketer who died in the field after being struck by a bouncer in the Sheffield Shield Cricket Tournament?

 Phil Hughes

43. Which date was declared as the International Yoga Day by the UN?

  June 21

44. Who were selected as the Time choice for Person of the Year?

 Ebola Fighters

45. Which famous music video surpassed the maximum play limit (2,147,483,647) in Youtube?

 Gangnam Style

46. Sitara Devi, the famous dancer who died recently was associated with which dance form?

Kathak

47. Name  the chairman of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up by the Supreme Court of India  to investigate the stashing away of black money in foreign banks and suggest ways to bring it back to India?

Justice M B Shah

48. Which constituency did former Speaker G.Karthikeyan represent in the Legislative Assembly?

Aruvikkara

49. For what reason the former Bangladesh parliament member Mustafa Kamal was in news recently?

He resigned from his designation as International Cricket Council President.

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