Latest Current Affairs Questions of February

7/29/2019 Latest Current Affairs Questions of February

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Who took charge as Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development in New

Delhi?

Ans: Dr. Shashi Tharoor.

Former MP and ex-Union Minister for Rural Development _______ died in Andhra Pradesh.

Ans: K. Yerran Naidu.

Who addressed colorful cultural; extravaganza called SONABYSS-2012?

Ans: Paban Singh Ghatowar.

Who has received the 27th

Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration?

Ans: Gulzar.

Who is the current Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra?

Ans: Ajit Pawar.

Kaziranga University tied up with which university recently?

Ans: Cardiff Metropolitan University of United Kingdom.

Who is the current military chief of China?

Ans: Xi Jinping.

Which Indian-American named US Professor of the year recently?

Ans: Autar Kaw.

Who has been appointed as the new CEO of Cipla?

Ans: Subhanu Saxena.

Who has been re-elected as the Chairman of United Nations Panel of External Auditors?

Ans: Vinod Rai.

What is the name of 2014 Fifa World Cup Mascot?

Ans: Fuleco.

Which country won the T20 World Cup for the Blind?

Ans: India.


2/9

In which year Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) was launched?

Ans: 2008.

Dinar is the currency of which country?

Ans: Iraq.

Who has assumed charge as Executive Director on the Board of the International Monetary

Fund?

Ans: Dr. Rakesh Mohan.

Who has been honored with the Hoover Medal at the Global Humanitarian Technology

Conference in Seattle in Washington?

Ans: V. Narayan Murthy.

Who was Keith Campbell, who died at the age of 58?

Ans: Scientist.

Former _______ all-rounder Kevin Curran has died.

Ans: Zimbabwe.

The former King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk has died in ______.

Ans: China.

Who was Margaret Osborne DuPont, who has died at the age of 94?

Ans: Tennis Player.

Who was T. Samuel, who has died at the age of 86?

Ans: Cartoonist.

Who is the President of Mauritania?

Ans: Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.

Who has been appointed as the Chairman of ICCs Cricket Committee?

Ans: Anil Kumble.

The first International Day of Rural Women was observed on ______.

Ans: 15th

October, 2008.


3/9

Recently which day was celebrated as the first International Day of the Girl Child by the United

Nations?

Ans: 11th

October.

In which country the 12

th

summit of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) was held?

Ans: Azerbaijan.

Which organization has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize?

Ans: European Union.

Austere Challenge 2012 is the joint military exercise of USA and ______.

Ans: Israel.

Womens Twenty20 Asia Cup 2012 was held in which country?

Ans: China.

Rupesh Saha is a famous _______ player.

Ans: Billiards.

Who is the founder & Chairman of Virgin Group?

Ans: Richard Branson.

Which day is celebrated as the Navy Day in India?

Ans: 4th

December.

In which country the 5th

Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction was held?

Ans: Indonesia.

Who assumed charge as the Union Minister of Culture?

Ans: Chandresh Kumari Katoch.

Who has won the F1 title of 2012?

Ans: Sebastian Vettel.

Who has taken charge as the Chairperson & Managing Director of Bank of India?

Ans: Vijayalakshmi Iyer.


4/9

Who has been conferred the membership of Order of Australia?

Ans: Sachin Tendulkar.

Who is the Prime Minister of Canada?

Ans: Stephen Harper.

Who has been re-elected as the President of United States?

Ans: Barack Obama.

Which film has won the Best Film Award in the 14th Mumbai Film Festival?

Ans: Miss Lovely.

A total of ______ trains have been identified for providing OBHS services.

Ans: 535.

Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA)?

Ans: Deep Joshi.

In which state the 28th

National Junior Athletic Championships were held?

Ans: Uttar Pradesh.

Mahesh Bhupathi and ________ clinched the Paris Master.

Ans: Rohan Bopanna.

Which country has won the Asian Kabaddi Championship?

Ans: Pakistan.

Peter Gade has announced his retirement from International ________.

Ans: Badminton.

Who has won the Golden Boot Award as Europes top Scorer?

Ans: Lionel Messi.

Which day is observed as World AIDS Day every year?

Ans: 1st

December.

Who is the Foreign Secretary of Britain?


5/9

Ans: William Hague.

Who dedicated to the nation a new Integrated Terminal Building of Swami Vivekananda Airport

at Raipur?

Ans: Pranab Mukherjee.

Union Cabinet approved levy of about Rs. _______ crore one-time spectrum fees on all existing

telecom companies.

Ans: 31,000.

Who took over as the new Minister of Minority Affairs?

Ans: K. Rahman Khan.

The Andhra Pradesh High Court termed the life-ban imposed on Indian cricketer ___________,

illegal.

Ans: Muhammad Azharuddin.

Who took charge as the new Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs Minister?

Ans: Kamal Nath.

Who was conferred the Great Cross of Civil Merit by Government of Spain?

Ans: Dr. Farooq Abdullah.

Who assumed office as the new Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas?

Ans: Dr. M. Veerappa Moily.

Who has been appointed as the Director General, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)?

Ans: Pranay Sahay.

Who assumed charge as the Union Minister of Railways on October 29, 2012?

Ans: Pawan Kumar Bansal.

Who has been appointed as Director General (Investigation), National Human Rights

Commission?

Ans: Kanwaljit Deol.

Who assumed charge as the Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Science?

Ans: Jaipal Reddy.


6/9

India and ______ will explore the possibilities of joint venture investment in the field of hotel

industry and infrastructural development.

Ans: Brunei.

Who assumed charge as the Minister of States for Tribal Affairs?

Ans: Rance Narah.

India and which country discussed Bilateral Cooperation in Transport Sector?

Ans: Switzerland.

Who assumed charge as the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries?

Ans: Tariq Anwar.

Who assumed charge as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of YouthAffairs and Sports?

Ans: Jitendra Singh.

Who assumed charge as the Union Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment?

Ans: Kumari Selja.

India and which country signed and Audi Visual Coproduction Agreement?

Ans: Spain.

Who is Rakesh Misra?

Ans: Director General, Central Public Works Department, Ministry opf Urban

Development.

Who is the chairman of SAIL?

Ans: C.S Verma.

Who has taken over as the new Corporate Affairs Minister in Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi?

Ans: Sachin Pilot.

Department of Posts has been involved in rural development for the last _____ years.

Ans: 150.

Who took charge as the Minister of Information & Broadcasting?


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Ans: Manish Tewari.

With which country India has agreed to Explore Cooperation in Tourism Sector recently?

Ans: Bulgaria.

Arrangement for Cooperation on Civil Aviation has been signed recently between India &

which country?

Ans: New Zealand.

How many pacts have been signed between India & New Zealand to cooperate in the field of

education?

Ans: Five.

Two companies RENFE-Operadora and ADIF have signed an agreement with Indian Railway

for technical cooperation. Which country these companies belong to?

Ans: Spain.

The Centre has decided to provide ________ subsidy per Kg on the import of pulses to the states.

Ans: 20 rupees.

Who was the first black President of Supreme Court of Brazil?

Ans: Joaquim Barbosa.

Whose bronze statue was unveiled in Florida town by former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam?

Ans: Mahatma Gandhi.

Which country successfully launched two experimental satellites to test its domestically

developed components?

Ans: China.

The global urban population is estimated to be 6.3 billion by which year?

Ans: 2050.

Recently which country test-fired two nuclear-capable ballistic missiles?

Ans: Russia.

Who has received a Special Recognition Award from the Sikh community in London for his

outstanding contribution in setting up a USD 4 billion JV refinery in Punjab?


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9/9

Which city of India has figured among the 10 most attractive cities for international travel

shoppers in the Asia-Pacific region?

Ans: Delhi.

India has signed a Protocol amending the Convention on avoidance of double taxation withwhich country?

Ans: United Kingdom.

Who is the current MD and CE of BSE?

Ans: Ashish Kumar Chauhan.

SAIL has appointed around _______ rural dealers in the first six months of 2012-13.

Ans: 450.

India is the ______ largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world.

Ans: Second.

Which construction major has bagged an order worth Rs 1,252 crore from the Delhi Metro?

Ans: L & T.

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