GK Update 14 June 2015

 1. Union government has launched India Nuclear Insurance Pool(INIP)of 1500 crore rupees. India is the 27th country to do so in the world. This is set up by General Insurance Corporation and 11 other insurance providers.

GK Update 12 June 2015

1. Union Government has removed the customs import duties for drugs and test kits related to HIV/AIDS. This will be in effect till March 2016.
2. Google has launched a new lite search engine targeting the slower networks in India and Brazil. It expected to consume 80% less data and 50% faster connection of webpages.
3. The second border haat/ rural market was opened in Sipahijala district of Tripura. It is in zero line of the border and will have half share of India.

4. Bombay High Court today declined request to lift the ban on Maggi Noodles following a request from Nestle India.
5. RBI has allowed NRIs to invest money in the chit funds to increase the capital inflow to the country.
6. Nek Chand Saini, the founder of Rock Garden in Chandigarh passes away.

7. Reserve Bank of India has allowed postpaid mobile service, piped gas and water supply bills to be submitted as proof of address for opening account with banks or other financial institutions.

GK Update 11 June 2015

1. Union Cabinet today approved the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal Motor Vehicle Agreement similar to SAARC Motor Vehicle Agreement which will regulate vehicular traffic of passenger, personal and cargo in the BBIN nations.
2. Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar has been appointed as the Director of CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology. He was appointed by Prime Minister of India.

GK Update 10 June 2015

1. Union government has approved Rs6000 crore for soft loan for sugar mills to pay arrears to the farmers. In the country sugar mills owe 21000 crores to the farmers as they were not able to sell during the falling prices of the raw sugar.

2. Confederation of All India Traders has decided to launch its own e-commerce portal after months of fight with online retailers.
3. Finance Minister has cleared it that AC restaurants will charge a service tax of 40% on total bill amount while non AC hotels won't charge anything.
4. Government will release 26000 crores at one go for the states which are struggling for the water scarcity.
5. Government has launched a website for the International Day of Yoga which is to be heldon 21 of this month. The website mea.gov.in/idy.htm gives all the details about the programmes to be conducted internationally on the day. 
6. Maharastra government has decided to create a non banking financial services to utilize about 40000 crore rupees lying un-utilized in state run corporations.

GK Update 9 June 2015

1. Jind and Karnal districts of Haryana and Muzzafarnagar of UP have been included in the National Capital Region(NCR). This was announced by Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu.

GK Update 8 June 2015

1. Union Home Ministry has appointed Senior IPS officer RC Tayal as the DG of National Security Guard. He is a 1980 batch officer from Assam Meghalaya region presently serving Special DG in paramilitary CRPF.

2. Former Chairman of CBDT KV Chowdary has been appointed as new Central Vigilance Commissioner. Vijai Sharma has been appointed as new Chief Information Commissioner.

3. MeetUrPro.com, a Chennai based online marketplace for professional, tax and legal services -- has launched Startup Clinic, a package service concept for startups. 
4. India and Netherlands have signed a MoU for development of Measles-Rubella vaccine.
5. John Cryan has been appointed as the CEO Deutsche Bank after Anshu Jain and Juergen Fitschen resigned following criticism from investors.
6. French Open titles:

• Men's Single: Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland defeated Novak Djokovic.
• Women's Single: Serena Williams of US defeated Lucie Safarova of Czech Republic.
• Men's Doubles: Ivan Dodig of Croatia and Marcelo Melo of Brazil defeated Bob and Mike Bryan of US.
• Women's Doubles: Bethanie Mattek Sands of US and Lucie Safarova of Czech defeated Casey Dellacqua of Australia and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan.
• Mixed Doubles: Bethanie Mattek Sands and Mike Bryan of US defeated Lucie Hradecka of Czech Republic and Marcin Matkowski of Poland.

GK Update 7 June 2015

1. Leaders from across the G7 countries have come to Bavarian Alps in Germany to attend the annual G7 summit. G7 countries are the most advanced economies comprising of the US, UK, Germany, Japan, France, Italy and Canada. Russia has been excluded from G8 since the annexation of Crimea war.

2. India has slapped anti dumping duty on certain steel products from Malaysia, China and South Korea. It was imposed by Finance Ministry on direction of DG Anti Dumping Duty. It is imposed for five years.

GK Update 6 June 2015

1. Union government has started Jal Kranti Abhiyan to make one village of each district as water surplus village by conservation and management techniques. The village which would be the most water scarce village as Jal Gram.
2. Kotak Mahindra Bank and ING Vysya Bank have signed a memorandum for cross border business and trade flows across various regions.

3. India and Bangladesh exchanged the instrument of ratification of Land Agreement today. 
4. Adani group and Reliance group will together produce upto 4600watts of power to ease crisis in Bangladesh.
5. India's first green police station inaugurated at Maurice Nagar, New Delhi. It is joint effort of students of DU and police officials.
6. Eminent biologist Ameenah Gureeb Fakim has been sworn in as Mauritius first woman president.
7. AP CM Chandrababu Naidu today performed pooja and laid stone for the new capital city of Amaravathi.
8. Rahul Dravid has been named as the coach for the Under-19 Cricket team of India.
9. P.Kashyap bowed out of the Indonesian Super Series Badminton Championship.
10. French Open Final: In mens single category, Novak Djokovic and Stanislas Wawrinka will fight for the title. In women's category, Serena Williams and Lucie Safarova will face for title clash.
11. Mobile company OnePlus has appointed Ex-Flipkart executive Karan Sarin as its marketing head.

GK Update 5 June 2015

1. Union government has signed a loan agreement with World Bank to provide $400 million loan to TamilNadu for sustainable development.
2. Today is World Environment Day which is aimed to create awareness to protect Earth. The theme for this year is Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care. The host country for 2015 is Italy.

GK Update 4 June 2015

1. India-US have signed a new Defence Framework Agreement. It was signed between Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parikkar and US Defence Secretary Aston Carter. It aims for exchange of armed forces and strengthening defence abilities.
2. India has joined Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information. By this India will be able to receive information from every country which will help avoiding international tax evasion.

Current Affairs MCQ

1.Who would be receiving Friends of Bangladesh Liberation War award?

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

2.India has decided increased the e-tourist visa facilities to ____countries by end of this year.

150

3.Which has got clearance to do business in Bangladesh?

LIC

4.Which country created a record by planting 49,672 trees in one hour?

Bhutan

5.Jaipur Metro is the ____th city to get Metro?

6^th

6.Which state received $50 million from World Bank for Jhelum and Tawi Food Recovery Project?
Jammu and Kashmir

7.Which country passed the women hate crime law?
Colombia

8.RBI has allowed ____ to invest in infra bonds of other lenders?
Banks

9.What is the approximate growth in GDP according to SBI this year?
7.9%

10.Ameenah Gurib Fakeem is the first woman president of which country?
Mauritius

11.India with which country agreed on coastal shipping agreement?
Bangladesh

12.Which committee on tax reforms recommended the introduction of service tax?
CK Rajan Committee

13.As per BSE, which is the most profitable firm in India?
RIL

14.Which country has first launched the facial recognition ATM machine?
China

15.Which state has decided to develop 16 sectors under Swiss Challenge method to develop Infrastructures?
Andhra Pradesh

16.Which countries exist in US terror blacklist?
Iran, Sudan and Syria

17.In which city has the new Bank Note Paper policy has come up?

Hosangabad

18.Who has written the book: Ahmedabad: A city in the World?
Amrita Shah

19.Which Indian teacher won the Oxford University Award?
Gurnimrat Nimmy Sindhu

20.Who is the newly crowned king of Mysuru?
Yaduveer Krishnadatta

21.Who has been appointed as the Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre?
K Sivan

22.Who has been appointed as the Vice Chief of Air Staff?
Birender Singh Dhanoa

23.Which institutes successfully did the genome sequencing of Holy Basil?
CSIR CIMAP

24.NavNirman Deeksha Programme is launched by which state?
Andhra Pradesh

25.How many Gold did India win at the international Wrestling tournament 2015 in Italy?
8

26. Who have been appointed recently as advisors to NITI Aayog?
Alok Kumar and Jitendra Kumar

27.Who has been appointed as the new VC of Nalanda University?
George Yeo, Foreign Minister of Singapore

28.Which city will host Carpet Expo 2015?
Varanasi

29.   Who has been appointed as the CFO of Indian Bank?

VA Prasanth

30.How many people are undernourished in India according to latest UN report?
194 million

GK Update 3 June 2015

1. Union government has launched Khoya Paya web portal where people can report, track and upload information on missing children. It was launched by Union Minister of Child and Women Development Maneka Gandhi and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

2. Union Government has launched the world's largest digital mass education programme IAP HealthPhone Program.in association with Ministry of Child and Women Development, UNICEF and Vodafone India. It aims to educate people on health and malnutrition.

GK Update 2 June 2015

1. Ameenah-Gurib Fakim is designated as first woman President of Mauritius. She is the first woman president and sixth president overall.

2. RBI cut down repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.25 percent from 7.5 percent. The CRR remains unchanged at 4%.

3. Meena Hemchandra is appointed as RBI Executive director. She is in charge of banking supervision, non banking supervision and cooperative supervision.
4. China has developed first ATM with facial recognition technology. It was developed by Tshingua University.
5. Former Prime Minister of India Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be conferred with 'Friends of Bangladesh Liberation War Award'.

6. Ericsson has partnered with Sterlite to provide smart city solutions.
7. Ravi Shastri continues to be team director of Indian Team for the tour of Bangladesh.

GK Update 1 June 2015

1. President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent for the re-promulgation of Land Ordinance for the third time as per Article 123. Earlier the Union cabinet had given the re-promulgation for the ordinance.
2. Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has launched a BIS app for helping consumer register complain for low quality hall marked jewellery or ISI marked products.