Current Affairs Questions and Answer 17 October 2014

 Daily Current Affairs Questions-14

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1. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on 16 October 2014 successfully launched third navigation satellite Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) 1C. How many satellites were planned to be deployed to form satellite constellation of the IRNSS ? 

A. 5
B. 7
C. 9
D. 11

B. 7

The first two satellites in the series were IRNSS 1A and IRNSS 1B.

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C26 injected IRNSS 1C into the designated orbit from the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. This was the 27th consecutive successful flight of PSLV.

The fourth navigational satellite of the IRNSS segment will be launched in December 2014 and the project will be fully operational in 2015.

2. Who amongst following was appointed as India's Chief Economic Adviser for a period of 3 years ?

A. Aditi S. Ray
B. Dr. Vinita Aggarwal
C. Kaushik Basu
D. Dr. Arvind Subramanian

D. Dr. Arvind Subramanian

He has worked in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund (1992-2013), the GATT (1988-1992) during the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, and taught at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (1999-2000) and the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University (2008-2010, and 2014).

He is the author/editor of five books:
I.India's Turn: Understanding the Economic Transformation (2008; Oxford University Press).
2. Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance (2011; Peterson Institute for International Economics).
3. Who Needs to Open the Capital Account (with Olivier Jeanne and John Williamson; 2012; Peterson Institute for International Economics).
4. Greenprint: A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change (2013; with Aaditya Mattoo; Center for Global Development).
5. Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium (2002; with Roger Porter and Pierre Sauve; Brookings/Harvard University Press).

His next book, From Wariness to Partnership: Closer India-US Economic Cooperation (with C. Fred Bergsten) will be published later this year.

He is a columnist for India's financial daily, Business Standard. He contributes regularly to the UK daily, The Financial Times.

3. India pledged aid ______________ for Gaza reconstruction.

A. 2 million dollar
B. 4 million dollar
C. 10 million dollar
D. 25 million dollar

B. 4 million dollar

4. Recently Turaga Janaki Rani died. He was renowned author in which Indian language ?

A. Telugu
B. Tamil
C. Kannada
D. Malayalam

A. Telugu

5. Union Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises on 25 September 2014 proposed the Union Cabinet to shut down how many sick Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSEs)?

A. six
B. seven
C. eleven
D. twenty

A. six 

The sick CPSEs include HMT Watches, HMT Barings, HMT Chinar Watch, Hindustan Photo Films, Hindustan Cables and Tungbhadra Steel. 

Besides, the Ministry also proposed to revive 5 CPSEs. These CPSEs include HMT Machine Tools, Heavy Engineering Corporation, NEPA, Nagaland Paper & Pulp Co; and Triveni Structurals.

6. Sadiq, a 10-year old terminally ill boy became which city's Police Commissioner for a day ?

A. Hyderabad
B. Delhi
C. Mumbai
D. Patna

A. Hyderabad

His last wish was fulfilled by the help of an NGO, Make a Wish Foundation that decided to fulfill Sadiq’s dream on humanitarian ground.

7. Uber Cup 2014 title has been won by ____________.

A. India
B. China
C. Finland
D. Russia

B. China

8. Which village in Nagaland has been declared as India's first Tobacco-free village ?

A. Pheza
B. Merema
C. Garifema
D. Bosta

C. Garifema

9. Which senior advocate of the Supreme Court has been appointed as new Solicitor General of India ?

A. Ranjit Kumar
B. Milon K. Banerji
C. Mukul Rohatgi
D. L.Nageswara Rao

A. Ranjit Kumar

10. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on 16 October 2014 repositioned its Mars Orbiter, Mangalyaan as a precautionary step against the expected Comet ____________ that would fly by Mars, the red planet on 19 October 2014.

A. Phobos
B. Siding Spring
C. Machholz 1
D. Giclas

B. Siding Spring