Usefull g.k quations

1. Satish Dhawan Space Centre is a rocket launch center operated by Indian Space Research Organisation. It is located in Sriharikota in ---------. -Andhra Pradesh

2. Teacher's Day in India, yearly celebrated at -------, Radhakrishnan's birthday, in honour of Radhakrishnan's believe that "teachers should be the best minds in the country". - 5 September

3. The ----- is the currency of Tajikistan. - Tajikistani Somoni

4. Bank account holders aged between ----- are eligible to apply for Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY). - 18 and 50 years

5. Under the Atal Pension Yojana , the subscribers would receive the fixed minimum pension of Rs. 1000 per month, Rs. 2000 per month, Rs. 3000 per month, Rs. 4000 per month, ------ per month, at the age of 60 years, depending on their contributions, which itself would be based on the age of joining the APY. - Rs. 5000

6. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has got its first woman Director General with the appointment of ----- as Director General, Electronics & Communication Systems cluster. - J Manjula

7. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announced her intention to appoint Maurice Moses "Maury" Obstfeld as Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF’s Research Department.

8. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) operates from its headquarters at ----- where it shifted from Delhi in 2001. - Hyderabad, Telangana

9. Making India Awesome is the book by renowned author ------. - Chetan Bhagat

10. Former Pakistan captain -----assumed the role of the ICC President of the ICC Annual Conference Week in Barbados . - Zaheer Abbas

11. Aadesh Shrivastava, who was passed away recently. Who was he? - Music composer

12. The Chairperson and members of the NHRC are appointed by the -------. -President of India

13. The 10th World Hindi Conference (WHC) is being organized from 10-12 September 2015 in the city of -----. -Bhopal

14. ----- was an English newspaper published from Kolkata (then Calcutta), India. It was the first major newspaper in India, started in 1780. - Hickey's Bengal Gazette

15. Machu Picchu is an Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains in -----, above the Urubamba River valley. - Peru

16. The ------ is considered the oldest in the world. - Amsterdam Stock Exchange

17. Who is the Chairman of the 14th Finance Commission of India since 3 January 2013? - Y. V. Reddy

18. The government has notified the merger of commodities regulator Forward Market Commission with the --------. -Securities and Exchange Board of India

19. Former Delhi High Court Chief -------has been appointed as the new chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India. -Justice Ajit Prakash Shah

20. The New Development Bank (NDB), set up by five BRICS nations including India, will start lending in local currency by -------. - April 2016

21. Bajrang Kumar is related to which sport? - Wrestling

22. Who has won the 2015 Italian Grand Prix? - Lewis Hamilton

23. The World Photography Day is annually observed on ---- across the world. - Aug 19

24. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is the independent regulator of the telecommunications business in ------, India. - New Delhi

25.------- , the embattled chief executive of Volkswagen, has announced that he is to resign following the scandal surrounding the emissions of its diesel cars. - Martin Winterkorn

26. The GPS is a satellite-based navigation system made up of a network of 24 satellites placed into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense. What is the full form of GPS? - Global Positioning System

27. Which Bank launched India’s first robotic locker facility? - ICICI

28. ----- was declared as the International Day of Yoga by the United Nations. - June 21

29. A milestone today is that the ----scheme has been acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records for being the largest cash transfer program (households). - “Pahal”

30. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley launched two funds by ------, a fund of funds with total corpus of Rs 12,000 crore. - Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)

31. The Banking Ombudsman is a senior official appointed by the ----- to redress customer complaints against deficiency in certain banking services. - Reserve Bank of India

32. Who was the first Finance Minister of Independent India? - Sir Ramasamy Chetty Kandasamy Shanmukham Chetty

33. Which indian state will soon be the first state to launch a new renewable energy program that will use solar energy to power the agricultural sector. - Gujarat

34. A Reserve Bank of India panel has recommended conversion of ------, which have a revenue of more than Rs 20,000 crores into regular banks. - Urban Cooperative Banks (UCBs)

35. In his second Independence Day address from the ramparts of Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi coined another new slogan —. - “Start-up India and Stand up India”.






1. United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) decided to proclaim ----- , the day of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), as World Wildlife Day. - 3 March

2. Who is the current Chairman of the International Cricket Council? -Narayanaswami Srinivasan

3. The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi received the Award of Bangladesh Liberation War Honour on behalf of former Prime Minister, ------ by the President of Bangladesh, Mr. Abdul Hamid, in Dhaka, Bangladesh on June 07, 2015. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

4. Who has been roped in as the brand ambassador of Edelweiss Financial Services in a multi-crore deal initiated by IOS Sports & Entertainment? - Saina Nehwal

5. The sixth and final trial for ------ , the first semi high-speed train service between Delhi and Agra, was completed, during which the train covered the 195-km journey in 115 minutes, clocking a maximum speed of 160-plus kmph. -Gatimaan Express

6. The Union HRD Minister, Smt Smriti Irani introduced ------- , the winner of the logo competition for the New Education Policy at the Press Briefing held in New Delhi. - Nawaj Shaikh

7. Base rate is the minimum rate set by the ------- below which banks are not allowed to lend to its customers. -Reserve Bank of India

8. The ------ covers over 12,500 sq. kilometers in northern India and ranks among the largest in the world in drainage basin area and length. - Ganga River Basin

9. --------, creator of the iconic Rock Garden who has amazed people for decades with his unique sculptures made from waste, died. - Nek Chand

10. Who was the Paramount Chief and later King of Swaziland for 82 years, the longest verifiable reign of any monarch in recorded history? - Sobhuza II

11. After a long gap of ----- years, India is hosting 10th World Hindi conference at Bhopal from September 10-12 this year. -thirty-two

12. Shane Watson, the muscular but fragile ----- all-rounder, has retired from Test cricket at the age of 34 . - Australia

13. Who gave nursing a highly favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night. - Florence Nightingale

14.The objectives of setting up of payments banks will be to further financial inclusion by providing (i) -------and (ii) payments/remittance services to migrant labour workforce, low income households, small businesses, other unorganised sector entities and other users. - small savings accounts

15. The CIBIL TransUnion Score is a 3-digit number ranging from ------. - 300-900

16. China's foreign exchange reserves dropped ----- month-on-month in August, the largest single month drop in the central bank's history. - US$93.929 billion

17. Multiple state authorities in India found an unacceptable amount of -----and it has been banned in more than 5 other states in India. - lead

18. Former Supreme Court Justice, ------was appointed as the Chairman of the 7th Pay Commission. - Ashok Kumar Mathur

19. Which bank launched contactless multi-currency forex cards in partnership with Visa - the payments gateway company? - Axis Bank

20 Which country became the first country in the world formally to legalise euthanasia? - Netherlands

21. The annual Pongala festival of Attukal Bhagavathi temple at ------, has been entered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest congregation of women in the world. - Kerala

22. Raas or Dandiya Raas is the traditional folk dance form of -------, India. - Gujarat

23. Payments bank will initially be restricted to holding a maximum balance of ----- per individual customer. - Rs. 100,000

24. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a new campaign ‘Start-up India; Stand up India’ to promote bank financing for start-ups and offer incentives to boost ----- and job creation. - entrepreneurship

25. The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. Whe was born in -----, India. - Shillong, Meghalaya

26. India’s largest private sector bank, ---- has launched a new facility named ‘Smart Vault’, which provides automated access to lockers from its safe vault. -ICICI

27. The Government has announced the One Rank One Pension scheme for the Ex-Servicemen. An estimated ----provided for OROP in the budget presented in February 2014 by the then government was not based on any thorough analysis. - Rs. 500 crore

28. Under the Jan Dhan Yojna anyone who is India citizen above age of 10 years and does not have a bank account, can open the account with ----- balance. - zero

29. The Union government’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has approved a proposal from the Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Kinfra) to set up the country’s first defence industrial park at ------. - Ottappalam

30. India's first satellite controlled Single Axis Tracking East West Tilt Technology based solar power plant has come up at village Lalpur of District Hoshiarpur. ------. Punjab

31. Who is a Kyrgyz politician who has been Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan since 2015. - Temir Sariyev

32. The current (acting) chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is -------. - Justice Cyriac Joseph

33. Amorphophallus Titanum is the world's largest flower and after five long years it has bloomed in ------. - Tokyo

34. The ---- has the largest railway system in the world - about 240,000 km connecting 48 continental states. - US

35. Country's second-largest private sector lender, ---- launched a 10-second paperless instant loan plan for its existing customers. - HDFC Bank

36. A financial intelligence unit (FIU) is a central agency of a government that receives financial information pursuant to country's ----- laws. - anti-money laundering

37. The ----- railway station became the proud owner world's longest home platform - Gorakhpur

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