www.currentaffairs4examz.com COMPLETE CURRENT AFFAIRSCOMPLETE CURRENT AFFAIRSCOMPLETE CURRENT AFFAIRSCOMPLETE CURRENT AFFAIRS PDF PDF PDF PDF JANUARY 2015 JANUARY 2015 JANUARY 2015 JANUARY 2015 Latest Current Affairs| GK | Latest Exams|Latest Current Affairs| GK | Latest Exams|Latest Current Affairs| GK | Latest Exams|Latest Current Affairs| GK | Latest Exams| Job Alerts| Exam Results & many more Job Alerts| Exam Results & many more Job Alerts| Exam Results & many more Job Alerts| Exam Results & many more http://www.CurrentAffairs4examZ.com Join our facebook page www.currentaffairs4examz.com https://www.facebook.com/currentaffairs4examzFirst Week 1)Whichplayeron3January2015becamethefastestcricketertoreach12000 Test runs? - Kumar Sangakkara 2)Whichbankon2January2015launchedDigitalVillageProjectinAkodara Village of Gujarat? - ICICI Bank Note:ThiswaslaunchedinthepresenceofPrimeMinisterNarendraModiand ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochar. 3)IRDAwasrenamedrecentlyas?-InsuranceRegulatoryandDevelopment Authority of India Note:ChangeinnamecameintoeffectafterthepromulgationofInsurance Laws(Amendment)Ordinance,2014,bythePresidentofIndiaon26December 2014. 4) Who was sworn-in as tenth Chief Minister of Jharkhand on 28 December 2014? - Raghubar Das Note: Raghubar Das is the first non-tribal Chief Minister of Jharkhand since the state came into being on 15 November 2000. 5)BCCIon28December2014bannedwhichleft-armspinnerfrombowlingin competitive matches, after his bowling action was found illegal? - Pragyan Ojha 6) Who retired as the Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on 31 December 2014? - K Radhakrishnan www.currentaffairs4examz.com 7)UnionHomeMinisterRajnathSinghon1January2015launchedintegrated women safety mobile app called? Himmat 8)UnionGovernmenton1January2015setuptheNationalInstitutionfor Transforming India (NITI) Aayog to replace? - Planning Commission 9)Whichstategovernmenton1January2015launchedonlineRightto Information (RTI) application filing facility? Maharashtra 10)UnionGovernmenton2January2014acceptedtherecommendationsofthe Bezbaruah committee on? -Safety of North East people Note: Bezbaruah committee of five members was set up under chairmanship of M PBezbaruahinFebruary2014tolookintotheconcernsofthepeopleofthe North East living in other parts of the country. 11)SportsMinistryon2January2015clearedtheNationalBoxingFederations new name called? - Boxing India 12) Who took charge as new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) on 2 January 2015? - R. Koteeswaran 13)UnionCabinetrecentlyapprovedhikeofgovernmentstakeinIndustrial Finance Corporation of India to? -51 percent 14)UnionGovernmenton29December2014renamedtheDepartmentof Disability Affairs (Nishaktata Karya Vibhag) as? - Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Viklangjan Sashaktikaran Vibhag) www.currentaffairs4examz.com 15)MahendraSinghDhonion30December2014announcedretirementfrom which format of International cricket? - Test Cricket 16) Who was appointed as the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on 31 December 2014? - M Sathiyavathy 17) Tropical storm Jangmi made landfall in which country on 28 December 2014? Philippines 18)WhichIndianplayeron29December2014wontheInternationalTennis Association(ITF)singlestitleoftheWorldTennisAssociationcircuitheldin Pune? - Ankita Raina 19)AirAsiaflightnumberQZ8501recentlywentmissing(laterconfirmedas crash) with 162 people on board en route from? - Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore 20)UnionGovernmentintherecentlydecidedtolaunchOperationAllOut against Bodo militants in which state? Assam 21) Who won the ATP World Tennis Championship at Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi on 4 January 2015? - Andy Murray 22) Who took over as the new chairman of Airports Authority of India (AAI) on 2 January 2015? - R K Srivastava www.currentaffairs4examz.com 23) Who was appointed as the Chairman of Railway Board on 31 December 2014? - A.K. Mittal 24)WhowaselectedasPresidentoftheIndianNewspaperSociety(INS)for 2014-15 on 2 January 2015? - Kiran Bhai Vadodaria 25)PresidentofIndiaPranabMukherjeeon30December2014appointedthe Governors of Mizoram, Uttarakhand and Meghalaya. Name them? Mizoram-AzizQureshi,Uttarakhand-DrKrishanKantPaul,Meghalaya- Keshari Nath Tripathi 26) RBI recently amended KYC norms for? - Non-Banking Financial Companies 27)UnionGovernmentrecentlylaunchedMadanMohanMalviyaNational Mission on? - Teachers and Teaching 28)NamethenotededucationistandformerViceChancelloroftheAligarh Muslim University who died on 29 December 2014? - Saiyid Hamid 29)Jaffna-KankasanthurairailtrackrestoredbyIRCONwasrecently inaugurated in which country? - Sri Lanka 30)WhowassworninasthePresidentofTunisiaon31December2014?-Beji Caid Essebsi Second Week www.currentaffairs4examz.com 1)WhowasappointedastheVice-ChairmanofNationalInstitutionfor Transforming India (NITI) Aayog on 5 January 2015? - Arvind Panagariya 2) Who was named as the Business person of the Year for 2014 on 6 January 2015 by Fortune magazine? - Larry Page 3) 102nd Indian Science Congress (ISC) was recently held at? - Mumbai Note:ThethemeoftheISCwasScienceandTechnologyforHuman Development. 4)NametheFrenchsatiricalweeklymagazineinPariswhichwasattackedby three masked gunmen on 7 January 2015? - Charlie Hebdo 5)Whichbankon7January2015launchedcontactlesscreditcardsanddebits cardscalledCoralContactlessCreditCardandExpressionsWaveDebitCard respectively in India? - ICICI Bank 6)Whohassworn-inasthe7thPresidentofSriLankaon9January2015?- Mithripala Sirisena 7) Namethejoint venture of Tata-SIA which started its flight operationinIndia on 9 January 2015? - Vistara Airline 8)Whowason10January2015appointedastheChiefExecutiveOfficer(CEO) ofNationalInstitutionforTransformingIndia(NITI)Aayogwitheffectfrom1 January 2015? - Sindhushree Khullar www.currentaffairs4examz.com 9)WhichcitywillhostInternationalHindiConferenceinApril2015?-New Jersey 10) Union Cabinet headed byPrime Minister NarendraModi on 5January2015 approved to set up the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) in which state? - Tamil Nadu 11)WhowasnamedastheBrandAmbassadorofAndhraPradesh(AP)health sector on 6 January 2015? - Amitabh Bachchan 12) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 6 January 2015 released a commemorative cointomarkthe175thbirthanniversaryofwhichindustrialist?-Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata 13) Which airline was named as the worlds safest airline by AirlineRatings.com on 6 January 2015? - QantasNote: It is Australias national airline. 14) Name the new antibiotic discovered by scientists nearly after two decades? Teixobactin 15) Which Indian film was on 8 January 2015 nominated for British Academy of FilmandTelevisionArts(BAFTA)Awards2015undernon-Englishbestfilm category? -Lunchbox 16)WhichbanksecureditsshareholdersapprovalforamalgamationwithING Vysya Bank recently? - Kotak Mahindra Bank www.currentaffairs4examz.com 17)NametheChinesenuclearphysicistwhowason9January2015presented withtheStatePreeminentScienceandTechnologyAward2014byChinese President Xi Jinping? - Yu Min 18)WhopresentedthePravasiBharatiyaSammanAwards2015tosixteen personalitieson9January2015?-VicePresidentofIndiaMohammadHamid Ansari 19)WhoresignedasDirectorGeneralofSportsAuthorityofIndia(SAI)on2 January 2015? - Jiji Thomson 20)BoardofControlforCricketinIndiaon6January2015announcedthe15-mansquadfortheCricketWorldCup2015.Whowillcaptaintheteam?-MS Dhoni 21)Whichcountrywillhostthe42ndWorldBridgeChampionshipsinSep-Oct 2015? India 22) PM Narendra Modi on 8 January 2015 inaugurated a state-of-the-art museum Dandi Kutir at which place? - Gandhinagar, Gujarat 23)Whowon7thChennaiInternationalOpenGrandmasterChesstitleon6 January 2015? - Popov Ivan of Russia 24) Who was sworn in as the sixth Governor of Uttarakhand on 8 January 2015? - Krishan Kant Paul www.currentaffairs4examz.com 25) Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on 5 January 2015 launched thesaleofsubsidised5kgcookinggascylindersforBPLfamiliesunderwhich scheme? - Free Trade LPG (FTL) 26)WhotookchargeasCoalIndiaLimitedsfull-timeChairmanandManaging Director (CMD) on 5 January 2015? - Sutirtha Bhattacharya 27)Whowason7January2015appointedastheUnitedNations(UN)Under-Secretary-General, Department of Field Support (DFS)? - Atul Khare 28)PrimeMinisterNarendraModion8January2015releasedCommemorative PostageStampstomark___YearsofMahatmaGandhisReturnfromSouth Africa to India? 100 29)WhowonhismaidenNationalSub-JuniorBilliardstitleattheBRCGloster National Billiards & Snooker Championship 2015 recently? - S Shrikrishna 30)WhowaselectedastheSpeakerofJharkhandLegislativeAssemblyon7 January 2015? - Dr. Dinesh Oraon of BJP 31) Which firm launched China's first online bank named WeBank to boost small businesses on 6 January 2015? - Tencent Holdings 32)Governor'srulewasrecentlyimposedinwhichstateon9January2015?- Jammu and Kashmir www.currentaffairs4examz.com 33)WhowasappointedasthePrimeMinisterofWestAfricannationMalion8 January 2015? - Modibo Keita WeekThird1) Who won the 2014 FIFA Ballon dOr award for the best footballer of the year in the world on 12 January 2015? - Cristiano Ronaldo 2) Who was on 12 January 2015 appointed as Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)? - Alur Seelin Kiran Kumar 3)WhohasreceivedtheGovernoroftheYearAwardfor2015intheCentral BankingAwardsannouncedon12January2015?-RaghuramRajan,RBI Governor 4)WhotookchargeasVice-ChairmanofNITIAayogon13January2015?- Arvind Panagariya 5) Which district in Kerala became first District of India to have Complete Rural BroadbandCoverage,asUnionMinisterforCommunicationsandInformation Technologyon12January2015linkedthisdistricttotheNationalOpticFiber Network (NOFN)? Idukki 6)Whichclubon11January2015liftedtheirmaidenfootballFederationCup defeating Goa's Dempo Sports Club 2-1? - Bengaluru FC www.currentaffairs4examz.com 7)NametheIndianopenwaterswimmerwhoon14January2015setaworld recordbyswimming1.4milesin52minutesinonedegreetemperatureinthe Antarctic Ocean? - Bhakti Sharma 8)WhowasappointedasthenewChiefElectionCommissioner(CEC)by President Pranab Mukherjee on 15 January 2016? - Hari Shankar BramhaNote: He succeeds V.S. Sampath who has retired from service. 9)BabaRamdevwason15January2015appointedasstatebrandambassador of? Haryana 10)WhowasappointedastheheadcoachofIndianmensfootballteamon16 January 2015? - Stephen Constantine 11)WhowontheChennaiOpenTennistitleon11January2015?-Stanislas Wawrinka 12)WhichPakistancricketplayerrecentlyannouncedhisretirementfromOne Day International (ODI) and T20 after the Cricket World Cup 2015? - Misbah-ul-Haq 13) Who won the Brisbane International Tennis title on 11 January 2015? - Roger Federer 14)Whowason10January2015selectedfortheVikramSarabhaimemorial award 2015? - MYS Prasad www.currentaffairs4examz.com Note:HeisthedirectorofSatishDhawanSpaceCentre(SDSC),Sriharikota Range (SHAR). 15)13thPravasiBharatiyaDiwas(PBD)2015concludedon9January2015in Gujarat.Whatwasthethemeof2015PBD?-BharatkojanoandBharatko mano 16)WhichmissionofIndianSpaceResearchOrganization(ISRO)wason12 January 2015 won the 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the Science and Engineering category? - Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) 17) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 15 January 2015 announced sixth Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement. RBI has cut its main lending rate (Repo Rate) by ___ per cent? - 0.25 (Present Repo Rate - 7.75) 18)Whowason13January2015presentedwiththeSocialMediaPersonofthe YearAward2015bytheInternetandMobileAssociationofIndia(IAMAI)?- Amitabh Bachchan 19)WhichAustraliancricketeron14January2015announcedhisretirement from all forms of cricket after a 20-year career? - Brett Lee 20) Reserve Bank of India on 15 January 2015 issued final guidelines for banks to act as? - Insurance Brokers www.currentaffairs4examz.com 21) TheRed Sari, anunauthorized biography of Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi,wasreleasedbyRoliBooksinIndiaon16January2015.Bookwas written by? - Javier Moro 22)Whowason16January2015appointedasNepal'sambassadortoIndia?- Deep Kumar Upadhyay 23)NationalYouthDaywasobservedacrossIndiaon12Januaryeveryyearto mark the birth anniversary of? - Swami Vivekananda 24)Whowason12January2015appointedasthe21stchiefjusticeof Bangladesh,becomingthefirstnon-MuslimtotakechargeoftheofficeofChief Justice of Bangladesh? - Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha 25) Name the Union Minister for Railways who on 13 January 2015 inaugurated Indiasfirstcompressednaturalgas(CNG)-poweredtrainontheRewari Rohtak link of Northern Zone? - Suresh Prabhu 26)Whichsearchengineon13January2015launcheditsFlightSearchToolin India? Google 27)SeventhVibrantGujaratSummitwasheldfrom11Januaryto13January 2015 at? - Gandhinagar, Gujarat 28)WhowasappointedasCMD(ChairmanandManagingDirector)ofBharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on 14 January 2015? - Anupam Shrivastava www.currentaffairs4examz.com 29)WhowasnamedasthewinneroftheSahityaAkademiAward2014for Sanskrit on 14 January 2015? - Prabhu Nath Dwivedi 30)WhohasresignedasChairpersonofCentralBoardofFilmCertification, (CBFC) on 16 January 2015? - Leela Samson 31)WhohasresignedasmemberoftheUnionPublicServiceCommission (UPSC) on 14 January 2015? - A P Singh 32)Whowason16January2015conferredwiththeJGBS-TopRankers' Excellence Award for CEO of the year 2014? - R.K. Tyagi, HAL Chairman 33)Whichstatewason16January2015selectedfortheNationalAwardfore-Governanceforthebestdistrict-levelinitiativeinCitizen-CentricService Delivery through ICT? - Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) 34)SaniaMirzaandherpartnerBethanieMattek-Sandsofwhichcountryon16 January2015wonthewomensdoublestitleoftheSydneyInternationalTennis Tournament? USA 35) India on 15 January 2015 observed the ___th Army Day? 67 36)PopeFrancison14January2015cannonisedJosephVazasthefirstsaintof which country? - Sri Lanka 37)UnionGovernmenton13January2015removedwhomastheChairmanof Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)? - Avinash Chander www.currentaffairs4examz.com 38)Australiaon10January2015wonthe4-matchBorder-GavaskarTestseries played against India by 2-0. Who was named Player of the series? - Steven Smith 39)WhichIndianprofessionalgolferwason12January2015votedasthe2014 Players Player of the year in Asian Tour? - Anirban Lahiri WeekFourth1)Whichcricketeron18January2015hitthefastestcenturyinOne-Day International (ODI) cricket? - AB de Villiers Note:The30-year-oldSouthAfricancaptainscoredthecenturyinjust31balls againstWestIndies.ThepreviousrecordwasheldbyNewZealandsCorey Andersonwhoscoredacenturyin36balls.Healsobroke19-yearoldrecordof thefastestODIhalf-centuryheldbySanathJayasuriya.DeVillersscoredfifty off just 16 balls. 2)WhichbankinIndiawasrecentlynamedamong50mostvaluablebanksin 2014 with a market capitalisation of 41.58 billion US dollar? - HDFC bank Note: It was ranked at 45th position. 3)WhowasappointedastheChairmanofCentralBoardofFilmCertification (CBFC) on 19 January 2015? - Pahlaj NihalaniNote:Nihalani,knownforthe1990sblockbustersSholaaurShabnamand Aankhen will succeed Leela Samson who resigned from her office on 16January 2015. 4)NamethesmalldepositschemeforgirlchildlaunchedbyPrimeMinister NarendraModion22January2015undertheBetiBachaoBetiPadhao(BBBP) campaign? - Sukanya Samridhi Yojana www.currentaffairs4examz.com 5) National Girl Child Day was recently observed on? - January 24 6) Name the Indigenously-built Light Combat Aircraft which was handed over to the Indian Air Force (IAF) on 17 January 2015? Tejas 7) National Immunization Day for the year 2015 was observed on? - 18 January 8)FormerPrimeMinisterManmohanSinghon17January2015adoptedwhich Panchyat under Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna (SAGY)? - Pachim Bekeli GaonNote: It is located in Kamrup district of Assam. 9)ThePeriyarTigerReserveon20January2015wontheNationalTiger ConservationAuthority(NTCA)biennialaward.Itissituatedinwhichstate? Kerala 10)WhichUnionMinistryon21January2015launchedtheNationalHeritage DevelopmentandAugmentationYojana(HRIDAY)thatseekstopreserveand rejuvenatetherichculturalheritageofthecountry?-UnionMinistryofUrban Development 11)WhichschemeannouncedbyModigovernmenton20January2015madeit to Guinness Book of World Records? - Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna(PMJDY) 12)NametheTelugucomedianactorwhopassedawayon23January2015?- Mailavarapu Surya www.currentaffairs4examz.com 13) Name the former Thailand Prime Minister who was impeached on 23 January 2015 by an army-backed parliament? - Yingluck Shinawatra 14)WhowontheNationalBilliardsChampionshipon17January2015atthe Bengal Rowing Club in Kolkata? - Pankaj Advani Note: This was his seventh Senior National Billiards Championship. Advani, the 12-time world champion has won the previous six titles in 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2005. 15)WhichIndiancitywillhosttheWorldCongressonInformationTechnology (WCIT) in 2018, as announced recently? Hyderabad 16) European Union (EU) on 20 January 2015 decided to lift a seven-month-long ban on the import of ____ from India? Mangoes 17) Which Committee on 21 January 2015 submitted its report on restructuring of Food Corporation of India (FCI) to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi? - Shanta Kumar 18)NametheSaudiArabiaKingwhopassedawayon23January2015?-King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz 19)WhichIndianwasappointedintheUNpeace-buildingpanelrecently?- Saraswathi Menon 20) Name the Prime Minister of Bhutan who visited India from 10 January to 18 January 2015? - Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay www.currentaffairs4examz.com 21)Whichmobilemessagingapplicationon21January2015unveiledanew service for sending messages from a Web browser? WhatsApp 22)WhichstatewillbegettingthefirstinternationalinstituteinIndiathatis dedicated to music as announced recently? Kerala 23)EicherMotorson19January2015appointedwhomasPresidentofRoyal Enfield? - Rudratej Singh WeekLast1)WhowascrownedMissUniverse2014on25January2015?- PaulinaVega, Miss Colombia 2) WhowonthewomenssingletitleofAustralianOpenon31January2015?- Serena Williams Note: She defeated Maria Sharapova, the world number two from Russia 6-3, 7-6(5) in Melbourne, Australia. 3)NametheeminentCartoonistwhodiedon26January2015?-Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Laxman (RK Laxman) Note:HisCommonMan,createdin1957,wasthesymboloftrialsand tribulations of India's ordinary people. 4) Who was on 29 January 2015 appointed as the Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA)? - Shekhar Sen 5) Who was appointed as the Foreign Secretary of India on 28 January 2015? - Dr. S Jaishankar www.currentaffairs4examz.com 6)WhowonthewomenssinglesofSyedModiGrandPrixGoldBadminton Tournament 2015 on 25 January 2015? - Saina Nehwal 7)AlexisTsiprason26January2015wassworninasthePrimeMinisterof? Greece 8)Whowereon26January2015posthumouslyawardedwiththehighest peacetime military honour the Ashok Chakra by PresidentPranab Mukherjee? - Major Mukund Varadarajan and Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh 9)ReserveBankofIndia(RBI)on30January2015constitutedaHighPowered Committeetore-examineandrecommendappropriatesetofbusinesses,size, conversion and licensing terms for the Urban Cooperative Banking (UCB) Sector. Whowillchairtheeight-membercommittee?- RGandhi,theDeputyGovernor of Reserve Bank of India. 10) Anti-Leprosy Day was observed on? - 30 January 11)WhichcountrywillhostICCTwenty20WorldCupin2016asannounced recently? India 12)WhotookchargeasChairmanandManagingDirector(CMD)ofNational ResearchDevelopmentCorporation(NRDC)recently?-Hanumanthu Purushotham 13)NametheUnionMinisterforCommunications& Information Technology whoon30January2015launchedcommemorativePostagestamps on the theme of Swachh Bharat Mission? - Ravi Shankar Prasad www.currentaffairs4examz.com 14)WhowontheinauguralKhushwantSinghMemorialPrizeforPoetryat JaipurLiteratureFestivalon24January2015?- PoetessArundhathi Subramaniam 15)WhowasappointedastheSpecialDirectorGeneral(DG)oftheCentral Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on 27 January 2015? - K Durga Prasad 16)PeoplefortheEthicalTreatmentofAnimals(PETA)on29January2015 announcedtocreateIndia'sfirstfencedelephantsanctuaryat?-Bannerghatta Biological Park in Karnataka 17)WhowasappointedascoachofNationalMens Hockey teamon30January 2015? - Paul van Ass Note: He succeeded Terry Walsh of Australia. 18)Malaysiangovernmenton29January2015officiallydeclaredthe disappearance of which flight as an accident? - MH370 Note: The Beijing-bound Boeing 777 aircraft carrying 239 passengers and crew on board disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur on 8 March 2014. 19) Who was appointed as the Director General (DG) of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on 30 January 2015? - Krishna Chaudhary 20)WhorecentlywontheAllanBorderMedalfortheAustralianPlayerofthe Year? - Steve Smith 21)Whowason25January2015appointedasSecretary(Security)intheUnion Cabinet Secretariat? - Divya Prakash Sinha www.currentaffairs4examz.com 22)Whowason30January2015sworninas44thChiefJusticeofSriLanka?- Kanagasabapathy J Sripavan 23)Indiaon31January2015 successfully test-firedindigenouslydeveloped canister-basedinter-continentalballisticmissile(ICBM)Agni-5from?- Wheeler's Island off Odisha coast 24)ActorandcomedianMalaAravindanwhodiedon28January2015was famous in which film industry? Malayalam 25)Whichcompanyrecordedthehighest-everprofitof18billionUSdollarsin corporate history worldwide recently? - Apple Inc 26)NamethePresidentandFounderofGorkhaNationalLiberationFront (GNLF) who died on 29 January 2015? - Subhash Ghising 27) Who was on 27 January 2015 appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ogilvy & Mather India with effect from 1 March 2015? - Kunal Jeswani 28) Who on 25 January 2015 became the first lady officer to lead the Inter-Service GuardofHonourforamajorvisitingdignitaryattheRashtrapatiBhavan?- Wing Commander Pooja Thakur 29)UnionGovernmenton30January2015divested___percentofitsstakein Maharatna Coal India Limited (CIL)? - 10 Join our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/currentaffairs4examz