{"id":2386,"date":"2016-02-18T16:10:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T10:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2016-02-18T16:11:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T10:41:25","slug":"2386","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/2386\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

1<\/strong>. What sort of person is awarded with Gyanpeeth Award? (1)<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) One who is a renowned literary person<\/p>\n

(2) One who has done exemplary works in the field of science<\/p>\n

(3)\u00a0 Person who is famous for community works<\/p>\n

(4) None of these (5) None of these<\/p>\n

2<\/strong>. Name the famous film actor who was recently presented with the Padma Vibhushan Award as he couldnot receive it when President Pranab Mukherjee presented it in the Rashtrapati Bhavan? (4)<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) Amitabh Bachchan<\/p>\n

(2) Shashi Kapur<\/p>\n

(3) Prem Chopra<\/p>\n

(4) Dilip Kumar<\/p>\n

(5) None of these<\/p>\n

3<\/strong>. Who has been appointed new Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission? (2)<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) Sarat Kumar Acharya<\/p>\n

(2) Sekhar Basu<\/p>\n

(3) Tapan Ray<\/p>\n

(4) MK Surana<\/p>\n

(5) None of these<\/p>\n

4<\/strong>. Salman rushdie, the India-born famous author was given Mailer Prize for the year 2015 which was instituted in the name of Norman Mailer. Mailer was raised in New York city of US. What\u2019s the name of Rushdie\u2019s most controversial novel for which a fatwa was issued calling for his assassination by Iran\u2019s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini? (1)<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) Satanic Verses<\/p>\n

(2) Midnight\u2019s Children<\/p>\n

(3) Shalimar the Clown<\/p>\n

(4) The Ground Beneath Her Feet<\/p>\n

(5) None of these<\/p>\n

5<\/strong>. Name the person who have been appointed to the board of capital market regulator Security and Exchange Board of India? (3)<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) PS Jayakumar<\/p>\n

(2) Alkesh Sharma<\/p>\n

(3) Tapan Ray<\/p>\n

(4) Najib Shah<\/p>\n

(5) None of these<\/p>\n

6<\/strong>. Name the former cricketer who has been given the CK Naydu Award for the Lifetime Achievement? (1)<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) Syed Kirmani<\/p>\n

(2) Sandeep Patil<\/p>\n

(3) Roger Binny<\/p>\n

(4) Kirti Azad<\/p>\n

(5) None of these<\/p>\n

7<\/strong>. Who has been named to be the new Chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs? (2)<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) Arundhati Bhattacharya<\/p>\n

(2) Najib Shah<\/p>\n

(3) Shaktikanta Das<\/p>\n

(4) MK Sharma<\/p>\n

(5) None of these<\/p>\n

8<\/strong>. Name the Hindi poet whose name figures in the list of recipient of Sahitya Akademi awards? (4)<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) Uday Prakash<\/p>\n

(2) Arun Kamal<\/p>\n

(3) Alok Dhanva<\/p>\n

(4) Ramdarash Mishra<\/p>\n

(5) None of these<\/p>\n

9<\/strong>. Delhi Development Authority recently got the E-India Award. Why this award was given to this organisation? (2)<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) \u00a0It has build cheapest housing units for poors<\/p>\n

(2) For adopting technology to serve the public better<\/p>\n

(3) DDA\u00a0 has\u00a0 rare feat of building affordable houses<\/p>\n

(4) For provided housing units to all the residents to Delhi<\/p>\n

(5) None of these<\/p>\n

10<\/strong>.\u00a0Itzhak Perlman\u2019s name was announced for Genesis Prize. Which instrument he plays? (1)<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) \u00a0Violin<\/p>\n

(2) Piano<\/p>\n

(3) Tabla<\/p>\n

(4) Guitar<\/p>\n

(5) None of these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. What sort of person is awarded with Gyanpeeth Award? (1) (1) One who is a renowned literary person (2) One who has done exemplary works in the field of science (3)\u00a0 Person who is famous for community works (4) None of these (5) None of these 2. Name the famous film actor who was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}