Current Affairs QUIZ: Feb 28, 2014

Current Affairs QUIZ: Feb 28, 2014

1. Which education board banned coaching for JEE in schools?

[A] Andhra Pradesh Board of Secondary Education

[B] Gujarat Secondary Education Board

[C] Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education

[D] Central Board of Secondary Education

2. Which among the following shopping site increases stake in Snapdeal, invests Rs 830 crore?

[A] EBay

[B] Myntra

[C] Jabong

[D] Indiatimes

3. Which player won the Hero Women’s Professional Golf Tour fourth leg 2014?

[A] Dipika Pallikal

[B] Vaani Kapoor

[C] Kiran Matharu

[D] Sharmila Nicollet

4. Which among the following mobile company Wins Best Smartphone Award?

[A] Nokia

[B] Samsung

[C] HTC One

[D] Panasonic

5. Which among the following political party merged with Bhartiya Janata Party ahead of Lok Sabaha Elections 2014?

[A] Shiv Sena

[B] Lok Janshakti Party

[C] Biju Janata Dal

[D] All India Trinamool Congress

6. Name the former chief of CISF who joined Central Vigilance Commission as a vigilance commissioner?

[A] R Sri Kumar

[B] Pradeep Kumar

[C] J M Garg

[D] Rajiv Ranjan Verma

7. India’s first post office savings bank ATM opened in-

[A] Chennai

[B] Delhi

[C] Punjab

[D] Haryana

8. Which among the following country could be first to allow 3-parent babies from next year?

[A] Syria

[B] Britain

[C] Netherlands

[D] Philippines

9. Name the Atal Bihari Vajpayees niece who joined Congress party on Thursday?

[A] Karuna Shukla

[B] Saroj Pandey

[C] Anita Joshi

[D] Simran Ahuja

10. Which country won the SAARC golf championship 2014?

[A] New Zealand

[B] Australia

[C] India

[D] Malaysia

11. The University Grants Commission (UGC) on 27 February 2014 approved a key proposal to lower the eligibility criteria for OBC students appearing for the National Eligibility Test (NET) that determines entry into teaching at higher education institutions. How much relaxation was given to OBC students?

12. Which eminent jurist on 27 February 2014 declined to be part of the process to select India’s first Lokpal and thus giving a major embarrassment to the Union Govt.?

13. India’s first Post Office Savings Bank ATM was inaugurated on 27 February 2014 by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram at

14. Who was elected by the Ukrainian parliament as the country’s Prime Minister on 27 February 2014?

15. Which region on 25 February 2014 became the sixth region in China to allow couples to have a second child if either parent is an only child?

16. In which year China had introduced the one child policy to tackle the then problem of explosive population growth?

1. Central Board of Secondary Education: Schools affiliated to CBSE will have to stop conducting courses that integrate the regular syllabus and coaching for competitive examinations like JEE,the board has said.

2. EBay: EBay has acquired another large slice of India’s second largest online retailer, a precursor many believe to a full purchase of the Delhi-based Snapdeal. By leading an investment of $133.77 million (about Rs830 crore).

3. Sharmila Nicollet: Bangalore golfer Sharmila Nicollet registered her first victory of the season in the fourth leg of the Hero Women’s Professional Golf Tour at the Bombay Presidency.

4. HTC One: Taiwan-based HTC Corp.’s flagship device, the HTC One, was named Tuesday the “Best Smartphone of the Year” by GSM Association (GSMA) -a top award in the global mobile communications industry.

5. Lok Janshakti Party: LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan on Thursday formally announced his return to the NDA fold, announcing to contest the next Lok Sabha election with the BJP-led alliance.

6. Rajiv Ranjan Verma: Former DG of Central Industrial Security Force, Rajiv Ranjan Verma, has joined Central Vigilance Commission as a vigilance commissioner.

7. Chennai: The country’s first Post Office Savings Bank ATM was inaugurated at the head post office in Chennai by finance minister P Chidambaram on Thursday.

8. Britain: Britain proposed new regulations on Thursday that would make it the first country in the world to offer “three-parent” fertility treatments to families who want to avoid passing on incurable diseases to their children.

9. Karuna Shukla: Atal Bihari Vajpayees niece Karuna Shukla joined Congress on Thursday and said BJP had been hijacked by a group of leaders after the former prime ministers exit from the political scene.

10. India: India maintained their supremacy in the SAARC golf championship by beating Bangladesh 2-1 in the final in Kolkata on Thursday.

11. 5% (While so far OBC students had to score a minimum 60% to be eligible for the exam, they will now be given 5% relaxation and will thus require 55% aggregate scores in three subjects to be eligible to appear for UGC-NET. General category students must score 60% to be eligible)

12. Fali S. Nariman (Nariman informed the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) that the process to select Lokpal was such that most competent and most independent would get overlooked. It is understood that he was asked on 21 February to be the search committee to select India’s first Lokpal)

13. Chennai (India’s first Post Office Savings Bank ATM was inaugurated at Thiyagaraya Nagar Head Post Office in Chennai. This initiative of opening Post Office Savings Bank ATM is part of the government’s Rs. 4,909 crore IT modernisation scheme for the Department of Posts specified in the interim budget for 2014-15)

14. Arseniy Yatsenyuk (Arseniy Yatsenyuk is the former opposition leader and a close ally of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. He was backed by 371 of 417 participating deputies in the Parliament. Before his election, Yatsenyuk vowed to sign an association agreement with the European Union and promised to keep Crimea inside Ukraine)

15. Shanghai (Shanghai’s legislature passed an amendment to relax the city’s birth control policy. The amendment, passed at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress, will go into effect from 1 March 2014. Shanghai now faces a spate of demographic challenges, including a low birth rate, an aging population and an unbalanced population structure. Similar reasons were cited when the third plenary session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee decided to ease the restrictions of the decades-old one-child policy during November 2013. In addition to Shanghai, the cities of Beijing and Tianjin, along with the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui have already made similar revisions easing the restrictions of the one-child policy)

16. In 1979 (This policy was introduced in 1979 to alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems in China. However, this policy is considered by many experts as a misnomer as the policy allows many exceptions: rural families can have a second child if the first child is a girl or is disabled, and ethnic minorities are exempt)