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1. ____ is named as new King of Saudi Arabia after King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz passed away ?

Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
King Abdullah
Wael Nader al-Halqi
Abdullah al-Thani
Shinzo Abe


2. ____ has been appointed as Chairman of Railway Board replacing Arunendra Kumar. ?

Devesh Kumar
Lakshmi Narayana
A. K. Mittal
Iqbal Dhaliwal
Bhaskar Balakrishnan


3. ____ is appointed as Prime Minister of Greece after his party SYRIZA won the Greek General Elections. ?

Manuel Valls
Mariano Rajoy
Angela Merkel
Alexis Tsipras
Li Keqiang


4. Anupam Shrivastava is appointed as Chief Managing Director of ____ ?

MTNL
BSNL
GAIL
BEL
SAIL


5. __ has been appointed as Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog that replaced Planning Commission. Sindhushree Khullar has been appointed as CEO of NITI Aayog ?

Adapa Karthik
Mutyalaraju Revu
Arvind Panagariya
Mona Pruthi
Bhawna Garg


6. ____ has been appointed as new special secretary of home ministry's crucial internal security division. ?

Ashok Prasad
Alok Ranjan Jha
Adapa Karthik
Ankur Garg
Bhawna Garg


7. ____appointed as CMD of Heavy Engineering Corporation. ?

Anup Kumar Thakur
Gauri Kumar‚ 
Shashi Prakash Goyal
Bhaskar Balakrishnan
Avijit Ghosh


8. ____ is named as state brand ambassador for Haryana Government. ?

Sachin Tendulkar
Amitabh Bahchan
Baba Ramdev
Narendra Modi
Kiran Bedi


9. _____has been appointed as President of Tunisia. ?

Lee Hsien Loong
Tony Abbott
Beji Caid Essebsi
Shinz‚ Abe
Li Keqiang


10. ___ is appointed as a Member of NITI Aayog ?

Bibek Debroy
Ratan Kumar Sinha
Surjit Kumar Chaudhary
Jugal Kishore Mohapatra
V. Somasundaran


11. ____ is appointed as Nepal's ambassador to India ?

Shashi Prakash Goyal
Bhawna Garg
Srivatsa Krishna
Deep Kumar Upadhyay
Devesh Kumar


12. Devender Singh Ahluwalia has been appointed as Director (Finance) of NMDC (______)?

National Minerals Deployment Corporation
National Minerals Development Corporation
National Meteorological Development Corporation
National Metamorphic Development Corporation
National Minorities Development Corporation


13. Dinesh Oraon of _____ has been elected as Speaker of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly ?

Indian National Congress
Samajwadi Party
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Jharkahnd Mukti Sena
Bharatiya Janata Party


14. ___ appointed as Security Secretary in the Union Cabinet Secretariat ?

Divya Prakash Sinha
Anil Swarup
Rajeev Kher
Amitabh Kant‚ 
Kavery Banerjee


15. Evans Paul Assumed Office as 18th Prime Minister of ____?

Japan
China
Greece
Haiti
France


16. Pahlaj Nihalani has been appointed as Chairman of ______. ?

GAIL
BEL
Central Board of Film Certification
BHEL
SAIL


17. _____is appointed as head Coach of Indian men's hockey team. ?

Terry Walsh
Paul van Ass
Claude Julien
Jerry York
Ron Mason


18. Government appointed _____ as First Women Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). ?

Kavery Banerjee
M Sathiyavathy
Vijayalakshmy K. Gupta
Aradhana Johri
Sujata Mehta


19. _____Government launched Taluka (Tehsil) Planning Atlas (TPA) to enable local administration for taking decisions about the regional development through precise information about current status of various facilities and schemes. ?

Maharashtra
Goa
Sikkim
Gujarat
Sikkim


20. Hanumanthu Purushotham is appointed as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of ______ . ?

National Research Development Corporation
National Research Deployment Corporation
National Research Disinvestment Corporation
National Rubber Development Corporation
National Research Development Council

21. Harishankar Brahma is appointed as _____ Chief Election Commissioner of India ?

19th
20th
18th
17th
16th


22. Indian Person ____ has been appointed as United Nations Under‚­Secretary General ?

Ratan P Watal
Atul Khare
Siraj Hussain
Kapil Dev Tripathi
Vishwa Mohan Katoch‚ 


23. Justice Narayanan Nadar Paul Vasanthakumar as the Chief Justice of ____ High Court. ?

Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
Sikkim
Jammu and Kashmir
Goa


24. K Durga Prasad is appointed as the Special Director General of ____ ?

IAF
Assam Rifles
BSF
CISF
CRPF


25. Kalyan singh has been appointed as Governor of _____?

Uttar Pradesh
Uttaranchal
Himachal Pradesh
Goa
Sikkim


26. Kanagasabapathy J Sripavan is appointed as 44th Chief Justice of ____. ?

Sri Lanka
Nepal
Bangladesh
Myammar
Pakistan


27. Kaptan Singh Solanki has been appointed as New Governor of ____ ?

Goa
Punjab
Sikkim
Manipur
Uttar Pradesh


28. _____ has been elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for 2014‚­2015 ?

Hara Krushna Das‚ 
Sneh Lata Kumar
Kiran Bhai Vadodaria
Nandita Chartterjee
Vrinda Sarup


29. has been appointed as new chief of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization). ?

Rajive Kumar
K. Vijayraghavan
Vandana Kumari Jena
Vijay Chhibber
A S Kiran Kumar


30. Kolinda Grabar‚­Kitarovic won 2015 Presidential elections and she will be First Female President of _____?

Poland
Norway
Croatia
Japan
Spain


31. Krishna Chaudhary is appointed as Director General (DG) of the ______ ?

BSF
CRPF
CISF
Indo‚­Tibetan Border Police
Delhi Police


32. Libby Lane has been named as first female bishop of Church of __ . ?

USA
England
Australia
Canada
Venezuela


33. M K Goel has been appointed as Chairman of _____?

Power Finance Corporation
Power Fuel Corporation
Power Finance Council
Power Fuel Concil
Power Fuel Committee


34. Mithripala Sirisena won 2015 Presidential Elections of Sri Lanka. He will be 7th President of ____ ?

Indonesia
Japan
Malaysia
Thailand
Sri Lanka


35. Modibo Keita has been named as New Prime Minister of ____ ?

Haiti
Mali
Cuba
Kenya
Zimbabwe


36. ___is appointed as Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA) replacing Leela Samson.?

Shekhar sen
A R Rehmaan
Anita Agnihotri
Sanjay Kumar Panda
Madhusudhan Prasad


37. ____ is appointed as Private Secretary of Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar ?

Anuj Kumar Bishnoi
Rajeev Gupta
Sujata Mehta
S. Jaishankar
P Krishnamurthy


38. Ruhakana Rugunda is appointed as New (10th) Prime Minister of ____ ?

Uganda
Japan
Kenya
Mali
Central African Republic


39. ___ has been appointed as new Foreign Secretary of India replacing Sujata Singh. ?

Anil Wadhwa
S Jaishankar
Nengcha Lhouvum
Shaktikanta Das
Siraj Hussain


40. ___ has been appointed as First CEO of NITI Aayog ?

Nilanjan Sanyal
L. C. Goyal
Rajan S. Katoc
Nita Chowdhury
Sindhushree Khullar


41. _____ has been appointed as head coach of Indian men’s football team ?

Bhanu Pratap Sharma
Stephen Constantine
Arvind Mayaram
Alok Rawat
Paul Van


42. ___ has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Famous Fast Food Chain McDonald’s Corporation ?

J. Patrick Doyle
Steve Easterbrook
Larry Page
Sergey Brin
None of These


43. Surendra Kumar Sinha has been appointed as First Hindu Chief Justice of ___ ?

Bangladesh
Pakistan
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
Malaysia


44. Sutirtha Bhattacharya took charge as Chairman and Managing Director of ____?

GAIL
SAIL
BEL
BHEL
Coal India Limited


45. Thomas Kurian Is appointed as New President of ___?

Microsoft
Oracle Corporation
Infosys
TCS
Oaxis


46. United Nation (UN) Secretary‚­General Ban Ki‚­moon appointed Indian ____in a Panel for reviewing peace building activities?

Saraswathi Menon
Saurabh Chandra
Vandana Kumari Jena
K. VijayRaghavan
Anita Agnihotri


47. Yash Pal Singhal has been appointed as new Director General of Police (DGP) of ____.?

Uttar Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Goa
Haryana


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