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1. _____ of Indian Army honoured by President’s Standards‚¿‚½for meritorious and distinguished service for over 30 years. ?

41st Armoured Regiment
40th Armoured Regiment
44th Armoured Regiment
45th Armoured Regiment
None of These


2. 46th Dada Saheb Phalke Award (Highest Honour in Indian Cinema) has been given to Actor _____ ?

Rishi Kapoor
Shashi Kapoor.
Shahrukh Khan
Dilip Kumar
Vinod Khanna


3. Best Hindi Film award in the 62nd National Film Awards has been given to _______ ?

Happy New Year
Queen
Highway
Veer zaara
None of These


4. Actress _____has been honored by National Award for the Best Representation of the Cause of Safety, Security and Protection of Women and Girl Child by National Institute of Gender Justice (NIGJ). ?

Deepika Padukone
Preity Zinta
Hema Malini
Rani Mukerji
None of These


5. _____ of Delhi won Femina Miss India 2015 title. First runner‚­up was Aafreen Rachel Vaz of Karnataka and second runner‚­up was Vartika Singh of Uttar Pradesh. ?

Aditi Arya
Youka Mukhi
Tanushree Dutta
Diksha Singh
Pranati Prakash


6. CNN‚­IBN announced Indian of the Year Award has been given to _______?

Narendra Modi
Arvind Kejriwal
Arun Jaitley
Amit Shah
None of These


7. Filmmaker ______ won Bishwaratna Bhupen Hazarika International Solidarity Award by Assam government ?

Ashutosh Gowarikar
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Yash Chopra
Subhash Ghai
Sanjay Leela Bhansali


8. Former Union minister ______ has been selected for prestigious Saraswati Samman for 2014 for his famous Kannada poem ‘Ramayana Mahanveshanam’ ?

P Chidambaram
Sushil Shinde
Sanjeev Baliyan
M Veerappa Moily
None of These


9. Hindi poet Gopaldas Neeraj won Rashtriya Kavi Pradeep Samman for the year 2012‚­13 given by Department of Culture of ______ government. ?

Uttar Pradesh
Rajastham
Bihar
Haryana
Madhya Pradesh


10. Hockey India conferred Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award on ______. ?

Dhanraj Pillay
Sardar Singh
Balbir Singh Senior
Gurbaj Singh
None of These


11. In First Hockey India Annual Awards, Dhruv Batra Award for Player of the Year was given to - ____________ ?

Birendra Lakra (Male) and Vandana Katariya (Female)
Sardar Singh (Male) and Vandana Katariya (Female)
Gurbaj Singh (Male) and Vandana Katariya (Female)
Birendra Lakra (Male) and Helen Mary (Female)
None of These


12. India Artist Bharti Kher conferred with the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, highest cultural award of __________________ ?

Germany
France
Spain
Poland
Japan


13. India's space agency ISRO (_____________) has been selected for Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 for social, economic transformation through non‚­violence means ?

Indian Space Restoration Organisation
Indian Space Rehearsal Organisation
Indian Space Research Organisation
Indian Space Reach Organisation
None of These


14. Indian author _____ has been shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize among the 10 finalists for the prize ?

Jhumpa Lahiri
Salman Rushdie
Chetan Bhagat
Amish Tripathi
Amitav Ghosh


15. Indian ecologist ________ and US Scientist Dr. Jane Lubchenco were named winners of Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement 2015 for their engagement in development of conservation and sustainability policies ?

Medha Patkar
Akhil Sharma
Madhav Gadgil
Genesan Reddy
None of These


16. Indian environmental activist ___________ , has been conferred the prestigious Stockholm Water Prize this year for his innovative water restoration efforts and courage to empower communities in Indian villages ?

Madhav Gadgil
P C Vaish
Sardar Singh
Rajendra Singh
None of These


17. Indian‚­American author ____ won Folio Prize 2015 for his novel Family Life. ?

Amish Tripathi
Akhil Sharma
Jhumpa Lahiri
Chetan Bhagat
Rahul Jindal


18. Indian‚­American biologist ____________ won US presidential award for excellence in science, mathematics and engineering mentoring. ?

Murty S Kambhampati
Rajendra Singh
Akhil Sharma
Roop Malik
Ullas Karnath


19. Indian‚­American physician _______ has been selected for prestigious Fulbright‚­Nehru Distinguished Chair to India ?

Ravi Jahagirdar
Amit Jindal
Bobby Jindal
Akhil Sharma
Rahul Jindal


20. Indian‚­origin South African educator _________ has been awarded with KwaZulu‚­Natal 2015 National Teachers Award (Lifetime Achievement Award for teaching in South Africa) at the annual National Teaching Awards in South Africa ?

Rahul Jindal
Ganasen Reddy
Amish Tripathi
Murty S Kambhampati
None of These

21. Indian State _______ won silver Golden Gate award for its global multimedia campaign for promoting its backwaters at Internationale Tourismus‚­Borse Berlin (ITB‚­Berlin) 2015, Germany. ?

Kerala
Uttar Pradesh
Meghalaya
Karnataka
Rajasthan


22. Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) appointed boxer _______ as the brand ambassador of the North‚­East region. ?

Vijender Singh
Shiva Thapa
Pinki Rani
Pooja Rani
MC Mary Kom


23. Minoti Apte, Indian pancreatic cancer researcher has been named New South Wales (NSW) Woman of the year 2015 for her contributions to medical research, tertiary education and the Indian community in ____________ ?

Australia
USA
UK
Germany
France


24. Hifikepunye Pohamba, former President of __________ won the world’s most valuable individual award, the Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership worth $5m given to a leader who governed well, raised living standards and then left office. ?

Somalia
Namibia
Cuba
Germany
Congo


25. President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the highest Indian Civilian Honor ‚­ Bharat Ratna to former Prime Minister ________ along with Madan Mohan Malaviya ?

Manmohan Singh
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Moraji Desai
Atal Bihari Vajpayee


26. President Pranab Mukherjee presented Stree Shakti puraskars and Nari Shakti Puruskars 2014 on the occasion of International Women’s Day on ______ ?

March 07
March 08
March 06
March 04
March 01


27. Singer _________ was presented with Laadli Voice of the Century award at the sixth edition of the National Media and Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity held in Mumbai ?

Kishore Kumar
Lata Mangeshkar
Usha Mangeshkaer
Asha Bhosle
Alka Yagnik


28. Three South Asian women ‚­ Niloofar Rahmani (Afghanistan), Nadia Sharmeen (Bangladesh) and Tabassum Adnan (Pakistan) were selected for International Women of Courage Award for year 2015 given by ________ . ?

USA
UK
Germany
Spain
Poland


29. US mathematicians John F Nash Jr and Louis Nirenberg have been named as joint winners of _________ for 2015 for their contributions to mathematical sciences. The award is given by Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters ?

Nobel Prize
Pritzker Prize
Yuri Milner's Prize
Peace Prize
Abel Prize


30. Union Minister _________ has been named as Young Global Leader from India by the World Economic Forum (WEF). ?

Narendra Modi
Smriti Irani
Arun Jaitley
Amit Shah
None of These



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