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1. Aaranyak, an Indian NGO working for conservation of nature won United Nations Lighthouse Activities award for 2014. It belongs to which state ?

Uttar Pradesh
Assam
Andhra Pradesh
None Of these


2. Who has been honored by Hridayanath Mangeshkar Award 2014. ?

Pandit Jasraj
Sulochana
Javed Akhtar
None of These


3. Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2014 was won by ?

Male - Usain Bolt(Jamica) , Female - Florence Kiplagat (Kenya)
Male - Tyson Gay (Jamaica) , Female - Florence Kiplagat (Kenya)
Male - Asafa Powell(Jamaica) , Female - Florence Kiplagat (Kenya)
Male - Guye Adola (Ethiopia) , Female - Florence Kiplagat (Kenya)


4. Assam government's first state bravery award was recently presented to ?

Vijay Bahadur Singh
Gunjan Sarma
Arundhati Rao
None of these


5. Which famous Vocalist was recenly conferred with the Sumitra Charat Ram Award 2014 for Lifetime Achievement ?

Pandit Jasraj
A r Rehmaan
Bhimsen Joshi
None of these


6. Denis Mukwege has been awarded 2014 European Parliament Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. He is from ?

Russia
Angola
Congo
None of these


7. Former Prime Minister who was recently given Japan's top national award - 'The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers' for his contribution to India-Japan ties ?

Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Manmohan Singh


8. Former cricketer who received the prestigious Colonel C K Nayudu Lifetime achievement award by BCCI ?

Kapil Dev
Dilip Vengsarkar
Ravi Shashtri
None of these


9. Who has been conferred the Fellowship of the Royal Aeronautical Society, London ?

K V Reddy
D V Subbarao
G Satheesh Reddy
None of these


10. Gandhian Philosophy and Public Service Broadcasting award 2014 won by ?

Prasar Bharati
All India Radio
Radio Kashmir Jammu
None of these


11. Who was recently awarded President's Award by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) ?

Sardara Singh
Narinder Batra
Gurbaj Singh
None of these


12. India's Best Project-2014 award for implementation of skill development and employment generation was given to ?

Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Andhra Pradesh
None of these


13. Indian American who received Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes ?

Kiran Sridhar
Rajni Razdan
Deepak Gupta
None of these


14. Indian student who won 'BWH Bright Future Research Award' 2014 for his research on 'Low Cost Hand held Microchip Device for Rapid HIV Detection and Treatment ?

Sankar Chatterjee
Sethuraman Panchanathan
Amit Kumar
Sultan Khetani


15. Indira Gandhi Peace, Disarmament and Development Prize 2014 was recently given to ?

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
BHEL
Indian Space Research Organisation
None of these


16. Indian writers who have been shortlisted for South Asian Literature DSC Prize 2015.?

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and Jhumpa Lahiri
Salman Rushdie and Jhumpa Lahiri
Chetan Bhagat and Amish Tripathi
None of these


17. Indian-American who won International Childrens Peace Prize 2014.?

Jhumpa Lahiri
Neha Gupta
Arundhati Roy
None of these


18. Indian-British politician who was named as the Labour MP of the year 2014.?

Neha Gupta
Salman Rushdie
Keith Vaz
None of these


19. Indian-Singaporean poet and writer who has been honored by Cultural Medallion, Singapore's highest cultural award ?

M. Balakrishnan
Haresh Sharma
K.T.M. Iqbal
None of these


20. Indian who won the Wild Screen Panda Awards 2014 in New Comer Category ?

Ashwika Kapur
Anita Kapur
Rajni Razdan
None of these


21. Infosys Prize 2014 for Physical Sciences was given to ?

Jayant Haritsa
Shamnad Basheer
Srivari Chandrasekhar
None Of These


22. Who has been named as chief of ICCR (Indian Council of Cultural Relations).?

Shubha Tole
Lokesh Chandra
A Suryaprakash
None Of These


23. Pakistani author who has won Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2014 for his novel The Scatter Here Is Too Great.?

Mohsin Hamid
Bilal Tanweer
Altaf Faima
None Of These


24. Who has been Honored by Liberty Medal by National Constitution Center of the United States ?

Edword Snowden
Kailash Satyarthi
Malala Yousafzai
None Of These


25. Who has been named as best Central Bank Governor by Euromoney Magazine ?

Raghuram Rajan
Janet L. Yellen
Christine Lagrade
None Of These


26. Indian Public sector undertaking that won the 'Aegis Graham Bell Award 2014'.?

BEL
ONGC
SAIL
RailTel


27. Leviathan film belonging to which nation won the Golden Peacock award for best film in 45th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa ?

Japan
China
Russia
None Of These


28. Who has been honored by KR Narayanan award for his services to the nation ?

Atal Bihari Vajpayee
VR Krishna Iyer
C N R Rao
None Of These


29. Pope Francis Named which Two Indians as Saints at Vatican ?

Fr Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Euphrasia Eluventhinkal
Fernanda Riva and Devasahayam Pillai
John de Brito and Joseph Vithayathil
None Of These


30. Who has been given the First Jawahar Lal Nehru Fellowship on 125th Birth Anniversary of Jawahar Lal Nehru ?

C N R Rao
Arunchati Bhattacharya
Nirupama Rao
None Of These


31. Indian Cricketer who won LG People's Choice Award 2014 ?

Sachin tendulkar
Virat Kohli
Bhuwaneshwar Kumar
None Of These


32. Who has been named as India Social Entrepreneur for 2014. ?

Mukesh Ambani
Sachin Bansal
Gurbaksh Chahal
Hanumappa Sudarshan


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