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Q811.

Punjub National Bank (PNB) has won the 2015 Beighton Cup hockey tournament ,defeated 4 time winners Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) by 5-3 goals in penalty shoot outs. The final match played in which city ?

1)	Mumbai	2)	Kolkata
3)	Panaji	4)	Kochi
5)	None of these

Q812.

Recently,former Telecom secretary M F Farooqui has been appointed chairman of Broadband India Forum (BIF). Which of the following statement/s is/are correct about it ? A) The objective will be to promote content developers and bring all broadband technology players on board to support Digital India initiative. B) He has replaced ex-telecom secretary Shyamal Ghosh who has been appointed Chairman Emeritus of BIF. C) He was Former resident director-Regulatory Affairs at Vodafone India, elected as President at the eighth Annual General Meeting of BIF. D)The forum has more than 40 members which include technology providers, telecom operators, Internet service providers, cable TV operators, value added service providers and professionals.

1)	Only A and B are correct	2)	Only A ,B and C are correct
3)	Only A ,B and D are correct	4)	All A,B,C and D are correct
5)	None of these

Q813.

Recently,which country's government summoned the Czech ambassador to protest against a new translation of Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses" after 27 years, the novel triggered global demonstrations and a death threat against the author ?

1)	Iran	2)	Saudi Arabia
3)	Pakistan	4)	Afghanistan
5)	None of these

Q814.

The world-renowned Indian composer, singer, songwriter, music producer, musician, and philanthropist, Allah-Rakha Rahman, has been named as a cultural ambassador for which country in India ?

1)	UAE	2)	Saudi Arab
3)	Seychelles	4)	Jordan
5)	None of these

Q815.

Prominent personality N Ramani passed away in Chennai at the age of 81, recently. He is associated with the field of ---------.

1)	Scientist	2)	Fluatist
3)	Social Worker	4)	Vocalist
5)	None of these

Q816.

Bhagwati Agrawal, Indian-American social entrepreneur has been inducted in the CNN’s Top Ten Heroes of 2015 for creating a rainwater harvesting system that now provides life-changing, safe drinking water across six villages in which state in India ?

1)	Gujarat	2)	Madhya Pradesh
3)	Rajasthan	4)	Maharashtra
5)	None of these

Q817.

Svetlana Alexievich, a prolific writer whose oral histories have recorded thousands of individual voices to map the implosion of the Soviet Union, has won the Nobel prize for literature -2015. Which of the following statement/s is are correct ? A) She becomes the 14th woman to win the prize since it was first awarded in 1901. B) The last woman to win, Canada’s Alice Munro, was handed the award in 2013. C) She is a Belarusian writer and journalist.

1)	Only A and B are correct	2)	Only A and C are correct
3)	Only B and C are correct	4)	All A,B and C are correct
5)	None of these

Q818.

Recently, which  personality launched “Full Stop”, a national campaign against child sexual abuse,interacted with Facebook users which is to raise awareness about child sexual abuse as well as to empower and educate survivors and child victims and their loved ones and also provide resources for teachers, social workers, medical professionals and the police ?

1)	Malala Yousafzai	2)	Kailash Satyarthi
3)	Alice Walker	4)	Jane Waldfogel
5)	None of these

Q819.

World's richest cricket league  tournament Indian Premier League (IPL) will have a new title sponsor in its next edition because its old sponsor expressed its interest to terminate the association with the BCCI due to " Match Fixing"  issue. What is the name of the its old sponsor ?

1)	PepsiCo	2)	Star Sports
3)	Sahara India	4)	Airtel
5)	None of these

Q820.

John Williams has receive a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute by U.S. President Barack Obama , the National Medal of Arts in the East Room of the White House in Washington. He has given this award for  his contribution as a  --------- .

1)	Music Composer	2)	Film Director
3)	Actor	4)	Film Producer
5)	None of these