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9th August 2016 Current Affairs Questions and Answers

9th August 2016 Current Affairs MCQs, Quiz, Questions : Current Affairs for August 2016 ,  Daily Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) for In...

India GK Question Paper 115

India GK Question Sample Paper 115: India General Knowledge (GK) Sample Question Paper No. 115 with Collection of 15  Question of India GK Questions under GK Quiz in PDF @  India GK Sample Papers. India General Knowledge (GK) and General Science (GS)...

Nobel Prize and India

Nobel Prize and India:i. Nobel Prize is given in memory of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.ii. Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in the fields of literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace, and economics since 1901.iii. The Peace Prize...

India GK Question Paper 114

India GK Question Sample Paper 114: India General Knowledge (GK) Sample Question Paper No. 114 with Collection of 20  Question of India GK Questions under GK Quiz in PDF @  India GK Sample Papers. India General Knowledge (GK) and General Science (GS)...

Jyanpith Award and facts

Jyanpith Award & Important Facts: Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India.  Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country. Jyanpith Award  was instituted in 1961. First Jyanpith Awardee...

India GK Question Paper 113

India GK Question Sample Paper 113: India General Knowledge (GK) Sample Question Paper No. 113 with Collection of 20  Question of India GK Questions under GK Quiz in PDF @  India GK Sample Papers. India General Knowledge (GK) and General Science (GS)...

Dhaula Kuan rape case: All five convicts get life term

A Delhi court on Monday awarded the maximum punishment of life sentence to five convicts in the sensational 2010 Dhaula Kuan gangrape case in which a BPO executive from the North-east was the victim. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000...

Diesel deregulated, prices cut by Rs 3.37 a litre

Government on Saturday deregulated diesel prices, a move that will result in a price cut of Rs 3.37 a litre with effect from midnight on Saturday. Finance Minister Arun Jaitely said the Cabinet in its meeting today decided to deregulate or free diesel prices. Retail rates...

Burj Khalifa sets new record with "At The Top Sky", world's highest observation deck

The world's tallest building Burj Khalifa has clinched its newest Guinness World Records title for being the highest man-made vantage point on earth. For the first time, Emaar Properties, the developer of Burj Khalifa, yesterday opened the doors for the public to soak up...

Rock-cut Elephant, Dhauli

Rock-cut Elephant at Dhauli: Dhauli is located in the ancient territory of Kalinga, now the state of Orissa, which the emperor Ashoka Maurya (reigned 272-231 BC) conquered with appalling loss of life in about 260 BC. Rock-cut Elephant at Dhauli is one of oldest monument...

Jean Tirole wins Nobel prize for economics 2014

French economist Jean Tirole won the 2014 economics Nobel Prize for his analysis of market power and regulation, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. French economist Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize for economics for his work that has shed light on...

PSLV-C26 launch on 16th October 2014

The launch of ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C26, is now scheduled on Thursday, October 16, 2014 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. The launch window of the mission opens at 0132 hrs IST and lasts till 0147 hrs IST. The lift-off is scheduled...

Vitamins, diseases and their food source

Vitamins are organic compounds and a vital nutrient that an organism requires in limited amounts. Vitamins are group of organic compounds which are essential for normal growth and nutrition and are required in small quantities in the diet because they cannot be synthesized...

Freedom fighter Capt Abbas Ali passes away

Freedom fighter, politician and a veteran of Subhas Chandra Bose's Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army), Captain Abbas Ali, died of cardiac arrest at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College here on Saturday. He was 95. Ali, who is survived by his son, Qurban Ali, a journalist,...

Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai wins Nobel peace Prize 2014

Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai wins Nobel peace Prize 2014. Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian children’s rights activist along with Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education campaigner shot on school bus in 2012 by a Taliban gunman, has won the 2014 Nobel peace...

Chemistry Nobel Prize 2014 Winner - Patrick Modiano

Chemistry Nobel Prize 2014: The Swedish Academy announcing the Nobel prize 2014 in Literature to French, 69 years old Patrick Modiano. “For the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation” . Modiano,...

Veteran journalist M V Kamath passes away

Veteran journalist M V Kamath died at his native place Manipal in Karnataka on Thursday after a brief illness. He was 93 and was admitted to hospital for the past few days. Kamath, former chairman of Prasar Bharti and recipient of Padma Bhushan, was born in Udupi on 7th September 1921. Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has condoled the demise...

India GK Question Paper 112

India GK Question Sample Paper 112: India General Knowledge (GK) Sample Question Paper No. 112 with Collection of 20  Question of India GK Questions under GK Quiz in PDF @  India GK Sample Papers. India General Knowledge (GK) and General Science (GS)...

Chemistry Nobel Prize 2014 Winners

Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell won the Nobel Prize in chemistry today for developing new methods that let microscopes see finer details than they could before. The three scientists were cited for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy," which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said...

Invention of blue LEDs wins physics Nobel 2014

Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was awarded jointly to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources". The awarding committee said the trio's work is in...

India GK Question Paper 111

India GK Question Sample Paper 111: India General Knowledge (GK) Sample Question Paper No. 111 with Collection of 20  Question of India GK Questions under GK Quiz in PDF @  India GK Sample Papers. India General Knowledge (GK) and General Science (GS)...

Nobel Prize in Medicine for Discovery of brain's ‘Inner GPS’

British-American researcher John O'Keefe with a Norwegian couple, Edvard and May-Britt Moser awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering “an inner GPS, in the brain,” that makes navigation possible for virtually all creatures. They earned the coveted...

India GK Question Paper 110

India GK Question Sample Paper 110: India General Knowledge (GK) Sample Question Paper No. 110 with Collection of 20  Question of India GK Questions under GK Quiz in PDF @  India GK Sample Papers. India General Knowledge (GK) and General Science (GS)...

Mary Kom wins Gold in Asian Games 2014

M C Mary Kom on Wednesday became the first Indian woman boxer to clinch a gold medal at the Asian Games after she came from behind to beat Kazakhstan's Zhaina Shekerbekova in the flyweight (51KG) summit clash. The lone Indian boxer in action on Wednesday, Mary Kom defeated...

Current Affairs October 2014 for India, World

Current Affairs of India, World for the Month of October  2014: Current Affairs General Knowledge(GK) Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) for IAS/ Bank and other competitive examinations across India.  As part of Current Affairs , We will daily provides you Question...