Current Affairs

The theme of World Tourism
Day observed on 27 Sep
2015
One billion
tourists, one
billion
opportunities
The Governor of Manipur
who passed away on 27 Sep
2015
Syed Ahmed
The venue of United Nations
Sustainable Development
Summit 2015 held from 25
to 27 Sep 2015 for adoption
of post-2015 development
agenda
New York
The tennis player who has
won the TVS-ITF Futures
Tennis Tournament Mens'
Single title defeating Vishnu
Vardhan in the finals
Sumit Nagal
The new name of Facebook
owned mobile app
internet.org
Free Basics
The venue of 6th edition of
AbilityFest2015 India — an
international disability film
festival to be held from Sep
28 to Oct 1
Chennai
The organisation which has
been presented a certificate
by Limca Book of Records
for the Largest Yoga
performance simultaneously
by a single uniformed youth
organisation at multiple
venues on International Day
of Yoga on 21 Jun 2015
NCC
The venue of 9th Regional
Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas to be
organized on 14 and 15
November 15 with the theme
The Indian Diaspora:
Defining a New Paradigm in
India-US Relationship
Los Angeles
The film directed by
Chaitanya Tamhane which
has been chosen to be
India's official entry to the
Academy Awards (Oscars) in
the Best Foreign Film
Category
Court
The latest version of
Microsoft Office productivity
suite which was released for
OS X and Windows on 22
Sep 15 (it was released for
Office 365 users in July
2015)
Microsoft Office
2016
The CEO of German
automotive multinational,
Volkswagen AG who
resigned taking responsibility
for an emissions cheating
scandal related to the
company's diesel cars
Martin
Winterkorn
The Indian subsidiary of
Norway-based Telewings
Communications which has
rebranded itself as Telenor
Uninor
The Chairpersons of PepsiCo
and Hindustan Times Group
who have been awarded the
2015 Global Leadership
Award by the US India
Business Council
Indra Nooyi and
Shobana Bhartia
The President of Board Of
Control for Cricket in India
and Cricket Association of
Bengal who passed away on
20 Sep 2015
Jagmohan
Dalmiya
The venue of 55th National
Athletics Open
Championships held from 16
to 19 Sep 2015
Kolkata
The British-American
romance novelist, well-
known author of The World
Is Full of Married Men, who
passed away on 19 Sep 2015
Jackie Collins
The country which has
passed bills allowing its
military to engage in
overseas combat in limited
circumstances for the first
time after World War II
Japan
The premiere design school
which has designed the
symbol for None of the
above (NOTA) option for
voters on EVMs and ballot
papers
National
Institute of
Design,
Ahmedabad
The two rivers which have
been linked in India's first
river-linking project,
popularly known as
Pattiseema project
Godavari and
Krishna
The Indian institutes which
have figured in the QS World
University Rankings of
2015-16 at rank 147 and 179
respectively
Indian Institute
of Science,
Bengaluru and
IIT, Delhi
The leader of the Liberal
Party who has assumed
office as the 29th Prime
Minister of Australia after
defeating the former PM
Tony Abbott in a leadership
ballot
Malcolm
Turnbull
The six-day exhibition being
held at the India Gate lawns
in New Delhi celebrating the
Golden Jubilee of Indo-Pak
War of 1965 is named
Shauryanjali
The music group which has
won the Dhun music contest
organised by the National
Skill Development
Corporation (NSDC), under
the Ministry of Skill
Development and
Entrepreneurship, and Citizen
Alliance to find the "Dhun of
Skill"
61X MHZ
The American professional
boxer who has matched
Rocky Marciano's record of
49-0 (wins and losses) by
defeating Andre Berto in
professional boxing fight,
contested for the
welterweight and super
welterweight championships
Flyod
Mayweather
The Mohiniyattam exponent
and Padma Shri recipient
dancer and choreographer
who passed away on 13
September
Kalamandalam
Satyabhama
The bilaterial maritime
exercise being conducted off
the coast of Visakhapatnam
by the navies of India and
Australia for the first time is
named (Indian ships - INS
Shivalik, INS Ranvijay and
INS Shakti and Australian
ships - HMAS Sirius, HMAS
Arunta and submarine HMAS
Sheean
AUSINDEX - 15
The severe tropical storm
which caused widespread
flooding in Japan forcing
evacuation of over 100,000
people was named
Typhoon Etau
The venue of 10th World
Hindi Conference being held
from 10 to 12 Sep with
Madhya Pradesh as partner
state
Bhopal
The new species of ancient
human relative whose
remains have been found in
Johannesburg, South Africa
has been named
Homo naledi
The place in Karnataka
which has been chosen to
be the seat of state's first
Indian Institute of
Technology
Dharwad
The chemical whose import
in loose form has been
prohibited by the Govt of
India on the grounds that it
is a threat to national
security (It has be imported
in bagged form with the
consignment packed at the
point of origin)
Ammonium
Nitrate
The Indian golf player who
has become the first from
the country to qualify for the
prestigious President's Cup
team (President's Cup is a
golf tournament in which the
United States team
competes against an
international team)
Anirban Lahiri
The theme of International
Literacy Day 2015 observed
on 08 September
Literacy and
Sustainable
Societies
The leatest establishment of
the Indian Navy at Karwar,
Karnataka commissioned by
the Defence Minister Shri
Manohar Parrikar is named
INS Vajrakosh
The award instituted by the
Government of India in 1995
which was conferred on the
Indian Space Research
Organisation by the
President Dr. Pranab
Mukherjee
Gandhi Peace
Prize, 2014
The place in Bihar where
three-day International
Buddhist conclave was held
with delegates from 47
countries attending it
Gaya
The pain-killer drug the
multi-dose vials of which
have been banned by the
Govt to save the vultures
from extinction (the vultures
feeding on carcasses of
cattle administered with the
drug die soon after. The drug
will now be available only in
3 ml vials to prevent misuse)
Diclofenac
The island off the coast of
Odisha (Integrated Test
Range maintaining a missile
testing facility is located in
the island) which has been
named after the former
President APJ Abdul Kalam
Azad
Wheeler Island
The denomination in which
the Reserve Bank of India
has decided to issue coins
to commemorate golden
jubilee of Indo-Pak war 1965
Rs. 5
The Indian Railways zone
which has become the first
in the country to eliminate
all unmanned level crossings
from its system by August
31, 2015
West Central
The South African city which
has been chosen to host the
2022 Commonwealth Games
becoming the first African
city to host the games
Durban
As per a report released by
Internet and Mobile
Association of India (IAMAI)
the number of internet users
in India is
350 million
The mobile app launched by
Railway Minister Suresh
Prabhu for monitoring freight
operation is named
Parichalan