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Sep 2014
Sep 2014
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1) The
much-awaited
Nalanda
University started operations from 1
September 2014. The first two schools
to start are the School of Ecology and
Environmental Studies and School of
Historical Studies. Who is heading this
university, which was created following
a special Act of Parliament in 2010, as
its first Chancellor? Prof. Amartya
Sen
Explanation : The modern Nalanda
University was created to blend values
of the ancient Nalanda university that
was one of the worlds first residential
university established during the fifth
century by the kings belonging to Gupta
Empire. The newly started Nalanda
University is situated in Rajgir, near
Nalanda in Bihar. It is part of an
ambitious plan for reviving and reestablishing Nalanda University which
was one of the oldest and most
prestigious higher-learning institutions
of the World. But as there has not been
any construction so far, the university
started
functioning
from
Rajgir
Convention Centre, a state government
building. Government-owned Tathagat
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September 2, 2014
finalized on 1 September 2014, Japan
would sell military hardware to a
country for the first time since World
War-II. What is the name of this seaplane? US-2
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September 3, 2014
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Rice
Bucket
Challenge
was
conceived as an innovative way of
feeding the poor by donating buckets
of rice. Huge amount of rice was
collected and distributed to the needy
through Manjulathas Rice Bucket
Challenge within days of it being
launched. She would be honoured with
the Karmaveer Chakra Award and the
Rex Karmaveer Global Fellowship by
iCONGO for doing something small,
yet significant, to make a difference in
the world.
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September 4, 2014
1) What was the overall status of
livestock population in the country as
stated in the 19th Livestock Census for
2012 released on 3 September 2014?
Overall decline of 3.3% in
livestock population as compared
to 2007
Explanation :
The
19th Livestock
Census (2012) published by the
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Backoff
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September 5, 2014
collaboration between it and India?
Australia
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September 6, 2014
1) In a major step towards realising its
nuclear energy ambitions, India on 5
September 2014 signed the Civil
Nuclear
Cooperation
Agreement
(CNCA) with Australia. The deal thus
concluded uranium sales talks that
started between the two countries
during 2012. What is the global status
of Australia in uranium deposits? It
has about a third of the worlds
recoverable uranium resources
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September 7, 2014
1) An indigenously made nuclear plant
unit of India recently made history by
running continuously for a period 765
days, or a little over two years. This
unit is associated with which power
plant of India? Rawatbhata Nuclear
Power Plant in Rajasthan
Explanation :
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September 8, 2014
1) The Law Ministry of India has
opined that the Government of India
has all the powers to print currency
notes of Re. 1 denomination. Why the
opinion of Law Ministry on this issue
was taken?
The RBI was of the view that with
the repeal of Section 2 of the
Currency
Ordinance,
the
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Explanation:
2) The Union Government during
September 2014 asked Expenditure
Management Commission (EMC) to
suggest an effective strategy for
meeting reasonable proportion of
expenditure on services through user
charges. The newly set up EMC will
have to review the major areas of
Central Government expenditure and
suggest ways for creating fiscal space
required to meet developmental
expenditure needs. Who is heading
EMC?
Bimal Jalan (former RBI Governor)
Explanation:
Bimal Jalan, who has been conferred
with the status of a Union Cabinet
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Explanation:
The
persistency
ratio
broadly
measures the quantum of the
customer retention by the life
insurance
companies,
while
determining
the
percentage
of
policyholders
paying
renewal
premiums at the end of one year, or
more years depending on the tenure of
the policy. However, persistency ratio
has been one of the most abused
financial metric by many insurers, who
tend to disclose their best possible
persistency ratios without following
any standard formula or any specific
time period. The insurance sector
regulator IRDA earlier this year made
changes in norms for such disclosures
and put in place a standard formula to
be followed by all companies in
reporting their 13th month persistency
ratios. An analysis of the disclosures
made by various life insurers so far
this year shows that there has been a
marked decline in the high level of
persistency reported earlier by many
companies.
Future Group
Explanation:
Future Generali Life Insurance is life
insurance venture between Kishore
Explanation:
British F1 driver Lewis Hamilton
defeated his teammate Nico Rosberg
(Germany) to make the race to F1
champion for 2014 more interesting.
Third place was taken by Williams
Brazilian
driver
Felipe
Massa.
However, Nico Rosberg is still leading
the 2014 season with 22 points lead
over Hamilton.
September 9, 2014
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Explanation :
Goran
Ivanisevic
became the first-ever Grand Slam
singles title winner from Croatia when
he won Wimbledon mens singles title
in 2001. He is now the coach of Marin
ili who defeated Japans Kei
Nishikori 6-3 6-3 6-3 in under two
hours in the finals. Kei Nishikori had
earlier created history after he became
first Asian male player to make it to the
final of a Grand Slam after he defeated
Serbian Novak Djokovic in the semifinals.
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3) Which
private-sector
bank
announced its unique Cardless Cash
Withdrawal service on 10 September
2014, which allows its customers to
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Improving
Childrens
Lives,
Transforming the Future 25 years of
child rights in South Asia. According
to the report, highest rate of child
marriage is in Bangladesh (where two
out of every three girls marry before
age 18), followed by India, Nepal and
Afghanistan. In India, 43% of women
aged 20-24 were first married by the
age of 18 between 2005 and 2013. At
71 million, India had the largest
number of children under the age of
five whose births were not registered
between 2000 and 2012.
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second
largest
petrochemical
company in India. Apart from TCG,
other stake-holders in HPL are the
West Bengal government, Indian Oil
Corporation (IOC) and the Tata Group.
HPLs huge petrochemical complex is
situated at Haldia in West Bengal
which is around 120 km from capital
Kolkata. The complex has been shut
for more than two months with
authorities citing reasons of a technical
snag. The company had long been
facing fund crunch and was operating
the plant at sub-optimal capacity owing
to non-availability of naphtha in
desired amount. As per the terms of
agreement, the West Bengal Industrial
Development Corporation (WBIDC)
would transfer its block of around 40%
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alternative
banking.
platforms
like
mobile
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3) The
Union
Cabinet
on
15
September 2014 gave its approval to a
new mission to address the gaps in
health services through promotion of
ancient and traditional systems of
medicine like Ayurved, Siddha, Unani
and Homeopathy. What is the name of
this mission? National AYUSH
Mission (NAM)
Explanation: The proposed Mission
will address the gaps in health
services through supporting the efforts
of
State
and
Union
Territory
Governments for providing AYUSH
health services/education in the
country, particularly in vulnerable and
far-flung areas. The term AYUSH has
been used for clubbing various
traditional and ancient medicine
systems like Ayurved, Siddha, Unani,
Explanation: According
to
the
announcement
made
by
Films
Division, there will be two permanent
venues for the MIFF. Every year MIFF
will be organised at four venues and
two among these will be permanent
venues. Aizawl will be one such
permanent venue. Films Division,
which comes under the Information
and
Broadcasting
Ministry,
is
organising the week-long MIFF 2014
at Aizawl which was inaugurated on 15
September.
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1) A
major
pharma
company
announced on 15 September 2014
that it would sell Sovaldi, the so-called
wonder drug for Hepatitis C, in India
for about $1800 (around 1.1 lakh) for a
24-week treatment regimen. The same
drug costs $84,000 (around Rs. 50.5
lakh) in the U.S. for the same regimen.
What is the name of the company
which holds patent for this drug and
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3) Which
Indian
Institute
of
Management (IIM) of the country on
17
September
2014
launched
www.iboughtproperty.com,
a
crowdsourcing
portal,
with
the
objective of promoting transparency in
the
real estate
sector?
IIM
Bangalore
Explanation: The portal has been
developed to create benchmarks for
property values by collecting data
directly from buyers and validating the
information using standard scientific
practices. It will have the facility to take
information from the persons who
have bought or sold properties in
recent years about what they paid or
received after providing some basic
details about the property. A market
value report summarising information
across all respondents that will be
shared with the public seeks to
alleviate a key source of consumer
anxiety. Policymakers can utilise this
data to study the effects of registration
charges and stamp duty rates on
disclosed property prices and the
impact of the parallel economy in this
sector.
Explanation: Baruas
Guwahati
residence was searched by the
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
on 28 August 2014 in connection with
the multicrore Saradha chit-fund scam.
He reportedly shot himself at his
residence. Barua headed the Assam
Police as the DGP from July 2009 to
January 2012.
.
2) How many agreements were signed
between India and China on the
occasion of Chinese President Xi
Jinpings official visit to India?
Sixteen (16)
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between
Mumbai-Shanghai
and
Ahmedabad- Guangzhou was inked so
as to enhance people-to-people
exchanges fostering greater mutual
understanding between the respective
sister cities.
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Explanation: The
route
through
Nathu-la Pass will augment the
capacity and reduce the hardship and
journey time for this annual Yatra to
the abode of Lord Shiva. The new path
will enable many more pilgrims,
particularly the aged ones, to
undertake the Yatra. However, Indias
request to open another route through
Shipki-la pass in Himachal Pradesh
was not accepted by Chinese
authorities. The route via Nathu-la will
however prove a long one, particularly
for pilgrims from Northern and
Western regions of India.
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2) Scottish
voters
rejected
the
proposed independence of Scotland
from the United Kingdom (UK) in a
keenly-watched referendum held on
18 September 2014. The results of the
referendum were declared on 19
September 2014. With this Scotland
would continue to remain part of the
UK. In which year Scotland joined the
UK? In 1707
Explanation: 55.3% Scottish voters
voted in favour of remaining with the
UK while the remaining 44.7% voted
for independence of Scotland. The
question asked in this referendum was
Should Scotland be an independent
country?. In is worth mentioning that
Scotland joined the United Kingdom in
1707 which comprised of England,
Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Northern
Ireland.
Later
Ireland
became
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Explanation: Dr.
Ketan
Desais
appointment as WMA President was
published in the latest issue of the
WMA journal. He was chosen as
president-elect of the WMA in 2009
prior to his arrest by the CBI in 2010.
He allegedly went before the WMA
Assembly last year with a letter from
the Indian Medical Association (IMA)
claiming that the CBI had dropped all
charges against him. However, a large
medical fraternity of the country feels
that it is unacceptable that a doctor
who is awaiting trial for serious
criminal charges of bribery and
corruption
and
whose
medical
registration still remains suspended by
the MCI would head the world medical
body.
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4) The
National
Pharmaceuticals
Pricing Authority (NPPA) announced
to roll-back its earlier decision to bring
about 108 non-scheduled drugs under
price control. These drugs are meant
for the treatment of lifestyle diseases
such as heart disease and diabetes.
Which Paragraph of the Drug Price
Control Order, 2013 (DPCO 2013) is
associated with this issue?
Paragraph 19
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3) Which
former
Union
Home
Secretary took over as the Chairman
of Tata International, the global trading
and distribution arm of the Tata
Group? GK Pillai
Explanation: Apart from being a
former Union Home Secretary, Pillai
also
took
some
other
highly
responsible government jobs such as
Union Commerce Secretary and
Secretary of the Department of Justice
in the Ministry of Law and Justice. As
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5) International
ratings
agency
Standard & Poors (S&Ps) revised the
rating outlooks on 11 Indian banks and
financial institutions to stable from
negative. However, the outlook was
still kept negative for two banks. Which
two banks are these? Indian
Overseas Bank (IOB) and Syndicate
Bank
Explanation: The negative outlook for
Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) and
Explanation: Mt.
Ontake,
which
straddles Nagano and Gifu prefectures
around 200 km of Tokyo, started
erupting on the morning of 27
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5) On 28 September 2014 O.
Panneerselvam was chosen as the
next Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu to
take place of the convicted AIADMK
chief J. Jayalalithaa. He was elected
as the leader of AIADMK legislature
party held at Chennai. This would be
the second time that Panneerselvam
would take place of Jayalalithaa in
almost similar circumstances. In which
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Explanation: The
total
distance
between Sydney (Australia) and
Dallas/ Fort Worth (U.S.) is 8,578
miles (13,804km). It is now the longest
regular passenger flight in the world
being serviced by Qantas. It is
followed by Deltas Johannesburg to
Atlanta
flight
at
8,439
miles
(13,582km) and Emirates Dubai Los
Angeles flight at 8,390 miles
(13,420km).
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