14/01/2015
Here we are posting some important current affairs questions of October month for various upcoming banking examination..
Union government accorded in-principle approval for setting up six more STPIs in - Odisha
• In Uttar Pradesh, an army chopper that crashed in Bareilly killed three officials including - two Majors and a pilot
• The Reserve Bank of India relaxed Know Your Customer (KYC) norms by allowing - self-certification of documents for opening bank accounts
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched - Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign
• Thirty two people were killed in a stampede that occurred at the main Dussehra event at - Gandhi Maidan in Patna
• Indo-Bangladesh Joint Rafting Expedition was conducted on the - Siyom River in West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the countrymen over radio for the first time in his programme - Mann Ki Baat
• World Animal Day was observed across the world on - 4 October
• Rajasthan became first Indian state to start olive refinery that is located in - Lunkaransar area of Bikaner
• NASA’s Earth Observatory claimed that world’s fourth-largest lake has dried and is at the verge of vanish - Aral Sea
• ISIS militants beheaded British aid worker - Alan Henning
• In Cricket Chennai Super Kings (CSK) won - the Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) 2014 title
• Bollywood actor who 2014 received Global Diversity Award 2014 at the Britain’s House of Commons - Shah Rukh Khan
• Researchers at University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Appalachian Laboratory have developed a tool to overcome the major challenge of predicting - how organisms may respond to climate change
• A reputed newspaper of United States that issued an apology to its readers for its racist cartoon on India’s Mars Mission - The New York Times
• USA Swimming suspended Olympic champion swimmer from all competition for six months for violating the organization's code of conduct - Michael Phelps
• Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni became the co-owner of the Indian Super League franchise - Chennaiyin FC
• Britain and Ireland inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on - new joint Visa cooperation
• The Mauritian parliament was dissolved to pave the way for elections that could - lead to changes in the country's constitution
• Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh launched the ingeniously manufactured - Broad Spectrum Confocal Microscope that generates 3D images of objects
• Madhava Menon panel submitted its report to Supreme Court with guidelines on - government ads
• Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was bestowed an honorary knighthood from - Queen Elizabeth II
• A book titled Syntheism – Creating God in The Internet Age is authored by - Alexander Bard
• Georgetown University’s first Hindu priest (Chaplain) is - Pratima Dharm
• Author of book Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace - Leon Panetta, and Jim Newton
• World Post Day was observed globally on - 9 October
• Chairperson of Sangeet Natak Akademi who tendered her resignation - Leela Samson
• The US Department of Defence, Pentagon, approved - two previously-stalled technology transfer licences to India
• Roger Federer won his maiden ATP Shanghai Masters trophy by defeating - Gilles Simon
• Cyclonic Storm Hudhud that struck the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. Its name was kept on the national bird of Israel - Hoopoe bird
• Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) removed former IPL Commissioner - Lalit Modi as its President
• National Kishore Kumar Award for 2012-13 was conferred on noted lyricist - Sameer
• Indian shuttler who won the 50000 dollar Dutch Open Grand Prix badminton tournament - Ajay Jayaram
• According to contingent sponsors Samsung India Most Valuable Player of India’s Incheon Asian Games campaign was - MC Mary Kom
• British lawmakers voted in favour to recognise Palestine as - an official state
• Scientists from the Australian National University (ANU) based in Canberra found that the sea levels have risen more in past century - as compared to any century in past 6000 years
• Germany’s President honoured the bravery of peaceful protesters - who stood up to the communist dictatorship in East Germany 25 years ago
• Australian author Richard Flanagan won the 50000 pounds Man Booker Prize for his wartime novel - The Narrow Road to the Deep North
• Global Handwashing Day (GHD) was observed across the world on - 15 October
• Author of book, Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar - Dilip D’Souza
• International Day for the Eradication of Poverty was observed across the world on - 17 October
• India and Norway signed 13 agreements during state visit of - President Pranab Mukherjee
• ISRO repositioned its Mars Orbiter, Mangalyaan as a precautionary step against the expected -Comet Siding Spring that was supposed to fly by Mars
• Union Government appointed US-based economist Arvind Subramanian as - Chief Economic Advisor (CEA)
• Venezuela, Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand and Spain were elected as non-permanent members of - United Nations Security Council
• The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved appointment of Rajiv Mehrishi as - the Union Finance Secretary in Department of Economic Affairs
• Indian-origin Singaporean poet and writer who was named for the 2014 Cultural Medallion, the highest cultural award of Singapore - KTM Iqbal
• The Union Urban Development Ministry appointed PSN Rao as the new Chairman of - the Delhi Urban Art Commission
• The Reserve Bank of India signed a pact with the Central Bank of Kenya for - Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information
• Dr. Raghuram Rajan was conferred with - Euromoney’s Central Bank Governor of the Year Award 2014
• Britain would use an act to charge citizens who prefer to fight with ISIS insurgents in Iraq and Syria - Treason Act of 1351
• Astronomers in October 2014 discovered a new planet that resembles Uranus in a binary star system 25000 light-years away near - the constellation Sagittarius
• India successfully defended its Sultan of Johor Cup (SOJC) Under-21 Hockey title at - Taman Daya Hockey Stadium, Johor Bohru, Malaysia
• India was re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) - for the period of 2015 to 2017
• Union Government ordered merger of the scam-hit firm, National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL) with its holding company Financial Technologies India Ltd (FTIL) and invoked - Section 396 of the Companies Act for the merger
• 2014 Liberty Medal was conferred at the National Constitution Centre in Philadelphia to - Malala Yousafzai
• Retirement fund body Employees' Provident Fund Organisation has started a new facility to transfer provident funds of foreign employees to - bank accounts in their own countries
• India and China have agreed to step up engagements between their militaries by setting up hotlines between the Army headquarters - to address incidents of incursions
• The US has tightened its guidelines for health workers who are treating patients with Ebola virus - calling for new competency training
• For abrupt cancellation of their tour to India, BCCI will initiate legal proceedings against - West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)
• The 2014 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge was won by - Sahil Doshi, an Indian-American student
• Ashwika Kapur became the first Indian woman to win prestigious Wildscreen Panda Award for her film - Sirocco - how a dud became a stud
• Noted freedom fighter who worked for Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's Azad Hind Fauj died after prolonged illness in Almora, Uttarakhand - Jagdish Sharan Pande
• Senior Google vice-president who broke the world altitude record for highest free-fall parachute jump set by Austrian Felix Baumgartner is – Alan Eustace
International Boxing Association (AIBA) provisionally suspended Indian boxer for protesting against a controversial verdict, at 2014 Incheon Asian Games - Laishram Sarita Devi
• South Africa's football captain and goalkeeper who died on 26 October 2014 after being shot - Senzo Meyiwa
• First BJP leader and first non-jay person in 18-years to be sworn-in as the tenth Chief Minister of Haryana - Manohar Lal Khattar
• Sania Mirza of India and Cara Black of Zimbabwe won the doubles title of - the BNP Paribas Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Finals Singapore
• The Union Finance Ministry on 27 October 2014 launched a dedicated website for - Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana
• Brazilian incumbent President was re-elected for her second four-year term - Dilma Rousseff of center-left Workers’ Party
• 68th Infantry Day was observed across India to pay homage to war heroes on - 27 October
• Person who was described as a Soviet Spy by the declassified documents of the National Archives of Britain - Former Indian ambassador, Arathil Candeth Narayan Nambiar
• Telecom giant of Japan that has pledged to make an investment of 10 billion US dollars in India's IT and communications sector in coming years - SoftBank
• First copy of book titled Tulsi Smriti Granth on Acharya Tulsi was received by - the President Pranab Mukhejee
• Union Finance Ministry canceled the current selection process for the posts of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) and Executive Director (ED) of - Public Sector Banks
• Union Government submitted list of 627 Indians holding black money abroad to the Supreme Court (SC) after it was - harshly rapped for providing a protective shield to account holders
• Taiwan banned its government officials from higher studies in mainland China for - national security reasons
• India and Saudi Arabia agreed to cooperate in different areas of - hydrocarbon sector
• 2014 World’s Children Prize was awarded to - Malala Yousafzai
• 2014 World's Children's honorary awards were given to - Indira Ranamagar and John Wood
• Sachin Tendulkar and Steve Waugh entered - Bradman Hall of Fame
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