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OCTOBER
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1. India will host G20 summit in ......... ?
Ans- 2018 (2016 to China and in 2017 Germany)
2. Which country / territory flag was raised at United Nations for the first time in october?
Ans- Palestine
3. The International Day of Older Persons (IDOP) was observed across the world with the theme Sustainability and Age Inclusiveness in the Urban Environment ?
Ans- 1 October 2015
4. . World Vegetarian Day was observed on........?
Ans- 1 October 2015
5. What is the Full form of FATCA?
Ans- foreign account tax compliance act
6. Who was appointed as BCCI President ?
Ans-Shashank Manohar
7. Who has won the 2015 Right Livelihood Award ?
Ans-Inuit and Arctic activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier of Canada
8. Who has emerged as world’s largest cotton producer ?
Ans- India
9. Which Bank has become the first institution worldwide to launch m-Visa, a card-less and device-less solution to make the payments ?
Ans- ICICI Bank
10. India's first solar powered district court inaguratedby Prime Minister at which place ?
Ans- Khunti, Jharkhand
11. Who have won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of neutrino oscillations ?
Ans- Japan's Takaaki Kajita and American Arthur B. McDonald
12. Who have won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine-2015 ?
Ans- one half jointly to William C Campbell (Ireland) and Satoshi Omura (Japan) for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites and the other half to Youyou Tu (China) for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria.
13. DRDO inaugurated world’s highest Research Centre at which Place ?
Ans- Chang La, Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir at 17600 feet
14. . India’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow at which rate according to United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) ?
Ans-7.5 per cent
15. Who won 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry ?
Ans-Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, the US-based Paul Modrich and Turkish-born Aziz Sancar for work on mapping how cells repair damaged DNA.
16. The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Conference 2016 will be held at which place ?
Ans- New Delhi from 8 January to 10 January 2016.
17. India’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow at which rate