INTERNATIONAL 1) What is the political party of Ranil Singhe, who is the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka? Ans:- United Nations Party 2) Name the Islamic State militant group deputy chief who killed by the US air strike on August 22 in Northen Iraq? Ans:- Fadil Ahmad al-Hayali 3) Name the Hakkani Hetwork Chief, whose name is included in the list of terrorism by America? Ans:- Abdul Haziz Hakkani (Pakistan) 4) Which country and Pakistan signed deal worth 1.6 billion US dollars to implement China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project? Ans:- China 5) Which country recently imposes anti-terror law that punishes ‘false’ reporting of attacks? Ans:- Egypt 6) Which country and China begin joint military ecercise in sea of Japan? Ans:- Russia INDIA & WORLD 1) Who are the two persons from India are in the top 20 places in forbe’s list of Technology field? Ans:- Ajim Premji, wipro Chairman & Shiv Nadar of HCL Technologies 2) Government of India approves MoU between India and which country to establish PACEsetter Fund? Ans:- America 3) Which is the first institute to get natural heritage recognition by UNESCO as currently there are 9 C2C institutes related to cultural heritage? Ans:- Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in Dehradun 4) Indian government aprroves pact with which country to curb black money ? Ans:- Seychelles NATIONAL 1) What is the new policy introduced by central government in view of Raksha Bandhan? Ans:- Suraksha Bandhan 2) What is the tele medicine program launched by the central government along with Appollo Hospitals on 25 August 2015? Ans:- SEHAT – Social Endeavour for Health And Telemedicine 3) Which commission of India recommended for amending the constitution for right to basic care of children under six years? Ans:- The Law Commission of India 4) Which scheme was launched by the Union Government on 10 August 2015 an initiative to bring students closer to nature? Ans:- School Nursery Yojana 5) Which banana variety from Thrissur district of Kerala has been accorded Geographical Indication (GI) status by the Chennai based Central GI registry? Ans:- Chengalikodan STATES 1) What is the only company from India which is in the 7th place in Fortune’s ‘Change the World’ List ? Ans:- Jain Irrigation Systems of Maharashtra 2) Which district in India has highest number of e-toilets in its schools? Ans:- Nellore 3) Which of the following states is going to become the first state in the country to launch ‘agrosolar policy’? Ans:- Gujarat 4) Which state HC stays implementation of compulsory voting Act in local polls? Ans:- Gujarat CONFERENCES 1) In the second summit of forun for India pacific Islands co-operation (FIPIC), which topic is discussed ? Ans:- Environmental changes 2) What is the theme of Global call to Action Summit 2015 held on New Delhi ? Ans:- Ending preventable child and material deaths AWARDS & HONOURS 1) Which famous Urdu Author has been chosen for the first Jnangarima Manad Alankaran Award of Bharatiya Jnanpith? Ans:- Shamim Hanfi 2) Who are the two persons selected for keerthi chakra, the gallentay award? Ans:- Lt. Colnel Sanjenbam and Subedar Rajesh Kumar 3) Who was the Jharkhand additional SP and CRPF officer won the police Medal for Gallentry (PMG) for the seventh time? Ans:- Prakash Ranjan Mishra 4) Name the person selected for Arjuna award in the field of weight lifting? Ans:- Satish Kumar SPORTS & GAMES 1) Who is the Chess Player from Andhra Pradesh won the Gold Medal in under – 18 Asia Youth Chess Championship? Ans:- N. Krishna Teja 2) Who is first in the world’s highest paid Athlete’s list of forbe’s Magazine? Ans:- Flyod Mayweather (Boxer) 3) Who ranks second in the forbe’s women’s list of world’s highest paid Athlets? Ans:- Serena Williams 4) Who won the title of world Badminton Championship held on 16th August, 2015 in Jakarta? Ans:- Carolina Marin (Spain) 5) Who has been elected as the new president of world Athletics Federation on 19 August, 2015? Ans:- Sebastian Coe ECONOMY 1) With the devaluation of Yuan in the market the Indian rupee lost how much value against us dollar? Ans:- 64.78 per cent (nearly 2 year low) 2) Who was the new chief of IDBI Bank? Ans:- Kishore Karat Piraji 3) According which act RBI relaxed Branch Authorisation Policy to allow banks to merge or close branches in urban areas? Ans:- Section 23 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 4) RBI grants approval to how many applicants to set up payment banks? Ans:- 11 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1) What is the newly discovered planet by NASA’s kepler mission? Ans:- Kepler – 453 b 2) At which of the following places has India’s first Integrated Underwater Harbour Defence and Surveillance System (IUHDSS) been commissioned? Ans:- Kochi 3) Asia’s biggest telescope Multi-Application Solar Telescope (MAST) was inaugurated at which of the following places recently? Ans:- Udaipur , India 4) Recently, which of the following Companies has commercially launched the high-speed 4G services across 296 towns across India? Ans:- Bharti Airtel 5) Recently NASA spacecraft finds neon gas on which planet? Ans:- Moon PERSONS IN NEWS A) APPOINTMENTS 1) Name the new CEO of Google, who is from India? Ans:- Sunder Pichai 2) Who was appointed as the new Election Commissioner on 13th August 2015 by the government? Ans:- OM Prakash Rawat 3) Name the newly appointed CEO of Association of Mutual funds of India (AMFI) on 17 August, 2015? Ans:- CVR Rajendran 4) Who was elected as President of Gymnastics Federation of India? Ans:- Sudhakar Shetty B) RESIGNS 1) Name the Greek Prime Minister who resigned and called for early election on 20 August, 2015? Ans:- Alexis Tsipras C) DEATHS 1) Name the retired colonel who participated in World War II, passed away on 4 August 2015? Ans:- Colnel Harwant Singh D) VISITORS 1) Who is the Mozambique president visited India on 5 August 2015 ? Ans:- Filipe Nyusi 2) Narendra Modi visited which great mosque in Abudhabi during his visit to UAE ? Ans:- Sheikh Sayed Grand Mosque E) MISCELLANEOUS 1) Name the CEO of Snapchat who is the World’s Wealthiest Youngster under 25? Ans:- Evan Spiegel 2) Name the world’s oldest person who is in Guiness records recently ? Ans:- Yasutaro Koide (Japan) 3) Which Senior actor and director has been selected as new chairman of Bharat Oscar Jury on 24 August, 2015? Ans:- Amol Plakar 4) Which global satellite was proposed to be named after Abdul Kalam? Ans:- GlobalSat for DRR 5) Who was appointed as a Maharashtra ambassador for the “Save the Tiger” campaign and promote tiger tourism? Ans:- Amitabh Bachchan PLACES IN NEWS 1) Who is the first person to upload a picture of Taj Moments in Twitter? Ans:- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav 2) The “Arabica” Coffee of Vishaka agency won which award on 25 August 2015? Ans:- “International Fine cup of coffee” 3) Which of the following airports became the world’s first airport to operate on solar power? Ans:- Cochin International Airport ABBREVIATIONS IN NEWS 1) What is the full form of FIPIC ? Ans:- Forum for India Pacific Islands Co operation 2) What is the full form of AMFI ? Ans:- Association of Mutual Funds of India BOOKS IN NEWS 1) What is the Classic Gujarati Novel, that is translated into English after 128 years? Ans:- Saraswathichandra COMMITTEES IN NEWS 1) Union Government constitutes 3-member panel to assess situation in FTII. Who is head of this panel? Ans:- SM Khan DAYS & DATES 1) Which day is celebrated on August 15 ? Ans:- Indian Independence Day 2) International Lefthanders Day is observed on which date ? Ans:- August 13 3) Women’s Equality Day is observed on which date ? Ans:- August 26