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India, Israel signed pacts on - Double Taxation Avoidance & Cultural Exchange India, US and Japan began five-day Malabar Exercise 2015 Which European country has became the first to sign the MoU on establishment of Nalanda University - Portugal Name the mobile app launched by Uttar Pradesh Government for health workers - mSehat Who has approved Vienna Agreement on Iran Nuclear Programme - Iran’s Parliament Union Cabinet approved MoU with Mozambique for - cooperation in renewable energy Who has been appointed as Executive Chairman of Twitter - Omid Kordestani Tata Housing to sell its affordable homes online tied-up with - Facebook Name the online fashion store launched by Aditya Birla Group - Abof.com . Who has been appointed as the Assistant Director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO)? Kundhavi Kadiresan Who has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd? M K Surana Who has been appointed as the Director of the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad under the Department of Biotechnology?

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Page 1: Current affairs

India, Israel signed pacts on - Double Taxation Avoidance & Cultural Exchange

India, US and Japan began five-day Malabar Exercise 2015

Which European country has became the first to sign the MoU on establishment of Nalanda University - Portugal

Name the mobile app launched by Uttar Pradesh Government for health workers - mSehat

Who has approved Vienna Agreement on Iran Nuclear Programme - Iran’s Parliament

Union Cabinet approved MoU with Mozambique for - cooperation in renewable energy

Who has been appointed as Executive Chairman of Twitter - Omid Kordestani

Tata Housing to sell its affordable homes online tied-up with - Facebook

Name the online fashion store launched by Aditya Birla Group - Abof.com.

Who has been appointed as the Assistant Director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO)?

Kundhavi Kadiresan

Who has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd?

M K Surana

Who has been appointed as the Director of the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad under the Department of Biotechnology?

G R Chandak

Who is the winner of Sultan of Johor Cup Junior Men’s Hockey Tournament 2015?

UK

The drug ‘Keytruda’ approved by US Food and Drug Administration is used to treat which of the following disease?

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Lung cancer

Who is the winner of the First feature award known as Sutherland award, in 2015 London Film fare festival?

Robert Egger

Which one of the following universities will be receiving 234 million dollars as compensation for patent infringement from Apple Inc.?

University of Wisconsin

Which of the following countries has signed a MoU to establish air safety measures and avoid mid-air incidents over Syrian Skies?

Russia and US

What is the monthly pensionamount announced for the Yash Bharti Awardees by the Uttar Pradesh government?

Rs. 50,000

Recently, Ahmed Mansoor has won the Martin Ennals award 2015 for Human rights Defenders. He belongs to

which of the following country?

UAE

Who ranks at the top of Forbes list on Asia’s Richest Family?

Lee family

Who among the following has won Best opposite spiker award in women’s Volleyball championship 2015?

Lonneke Sloetjes

Who is honoured with Presidential Medal for promoting peace - Tibetan PM Sangay

Who is the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the year in the Forbes India Leadership Awards 2015?

R C Bhargava

Who is the winner of the Right Livelihood Award 2015?

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Sheila Watt Cloutier

Adani port and L&T has signed a MoU to supervise which of the following port operations?

Katupalli shipyard

Who has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Flipkart for its commerce platform?

Sriram Venkatraman

Name the patrol vessel which has been participated in 26th edition of CORPAT?

INS Saryu

Which of the following city is hosting Indo-German Summit Digitising?

Bangalore

Who is the winner of the Malaysia Open title which was held at Kuala Lumpur?

David Ferrer

Who has been appointed as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of twitter?

Adam Bain

Who has been appointed as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Infosys?

Ranganath D Mavinakere

Who is the first Black Women to win the award for leading actress in the 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 2015?

Viola Davis

Who has been appointed as the New Zealand Tourism Ambassador?

Siddharth Malhotra

Recently India has signed 6 MoU’s with which of the following country in various fields and to enhance their cooperation in counter-terrorism and defence?

Jordan

Name the Indian American Professor who has been awarded with the 2015 MacArthur Fellow “Genius Grant”?

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Karthik Chandran

Which city will host South Asian Games in January 2016?

Guwahati and Shillong

Name the person who has been recently honored by the UK City of Conventry?

Ratan Tata

Which country has proposed the new four point “Peace Initiative” at UN?

Pakistan

Who has been appointed as the CMD of Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd - MK Surana

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty observed on - 17th October

Which two countries have signed 10 MoUs to enhance bilateral cooperation - India and Israel

Central Victim Compensation Fund set up with 200 crore rupees by Union Government

Name the birthplace of Dr. Abdul Kalam, included as 498th town under AMRUT - Rameswaram

Science Express Climate Action Special train flaggedd of by - Union Government

Pedana fabric recommended for the - Handloom Brand

Which state has signed GCA with GAIL for construction of Urja Ganga Jagdishpur-Haldia Pipeline - Jharkhand

Who has approved RCE for Kaladan Multi Modal Project in Myanmar - Union Cabinet

Union Cabinet approved MoU between - ITA in Taipei and TECC in India

Who has been appointed as FAO Assistant Director-General - Kundhavi Kadiresan

Who is honoured with Presidential Medal for promoting peace - Tibetan PM Sangay

Which hydropower station has been operationalised by China - Zam Hydropower station

P.V. Chandran was elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for 2015-16.

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Which company has launched three new-age IT services viz. design thinking, platforms and knowledge-based IT, through an umbrella offering called Aikido? Infosys.