Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders have signed a declaration for launching ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) which would be similar to European Union (EU)-style regional economic bloc....
Indigenously developed supersonic Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile was successfully test fired from the Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast. Test facts: The supersonic interceptor missile...
India-born Swati Dandekar has been appointed as the United States director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). She was nominated to this position by US President Barack Obama...
French President Francois Hollande will be the Chief Guest at the 67th Republic Day parade of January 26, 2016. The announcement might have been finalised during the talks...
A special cleanliness drive, Swachh Delhi Abhiyan has been launched in the national capital Delhi to remove debris and garbage lying in various localities. The drive was launched...
Uttar Pradesh government’s ambitious Clean UP, Green UP initiative has earned itself a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Under state government’s green drive initiative 10...
10 day state of emergency was delcared in the Mali by President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita following terrorist attack in country’s capital city Bamako. Apart from declaring state of...
The Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has constituted a 13 member expert committee exclusively on Sanskrit in its attempt to revive interest in the ancient Indian classical...
World number one Novak Djokovic from Serbia has become the first tennis player to win the ATP World Tour Finals for record fourth consecutive time. In the final...
India’s junior men’s hockey team has won the Eight edition of Men’s Junior Asia hockey cup. In the finals played at Kuantan (Malaysia) India defeated arch rivals Pakistan...
A progressive tax is imposed to raise the tax rate effectively more than the rate at which it was applied. It is characterised by a more than proportional...
1. What is the India’s rank in the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2015? [A]4th [B]6th [C]8th [D]10th Answer: 6th According to the 3rd edition of the Global Terrorism...
