Current Affairs in June 2016

1. Who is the new chief minister of Assam?

Ans: Sarbananda Sonowal

2. Name the multilingual knowledge portal launched by the Ministry of Human Resources Development.

Ans: Bharatvani (www.bharatvani.in)

3. Frances Arnold, a bio engineer from the United States, has won which international award recently?

Ans: Millennium Technology Prize

4. The establishment of which National Investment and Manufacturing Zone in Odisha was recently approved by the Government of India?

Ans: Kalinganagar

5. Who are the winners of the 2016 Indian Premier League?  

Ans: Sunrisers Hyderabad

They defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 8 runs in the finals.

6. Which football club won the 2016 European Champions League?

Ans: Real Madrid FC.

                         They defeated Atletico Madrid in the finals.

7. The International Day of UN Peacekeepers was observed on: 

Ans: May 29

8. The land-attack version of which supersonic cruise missile was test fired recently?

Ans: BrahMos

9. Who wrote the recently released book, 'Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up'?

Ans: Rana Ayyub

10. The 2016 United Nations World Humanitarian Summit was held in which city?

Ans: Istanbul, Turkey

11. Which Indian chief minister was recently conferred the literary award of Nepal, 'Yug Kavi Siddhicharan Prize'?

Ans: Pawan Kumar Chamling

                                  He was awarded the prize for his commendable contributions in promoting Nepali literature in India.

12. Who is the new Chairman and Managing Director of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India?

Ans: S.K. Sharma

13. Who is the new Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry?

Ans: Kiran Bedi

14. Who heads the committee, constituted by the Government of India, to suggest ways to re-balance the overall defence expenditure and recommend measures to enhance the combat capabilities of the armed forces?

Ans: Lt. Gen. D.B. Shekatkar

15. Which popular Indian writer wrote the two recently released books, My Favourite Nature Stories' and 'The World outside my Window?

Ans: Ruskin Bond

16. The recently released book, 'A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve' is a collection of previously unreleased writings of which personality?

Ans: Mother Teresa

17. The United Nations has appointed Patricia Espinosa Cantellano of Mexico to which international post?

Ans: Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

18. Andre Brahic, the French astrophysicist who passed away recently, is known for the discovery of the rings around which planet?  

Ans: Neptune

19. Which Indian won the third prize in the UN Poster for Peace contest presented by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA)?

Ans: Anjali Chandrashekhar

20. The trial run of which Spanish made high speed trains was recently conducted by the Indian Railways?

Ans: Talgo

21. What is the name the first inflatable room, attached to the International Space Station, recently deployed by NASA?

Ans: BEAM

22. Which Indian was awarded the 2016 Scholastic Asian Book Award?

Ans: Aditi Krishnalcumar.

                           She won the award for her manuscript, 'Codex: The Lost Treasure of the Indus'.

23. Saudi Arabia's Islamic Development Bank will open its first branch in India in which city?

Ans: Ahmadabad

24. As per the study conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which chemical additive used in bread and refined flour was found carcinogenic?

Ans: Potassium Bromate

25.The use of light and heavy diesel vehicles more than 10 years old have been banned in which cities in Kerala, by the National Green Tribunal?

Ans: Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Kochi, Thrissur, Kozhikode and Kannur