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Latest Current Affairs and Events of India and the World:

February 2016 Current Affairs:

India finished at top in the recently concluded South Asian Games 2016. How many medals India won in this event?

308 medals

How many gold India won in the South Asian Games 2016?
188

Name the Indo-British filmmaker who won Grammy Award for the Best Music Film for his documentary Amy?

Asif Kapadia

Which team won The National Chess team Championship for the first time?
(The 36th Championship was held at Bhubaneswar from 8th to 14th February, 2016.)

Indian Railways

Name the fashion designer who was conferred with the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour), France's highest civilian honour?

Manish Arora

According to the result of 73-city survey, Swachh Sarvekshan, which city topped the list as the cleanest city of India?

Mysuru

According to the result of 73-city survey, Swachh Sarvekshan, which city topped the list as the dirtiest city of India?
(The study was conducted by Quality Council of India.)

Dhanbad

Name the indigenously developed surface to surface missile with a strike range of 350 km which India successfully test-fired on 17th February 2016?

Prithvi II

India defeated which country 2-1 to win the three-match T-20 series?

Sri Lanka

Name the former Union Finance Secretary and former Chairman of the Competition Commission who was appointed as the chairman of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)?

Ashok Chawla

Name the noted Malayalam poet and lyricist who passed away recently at the age of 84?
(He was awarded Padma Shri and the Padma Vibhushan besides country's highest literary honour, the Jnanpith Award, in 2007.)
ONV Kurup

Name the Karnataka's flagship governance project which won gold at the m-governance awards at the fourth World Government Summit held in Dubai on 10 February 2016?

Mobile-One app

According to the recent ruling of Supreme Court under which Section of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) the State can use its curfew powers to block Internet access on personal mobile phones if there is apprehension that a public agitation can turn aggressive and disturb public tranquillity?

Section 144

Name the United Arab Emirates' national oil company which has in the first deal of its kind agreed to store crude oil in India's maiden strategic storage and give two-third of the commodity to it for free? Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)
Elephanta island, famous for its cave sculptures and located around 10 km off Mumbai coast will get electricity for the first time from which date?

15th August 2016

Which wild animal is declared "vermin" for a year in Uttarakhand which will allow state authorities to carry out an extermination of this animal on a large scale without attracting penal provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972?

Pig (Boar)

In which Indian State South Asian Games 2016 is currently being held?

Guwahati, Assam

In which Indian State National Organic Farming Research Institute will be set up?
(This state has become India's first fully organic state by implementing organic practices on around 75,000 hectares of agricultural land.)

Sikkim

Which body launched India's first Ayurvedic anti-diabetic drug, BGR-34?

CSIR

Name the recently set up chemical plant which is the first ever petro-chemical project in the entire North-East and was constructed at the cost of Rs 10,000 crore?

Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL)

Name the Principal Adviser (Cost) who took over the charge of Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICoAS) as head on 1st February, 2016?
(She is the first lady ICoAS officer who has achieved this laurel.)

Mrs. Aruna Sethi (ICoAS 1985)

Name the Sarangi maestro who has been chosen for the prestigious Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi classical music award for 2015-2016?
(The annual award, instituted by the Maharashtra government, is given to individuals who have excelled in classical vocal or instrumental music.)

Pandit Ram Narayan

Name the former Lok Sabha Speaker who passed away recently?
(He served as the Union Agriculture Minister in 1991 in P. V. Narasimha Rao Ministry.)

Balram Jakhar

Which state won the 61st National School Athletics championship?

Kerala

International Current Affairs And Events - January 2016

The first Silk Road train arrived in Tehran carrying 32 containers of commercial products from eastern Zhejiang province. Zhejiang is situated in which country?
(The train took 14 days to make the 9,500-kilometre journey through Kazakstan and Turkmenistan.)

China

Name the former United Nations Secretary-General who died recently?
(He served as UN Secretary-General from January 1992 to December 1996.)

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Which country lifted their maiden ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup title by defeating three time champions India by five wickets in the final played at Mirpur?

West Indies

Name the South African cricketer who became the fastest cricketer to make 10 ODI centuries in 55 innings breaking the record of Virat Kohli (80 innings) of India? Quinton de Kock
Name the former Prime Minister of Nepal who died recently at the age of 76?

Sushil Koirala

Which country became first in the world to ban supermarket food waste?

France

World Cancer Day was observed on which day with the theme: We Can, I Can?

4th February 2016

Name the parent company of Google Inc. which topped the list of the world's most valuable companies surpassing Apple recently?
(The shift occurred in 1st February 2016 extended trading after Google's new parent company, released a fourth-quarter earnings report that highlighted the robust growth of the digital ad market.)

Alphabet

On which day World Wetlands Day was observed with the theme: Wetlands for our Future – Sustainable Livelihoods?

2nd February 2016

For the outbreak of which virus WHO has declared Public Health Emergency of International Concern?

Zika virus