General Studies & Current Affairs for Bank, SSC, CLAT, Civil Services and other Competitive Exams

1. Who is the winner of  Australian Open 2013 Women's title ? Answer: Victoria Azarenka 2. Who is the winner of  Australian Open ...

Important Current Affair Questions till August 2013 for IBPS, RBI, SSC


1. Who is the winner of  Australian Open 2013 Women's title ?
Answer: Victoria Azarenka

2. Who is the winner of  Australian Open 2013 men's title ?
Answer: Novak Djokovic 



3. Who is the chief guest of 2013 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas ?
Answer: Rajkeswur Purryag, President of Mauritius (Held in Kochi)

4. Who is the chief guest of republic day 2013 ?
Answer: Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, King of Bhutan



5. Who is first female President of South Korea ?
Answer: Park Guen-hye

6. Who is the first female Chief Justice of Sri Lanka ?
Answer: Shirani Bandaranayake (recently impeached)

7. Who is the winner of DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013 ?
Answer: Jeet Thayil (book - Narcopolis)

8. Which is the Longest Railway Tunnel in India?
Answer: Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel (Banihal railway tunnel)

9. Where did the World Economic Forum annual meeting held ?
Answer: Davos, Switzerland

10. Who has been conferred won Keerthi Chakra (the second highest among peace time gallantry awards of the country) ?
Answer: Major Anoop Joseph

11. Which Indian scientist conferred with China's top science award ?
Answer: CNR Rao

12. Who is the winner of Ranji Trophy 2012-2013 ?
Answer: Mumbai

13. Which country recently test fired  Hatf-9 (Nasr) missile  ?
Answer: Pakistan 

14. Who is the new Chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi  ?
 Answer: Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty

15. Who is the new  President of Sahitya Akademi ?
Answer: Dr. Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari

16. Who is appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations ?
Answer: Asoke Kumar Mukerji 

17. Who is the worlds oldest Marathon runner ?
Answer: Fauja Singh

18. Which film won this year's Best Picture Oscar ?
Answer: Argo

19. Which actor won this year's Best Actor (in a Leading Role) Oscar ?
Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

20. Which actress won this year's Best Actress (in a Leading Role) Oscar ?
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Answer: Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

21. Who won this year's Best Director Oscar ?
Answer: Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

22. Who is the first person to win Best Actor Oscar thrice ?
Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis

23. What is the theme of 2013 International Women’s Day (march 8) ?
Answer: A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women

24. New Governor of Nagaland ?
Answer: Ashwani Kumar 

25. New Governor of Kerala ?
Answer: Nikhil Kumar 

26. New Governor of Odisha ?
Answer: S C Jamir

27. Who is the new President of Kenya ?
Answer: Uhuru Kenyatta

28. Who is the new PM ( Premier of the People's Republic of China) of China ?
Answer: Li Keqiang

29. Who is the new Pope?
Answer: Pope Francis

30. What is the name of India's first regional navigational satellite ?
Answer: IRNSS-1

31. Who scored fastest hundred on debut in test cricket ?
Answer: Shikhar Dhawan

32. Where is India's first all women post office inaugurated on women's day ?
Answer: Delhi

33. What is the theme of 2013 world water day (march 22) ?
Answer: Water Cooperation

34. Which year is declared by UN as International Year of Water Cooperation ?
Answer: 2013

35. Who is the winner of 2013 miss India ?

Answer: Navneet Kaur Dhillon 

36. who is the winner of 2013 Saraswati Samman ?
Answer: Sugathakumari (Manalezhuthu)

37. Who is recently reelected as IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Director general ?
Answer: Yukiya Amano

38. Who is the new Prime Minister of Nepal ?
Answer: Khil Raj Regmi

39. Who is the first female Prime minister of UK who recently passed away ?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

40. Who is the new pm of North Korea ?
Answer: Pak Pong-ju

41. Who is the new Venezuela president ?
Answer: Nicolas Maduro

42. Who is the new president of Bangladesh ?
Answer: Abdul Hamid

43. What is the theme of 2013 World Earth day (April 22) ?
Answer: The face of climate change

44. Who is the new Governor of  Jammu and Kashmir ?
answer: Narinder Nath Vohra

45. Who is the new president of ADB (Asian Development Bank) ?
Answer: Takehiko Nakao

46. Who is the new prime minister of Italy ?
Answer: Enrico Letta

47.  Who is the first woman speaker of Bangladesh ?
Answer: Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury

48.  Who is the new Comptroller and Auditor General of India ?
Answer: Shashi Kant Sharma

50. Who is the first Indian amputee to scale Everest ?
Answer: Arunima Sinha

51. Who is the first Pakistani women to scale the Everest ?
Answer: Samina Baig

52. Who is the first US women in space ?
Answer: Sally Ride (Recently she won highest civilian honour of USA, Presidential medal of Freedom)

53. What is the theme of 2013 International Biological diversity Day (May 22) ?
Answer: Water and Biodiversity 

54. Who is the winner of 2013 Man Booker International Prize ?
Answer: Lydia Davis

55. What is the theme of 2013 World No- Tobacco Day ( May 31 ) ?
Answer: Ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship

55. Who is the new Director General of DRDO ?
Answer: Avinash Chander

56. Who is the new prime minister of Pakistan ?
Answer: Nawaz Sharif

57. Who were the first twins to scale mount Everest ?
Answer: Tashi and Nancy Malik

58. What is the theme of 2013 World Environment Day (June 5) ?
Answer: Think, Eat, Save

59. Who won the 2013 Templeton Prize ?
Answer: Desmond Tutu

60. Who is the longest serving defence minister in India ?
Answer:  A.K Antony

61. Who is the winner of 2013 French open women's title ?
Answer: Serena Williams

62. Who is the winner of 2013 French open men's title ?
Answer: Rafael Nadal

63. Who is the new prime minister of Australia ?
Answer: Kevin Rudd

64. Who will be the new chief justice of India ?
Answer:  P Sathasivam

65. Which is the first smoke free state of India ?
Answer: Himachal Pradesh

66. Which is India's first navigational satellite ?
Answer: IRNSS-1A

67. Who will be India's next foreign secretary after Ranjan Mathai ?
 answer: Sujata Singh
  
68. Who won 2013 Wimbledon Men's Title ?
Answer: Andy Murray

69. Who won 2013 Wimbledon Women's Title ?
Answer:  Marion Bartoli

70. What is the theme of 2013 World population day (July 11)?
Answer: Adolescent pregnancy with an aspiration of safe childbirth and that each pregnancy is wanted