1) Name the ASIAN countires which were accepted as the full members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)?
Answer 1. India & Pakistan
2) Name the fund, which was declared in Ufa during the summit that will help the BRICS countries for equity investments in infrastructure projects in their countires?
Answer 2. Russian Direct Investment Fund
Answer 2. Russian Direct Investment Fund
3) The central banks of which organization signed Mutual Assistance Agreement (MAA) which aimed at operationalising the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) of 100 billion US dollars?
Answer 3. BRICS
Answer 3. BRICS
4) How many agreements were signed between India and Kazakhstan?
Answer 4. Five agreements during the two-day visit of Prime Minister
5) Which is the first country to eliminate mother-to-child (vertical) transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and syphilis in the World?
Answer 5. Cuba
6) Name the film which is based on the Super 30 initiative of mathematician Anand Kumar?
Answer 6. The Big Day made by famous French director Pascal Plisson
7) Name the technology which Microsoft is planning to introduce in India to provide last mile connectivity and give a boost to the Digital India initiative?
Answer 7. White-Fi technology or TV White Space Technology
8) Name the Renowned Urdu novelist from Pakistan who passed away in July 2015?
Answer 8. Abdullah Hussain
9) Name the former CJI of India who passed away?
Answer 9. Y K Sabharwal
10) Name the father of SMS technology who died in July 2015?
Answer 10. Matti Makkonen
11) Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India?
Answer 11. Bhanu Pratap Sharma
12) Who has been appointed as the CMD of Hero Motors Group?
Answer 12. Pankaj Munjal
13) Who has been appointed as the Chairman of Narmada Valley Development Authority?
Answer 13. Rakesh Sahni
14) Who has been appointed as the the Vice-Chief of the Indian Army?
Answer 14. Lieutenant General Man Mohan Singh Rai
15) Who has been awarded the 2015 World Food Prize?
Answer 15. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed of Bangladesh
16) Who has been conferred with 28th Moorti Devi Award for the year 2014?
Answer 16. Vishwanath Tripathi
17) Name the cosmonaut who entered Guinness World Records for spending most number of days in the space. He achieved the feat by spending 804 days on the International Space Station (ISS).
Answer 17. Gennady Padalka
18) Who has been nominated by China to be the first president of the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)?
Answer 18. Jin Liqun
19) Who was conferred with the highest French civilian honour, the Commandeur de la Legion d’ Honneur (the Legion of Honour)?
Answer 19. Modern Indian artist Sayed Haider Raza
20) Who has been named for the GCHERA World Agriculture Prize 2015?
Answer 20. Indian American Professor Emeritus R. Paul Singh
Note: GCHERA stands for Global Confederation for Higher Education Associations for Agriculture and Life Science