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NATIONAL
| Who was appointed as the National Security Adviser - | Ajit Doval |
| Which company announced to buy 78 percent stake in Network18 Media and Investments - | Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) |
| Hindi writer who was awarded the prestigious Vyas Samman 2013 - | Vishwanath Tripathi |
| Indian Government and the World Bank signed loan agreement for - | Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan III |
| Who was appointed as the 14th Attorney-General of India - | Mukul Rohatgi |
| Name of the new Ministry created by the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi - | Ministry of Skill development and Entrepreneurship |
| Who was appointed as the Principal Secretary to the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi - | Nripendra Misra |
| Which online fashion portal was bought by Flipkart for 300 million US dollar - | Myntra |
| Who was selected as the goodwill ambassador of 35th National Games to be held in Kerala in January 2015 - | Sachin Tendulkar |
| Which company stopped the production of India's iconic car Ambassador - | Hindustan Motors |
| ___________ has been constituted by the Union Cabinet to probe into the Black Money stashed abroad - | Special Investigation Team (SIT) |
| Who was appointed as the first woman External Affairs Minister of India - | Sushma Swaraj |
| As per Reserve Bank of India report Foreign Exchange Reserves of India increased by ___________ in 2014 - | 15.5 billion US dollar |
| ___________ was sworn-in as the 15th Prime Minister of India - | Narendra Modi |
| Which country became the number one source of foreign direct investment (FDI) into India - | Singapore |
| Who was appointed as the new Chief Minister of Nagaland - | T R Zeliang |
| Youngest woman to climb Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world - | Malavath Poorna (13 year and 11 month) of Andhra Pradesh |
| Name of annual bilateral naval exercises conducted by the Navies of India and Singapore - | SIMBEX 14 |
| Which programme was resumed after 25 years by the Forest Department in Tamil Nadu - | Olive Ridley Conservation Programme |
| Anti-Terrorism Day was observed in India on - | 21 May 2014 |
| In which city floating hotel AB Celestial was launched - | Mumbai |
| Which project under Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) ranked second in the 2014 United Nations Public Service Award - | Mobile Seva |
| Who was appointed as the new Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission (CIC) - | Rajiv Mathur |
| Which court ruled that the people of Bangladesh, who settled in the state before 24 March 1971 should be treated as Indians. - | Meghalaya High Court |
| Who was sworn-in as the first woman Chief Minister of Gujarat - | Anandiben Patel |
| Which bank was included in the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 - | Bharatiya Mahila Bank |
| Which constituency registered the highest voter turnout in the General Election 2014 - | Dhubri Parliamentary constituency in Assam (88.22 percent) |
| Who was appointed as the Chief Minister of Odisha for fourth consecutive term - | Naveen Patnaik |
| Who was appointed as the Chief Minister of Sikkim for a record fifth consecutive time. - | Pawan Chamling |
| ______________ resigned as the Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission of India - | Montek Singh Ahluwalia |
| _________________ emerged as the largest party in the 2014 assembly elections of Sikkim - | Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) |
| Who was appointed as the new Chief Minister of Bihar - | Jitan Ram Manjhi |
| _________________ emerged as the largest party in the 2014 assembly elections of Odisha - | Biju Janata Dal |
| 630 crore rupees penalty imposed on real estate firm DLF by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) was upheld by the - | Competition Appellate Tribunal |
| Who appointed as the new Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh - | Nabam Tuki |
| ___________ won Cricket Club of India (CCI) Classic Billiards and Snooker tournament - | Pankaj Advani |
| ___________ resigned as Chief Minister of Bihar - | Nitish Kumar |
| Biggest milk brand in Asia _________ announced to set up a dairy plant in Varanasi with capacity of 5 lakh litres per day - | Amul |
| Founder of Leela Group of Hotels who died at the age of 91 - | Krishnan Nair |
| Reserve Bank of India announced that plastic currency notes will be launched in the year - | 2015 |
| Who was appointed as the Chairman of the Central Water Commission - | Ashwin B. Pandya |
| Indian Government extended the ban imposed on __________ for five years under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention Act 1967) - | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) |
| Who held that candidates fighting elections can be disqualified if they fail to disclose information about assets - | Supreme Court of India |
| Who was appointed as the Chairman of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) - | Justice BS Chauhan |
| President of India gave assent to this bill related to corruption and misuse of power by Government officials - | Whistleblowers Protection Bill 2011 |
| Who was appointed as the 28th Chief of Army Staff (COAS) - | Lieutenant General Dalbir Singh Suhag |
| President of India conferred National Florence Nightingale Awards 2014 to 35 personnel related to the field of - | Nursing |
| Who was appointed as first woman Additional Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) - | Archana Ramasundaram |
| Indigenous Card payment System _________ was launched by the President of India - | Rupay |
| The book "India Junction – A Window to the Nation" was launched by - | Indian Railways |
| Species of dancing _________ was found in the Western Ghats of southern India - | Frogs |
| Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) approved the flying license of - | AirAsia India Private Limited (AAIPL) |
| India was awarded New Frontiers Award 2014 by - | Arabian Travel Market (ATM) |
| Which authority made the decision that the Indian companies will not be allowed to raise External Commercial Borrowings - | RBI |
| Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister who recently passed away - | N Janardhan Reddy |
| Whom did Supreme Court of India ordered to probe into the multi-crore Sharadha Chit Fund scam - | CBI |
| Which travel planning website was launched in partnership with Incredible India of Ministry of Tourism - | Tripigator.com |
| Who ranked no 1 in ICC list of One Day International (ODI) ranking - | Virat Kohli |
| Who is the writer of the book A Stamp is Born - | C. R. Pakrashi |
| As per recent RBI guidelines above which age minors are allowed to open and operate savings bank accounts independently - | Above 10 years |
| Constitutional validity of which Act was upheld by the Supreme Court of India - | Right to Education (RTE) Act |
| Name the Indian woman sportsperson who ranked 10th in the Women Squash Association rankings - | Dipika Pallikal |
| Name of the first indigenously developed air-to-air missile which was successfully test fired from a Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jet over the Arabian Sea - | Astra |
| The Indian trap shooter who jumped to the third spot in the world rankings winning gold at the ISSF World Cup in Tucson, USA - | Manavjit Singh Sandhu |
| Name of the light-weight aircraft which Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) handed over to Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) - | Nabhrathna |
| The Union Cabinet approved the proposal for setting up of the Polavaram Project Authority (PPA) which will execute the Polavaram irrigation project in the state of - | Andhra Pradesh |
| Which indigenously-developed surface-to-air missile was successfully test fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, Odisha - | Akash |
| In which district of West Bengal, Election Queue Management System was introduced by the District Election Authority during Lok Sabha election held on 30 April 2014, to help voters to find out the level of crowd in the polling booth - | Burdwan |
| In which sport India regained their number one international team ranking - | Twenty20 |
| Which country purchased 3400 India-made Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) for use in the Presidential Election - | Namibia |
| Which airline from India join the largest global airlines network Star Alliance? - | Air India |
| Chairman of Special Investigation Team (SIT) reconstituted by Supreme Court for monitoring probe into the black money case - | retired judge M B Shah |
| In which country Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana scheme was launched? - | United Arab Emirates (UAE) |
| Name the Indian Institute which was ranked at the 87th position among the top 100 world universities (under 50 years of age), the first and only Indian entry in the list? - | IIT-Guwahati |
INTERNATIONAL
| International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers was observed on - | 30 May 2014 |
| An exhibition to commemorate the 100 years of the outbreak of World War I was started in - | Berlin |
| The Father of Malaysian hockey died at the age of 86 - | Azlan Shah |
| Who was appointed as the Vice President and Auditor General of World Bank - | Hiroshi Naka |
| US has decided to keep its troops in Afghanistan till the end of - | 2016 |
| Which country won the Uber Cup 2014 of badminton defeating Japan - | China |
| Which country won the Thomas Cup 2014 of badminton defeating Malaysia - | Japan |
| Which international club won the 10th UEFA Champions League title defeating Atletico Madrid - | Real Madrid |
| Which country won AFC Women's Asian Cup title defeating Australia - | Japan |
| Which Indian-American student won National Geographic Bee Championship - | Akhil Rekulapelli |
| Which country suspended the 12th bull fight festival after matadors got injured by bulls - | Spain |
| _________ won the Men's Italian Tennis Open 2014 - | Novak Djokovic |
| International Museum Day 2014 was celebrated across the world on - | 18 May 2014 |
| The 5 Nuclear Powers and United Nations Security Council members (United States, Russia, China, Britain and France) signed a protocol on - | Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone (CANWFZ) Treaty |
| Who was appointed as the batting coach of Pakistan cricket team - | Grant Flower |
| In which country 270 miners were killed in an coal mine explosion - | Turkey |
| Who was named Snooker’s Player of the Year - | Ronnie O'Sullivan |
| Who won Madrid Open titles in men's and women's singles category - | Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova |
| Who is the writer of the book "Arctic Summer" - | Damon Galgut |
| Which British player won the World Snooker Championship 2014? - | Mark Selby |
| Name the new element with 117 proton which will soon join the periodic table - | Ununseptium |
| Name the American economist (winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1992) who died on 3rd May - | Gary Becker |
| Who won the 2014 UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize - | Turkish journalist Ahmet Sik |
| World Press Freedom Day was observed across the world on - | 3rd May |
| In which country World's highest tunnel for high-speed train was opened? | China |
| Team owner of Los Angeles Clippers who was banned by National Basketball Association (NBA) for life after racist remark - | Donald Sterling |
| Facebook launched _____________ for journalists - | FB Newswire |
| 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games will be held in - | Nanjing, China |
| Labour Day was observed across the world on - | 1st May |
