Current Affairs on International

According to IMF chief Christine Lagarde, nearly how many people in the world don’t have Bank accounts including US and other big nations ruing that financial systems around the world despite being sizable exclude many individuals from financial services.?: 2 Billion

Explanation: According to IMF, Two billion people worldwide remain without a bank account; two billion people do not have a bank account. As per IMF chief Christine Lagarde that financial exclusion is far from being solely a low-income country or an emerging markets issue and Market penetration globally, still on women, a staggering 42 percent of women lack access to basic financial services compared to 35 percent for men.

On 5 May 2015, Cisco announce the new CEO of the company and will replace the John Chambers, who built the company into a global networking power and now set to become executive chairman. What is the name of new CEO?: Chuck Robbins

Explanation: Chambers, CEO since 1995 and board chair since 2006, oversaw the company`s growth from a modest tech company to a global giant with nearly $50 billion in annual revenues, riding the growth of the Internet with its ubiquitous routers, servers and switching systems as key units of global interconnectivity. Today Cisco has a market value of $149 billion. Chambers will stay on as chairman of the board and on July 26 will also become executive chairman of the company, while Robbins, a company veteran and currently senior vice president for global operations, will become CEO. Robbins joined Cisco in 1997, and was key in developing company strategy, including key acquisitions

Which countries train drivers found themselves under fire from industry and the government on 4 May 2015 after announcing their longest walkout in the history of rail operator?: Germany

Explanation: This strike will be the longest ever in Deutsche Bahn`s history as it start from 2:00 am on Tuesday and the strike is scheduled to last until 9:00 am on Sunday. Deutsche Bahn, employs workforce for the transportation in Germany. Thus DB has workforce of 300,000, including 196,000 in Germany, and transports around 5.5 million passengers and 607,000 tonnes of cargo in Germany every day. The drivers` union GDL has been locked in a bitter dispute with Deutsche Bahn management primarily focused on the employees it wants to represent, wages and working hours issues. This the seventh time they gone to strike since July last year which had cost around 200 Million Euros. 

Which Latin American city has recorded highest bookstores per capita than any other major city in the world, as per the recent study by the World Cities Cultural Forum?: Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Explanation: As per the recent study and data presented by World Cities Cultural Forum (WCCF is an organization that works to promote culture), Buenos Aires (capital of Argentina) has more bookstores per capita than any other major city in the world. There are 25 bookstores for every 100,000 people had put Buenos Aires far above other world cities like London, Paris, Madrid, Moscow and New York. The closest to Buenos Aires is Hong Kong, which has 22 bookstores per 100,000 people. 

6 Baltimore policemen charged with murder of black man in custody on 1 May 2015. What is the name of the person?: Freddie Gray

Explanation: Maryland state's attorney Marilyn Mosby declared that Freddie Gray's death was a homicide and his arrest was illegal as his treatment in police custody amounted to murder and manslaughter. Mosby thus announced the charges in only hours after receiving the results of the internal police investigation and the autopsy report. Therefore after the autopsy report, Baltimore's top prosecutor announced criminal charges on 1 May 2015 against all six officers suspended after a black man suffered a fatal spinal injury in police custody. 

The median income of Indian Americans, which is the richest ethnic community in the US, in the year 2013 was USD 100,547 (about Rs 60 lakhs), according to Census Bureau releazsed a document on 30 April 2015. Which are the other 2 top communities in this segment?: Chinese (except Taiwanese) population and Filipinos

Explanation: As per the median income the richest community in US are as follows : Chinese (except Taiwanese) population was the largest Asian group, followed by Filipinos (3.6 million), Indian American (3.5 million), Vietnamese (1.9 million), Koreans (1.8 million) and Japanese (1.4 million). However, when it comes to income, Indian Americans top the list. California has the largest population of Asian Americans (6.1 million).

According to Iran radio, on 27 April 2015 they claimed that the chief of Islamic State (IS) jihadist group is dead. What is his name?: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Explanation: On 27 April Radio Iran claimed that he has died because of injuries received during the attack by US Led coalition (at al-Baaj district of Nineveh (Iraq), close to the Syrian border) while in a earlier report by British Newspaper Guadian, they claimed that he was severely injured in a US-led coalition air strike in March 2015. Al-Baghdadi had a $10 million US bounty on his head since he had taken the reins of the Islamic State in 2010. Al-Baghdadi was responsible for the transformation of a local branch of al-Qaida into an independent transnational military force. According to that report, al-Baghdadi was injured.