Kazakhstan's incumbent President Nursultan Nazarbayev scored a crushing victory on 25th April 2015 in a one-sided presidential ballot, taking 97.5 percent of the vote to win. Thus after this win, how many time Nursultan Nazarbayev won the presidential election ?: 5th Time
Explanation: Nazarbayev has ruled the vast Central Asian country since before the breakup of the USSR in 1991. Kazakhstan's Central Election Commission claimed a record voter turnout of 95.11 percent for the poll. His new five-year term will take him to three decades as leader.
Aftre the massiv 2 days earthquake in Nepal, what is the name given to Indian Army’s relief and rescue operation in Nepal that was launched in the country on 25 April 2015?: Operation Maitri
Explanation: “Operation Maitri” involves medical teams, INMARSAT for satellite communications devices, Engineer Task Forces (consisting of manpower, skid steers and JCBs), blankets and tents. The operation was launched on 25 April 2015 shortly after the 7.9-magnitude quake hit Nepal at 11.56 am. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) too is playing a key role after direction from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Indian Air Force has mobilised its IL-76, C-130J Hercules and C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft and Mi-17 helicopters for “Operation Maitri”. The NDRF has dispatched 10 teams to Nepal for its first major operation on foreign soil.
In a research produced by Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) on 24 April 2015, which country has been topped i.e ranked 1st in the world’s happiest country list?: Switzerland
Explanation: In the annual World Happiness Report, Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Canada followed in the rankings that measured happiness and well-being while they also found the unhappy people lived in Togo, Burundi, Syria, Benin and Rwanda. The study, which was first released in 2012, looked at such factors as healthy life expectancy, the presence of social support systems, freedom to make choices and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, that determine most of the variations in people's well-being over time and among countries.
Which Indian person was on 21 April 2015 arrested in London for allegedly causing a "flash crash" in the US in 6 May 2010, thus resulted in billions of dollars loss in the market?: Navinder Singh Sarao
Explanation: US regulators estimated that Mr Sarao reaped $879,018 (nearly Rs 6 crore at 60 rupee per dollar) in net profits from his trading on the day of the flash crash alone. The overall modus operandi for this fraud was that the orders were modified and canceled with split-second precision so that they tracked the actual price of the contracts, but at prices just enough above the going price that Mr Sarao could be confident they would not become actual trades. Because the orders were big, they helped create the fiction that the market had more depth, or layers of prices, than it actually had. Mr Sarao allegedly set up one firm called Nav Sarao Milking Markets, made use of tactics deployed in the past by high-frequency traders such as "layering" and "spoofing," under which traders place orders that they cancel before they are executed to create the false impression of demand. Mr Sarao allegedly used an automated programme to generate massive sell orders into the market, pushing down prices caused the Carsh in the market. The case was cracked when the exchange had contacted Mr Sarao on the day of the flash crash to make sure he was placing orders "in good faith." But only when a whistleblower provided the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with analysis on the trades that the US Department of Justice moved against him.
Which Indian-American was today administered the oath for the top post of US Surgeon General by Vice President Joe Biden at a ceremonial ceremony in Fort Myer, becoming the youngest-ever in charge of the country's public health?: Vivek Murthy
Explanation: 37-year-old Vivek Hallegere Murthy is now the highest ranking Indian-American in the Obama Administration.Murthy carries the rank of Vice Admiral. The Health Secretary Sylvia Burwell also participated in the event.Attended by eminent Indian-Americans, who flew in the military bastion from across the country to attend the Commissioning and Change of Command Ceremony, Dr Murthy took the oath on the holy Gita.
What is the name of the volcano in Chile which erupted for the first time in more than 42 years on 22 April 2015?: Calbuco Volcano
Explanation: Calbuco Volcano is situated in southern Chile and nearly 1,000 kilometres south of Chile’s capital, Santiago. Calbuco volcano errupted on 23 April 2015 with huge smoke and thunder. It was last erupted in 1972 and considered one of the top three most potentially dangerous among Chile’s 90 active volcanoes.This massive eruption resulted in the evacuation of the 1,500 inhabitants of the nearby town of Ensenada along with residents of two smaller communities.
Which city of Britain (U.K) on 22 April 2015 has announced an offer of free office space for a period of two years for any Indian company looking to set up a new business in the region?: Nottingham
Explanation: Looking at the cost effectiveness of setting up business in Nottingham, the City Council of Nottingham, which falls in the East Midlands region of the UK, wants to encourage Indian companies to look beyond London as a business base. This offer of a 250 square meter office space in the heart of the city is open to any firm free of cost for two years. The offer forms part of a long-term India strategy led by the city council and involving organizations such as Nottingham Means Business and University of Nottingham.
For the five days, which international news channel was forced to go off air in India from 22 April 2015 as the government penalised it for repeatedly showing wrong maps of the country?: Al Jazeera
Explanation: The Surveyor General of India (SGI) had observed that in some of the maps displayed by Al Jazeera has not shown, a portion of Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir (i.e. PoK and Aksai Chin) and Lakshadweep and Andaman Islands as a part of Indian territory. On 22 April 2015, Al Jazeera channel only showed a blank screen with a message saying that as instructed by the ministry of Information and Broadcasting, this channel will not be available from 00.01 hours on 22nd April till 00.01 hours on 27th April 2015
A total of 43 dinosaur egg fossils has been found on 21 April 2015 at the construction site of which Country?: South China's Guangdong Province
Explanation: The city has unearthed nearly 17,000 dinosaur egg fossils since the first group of fossils was discovered in 1996 by children playing at a building site. Thus on 21 April 2015 the two hours of effort was invested by archaeologists from the city of Heyuan to unearth a nest of 43 dinosaur egg fossils at the site in which 19 are intact. These eggs are large in size and one even has a diameter of 13 centimeters. These eggs were sent to museum for protection and other research. In 2005, the museum had earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records with its 10,008 dinosaur egg fossils, the largest collection in the world.
One of the most re-known circus firm “Cirque du Soleil” has sold a majority stake to US and Chinese private investors, valuing the firm at $1.5bn (£1bn). Cirque du Soleil belongs from which country?: Canada
Explanation: Guy Laliberte had founded Cirque du Soleil firm in 1984. In nearly 30 years Cirque has staged performances in front of 160 million people in 48 countries around the world. It employs about 5,000 people globally and is known for its mixture of acrobatics, artistic costumes and choreography. But started facing in its efforts to expand, which led to layoffs in 2012. Also In 2013, it was fined by US regulators after one of its acrobats died during a live show in Las Vegas. The two buyers are US private equity firm TPG Capital LP and Fosun Capital Group, which is owned by Chinese conglomerate Fosun International Ltd.
