October Revision 2015: Class 10

1. Who has been awarded with the with the Pride of Britain award?
Answer. Indo-British van driver Dee Patel

2.Name the 16th Governor of Manipur and member of Congress, who passed away in Mumbai due to cancer.

Answer. Syed Ahmed

3. What is the name of the joint exercise of the Navies of India, United States and Japan?

Answer. Malabar exercise

4. Name the policy which was modifies by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare which permitted the transfer of blood from one blood bank to another in case of shortage.

Answer. National Blood Policy, 2002

5. What is the name of the scheme which was launched by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs with an initial amount of 200 crore rupees which aimed at enabling support to victims of various attacks, such as rape, acid attacks, human trafficking and women killed or injured in the cross border firing?

Answer. Central Victim Compensation Fund

6. The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the setting up of how many new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AllMS) under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna (PMSSY)?

Answer. Three
Note: These three new AIIMS will come up at Nagpur in Maharashtra, at Manglagiri in Andhra Pradesh and at Kalyani in West Bengal.

7.What is the basic custom duty on Wheat?

Answer. 25 percent

8. Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari launched which policy which will make it compulsory for road developers to set aside 1 percent of the Total Project Cost (TPC) for Highway Plantation and Maintenance?

Answer. Green Highways (Plantation, Transplantation, Beautification and Maintenance) Policy, 2015.

9. India signed a 123.51 million US dollar loan agreement with which international organization to upgrade tourism infrastructure and services in Punjab, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh?

Answer. Asian Development Bank

10. India granted a cheque of 5 million US dollars to the which country's government as a budgetary support?

Answer. Palestinian