Current affairs : September 2015

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1. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel (Germany) won the Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix with style on 20 September 2015. What important fact was there for defending champion and this year’s championship leader Lewis Hamilton in this race? – He suffered his first retirement of the year in this race

2. Which city is starting to observe a car-free day every Tuesday starting 22 September 2015 under which people will be encouraged to use alternative modes of transport 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.? – Gurgaon

3. A National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team on 21 September 2015 managed to successfully evacuate two labourers from a tunnel in Himachal Pradesh in which they were trapped for last 9 days. This tunnel situated in Bilaspur is part of which expressway project? – Kiratpur-Manali expressway road project

4. Greek voters returned Alexis Tsipras to power with a comfortable win for his Syriza party in the snap election held on 20 September 2015. The snap election was called after Syriza lost its majority in August 2015 as some of his MP’s defected in protest at the signing of an unpopular new financial bailout deal with international creditors. These leaders had formed their own new party which, however, failed to enter country’s Parliament. What is the name of this party? – Popular Unity Party

5. The draft of the New Encryption Policy was issued by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology recently. This policy pertains to messaging services like WhatsApp, Viber, Line, Google Chat, Yahoo messenger etc. What is the most important proposal in the draft? – All messages must be mandatorily stored for 90 days

6. What history was created in Nepal as it adopted its new Constitution on 20 September 2015? – It is the first full democratic Constitution in Nepal’s history and Nepali citizens became sovereign in the true sense

7. Czech Republic defeated India 3-1 in the Davis Cup World Group playoff tie on 20 September 2015, which was played at Delhi’s RK Khanna Stadium. What is the impact of this defeat for India? – India has been pushed again to the Asian-Oceania group

8. In a landmark development, the West Bengal Government declassified the 64 files associated with Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. These classified files containing around thirteen thousand pages will be made accessible to the public from 21 September 2015. These controversial classified files were kept for last 70 years in glass cascades in which museum? – Kolkata Police Museum

9. Japan’s Parliament on 19 September 2015 passed which contentious security bill which resulted in a huge debate on the issue and protests by the opposition parties? – The bill which allows Japan’s military to fight abroad for the first time since World War II

10. The State Govt. of Assam recently offered safe passage to separatist leader Paresh Baruah to visit his ailing mother. Baruah is associated with which anti-talks faction of Assam, against whom the Interpol has issued red corner notice? – United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA)

11. Jagmohan Dalmiya, the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), passed away at a private hospital in Kolkata on 20 September 2015. He is known as the person who understood the potential of India becoming commercially a global powerhouse of cricket. In which year he took the first designation in the BCCI, as its treasurer? – 1983

12. Which senior advocate of the Supreme Court associated with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) resigned from all posts of the party on 19 September 2015? – HS Phoolka