The merchant vessel which sank off the coast of Mumbai and the crew of which were rescued by Indian Navy and Coast Guard personnel | MV Coastal Pride |
The birth place of socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan in Bihar where the Union Govt has decided to set up a national memorial | Lala Ka Tola, Sitab Diara, Dist Chhapra (Saran) |
The city in Kerala where the Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu flagged off India’s first diesel electric multiple unit (DEMU) train service with an air-conditioned coach | Kochi |
The largest city of Chile where an emergency situation declared after the air pollution had reached a critical level | Santiago |
The head of Missionaries of Charity organisation since the death of Mother Teresa in 1997 who passed away on 23 June 2015 | Sister Nirmala |
The former German tennis star who has been appointed Ayurveda brand ambassador Kerala | Steffi Graf |
The mountain pass between Sikkim and Tibet which has been opened for the first time to inaugurate a new route for Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims | Nathu La |
The state which has chosen the Blue Mormon (Papilio polymnestor) butterfly as the state butterfly, thus becoming the first state in the country to have a State butterfly | Maharashtra |
The pharmaceutical company which has been notified to replace private sector electricity producer Tata Power in the 30-share index of Bombay Stock Exchange 'Sensex' | Lupin Ltd. |
The Portuguese football player after whom a newly found galaxy, the brightest galaxy in the early universe that contains the first generation of stars, has been named | Cristiano Ronaldo |
The Indian scientist, Bharat Ratna awardee who has been conferred Japan's highest award the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star | C.N.R. Rao |
The legendary playback singer who has been awarded the Harivarasanam Award instituted by the Kerala government | S.P. Balasubramaniam |
The Asian country which has lowered the voting age from 20 to 18 to raise the young generation’s involvement in politics | Japan |
The joint military exercise between armies of India and UK, being conducted from 13 June to 28 June 2015 at Westdown Camp, Salisbury Plains Training Area, UK | Ajeya Warrior |
The new minimum support price (MSP) of paddy for 2015-16 kharif season as announced by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (a hike of Rs. 50 over last year) | Rs. 1410 |
The telecom service provider with which Archaeological Survey of India has tied up to provide free wi-fi service for 30 minutes at the historic Taj Mahal | BSNL |
The country in which experts have recently completed restoration of an 800-year-old Buddha statue, the Qianshou Guanyin, famous for its 1,000 hands | China |
The middle-east nation which has opened its stock market for the first time for foreign investors (The stock exchange is named Tadawul and its all-share index is named TASI) | Saudi Arabia |
The Bangladesh cricketer who has become the country's highest run scorer in test cricket surpassing Habibul Bashar″s eight year old record of 3026 runs | Tamim Iqbal |
The bird which has been chosen as the National Bird of United Kingdom in a nationwide poll by securing 34% of votes in its favour | Robin |
The former West Indies cricketer who has been inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame becoming the 18th from West Indies to be honoured (Note: Betty Wilson, Anil Kumble and Martin Crowe were inducted earlier this year into the hall.) | Wesley Hall |
The British actor who achieved fame for his role as Dracula in many films and also in Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, passed away on 12 June 2015 | Christopher Lee |
The creator of iconic Rock Garden in Chandigarh and Padma Shri awardee who passed away on 12 June 2015 | Nek Chand |
The port at which India″s maiden indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant was undocked for the first time after completion of structural work | Kochi |
The Indian cricketer who is the only Indian sportsperson to figure in the Forbes magazines&prim; 100 highest-paid athletes in the world which is led by American boxer Floyd Mayweather | M.S. Dhoni (Rank 23) |
The private sector bank which has launched PayZapp a complete digital payment and purchase solution, a one-stop online portal offering customers ‘great deals at one place’ | HDFC Bank |
The Asian country which has reported several cases of MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) with some of the patients succumbing to the disease | South Korea |
The residential premises in New Delhi where a sewage treatment facility was inaugurated by the President Pranab Mukherjee to meet 80% of its demand for horticulture | Rashtrapati Bhavan |
The two districts of Harayana and one district of Uttar Pradesh which have been added to National Capital Region (taking the total number of district from Haryana to 13 and from U.P. to 6) | Jind, Karnal and Muzaffarnagar |
The Indian organisation which has been awarded the 2015 Space Pioneer Award by the U.S. National Space Society during the 34th Annual International Space Development Conference held at Toronto in Canada from May 20 to 24, 2015 | Indian Space Research Organisation |
The cities in which the Central govt has decided to hold the 12th South Asian Games in November-December 2015 (Note: The games had earlier been offered to Kerala - Refer Current Affairs of May 2015) | Guwahati and Shillong |
The Indian monument which has been ranked third in the list of top landmarks by TripAdvisor's 2015 Travellers Choice Attractions Awards (The top two places were taken by Machu Picchu in Peru and Angkor Wat in Cambodia respectively) | Taj Mahal |
The football club which has won the UEFA Champions League football tournament defeating Juventus in the finals | FC Barcelona |
The venue of 41st G-7 Summit held from June 7 to Jun 8, 2015 | Schloss Elmau, Bavaria (Germany) |
The former Indian cricketer who has been appointed the coach of the India A and under-19 cricket teams by the BCCI | Rahul Dravid |
The theme of World Environment Day observed on 05 June 2015 | Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care |
The novel written by Ali Smith which has been chosen for the 2015 Baileys Prize (the prize was earlier known as Orange Prize and is awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year) | How to be both |
The division of Northern Railways which has rolled out a broad gauge non-AC coach which uses a solar photovoltaic system for power requirements of light and fan for the first time across railways | Delhi |
The Indian umpire who has become the first Indian after S. Venkataraghavan to be inducted in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Elite Panel of Umpires | Sundaram Ravi |
The 2004 Chemistry Nobel Prize winning biochemist for discovering a way that cells destroy unwanted proteins (the basis for developing new therapies for diseases such as cervical cancer and cystic fibrosis) who passed away on 02 June | Irwin Rose |
The country from which Indian Oil Corporation is to import crude oil to fill up first of India's strategic reserves at Visakhapatnam with a capacity of 1.33 million tonnes of crude oil | Iraq |
The city of Rajasthan where one of the fastest built metro systems in the country, became operational when the Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje flagged off the inaugural train | Jaipur |
The private sector bank which launched ‘Scan N Pay’, a mobile application that allows customers to instantly transfer money to any of its accounts through android phones (The recipient will key in the transaction amount in his/her ‘Scan N Pay’ App and generate a dynamic QR code. The payer will scan the QR code using the Scan N Pay App installed in his/her mobile phone, feed in his/her MPIN and initiate the payment.) | Federal Bank |
The telecom service provider which has decided to provide free national roaming from June 15, 2015 for a period of one year | BSNL |
The river in which a Chinese cruise ship named Dongfangzhixing or Eastern Star with over 450 people aboard capsized during a storm | Yangtze river |
The city in which China has prohibited smoking in all indoor public places, including offices, shopping malls and airports and increased the fines drastically for violations | Beijing |
The former Indian Prime Minister whom Bangladesh has decided to honour with Friends of Bangladesh Liberation War Award for his outstanding support for the country’s independence from Pakistan in 1971 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
The three Indian cricketers who have been inducted into the BCCI’s newly-constituted cricket advisory panel to guide the Board in all matters related to the game | Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman |