Current affairs: 1. Indian Oil (IOC) day is celebrated on?  Answer: September 1. Indian Oil Company was established on June 30, 1959. It was renamed Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. on September 1, 1964 following the merger of Indian Refineries Ltd. with it. 2. LIC day is celebrated on? Answer: September 1. Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) was created on September 1, 1956. 3. Rahul Dravid played his first and last T20 cricket match against England at Manchester on August 31, 2011. 4. How many people pay Income Tax in India? Answer: 3.36 crore people (2.77% of India population). 5. Which team won the FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Columbia? Answer: Brazil. Brazil defeated Portugal in the final. Brazil won this tournament in 1983, 1985, 1993 & 2003. 6. Who is the first woman to climb all 14 peaks above 8,000 maters, without any artificial oxygen? Answer: Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (Austria). She climbed all these 14 peaks in between 1998-2011. 7. Who was honoured with Raman Magsaysay award in 2011 for her work of guiding villages to find their own ways towards hope and progress? Answer: Nileema Mishra (India). She was born in Bahadarpur (Maharashtra). 8. 2011 PEN Literacy awards: E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: Siddhartha Mukherjee (The Emperor of All Maladies). PEN Open Book Award: Manu Joseph (Serious Men). 9. Do you know: 25% of world diabetics are Indians. 6 crore Indians are diabetics (5% of population). 10. Who is the first Indian woman to win a Grammy award for best song written for a Motion … [Read more...]