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Answer: (b)

India avenged their 3-1 defeat to the Netherlands in pool games to come out victorious in the third-place playoff in the FIH Hockey World League Finals played at Raipur.

Answer: (a)

The Sangeet Natak Akademi, on July 14, 2010, announced the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskars for 2009. These are awarded to artists “who have shown/demonstrated conspicuous talent in the fields of music, dance and drama.” Young outstanding practitioners up to the age of 35 are eligible for the annual Puraskar.

The following were the recipients of this award in theatre:

1. Abanti Chakraborty and Sukracharya Rabha – Direction;
2. Mukta Vasant Barve, Palani Murugan and Teekam Chandra Joshi – Acting;
3. Milind Srivastava – allied theatre arts – Lighting;
4. Juhi Babbar – allied theatre arts – Costumes; and
5. S. Gobi – (major traditions of the theatre) – Bhagavata Mela of Tamil Nadu.

Note: Kathakali artiste Parassini Kunhiraman Nair, Nangiarkoothu exponent Sarojini Nagar, puppetry artiste K.K. Ramachandra Pulavar and Kalaripayattu expert S.R.D. Prasad is among those who have won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards 2015.

Answer: (c)

Dhanak which was directed by Nagesh Kukunoor revolves around the story of brothersister living in a village.

Answer: (d)

Double trap shooter Ronjan Sodhi was conferred India’s highest sporting honour - the 2012-13 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna—in September 2013. Sodhi became the seventh shooter to get the top sports award instituted in 1991.

Note: Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2016 awarded to Olympic medalists P.V. Sindhu and Sakshi Malik; ace gymnast Dipa Karmakar, who lost a medal by a whisker, and shooter Jitu Rai. This is for the first time the nation’s highest sporting award has been conferred on four athletes.

Answer: (a)

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was an Albanian-born Indian Roman Catholic nun. “By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, she was an Indian. She was the recipient of numerous honours including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.

Mother Teresa had first been recognised by the Indian government more than a third of a century earlier when she was awarded the Padma Shri in 1962 and the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1969.

She continued to receive major Indian awards in subsequent years, including India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in both 1972 and 1980.