1) What is the name of the China-backed Asian infrastructure bank that was launched on 24 October 2014 and is seen as a challenge to the World Bank (WB) and Asian Development Bank (ADB)? – Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) 2) In an important developed the 28-nation European Union (EU) on 24 October 2013 struck a deal on a new target to cut carbon emissions. What is this new agreed target that was reached at Brussels after long stretch of discussions? – To cut carbon emissions in year 2030 by at least 40% from levels in the benchmark year of 1990 3) The Union Government on 24 October 2014 constituted a committee to function as a think-tank to help draft a new National Intellectual Property Rights Policy (National IPR Policy). Who is heading this think-tank? – Justice Prabha Sridevan 4) Which surfacing of 3 more cases of Polio in Pakistan, the number of polio victims in the country during 2014 went up to 220. Pakistan is one of the three countries where polio remains endemic. Which are the other two countries? – Afghanistan and Nigeria 5) Who was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of WalMart India on 24 October 2014? – Murali Lanka 6) S.S. Rajendran, who passed away on 24 October 2014 at Chennai at the age of 85, was associated with which field? – Films
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