Current Affairs 01 April to 15 April 2024
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Which company unveiled a new hydrogen engine plant in Jamshedpur?
- a) Tata Motors
- b) Cummins
- c) Tata Cummins
- d) Tata Steel
Answer: c) Tata Cummins
Who has been appointed as India’s next ambassador to Myanmar?
- a) Abhay Thakur
- b) Narendra Modi
- c) Manmohan Singh
- d) Amit Shah
Answer: a) Abhay Thakur
What is India’s current account deficit as a percentage of GDP in Oct-Dec?
- a) 2.5%
- b) 1.2%
- c) 3.8%
- d) 0.5%
Answer: b) 1.2%
Which regulatory body approved the setting up of insurance e-marketplace Bima Sugam?
- a) RBI
- b) SEBI
- c) IRDAI
- d) NITI Aayog
Answer: c) IRDAI
Who won the presidential election in Senegal?
- a) Bassiru Diomaye Faye
- b) Macky Sall
- c) Abdoulaye Wade
- d) Aminata Touré
Answer: a) Bassiru Diomaye Faye
Who passed away at the age of 94, serving as the chief of Ramakrishna Mission?
- a) Swami Vivekananda
- b) Swami Smaranananda Maharaj
- c) Swami Chinmayananda
- d) Swami Sivananda
Answer: b) Swami Smaranananda Maharaj
Which companies’ new CMDs were selected by FSIB?
- a) LIC and HDFC Life
- b) New India Assurance and United India
- c) ICICI Lombard and Bajaj Allianz
- d) SBI Life and Max Life
Answer: b) New India Assurance and United India
Who became Bangladesh’s first ICC Elite Umpire?
- a) Sharfuddoula
- b) Mustafizur Rahman
- c) Shakib Al Hasan
- d) Mushfiqur Rahim
Answer: a) Sharfuddoula
Who received the Times Power Icon 2024 Award?
- a) Vijay Mallya
- b) Vijay Jain
- c) Vijay Shekhar Sharma
- d) Vijay Singh
Answer: b) Vijay Jain
Who did PM Modi pay tribute to, recognizing their contribution as a spiritual leader and educator?
- a) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
- b) Dr. Sree Sree Sivakumara Swamigalu
- c) Swami Vivekananda
- d) Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Answer: b) Dr. Sree Sree Sivakumara Swamigalu
What was the Gross GST Revenue Collection in March, recording an 11.5% year-on-year growth?
- a) Rs 1.5 Lakh Crore
- b) Rs 1.78 Lakh Crore
- c) Rs 2 Lakh Crore
- d) Rs 1.2 Lakh Crore
Answer: b) Rs 1.78 Lakh Crore
Who emphasized the pivotal role of technology in transforming the Criminal Justice System?
- a) Prime Minister Narendra Modi
- b) Chief Justice of India D. Y. Chandrachud
- c) Union Minister for Law and Justice
- d) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Answer: b) Chief Justice of India D. Y. Chandrachud
Until which date was the submission deadline extended for the 18th Mumbai International Film Festival’s Doc Film Bazaar?
- a) April 1
- b) April 5
- c) April 10
- d) April 15
Answer: c) April 10
Who greeted people on the occasion of Odisha Day?
- a) President Droupadi Murmu
- b) Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar
- c) Prime Minister Narendra Modi
- d) All of the above
Answer: d) All of the above
Which company delivered two Dornier 228 planes to the Guyana Defence Force?
- a) Indian Air Force
- b) Boeing
- c) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
- d) Airbus
Answer: c) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
Who took charge as the Principal Director General of PIB (Press Information Bureau)?
- a) Sheyphali B Sharan
- b) Nidhu Saxena
- c) Ritu Raj Awasthi
- d) Mohd. Yousuf Wani
Answer: a) Sheyphali B Sharan
Who was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court by the President of India?
- a) Justice Mohd. Yousuf Wani
- b) Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi
- c) Nidhu Saxena
- d) Sheyphali B Sharan
Answer: a) Justice Mohd. Yousuf Wani
Who was sworn-in as the judicial member of Lokpal?
- a) Justice Mohd. Yousuf Wani
- b) Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi
- c) Nidhu Saxena
- d) Sheyphali B Sharan
Answer: b) Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi
Who was approved as the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer (MD & CEO) of the Bank of Maharashtra by the central government?
- a) Justice Mohd. Yousuf Wani
- b) Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi
- c) Nidhu Saxena
- d) Sheyphali B Sharan
Answer: c) Nidhu Saxena
Who is set to launch cancer gene therapy in Mumbai?
- a) Prime Minister Narendra Modi
- b) President of India
- c) Health Minister
- d) Maharashtra Chief Minister
Answer: b) President of India
How many people have died in the massive earthquake in Taiwan?
- a) Five
- b) Nine
- c) Twelve
- d) Fifteen
Answer: b) Nine
Who expressed condolences for the victims of the Taiwan earthquake?
- a) President of Taiwan
- b) Prime Minister Narendra Modi
- c) United Nations Secretary-General
- d) President of India
Answer: b) Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Which ministry launched the MyCGHS app for IOS devices?
- a) Ministry of Health
- b) Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- c) Ministry of Home Affairs
- d) Ministry of Science and Technology
Answer: a) Ministry of Health
Who has been appointed as the Democratic Republic of Congo’s first woman Prime Minister?
- a) Judith Suminwa Tuluka
- b) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- c) Joyce Banda
- d) Aung San Suu Kyi
Answer: a) Judith Suminwa Tuluka
Who took the oath as Egypt’s President for the third term?
- a) Hosni Mubarak
- b) Mohammed Morsi
- c) Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi
- d) Anwar Sadat
Answer: c) Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi
Who was the world’s oldest man who recently passed away at the age of 114?
- a) Juan Vicente Pérez
- b) Jiroemon Kimura
- c) Kane Tanaka
- d) Bob Weighton
Answer: a) Juan Vicente Pérez
Who were crowned as the Maharashtra Men’s and Women National Kho Kho Champions?
- a) Pune team
- b) Mumbai team
- c) Nagpur team
- d) Not specified
Answer: d) Not specified
Who stepped into the presidency of FISME (Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises)?
- a) Sandeep Jain
- b) Ratan Tata
- c) Anand Mahindra
- d) Mukesh Ambani
Answer: a) Sandeep Jain
On which date is the International Day for Mine Awareness observed?
- a) 1st April
- b) 2nd April
- c) 3rd April
- d) 4th April
Answer: d) 4th April
With whom did Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar interact at Parliament House, New Delhi?
- a) Students of Rashtriya Military School, Dholpur
- b) Members of Parliament
- c) Foreign diplomats
- d) School children from various states
Answer: a) Students of Rashtriya Military School, Dholpur
What milestone did NATO celebrate recently?
- a) 50 years of collective defense
- b) 100 years of collective defense
- c) 75 years of collective defense
- d) 25 years of collective defense
Answer: c) 75 years of collective defense
Who is set to receive the ‘International Culture Award’ in 2024?
- a) Professor Meena Charanda
- b) Dr. Manmohan Singh
- c) Ajit Doval
- d) Anmol Kharb
Answer: a) Professor Meena Charanda
Which region’s indigenous wheat variety was granted the prestigious Geographical Indication (GI) tag?
- a) Punjab
- b) Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh
- c) Gujarat
- d) Haryana
Answer: b) Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh
Which team clinched India’s 56th National Kho-Kho Championship?
- a) Uttar Pradesh
- b) Maharashtra
- c) Karnataka
- d) Tamil Nadu
Answer: b) Maharashtra
At which event did Indian badminton player Anmol Kharb advance to the Women’s Singles Quarterfinals?
- a) Olympics
- b) World Championships
- c) Kazakhstan International Challenge in Astana
- d) Commonwealth Games
Answer: c) Kazakhstan International Challenge in Astana
What is included in the list of Important Days in April 2024?
- a) Not specified
- b) April Fool’s Day
- c) Earth Day
- d) All of the above
Answer: a) Not specified
Who is set to retire from Rajya Sabha?
- a) Narendra Modi
- b) Dr. Manmohan Singh
- c) Jagdeep Dhankhar
- d) Ajit Doval
Answer: b) Dr. Manmohan Singh
Who led the Indian delegation at the SCO Security Council Meeting?
- a) Ajit Doval
- b) Jagdeep Dhankhar
- c) Dr. Manmohan Singh
- d) Vice-President of India
Answer: a) Ajit Doval
What is the projected Consumer Price Index inflation for this fiscal year by the RBI?
- a) 3.5%
- b) 4.5%
- c) 5.5%
- d) 6.5%
Answer: b) 4.5%
Which week has been declared as Prevention of Blindness Week by the Indian government?
- a) March 1 to March 7
- b) April 1 to April 7
- c) May 1 to May 7
- d) June 1 to June 7
Answer: b) April 1 to April 7
Where was the 19th annual meeting of the secretaries of the security councils of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states held?
- a) New Delhi, India
- b) Moscow, Russia
- c) Astana, Kazakhstan
- d) Beijing, China
Answer: c) Astana, Kazakhstan
Operation Sankalp, launched by the Indian Navy, aims to address tensions in which domain?
- a) Land
- b) Air
- c) Maritime
- d) Cyber
Answer: c) Maritime
Why is Jaunpur, a city in Uttar Pradesh, renowned as the “City of Imarti”?
- a) Due to its historical significance
- b) Due to its scenic beauty
- c) Due to its unique Imarti delicacy
- d) Due to its booming economy
Answer: c) Due to its unique Imarti delicacy
Which airport in Goa launched the Digi Yatra System?
- a) Dabolim International Airport
- b) Manohar International Airport
- c) Mopa Airport
- d) Vasco da Gama Airport
Answer: b) Manohar International Airport
Which organization announced the 2024 Young Global Leaders Community?
- a) United Nations
- b) World Health Organization
- c) World Economic Forum
- d) International Monetary Fund
Answer: c) World Economic Forum
Who won bronze at the IWF World Cup, and who qualified for the Paris Olympics 2024?
- a) Mirabai Chanu; Bindyarani Devi
- b) Bindyarani Devi; Mirabai Chanu
- c) Sushil Kumar; P.V. Sindhu
- d) Neeraj Chopra; Mary Kom
Answer: b) Bindyarani Devi; Mirabai Chanu
Which station commemorated its 55th anniversary in Visakhapatnam?
- a) Naval Base
- b) Naval Transmitting Station
- c) Naval Academy
- d) Naval Air Station
Answer: b) Naval Transmitting Station
When is ‘International Conscience Day’ celebrated?
- a) 1st April
- b) 3rd April
- c) 5th April
- d) 7th April
Answer: c) 5th April
What is observed on April 5th to spread awareness about international trade and economy?
- a) World Trade Day
- b) Global Economic Awareness Day
- c) International Maritime Day
- d) National Maritime Day
Answer: d) National Maritime Day
Who has been appointed as a member of the Economic Advisory Panel by the World Bank Group?
- a) Raghuram Rajan
- b) Rakesh Mohan
- c) Urjit Patel
- d) Duvvuri Subbarao
Answer: b) Rakesh Mohan
Who has been appointed as the Managing Director of Tata International?
- a) Rajeev Singhal
- b) Ratan Tata
- c) Cyrus Mistry
- d) Natarajan Chandrasekaran
Answer: a) Rajeev Singhal
Who became the first Indian woman on the Paris Olympics jury?
- a) Kiran Bedi
- b) Indra Nooyi
- c) Bilquis Mir
- d) Saina Nehwal
Answer: c) Bilquis Mir