Current Affairs Questions and answers - April 13, 2014
Q1. Name the online company which has preparing to launch its Smartphone in the year 2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Amazon.com Inc. The company has recently been demonstrating versions of the handset to developers in San Francisco and Seattle.
Q2. Which bank has given a stand-alone loan of USD 200 million for three dreamliner airplanes to Air India?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Bank of India (BOI).
Q3. Who owned the Kochi Franchise in the Indian Super League (ISL) on 13th April’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Sachin Tendulkar along with PVP ventures. The Mumbai franchise went to Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor and Bimal Parekh while Salman Khan bagged the Pune franchise together with Kapil Wadhawan and Dheeraj Wadhawan of the Wadhawan Group.
Q4. Name the drug making company which has faced a bribery charge in Poland?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) for allegedly bribing doctors to promote its asthma drug, Seretide. This report is published by BBC Panorama on 13thApril’2014.
Q5. Which company topped in a list of 100 Most Influential Asian Companies of 2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Samsung Electronics. Whereas RIL, Tata Motors & SBI bagged the 77th, 79th & 80th position respectively.
Q6. Name the Indian bank to become the largest domestic issuer of overseas bonds by breaking the record set by Oil India Limited?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: State Bank of India. This overseas debt sale programme was completed successfully on 10 April 2014.
Q7. On 13thApril’2014, U.N. Security Council called an emergency meeting at which country’s request?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Russia, to discuss the growing crisis in Ukraine at United nation Headquarters.
Q8. Which substance accounts alone for about 40 per cent of all cancers in India?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Tobacco. About 275 million Indians (35 per cent of adult population and 14.1 per cent of children aged 13-15 years) are tobacco users, mainly smokeless tobacco,” says a paper by Paul E. Goss of Harvard Medical School, Boston, and others.
Q9.To which country the World Bank will provide 255.5 million dollar assistance?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Afghanistan. This announcement was made by World Bank on 13thApril’2014.
Q10. What is Rongali Bihu?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Rongali Bihu is the festival that marks the beginning of New Year at the advent of seeding time. It is also known as Bohaag Bihu. In Assam, Rongali Bihu is being celebrated across the state on 14thApril’2014.
