Current Affairs Questions & Answers - Apr 16, 2016

ANSWER: Chief Justice

Explanation:
Nepal’s first woman acting Chief Justice Sushila Karki has assumed office after the country received its first woman President and Speaker. Karki is the senior most judge in the Nepalese SC. She has done Masters in Political science from BHU, Varanasi. She is known for her zero tolerance approach towards corruption.

• She succeeds CJ Kalyan Shrestha
• Her formal appointment to the post was not announced through the Parliamentary Hearing Committee due to technical reasons
• She is yet to take both of office and secrecy.
• She is known for judgements allowing women to pass citizenship to children, previously open to only men.

ANSWER: Moon

Explanation:
Scientists have confirmed the supernova explosion in the neighbourhood of the solar system even as physicists at Technical University of Munich in Germany and colleagues have found supernova iron on the surface of the moon. Samples were gathered between 1969 and 1972. During the Apollo Lunar Missions 12, 15 and 16, lunar material was brought back to earth.

• This discovery makes it possible to provide an inference of a distance to the supernova event.
• Measured 60 Fe-flow matches supernova at distance of 300 light years away
• The supernova hypothesis was first put together in 1999 by TUM researchers finding initial evidence in the deep sea crust.

ANSWER: Ajay Banga

Explanation:
The White House released a list of names that US President Barack Obama has appointed to the new Commission on Enhancing National Cyber security panel. The panel was formed earlier this year as part of Obama’s $19bn (£13bn) proposal to boost the US government’s cyber security system.

• Panel includes top members of the tech, intelligence and academic communities. Among others appointed is
• CEO and president of MasterCard Ajay Banga;
• Microsoft Research’s Peter Lee,
• Uber chief security officer Joe Sullivan,
• former NSA director General Keith Alexander and
• Stanford cyberpolicy and security researcher Herbert Lin.

Here is the complete list of appointees:

• General Keith Alexander, USA (Retd)
• Annie I. Antón
• Ajay Banga
• Steven Chabinsky
• Patrick Gallagher
• Peter Lee
• Herbert Lin
• Heather Murren
• Joe Sullivan

ANSWER: Independent Director

Explanation:
Companies (Amendment) Bill 2016 unlike existing law allows for pecuniary interest in companies for independent directors. Proposed law allows directors to have their own transactions with companies where they are independent directors up to 10 percent of their total income.

ANSWER: Susmita Pande

Explanation:
Union Government on 14th April 2016 appointed Susmita Pande as the new chairperson of the National Monument Authority/NMA. A professor at Ujjain’s Vikram University, she succeeds Himanshu Prabha Ray, the professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University

• Prabhu’s term ended in September 2015. The position was lying vacant for five months after his demission from office.
• At the time of appointment, Pande was the head of the School of Studies in Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology in Vikram University of Madhya Pradesh.

ANSWER: 21

Explanation:
7th and last regional spacecraft will be launched on April 28th putting 21 small and mostly foreign commercial satellites along with a larger Indian spacecraft.

• Primary passenger on PSLV- C33 launcher will be an earth observing, high resolution Cartosat-2C weighing close to 700 kgs.
• With a resolution of 60 cm, Cartosat-2C is the best Indian eye in the sky catering to military requirements
• Its object scanning camera can spot objects 60 cm wide or longer from an orbit of 600 km.
• NASA has the highest 2013 record for putting largest number of small customer satellites (29) in orbit on the Minotaur launcher.

ANSWER: 44

Explanation:
IT major Dell has ranked Delhi 44th on the list topped by San Jose.

National capital Delhi has been recognised as one of 50 future ready cities across the world embracing technology to change and adapt in a globalised future. IT major Dell has reappeared the report. Delhi is 44th on the list topped by San Jose. San Francisco is at number two position. Centre has launched ambitious initiatives in the creation of a digitally enabled nation.