Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Apr 07, 2015

ANSWER: C. Chit Fund Scam.

A bench of Justices T S Thakur and C Nagappan said there is no reason to allow the application seeking court's monitoring of the probe. The court had earlier rejected a similar plea of West Bengal government. The bench gave time to the agency to come out with suggestions to ensure effective investigation of huge number of such cases in West Bengal.

ANSWER: A. Three.

Soil health card is being implemented in Mission Mode for farmers so that they can get complete details about soil nutrient for effective crop management.

ANSWER: C. National Geoscience Award

The awards were given to them for their outstanding contribution in the field of mining and allied areas.

ANSWER: D. National Council for vocational training-Management information system.

The portal also provides information to the general public on details of various ITI's, their affiliation details and number of seats available in the those institutes. Mr Dattatreya said that students can get E-Certificates after completion of course and the employers will also be able to cross check genuinity of candidates by using the portal.

ANSWER: B. 201.

According to the health Ministry, these districts have been selected under the programme, keeping in view that nearly 50 per cent of all un-vaccinated or partially vaccinated children are in these 201 districts. It said, of them 82 districts are concentrated in the four states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The immunisation programme aims at covering all children below two years of age who have either not been vaccinated or partially vaccinated against seven diseases which can be prevented through vaccines. The diseases are Diphtheria, Tetanus, Polio, Measles, Whooping Cough, Hepatitis B and Tuberculosis.

ANSWER: D. 10

The index will cover Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Faridabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The index will be later expanded to 46 more cities having a population of more than one million, besides 20 state capitals.

ANSWER: A. Malli Mastan Babu

He went missing in the Andes Mountains on 24th March during a climbing mission and was found dead on 4th Apr’15.

ANSWER: C. Pakistan

Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammas Asif said on 6th Apr’15 that Saudi Arabia has asked that his military provide ground troops, planes and warships to help a coalition battling rebels in Yemen. Pakistan has pledged to support the overall effort, but has not committed itself to any specific action or contribution. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said, he would defend Saudi Arabia from outside attacks.

ANSWER: D. FabIndia.

The Goa Police has summoned two top officials of Fabindia tomorrow in connection with the voyeurism case. Four employees of the store were arrested and booked by the police under various sections. However, they were later granted bail by a local court. Fabindia has denied that it had placed hidden cameras in any of its stores.

ANSWER: B. Dronavalli Harika.

In the event held at Sochi, Russia, both the players won the medal by virtue of making it to the semifinals. Harika had lost to the eventual winner Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine in the semifinals. Harika got 20,000 US Dollars for the Bronze medal finish.

ANSWER: A. Rajeev Shukla

Former Union Minister and Congress leader Rajeev Shukla was the IPL chairman till 2013 when he resigned from the post in the aftermath of the IPL 'spot-fixing' scandal. Sourav Ganguly was a new entrant to the IPL Governing Council while the senior national selection committee led by Sandeep Patil was retained for another season. Team India Director Ravi Shastri also remained in the IPL Governing Council. Another former captain Anil Kumble has been retained as chairman of the Technical committee while Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia will head the powerful finance committee.

ANSWER: C. Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis.

The top-seeded Indo-Swiss pair defeated the second placed Russian duo of Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova.

ANSWER: C. Novak Djokovic

He defeated Andy Murray in the finals. It was Djokovic’s fifth Miami trophy.

ANSWER: D. 7th April

This year the theme of the World Health Day is food safety, which highlights the need of safe food that is free from microbes, viruses and chemicals.

ANSWER: C. Kalvari

Kalvari, first of the Indian Navy’s Scorpene class stealth submarines being built under the Project 75, under collaboration with M/s DCNS, France, achieved a major milestone on 6th Apr’15 with her ‘undocking’ at the Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL).