Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Apr 12 and 13, 2015

ANSWER: B. Tree of Life.

The painting, pigments on silk, has been done by an artist, Bhaskar Mahapatra of Raghurajpur in Puri district of Odisha. The message behind gifting it seemed to be the emphasis on sustenance of life and clean environment ahead of the global meet on climate change that France will be hosting in December this year. The tree, as a divine gift central to human life, is a recurring element in Indian artistic practice.

ANSWER: B. President.

The new 18-point set of rules notified by Home Ministry said Governors will have to stay in their respective states for at least 292 days in a year. The requests for permission to travel outside the state will have to be sent to Rashtrapati Bhavan anywhere between one week and six weeks before the date of travel.

ANSWER: D. Guwahati.

The event is an annual function held every year during the month of April.

ANSWER: B. Metal Mine.

Malajkhand Expansion Project will be largest underground base metal mine of the country. Five lakh ton iron ore will be extracted every year from the mine.

ANSWER: A. Muhammad Quamaruzzaman

Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its Students' Wing Islami Chhatra Shibir vandalised several vehicles and blasted crude bombs in Dhaka's Sobhanbhag and Mirpur areas on 12th Apr’15. At the same time thousands of people took to streets to applaud the government action.

ANSWER: C. China.

The aim is to prevent people unqualified in medicine from posing as doctors. Chinese patients are accustomed to seeking medical advice on the Internet, which is widely popular in the country.

ANSWER: B. Chuka Lhyakhmo

Chuka Lhyakhmo stands for Clean River. Operation Chuka Lhyakhmo, is an initiative of District Police Kargil in collaboration with District Administration aiming to clean river Suru and make people aware about the importance and relevance of a neat and clean Suru River.

ANSWER: D. Gandhi Nagar.

IFSC has become operational at GIFT City in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. IFSC rules allow companies incorporated outside India to raise money in foreign currencies by issuance and listing of their equity shares on stock exchanges within the IFSC, where individual and institutional investors from India and abroad including NRIs, would be allowed to trade.

ANSWER: A. Third.

India produced a spirited performance to beat Korea in the penalty shoot-out to finish a creditable third in the 24th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament. With this India won the Bronze Medal.

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B. New Zealand

In the final match, New Zealand defeated Australia.

ANSWER: C. Sania Mirza

The top-seeded Indo-Swiss pair blew away the challenge of Casey Dellacqua and Darija Jurak in the final match. Sania is also first female player from the country to win Grand Slam tournaments. It is Sania's third successive title win with Hingis and they have not lost as a single match since joining forces in March. Before Sania, only Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhuapthi had achieved the top rank when they dominated men's doubles circuit in the last 90s.

ANSWER: A. Lewis Hamilton.

ANSWER: D. 1919

The army fired on the crowd on the orders of British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, killing hundreds in the cold blood .That was also the day of Baisakhi.

ANSWER: B. Air Pegasus

The airline, subsidiary of Bangalore based Decor Aviation, commenced operation on 12 April 2015 with inaugural flight between Bangalore and Hubli. Initially it is going to serve 3 southern cities (Bangalore, Hubli and Thiruvananthapuram) with a fleet of ATR 72-500.

ANSWER: C. Arun Kumar Jha.

He is currently working as Director General, National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development under the MSME Ministry.

ANSWER: A. Malala Yousafzai.

The Asteroid named ‘316201 Malala’ is located in the Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter. It orbits around the Sun every 5.5 years and is more-than 2 mile wide.

ANSWER: B. 17.