Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Apr 25, 2015

ANSWER: D. Bhalchandra Nemade.

Mr Nemade will receive the country's highest literary award for his outstanding contribution towards Indian literature. His novel, Kosala, written in 1963 was considered as a path breaking in Marathi literature. The award includes 11 lakh rupees and a citation.

ANSWER: B. 57%.

The number the cases reported in 2011 are around 1.16 lakh as compared to 2.74 lakh in 2000.

ANSWER: A. Calbuco Volcano.

Calbuco has had at least 10 eruptions since 1837. One of the largest historical eruptions in southern Chile took place there in 1893–1894.

ANSWER: B. 25th April

As per the UNICEF Report, Worldwide more than 1200 children die every day from Malaria. According to the recent report by the World Health Organization, since 2000, Malaria deaths worldwide declined by 47 percent. In Africa alone, Malaria deaths during the period declined by 54 percent.

ANSWER: A. 24th April 2015

Armenians worldwide are marking the centenary of the massacre of up to 1.5 million of their people by Ottoman forces. On 24th Apr’15, in the capital Yerevan, Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and first lady Rita Sarkisian laid a wreath at a hilltop memorial at the start of a solemn ceremony marking the mass killings that began in 1915.

ANSWER: C. 5%

It will result into an inflow of around five thousand crore rupees into the stock markets during this fiscal. As per estimates, the EPFO's incremental deposits for 2014-15 would be around 80 thousand crore rupees.