Current Affairs Questions and Answers - Apr 30, 2015

ANSWER: A. Wheat

An official release issued in New Delhi said the central government will reimburse the amount of value cut imposed on the wheat being procured by the FCI and State Government Agencies in Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh under relaxed quality. The government said that the quality of wheat has been badly affected due to untimely rains and hailstorms in March-April this year.

ANSWER: C. 40%.

This would prevent any imports in case international prices of sugar are to depress further.

ANSWER: D. Japan

US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to complete a 12-nation Pacific Rim trade agreement even as the American leader acknowledged there is opposition in both countries. The two leaders did not announce any details about the remaining barriers to completing an agreement that would open up exports for both Japanese and American manufacturers, along with those in 10 other nations.

ANSWER: B. 76

India had launched e-Tourist Visa in November 2014 for 45 countries from nine designated Indian airports. With the latest addition, the total number of countries under the scheme will go up to 76. The Government intends to extend the scheme to 150 countries by the end of the current financial year.

ANSWER: C. ISM Dhanbad

By giving a missed call on mobile number (9590666222), Rs 20 would be deducted for the PM relief fund. Only one missed call can be made from one mobile phone.

ANSWER: B. Una Railway Station

The order to attach the property of Indian Railway was passed by Mukesh Bansal, Additional District and Session Judge Una. The order came after the failure of railway authorities to settle the land claims acquired for laying down the track few years back. However, the Himachal Pradesh High Court on appeal of Railway set aside the lower court orders and when the seal was broken later in the evening, the railway officials took a sigh of relief.

ANSWER: D. Capgemini

The iGate acquisition will help the combined entity to compete on par with the other US-based and Indian-based companies, which have a large of number of their employees based in India.

ANSWER: C. Bharat Mala

The project will start from Gujarat and Rajasthan, move to Punjab and then cover the entire string of Himalayan states – Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand – and then portions of borders of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar alongside Terai, and move to Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and right up to the Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur and Mizoram.

ANSWER: B. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

A royal decree removed Crown Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz bin Saud as next in line to the throne and replaced him with Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, 55, who headed a crackdown on al-Qaeda in the country a decade ago.

ANSWER: B. Progress 59

Russia's unmanned Progress 59 spacecraft blasted off atop a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan.