Current Affairs Questions and answers - March 13, 2014
Q1. Name the Indian Pharma Company banned by U.S. Food and Drug Administration?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Sun Pharmaceutical, U.S. FDA has banned imports from Indian generic drug maker plant at Karkhadi in Gujarat, in the latest quality blow for India's drug sector on 13th Mar’14.
Q2. Who has appointed as a CMD of Allahabad Bank w.e.f Mar’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ3. Which Indian Company launched country's first air-conditioned LCV goods vehicle?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Ashok Leyland, launched new light commercial vehicle (LCV) Partner in Kolkata on 11th Mar’2014.
Q4. World Wide Web was invented on which year?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 1989, 12th March. Sir Tim Berners Lee inventor of the World Wide Web has marked the 25th anniversary of his creation by calling for a 'Magna Carta' bill of rights to protect its users.
Q5. How many persons turned up to get themselves registered as the voter at one-day special camp organized across the country by the Election Commission on 9th March 2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 74.5 lakh, (74,56,367) people turned up at the 9.3 lakh polling stations across the country on this day. U.P. saw the highest turnout (15.4 lakh), followed by Andhra Pradesh (11 lakh), Tamil Nadu (9.9 lakh), Bihar (7 lakh) and Maharashtra (4.7 lakh).
Q6. Who becomes the America’s youngest CEO as as announced on 11th Mar’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Mark Zuckerberg, 29. The youngest CEO on the list was Facebook founder .
Q7. With which American Aircraft Company, Spicejet has ordered to buy 42 Aircrafts?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Boeing. This deal was signed at the Hyderabad Air Show-India Aviation 2014 at Hyderabad.
Q8.Who won the first Winter Paralympics medal?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Tatyana McFadden. She also who won three titles at the 2012 London Paralympics in wheelchair racing alone.
Q9. Name the Indian Cricket Player who has been chosen as a leading contender for ESPNcricinfo’s Cricketer of the Generation Award?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Sachin Tendulkar.
Q10. Who has been appointed as the first woman director of NALCO on 12th Mar’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Soma Mondal, National Aluminium Company Ltd. (Nalco) is a public sector enterprise of the Government of India. It was incorporated in 1981 to exploit a part of the large deposits of bauxite discovered in the East Coast.
Q11. Name the states who will be use Plastic Photo Identity Card in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Assam and Nagaland.
Q12. “World Kidney Day” observed on which day?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Second Thursday of March. The theme of World Kidney day of 2014 is Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and aging.
