Current Affairs Questions and answers - March 22, 2014
Q1. What is Jamshed-e-Navroz?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: The Parsi New Year, Jamshed-e-Navroz is celebrated on the first day of the first month of the Shehenshai calendar followed by the Zoroastrian faith. This year its celebrated on 21st Mar’2014.
Q2. Name the college for standing first in the Eleventh National Youth Parliament Competition?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: DAV Colleges, Jalandhar, Punjab for 2nd time in a row. The prizes were distributed at a function held today (21st mar’14) in GMC Balayogi Auditorium, Parliament Library Building, New Delhi.
Q3. Since which year, The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has been organizing Youth Parliament competitions in Universities/Colleges?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ4. “World Water Day” is observed on ______.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 22nd March. This year, World Water Day focuses on water and energy.
Q5. International Day of Forests was observed on ______.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 21st Mar’2014. The theme of the International Forest Day is “Celebrating Forests for Sustainable Development”.
Q6. Name the countries which won the 2014 edition of the UN-Water “Water for Life” Best Practices Award?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: India and Singapore.
Q7. On 21st Mar’2014, which company announced two major security updates which would disable snooping activities from its e-mail services?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Google. Now every single email will encrypted while moving internally.
Q8. Name the country’s constitutional court which has ruled that a general election held in its country in Feb’2014 was invalid?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Thailand constitutional court, has ruled that a general election held in Feb’2014 was invalid.
Q9. Name the Indian Badminton players who have maintained their positions in top 10 of the women’s singles rankings?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Saina Nehwal and P.V.Sindhu, have maintained 8th and 9th positions respectively as of Mar’2014.
Q10. Who won the Google Digital Activism Award 2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Shubhranshu Chaudhary, Indian Journalist and founder of CGNet Swara, for his work in using mobile phones to bring local news to remote Indian regions in their native language.
Q11. Name the world’s most ethical firms listed in the World's Most Ethical Companies’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Tata Power and Wipro Ltd.
Q12.Name the Indian languages which have been brought back as official subjects in South African schools?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Gujarati and Telugu. This circular was issued to schools in South Africa on 20th Mar’2014. These languages were offered as official subjects in schools of South Africa until 1994.
Q13. Name the company which has announced to offer Smog Insurance to tourists in six heavily polluted Chinese cities?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Ping An Insurance, State-run Insurance Company of China announced on 20th Mar’2014.
Q14. Name the author who won the Nigeria Prize for Literature’2013?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Tade Ipadeola , Nigerian poet won this prize for his book “The Sahara Testaments”.
Q15. Name the company which has formed an equal joint venture with Tesco as announced on 21stMar’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Trent Hypermarket Ltd – THL, which operates the “Star Bazaar” retail business in India.
Q16. On 21st Mar’2014, Twitter a popular micro-blogging site completed how many years?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Eight Years. On 21st Mar’2006 Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet through twitter which read “just setting up my twttr.”
Q17. Name the country which blocke the use of Twitter on 21st Mar’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Turkey, This action was taken after the threatening given by Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to ban social sites like Twitter and Facebook.
