Current Affairs Questions and answers- March 3, 2014
Q1. Which cricket team won the Under-19 World Cup, 2014 title?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ2. Which community has been incorporated in the Central List of OBCs by the Union Cabinet?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ3. Name the opponent defeated by Indian badminton player Arvind Bhat in the men’s singles final at the German Open Grand Prix Gold?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Kristian Vittinghusin (Danish player).
Q4. In Oscar’2014, which movie won the Academy award for best picture and made history as the first movie from a black director to win the film industry’s highest honour in 86 years of the Oscars?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: “12 Years a Slave”.
Q5. Name the city in India which gets first electric bus on 3rd Mrch’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ6. Which country is hosting the BIMSTEC Summit’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ7. State-owned NTPC will construct a 2,640 MW power plant at which place in India?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Barethi in Chattarpur district of Madhya Pradesh.
Q8. Which Indian company has secured orders from Oman for the construction of a road between Bidbid and Sur in the northeast of the country?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T).
Q9. Which company becomes country's first online and instant freight shipping solution for individuals and businesses?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Hyderabad-based company, Suneeta Cargotech has unveiled eCargo.in.
Q10. Which airport is set to get ISO-14001 tag, a recognition given to airports by international organization for standardization, Geneva, for meeting environmental parameters?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Biju Patnaik Airport, Bhubaneswar.
Q11. According to China-based research firm Hurun's 2014 global rich list, who becomes the country's richest man with a personal fortune of $18 billion?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Answer: Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries (RIL).
Q12. Who has been appointed to the post of Director General, Railway Protection Force, Railway Board?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Shri Krishna Chaudhary, IPS (BH:79) presently working as DG, Fire Services, Civil Defence & Home Guards.
Q13. Second Meeting of the India-UAE High Level Joint Task Force on Investments Held in ______.
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ14. Name the newly developed scheme launched for sending Alerts to Railway Passengers Regarding their PNR Status by Indian Railways.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: ‘SMS Gateway’ developed by Centre for Railway information Systems (CRIS), an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Railways.
Q15. Name the dedicated web-portal which will enable small businesses located anywhere in the country and the other stakeholders like banks, other financial institutions, various Government bodies, NGOs, industry experts, consultants and trainers, academia, research & technical institutions etc. to come together?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: “Virtual Clusters”, an initiative of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, was launched by the Minister of MSME, Shri K. H. Muniyappa.
