Current Affairs Questions and answers - May 04, 2014
Q1. Name the firm that has announced to open new banks in West Bengal?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: The Bandhan Financial Services, announced on 2nd may’14.
Q2. What amount of money invested in Indian Stocks market by foreign investors in the April Month?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 9600 Crore. Acc. to data released by SEBI, FIIs bought shares worth around 75,000 crores and sold stocks to the tune of around 65,000 crores, resulting in a net inflow of around 9,600 crore rupees.
Q3. Which city of Gujarat will be incorporated in the map of Air India from 15 May’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Kutch. The airline will link the Kutch city and Mumbai with a direct flight from May 15, 2014, with a CRJ aircraft.
Q4. Name the country that has allowed India to use its waterways to Ashuganj river port on Meghna, for carrying food grains from Kolkata to Tripura?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Bangladesh. The distance between Kolkata and Agartala via hilly areas of Assam by surface transport is about 1700 km, which is reduced to 350 km if the movement is through the plains of Bangladesh
Q5. Name the organisation that gets the ‘Nabhratna’ Dornier (DO-228) aircraft?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). The airplane will be used by Bangalore-based Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) as flying test bed (FTB) for evaluation of performance of various radars being developed by LRDE.
Q6. Name the train that got derailed in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on 4thMay’14?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Diva-Sawantwadi Road Passenger train derailed between Nagothane and Roha stations. Eighteen passengers were killed and more than 145 injured.
Q7. Which company has launched the digital store application for comics based on personalities in India?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Amar Chitra Katha. It has launched ACK Comics, its official digital store app for across platforms — Windows 8, iOS and Android, giving users access to over 300 of its titles.
Q8. Name the firm that has acquired Helsinki-based fitness tracking app ‘Moves’?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ9. Name the Indian scientist in Britain has been granted a prestigious fellowship worth $1.8 million by a top British agency that funds research in engineering and the physical sciences?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Dr. Ravinder Dahiya. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow’s electronic and Nano-scale engineering division.
