Current Affairs Questions and answers - April 05, 2014
Q1. How much employment growth has been observed in the United States in the month of Mar’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: United States added 1,92,000 new Jobs in March which is a good indicator for economic health.
Q2. Who is the head of the committee formed by Union government on 4th Apr’2014 to recommend site for the capital of successor state of Andhra Pradesh?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: K Sivaramakrishnan, former Union Urban Development Secretary.
Q3.Name the only country in the world with legislated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and a spending threshold of upto $2.5 Billion?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: India, has only become the only country in the world with legislated CSR of upto Rs.15000Crore after implementing the new corporate law from 1st Apr’2014.
Q4. Who has won the 2014 Asian Award for outstanding achievement in sports in UK?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Q5. Name the Indian Infra. Company which has won the deal to build a World Class International Airport in the Philippines?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: GMR Infrastructure and its Filipino Partner won the deal on 5th Apr’2014.
Q6. Name the Indian-American investor offered a job of US Alternate Executive Director at International Monetary Fund by President Barack Obama?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Sunil Sabharwal. He is an independent investor since 2006 and was the Chairman of the Board of Ogone, a European e-commerce payment services company, from 2011 to 2013.
Q7. Name the Politician who stated in his affidavit that his and wife’s assets rose by 1200% from 2009 to 2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: S Jagatrakshakan, former DMK minister in the UPA Government stated his assets are worth Rs. 78.04 Crore, up from 5.91 Crore in 2009.
Q8. Why FIFA imposed transfer ban on Spanish Club FC Barcelona on Apr’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: For violating Article 19 of regulations of FIFA. According to Article 19 international transfers of players are only permitted if the player is over the age of 18. However, the same article stipulates that international transfers of minor players are permitted under three limited circumstances, and such exceptions may only be granted after evaluation by the sub-committee of the Players’ Status Committee.
Q9. Name the journalist shot dead in Afghanistan on the eve of presidential elections?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Anja Niedringhaus, 48, an internationally acclaimed German photographer. She was a winner of Pulitzer Prize.
Q10. What is the name given to World’s oldest weather report discovered in Egypt on April’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Tempest Stela. It is a 3500-year-old inscription on a stone block.
Q11. Name the moon of Saturn on which a vast liquid ocean was found by NASA’s Cassini probe in the first week of April’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ12. Under which section of Indian Penal Court three men convicted of two gang rapes in Shakti Mills termed a death sentence in the first week of Apr’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Section 376 E. It was originally an Ordinance announced by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, on 3 February 2013, in light of the protests in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case.
Q13. What is the India’s Rank among 132 countries on Social Progressive Index?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 102. This report was published by Social Progress Imperative, a US based Non-profit Organisation on 3rd Apr’2014.
Q14. For which states Railway Ministry has refused to launch a new railway zone?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. This decision was taken on 5th Apr’2014 informing the state government that it is not possible to launch a new railway zone exclusively for AP and that "it is not needed to set up a Rail Coach Factory (RCF) in Telangana".
