Current Affairs Questions and answers - April 12, 2014
Q1. Who has been conferred with the Dada Sahab Phalke Award for the year 2013?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Gulzar. He is a Veteran film lyricist, director, screen writer, producer and poet. He is the 45th Dada Saheb Phalke Award Winner.
Q2. Ambedkar Jayanti is observed every year on _______.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 14thApril. Ambedkar Jayanti is celebrated every year to commemorate the memory of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. 14th April is a public holiday in all of the Indian states.
Q3. By what percent Industrial Output of India has declined since Mar 2013?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: 1.9% in February. It is an all time low since the 2.5% fall observed in the May’2013. It is mainly due to 3.7% contraction in the manufacturing sector.
Q4. For which countries does International Monetary Fund call for bold economic policy reforms, so that they can achieve economic stability?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Arab Countries viz. Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Yemen, Tunisia, and Libya. IMF announced this policy in its latest report "Towards New Horizons-Arab Economic Transformation Amid Political Transitions “on April’2014.
Q5. Name the player who bagged the Gold Medal in Men’s trap event of ISSF Shotgun World Cup’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Indian Shooter on 12thApril’2014.
Q6. Which bank has launched its Twitter Account on 11thApril’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: State Bank of India (SBI). Earlier, SBI had also launched accounts on Facebook and Youtube.
Q7. Who has written the book “Accidental Prime minister: The making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh”?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Sanjaya Baru, Former Media Advisor of PM Manmohan Singh. In this book Baru claimed that the PM had accepted Sonia Gandhi as the centre of power and the equation between the two had crippling effect on country’s governance.
Q8. Who has been appointed as the special advisor of the interim President of BCCI-IPL Sunil Gavaskar on 11 April 2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Deepak Parekh, HDFC Chairman.
Q9.What is NASA’s OSIRIS-REx programme?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: NASA has approved the design of a new spacecraft for its ambitious mission to collect the first ever samples from an asteroid in 2018. The announcement was made after a successful Mission Critical Design Review (CDR) for NASA’s Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx). OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to launch in 2016, rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu in 2018 and return a sample of it to Earth in 2023.
Q10. What is a 165-year old math problem?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: The Twin Prime Conjecture. The twin prime conjecture is where there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers are separated by two units — (3, 5), (5, 7), (11, 13), (17, 19) etc. It is believed that this problem is on the verge of being solved. While Chinese mathematician Yitang Zhang’s work proved that there are indeed infinitely many pairs of prime numbers, the separation between them could not be shown to be two units; it could be as large as 70 million.
Q11. Name the company which has created the record of supplying aircraft tyres for the Indian Defence?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: MRF. Now, the company has started supplying indigenously developed tyres for Sukhoi-30 MKI. The tyre of the 30-MKI launched on 12thApril’2014
Q12. Name the Athlete for whom withdrawal of Arjuna Award is ordered by Supreme Court on 12thApril’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Renjith Maheswary, Triple Jump Athelte. This step has been taken because he has failed a doping test in 2008.
