Current Affairs Questions and answers - April 15, 2014
Q1. Fire Service Week is observed all over the country every year starting from ______.
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ2. Who has been appointed as Finance Secretary w.e.f April’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Shri Arvind Mayaram. This appointment is approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC).
Q3. Name the Portal developed by Centre of Railway Informatics System (CRIS) inaugurated on 15thApril’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: “RAILSAVER”. This will provide a perfect IT based platform for energy consumption data which will pave the way for systematic collection, assimilation, interpretation and analysis of data in evolving future strategies for conceiving, implementing and further intensifying energy conservation efforts on Indian Railways.
Q4. Which community is recognised as the third gender in India by the Supreme Court on 15thApril’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Transgender. Now they will be getting the category of backward class and will be entitled to the reservation facilities in employment, education, public place etc.
Q5. Who has been awarded with the Pulitzer Prize for the year 2014 in poetry category?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Vijay Seshadri. He became the fifth person of Indian origin to win the prestigious award.
Q6. At which seacoast in India, fishing is banned for next 45 days with effect from the 14thApril’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: East Coast. This ban is imposed every year to ensure time and space for the fish and other marine life to breed and multiply.
Q7. Name the underwater vehicle hunting for clues into a planned 16-hour mission for the missing flight MH-370?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Bluefin-21. It is a highly modular autonomous underwater vehicle able to carry multiple sensors and payloads at once. It boasts a high energy capacity that enables extended operations even at the greatest depths.
Q8. Who won the US Men’s Clay Court Tennis Championship Title’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Fernando Verdasco, against Nicolas Almagro.
Q9. Which city of India will scrutinize by UNESCO for the tag of a World Heritage City?
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ10. Who announced to conduct a test on patients of artificial blood made from human stem cells on 14thApr’2014?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: United Kingdom’s Researchers. The trial will involve three patients with ‘thalassaemia’, a disorder of the red blood cells that requires regular transfusions. They will receive around 5 millilitres of blood initially to test whether the cells behave normally in the body.
Q11. In which state of India did Union Ministry of Environment and Forest accord environmental clearance for Coal mine project?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Odisha. This project belongs to Mahanadi Coalfield Ltd, a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd.
Q12. What is a Foldscope?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: FoldScope is a foldable microscope made of paper that performs as well as many commercial research microscopes. Manu Prakash from Stanford University originally designed the Foldscope to detect deadly blood-borne diseases such as malaria, African sleeping sickness, schistosomiasis and Chagas in the developing world, which includes India, where he grew up.
Q13. Name the city topped in the talent rankings as per the report published by Chicago-based consulting firm A T Kearney Inc?
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