Current Affairs Questions and Answers - May 01, 2015

ANSWER: A. Prannoy Roy

The award, comprising a trophy and a citation, was instituted by the Mumbai Press Club. Sreenivasan Jain of NDTV was presented 'Journalist of the Year' award. Arnab Goswami, Editor-in-Chief of Times Now, was honoured with 'Impact Editor of the Year' award.

ANSWER: B. 1st May

International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some places, is a celebration of laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor movement, anarchists, socialists, and communists and occurs every year on May Day.

ANSWER: D. Andhra Pradesh

Under the new Accident Insurance Scheme, the registered unorganised sector labourers and transport drivers will get a Rs 5 lakh insurance cover. The enrolled will get an accident death insurance of Rs 2 lakh under the Pradhan Mantri Bima Suraksha Yojana by opening a Jan Dhan Yojana account and Insurer will give Rs 3 lakh for which the state government will have an MoU.

ANSWER: C. Haryana

This measure, designed at the behest of the Chief Minister Manohar Lal, will not only help monitor delivery of all welfare and health-related benefits to an infant but will also help in tracking the child from birth to immunization to school admission. Besides, it will seek to serve as a data-base of children for timely and assured delivery of services.

ANSWER: D. 1st May

ANSWER: C. 1st May

Maharashtra Day, commonly known as Maharashtra Diwas. Maharashtra is commemorating the formation of the state of Maharashtra from the division of the Bombay State on 1 May 1960.

ANSWER: A. Riskometer

SEBI has said that the existing colour codes would be replaced by pictorial meter named "riskometer" and this meter would appropriately depict the level of risk in any specific scheme. SEBI has increased the risk category from three to five levels namely low, moderately low, moderate, moderately high and high.

ANSWER: A. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

He is a noted Islamic scholar and peace activist. He has received, among others, the Demiurgus Peace International Award, under the patronage of the former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev; the Padma Bhushan, in January 2000; the National Citizen’s Award, presented by Mother Teresa and the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award (2009).

ANSWER: C. Nadia.

UNICEF India representative David Mcloughlin congratulated the people of the district for achieving the goal.

ANSWER: A. Rohit Sharma

The decision to recommend ODI opener Rohit for the prestigious award was taken at the Indian cricket board's Working Committee meeting in Mumbai on 26th Apr’15.