Current Affairs -2016 April
(Chapter-01)
Answer: Filippo Grandi
(Chapter-01)
1. Who is
the incumbent head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees?
Answer: Filippo Grandi
2. Which day is celebrated on 8th April -
Answer: International Roma Day
3. Name of
Asia's largest optical telescope unveiled by PM Narendra Modi in Nainital -
Answer: ARIES
4. Prime
Minister Narendra Modi will launch the “Stand up India” scheme, aimed at
providing credit to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, and women borrowers, on
Answer: April 5 Tuesday.
5. Which of
the following becomes the first Indian state to link all government colleges
and medical colleges to the national cancer grid ?
Answer: Maharashtra
6. The World
Autism Awareness Day is observed on which date?
Answer: April 2
7. The
Japanese badminton player who has won the Yonex Sunrise India Open badminton
tournament men's singles defeating Viktor Axelsen of Denmark in the finals
Answer: Kento Momota
8. Which two
countries agreed to build a bridge across Red Sea
Answer: Saudi Arabia & Egypt
9. Which
Indian personality was recently bestowed with the Saudi Arabia’s highest
civilian honour “the King Abdulaziz Sash”?
Answer: Narendra Modi
10. -------,
a Dominica-born British lawyer, was appointed as the Commonwealth's new
Secretary General, becoming the first woman to occupy the post in the 53-member
block's history.
Answer: Patricia Scotland
11. The
center has approved which of the following state’s Tourism’s coastal circuit
project under the “Swadesh Darshan Scheme” ?
Answer: Goa
12. World’s
first ‘White Tiger Safari’ has opened in which state of India?
Madhya
Pradesh
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
13. The
venue of International Conference on the Zero held on 05 April 2016 with the
Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani unveiling a bust of mathematician-astronomer
Aryabhatta
Answer: UNESCO HQ's at Paris
14. Which
company successfully landed its rocket on a floating drone ship for the first
time –
Answer: SpaceX
15. Which of
the following is the newly introduced fully unreserved, superfast train in
India?
Answer: Antyodaya Express
16. Aadhaar
enabled Payment system facilitate disbursements of Government entitlements like
NREGA, Social Security pension, Handicapped Old Age Pension etc. of any Central
or State Government bodies, using Aadhaar and authentication thereof as
supported by UIDAI .
Answer: APNA DHAN
17. In
accordance with the “The Yearbook” published by UNIDO, India has been ranked at
which position in the list of world’s 10 largest manufacturing countries ?
Answer: 6th
18. Which of
the following tournament celebrated its silver jubilee on April 6, 2016?
Answer: Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
19. The
theme of India Water Week being observed in the country from 04 to 08 April
2016 with Israel as partner country
Answer: Water for all: Striving together
20. Prime
Minister of which country recently resigned from his post after his name was
revealed in Panama paper leak?
Answer: Iceland
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