Current Affairs Quiz: March 13, 2024
- Where did Narendra Modi inaugurate India’s first automobile in-plant railway siding project of Maruti Suzuki India?
A) Gujarat
B) Maharashtra
C) Rajasthan
D) Goa
E) None of the above
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation for the redevelopment of Mahatma Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad and inaugurated the redeveloped Kochrab Ashram on the anniversary of the famous Dandi Yatra, or salt march, taken out by Mahatma Gandhi on March 12, 1930. What was the total cost of project?
A) 4100 crore
B) 1500 crore
C) 1200 crore
D) 3000 crore
E) None of the above
- Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Health & Family Welfare inaugurated a credit assistance program for Jan Aushadhi Kendras. Of how much amount credit facility will be available to small operating Jan Aushadhi Kendras through the program?
A) Rs.1 lakh
B) Rs.2 lakh
C) Rs.3 lakh
D) Rs.5 lakh
E) None of the above
- Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) under Department of Telecommunications (DoT), signed a tripartite MoU with Prasar Bharati (under the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting) and with whom to proliferate affordable and accessible digital services across the country?
A) Flipkart
B) Zomato
C) Swiggy
D) Open Network for Digital Commerce
E)None of the above
- Union Minister of Science & Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurated the first-of- its-kind “National Speed Breeding Crop Facility” at the premier National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI). Where is National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute situated?
A) Kochi
B) Jamshedpur
C) Mohali
D) Lucknow
E) None of the above
- Where did the police initiated “Operation Kamdhenu” to curb the rampant issue of cattle smuggling?
A) Jammu Kashmir
B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Uttrakhand
D) Punjab
E) None of the above
- Which state unit of Geological Survey of India (GSI) has established one representative Stratigraphic Column of the Cuddapah Supergroup?
A) Karnataka
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Tamil Nadu
D) Kerala
E) None of the above
- Which state in March 2024 announced casual leave of 25 days in a year for women employees working in different departments of the state government?
A) West Bengal
B) Odisha
C) Bihar
D) Rajasthan
E) None of the above
- India was the world’s top arms importer for the period 2019-23 with imports having gone up by 4.7% compared to the period 2014-18, according to the Swedish think tank, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Which country became the fourth biggest arms importer globally after it receive transfers of major arms from over 30 states in 2022-23?
A) Saudi Arabia
B) Qatar
C) Ukraine
D) Bhutan
E) None of the above
- The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the merger of a financial technology company, Garagepreneurs Internet Private Limited with which Bank?
A) Capital Small Finance Bank
B) Au Small Finance Bank
C) North East Small Finance Bank.
D) Suryoday Small Finance Bank
E) None of the above
- The consumer price index (CPI)-based inflation eased to how much per cent in February 2024?
A) 5.06%
B) 5.09 %
C) 4.8%
D) 5.4%
E) None of the above
- Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), an autonomous society, launched its 24th Center of Entrepreneurship (CoE) – “FinGlobe”. STPI comes under which ministry?
A) Ministry of Communications
B) Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
C) Ministry of Commerce and Industry
D) Ministry of Corporate Affairs
E)None of the above
- NTPC and its renewable energy arm NGEL have each signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited (RVUNL) in Jaipur. The MoU envisages the development of Renewable Energy Projects up to what capacity?
A) 25 GW
B) 30 GW
C) 10 GW
D) 15 GW
E) None of the above
- Aditya Birla Capital rose what percent after the company’s board and the board of its wholly owned subsidiary Aditya Birla Finance (ABFL) approved the scheme of amalgamation for merging Aditya Birla Finance with the company?
A) 2.89%
B) 5.4%
C) 3.25%
D) 2.5%
E) None of the above
- Which Indian player has been named the ICC Men’s Player of the Month for February 2024?
A) Yashasvi Jaiswal
B) KL Rahul
C) Axar Patel
D) Shubman Gill
E) None of the above
- A S Rajeev was appointed as Vigilance Commissioner by the Hon’ble President of India on February 09, 2024. He is the former Chief Executive Officer of which bank?
A) Union Bank
B) Bank of Maharashtra
C) Axis Bank
D) ICICI Bank
E) None of the above
- Who assumed the charge of Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) in New Delhi?
A) Suresh N. Patel
B) Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha
C) Kishor Makwana
D) Ruchira Kamboj
E) None of the above
- Who has been presented with IAA Golden Compass Award at the 45th IAA World Congress held in Penang, Malaysia?
A) Srinivasan K. Swamy
B) Ajay Banga
C) Arvind Krishna
D) Nikesh Arora
E)None of the above
- President Droupadi Murmu was conferred with the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law by which university?
A) Northwestern University
B) Cologne Business School
C) Imperial College London
D) University of Mauritius
E) None of the above
- Which author was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2024 for his writings on the climate crisis and human interactions with nature?
A) Jeremy Leggett
B) Naomi Klein
C) Amitav Ghosh
D) Eric Roston
E) None of the above
- Riken Yamamoto, a Japanese architect from Yokohama, has been named the winner of the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an annual award founded in which year by Jay A. Pritzker?
A) 1960
B) 1985
C) 1999
D) 1979
E)1950
- Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted India’s first successful flight test of the indigenously developed Agni-V missile. The name of this mission has been given as?
A) Mission external aggression
B) Mission Divyastra
C) Mission inherent resolve
D) Mission D-day aggression
E) None of the
- During a wildlife expedition in the Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand, a team of researchers made a remarkable discovery- a previously unknown species of scorpion. How many eyes does this species have?
A) 8
B) 5
C) 3
D) 6
E) None of the above
- ‘The conspiracy to oust me from the Presidency’ has been written by whom?
A) Ranil Wickremecinghe
B) Mahinda Rajapaksha
C) Gotabaya Rajapaksa
D) Chandrika Kumaratunga
E) None of the above
Two years after his dramatic ouster from office by a popular people’s movement, Sri Lanka’s former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has sought to defend his tainted regime, by launching a book that attributes his political downfall to a “conspiracy” involving foreign and local parties.