Current Affairs Online Test April 2017

Who has been selected for the US India Business Council?

The government has launched two mobile apps e-challan and m-Parivahan related to _________

Which state has been celebrated 81st Foundation Day?

Which state government will provide one-time grant of Rs 21,000 to all those families whose third girl child was born after August 24, 2015, under the Aapki Beti, Hamari Beti scheme?

Smart India Hackathon 2017 starts in ______

India and Malaysia have signed ________ agreements, including in the areas of civil aviation and human resources development.

The withdrawal of the service charge on online booking of train tickets has been extended till ________

Who has been named Player of the Year by Australia’s Women’s Big Bash League team Sydney Thunder?

Who won the Miami Open title 2017 in women’s single category?

Who won the Badminton India Open women’s singles title 2017?

Who took charge as new Consul General of Dubai?

World Autism Day has been observed on ______

Union Textiles Minister has launched PowerTex India scheme for ________

Who has been launched the mobile app e-nagarpalika?

Which state has become the 27th state to join in the UDAY scheme?

Who has been sworn as the President of Ecuador?

Kishori Amonkar who passed away recently was a/an ______

A Malaysian company has agreed to help set up a technology park in ______________

Which Indian cricketer became an acting Chief Executive Officer of Gulf Oil India for one day?

Who has been appointed as the first woman Director General of Police of Gujarat?

Which state government waived farmers’ loan of up to ₹1 lakh recently?

IT industry body Nasscom has appointed _____________ as its chairman for 2017-18

The Union Cabinet chaired by PM Narendra Modi has approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and ___________on cooperation in the field of health and medicine

International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) observed on _________

World’s only floating National Park located in ____________

Which state won the most film friendly state award 2017?

Which state government is launching Deendayal Rasoi Yojna today to provide food at a subsidized rate to the poor in urban areas?

Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated a three-day National Children’s Film Festival in ______________

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a digital exhibition in the national capital to mark the 100th anniversary of ________________ Champaran Satyagraha

The Department of Science and Technology (DST) has initiated a (CPS) programme, CPS is abbreviated as _________

A Kolkata-Khulna-Dhaka bus service was ceremoniously flagged off from ___________

Which Bank announced the launch of its Unified Payment Interface (UPI) on India’s first multi-bank payment app, Chillr?

K Shyam Kumar clinched a gold medal at the Thailand International Tournament in Bangkok, he associated with _________

Who has been named as the ‘Asian Businesswoman of the Year 2016’ in an award ceremony in Birmingham?

Which state government kick-started its ambitious ‘Deendayal Rasoi Yojana’ under which subsidised meals will be available at Rs 5 per plate to people?

The first rail freight service from ________________started its 7,500-mile journey recently

World Homeopathy Day was observed on __________

The Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the web portal and mobile application named ______________ on the occasion of  Valour Day of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

Which city police have launched 51 ‘Pink Hoysalas’, the new patrol vehicles, to address complaints related to women and child safety?

The book “Gandhi in Champaran” has been written by _____________

Which e commerce company will acquire the Indian operations of eBay India as part of a $1.4 billion (Rs 9000 crore)?

Who has been appointed as new India’s Ambassador to Germany?

‘Ammaku Vandanam’, a programme to pay tribute to mothers would be introduced in government schools in ____________from this year

India’s first ever micro-drama festival was held in __________

Which country is the world’s biggest executioner country of the year 2016?

Who won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for “The Underground Railroad”?

The Ganesh Shankar Vidhyarthi Award for Hindi journalism will be awarded to ________________

Mahabaleshwara M S has been appointed as managing director and CEO of _________________for a period of three years

United Nation (UN) chief Antonio Guterres has named ______________, as the new administrator of the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP)

Which state Government has decided to increase the reservations to backward Muslim population and Scheduled Tribes in the state?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Bhim-Aadhaar Pay app, a system which allows payment through _______________

Which state government has launched ‘Operation Durga’ to ensure women safety in the state recently?

Which government issue a notification to ban the sale of whiteners, thinners and vulcanised solutions to children below the age of 18 years to check drug abuse

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) have launched a web portal named __________, which for insurers that will allow them to register and sell policies online

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a new set of enabling provisions to resolve the problem of banks’ ____________

Who won the 2017 edition of the Miss Congo UK beauty pageant?

Who won the Singapore Open Badminton title 2017?

Girish Chandra Saxena who passed away recently, he was a former governor of _______________

Who won the prestigious ‘Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards’ 2017 for providing women working on farms with water management solutions and protecting small farmers against droughts?

Which state government has launched two web applications to check corruption and keep track of government activities?

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has appointed ___________as the new Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Director of its mortgage loan arm and listed entity LIC Housing Finance

Which e-commerce company has acquired Bengaluru-based InLogg for an undisclosed amount?

Rodrigo Duterte has won Time magazine’s readers’ poll of the 100 most influential people in the world, He was the president of _______________

____________ Government has introduced the Social Security Yojana by converging five separate beneficiary schemes for workers in the unorganised sectors and for self-employed people

Devineni Nehru (Rajasekhar) who passed away recently, he was a politician of _________state

Who has been honoured with Gururaja Bhat Award 2017?

Mongolia launched its first satellite called _______

Who is the Prime Minister of New Zealand?

Which Airlines will become the world’s first airline to track its flights with the help of satellites by 2018?

Which State government has decided to provide accidental insurance cover to all residents of the State in the age group of 18 to 70 years under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana’ (PMSBY)?

Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh and _________ have been chosen for Krishi Karman Awards, 2015-16.

Who is the First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York?

Malcolm Turnbull is the Prime Minister of ________

Which company has recently announced new Azure migration tools?

Tianzhou-1, an unmanned cargo spacecraft, has been launched by _______

Which state government inaugurated ‘Pariskara Vedika‘, a call centre meant for public grievance redressal?

Which state has established a welfare board for transgender persons?

The Indian Navy has successfully test fired a land attack version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from its frigate in the ________

India and ____________signed an agreement to firm up bilateral cooperation in defence shipbuilding

___________ will be featured as a full sport at the 2022 Asian Games

Which country has replaced Japan as world’s number two importer of liquefied petroleum gas or LPG?

The Ministry of External Affairs has made a provision enabling people to apply online for passports in _________

Which film has won the best film honour at the Hong Kong International Film Festival?

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) conducted a first-of-its-kind State-level mock exercise on forest fire in ______________

Which company become most valuable company in terms of market capitalisation (m-cap)?

Who won the Monte Carlo Masters title 2017 in men’s double category?

World Malaria Day (WMD) was observed on?

Which Bank has won the prestigious ‘Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service Award 2017’ for its innovative mobile technology product?

The BSNL has launched commercial operation of 4G plus Wifi services in ___________

Who was honoured with Vishesh Puraskar at the 75th Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Awards?

Who was appointed as the new Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)?

Which country has become the first country to open an honorary consulate office in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City)?

Who was presented with the Ghantasala national award on 23 April 2017 at a function held in Andhra Pradesh?

The first Nepal-China joint military exercise ‘Sagarmatha Friendship-2017’ concluded in ___________

Jimmy Wales launched a crowd-funded news service to help combat fake news, Jimmy Wales is a founder of ___________

Who was conferred with the 52nd Jnanpith Award by President Pranab Mukherjee?

Vinod Khanna who passed away recently was a/an ___________

Which state government stated that nearly 73 lakh LED bulbs have been distributed under the ‘Rashtriya Ujala Yojana’ in the past year?

Which city has become the first Indian city to win the elusive Pierre L’enfant International Planning excellence award 2017?

Who has been appointed by the UN agency for refugees as its new Goodwill Ambassador?