Current Affair (30 March)

1. Which Programme was given 5 years extension by the cabinet recently?
1) Biomedical Research Career Programme
2) Wellcome Trust (WT)/DBT India Alliance
3) Theoretical and Computational Biology
4) Both 1 and 2
2. Name the person who was appointed as the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Delhi, on 27th November 2018?
1) Devyani Ghosh
2) Ranbir Singh
3) Ashiq Shah
4) Ranjith Patel
3. Elysium Capital Advisory, a real estate-focused investment bank, has appointed _____ as a strategic advisor and mentor?
1) Manisha Das
2) Sachin Khandelwal
3) Shruthi Gandhi
4) Suraj PS
4. When did world’s largest uniformed youth organization, National Cadet Corps (NCC) celebrate the 70th NCC day all over India?
1) November 27
2) November 26
3) November 25
4) November 28
5. Asia Pacific Summit-2018 was held in _____ on 1st and 2nd December 2018?
1) New Delhi, India
2) Seoul, South Korea
3) Dhaka, Bangladesh
4) Kathmandu, Nepal
6. National Green Tribunal (NGT) appointed _____ as the head of the three-member committee to oversee rejuvenation work of the Ganga River, on 30th November 2018?
1) Justice U C Dhyani
2) Justice V K Mehta
3) Justice Sita Raman
4) Justice Rajveer Yadav
7. Which state announced about ‘SHOUT’ feature exclusively for women in the ‘112 India’, a pan India single mobile app, on 1st December 2018?
1) Haryana
2) Kerala
3) Manipur
4) Nagaland
8. When was International Day for Abolition of Slavery observed all over the world?
1) November 30
2) December 1
3) December 2
4) December 3
9. How many free cooking gas (LPG) connections has the government provided under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), as on 2nd January 2019?
1) 10 crore
2) 5 crore
3) 6 crore
4) 8 crore
10. The production, sale and use of single-use plastic products will be banned in the Union Territory of Puducherry from ____?
1) March 1, 2019
2) February 1, 2020
3) September 1, 2019
4) January 1, 2020

1

D

2

B

3

B

4

C

5

D

6

A

7

D

8

C

9

C

10

A