March 2014 Current Affairs Bit Bank

INTERNATIONAL
1) Which country announced on 11 March 2014 a plan to lease Himalayan peaks to private companies to
ease traffic on Mount Everest and to boost tourism ?
Ans:- Nepal
2) The Supreme Court of - on 9 March 2014 sacked the Election Commissioner Fuwad Thowfeek and
his deputy Ahmad Fayaz ?
Ans:- Maldives
3) Who won the El Salvadors presidential election on 17 March 2014 ?
Ans:- Salvador Sanchez Ceren
4) Which country Forces on 17 March 2014 handed over its two important military bases in southern
Helmand province to Afghan security forces and closed down another base ?
Ans:- Britain
5) Which country and New Zealand announced a landmark deal on 18 March 2014 that allows the direct
trading of the two countries currencies ?
Ans:- China
INDIA & WORLD
1) India, Sri Lanka and Maldives on 6 March 2014 held national security advisor-level meet on maritime
security cooperation in - ?
Ans:- New Delhi
2) According to the latest data from the National Bomb Data Centre (NBDC) released on 5 March 2014,
which country has turned out to be the third most dangerous country in the world in terms of bomb
blasts cases (per year) only ?
Ans:- India
3) What was Indias rank in the recently released report of the global anti-money laundering body
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) pertaining to progress in combating money laundering in the world ?
Ans:- 34
4) Which country was recenlty ranked fourth in a Microsoft report in the list of the countries sending out
spam e-mails ?
Ans:- India
5) Which country and India have signed on 18 March 2014 an agreement to work together in software,
information technology and infrastructure ?
Ans:- China
NATIONAL
1) The Union government has on 4 March 2014 launched the Maulana Azad Sehat Scheme a health
scheme for ____?
Ans:- Minority Students
2) Recently, Union government has launched a nation-wide campaign awareness campaign to curb the
spread of dengue disease.The campaign has been named as ?
Ans:- U and ME against Dengue
3) Election Commission on 5 March 2014 announced the dates for Lok Sabha polls. Over 814 million
voters constituting the biggest electorate in the world will exercise their franchise to elect 543
members to the 16 th Lok Sabha in how many phases?
Ans:- 9
4) The Government of India (GoI) recently announced to build how many low cost airports in the next 20
years ?
Ans:- 200
5) In the month of March 2014 government has approved to set up countrys second nuclear f uel
complex to reprocess atomic fuel in ?
Ans:- Rajasthan
STATES
1) The government has recently approved the National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem
(NMSHE) to sustain the Himalayan ecosystem, continuously assess it s health status.The NMSHE covers
how many states of India?
Ans:- Twelve
2) Name the new health scheme launched on 6 March 2014 by North Delhi Municipal Corporation
(NDMC) for women?
Ans:- Stri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna
3) Which state government on 3 March 2014 launched a novel scheme Dial a doctor which will enable
the public to seek health-related advice over phone round-the-clock from doctors by dialling a toll-free
number ?
Ans:- Kerala
4) Which state approved the Backward Class (BC) status for the Jat and Jat Sikhs of the State on 5 March
2014 ?
Ans:- Punjab
5) For how many years, Hyderabad is envisaged as the common capital for Andhra Pradesh and
Telangana as per Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014?
Ans:- 10 years
CONFERENCES
1) The 3rd Summit meet of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation
(BIMSTEC) was held from 1 4 March 2014 at ?
Ans:- Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Alfonso Cuaron won the Best director award in Oscars 2014 for which movie?
Ans:- Gravity
2) Who won the 2014 Templeton Prize ?
Ans:- Tomas Halik
3) Who has been selected for the 17th Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013 for his debut film as a
director, The Good Road in Gujarati ?
Ans:- Gyan Correa
4) What is the name of the Indian journalist who won the prestigious Google Digital Activism Award for
2014 beating likes of Edward Snowden?
Ans:- Shubhranshu Choudhary
5) Which water-based initiative from India won the 2014 UN-Water Water for Life Best Practices
Award as announced on 21 March 2014?
Ans:- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)-Tata Water Policy Programme
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Who won the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship doubles title on 1 March 2014 ?
Ans:- Indo-Pak duo Rohan Bopanna and Aihsan ul Haq Qureshi
2) Which club won the Capital One football Cup in the final held at Wembley on 2 March 2014 ?
Ans:- Manchester City
3) Name the Indian shuttler won the German Open Grand Prix Mens singles title on 2 March 2014 ?
Ans:- Arvind Bhat
4) Which country won the Asia Cup 2014 title after defeated Pakistan by five wickets in the final at the
Shere Bangla National Stadium Mirpur, Bangladesh on 8 March 2014 ?
Ans:- Sri Lanka
5) Which country won the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2014 ?
Ans:- South Africa
ECONOMY
1) Who is the Worlds top richest Billionaire with worth of 76 billion dollars according to Forbes
magazines 28th Annual World billionaires list released on 3 March 2014?
Ans:- Bill Gates
2) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 13 March 2014 hiked the trade related remittance limit from Rs. 2 lakh
to Rs. 5 lakh per transaction.What was the reason for this increase?
Ans:- Increase in the number of transactions handled by exchange houses
3) Bharti Airtel and which international telecom giant signed a pact on 4 March 2014 to set up a multi-
service regional network infrastructure node in India?
Ans:- Etisalat
4) Government of India on 4 March 2014 hiked the interest rates on fixed deposit scheme that is offered
by post offices by up to - percent?
Ans:- 0.2 %
5) Which state scored the highest in monthly per capita consumer expenditure (MPCE) for urban areas
in the recently released ranking by the by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)?
Ans:- Haryana
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
1) In the month of March 2014 World Longest aircraft Airlander or HAV304 was unveiled at - ?
Ans:- Cardington in Bedfordshire, Britain
2) Name the Indian-American scientist on 6 March 2014 developed the first 3D model of a human
fingerprint called Phantom ?
Ans:- Anil Jain
3) Scientists in the - community discovered a way to rebuild ears and noses using stem cells from
body fat on 4 March 2014 ?
Ans:- British
4) Which seemingly impoverished country recently made a surprising entry into the high-tech world with
its own manufactured Android tablet named Surtab?
Ans:- Haiti
5) Name the student of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on 17 March 2014 developed a
robot that can swim like fish ?
Ans:- Andrew Marchese
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who assumed charge as the new Secretary General of the South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) on 3 March 2014?
Ans:- Arjun Bahadur Thapa
2) Who was appointed as the Chairman of Financial Planning Standards Board India (FPSB) on 11 March
2014 ?
Ans:- Justice (Retd.) BN Srikrishna
B)RESIGNS
1) Nandan Nilekani on 13 March 2014 resigned as Chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India
(UIDAI).When he took charge as the first Chairman of UIDAI?
Ans:- In 2007
C) DEATHS
1) Name the the author of the Fatal Vision died on 10 March 2014 at UMass Memorial Medical Center in
Worcester, Massachusetts, US ?
Ans:- Joe McGinniss
D) VISITORS
1) Name the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President visited India from 19 22 March 2014
?
Ans:- John Ashe
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) Misao Okawa, the oldest woman in the world, turned 116 on 6 March 2014. She is from which
country?
Ans:- Japan
PLACES IN NEWS
1) What is the name of the proposed 70-storey temple, billed to be the tallest shrine in the world, which
was inaugurated on 16 March 2014 at Vrindavan in UP?
Ans:- Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir
ABBREVIATIONS IN NEWS
1) What is the full form of IBRD ?
Ans:- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) What is the name of another book written by Wendy Doniger, whose publisher on 10 March 2014
announced it will not reprint this book until an acceptable resolution pertaining to the alleged
controversies in this book are found?
Ans:- On Hinduism
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) Which committee has recently recommended an anti-discrimination law for Muslims on lines of SC/ST
law?
Ans:- Amitabh Kundu Committee
DAYS & DATES
1) World Water Day was observed on - ?
Ans:- 22 March
April 2014 Current Affairs Bit Bank
INTERNATIONAL
1) In which country the Multilateral Humanitarian Assistance / disaster relief (HA/DR) Exercise,
KOMODO was conducted from March 28th to 3 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Indonesia
2) What is the name of the biblical epic movie which was banned by Malaysia and Indonesia on 7 April
2014 for its visual depiction of the prophet?
Ans:- Noah
3) Which country Parliament on 8 April 2014 voted to reject the request by the Catalan authorities to
hold a referendum on independence on 9 November 2014 ?
Ans:- Spain
4) Which country on 9 April 2014 taking a novel approach to protecting doctors from growing levels of
violence from angry patients: volunteer Guardian Angels ?
Ans:- China
5) A comprehensive legislation on Internet privacy for both service providers and Internet Users was on
23 April 2014 passed by which country ?
Ans:- Brazil
INDIA & WORLD
1) Recently, India and which country have reached an agreement to include a new cross-boundary
landscape in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region ?
Ans:- Nepal and Bhutan
2) As per the latest data released by SIPRI, country with highest military expenditure in 2013 is ?
Ans:- USA
3) Which country and India on 22 April 2014 signed an agreement for the development of joint
hydropower projects in a bid to further strengthen their bilateral strategic partnership ?
Ans:- Bhutan
4) Which country was rated lowest for average internet speed in the Asia Pacific region in a recently
conducted study done by US firm Akamai?
Ans:- India
5) Which country President and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on 25 April 2014 issued a Joint
Statement emphasizing robust trilateral relation with India ?
Ans:- US
NATIONAL
1) Government on 13 April 2014 sanctions the recruitment of women as combat officers in ?
Ans:- Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)
2) Name the programme was launched by Election Commission of India (ECI) on 15 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Election VIsitors Programme (EVP) 2014
3) Union Ministry of Civil Aviation on 2 April 2014 approved the Tata and Singapore Airlines (SIA) joint
venture called?
Ans:- Tata SIA Airlines Ltd
4) The Election Commission has launched on 17 April its own internet-based media arm called ?
Ans:- Voter Education Channel
STATES
1) Which North-eastern state capital on 7 April 2014 became the second in the region to have rail-
connectivity?
Ans:- Itanagar, the capital of Arunachal Pradesh
2) Recently the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest accorded environmental clearance (with some
conditions) to the expansion of Bhubaneshwari opencast project in which state ?
Ans:- Odisha
3) Name the stone-age tribes of Andaman & Nicobar (A&N) islands who for the first time casted their
votes in Great Nicobar on 10 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Shompens
4) Which state has achieved the highest rate of increase in the number of electors in the country in the
past five years as stated in the electoral data released early this year?
Ans:- Tamil Nadu
5) Which state has recorded the highest growth rate of milk production and per capita availability during
the five year period of 2006-10, according to Assocham study ?
Ans:- Andhra Pradesh
CONFERENCES
1) In which country the International Hindi Conference was held from 25 27 April 2014 ?
Ans:- US
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Renowned poet-lyricist and filmmaker Gulzar was on 12 April 2014 selected for the prestigious Dada
Saheb Phalke award for 2013.What is the real name of Gulzar?
Ans:- Sampooran Singh Kalra
2) Which film was selected as the Best Film for 61st National Film Awards announced on 16 April 2014?
Ans:- Ship of Theseus
3) Who won special jury award of Times Now NRI Awards 2014?
Ans:- Zubin Mehta
4) ) Randstad Awards 2014 for most attractive employer in India goes to - for the 4th consecutive
year ?
Ans:- Microsoft
5) The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-2014 has been awarded to Donna Tartt, for her novel ?
Ans:- The Goldfinch
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Who won the India Super Series Badminton tournament womens Singles title on 6 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Shixian Wang (China)
2) Which team won the 4th Hockey India Junior Men National Championship 2014 (Division A) on 6 April
2014 ?
Ans:- Punjab
3) Which country on 6 April 2014 won the T20 cricket world cup 2014 ?
Ans:- Sri Lanka
4) Which English Premier League club was denied the permission to change its name by the Football
Association Council (FAC) on 9 April 2014?
Ans:- Hull City
5) Which team won the National T20 title for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on 14 April 2014?
Ans:- Baroda
ECONOMY
1) The Reserve Bank of India on 2 April 2014 granted in-principle approval of bank licences to which two
entitites?
Ans:- IDFC Limited and Bandhan Financial Services Private Limited
2) What is the proposed additional tax on those earning over Rs 1 crore through dividend income in the
draft of the Direct Taxes Code (DTC), which was released on 1 April 2014?
Ans:- 10%
3) Reserve Bank of India on 1 April 2014 adopted which index as the key measure of Inflation?
Ans :- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
4) Which firm became the first Indian retail e-commerce to file for an initial public offering (IPO) on
NASDAQ and to be listed on this US stock exchange?
Ans:- HomeShop18
5) India retained the top spot in the world in foreign exchange remittances from its migratory workforce
during 2013. How much remittance was received by India during the year?
Ans:- $70 billion
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
1) A vast liquid ocean was found on which moon of Saturn by NASAs Cassini probe as published by
Science magazine on 3 April 2014?
Ans:- Enceladus
2) After its ten and half years service in orbit, on 1st April 2014 ISRO decommissioned which
Communication Satellite?
Ans:- INSAT-3E
3) What is the name of the deadly virus for which the Computer Emergency Response Team of India
(CERT-In) issued an advisory on 11 April 2014 to all Internet users in the country?
Ans:- Heartbleed
4) Name the professor at Stanford University alongwith his students, invents a dirt cheap microscope
named Foldscope on 15 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Manu Prakash
5) Which country Scientists on 17 April 2014 created a 3D model of the human malaria parasite genome
for the first time ?
Ans:- US
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who was named as the captain of the ICC World T20 team on 7 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
2) Name the Indian-American was on 5 April 2014 nominated by President Barack Obama to a key post
as US Alternate Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ?
Ans:- Sunil Sabharwal
B)RESIGNS
1) Which country Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov, has announced his resignation on 2 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Kazakhstan
C) DEATHS
1) Name the Nobel prize-winning Colombian author died on 17 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2) Name the Former Liberian President, who led a peacetime government after two ruinous back-to-
back civil wars, died on 16 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Gyude Bryant
D) VISITORS
1) Name the Namibian Prime Minister visited China on 8 9 April 2014 ?
Ans:- Hage Geingob
E) MISCELLANEOUS
Which two former Popes were declared Saints by the Pope Francis at the Vatican on 27 April 2014?
Ans:- John XXIII and John Paul II
PLACES IN NEWS
1) In the month of April Archaeologists discovered a 3500-year-old inscription on a stone block in which
country and claimed that it is the oldest weather report of the world ?
Ans:- Egypt
ABBREVIATIONS IN NEWS
1) What is the full form of IRNSS ?
Ans:- Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) What is the title of the book written by former Coal Secretary P.C. Parakh in which he claimed that
Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs inability to take on vested interests led to the coal block row?
Ans:- Crusader or Conspirator : Coalgate and other truths
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) Who is the Chairman of the committee appointed by Supreme Court on 22 April 2014 to monitor the
steps taken by the centre and state government to ensure road safety and curb growing number of
accidents ?
Ans:- Justice Radhakrishnan
DAYS & DATES
1) World Malaria Day (WMD) was observed on across the world ? (Ans:- 25 April 2014 )