UPSC: Important Current Affairs For UPSC
Current Affairs of April 2015:
National Current Affairs And Events:
1) The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gave its approval for continuation of the minimum pension of Rs........... per
month to the pensioners of Employees' Pension Scheme, 1995 (EPS) beyond 2014-15 on perpetual basis. Retirement fund body EPFO had earlier suspended this minimum monthly pension scheme from 1st April 2015 in the absence of any direction from the Government?
= Rs 1,000
2) What is the name of rescue and relief mission launched by Indian Army in Nepal which suffered massive earthquake on 25 April 2015?
= Operation Maitri
3) The logo for International Day of Yoga was launched on Wednesday by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Minister of State for
AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik. Which day will be celebrated every year
as International Day of Yoga? (In December 2014, United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) unanimously adopted an India-led resolution to observe this day as the International Day of Yoga)?
= 21st June
4) Name the Indian Army regiment which completed 200 years of their raising recently?
= Gorkha Rifles
5) Union Cabinet gave its nod to 100 smart cities project and the new urban renewal mission with a total outlay of about Rs one lakh crore. The Government approved the Smart Cities Mission for development
of 100 smart cities and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) of 500 cities with outlays of Rs ............ and Rs ......... respectively. AMRUT is the new avatar of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and has been named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee?
= Rs 48,000 crore and
50,000 crore
6) Which Iconic Indian industrialist and business leader has acquired a stake in the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi recently? (He is the
first Indian to invest in the Chinese smartphone maker) ?
= Ratan Tata
7) Who was appointed as Chairperson of Children's Film Society of India?
= Mukesh Khanna
8) Name the former Finance Minister and External Affairs Minister who has been conferred the Officer of the Legion of Honour by the French
Government?
= Yashwant Sinha
9) Who was conferred with 50th Jnanpith Award for his outstanding contribution in Indian Literature?
=Marathi literature Bhalchandra Nemade
10) Which Bollywood actor was conferred with Pandit Dinanath
Mangeshkar Award 2015 along with Marathi actor Dilip?
= Anil Kapoor
11) Employee Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) can now invest....percent of its corpus in stock market?
= 5 percent
12) National Panchayati Raj Day was observed on?
= 24 April
13) Which Union Minister received an ISO 9001:2008 certification from the British Standards Institute in respect of various permissions and licences issued by it for the broadcasting and print media and films?
= Union Ministry of information and Broadcasting
14) Who was honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Award 2015 for his performance in the film 'Happy New Year'?
= Shah Rukh Khan
15) Union Finance Ministry retained interest rate for General Provident Fund (GPF) at ....percent for the year 2015-16?
= 8.7 percent
16) Which National Park in Uttarakhand is declared as India's 48th Tiger Reserve?
= Rajaji National Park
17) 9th Civil Services Day was observed across India on?
= 21st April
18) Who was elected as General Secretary of CPI (M) succeeding Prakash Karat?
= SitaramYechury
19) With which country India has made an agreement to purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets?
= France
20) Which country has made an agreement with India to supply Uranium for nuclear power plants in India?
= Canada
21) Which Indian cricketer was elected as member of Laureus Sports Academy?
= Sachin Tendulkar
22) Who was appointed as Ambassador of India to France? = Dr Mohan Kumar
23) Name the ballistic missile which was successfully test fired by India from Wheelar Island?
= Agni-III
24) Fourth Lighthouse Museum of India will be opened at? (The other three lighthouses museums was opened at Alappuzha in Kerala and
Chennai & Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu.)
= Kannur, Kerala
25) Who was sworn in as the first lady judge of Sikkim High Court?
= Justice Meenakshi Madan Rai
26) Name the three country which was visited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently ?
= Germany, France
and Canada
27) Tourist Visa on Arrival scheme was renamed by Union Ministry of Home Affairs as?
= e-Tourist Visa
28) Who was re-elected as the President of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI)
Brijbhushan Sharan Singh
Who won the bronze medal in 10 m Air Rifle Women event at ISSF Rifle/Piston World Cup?
= Apurvi Chandela
29) Who won the bronze medal in 10 m Air Rifle Men event at ISSF Rifle/Piston World Cup?
= Jitu Rai
30) Who became the first female tennis player from India to achieve the World Number One ranking in doubles?
= Sania Mirza
31) The Supreme Court directed private hospitals to provide free treatment, including specialized surgeries, to ______?
= Acid attack victims
32) Who was recently appointed as the CEO of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC)?
= Arun Kumar Jha
33) What is the name of nuclear capable surface to surface missile which was successfully test fired from a naval ship off the Odisha Coast?
= Dhanush
34) The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) elected India to four important United Nations (UN) agencies. These four UN agencies are?
= United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF),World Food
Programme (WFP),United Nations Human Settlements
Programme (UN-Habitat) and
Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ)
35) Which city was named as National Earth Hour Capital 2015 by World Wildlife Fund (WWF)?
= Coimbatore was the National Earth Hour Capital for the year 2014.
36) Thane Retirement fund body EPFO has suspended the minimum monthly pension scheme. The amount of this monthly pension scheme was?
= Rs 1000 per month
37) Name the former Air Chief Marshal of Indian Air Force who died recenlty?
= Hrushikesh Moolgavkar
38) Mobile recharge platform Freecharge was recently acquired by?
= Snapdeal
39) For how many days Union Ministry of Home Affairs suspended the registration of Greenpeace India Society?
= 180 days
40) What is the name of legendary Tamil writer and winner of Jnanpith Award who died recently?
= Jayakanthan
41) Who was elected as the President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2015-16?
=Sumit Mazumder, Chairman and Managing Director, TIL Limited
42) Who was appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner of India by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee?
= Dr Nasim Zaidi
43) What is the name of bank recently launched by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi under PM Jan Dhan Yojana to provide credit to small entrepreneurs?
= Micro Units Development and
Refinance Agency Bank (MUDRA Bank)
44) What is the name of Indian chess grandmaster who won bronze medal in World Women's Chess Championship?
= Dronavalli Harika
45) The National Green Tribunal (NGT), on Tuesday, banned all diesel vehicles over _______ years old from plying on Delhi roads?
= 10 years
46) Who was appointed as the Chairman of Indian Premier League (IPL) Governing Council?
= Rajeev Shukla
47) Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently launched National Air Quality
Index to monitor pollution level in 10 Indian cities. Name of these cities are?
= Delhi, Kanpur,Ahmedabad,
Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Agra, Varanasi, Lucknow
and Faridabad
48) Who was appointed as the 16th Governor of Mizoram?
= KeshariNath Tripathi
49) What is the name of Indian mountaineer who died recently? (He was the fastest mountaineer to climb 7 summits of the world in record 172 days in 2006. He hails from Nellore in Andhra region.)
= Malli Mastan Babu
50) Which city was approved as Capital by the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet?
= Amaravathi
51) What is the name of operation launched by India to evacuate 4000 Indian nationals from Yemen?
= Operation Rahat
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