Current Affairs MCQs of 15th April 2021
Q.1 e-SANTA is an electronic marketplace launched by the government for the benefit of which group?
a. Higher educational institutions
b. Retailers
c. Insurance firms
d. Aqua farmers
Q.2 The India’s 1st Electric Vehicle Lithium Battery Plant will be set up in which state?
a. Karnataka
b. Maharashtra
c. Assam
d. Goa
Q.3 Which mutual fund company has become the first mutual fund house to cross Rs 5 lakh crore AAUM Mark?
a. SBI MF
b. Aditya Birla MF
c. Mirae Asset
d. Nippon MF
Q.4 Who has become the Director General of NADA?
a. S Raman
b. Siddharth Longjam
c. Atish chandra
d. NV Ramana
Q.5 Which country has found the lost gold city of Luxor?
a. Brasil
b. Egypt
c. Iran
d. Iraq
Q.6 Which space agency has announced the sending of a black male for the first time under the ‘Artemis
Mission‘?
a. ISRO
b. JAXA
c. NASA
d. ROSCOSMOS
Q.7 Which Indian former coach has been appointed as the coach of the Men’s Hockey team of the USA?
a. Jagbir Singh
b. Harendra Singh
c. Deepak Kumar
d. Ashish Ballal
Q.8 Which country opened a 5G signal station at the world’s highest radar location near Tibet border?
a. India
b. Japan
c. China
d. USA
Q.9 Who was appointed as new Chief Election Commissioner of India?
a. Sushil Chandra
b. Aneesh Shah
c. Somnath chatterjee
d. Gaurav Garg
Q.10 Who will be conferred with the honour of knight of order of arts and letters ,the second highest French civilian honour?
a. Guneet Monga
b. AR Rehman
c. Ashutosh Govarikar
d. Ram Gupta
Q.1 d) The Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal inaugurated e-SANTA, an electronic marketplace, to provide a platform for connecting aqua farmers and buyers. e-SANTA stands for Electronic Solution for Augmenting NaCS farmers’ Trade in Aquaculture.
Q.2 a)
Q.3 a) SBI Funds Management Pvt. Ltd has become the first mutual fund house in India to cross theRs5 lakh crore average assets under management (AAUM) mark.
Q.4 b)
Q.5 b)
Q.6 c)
Q.7 b) The Former India hockey coach Harendra Singh has been appointed as the new head coach of the US men’s team.
Q.8 c) China has opened a 5G signal base at the Ganbala radar station in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet which is the world’s highest manually operated radar station at an elevation of 5,374 meters.
Q.9 a) President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed Sushil Chandra, the senior-most Election Commissioner, as the Chief Election Commissioner of India.
Q.10 a) Acclaimed filmmaker Guneet Monga will be conferred with the honour of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier dans L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres), the second highest civilian French honour.