DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 8 APRIL 2015
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INTENATIONAL
1. WORLD HEALTH
DAY OBSERVED GLOBALLY:
A. World Health Day was observed globally
on 7th April, 2015.
B. World
Health Day was observed with the theme “World
Farm to plate, make food safe”.
C. World Health Day is observed to raise
awareness about food safety.
EXPECTED QUESTION FROM THIS CURRENT AFFAIRS NEWS
Q 1. When is World Health Day observed?
a. 25th April
b. 31st October
c. 7th April
d. 17th November
2. SRI LANKA SIGNED 6 AGREEMENTS WITH PAKISTAN:
A. Sri Lanka and Pakistan signed six agreements to advance cooperation between the
two nations.
B. Pakistan
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Sri
Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena
signed 6 agreements in Islamabad to advancing cooperation in disaster
management, sports, shipping, socio-economic development, education and
narcotics control.
Note: Prior to Pakistan, Sri Lanka signed 6
cooperation agreements with China.
EXPECTED QUESTION FROM THIS CURRENT AFFAIRS NEWS
Q 1. With which Asian Nation, Sri Lanka recently signed
cooperation agreement ?
a. India
b. Pakistan
c. Bhutan
d. China
3. CII SIGNED MoU WITH EBRD:
A. CII has signed an MoU with EBRD to
deepen partnership.
B. Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
and European Bank for Reconstruction and development (EBRD) signed an
MoU aimed to deepen partnership between Indian companies and European
countries.
C. MoU was
signed between CII director Chandrajit Banerjee and EBRD vice-president Phil
Bennett.
Note: EBRD
was established in 1991 with it’s headquarter in London.
President of
EBRD – Sir Suma Chakrabarti
EXPECTED QUESTION FROM THIS CURRENT AFFAIRS NEWS
Q 1. Where is the headquarter of EBRD
located?
a. London
b. Berlin
c. New York
d. Moscow
4. PRATAP SINGH WON INSTITUTE OF
PHYSCS PRIZE:
A. 15 year
old Pratap Singh, an Indian origin school boy won Institute of Physics
prize.
B. Pratap
Singh was awarded with 500 pounds Institute of physics (IOP) prize in
United Kingdom for his cosmic ray project.
C. Pratap
Singh was awarded for conducting an experiment that verified an effect of Albert
Einstein’s theory of special relativity.
NATIONAL
5. 10 YEAR OLD DIESEL VEHICLES CANNOT
PLY ON DELHI ROADS:
A. National
Green Tribunal (NGT) prohibited all the diesel vehicles over 10 years old
from plying on Delhi roads.
B. NGT chairperson
Justice Swatanter Kumar headed the bench who gave the ruling of
prohibiting heavy or light Diesel vehicles over 10 years old.
C. Delhi has
the dubious status of being the World’s most polluted city according to WHO(World
Health Organisation).
6. DIVORCED MUSLIM WOMEN ENTITLED FOR
MAINTENANCE:
A. The Supreme
Court of India has directed that divorced Muslim women’s are entitled for
maintenance from their ex-husbands.
B. Muslim
women’s are entitled for maintenance under section 125 of CrPC which
provides the same relief to wives, children and parents.
C. CrPC – Criminal
Procedure Code
BANKING
NEWS
7. DENA BANK SIGNED MOU WITH LIC:
A. Dena
Bank has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Life Insurance
Corporation (LIC).
B. MoU was
signed to provide Insurance cover to all Aadhar linked savings account holders
of the bank in the age group of 18 to 50 years.
C. Insurance
cover will be provided under Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana
(PMJBY) scheme from 1st June, 2015.
D.
Headquarter of Dena Bank – Mumbai
E. CMD of
Dena Bank – Shri Ashwani Kumar
8. SBI, ICICI AND HDFC CUTS BASE
RATES:
A. SBI,
ICICI and HDFC banks are first to cut base lending rates.
B. SBI and
HDFC lowered their base rates by 15 basis points from 10% to 9.85% while ICICI
bank cuts it by 25 basis points to 9.75%.
C. Base rate
is the minimum rate at which a bank can lend.
Note: ICICI
bank has the lowest base rate at 9.75%
SPORTS
NEWS
9. DRONAVALI HARIKA WINS BRONZE
MEDAL:
A. Dronavali
Harika wins bronze medal in world women’s chess championship.
B. Harika
lost to the eventual winner of Ukaine, Mariya Muzychuk in the semi-final.
C. Mariya
Muzychuk of Ukraine defeated Natalia Pogonina of Russia in the final
match.
EXPECTED QUESTION FROM THIS CURRENT AFFAIRS NEWS
Q 1. Dronavali Harika is associated with which sport?
a. Archery
b. Tennis
c. Cricket
d. Chess
