Events of April 2011

Events of April 2011

 

Question	Answer
1)Chief Minister's Sarvottam Shramik Puraskar and Labour Minister's Uttam Shramik Puraskar for workers in various sectors such as construction, manufacturing and transportation etc. have been launched by	Delhi Government
2)Shramik Helpline number launched by Delhi Government to handle complaints from workers.	12789
3)The coastal security exercise involving all the agencies looking after maritime security to be conducted on Goa's shoreline is named	Sagar Kawach
4)The new CEO and MD of Infosys Technologies	SD Shibulal
5)The new chairman of Infosys Technologies	KV Kamath
6)The place in Uttarakhand where Indian Institute of Management is coming up, the foundation stone of which was laid recently	Kashipur
7)The person who has been conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2010	K Balachander
8)The person who has been appointed the coach of Indian cricket team in place of Gary Kirsten	Duncan Fletcher of Zimbabwe
9)The committee which has been appointed to look into Air India Wage issues is headed by	Justice Dharmadhikari
10)The person who has been appointed the chief of Indian Olympic Association in the wake of the arrest of Suresh Kalmadi	VK Malhotra
11)The first person to conquer Mt. Everest twice (in 1963 and 1965), who died recently	Nawang Gombu
12)The Indian cricketer who has been ranked 52nd in Time's annual list of top 100 most influential people in the world. (The others are in the list are Mukesh Ambani (61), VS Ramachandran (79), Azim Premji (88) and Aruna Roy (89).	MS Dhoni
13)The table tennis player who has won the Joola Austria Junior and Cadet Open title at Linz, Austria beating compatriot Soumyajit Ghosh, and thus become the first Indian to win the Junior Boys singles title in the Global Junior Circuit events of the International Table Tennis Federation.	Harmeet Desai
14)The civil rights activist who has been honoured with the 2011 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights, South Korea's most prestigious award for those working on peace, democracy and justice in Asia	Binayak Sen
15)The police of this UT has become the first police force in the country to get Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for keeping a watch on criminal activities. (The UAV has been named Golden Hawk)	Chandigarh
16)Iodized salt is now proposed by the Government of India to be additionally fortified by	Iron
17)X-SAT which was launched by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C16 alongwith RESOURCESAT-2 is the first satellite of	Singapore
18)YOUTHSAT which was launched by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C16 alongwith RESOURCESAT-2 satellite is a joint project of India and	Russia
19)Indian chess player who has won the Dubai International Open Chess by defeating Parimarjan Negi	Abhijeet Gupta
20)I AM KALAM, directed by Nila Madhab Panda, which won the audience award at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) is produced by this NGO	Smile
21)Indian American cancer specialist and the author of 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer' who has been awarded this year's Pulitzer prize in the general non-fiction category	Siddhartha Mukherjee
22)The film which has won the best feature film award at the Geneva International Film Festival	The Desire
23)The actor-director who has been conferred the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, France's highest cultural award for her contribution to the development of Indo-French cooperation in the field of cinema	Nandita Das
24)The space explorer mission launched by NASA in Dec 2009, which has recently released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission to the world	WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer)
25)The country which has launched a Hindi website for providing better information access to families of Indian students	Australia
26)The city designed by German town-planner Dr. Otto Kolenigs Berger, which is celebrating 63 years of its formation this year	Bhubhaneswar
27)The Navratna Company which has been conferred the status of a Maharatna Company recently.	Coal India Ltd
28)The Indian cricketer who has been named the Leading Cricketer of the World for 2010 by Wisden. (Virender Sehwag was the Leading Cricketer for 2008 and 2009)	Sachin Tendulkar
29)The jail at which National Literacy Mission has been launched to prevent prisoners from becoming second-time prisoners	Tihar Jail
30)The new chairperson of National Commission for Women with effect from 08 April 2011	Smt Yasmeen Abrar
31)Sanya the venue for BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) summit in April is in (India being represented by PM Manmohan Singh)	China
32)The country, home to Europe's largest Muslim population, which has banned women from wearing full-face veils in public places	France
33)Beidou satellite launched as a part of Global Positioning System belongs to	China
34)The Chainsa-Sultanpur-Neemrana gas pipeline was commissioned recently. Chainsa and Neemrana are respectively in	Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan
35)The new Chairman of State Bank of India replacing OP Bhatt	Pratip Chaudhuari
36)The sportsperson who has been chosen for the Global Diversity Award for Sports 2011 for his outstanding achievements in cricket and his recent induction into the ICC Hall of Fame 2010, by the Next Step Foundation.	Kapil Dev
37)Arthur Road has been in news recently more than once. What is located at Arthur Road?	Mumbai Central Prison
38)A painting by moghul period painter Abul Hasan sold at a record price of Rs. 10 crores at an auction in London. The painting was a potrait of	Jahangir
39)With effect from 01.04.11, the National Floor Level Minimum Wage (NFLMW) has been revised on the basis of rise in All India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers from Rs. 100/- per day to	Rs. 115/- per day
40)IIT-Kanpur's indigenously built nano satellite which is likely to be launched by the end of June this year from Sriharikota is named	Jugnu
41)The state which has raised Koya Commandos to combat the naxalites	Chhattisgarh
42)The Kannada writer who has been chosen for Saraswati Samman instituted by KK Birla Foundation	S L Bhyrappa
43)The interim headquarters of International Renewable Energy Agency which will become its permanent headquarters	UAE
44)The new Chairperson of Central Board of Film Censors, Ms Leela Samson, is also the chairperson of this institution	Sangeet Natak Akademi
45)The Indian tennis duo which have become number one in the ATP Doubles Team rankings following their win at Miami Masters	Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi
46)The cricketer who has been conferred Sai Ratna Award by the Sai Baba Temple Trust at Shirdi	Sachin Tendulkar
47)The state which has recorded negative population growth for the decade 2001-11 as per the provisional census data	Nagaland
48)Poco poco dance has been sought to be banned for the Muslims of the country to which it belongs. The country is	Malaysia