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Current Affairs 2016

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Question & Answers Of Current Affairs 2016

Q. - Twitter India, along with website ‘India Spend’ has launched which service to enable users to get real-time information about the pollution levels in their areas with a tweet? Show Options
  1. 1 Good Air service
  2. 2 Breathe service
  3. 3 Good Quality service
  4. 4 Pure Air service

Description Of This Question

Twitter India, along with website India Spend, launched #Breathe service to enable users to get real-time information about the pollution levels in their areas with a tweet. The reply tweet will inform you about the pollution levels in terms of particulate matter (PM 2.5 and PM 10) as well as give you the possible health impact of the measured air pollution levels. Pollution levels across India is a huge health issue affecting millions of people. By holding India Spend’s air-quality monitoring network, Twitter is making access to live air pollution data to help Indians make healthier living decisions from Earth Day 2016 and beyond.

Q. - Apollo tyres would start a manufacturing facility in which state of India with an investment of Rs.525 crore? Show Options
  1. 1 Telengana
  2. 2 Himachal Pradesh
  3. 3 Andhra Pradesh
  4. 4 Assam

Description Of This Question

Apollo tyres will start a manufacturing facility at Sri City in Andhra Pradesh with an investment of Rs.525 crore. The plant will have a capacity to roll out 5 lakh tyres per month which can be extended up to 30 lakh in future. Apollo Tyres chairman O S Kanwar announced that they would start first day celeberation in January and within a year it would be in production. his will be the company’s 5th manufacturing plant in India.Currently Apollo Tyres has two plants in Kerala and one plant each in Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. Apollo Tyres also has an international manufacturing presence with a plant in the Netherlands and another Greenfield facility currently being set up in Hungary.

Q. - Union Ministry of Urban Development has given Awards of Excellence to how many cities for their initiatives to promote Public Transport, Non-Motorized Transport and Road Safety? Show Options
  1. 1 12
  2. 2 10
  3. 3 9
  4. 4 8

Description Of This Question

Union Ministry of Urban Development has given Awards of Excellence to 8 cities in 5 states and 1 Union Territory for their initiatives to promote Public Transport, Non-Motorized Transport and Road Safety. They are as follows Gujarat: Surat, Gandhinagar and Rajkot, Madhya Pradesh: Indore and Jabablpur, Karnataka: Dharwar, Haryana: Karnal, Sikkim: Gangtok ,Union Territory: Chandigarh. Union Minister of Urban Development, Housing and Poverty Alleviation Venkaiah Naidu inaugurate the Urban Mobility India conference at Gandhinagar in Gujarat on November 8, 2016.

Q. - Which corporate has won the prestigious Golden Peacock Award for Corporate Governance for this year? Show Options
  1. 1 GAIL
  2. 2 SAIL
  3. 3 BHEL
  4. 4 NLC

Description Of This Question

The prestigious Golden Peacock Award for Corporate Governance for this year has been granted upon the ‘Maharatna‘ firm, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). The award was received by Ashwini Kumar, CEO of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) on behalf of SAIL during the 16th London Global Convention on Corporate Governanceand Sustainability held in London recently. SAIL was conferred the award on account of its flawless performance in the field of corporate governance that is for balancing the interests of all the stakeholders of the company — shareholders, management, customers, suppliers, financiers, government and the community.

Q. - Who was hold with an additional charge of the post of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Indian Overseas Bank for three months? Show Options
  1. 1 R. Subramania Kumar
  2. 2 Chandra Kanth
  3. 3 Surendar Reddy
  4. 4 K. Sowrish Kumar

Description Of This Question

Subramania Kumar was given additional charge of the post of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Indian Overseas Bank for three months. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved entrustment of additional charge of the post of MD and CEO, Indian Overseas Bank to Kumar, the only available Executive Director in the bank. Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) is a major public sector bank based in Chennai (Madras), with about 3700 domestic branches, including 1150 branches in Tamil Nadu, 3 extension counters, and eight branches and offices overseas as of 30 September 2014.

Q. - Name the former Indian cricketer has been made as a brand ambassador for the second T20 World Cup for the Blind categories? Show Options
  1. 1 Saurav Ganguly
  2. 2 Sachin Tendulkar
  3. 3 Rahul Dravid
  4. 4 Virendar Sehwag

Description Of This Question

Former India captain Rahul Dravid has been made brand ambassador for the second T20 World Cup for the Blind in a offer to create awarness about the tournament. He would mentor the visually-impaired, Dravidstated he might need some mentoring from them. What they did is a lot tougher than what I had did. It would be foolish for him to say that he could mentor them because he had never experienced what it was like to be a visually-impaired cricketer. His role is to create awareness about this event. The tournament will commence on January 28 next year, and will be held across eight Indian cities. The Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI), the cricketing arm of Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled, will play host.

Q. - Who has been nominated as the interim chairman of the IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) recently? Show Options
  1. 1 Anjali Menon
  2. 2 Chanda Kochar
  3. 3 Ishaat Hussain
  4. 4 Mistry

Description Of This Question

Tata Sons, the largest shareholder in Tata Consultancy Services, with 73.26% stake, has removed Cyrus Mistry as the chairman of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and nominated Mr. Ishaat Hussain as the interim chairman of the IT major with immediate effect. Mr. Hussain will remain chairman until a new person is appointed in his place. Mr. Mistry was replaced without holding any board meeting. TCS did not required to hold a board meeting to replace Mistry as Chairman because Article 90 of the company’s Articles of Association allows its majority shareholder to nominate a chairman without board resolution.

Q. - What is the name of navigation satellite has been launched by China using pulsar detectors to reveal new technologies for space mapping? Show Options
  1. 1 XPNAV-1
  2. 2 UPNAV-1
  3. 3 SPNAV-1
  4. 4 ECNAV-1

Description Of This Question

China, has taken a step forward to increase its charisma in space research segment by launching an X-Ray Pulsar Navigation satellite into space which is designed to identify signs of pulsar ray. Named as “XPNAV-1”, this all-new powerful asteroid will carry out in-orbit researchers by means of pulsar detectors to reveal new technologies for space mapping. The experimental pulsar navigation mission carries two sensors modified to pick up incoming X-rays from objects scattered across the galaxy, and use the detections mark the craft’s position without relying on GPS satellites or pre-loaded navigation fixes.

Q. - Union Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda has been launched which mobile app to manage the stress level on November 9, 2016 in New Delhi? Show Options
  1. 1 No More Tension
  2. 2 Avoid Frustration
  3. 3 Avoid Tension
  4. 4 Go Hygiene

Description Of This Question

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda launched a mobile app “No More Tension” to manage the stress level and released a magazine “Healthy India Initiative/Swastha Bharat-ek pehal” on November 9, 2016 in New Delhi. The quarterly magazine will showcase information related to health issues and raise awareness about healthy living, certain aspect of health such as women and child health, elderly health, seasonal ailments, daily nutritional needs, safe medication practices, home remedies healthy living and many more. The magazine will be available at all the government facilities free of cost.

Q. - Name the mobile app has been launched by Maharashtra to check violation of child rights on November 9, 2016? Show Options
  1. 1 CHILD
  2. 2 CHIRAG
  3. 3 Beti Bachao
  4. 4 Beta Beti

Description Of This Question

The Maharashtra government along with the State Child Rights Protection Commission launched ‘CHIRAG’ mobile application on November 9 2016 to enable the submission of complaints related to violation of child rights. The App “Child Helpline for Information on Rights and Address Grievances” (CHIRAG) was launched by MaharashtraWomen and Child Welfare Minister Pankaja Munde and will be available for download on Google Playstore while an IOS version would be launched shortly.

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