Current Affairs March 2014: Important Questions for competitive Examinations

1) Election Commission of India on 5 March 2014 announced that the …….th Lok Sabha elections will be held from 7 April 2014 to 12 May 2014?- 16th

2) Election Commission has alos announced that Assembly elections to which states?- Sikkim, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh

3) Third BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) Summit was held from 1 March to 4 March 2014 at?- Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar

4) Name the South African cricket team Captain who retired from international cricket?- Graeme Smith

5) New Governor of Kerala?- Sheila Dikshit

6) Which country won the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2014?- South Africa

7) Which film won the best picture award in the 86th Annual Academy Oscar Awards 2014?- 12 Years A Slave

>> Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

>> Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

>> Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity

8) Government of India on 4 March 2014 hiked the interest rates on fixed deposit scheme that is offered by post offices by up to ..... percent?- 0.2

9) Which team won the 68th senior National football championship of Santosh Trophy by defeating Railways 3-0?- Mizoram

10) International Women Day was observed across the world on 8 March 2014. What was the theme for the day for 2014?- Equality for Women is Progress for all

11) Who was voted as the Cricketer of the Generation by ESPN Cricinfo?- Sachin Tendulkar

12) Who has resigned as chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)?- Nandan Nilekani

13) Name the first Android phone launched by Finnish company Nokia, on 10 March 2014?- Nokia X

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14) Name the Malaysian Airlines flight operating a Boeing 777-200ER aircraft which vanished from the radar screens over the South China Sea with 239 people on board on 8 March 2014?- MH370

15) Who won the Templeton Prize for 2014?- Tomas Halik

16) World Water Day was observed on 22 March 2014 with the theme?- Water and Energy

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17) Name the renowned author and journalist who died on 20 March 2014 at the age of 99 at his home in Sujan Singh Park in Delhi?- Khushwant Singh

18) Which team won the Vijay Hazare Cricket Trophy 2013-14?- Karnataka

19) Who was appointed as the interim president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) by the Supreme Court on 28 March 2014?- Sunil Gavaskar

20) World Health Organisation (WHO) on 27 March 2014 certified India as free from which disease?- Polio

21) Who won cricket's Deodhar Trophy 2014?- West Zone

22) Who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014?- Japanese architect Shigeru Ban

23) Who was appointed as the Revenue Secretary on 25 March 2014?- Rajiv Takru

24) Which public sector bank has launched first of its type Instant Money Transfer (IMT) scheme on 24 March 2014?- Bank of India

25) Who won Sarawasti Samman for the year 2013?- Govind Mishra

26) Which actor was named as the brand ambassador of the Earth hour 2014?- Arjun Kapoor

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March 2014: Complete Current Affairs PDF Download

Friends..Here is the complete Current Affairs PDF of March 2014. It’s after a long time we are posting the monthly PDF. We will soon post the monthly PDF of January and February 2014. March 2014 was an important month considering the number of competitive exams upcoming. SSC CGL 2014, Postal Assistant Examination, SBI PO are all upcoming and questions from March 2014 will be surely asked in those exams. Here is a compilation of important questions from March 2014. We are providing these materials free of cost. We have tried our best to make this PDF error free...if you have any queries, you can mail us to currentaffairs4examz@gmail.com  

Some of the important happenings during March 2014 were: Announcement of Lok Sabha polls by Election Commission, Sheila Dikshit's appointment as governor of Kerala, Bill Gates becoming World’s top richest Billionaire, South Africa winning ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2014, Announcement of OSCARS 2014, Telangana Bill Signed by Pranab Mukherjee, Jat community included in OBC, Mizoram winning Santosh Trophy 2014, International Women Day, Sachin Tendulkar voted as the Cricketer of the Generation , IPL 2014 to go outside India, first Android phone launched by Finnish company Nokia, missing of Malaysian Airlines flight  MH370, passing away of renowned author Khushwant Singh, Karnataka winning Vijay Hazare Cricket Trophy 2013-14, Sunil Gavaskar's appointment as the interim president of the Board of Control for Cricket, World Health Organisation (WHO) certifying India as Polio free. There are many more, which are more important than this, which you can refer in the PDF. Click on below link to download as PDF.

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Current Affairs daily Quiz: 30 March & 01 April 2014

1) Name the US ambassador to India who resigned on 31 March 2014?

(A) Nancy Powell

(B) Albert Peter Burleigh

(C) Timothy J. Roemer

(D) David Campbell Mulford

2) Reserve Bank of India, on 1 April 2014, kept the indicative policy rate (repo) unchanged at ....... per cent in its first bi-monthly monetary policy?

(A) 6

(B) 6.5

(C) 7

(D) 8

3) Who has recently (March 2014) became the first female mayor of Paris?

(A) Marie-Louise

(B) Coleiro Preca

(C) Anne Hidalgo

(D) George Abela

4) Who is the new Prime Minister of France?

(A) Francois Hollande

(B) Nicolas Sarkozy

(C) Jean Mark Heyrault

(D) Manuel Valls

5) After its ten and half years service in orbit, on 1st April 2014 ISRO decommissioned which Communication Satellite?

(A) INSAT-3B

(B) INSAT-3E

(C) INSAT-5B

(D) INSAT-3C

6) Viswanathan Anand was ranked at which position in the latest ranking released by FIDE (Fédération internationale des échecs or World Chess Federation) on 1 April 2014?

(A) 1

(B) 2

(C) 3

(D) 4

7) Name the candidate of BJP who will be contesting from Amethi against Rahul Gandhi in the ensuing Lok Sabha Elections?

(A) Sushma Swaraj

(B) Hema Malini

(C) Smriti Irani

(D) Rakhi Sawant

8) Which Indian men badminton player lost in the final of the Malaysia Grand Prix Gold tournament on 30 March 2014?

(A) Pankaj Advani

(B) Parupalli Kashyap

(C) Chetan Anand

(D) Sourabh Varma

9) Finance Ministry has recently rejected the recommendation of the Parliamentary Standing Committee headed whom on raising the income tax exemption limit to Rs 3 lakh?

(A) Yashwant Sinha

(B) M M Joshi

(C) P C Chako

(D) A K Antony

10) Who was recently elected as the new President of Slovakia?

(A) Robert Fico

(B) Andrej Kiska

(C) Manuel Valls

(D) Robert Scott

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Q1. Who was appointed as the interim president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) by the Supreme Court on 28 March 2014?

Ans. Sunil Gavaskar

Note: He was appointed as acting president of BCCI to discharge the functions of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2014. Sunil Gavaskar replaced the present BCCI chief N Srinivasan.

Q2. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) extended the timeline for full implementation of the Basel III capital regulations. Now the banks are required to comply with the Basel III norms by?

Ans. 31 March 2019

Q3. World Health Organisation (WHO) on 27 March 2014 certified India as free from which disease?

Ans. Polio

Note: This action of WHO made India one of the 11 countries of South-East Region to be free from polio virus.

Q4. Who won cricket's Deodhar Trophy 2014?

Ans. West Zone

Note: They lifted the trophy after defeating North Zone in the Day-Night final at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam by a margin of 133 runs.

Q5. Which state became the first state in the country to declare all election booths as No Smoking Areas in Lok Sabha elections 2014?

Ans. Jammu and Kashmir

Q6. Third Nuclear Security Summit was held from 24 to 25 March 2014 at?

Ans. The Hague, Netherlands

Q7. Who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014?

Ans. Japanese architect Shigeru Ban

Note: The world's most prestigious architecture award was announced by the Hyatt Foundation on 25 March 2014. The Prize will be awarded to Ban on 13 June 2014 in Amsterdam.

Q8. Who was appointed as the Revenue Secretary on 25 March 2014?

Ans. Rajiv Takru

Q9. Name the acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Jet Airways who has resigned on 25 March 2014?

Ans. Ravishankar Gopalakrishnan

Q10. Name the light-weight revolver launched by Indian Ordinance factory on 25 March 2014?Visit:www.currentaffairs4examz.com

Ans. Nirbheek

Note: This revolver is designed especially for women to defend themselves from assault. Nirbheek that weighs 500 gm is a .32 bore revolver and it can be carried by women in their purses or handbags.

Q11. Which public sector bank has launched first of its type Instant Money Transfer (IMT) scheme on 24 March 2014?

Ans. Bank of India

Q12. Who won Sarawasti Samman for the year 2013 for his book Dhool Paudho Par published in 2008?

Ans. Govind Mishra

Note: He is a renowned Hindi author. This honour will make Mishra the second Hindi author to receive the honour after Harivansh Rai Bachchan. In 1991, Harivansh Rai Bachchan became the first Hindi author to receive this honour. Saraswati Samman is an annual award and is given in recognition of outstanding prose or poetry literary works in Indian languages that are listed in Schedule VII of the constitution of India. The award was established in 1991 by K. K. Birla Foundation and carries a prize amount of 10 lakh rupees along with a certificate.

Q13. Who was appointed as the Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)?

Ans. Jens Stoltenberg

Note:  Stoltenberg will take charges of Secretary General of NATO on 1 October 2014.

Q14. Name the Super Hercules transport aircraft of Indian Air Force (IAF) which on 28 March 2014 crashed in Karoli district of Rajasthan?

Ans. C-130J

Q15. Name the Indian-origin who won UK Twitter Prize?

Ans. Gopal Rao

Q16. Which actor was named as the brand ambassador of the Earth hour 2014?

Ans. Arjun Kapoor

Note: Earth Hour 2014 will be observed on 29 March 2014 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Q17. Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) on 26 March 2014 detected a Smartphone Virus called?Visit:www.currentaffairs4examz.com

Ans. Dendroid

Q18. Which Provident Fund Organisation on 24 March 2014 announced to provide Universal Account Number (UAN) to its five crore subscribers from 1 October 2014?

Ans. Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)

Q19. Facebook on 26 March 2014 decided to acquire which two year old virtual reality technology firm for 2 billion dollar?

Ans. Oculus VR

Q20. Which country won the 3rd South Asian Handball Championship title played at Genesis Global School in Noida?

Ans. India

Q21. Google signed a deal on 25 March 2014 with which company to make Google Glass spectacles into a stylish consumer product?

Ans. Luxottica

Q22. Which bollywood film was screened recently (Mar 2014) at seventh Asian Film Festival 2014 in Saudi Arabia?

Ans. Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Q23. Name the book on former Prime Minster Lal Bahadur Shastri released by the spiritual leader Dalai Lama in New Delhi on 23 March 2014?

Ans. Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership

Q24. Name the World War II heroine of Indian origin whose postage stamp was issued by Royal Mail in Britain on 25 March 2014?

Ans. Noor Inayat Khan

Q25. Name the Veteran film actress of Hindi and Marathi films who died on 25 March 2014 in Mumbai at the age of 75?Visit:www.currentaffairs4examz.com

Ans. Nanda

Q26. Name the programme which has been launched by WHO-India, with an aim to protect and increase the population of the one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)?

Ans. IVR 2020 programme

Q27. Who was sworn-in as the new Defence Minister and Army Chief of Egypt on 27 March 2014?

Ans. General Sedki Sobhi

Q28. Tata Teleservices limited (TTL) on 27 March 2014 launched new Wi-Fi business in which city?

Ans. Chennai

Q29. Japan has signed an agreement to hand over its nuclear materials to which country recently?

Ans. United States

Q30. Who won the inaugural Tata T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship at Buddh International Circuit (BIC) in Greater Noida on 23 March 2014?

Ans. Stuart Oliver

Note: He is an experienced British racer. 

Q31. Which team won the 4th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship (Division A) in Bhopal?

Ans. Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB)

Q32. Who appointed as Managing Director (MD) of Britannia Industries on 25 March 2014?

Ans. Varun Berry

Q33. A non-profit group Vandana Foundation on 23 March 2014 launched AQUATM in Mumbai. What is AQUATM?

Ans. AQUATM is a water vending machine from which water can be purchased. This water wending machine will release 1 liter water at a price of 1 rupee.

Q34. Name the first elected Prime Minister of Spain who died on 23 March 2014?

Ans. Adolfo Suarez

Q35. Which company launched the white label Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) network on 20 March 2014 under the brand name of Indicash?

Ans. Tata Communications Payment Solutions Ltd. (TCPSL)

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Current Affairs Quiz Questions: 29 & 30 March 2014

1) Earth Hour 2014 was observed across the globe on 29 March 2014. Earth Hour is organized by which organization?

(A) UNESCO

(B) UNICEF

(C) World Wide Fund

(D) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

2) Who won the Malaysian Grand Prix racing 2014?

(A) Sebastian Vettel

(B) Nico Rosberg

(C) Jenson Button

(D) Lewis Hamilton

3) Which country will host the 18th SAARC Summit on November 14, 2014 as decided recently (March 2014)?

(A) India

(B) Nepal

(C) Bhutan

(D) Maldives

4) Which veteran leader was expelled recently from BJP for six years in wake of his decision to contest as an Independent from Barmer?

(A) Jaswant Singh

(B) Arun Jaitley

(C) L K Advani

(D) Murali Manohar Joshi

5) Who will challenge Chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen (Norway) in the World title match to be held during November 2014?

(A) Sergey Karjakin

(B) Vishwanathan Anand

(C) Michael Kasprovic

(D) Levon Aronian

6) Who won the Miami Masters tennis crown 2014?

(A) Novak Djokovic

(B) Rafael Nadal

(C) Roger Federer

(D) Andy Murray

7) Which pistol shooter clinched a silver medal at the ISSF World Cup 2014 in Fort Benning, USA?

(A) Anjali Bhagwat

(B) Shagun Chowdhary

(C) Heena Sidhu

(D) Rahi Sarnobat

8) P Ramdas, who passed away on 28 March 2014, was a film director of yesteryears of which language?

(A) Malayalam

(B) Tamil

(C) Telugu

(D) Hindi

9) Who was appointed as the Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) recently (Mar 2014)?

(A)  John Ashe

(B) Anders Fogh Rasmussen

(C) Jens Stoltenberg

(D) Marquez Ibidi

10) President Pranab Mukherjee recently cleared the re-promulgation of the SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) Ordinance that had lapsed on?

(A) January 15

(B) February 14

(C) March 23

(D) January 25

Answers

1) Ans. (C) World Wide Fund

2) Ans. (D) Lewis Hamilton

3) Ans. (B) Nepal

4) Ans. (A) Jaswant Singh

5) Ans. (B) Vishwanathan Anand

6) Ans. (A) Novak Djokovic

7) Ans. (C) Heena Sidhu

8) Ans. (A) Malayalam

9) Ans. (C) Jens Stoltenberg

10) Ans. (A) January 15

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Daily Current Affairs: 31 March 2014

1) Petrol price cut by 75 paise a litre; diesel hike put off: The price of petrol was on Monday cut by 75 paise per litre, the first reduction in five months, while the already unpopular monthly hike in diesel rates was put off during the election season.

2) US ambassador to India Nancy Powell resigned: In a sudden development, US ambassador to India Nancy Powell has resigned from her post, days after media speculation that she may be shipped out. "US ambassador to India Nancy J Powell announced in a US mission town hall meeting on March 31 that she has submitted her resignation to President Obama and, as planned for some time, will retire to her home in Delaware before the end of May," an announcement in the US embassy website said.

3) World Twenty20: Sri Lanka beat New Zealand to enter semis: Sri Lanka beat New Zealand by 59 runs in a low-scoring World Twenty20 Super-10 group one match in Chittagong Monday to cruise into the semi-finals. New Zealand were bowled out for their lowest Twenty20 total of 60 in 15.3 overs in the final match of the group played at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury stadium.

4) Paris Gets First Female Mayor:  It was a victory to savour. As she bid to become the first female mayor of Paris, Spanish-born socialist Anne Hidalgo had to endure taunts from her opponents about her modest origins and lack of Parisian roots. But in the end, voters in the French capital brushed such snobbery aside and defied the national trend by electing the 54-year-old by a convincing margin.

5) Smriti Irani to contest from Amethi against Rahul Gandhi: The BJP has announced on Monday evening that its vice-president Smriti Irani will contest from Amethi Lok Sabha constituency. Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is the sitting MP from the constituency. AAP leader Kumar Vishwas had already announced to contest from the same constituency against Rahul Gandhi. The BJP's decision to field Irani from Amethi makes it a three-way blockbuster of a contest for the Lok Sabha seat.

6) President Pranab Mukherjee confers Padma awards: President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday conferred Padma awards on 66 eminent personalities at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Noted scientist Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar received Padma Vibhushan while classical singer Begum Parveen Sultana, actor Kamal Hasan, sportsperson Pullela Gopichand were among those who were honoured with Padma Bhushan. Padma Shri Awardees included sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik and actress Vidya Balan. Among the dignitaries present on the occasion were the Vice President Mohd. Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde.

7) K R Kamat front-runner for RBI Deputy Governor post:  Raghuram Rajan headed search panel has zeroed in on a successor to RBI Deputy Governor K C Chakrabarty and PNB Chairman K R Kamath is believed to be top in the reckoning. Besides RBI Governor Rajan, Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Takru and other expert members had on last Friday interviewed CMDs of nine public sector banks here, an official privy to the selection process told PTI.

8) Indian Shuttler Sourabh Varma loses Malaysia Grand Prix Gold final: Indian shuttler Sourabh Varma gave a fantastic fight but eventually went down to Indonesian 15th seed Simon Santoso in the men’s singles final of the $120,000 Malaysia Grand Prix Gold on Sunday. Despite leading a large chunk of the match, the eighth seeded Indian went down 21-15, 16-21, 19-21 in a marathon encounter which lasted an hour and nine minutes at the Stadium Perbandaran Pasir Gudang.

9) Slovakia elects Andrej Kiska as president: A non-aligned centrist, Andrej Kiska, swooped in to clinch Slovakia's presidency by a landslide, dealing a heavy blow to the credibility of the prime minister, Robert Fico, before a general election in 2016. Andrej Kiska will be Slovakia’s first president since independence in 1993 without a past in the Communist party.

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Current Affairs Questions for exams: 27 & 28 March 2014

1) World Health Organisation (WHO) on 27 March 2014 officially certified India as a polio-free country with no case of the disease being reported in the country for last ............... years?

(A) 5

(B) 2

(C) 3

(D) 7

2) Supreme Court of India on 28 March 2014 appointed which former captain of India as the interim BCCI president replacing N. Sreenivasan for IPL 2014?

(A) Saurav Ganguly

(B) Kapil Dev

(C) Rahul Dravid

(D) Sunil Gavaskar

3) Who won the Abel Prize 2014?

(A) Yakov G. Sinai

(B) Pierre Deligne

(C) Endre Szemerédi

(D) John Milnor

4) Which among the following countries have recently banned video-sharing website YouTube citing spread of audio recordings damaging to the government?

(A) Spain

(B) Turkey

(C) China

(D) Russia

5) Which country has hosted the 3rd Nuclear Security Summit 2014 from 24 to 25 March 2014?

(A) Australia

(B) Germany

(C) Netherlands

(D) Japan

6) Name Indian Air Force's newest and sturdiest aircraft which crashed near Gwalior, killing all five people on board on 28 March 2014?

(A) C-130J

(B) C-17 Globemaster

(C) IAI Astra 1125

(D) HJT-16 Kiran

7) Which team is at No.1 position in the latest ICC T20 team rankings released on 28 March 2014?

(A) West Indies

(B) India

(C) Sri Lanka

(D) South Africa

8) Which zone won the Deodhar Trophy cricket tournament 2014?

(A) North Zone

(B) South Zone

(C) West Zone

(D) East Zone

9) Who was recently elected as the new CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) President?

(A) B Ashok Reddy

(B) Chandrajit Banerjee

(C) S Gopalakrishnan

(D) Ajay S Shriram

10) Recently Reserve Bank of India has extended the timeline for full implementation of the Basel III capital regulations from March 31, 2018 to?

(A) March 31, 2019

(B) April 1, 2020

(C) September 30, 2022

(D) March 31, 2021

Answers

1) Ans. (C) 3

2) Ans. (D) Sunil Gavaskar

3) Ans. (A) Yakov G. Sinai

4) Ans. (B) Turkey

5) Ans. (C) Netherlands

6) Ans. (A) C-130J

7) Ans. (B) India

8) Ans. (C) West Zone

9) Ans. (D) Ajay S Shriram

10) Ans. (A) March 31, 2019

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