Current Affairs Test Series March 2024

#March 2024 Current Affairs – MCQs – Current Affairs Test Series

1. Who took oath as the judicial member of Lokpal in March 2024?
– a) Ritu Raj Awasthi
– b) Navneet Kumar Sehgal
– c) Ashwini Kumar
– d) Sadanand Vasant Date

2. Who has been appointed by Microsoft as the new head of both Windows and Surface?
– a) Sundar Pichai
– b) Satya Nadella
– c) Pavan Davuluri
– d) Sharat Kamal

3. Which company has acquired Lanco Amarkantak Power Limited, approved by CCI?
– a) Tata Power
– b) Reliance Power
– c) Adani Power Limited
– d) NTPC

4. Who has been selected as the flag bearer for India at Paris Olympics 2024?
– a) P. V. Sindhu
– b) Neeraj Chopra
– c) Sharat Kamal
– d) Mary Kom

5. Who has been appointed as the new President of the Federation of Indian Export Organization (FIEO)?
– a) Naveen Jindal
– b) Rahul Singh
– c) Ashwini Kumar
– d) Ritu Raj Awasthi

6. A 900-year-old Kannada inscription belonging to the Kalyani Chalukya dynasty was discovered in a neglected state in Gangapuram. Gangapuram is located in which state of India?
– a) Karnataka
– b) Tamil Nadu
– c) Telangana
– d) Andhra Pradesh

7. Who has recently been appointed as the new Director General of Police of West Bengal?
– a) Abhay Thakur
– b) Sanjay Mukherjee
– c) Sadanand Vasant Date
– d) Naveen Jindal

8. Who has taken charge as the President of Indian Steel Association?
– a) Pawan Munjal
– b) Naveen Jindal
– c) Ritu Raj Awasthi
– d) Sanjay Mukherjee

9. At which place is ‘Start-up Mahakumbh’ being organized?
– a) Mumbai
– b) Bengaluru
– c) New Delhi
– d) Hyderabad

10. Which team made the biggest team score (277 runs) in IPL history against Mumbai Indians?
– a) Royal Challengers Bangalore
– b) Chennai Super Kings
– c) Sunrisers Hyderabad
– d) Delhi Capitals

11. Who has recently been given the additional charge of the Ministry of Food and Processing Industries?
– a) Piyush Goyal
– b) Nirmala Sitharaman
– c) Kiran Rijiju
– d) Amit Shah

12. Who has been appointed as the chief of the National Investigation Agency (NIA)?
– a) Rahul Singh
– b) Sadanand Vasant Date
– c) Naveen Jindal
– d) Sanjay Mukherjee

13. For the first time in its history, Amul’s brand of “fresh milk” will be sold in which North American country?
– a) Canada
– b) Mexico
– c) USA
– d) Brazil

14. Who has recently been given additional responsibility as the Governor in-charge of Telangana?
– a) C. P. Radhakrishnan
– b) Kiran Bedi
– c) Tamilisai Soundararajan
– d) Sadanand Vasant Date

15. Which organization has connected the strategic Nimmu-Padum-Darcha in Ladakh by road?
– a) NHAI
– b) BRO
– c) CPWD
– d) DRDO

16. Which state police recently launched the digital platform ‘Trinetra’ App 2.0 for crime prevention and investigation?
– a) Maharashtra
– b) Uttar Pradesh
– c) Gujarat
– d) Tamil Nadu

17. Who has recently been appointed as the new Ambassador of India to Myanmar?
– a) Ruchira Kamboj
– b) Abhay Thakur
– c) Taranjit Singh Sandhu
– d) Naveen Jindal

18. Tamilisai Soundararajan resigned from her post. She was the Governor of which state and Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry?
– a) Tamil Nadu
– b) Kerala
– c) Telangana
– d) Andhra Pradesh

19. Which app has been launched to make the election process easier for the disabled?
– a) Saksham
– b) Divyang
– c) Sahaj
– d) Easy Vote

20. Who has recently been appointed the Chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) by the Central Government?
– a) Naveen Jindal
– b) Sadanand Vasant Date
– c) Rahul Singh
– d) Ashwini Kumar

21. ISRO successfully tested the landing mission of its Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) from the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR) in Challakere, Karnataka. What is its name?
– a) Vyommitra
– b) Pushpak
– c) Vikram
– d) Shakti

22. Which team won the title of the second season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL)?
– a) Delhi Capitals
– b) Royal Challengers Bangalore
– c) Mumbai Indians
– d) Chennai Super Kings

23. Who has recently been appointed as the new captain by Chennai Super Kings?
– a) MS Dhoni
– b) Suresh Raina
– c) Ruturaj Gaikwad
– d) Ravindra Jadeja

24. Name the Para archer and Arjuna Award winner who has been appointed as the National Disability Icon by the Election Commission of India (ECI)?
– a) Deepa Malik
– b) Mariyappan Thangavelu
– c) Sheetal Devi
– d) Devendra Jhajharia

25. Name the renowned poet who has been selected for the Saraswati Samman for the year 2023 for her poetic novel ‘Raudra Satvikam’ (Malayalam)?
– a) Prabha Varma
– b) Sugathakumari
– c) O. N. V. Kurup
– d) K. Satchidanandan

26. Name the former Tata Sons Chairman who was honored with the prestigious PV Narasimha Rao Memorial Award for his outstanding philanthropic contributions?
– a) Ratan Tata
– b) Cyrus Mistry
– c) N. Chandrasekaran
– d) Noel Tata

27. Who has been appointed as the new Ambassador of India to Russia?
– a) Pavan Kapoor
– b) Vinay Kumar
– c) Abhay Thakur
– d) Rahul Singh

28. What is the rank of India in the recently released Global Human Development Index?
– a) 121
– b) 134
– c) 145
– d) 155

29. What is the rank of India in the recently released World Happiness Rankings 2021-23?
– a) 94
– b) 101
– c) 121
– d) 134

30. Which app has been launched by ISRO to assist the Gaganyaan crew?
– a) SAKHI
– b) NAVIC
– c) GAGAN
– d) SHAKTI

31. Mahtari Vandan Yojana scheme which provides Rs 1000/month as financial assistance to eligible married women was started in which state?
– a) Madhya Pradesh
– b) Chhattisgarh
– c) Jharkhand
– d) Bihar

32. Former Indian President Ram Nath Kovind-led high-level committee submitted its report to the President of India. The report is related to?
– a) GST Reforms
– b) One Nation, One Election
– c) Digital India
– d) Make in India

33. Who is the MD and CEO of Fly91, a Goa-based airline?
– a) Ashwani Lohani
– b) Manoj Chacko
– c) Rahul Bhatia
– d) Rakesh Gangwal

34. Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of Prasar Bharati?
– a) Sunil Arora
– b) Navneet Kumar Sehgal
– c) Shashi Shekhar Vempati
– d) Rahul Singh

35. PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the chip fabrication unit of Tata-Powerchip Semiconductor fabrication unit at Dholera. Dholera is located in which state?
– a) Maharashtra
– b) Gujarat
– c) Karnataka
– d) Tamil Nadu

36. ‘Majuli Mask’ which recently got ‘GI Tag’ belongs to which of the following states?
– a) Odisha
– b) Assam
– c) West Bengal
– d) Bihar

37. Who has been elected as the new Chief Minister of Haryana?
–

a) Manohar Lal Khattar
– b) Bhupinder Singh Hooda
– c) Nayab Singh Saini
– d) Dushyant Chautala

38. In which state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Sela Tunnel, the world’s longest twin-lane tunnel?
– a) Sikkim
– b) Arunachal Pradesh
– c) Himachal Pradesh
– d) Uttarakhand

39. Whom did President Draupadi Murmu recently nominate to Rajya Sabha?
– a) Sudha Murthy
– b) Anand Mahindra
– c) Azim Premji
– d) Ratan Tata

40. Who became the 14th player to play 100 test matches for India?
– a) Virat Kohli
– b) Rohit Sharma
– c) Ravichandran Ashwin
– d) Cheteshwar Pujara

41. Name the Indian author who has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Prize 2024 by the Netherlands-based Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for his significant contributions to the theme imagining the unthinkable?
– a) Arundhati Roy
– b) Amitav Ghosh
– c) Salman Rushdie
– d) Jhumpa Lahiri

42. Which team won the Ranji Trophy 2024 by defeating Vidarbha by 169 runs at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai?
– a) Karnataka
– b) Saurashtra
– c) Mumbai
– d) Delhi

43. Who won the first prize in the National Youth Parliament Festival, 2024?
– a) Priya Singh
– b) Yatin Bhaskar Duggal
– c) Rajat Sharma
– d) Nidhi Gupta

44. At which place in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Kochrab Ashram?
– a) Rajkot
– b) Surat
– c) Ahmedabad
– d) Sabarmati

45. With whom did Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) and NITI Aayog collaborate to launch the Frontier Technology Labs (FTL)?
– a) Google
– b) Microsoft
– c) META
– d) Amazon

46. Former bureaucrats Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Gyanesh Kumar have been selected as?
– a) CAG
– b) Election Commissioners
– c) Vigilance Commissioners
– d) Chief Information Commissioners

47. Who has been appointed as the new Vigilance Commissioner in the Central Vigilance Commission?
– a) Navneet Kumar Sehgal
– b) A S Rajeev
– c) Rahul Singh
– d) Abhay Thakur

48. In which state was Sansad Khel Mahakumbh 3.0 organized?
– a) Punjab
– b) Uttarakhand
– c) Himachal Pradesh
– d) Rajasthan

49. How many Vande Bharat trains are now running across India, covering more than 250 districts of the country?
– a) 98
– b) 102
– c) 108
– d) 112

50. Which state government recently approved the Green Hydrogen Policy in the state?
– a) Gujarat
– b) Maharashtra
– c) Uttar Pradesh
– d) Tamil Nadu

These questions cover key national current affairs from March 2024, providing a comprehensive overview of recent significant events and appointments.