TNPSC Current Affairs April 2024

### April 2024 Current Affairs – MCQs for TNPSC Exams

1. Which company has commissioned India’s first multipurpose (heat and power) green hydrogen pilot project at the 1,500 MW Nathpa Jhakri Hydro Power Station (NJHPS) at Jhakri, Himachal Pradesh?
– a) NTPC
– b) Reliance Industries
– c) SJVN Limited
– d) Tata Power

2. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, what is the rank of India in terms of highest spending ($83.6 billion) on defense in 2023?
– a) Second
– b) Third
– c) Fourth
– d) Fifth

3. Name the Rajasthan Royals leg-spinner who has become the first bowler to take 200 wickets in the history of IPL?
– a) Ravichandran Ashwin
– b) Yuzvendra Chahal
– c) Rashid Khan
– d) Amit Mishra

4. Which Indian Grandmaster has won the title of Candidates Chess Tournament?
– a) Viswanathan Anand
– b) Pentala Harikrishna
– c) Vidit Gujrathi
– d) D Gukesh

5. Whose 40 year old record did D Gukesh break to become the youngest at the age of 17 to win the Candidates Chess Tournament?
– a) Anatoly Karpov
– b) Bobby Fischer
– c) Garry Kasparov
– d) Magnus Carlsen

6. Who was recently reappointed as the MD and CEO of Axis Bank?
– a) Shikha Sharma
– b) Rajiv Anand
– c) Amitabh Chaudhry
– d) Sandeep Bakhshi

7. The Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF), known for its Nandini brand of dairy products has become the sponsor of which two teams in the upcoming T20 Cricket World Cup?
– a) India and Australia
– b) South Africa and New Zealand
– c) Scotland and Ireland
– d) Pakistan and Sri Lanka

8. Who was appointed as the CEO of BharatPe?
– a) Ashneer Grover
– b) Suhail Sameer
– c) Nalin Negi
– d) Kunal Shah

9. What is India’s rank in the recently released World Cyber Crime Index?
– a) 5th
– b) 8th
– c) 10th
– d) 15th

10. Name the renowned Yakshagana singer who passed away at the age of 66 in Bengaluru?
– a) Balipa Narayana Bhagavatha
– b) Subrahmanya Dhareshwara
– c) Puttur Narasimha Nayak
– d) Keremane Shivarama Hegde

11. Who has been appointed as the Director-General of National Security Guard (NSG)?
– a) Rakesh Asthana
– b) Nalin Prabhat
– c) Anup Kumar Singh
– d) S S Deswal

12. What is the rank of Delhi airport in the list of world’s busiest airports?
– a) 5th
– b) 8th
– c) 10th
– d) 12th

13. Name the Vedanta Group company which has become the third largest producer of silver globally?
– a) Vedanta Resources
– b) Cairn India
– c) Hindustan Zinc
– d) Bharat Aluminium Company

14. Which team broke its own record of the highest team score in IPL history by scoring 287/3 against Royal Challengers Bangalore at Chinnaswamy Stadium?
– a) Chennai Super Kings
– b) Kolkata Knight Riders
– c) Sunrisers Hyderabad
– d) Mumbai Indians

15. Recently the death anniversary of Nandlal Bose was celebrated. He was related to which field?
– a) Music
– b) Literature
– c) Painting
– d) Dance

16. Who has been appointed as the next Chief of the Indian Navy?
– a) R Hari Kumar
– b) Karambir Singh
– c) Dinesh Kr Tripathi
– d) Sunil Lanba

17. Name the former Revenue Secretary in Government of India who has been appointed as Head of US-India Tax Forum?
– a) Hasmukh Adhia
– b) Ajay Bhushan Pandey
– c) Tarun Bajaj
– d) G C Murmu

18. To which country did India recently deliver the first batch of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles?
– a) Vietnam
– b) Indonesia
– c) Philippines
– d) Malaysia

19. Name the Byju’s CEO who resigned from his position just about seven months after he took over?
– a) Byju Raveendran
– b) Divya Gokulnath
– c) Arjun Mohan
– d) Pravin Prakash

20. Tiranga Barfi was given a Geographical Indication (GI) tag in April 2024. It is related to which city?
– a) Jaipur
– b) Varanasi
– c) Amritsar
– d) Kolkata

21. Who launched India’s first private sub-meter resolution surveillance satellite in collaboration with Satellogic?
– a) ISRO
– b) Reliance Defence
– c) Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL)
– d) Larsen & Toubro

22. Who has become the eighth Indian to score 7,000 or more runs in T20 cricket?
– a) Rohit Sharma
– b) Virat Kohli
– c) KL Rahul
– d) Surya Kumar Yadav

23. Who has been appointed as the full-time member of the Sixteenth Finance Commission?
– a) Arvind Subramanian
– b) Bibek Debroy
– c) Manoj Panda
– d) Raghuram Rajan

24. The city of Miraj, which was granted the GI tag for its art of making musical instruments, is located in which state?
– a) Uttar Pradesh
– b) Gujarat
– c) Maharashtra
– d) Karnataka

25. India has acquired the right to operate the overseas Sittwe port. The Sittwe port is located in which country?
– a) Sri Lanka
– b) Bangladesh
– c) Myanmar
– d) Thailand

26. Where was the ‘Sagar Kavach’ exercise organised recently where all maritime security agencies including Indian Navy, Indian Coast Guard, Marine Police, Fisheries, Customs and other security agencies participated in the exercise?
– a) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
– b) Lakshadweep
– c) Goa
– d) Kerala

27. Who has been recently appointed as the CEO and MD of Wipro replacing Thierry Delaporte?
– a) Abidali Neemuchwala
– b) Rishad Premji
– c) Srinivas Pallia
– d) T. K. Kurien

28. Where was the first steel cutting ceremony of Fleet Support Ships for the Indian Navy held?
– a) Mumbai
– b) Kochi
– c) Visakhapatnam
– d) Kolkata

29. Who has recently been appointed as a member of the Economic Advisory Panel by the World Bank Group?
– a) Urjit Patel
– b) Raghuram Rajan
– c) Arvind Panagariya
– d) Rakesh Mohan

30. Arjun Erigaisi is related to which sport?
– a) Badminton
– b) Table Tennis
– c) Chess
– d) Shooting

31. Who organised the ‘Shakti – Festival of Music and Dance’ from 9 to 17 April at seven different Shaktipeeths across the country?
– a) ICCR
– b) Lalit Kala Akademi
– c) Sangeet Natak Akademi
– d) National School of Drama

32. At what rate has RBI maintained the repo rate for the seventh time in a row?
– a) 5.5 per cent
– b) 6.0 per cent
– c) 6.5 per cent
– d) 7.0 per cent

33. Who has become the first Indian wicketkeeper to score 7,000 runs in T20 cricket?
– a) Dinesh Karthik
– b) MS Dhoni
– c) Rishabh Pant
– d) Wriddhiman Saha

34. On which day is National Maritime Day celebrated in India every year?
– a) 5 April
– b) 7 April
– c) 9 April
– d) 11 April

35. Which port in Odisha has become India’s largest port in terms of cargo volume?
– a) Paradip Port
– b) Dhamra Port
– c) Gopalpur Port
– d) Kalinga Port

36. Who has recently been appointed as the new Managing Director of Tata International?
– a)

T. V. Narendran
– b) Rajiv Singhal
– c) N. Chandrasekaran
– d) Vinod Kumar

37. Who has taken charge as the Principal Director General of the Press Information Bureau (PIB)?
– a) K. S. Dhatwalia
– b) Frank Noronha
– c) Sitanshu Kar
– d) Sheyphali B Sharan

38. Recently, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has handed over two Dornier 228 aircraft to which country?
– a) Seychelles
– b) Mauritius
– c) Guyana
– d) Fiji

39. Name the company which has been conferred the Navratna status by the Department of Public Enterprises?
– a) ONGC
– b) BHEL
– c) IREDA
– d) GAIL

40. Which ballistic missile was successfully tested by DRDO recently?
– a) Agni-V
– b) Prithvi-II
– c) Agni-Prime
– d) K-4

41. Name the professor of psychology who has become the first woman Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University?
– a) Nilofer Khan
– b) Sabina Khan
– c) Naima Khatoon
– d) Shireen Moosvi

42. Name the veteran Bollywood actor who has been chosen to be awarded the third Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar award?
– a) Dharmendra
– b) Amitabh Bachchan
– c) Shatrughan Sinha
– d) Anupam Kher

43. Name the Chairman of Sorin Investment Fund who has been appointed as the President of ASSOCHAM for 2024-25?
– a) Rajan Bharti Mittal
– b) Vineet Agarwal
– c) Sanjay Nayar
– d) Anil Agarwal

44. Name the Kannada poet, writer, academic, and activist who has been awarded the World Literary Prize by World Organization of Writers (WOW)?
– a) K S Nisar Ahmed
– b) Mamta G Sagar
– c) H S Venkatesha Murthy
– d) S L Bhyrappa

45. Who won the National Kho Kho Championship 2023-24 Men’s Title?
– a) Haryana
– b) Punjab
– c) Maharashtra
– d) Tamil Nadu

46. Who won the National Kho Kho Championship 2023-24 Women’s Title?
– a) Maharashtra
– b) Kerala
– c) West Bengal
– d) Karnataka

47. Name the noted industrialist and philanthropist who has been awarded the KISS (Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences) Humanitarian Award 2021?
– a) Azim Premji
– b) Ratan Tata
– c) Mukesh Ambani
– d) Anand Mahindra

48. At which place was the 26th edition of the World Energy Congress held?
– a) Berlin, Germany
– b) Abu Dhabi, UAE
– c) Rotterdam, Netherlands
– d) Paris, France

49. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which country is the highest spender ($916 billion) on defense in 2023?
– a) China
– b) USA
– c) Russia
– d) India

50. At which place was the Archery World Cup 2024 held?
– a) Tokyo, Japan
– b) Shanghai, China
– c) New Delhi, India
– d) Rome, Italy