Current Affairs for SBI and NABARD exams. [PART-1]

1. Name the former Lok Sabha Speaker who passed away recently.
Ans: P. A. Sangma

2. Who was awarded the 2015 Dada Saheb Phalke Award?
Ans: Manoj Kumar

3. Who won this year's Santosh Trophy football title?
Ans: Services. They beat Maharashtra in the final.

4. Name the programme launched by the Government of India to make all National Highways free of railway crossings, by building bridges.
Ans: Setu Bharatam

5. Air India recently flew the World's longest all-woman operated and supported flight from New Delhi to which place?
Ans: San Francisco

6. Name the inventor of email who passed away recently.
Ans: Ray Tomlinson

7. Name the new online marketing platform for women, launched by the Government of India, where participants can display their products.
Ans: Mahila e-Haat

8. Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, former foreign minister of Egypt, has been elected as the Secretary general of which international organisation?
Ans: Arab League

9. Which international woman tennis player has recently been suspended by tlie International Tennis Federation (ITF) for having failed a drug test?
Ans: Maria Sharapova

10. Name the scheme, recently approved by the Union Government, to provide free LPG connections to women from below poverty line (BPL) households.
Ans: Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

11. Name the India-Indonesia joint military exercise held at Magelang, Indonesia.
Ans: Garuda Shakti IV

12. Who clinched the Irani Cup cricket title?
Ans: Rest of India. They beat Mumbai

13. Where is the South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center of the International Monetary Fund to be set up?
Ans: New Delhi

14. What is the name given to the Central government's Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme (DELP), which aims at replacing the incandescent lamps with LED bulbs?
Ans: UJALA (Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All)

15. Who won the men's singles title in the All England Badminton championship?
Ans: Lin Dan (China)
Nozomi Okuhara (Japan) won the women's singles title.

16. Who was elected as the new president of Myanmar?
Ans: Htin Kyaw

17. Name the prominent Indian film archivist and film scholar who passed away recently.
Ans: P.K. Nair

18. Which team won this year's Pro Kabaddi League?
Ans: Patna Pirates

19. Name the legendary music producer, who produced the Beatles' albums, who passed away recently.
Ans: George Martin

20. Who has been appointed as Chairman of the Law Commission of India?
Ans: Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan

21. One unit of which nuclear plant in India was shut down after leakage of heavy water?
Ans: Kakrapar

22. Which building is the first in India to get an early earthquake warning and security system?
Ans: Secretariat Building in Chandigarh

23. Ustad Ali Ahmed Hussain, who passed away recently, was an exponent in which musical instrument?
Ans: Shehnai

24. Name the eight time Grammy award winning Brazilian percussionist who passed away recently.
Ans: Nana Vasconcelos

25. Which national awards were presented on International women's day, to individuals and institutions who made exceptional contribution towards the empowerment of women?
Ans: Nari Shakti Puraskar

26. Which Booker Prize winning writer, known for her novel, Hotel du Lac, passed away recently?
Ans: Anita Brookner

27. Name the Kerala Tourism's Campaign which won the silver prize of 2016 Das Golden City Gate at the Berlin International Tourism Trade Fair (ITB Berlin).
Ans: New Worlds

28. Name the new scheme launched by the Central government to provide training to youth to act as tourist facilitators.
Ans: Paryatak Mitra Scheme

29. Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hell man were awarded which popular international award?
Ans: A.M. Turing Award

F The award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
F The award is generally termed as the Nobel Prize of computing.

30. Name this year's theme for the International Women's Day (March 8).
Ans: 'Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality'

31. World Wildlife Day is observed on:
Ans: March 3.
      This year's theme was 'The future of Wildlife is in our hands'

32. National Safety Day was observed on:
Ans: March 4

33. World Kidney Day was observed on: 
Ans: March 10

34. World Consumer Rights Day was observed on:
Ans: March 15.