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1.Which are the three new high courts constitute in India?

Answer:  Meghalaya, Manipur & Tripura

2.On which date the United Nation celebrated the first ever “International day of Happiness”?

Answer:  20th march

3.Who won the Celebrity Cricket League 2013?

Answer. Karnataka Bulldozers

4.Who is sworn in as the new governor of Bihar?

Answer. DY Patil

5.Who is sworn in as the new governor of Tripura?

Answer. Devanand Konwar

6. Who is sworn in as the new governor of Kerala?

Answer. Nikhil Kumar

7. Who is sworn in as the new governor of Odisha?

Answer. SC Jamir

8. Who is sworn in as the new governor of Nagaland?

Answer. Ashwani Kumar, He was the former Director of the CBI.

9. Who is honoured with Indira Gandhi Peace Prize recently?

Answer. Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), was presented with the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for the year 2011 by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee.

10.Who is chosen for Saraswati Samman award 2013?

Answer. Sugathakumari

11.Which country will host ICC World T20 2014?

Answer. Bangladesh

12.Who is appointed as President of International Chamber of Commerce?

Answer. Rajan Bharti Mittal

13.Who is the lady popularly known as “Human Computer”, she died on 21st April 2013?

Answer. Shakuntala Devi

14.Who developed the world’s lightest substance recently?

Answer. Chinese scientists have developed the world

?s lightest substance “carbon aerogel” with a density only one sixth of that of the air. Scientists at Zhejiang University produced the solid material which has a density of only 0.16 mg/cubic centimetre, breaking the previous record of the world’s lightest material held by graphite aerogel. The graphite aerogel was developed by German scientists last

year with a density of 0.18 mg/cubic centimetre.

15.Who got the Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2012?

Answer. Hindi film actor Pran Krishan Sikand got the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2012. The 93 year old actor, popularly known as Pran, will be the 44th recipient of the top most film award in India.

16. Who is elected as the President of Venezuela recently?

Answer. Nicolas Maduro

17.India’s first and only Women Chief Election Commissioner ……………. passed away recently?

Answer. Ramadevi

18.The 2013 SAARC literature festival was hosted by which place?

Answer. Agra

19. The President of Bangladesh who passed away recently?

Answer. Zillur Rahman

20.World Earth Hour was observed from 8.30PM to 9.30PM On:

Answer. March 23

21.The newly released Book, “Walking With Lions, Tales from a Diplomatic Past’ is written by:

Answer. K. Natwar Singh

22.Who has been elected as the new Pope of the Catholic Church?

Answer. Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina. He has chosen the name ‘Francis’.

23.India?s first indigenously developed subsonic cruise missile:

Answer. Nirbhay. The test firing of the missile on March 12 achieved partial success.

24.…………. was selected as the best feature film for the 60th National Film Awards?

Answer. Paan Singh Tomar (Hindi) directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia

25.Who has been appointed as the President of the People’s Republic of China?

Answer. Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang has been appointed as the country’s new Prime Minister.

26.. Who has been elected as the new chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)?

Answer. S. Gopalakrishnan

27.The current winners of Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament?

Answer. Australia

28.Who scored the fastest debut century test cricket?

Answer. Shikhar Dhawan

29. Which Malayalam film bagged the National award for the best film on social issues?

Answer. Spirit, directed by Renjith 6

30. The world’s largest biogas plant has been inaugurated in?

Answer. Finland, It has a capacity of 140 MW.

31.The 5th BRICS summit was recently held at:

Answer. Durban, South Africa (March 26-27).

32. The Indian space scientist who has been inducted into the prestigious Satellite Hall of Fame,Washington:

Answer. U.R Rao, He is the first Indian to get this rare honour.

33.World’s tallest Mahatma Gandhi statue was unveiled on Feb 15 in:

Answer. Patna, Bihar