Current Affairs 4th April 2022 : Daily GK Update in English

1. Which Institution releases the ‘State of World Population Report’?
A. UNICEF              
B. UNFPA
C. IMF                      
D. World Bank
Answer [B] UNFPA
2. Which institution launched the digital platform ‘Fast and Secured Transmission of Electronic Records’ (FASTER)?
A. RBI                                                          
B. Supreme Court of India
C. Election Commission of India           
D. Central Bureau of Investigation
Answer [B] Supreme Court of India
3. Which regulator body launched the ideathon named ‘Manthan’?
A. RBI            
B. NABARD
C. SEBI         
D. IRDAI
Answer [C] SEBI
4. Which country recently signed “Emmett Till Antilynching Act” into law?
A. Russia          
B. USA
C. UK                 
D. Germany
Answer [B] USA
5. ‘Mes Aynak Site’ and ‘Buddhas of Bamiyan’, which were seen in the news, are located in which country?
A. Nepal         
B. China
C. India            
D. Afghanistan
Answer [D] Afghanistan
6. Serdar Berdimuhamedov has become the new President of which country?
A. Uzbekistan             
B. Turkmenistan
C. Azerbaijan               
D. Kyrgyzstan
Answer [B] Turkmenistan
7. In April 2022, who has become the first African to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture’s most prestigious honour?
A. Frei Otto                     
B. Alejandro Aravena
C. Francis Kere              
D. Mathias Klotz
Answer [C] Francis Kere   
8. Who launched the website ‘Temple 360’ in April 2022?
A. Narendra Modi              
B. Amit Shah
C. Meenakshi Lekhi           
D. Yogi Adityanath
Answer [C] Meenakshi Lekhi 
9. Who claimed the‘Sportstar of the year (Male)’ award at the 2022 sportstar Aces Awards in March 2022?
A. Bajrang Punia               
B. Harmanpreet Singh
C. Neeraj Chopra              
D. Srikanth Kidambi
Answer [C] Neeraj Chopra    
10. Eugene Parker was a/an ……. Astrophysicist who passed away in March 2022?
A. African                
B. Chinese
C. Japanese             
D. American
Answer [D] American
11.  Mahila Money, Trans corp and which of the following have teamed up to launch Mahila Money Prepaid Card?
A. Mastercard                      
B. Rupay
C. Visa                                     
D. Maestro
Answer [C] Visa
12. In April 2022, according to Deloitte, what is the rank of Reliance Retail among the top-250 global retailers’ list?
A. 26th            
B. 36th
C. 46th            
D. 56th
Answer [D] 56th
13. Which of the following bank will launch the ‘SmartHub Vyapar Programme’ and ‘AutoFirst’ app?
A. Punjab National Bank                   
B. Bank of Baroda
C. HDFC Bank                                       
D. ICICI Bank
Answer [C] HDFC Bank
14. Who has been appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tata Consultancy Services upto February 2027?
A. Natarajan Chandrasekaran            
B. Rajesh Gopinathan
C. T.V. Narendran                                 
D. N. Ganapathy Subramaniam
Answer [B] Rajesh Gopinathan
15. SBI will set up an innovation, incubation and acceleration Centre (IIAC) at which of the following place?
A. Chennai                          
B. Visakhapatnam
C. Hyderabad                     
D. Bengaluru
Answer [C] Hyderabad      
16. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)’ is an initiative of which country?
A. USA                
B. Russia
C. China            
D. Japan
Answer [A] USA 
17. What is the revised compensation to the kin of hit-and-run victims in case of death?
A. Rs 50000          
B. Rs 1 Lakh
C. Rs 2 Lakh          
D. Rs 3 Lakh
Answer [C]   Rs 2 Lakh
18. The ‘Yilan Crater, the largest impact crater on Earth, has been discovered in which country?
A. Russia                   
B. China
C. Australia               
D. Japan
Answer [B] China
19. Hollongi, which was seen in the news, is a city located in which state/UT?
A. Meghalaya             
B. Arunachal Pradesh
C. Rajasthan                 
D. Odisha
Answer [B] Arunachal Pradesh
20. Where is India’s largest EV Charging station established recently?
A. Mumbai                  
B. Gurugram
C. Guwahati                
D. New Delhi
Answer [B] Gurugram