Current Affairs April 2023

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Q. 1. Which product of Varanasi has recently been given GI Tag?

A) Banarasi Paan
B) Banarasi Langda Mango
C) Both A and B are correct
D) None of these

Q. 2. Which Indian space start-up successfully tested a 3D-printed cryogenic engine?

A) New Space Technology
B) Skyroot Aerospace
C) Garuda Aerospace
D) Vesta Space Technology

Q. 3. Which state has topped the India Justice Report 2022?

A) Karnataka
B) Haryana
C) Gujarat
D) Tamil Nadu

Q. 4. Which Country has been elected to the United Nations Statistical Commission four year term from January 2024?

A) China
B) UAE
C) South Korea
D) India

Q. 5. Who has been appointed as the new executive director of the Reserve Bank of India?

A) Ashok Sinha
B) Neeraj Nigam
C) Shaktikanta Das
D) Amit Anand

Q. 6. Who is the author of the book “War and Women”?

A) Dr. Karn Singh
B) Justice Ranjan Gogoi
C) Dr. MA Hasan
D) Arif Mohammad Khan

Q. 7. When is National Maritime Day celebrated?

A) 6th April
B) 2nd April
C) 8th April
D) 5th April

Q. 8. Which has became the best performing state in the Northeast in e-procurement?

A) Tripura
B) Sikkim
C) Meghalaya
D) Nagaland

Q. 9. When is World health Day Celebrated?

A) 5th April
B) 7th April
C) 8th April
D) 10th April

Q. 10. Who has been given the IFFI Indian Film Personality of the year Award?

A) Amitabh Bachchan
B) Rajanikanth
C) Chiranjeevi Konidela
D) NTR Junior

Q. 11. According to the Tiger Census, how much population of tigers in India Increase by the year 2022?

A) 3167
B) 3275
C) 3667
D) 3200

Q. 12. When is World Homeopathy day celebrated every year?

A) 8th April
B) 6th April
C) 11th April
D) 10th April

Q. 13. Which player holds the record for most hat tricks in T20 Cricket?

A) Amit Mishra
B) Rashid Khan
C) Sunil Naraine
D) Mitchell Santner

Q. 14. Which Indian-American mathematician has been awarded the 2023 international Prize in Statistics?

A) PC Mahalanobis
B) Harish Chandra
C) C. Radhakrishna Rao
D) D.R. Kaprekar

Q. 15. In which state the first solar powered tourist boat has been operated?

A) Kerala
B) Odisha
C) Tamil Nadu
D) Andhra Pradesh

Q. 16. Union Minster Amit Shah has started “ Vibrant Villages Program” in which State?

A) Uttarakhand
B) Nagaland
C) Manipur
D) Arunachal Prradesh

Q. 17. Who has won the Orleans Masters 2023 Men’s singles title?

A) Lakshya Sen
B) Priyanshu Rajawat
C) K shrikant
D) Magnus Johansson

Q. 18. Where has the world’s first Asian King Vulture Conservation Center been built?

A) Maharajganj
B) Kushi Nagar
C) Bellari
D) Rajgir

Q. 19. Who is the Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes?

A) Sangeeta Verma
B) P L Punia
C) Vijay Sampla
D) Ramdas Athavale

Q. 20. Which of the Following cities is the “Silicon Valley of India” located?

A) Noida
B) Gurugram
C) Hyderabad
D) Bengaluru

Q. 21. Which of the following state borders not touch with Myanmar?

A) Arunachal Pradesh
B) Nagaland
C) Meghalaya
D) Manipur

Q. 22. Which state will set up a separate Divyang Vibhag?

A) Maharashtra
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Rajasthan
D) Haryana

Q. 23. Ranipur Tiger Reserve India’s 53rd Tiger Reserve Located in which State?

A) Karnataka
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Chhattisgarh
D) Tamil Nadu

Q. 24. Majuli, the world’s largest river Island, is located in which State?

A) Uttar Pradesh
B) West Bengal
C) Arunachal Pradesh
D) Assam

Q. 25. In which Year Project Tiger Launched?

A) 1973
B) 1974
C) 1976
D) 1980

Q. 26. Which state has the maximum number of Tiger?

A) Karnataka
B) Rajasthan
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Maharashtra

Q. 27. Which State government has recently given OBC Status to the transgender community?

A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Rajasthan
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) West Bengal

Q. 28. Which State government has passed a bill to ban online gambling?

A) Bihar
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Goa
D) Gujarat

Q. 29. Which India Player won the silver medal in the 68 kg category in the Asian Wrestling Championships?

A) Sakshi Malik
B) Vinesh Phogat
C) Babita Kumari
D) Nisha Dahiya

Q. 30. In which city was the first underwater metro train trial run in India?

A) Delhi
B) Mumbai
C) Kolkata
D) Hyderabad

Q. 31. Which company has recently been given the Miniratna Category-I Status?

A) IRCTC
B) RailTel Corporation
C) Solar Energy Corporation of India
D) Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd.

Q. 32. Who has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of Tripura High Court Recently?

A) Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh
B) Justice DY Chandrachud
C) Justice Umesh Chandra Sharma
D) Justice Saurabh Srivastava

Q. 33. Which player holds the record for the fastest 100 wickets in IPL history?

A) Ravindra Jadeja
B) Kagiso Rabada
C) Sakib Al Hasan
D) Bhuvaneshwar Kumar

Q. 34. Which player won the India’s first gold medal in the Asian Wrestling Championship 2023?

A) Aman Sehrawat
B) Deepak Punia
C) Bajrang Punia
D) Ravi Kumar

Q. 35. Which country has become India’s largest trading Partner?

A) China
B) USA
C) Russia
D) Japan

Q. 36. Apple Company has launched its first store in India in Which City?

A) New Delhi
B) Bengaluru
C) Mumbai
D) Chennai

Q. 37. Which Union Minister has started a Campaign – “Prosperity through Organization”?

A) Piyush Goyal
B) Amit Shah
C) Smriti Irani
D) Giriraj Singh

Q. 38. Which state becomes the first to prepare a DNA database for the identification of unidentified dead bodies?

A) Himachal Pradesh
B) Gujarat
C) Goa
D) Maharashtra

Q. 39. Which automobile company has launched an online retail sales platform “Wheels on Web”?

A) Tata Motors
B) Toyota
C) Mahindra
D) Suzuki

Q. 40. When is world Hemophilia Day observed?

A) 14th April
B) 16th April
C) 18th April
D) 17th April

Q. 41. Who has been awarded the Maharashtra Bhushan Award 2022?

A) Nitin Gadkari
B) Devendra Fadnavis
C) Dr. Appasaheb Dharmadhikari
D) Eknath Shinde

Q. 42. Who has been awarded the business leader of the decade award?

A) Kumar Mangalam Birla
B) Ratan Tata
C) Mukesh Ambani
D) Shiv Nadar

Q. 43. What is the rank of India in the latest FIFA rankings?

A) 102nd
B) 101st
C) 104th
D) 110th

Q. 44. When is the National Safe Motherhood Day Celebrated?

A) 5th April
B) 10th April
C) 11th April
D) 18th April

Q. 45. In which State has a 125-feet tall statue of B.R. Ambedkar been unveiled?

A) Telangana
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Maharashtra
D) Uttar Pradesh

Q. 46. Who has launched the Jupiter Ice Moons Explorer (JUICE) Probe?

A) ISRO
B) JAXA
C) NASA
D) European Space Agency

Q. 47. Who has become Femina Miss India 2023?

A) Sina Shetty
B) Nandini Gupta
C) Aditi Sharma
D) Shikha Chouhan

Q. 48. In Which state has the Bihu performance set a Guinness World Record?

A) Tripura
B) Arunachal Pradesh
C) Assam
D) Nagaland

Q. 49. When is Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar Jayanti Celebrated?

A) 14th April
B) 10th April
C) 18th April
D) 16th April

Q. 50. Project Elephant was launched in which year?

A) 1993
B) 1992
C) 1982
D) 1973

Q. 51. Who has become the chairman of the 22nd law Commission?

A) KT Sankaran
B) Ritu Raj Awasthi
C) Anand Paliwal
D) Raka Arya

Q-52. Who is the first Indian woman cricketer to be named Wisden Cricketers of the year?

A) Deepti Sharma
B) Poonam Yadav
C) Harmanpreet Kaur
D) Mithali Raj

Q-53. When is world Liver Day Observed Annually?

A) 20th April
B) 19th April
C) 24th April
D) 21st April

Q-54. Who has been appointed as the Military advisor in the National Security Council Secretariat?

A) Sandeep Singh
B) Arup Raha
C) Anil Chauhan
D) R Hari Kumar

Q-55. Partner Portal Mobile App has been launched by Which Ministry?

A) Ministry of Education
B) Home Ministry
C) Finance Ministry
D) Ministry of Agriculture

Q-56. Which Indian-American has been appointed as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense in the USA?

A) Radha Iyengar Plumb
B) Ro Khanna
C) Shilpa Yashvaardhan
D) Neha Singh

Q-57. Who has become the First woman Air force officer to receive the “Gallantry Award”?

A) Bhawana Kanth
B) Deepika Mishra
C) Sania Mirza
D) Avni Chaturvedi

Q-58. Who launched the world’s largest and most powerful rocket “Starship” which resulted in massive failure?

A) NASA
B) ISRO
C) SpaceX
D) JAXA

Q-59. Which Indian company has recently achieved a market capitalization of Rs. 5 Lakh Crore?

A) Adani Power
B) TCS Ltd
C) ONGC Ltd.
D) ITC Ltd.

Q-60. When is national Civil Services Day Celebrated every year in India?

A) 20th April
B) 21st April
C) 24th April
D) 22nd April

Q-61. Which state won the National Award for best implementation of “Pradhan mantra fasal Bima Yojana”?

A) Haryana
B) Sikkim
C) Karnataka
D) Maharashtra

Q-62. Who has been appointed new CEO of NITI Aayog?

A) BVR Subrahmanyam
B) Shaktikanta Das
C) Mukul Rohtagi
D) Urjit Patel

Q-63. Which Film selected as the “Film of the Year” at Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival 2023?

A) The Kashmir Files
B) Brahamastra
C) Puspa
D) RRR

Q-64. Which country has become India’s largest Trading Partner?

A) USA
B) China
C) Japan
D) UK

Q-65. India’s First Water Metro to be opened in Which City?

A) Kolkata
B) Kochi
C) Chennai
D) Hyderabad

Q-66. When National Panchayati Raj Day is Celebrated every Year?

A) 20th April
B) 25th April
C) 24th April
D) 22nd April

Q-67. The iconic Sydney Cricket Ground unveiled a gate named after which player?

A) Kapil Dev
B) Shane Warne
C) Virat Kohli
D) Sachin Tendulkar

Q-68. Which State has started the “One Panchayat One Play Ground” Project?

A) Kerala
B) Haryana
C) Manipur
D) Bihar

Q-69. Who won the Femina Miss India 2023 pageant?

A) Manushi Chhillar
B) Nandini Gupta
C) Harnaj Sandhu
D) Sina Setty

Q-70. “Golden Quadrilateral Project” related with which mode of transport?

A) Water
B) Air
C) Road
D) Train

Q-71. Which of the following is the World’s highest Plateau?

A) Chota Nagpur
B) Deccan Plateau
C) Meghalaya Plateau
D) Tibet Plateau

Q-72. Who was selected as the best district panchayat under the national panchayat Awards 2023?

A) Ganjam
B) Anuppur
C) Akola
D) Tezpur

Q-73. Who has been awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award 2023?

A) Ms.Zaneta Mascarenhas
B) Pravind Kumar Jaganna
C) Raj Subramaniam
D) Satya Nadela

Q-74. Where is the first Global Buddhist Summit being organized?

A) Varanasi
B) Gaya
C) Kushi Nagar
D) New Delhi

Q-75. Player Shaili Singh, Who was in discussion, is related to which Sport?

A) Wrestling
B) Long Jump
C) Shooting
D) Boxing

Q-76. Who is the first state in India to Adopt Water budget?

A) Kerala
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Karnataka
D) Tamil Nadu

Q-77. Which country has been chosen to host the U20 Soccer World Cup?

A) India
B) USA
C) Argentina
D) France

Q-78. Thawe Festival is organized in which State?

A) West Bengal
B) Odisha
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Bihar

Q-79. Where is the “INDIA STEEL 2023” conference being organized?

A) Jamshedpur
B) New Delhi
C) Mumbai
D) Bokaro

Q-80. How many medals have India won in the Asian Wrestling Championships 2023?

A) 14
B) 18
C) 10
D) 15

Q-81. Who among these was awarded the prestigious Abel Prize for the year 2023?

A) Denise parnell
B) Lewis Caffarelli
C) Karen Uhlebach
D) Neena Gupta

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Answers:

1. Ans . C) Both A and B are correct
2. Ans. B) Skyroot Aerospace
3. Ans. A) Karnataka
4. Ans. D) India
5. Ans. B) Neeraj Nigam
6. Ans. C) Dr. MA Hasan
7. Ans. D) 5th April
8. Ans. A) Tripura
9. Ans. B) 7th April
10. Ans. C) Chiranjeevi Konidela
11. Ans. A) 3167
12. Ans. D) 10th April
13. Ans. B) Rashid Khan
14. Ans. C) C. Radhakrishna Rao
15. Ans. A) Kerala
16. Ans. D) Arunachal Pradesh
17. Ans. B) Priyanshu Rajawat
18. Ans. A) Maharajganj, Uttar Pradesh
19. Ans. C) Vijay Sampla
20. Ans. D) Bengaluru
21. Ans. C) Meghalaya
22. Ans. A) Maharashtra
23. Ans. B) Uttar Pradesh
24. Ans. D) Assam
25. Ans. A) 1973
26. Ans. C) Madhya Pradesh

27. Ans. A) Madhya Pradesh
28. Ans. B) Tamil Nadu
29. Ans. D) Nisha Dahiya
30. Ans. C) Kolkata
31. Ans. C) Solar Energy Corporation of India
32. Ans. A) Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh
33. Ans. B) Kagiso Rabada
34. Ans. A) Aman Sehrawat
35. Ans. B) USA
36. Ans. C) Mumbai
37. Ans. D) Giriraj Singh
38. Ans. A) Himachal Pradesh
39. Ans. B) Toyota
40. Ans. D) 17th April
41. Ans. C) Dr. Appasaheb Dharmadhikari
42. Ans. A) Kumar Mangalam Birla
43. Ans. B) 101st
44. Ans. C) 11th April
45. Ans. A) Telangana
46. Ans. D) European Space Agency
47. Ans. B) Nandini Gupta
48. Ans. C) Assam
49. Ans. A) 14th April
50. Ans. B) 1992
51. Ans. B) Ritu Raj Awasti

52- Ans. C) Harmanpreet Kaur
53- Ans. B) 19th April
54- Ans. A) Sandeep Singh
55- Ans. D) Ministry of Agriculture
56- Ans. A) Radha Iyengar Plumb
57- Ans. B) Deepika Mishra
58- Ans. C) SpaceX
59- Ans. D) ITC Ltd.
60- Ans. B) 21st April
61- Ans. C) Karnataka
62- Ans. A) BVR Subramanyam
63- Ans. D) RRR
64- Ans. A) USA
65- Ans. B) Kochi
66- Ans. C) 24th April
67- Ans. D) Sachin Tendulkar
68- Ans. A) Kerala
69- Ans. B) Nandini Gupta
70- Ans. C) Road
71- Ans. D) Tibet Plateau
72- Ans. A) Ganjam, Odisha
73- Ans. C) Raj Subramaniam
74- Ans. D) New Delhi
75- Ans. B) Long Jump
76- Ans. A) Kerala
77- Ans. C) Argentina
78- Ans. D) Bihar
79- Ans. C) Mumbai
80- Ans. A) 14
81- Ans. B) Lewis Caffarelli