CURRENT

AFFAIRS
15 MARCH
2024
1. Which state government has 2. What recent discovery has
announced an additional 10 days of researchers made in Thailand's
casual leave for women working in Kaeng Krachan National Park?
various government departments?

(a) New Scorpion Species with 8

(a) Assam/ Eyes and 8 Legs/
(b) Odisha/
(c) Manipur/ (b) A rare butterfly species
(d) Mizoram/
Ans.(b) (c) A new species of frog
• Odisha – Madhu Babu Pension
Yojana (d) Previously unknown scorpion
• Odisha – Swayam Yojana – Rs. species/
1 Lakh Loan Ans.(a)
• Odisha – Kendu Leaf Worker – • Exercise Ayutthaya
– India & Thailand
• Odisha – 10 Day Extra Casual • Thailand – Bangkok
Leave • Thailand – Baht
• Odisha – 30
• Odisha Governor – Raghubar Das 3. Which regulatory body has
approved the merger of
 Garagepreneurs Internet Private 4. Who inaugurated India's first
Limited (GIPL) with North East FutureLABS center at C-DAC
Small Finance Bank (NESFB)? Thiruvananthapuram?
C-DAC
(GIPL) FutureLABS
(NESFB)
(a) Narendra Modi/
(a) Securities and Exchange Board (b) Rajeev Chandrasekhar
of India/

(c) Pinarayi Vijayan/

(b) Reserve Bank of India
(d) Droupadi Murmu/
Ans.(b)
(c) Competition Commission of • Future LABS
India/ – CDAC Thiruvananthapuram
(d) Ministry of Finance/ • Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing
Ans.(c)
• Rajeev Chandrasekhar
• Air India – Vistara
– By CCI (Ministry of Electronics & IT
• AU Small Bank – Fincare Small
Bank – BY RBI
• GIPL – North East Small Bank 5. Which company has Completed
India’s Largest Solar And Battery
– By CCI
Energy Storage Systems Project?
• CCI Head – Ravneet Kaur
• CCI Act 2002
 (a) Tata Power Solar Systems
Limited/ (AI)

(b) Adani Power/

(c) Reliance Power/
(d) None of These/
Ans.(a)
• Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh
• Tata Power Solar System Ltd
•
6. Who has been appointed as the
new Director General of the Indian
Sugar & Bio-energy Manufacturers
Association (ISMA)?
(a) Ministry of Science and
Technology and IIT Bombay
(b) Ministry of Rural Development
and IIT Delhi/
(c) Ministry of Agriculture and IIT
Madras/
(d) Ministry of Environment and
IIT Kanpur/

(ISMA) Ans.(b)

(a) Ramesh Kumar/ 8. Which company has partnered

(b) Deepak Ballani/ with the Election Commission of
(c) Priya Sharma/ India (ECI) to provide
(d) Sanjay Patel/ authoritative information on
Ans.(b) voting processes for the upcoming
general elections?
7. Which two entities have signed a
MoU to collaborate on geospatial
technology and artificial
intelligence (AI) for rural (ECI)
development?
 (a) Google/ (d) Saudi Arabia/
(b) Adobe/ Ans.(d)
(c) Amazon/ •
(d) Meta/ • 1. USA
Ans.(a) • 2. France
• 3. Russia
9. Where were over 1,500 skeletons • 4. China
of plague victims discovered • 5. Germany
recently? •
• 1. India
• 2. Saudi Arabia
(a) Paris, France/ • 3. Qatar
(b) London, England/ • 4. Ukraine
(c) Rome, Italy/ • 5. Pakistan
(d) Nuremberg, Germany

11. Who has been awarded the

Ans.(d) prestigious Erasmus Prize 2024
by the Praemium Erasmianum
Foundation?
10. Among the top 10 arms importers,
which country is ranked second
after India?

(a) Arundhati Roy/

(a) China/ (b) Salman Rushdie/

(b) Pakistan/ (c) Jhumpa Lahiri/

(c) France/
 (d) Amitav Ghosh/ – 1. Aravind Kumar
– 2. A.S. Rajeev
Ans.(d)
• Chief Election Commissioner
• – Sunil Bharti Mittal
– Rajiv Kumar
• France – Shashi Tharoor
• Enforcement Directorate
• Australia – Ratan Tata
– Rahul Navin
• Romain Rolland Award 2024
– Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee
• Outstanding Business Women 13. Which missile was successfully
of the year tested with MIRV technology
– Bina Modi recently?
MIRV
12. Who has been appointed as the
new Vigilance Commissioner in (a) Astra/
the Central Vigilance
(b) Trishul/
Commission?
(c) Naag/
(d) Agni-5/

(a) A. S. Rajeev/ Ans.(b)

(b) Rajeev Kumar/

14. Which state government has
(c) Anup goel/
announced that the Citizenship
(d) Ajay Sinha/ (Amendment) Act (CAA), will not
Ans.(a) be implemented in the state?

• Central Vigilance Commission

(CAA)
– Chief – Praveen Kumar
Srivastava
– Member (a) Tamil Nadu/
 (b) Himachal Pradesh/ – Pyare Lal Sharma
• Pritzker Award 2023
(c) Karnataka/
– David Chipperfield, Britain
(d) Kerala/
Ans.(a)
• CAA Act 2019
• CAA Act 11 March 2024
• 31 December 2014
•

• North East Area/Tribal Areas

15. Who has been named the winner

of the Pritzker Architecture Prize
2024?

(a) Riken Yamamoto/

(b) Frank Gehry/
(c) Rem Koolhaas/
(d) Norman Foster/
Ans.(a)
• G.D. Birla Award 2024
– Aditi Sen
• Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2023
– Waheeda Rehman
• KPP Nambiar Award 2024
– S. Somanath
• Laxminarayan Int. Award 2024