Important Current Affairs Questions

1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the country's first solar powered e-boats at?
Answer: Assi Ghat in the river Ganga, Varanasi.

2. India, Thailand and which country will soon be connected by a 1,400-kilometre highway, to boost the trade and cultural exchanges among the three countries?
Answer: Myanmar 

3. How many cities have been selected in the first phase of the government’s smart cities mission?
Answer: Myanmar 

4. The Union Cabinet has given its approval to amend The Institutes of Technology (IIT) Act, 1961 for incorporation of how many new IITs?
Answer: 6 new IITs

5. Name the Public sector company which is set to kickstart projects aimed at cleaning the Ganga in Bihar.
Answer: NBCC (India) 

6. Which country is all set to introduce its own version of US dollars in order to ease a cash shortage in the country?
Answer: Zimbabwe 

7. Name the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami chief who was hanged for war crimes committed during the country's 1971 Liberation War.
Answer: Motiur Rahman Nizami  

8. Which country's government has decided to close the World's biggest refugee camp in Dadaab?
Answer: Kenyan government

9. Which international organization has approved USD 625 million loan to support the Indian central government’s programme to generate electricity from rooftop solar power plants?
Answer: The World Bank

10. Which organization has launched Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility and launched a $500 million fund to fight Pandemics in poor countries and creating the world's first insurance market for pandemic risk? 
Answer: The World Bank Group  

11. Name the politician whom Britain has granted political refugee status. 
Answer: former President of Maldives Mohamed Nasheed. 

12. The US President Barack Obama has announced an end to its embargo on sales of lethal weapons to which country?
Answer: Vietnam

13. Who is appointed as the managing director of Bharti Retail?
Answer: Kishore Biyani 

14. Who was appointed as the new Director-General (DG) of Tihar?
Answer: Sudhir Yadav

15. Name the Senior IPS officer who was appointed as chief of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), the aviation security wing of the government. 
Answer: Kumar Rajesh Chandra 

16. Who took charge as managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), country’s largest commodity exchange?
Answer: Mrugank Paranjape 

17. Name the Congress leader who reinstated as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
Answer: Harish Rawat

18. Name the Renowned Music composer who accepted the Indian Olympic Association's offer to become the Goodwill Ambassador for Rio Olympics. 
Answer: AR Rahman 

19. Name the world's largest cargo aircraft which made its first landing in India at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad.
Answer: Antonov An-225 Mriya

20. Who has received 2016's Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award?

Answer: Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal