Daily Current Affairs for All Govt. Exams – 15th’ April ’22

Q1) Indian Army marks Siachen Day on April 13 every year to commemorate which operation?

Operation Meghdoot
Operation Kalidas
Operation Shakuntala
Operation Chanakya

Q2) Which will be the host country of the Commonwealth games 2026?

India
Australia
Britain
Canada

Q3) The first Khelo India National Ranking Women Archery tournament has begun in which city?

Ranchi
Jamshedpur
Patna
Raipur

Q4) Which ministry organized two-day conference ‘Amrit Samagam’ to deliberate on the progress of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav?

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Ministry of Home Affairs
Ministry of Culture
Ministry of Power

Q5) Who has been awarded the country’s highest literary award, the 56th Jnanpith for the year 2021?

Damodar Mauzo
Raja Rao
Nilamani Phookan
Anita Desai

Q6) Asian Development Bank has approved a $2 million project readiness financing (PRF) loan for urban development in which Indian state?

Punjab
Odisha
Nagaland
Uttar Pradesh

Q7) Which Indian chess player has won the 2022 Reykjavik Open?

Viswanathan Anand
Praggnanandhaa R
Vidit Gujrathi
S. L. Narayanan

Q8) Which ministry launched PM-DAKSH Yojana for skilling of marginalized persons?

Ministry of MSME
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Q9) Which is the first Indian city to become a part of the Global Silk City Network?

Cuttack
Guwahati
Bengaluru
Chennai

Geographical Indications of Indian silk

Baluchari Saree – West Bengal
Salem Silk – Tamil Nadu
Arani Silk – Tamil Nadu
Molakalmuru Sarees– Karnataka
Ilkal Sarees – Karnataka
Muga Silk – Assam
Orissa Ikat – Odisha
Kancheepuram Silk – Tamil nadu
Mysore Silk – Karnataka
Chanderi Fabric – Madya Pradesh

Q10) Which country has defaulted on its entire foreign debt payment of $51 billion?

Ukraine
Sri Lanka
Pakistan
Nepal

Q11) Weija dam is in news recently, this dam is a major dam in which African country?

Ghana
Chad
Gabon
Niger

Q12) Recently, which ministry launched ‘SVANidhi se Samriddhi’ program in additional 126 cities across 14 States/ UTs?

Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

Q13) Which commission was set up to investigate the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919?

Fowler Commission
Hilton Young Commission
Babington Smith Commission
Hunter Commission

Q14) Recently, South-Central Railway has launched which campaign at six main stations across its six divisions?

One nation one culture
One station one counter
One station one product
One station one booking

Q15) Recently, the Champion of Change Award 2021 in Madhya Pradesh was organized by the ‘Interactive Forum on Indian Economy’(IFIE). This award is given for promotion which of the following?

Safe childhood
Science & Technology
Women Empowerment
Gandhian values

Here are the names of the awardees:

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Former Governor of UP and Mizoram Dr Aziz Qureshi
Music performer Padma Vibhushan Teejan Bai
Mayor of Indore Malini Laxmansingh Gaur
Rajya Sabha MP Syed Zafar Islam
Indian actress Divyanka Tripathi
Indian film actor and lyricist Piyush Mishra
BJP leader Vikram Verma, Banwari Lal Chouksey, Dr Bhagirath Prasad, Kalapini Komakali, Sudhir Bhai Goyal, Girish Agarwal, Dilip Suryavanshi, Abhijeet Sukhdane, Aarya Chavda, Rohit Singh Tomar, Megha Parmar, Vikas Bhaduaria, Priyanka Dwivedi.
CEO of FidyPay Manan Dixit, Mayur Sethi, Renu Sharma, Dr Prakash Jain and Rajneet Jain.

Q16) According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index who is the only Indian member of an exclusive global group called the centibillionaire’s club?

Mukesh Ambani
Gautam Adani
Shiv Nadar
Lakshmi Mittal

Q17) A study by which institute has revealed that pollutants like microplastics might be causing growth defects in the fishes of the Cauvery river?