Important March Current Affairs - 4 For SBI Clerical SBI PO AND UIIC

141. Name the company which will hike its stake in AirAsia India to 49 per cent by acquiring additional shares from Arun Bhatia’s Telestra, which will be exiting the no-frills airline. - Tata Sons

142. The U.S. returned an ancient decapitated statue of Hindu god Rama stolen from which country during the South East Asian country’s civil war in the 70s? - Cambodia

143. Name the volcano on Alaska’s Aleutian Islands which erupted and sent ash 20,000 feet into the air. - Pavlof Volcano

144. Name the Renowned playback singer who was recognised by both the Guinness Book of World Records and Asia Book of Records for singing most number of songs in Indian languages. - P. Susheela Mohan

145. Name the Director of Area Cyclone Warning Centre who was also known as "Rain Man" who will end his 36-year-long career on March 31,2016. - S.R. Ramanan

146. Which country air plane which was flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus but the passengers and crew were freed unharmed and the hijacker, whose motives remained a mystery, was arrested after giving himself up? - Egypt

147. The government permitted how much percent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the market place format of e-commerce retailing in order to attract more foreign investments? - 100 per cent

148. SoftBank Ventures Korea has invested an undisclosed amount in which India-based app, that helps keep track of the balance available on prepaid mobile accounts? - True Balance App.

149. Which bank will lend India €450 million (approximately Rs. 3,300 crore) towards constructing a 23-km long Lucknow Metro rail line and a purchasing a fleet of new trains? - The European Investment Bank (EIB)

150. Indian citizens in distress will soon be able to get help using a single number, for all emergency services in the country, including the police, fire brigade and ambulance. What is the number? - ‘112’

151. Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd, with which company of Israel have decided to set up a joint venture company in India in the highly specialized areas of air-to-air missiles, air defence systems and large aerostats, that will oversee projects worth USD 10 billion (over Rs 65,000 crore) in ten years? - Rafael Advanced Defence Systems Ltd

152. State-run Bank of India said that the government has approved a capital infusion of how much amount in lieu of preferential allotment of shares? - Rs. 1,150 crores

153. Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid his respects to the victims of the March 22 terror attacks in which country by laying a wreath at the entrance to the Maalbeek metro station? - Brussels

154. Finance Minister ArunJaitley launched ‘Make in India’ conference in which country recently?- Sydney, Australia

155. Which company has signed a pact with Elbit-ISTAR and Alpha Design Technologies to work in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in India? - Adani Aero Defence

156. Name the Hungarian writer who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature for fiction largely drawn from his experience as a teenage prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, died at the age of 86. - Imre Kertesz

157. Which country's government has committed a loan of Around Rs.14,251 crores for various projects across India, including Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and the North East? - Japan


158. The 13th India-EU Summit concluded in which country without a consensus on a bilateral free trade deal known as the BTIA (Broadbased Trade and Investment Agreement)- Brussels

159. South Africa’s top court ordered the  President to pay back some of the $16 million of state money spent for upgrading his private home, in a stinging rebuke that hits the scandal-plagued leader financially and politically. Name the President. - Jacob Zuma

160. Who will take the oath as the first woman CM of Jammu and Kashmir ending 11 weeks of political uncertainty? - Mehbooba Mufti


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