Current Affairs 09 April 2024

Current Affairs 09 April 2024 

01. Who received the “Medal of Honour” at Consular Day 2024 in Chennai?
(a) K.L. Ganju
(b) Mohan Suresh
(c) Neeraj A Sharma
(d) R.N. Ravi

02. Who has been appointed as the Head of Global Airport Operations at Air India?
(a) Klaus Goersch
(b) Satyaki Panigrahi
(c) S. Paramesh
(d) Jayaraj Shanmugam

03. Who became the first Indian tennis player in 42 years to qualify the main draw of the Monte Carlo Masters?
(a) Rohan Bopanna
(b) Ramkumar Ramanathan
(c) S. Mukund Sasikumar
(d) Sumit Nagal

04. What is the name of Zimbabwe’s new gold-backed currency?
(a) ZimGold
(b) Zingolo
(c) ZiG
(d) Zulu

05. Which space agency launched the TSAT-1A satellite developed in collaboration between Tata Advanced Systems Limited and Satellogic?
(a) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
(b) SpaceX
(c) Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
(d) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

06. Which ISRO mission team was honored with the 2024 John L ‘Jack’ Swigert Jr. award for space exploration by the Space Foundation?
(a) Mars Orbiter Mission
(b) Chandrayaan-3 Mission
(c) Aaditya L-1 Mission
(d) Gaganyaan Mission

07. Which Icelandic Prime Minister announced their resignation to run for president in April 2024?
(a) Bjarni Benediktsson
(b) Guoni Th. Jóhannesson
(c) Olafur Ragnar Grímsson
(d) Katrin Jakobsdottir

08. Who has been appointed as the full-time member of the 16th Finance Commission, as announced in a notification by the finance ministry in April 2024?
(a) Amitabh Kant
(b) Arvind Subramanian
(c) Suman Berry
(d) Manoj Panda

09. Which company recently launched niia.ai, a generative AI-driven platform for the apparel and fashion industry?
(a) Google
(b) Adobe
(c) Navan AI
(d) IBM

10. Ugadi is the cultural festival celebrated in which of the following states of India?
(a) Karnataka
(b) Rajasthan
(c) Gujarat
(d) Himachal Pradesh