Today, the most important current affairs question answer in the current affairs of 5 April 2024 is that – India’s first domestic gene therapy for cancer has been started at IIT Bombay. The treatment called ‘CAR T Cell Therapy’ has been found to be very effective in cancer. CAR-T cell therapy or chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy is a form of immunotherapy and gene therapy, we will know more important current affairs questions –
Current Affairs Questions March 5, 2024
Q1. Why is Kathia wheat in the news?
Recently, Kathia wheat of Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh has been given GI tag. About 12 to 14 percent protein and abundant beta carotene is found in Kathia wheat, which forms vitamin ‘A’. Generally, this much amount of beta carotene is not found in normal wheat.
Q2. What is Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve Limited?
Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL) is an Indian company responsible for maintaining the country’s strategic petroleum reserves. The first commercial strategic storage of crude oil will be developed through this company to meet the challenges arising from supply constraints in case of emergency.
Q3. Table Tennis: Bhavina qualifies for Paris Games, won silver in Tokyo
New Delhi | India’s para table tennis player Bhavina Patel became world number-3 in the women’s singles class-4 category. With this, Bhavina qualified for the Paris Paralympics. Bhavina won the silver medal in the Tokyo Paralympics. She has won gold in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
Q4. Who has been appointed as the new CMD of Konkan Railway Corporation?
Santosh Kumar Jha, a 1992 batch Indian Railway Traffic Service Officer, has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Konkan Railway Corporation Limited. Konkan Railway Corporation Limited is an Indian public sector undertaking.
Q5. What is Dosti-16?
Exercise Dosti 16 is being organized for the coast guard personnel of Bangladesh, Maldives, India and Sri Lanka. Indian Coast Guard Ship Samarth, ICGS Abhinav and Sri Lanka Naval Ship Samudura are participating in it. Bangladesh is participating as an exercise observer.
Q6. What is Matabari Pera Prasad?
Three traditional products of Tripura namely Matabari Pera Prasad, Risa and Rignai Pachara Vastra have recently received geographical indication. ‘Matabari Pera Prasad’ is a sweet prasad in the famous Tripureshwari temple of Tripura. Rignai Pachara and Risa are traditional hand-woven garments.
Q7. Barbara Rush is related to which field?
Barbara Rush, who passed away recently, was a noted Hollywood actress. She received the Golden Globe Award for the science fiction film ‘It Came from Outer Space’. She was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for Forty Carats.
5 April Current affairs English 2024 MCQs
1. myCGHS app was recently launched by whom?
(a) Central Government
(b) State Government
(c) NITI Aayog
(d) Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Answer (d) Apurva Chandra, Secretary, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched myCGHS app. Its purpose and benefits are: To provide access to electronic health records, information and resources to the beneficiaries of the health scheme, to get reports from laboratories under CGHS (Central Government Health Scheme) to get information about nearby medical centers
2. Recently, the ballistic missile Agni-Prime was successfully flight tested?
(a) Pokhran Rajasthan
(b) APJ Abdul Kalam Island
(c) Chitradur test
(d)none of these
Answer :(b) APJ Abdul Kalam Island
DRDO successfully flight tested the new generation ballistic missile Agni-Prime on 3 April at APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha. This missile is capable of carrying nuclear weapons and is a surface-to-surface missile. This test was conducted in collaboration with Strategic Forces Command (SFC) DRDO.
3. CAR-T cells therapy is related to ______ disease which was in news recently?
(a)TV
(b)Polio
(c)Cancer
(d)None of these
Answer :(c)Cancer
President Draupadi Murmu launched CAR-T cells therapy at IIT Bombay, CAR-T cells therapy is related to Cancer disease Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) CAR-T cells therapy is India’s first indigenous gene therapy developed for cancer CAR-T cells therapy has been developed in India by EIT Bombay-Incubated Company.
4. Rukmini Devi Arundale is related to which dance form?
(a) Bharatnatyam
(b) Kathak
(c) Kathakali
(d) None of these
Answer :(a) Bharatnatyam
Recently, a book titled ‘Rukmini Devi Arundale: Arts Revivalist and Institution Builder’ was published
5.NATO’s _____ Foundation Day was celebrated on 4 April 2024?
(a) 35th
(b) 75th
(c) 95th
(d) 85th
Answer :(b) 75th
NATO was established on 4 April 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty, in March 2024 the European country Sweden became the 32nd member
6. Recently who launched the AI Digital Health Promoter Prototype?
(a)World Health Organization
(b)WMO
(c)IMF
(d)none of these
Answer :(a)World Health Organization (WHO)
The World Health Organization launched Generative Artificial Intelligence – Digital Health Promoter Prototype, the name of the AI Digital Health Promoter is SARAH
SARAH AI will provide information about health, it will provide information about various diseases in 8 languages
7. PRATUSH telescope has been developed by whom?
(a)DRDO
(b)Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bangalore
(c)NASA
(d)IIT DELHI
Answer :(b)Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bangalore,
Full form of PRATUSH is – Probing Reionization of the Universe using Signal from Hydrogen
Astronomers are trying to install telescopes on the moon and in orbit around it, which also includes India’s telescope called PRATUSH