1.Which team has won the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 ?

-India

Twenty-eight years on from the match that transformed the history of world cricket, India recaptured the crown that Kapil Dev and his men first lifted at Lord’s in 1983, and this time they did it in their very own back yard. An iron-willed 97 from Gautam Gambhir was matched for intensity by the finest captain’s innings since Ricky Ponting at Johannesburg eight years ago, as Mahendra Singh Dhoni trumped a poetic century from MahelaJayawardene to pull off the highest run-chase ever achieved in a World Cup final.

2.Who has been appointed new chief of Film Certification Tribunal ?

- Lalit Bhasin

Noted lawyer Lalit Bhasin has been appointed Chairperson of the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal. “The appointment is for a period of three years.” Mr. Bhasin is also the Vice-President of the Bar Association of India and the Chairman of the Services Export Promotion Council established by the Ministry of Commerce and a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

3.Who hits fastest century in Cricket World Cup History ?

- Kevin O’Brien

Kevin O’Brien shocked the mighty England with fastest century in World Cup history ( 50 balls) which helped Ireland to chase the huge total of 327.

4.Who has been appointed Singapore’s first army chief ?

Ravider Singh

Singapore has appointed Brigadier General Ravider Singh as its next Army chief, the first Sikh in 30 years to be given the force’s baton. Singh, 41, takes over from Major-General Chan Chun Sing on March 25.

5.Who has been appointed as new President & CEO of Telecom Company MTS ?

- Andrei Dubovskov appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer of the company.

6.Who is the richest person in the U.S. magazine Forbes annual list?

- Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu remained the richest person in the world with $ 74 billion in assets.

7.Recently Pakistan test-fires nuclear-capable missile, what is the name of that missile ?

- Hataf 2

Surface-to-surface missile has a range of 111 miles (180 kilometers).

8.Who has been elected as Chairman of AMCO.

- Jayshree Venkatraman

9.which city host consumer rights conference 2011 ?

-Delhi

A Two day Conference organised by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission in Delhi on 14 march.

10.who has been appointed as Secretary of NCSC ?

- Ashok Thakur

11.Who becomes the first Indian Officer to be inducted into the ‘Hall of Fame’ of US Army War College, Carlisle, USA ?

- General VK Singh

12.Who won the title of Swiss Open 2011 ?

- Saina Nehwal

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal notched up her first title of the year, clinching the Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold trophy with a straight-game victory in the summit clash against Ji Hyun Sung of Korea in Switzerland on March 20.

13.Who won doubles’ title in Indian Wells ?

Sania Mirza and her American partner Elena Vesnina clinched their first title in just their third WTA event as a team, lifting the BNP Paribas Open women’s double trophy after upstaging Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Meghann Shaughnessy here. Sania and Vesnina beat eighth seeds Mattek-Sands and Shaughnessy 6-0 7-5.

14.Who clinches Guinness Record in spelling ?

- Shishir Hathwar

15.Who has been awarded with Abel Prize 2011 ?

- John Willard Milnor

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has chosen one of the living legends of mathematics, John Willard Milnor of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences in the University of Stony Brook, U.S.A, for the award of its prestigious Abel Prize for the year 2011.

16.which Bank named best retail bank in India?

- HDFC

Country’s second largest private lender HDFC bank has won the Asian Banker’s ‘Best Retail Bank in India’award this year.

17.Name of the one man committee appointed by the Indian government to look into the 2G spectrum allocation procedures who submitted its report to Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on 31 January 2011?

- Justice Shivraj Patil.

The one-man committee of Justice Shivraj Patil, looking into the 2G spectrum scam has named former telecom minister A Raja for procedural lapses. Former Department of Telecom secretary Sidhartha Behura has also been named in the report along with RK Chandolia, former personal secretary to Raja.

18. Which Indian multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Mumbai announced the acquisition of US-based Columbian Chemicals Company (CCC) recently, the world’s third-largest carbon black entity, for $875 million?

The Aditya Birla Group.

A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses together into one corporate structure, usually involving a parent company and several (or many) subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company. Conglomerates are often large and multinational.

19.Which teams won the men’s and women’s titles of the sixth edition of the United Phosphoroussponsored Savio Cup basketball tournament held in Mumbai?

Indian Railways (Men)

Southern Railway (Women)

Shooting for Success, the team from USA, lost 79-91 to Indian Railway in the men’s final. Southern Railway beat Chhattisgarh in the Women’s final. (76-66)

20.Which state will host the 35th National Games of India?

Kerala, It will be held in 2012.

21.Former Deputy Editor of Mathrubhumi daily, (a leading news paper of Kerala) who has been chosen for the first Swadeshabhimani-Kesari award instituted by the Kerala government?

T. Venugopal.

The award, instituted in memory of legends in Malayalam journalism Kesari Balakrishna Pillai and Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai, is to recognise outstanding contributions in political, cultural, developmental and journalistic fields.

22.Which country has suspended its annual Antarctic whale hunt following protests from an environmental group?

Japan.

  

23.Who has been chosen as next censor board chief ?

- Leela Samson

24. Who has been appointed as head of Microsoft India ?

- Bhaskar Pramanik

25. How many tigers in India as per latest tiger census 2010 ?

-The Tiger population is estimated at 1706.