Latest Current Affairs For the Month of September 2016

1. Where was the 2016 ASEAN Summit held?

Ans: Vientiane, Laos

2. Name the advanced weather satellite put into orbit by GSLV-F05.

Ans: INSAT-3DR

3. India conducted the joint military exercise PRABAL DOSTYK-16 with which country?

Ans: Kazakhstan

4. Which country has successfully developed and tested a radar system that uses quantum entanglement technology which could detect objects including stealth aircraft?

Ans: China

5. Where was the first edition of IoT (Internet of Things) India Congress held?

Ans: Bengaluru

6. Who tops the list of Fortune Magazines Most Powerful Women?

Ans: Mary Barra

7. Name the campaign launched by the Ministry of Petroleum 8e Natural Gas to promote the use of natural gas in the country.

Ans: #Gas4lndia

8. Name the Water Jet Fast Attack Craft (WJFAC), recently handed over to the Indian Navy by the Garden. Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE).

Ans: Tihayu

9. Where was the 2016 G-20 Summit held?

Ans: Hangzhou, China

10. Which neighbouring country was declared malaria-free by the World Health Organisation?

Ans: Sri Lanka

11. The Indian badminton pair, N. Sikki Reddy and Pranaav Chopra recently won the mixed doubles title in which international tournament?

Ans: Brazil Open Grand Prix

12. The UN Charter was recently translated to which Indian language?

Ans: Sanskrit

13. Who won the 2015 JC Daniel Award?

Ans: KG George

14. Which Public Sector company successfully completed the test flight of its indigenous Light Utility Helicopter (LUH)?

Ans: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

15. Name the poet and lyricist who was selected for this year's Vallathol Prize.

Ans: Sreekumaran Thampi

16. Name the spacecraft launched by NASA to collect samples from the asteroid Benna.

Ans: OSIRIS-Rex

17. Who is the first Indian woman cricketer to be awarded an honorary life membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club?
Ans: Anjum Chopra

18. Which team set a new record score in Twenty20 international cricket?
Ans: Australia (263-3 against Sri Lanka)

19. Who won gold in the Men's High Jump T-42 event at the 2016 Rio Paralympics?

Ans: Mariyappan Thangavelu, Varun Singh Bhati, also from India, won the bronze medal in the event.

20. International Literacy Day was observed on: 

Ans: September 8 (The 2016 theme is 'Reading the Past, Writing the Future'.)

21. Name the Kannada film which won the best film award in the BRICS Film Festival held in New Delhi.

Ans: Thithi. (The movie was directed by Ram Reddy.)

22. Name the men's and the women's singles title winners in the 2016 US Open Tennis?

Ans: Stanislas Wawrinka (Men's title), Angelique Kerber (Women's title)

23. Which is the cleanest state in India, as per the survey conducted by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO)?

Ans: Sikkim (Kerala is the second in the list.)

                     The cleanest districts in India, as per the report of the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation are Mandi in Himachal Pradesh ('Hills' category) and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra ('Plains' category)

24. The newly discovered fish, belonging to the genus Tosanoides found near the Kure atoll in the Pacific Ocean, was named after which personality? Ans: Barack Obama

                  (It was named in honour of Obama for his commitment to protecting nature through the expansion of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.