Who has been sworn-in as the new Chief Justice of India (CJI)?
- Navneet Kaur
- Dipak Misra
- Shekhar Gupta
- Nirmal Jain
Explanation:
Justice Dipak Misra has been sworn-in as the new Chief Justice of India (CJI) and will have tenure of nearly 13 months. He succeeded Chief Justice J S Khehar. Justice Misra was enrolled as an Advocate in 1977 and practiced in Constitutional, Civil, Criminal, Revenue, Service and Sales Tax matters in the Orissa High Court and the Service Tribunal. He was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Orissa High Court in 1996 and became permanent Judge in December, 1997. He also served as the Chief Justice of Patna and Delhi High Courts. In 2011, Justice Misra was elevated as a Judge in the Supreme Court.
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- 1664
- 1666
- 1669
- Kabir
- Nanak
- Tuka Ram
- Chaitanya.
- Cricket
- Badminton
- Hockey
- Sprint
Explanation:
Sundaram Ravi is a cricket umpire from India and a member of the ICC Elite Panel of Umpires. Recently, he is selected in a team of 20 umpires by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which is scheduled to be held on June 2017. The list of ICC match referees include Chris Broad, David Boon and Andy Pycroft while the umpires who will be seen umpiring in the tournament involve 12 names which are Aleem Dar, Kumar Dharmasena, Marais Erasmus, Chris Gaffaney, Ian Gould, Richard Illingworth, Richard Kettleborough, Nigel Llong, Bruce Oxenford, Sundaram Ravi, Paul Reiffel and Rod Tucker.
- Lord Minto
- Lord Linlithgow
- Lord Curzon
- Lord Canning
- After Sepoy Mutiny
- After the Battle of Panipat
- After the War of Mysore
- After the Battle of Plassey
- Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
- Vinoba Bhave
- None of these
- Mahatma Gandhi
- C.R. Das
- Dadabhai Naoroji
- Debendranath Tagore
- V.D. Savarkar
- Gautama
- Kapil
- Kanada
- Jaimini
- Priyanka Chopra
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
- Deepika Padukone
- Sonam Kapoor
Explanation:
The bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra will be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award under the newly introduced “Internationally Acclaimed Actress” category for being an international icon. The award ceremony will be held on June 1, 2017 in Mumbai. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India’s highest award in cinema and it was instituted in 1969.