Current Affairs 5th April 2015

Current Affairs 5th April 2015 - Important Points

• Who has been sworned in as new governor of Mizoram - K.N Tripathi

• Who has been appointed as new prime minister of Peru - Pedro Cateriano

• What is the name of minor planet which is named after Viswanathan Anand - 4538 Vishyanand

Current Affairs 5th April 2015 - Details

Who has been sworned in as new governor of Mizoram - K.N Tripathi

On 4th April 2015, Mr. K.N Tripathi has been given the additional charge of Mizoram thus he became 16th Governor of Mizoram. Mr. K.N Tripathi is already Governor of West Bengal and Bihar. K.N Tripathi replaced Aziz Qureshi who was sacked last week.

Do You Know : 

• Indian constitution article 153 is associated with appointments of Governors.
• A governor takes oath in the presence of the Chief Justice of the High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to the State, or, in his absence,the senior most Judge of high court.

Who has been appointed as new prime minister of Peru - Pedro Cateriano

Defence Minister of Peru Mr. Pedro Cateriano has been named as new Prime Minister of Peru. He was named as new Prime Minister by President Ollanta Humala.

What is the name of minor planet which is named after Viswanathan Anand - 4538 Vishyanand

Among the important National Current Affairs, On 1st April 2015, a minor planet was named as 4538 Vishyanand, to honour India’s first chess grandmaster, Vishwanathan Anand by Michael Rudenko, a committee member of the Minor Planet Center.

On 10th October 1988, Kenzo Suzuki in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan discovered the main-belt minor planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The planet was unnamed since its discovery.

With this, Vishwanathan Anand joined former world chess champions Anatoly Karpov and Alexander Alekhine who have had a similar honour granted to them. Other sports personalities on whom such honours have been honoured include Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Jesse Owens and Donald Bradman.