Buisness Studies India

L Britain based BP in Septern- I bet 2011 said the output from I the KG-D6 gas fields, in which I it has a stake, could rise only in 2014 after the new fields in the area were brought into production.
(1) 1 0 per cent
(2) 20 per cent
(3) 30 per Cent
(4) 40 per cent
Huawei in September 2011 announced its entry into the enterprise business solutions market in India that would provide solutions for IP, cornmunicatiOns and technology,- and IT businesses and
es. It is based in
(1) Japan
(2) South Korea
(3) China
(4) Singapore,
3_ NTPC in September 201.1. tied up a syndicated loan worth Rs.2„34 I crore from a consortium of Indian banks for its 390-MW thermal power project in Bihar. 'Where is this plant coming up?
(1) Barauni.
(2) Muzallarpu r
(3) Katihar
(4) Saharsa
4, GAIL (India) announced in September 2011 its decision to buy 20 per cent stake in a shale gas area operated by Carrizo Oil and Gas Inc in the U.S. for $95 million. Under the deal. GAIL will pay $63.7 in cash to Carrizo and bear $31.3 million of the Houston-based firm's future costs to develop the area in the Eagle Ford de-- posits in•
( I) Ohio
(2) California
(3) Dako
(4) Texas*
5. Bharti Airtel, on September 29. 2011, entered into an agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) to expand its 20 (GSM/EDGE) networks and deploy 3G networks in Al rican countries. What is the number of countries in which the expansion will take place? ( 1 ) Five
(2) Seven
(3) Nine
(4) Eleven
6. The Department of Posts (I)oP) in September 2011 tied up with U.S.-based MoneyGram International to offer money transfer solutions to Indians living abroad. Initially. the service will be available in 100 post offices in
(1) Delhi
(2) Pt mjab
(3) Tamil Nadu
(4) All of the above
7. And Ambani-owned Reliance Power in October 2011 announced to earn Rs.2,000 crore by trading carbon credits from its Ultra Mega Power project (UMPP) in Jharkhand in the first ten years of its operations. Which is that project?
(1) Kodarma
(2) Tilaiya
(3.) Bokaro
(4) Jamshedpur
8. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in October 2011 cleared the appointment of as the Chairman and Managing Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
(1) Nail Munjal
(2) Praveer Tiwary
(3) Sudhir Vasudeva
(4) Ashok Bansal
9. Wind power company Suzlon Energy on October 5. 2011, bagged an order to supply 17 units of 1.5 MW wind turbines from GAIL for its project. The power generated from this project would be sold to a local power distribution company under a long-term power purchase agreernenk:(PPA) at the fixecIHpreferential feed-in Ian ff,
(1) Gujarat
(2) Rajasthan
(3) Karnataka
(4) Maharashtra
10. M which of the following plaees was the world's cheapest tablet. PC, named Aakash, costing R.s.2,276, launched on October 5, 2011?
(1) New Delhi
(2) New York
(3) Bangalore
(4) Mumhai
11. The United States Bureau of
• Labour Statistics (BLS) in Oc.- tober 201 I announced in its jobs report for September that non-farm payroll employment edged up by 103,000 although the unemployment .rate held at
(1) 8.3 per cent
(2) 9.1 per cent
(3) 10.7 per cent
(4) 9.6 per cent
12. Power Finance Corporation in October 2011 started the sale process for tax-saving infrastructure bonds and tax-free bonds worth Rs. 11,900 crore. It has received regulatory apnroval for medium term note-
(1) $1 billion
(2) 81.25 billion
(3) $1.50 billion
(4) $1.75 billion
13. MRF crossed the Rs.1.0,000- crore turnover mark on October 10, 201 1, becoming the first in the Indian tyre industry to do _so in any financial year. What was the factor behind this spectacular feat? (a) 'Inverted import duty struc-
ture' on natural rubber
(D) Low import duty on finished tyres
'Select the correct answer us-lug the codes given below:
(1) Both a and b
(2) Only a
(3) Only b
(4) Neither a nor b
14. Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Capital in October 2011 completed the sale of a 26 per cent stake in its life insurance venture Reliance Lite to Japan's Nippon Life for over Rs.3,000 crore. Reliance Capital has interests in
(1) Telecom
(2) Power and entertainment
(3) Infrastructure businesses
(4) All of the above
15. Which of the following compaflieS was/were asked by the Se • curates Appellate Tribunal (SAT) to refund the money raised through the optionally fully convertible debentures (OFCDs) to investors within six weeks on October 18, 2011?
(a) Sahara India Real Estate Corporation (now known as Sahara Commodity Services Corporation Ltd.).
(b) Sahara Housing Investment Corporation.
(c) Reliance World
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(1) Both a and b
(2) Both b and c
(3) Both a and c
(4) All of the above
16. Who among the following was conferred the ABLF woman of power award' by the Asian Business Leadership Forum, in New Delhi in October 2011?
(1) Hind Bahwan
(2) Seema Solanki
(3) Roopa Thapriyal
(4) Anuja Kedia
17. IDBI Mutual Fund, the wholly-owned subsidiary of IDBI Bank, launched an open-ended gold exchange traded fund (14.TF) for retail investors in October 2011,, Which of the following is/are correct regard-
ing this fund?
(a) The fund is the first gold offering by the IDBI Group.
b) ItVoil 'invest in .physical gold and .1 rack gold prices.
(c) The benchmark for the liind svonld be the domestic price of gold.
Select t1-1('. correct answer us-
ing the codes given below: ( 1) Both a and
(2) All Of the above
(3) Both. :a and b
(4) Only c
18. Bharti Enterprisrs, the parent company of- Airtel, floated a new joint veiituf..c with inter net firm _SoltBank Corp on October 20. 2011-, h)r offering mobile internef. in In dia. In Which eountry is the So ftBank Corp.b; is,e(1? • -
(1) Eiixenihourg
(2) Portugal,.
(3) Japan
(4) China
19, Base Corporation, in October 2011, announced to set. up Asia's big,gest battery plant in Tamil Nadu with an investment of Rs.432 criTire that will become operational in 2013. At 'which of the following places will this plant come up?
(I) Chennai (2) Hosur
(3)Salem (4) Madurai
20. The net profit of Cairn Indio was, in petober- 201.1 , announced to have. halved to Rs.763 crore in the cluarter ended September 30, 2011. al ter it accotmled for pavment of royalty on mains( :iv oilfields in
(1) (.3i.i.la1Ta
(2)-Andhra Pradt:(1
(3) Rajasthan
(4) Assam
ANSWERS
I. (3)  2. (3) 3,(2)  4.(4)
5. (2) 6. (4)  8 (3)
 12. (1)
 9. (3) 10. (l)j 11.
18. (3) 13. (1) 
17..(2)  20. (3)