India events

1. Which of the following was described as 'grave challenge' by Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghularn Nabi. Azad in September 2011?
(1) Female foeticide
(2) Infant mortality
(3) Natal mortality
(4) All of the above
2. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)- the country's apex disaster management body -. said in September 2011 that certain buildings may be more prone to earthquakes, especially in high-risk seismic zones. What are those buildings?
(1) Buildings with open ground storey
(2) High level flats in the apartment system
(3) Buildings made without seismic consideration
4) All of the above
3. The Ministry of Railways announced its plans of setting up Station Authority of India on the lines of Airport Authority of India for creation of additional facilities at the stations in September 2011. What is the primary purpose behind these plans?
(1) Passenger comfort
(2) Shore up its finances
(3) Beat airlines
(4) All of the above
4. The Navy, on October 1, 2011, inked the Rs 2,176-crore contract for the manufacture of eight specialized vessels or LCUs (landing craft utility) by the Kolkata-based GRSE shipyard to boost its
(1) Amphibious warfare capabilities
(2) Island protection capabilities
(3) Ma.netivering capabilities
(4) Only 1 and 2
5. The Union Governmen is n October 2011 talked about bringing amendments to the draft National Food Security Bill. The Bill provides for grains entitlement to 75 per. cent of the rural population, with minimum households as 'priority'. What is the percentage of such households that come under 'priority'?
(1) 31 per cent
(2) 42 per cent
(3) 46 per cent
(4) 52 per cent
6. Inaugurating a regional conference on road safety strategy organized by International Road Federation (IRF) in New Delhi on October 3, 2011, Planning Commission member B K Chaturvedi said road deaths and injuries cost India at least
(1) Rs 1 lakh crore per year
(2) Rs 5 lakh crore per year
(3) Rs 2 lakh crore per year
(4) Rs 7.5 lakh crore per year
7. The Centre reconstituted the Inter-State Council (1SC) and its standing committee, incorporating new members in these panels in October 2011. The ISC was set up in
(1) 1947 (2) 1956
(3) 1973 (4) 1990
8. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on October 7, 2011, promised to set up an expert group to address the "legitimate concerns" of those pro-
testing a nuclear power plant, but he also clearly indicated that the project would go forward. Which nuclear plant is in reference here?
(1) Narora
(2) Kudankulam
(3) Kalpakkam
(4) Kakrapar
9. Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal announced that the government was in the process of setting up the 'National Vocational Educational Qualificational framework,' possibly by 2012, so that students could take up
(I) Vocational studies
(2) Professional courses
(3) Courses according to their interests
(4) Meaningful courses
10. With reference to the government-tightening the norms for television channel licences in October 2011, India has 745 channels already - including 366
(1) News and current affairs channels
(2) Bhakti Channels
(3) Regional language channels
(4) Entertainment channels
11. Which of the following is/are the features of the new draft National Telecom Policy un veiled by Communications Minister Kapil Sibal in New Delhi on October 10, 2011?
(a) It removes national roaming charges
(b) It makes broadband available on demand
(c) It brings in a 'one-nation, one-licence' policy
(d) It allows mobile numbers to be ported to any part of the country
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(1) Both a and b
(2) Only c
(3) All of the above
(4) Only d

Questions in General Knowledge test

32. With relercrice to the discovery oi colony of stromatelites in Northern Ireland in October 2011, whai makes it so interesting?
(a) Until now these structures have been found mainly in warm and often hyper sa- line waters which discourage predators.
(b) The strornatolites in the Giant's Causeway are in a tiny brackish pool, exposed to the violence of waves and easy prey to the animals that are already living amongst them.
Select the correct answer us-lug the codes given below:
(1) Both a and 1.)
(2) Neither a nor b
(3) Only a
(4) Only b
33. The oldest rodent fossils, currising the tiny teeth of mouse-sized and rat-sized animals that lived at least 41 million years ago yet found in South America was unearthed along the Ucayali River near Contamana in October 2011. The country in reference here is (1) Brazil (2) Chile
(3) Peru (4) Uruguay
34. Who became the first person to be mummified for 3,000 years in October 2011, thanks to British scientists who had spent two decades trying to work out how to replicate the secret techniques of the ancient Egyptian embalmers?
(1) Alan Billis
(2) James Crook
(3) Anthony Mozart
(4) Joseph Green
35. A lake hidden beneath three kilometres of ice in the western Antarctic was announced by a team of British scientists in October 2011 to reveal what life on Earth looked like up to a million years ago and narrow down the searth for extraterrestrial life. Which is this lake?
(1) Lake Pearl
(2) Lake Ellsworth
(3) Lake Montana
(4) Lake Enigma
36. The Defenso Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the United States claimed in October 2011 that satellites that reach the end of their useful lives are often boosted into a "graveyard" orbit in order to make way for replacements and it proposed a grave-robbing robot that could stitch together parts from these dead satellites to create new ones, avoiding the huge expense of launching components into space. This program of DARPA is known as
(1) Achilles Program
(2) Phoenix Program
(3) Albatross Program
(4) Zenith Program
37. Scientists at Wuhan University in China claimed on October 31, 2011 that they can use to make albumin, a protein found in human blood that is often used for treating burns, traumatic shocks and liver diseases.
(1) Wheat
(2) Soyabean
(3) Rice
(4) Gram
38. A team of 31 scientists from the Indian Institute of Agricultural Research, a bunch of state agricultural universities. and the Banaras Hindu University has sequenced the genome of which plant for the first time in October 2011 ?
(1) Arhar
(2) Gram
(3) Pea
(4) Soyabean
39. The asteroid named 2005YU55 darted between the Earth and moon on November 8, 2011 and its closest approach occurred when it passed within
miles of Earth.
(1) 212,000 (2) 208,000
(3) 204,000 (4) 202,000
40. A Japanese supercomputer, "K Computer" smashed its own record of just over 8 quadrillion calculations by performing 10 quadrillion calculations per second during an experiment in October 2011. This computer has more than
central processing units.
(1) 92,000 (2) 88,000
(3) 94,000 (4) 96,000
41. Tevatron atom smasher, one of the world's most powerful "atom smashers", at the leading edge of scientific discovery for a quarter of a century, was shut down on September 28, 2011. Where was it located in the United States of America?
(1) Irving (2) Illinois
(3) Reno (4) Madison
42. In rare development in Octo ber 2011, a German sky photographer, shot first ever image of fourth-order rainbow. Who is he?
(1) Michael Theusner
(2) Arthur Lyon
(3) Charles Sherrod
(4) Frank Tobin
43. Scientists of which country announced in October 2011 to have developed a surprising use for ordinary salt that they said could help deal with the increasingly quantities of data that companies and individuals are creating and storing by boosting the capacity of computer hard disks by six times?
(1) Japan (2) Singapore
(3) China (4) Russia
44. Archaeopteryx is one of the world's most iconic prehistoric animals - a dinosaur caught in the midst of evolving into a bird,. some 155 million years ago. Its new fossil, complete except for its head, the elev enth Archaeopteryx skeleton ever discovered, was found in
(1) Britain (2) Germany
(3) Italy (4) Mexico

General Knowledge Questions

23. India on September 30, 2011, successfully test fired indigenously developed, Agni II, from the Wheeler Island, off the coastof Orissa, about 200 km from Bhubaneswar. Which range ballistic missile is it?
(1) Short range
(2) Intermediate range
(1) Long range
(4) Escape Velocity range
24. Which of the following is/are correct regarding Agni II which was in news in October 2011?
(1) It can carry a nuclear payload of 1000 kg
(2) Agni missile series being developed by DRDO as a deterrent against nuclear armed neighbours are among India's most. sophs- cleated weapons
(3) India had successfully test-fired a vat iation of Agni H in May 2010
(4) All of the above
25. India successfully flight-tested which missile from Inte-
' grated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, near Balasore in Orissa on September 24, 2011? (1) Shourya (2) Dhanush
(3) Surya (4) Prahaar
2b. Which of the following statements regarding India's Shourya Missile which was launched in September 2011 is/are correct?
(1) It is nuclear capable
(2) It is a surface-to-surface missile
(3) It can carry a one tonne nuclear and conventional warhead over 700 kms
(4) All of the above
27. Almost five years after the idea was first -mooted, India on October 5, 2011, unveiled the world's cheapest computer tablet, Aakash. Which of the following ministries of the Union of India unveiled it?
(1) Ministry of Science & Technology
(2) Ministry of Telecommunication
(3) Human Resource Development Ministry
(4) Ministry of Home Affairs
28. Which of the following statements regarding Aakash, the world's cheapest computer tablet, is/are correct?
(1) It came just a week after Amazon created ripples in the tablet market by -unveiling 'Kindle F'ire'•
(2) The first one lakh units procured by the government will be given to students for free
(3) India has a target of delivering one crore computer tablets to students
(4) All of the above
29. The Aakash tablet, unveiled by India in October 2011, has been manufactured in Hyder- abad by a Datawind, in collaboration with Jodhpur-IIT. Datawind is based in
(1) United Kingdom
(2) USA
(3) Canada
(4) Japan
o. Consider the following statements regarding Aakash personal computer unveiled in October 2011:
(a) It works on Android 2.2 operating system and has a seven- inch touchscreen
(b) It is equipped with 256 MB RAM and two USB ports
(c) It has a multimedia player and 180 minutes of battery power
Which of the statements giv-
en above is/are correct?
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(1) All of the above
(2) Only a
(3) Only c
(4) Both a anti b
31. A system crash one year ago forced a second-year engineering student, to devise a portable operating system on cloud, which can solve many problems of travelling professionals, who seek access to secure computers. The MICROS (Mobile In-Curred Revolutionised Operating System) has been developed by
(1) Deepak John
(2) Avinash Sharma
(3) Brajcsh Monga
(4) Aditya Iviatthewa

Science and technology related questions

1. One of the world's most famous radio telescope facilities advertised for a new name and ideas were solicited in October 2011. The Very Large Array (VLA) is a bank of radio telescopes in the USA. Where it located?
(1) New Mexico
(2) Irving
(3) Spokane
(4) Fremont
2. Which of the following statements regarding Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, which was in news in October 2011, is/are correct?
(a) It is responsible for the Russian space science program and general aerospace research.
(b) It was previously known as the Russian Aviation and Space Agency.
(c) Headquarters of Roscosmos are located in Moscow.
(d) Main Mission Control
space flight operations cen-
ter is located in a nearby
city of Korolev and Cosmo-
nauts Training Centre
(GCTC) is in Star City. Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(1) Only a
(2) Both b and c
(3) Only d
(4) All of the above
3. Astronomers, in October 2011, announced to have used the Very Large Telescope (HILT) in Chile to study a fundamental change in the cosmos more than 13 billion years ago. The
scientists studied a series of galaxies through time to determine the pace at which the neutral hydrogen that pervaded the Universe back then was turned into a diffuse gas of
(1) Highly charged particles
(2) Presence of water molecules
(3) Highly condensed quartz particles
(4) All of the above
4. Astrophysicists, in October 2011, announced to have detected 150 supernovas. a record-breaking number in the Subaru Deep Field which is
(1) A full moon sized patch of sky
(2) Includes 12 of the most ancient and distant ones
(3) It was studied by the Tel Aviv University
(4) All of the above
5. Planetary scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, in October 2011, discovered what they claimed is an unusual multiple-planet solar system containing a 'super-Earth and two Neptune-sized planets orbiting in resonance with each other. Which NASA spacecraft was used to discover the multi -planet system?
(1) Voyager (2) Explorer
(3) Kepler (4) Galileo
6. A six ton NASA science satellite crashed to Earth in September 2011, in the Pacific Ocean. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) ended years in orbit with a suicidal plunge into the atmosphere. When was it launched ?
(1) 1989 (2) 1991
(3) 1996 (4) 2001
7. NASA chief Charles Bolden, in September 2011, made the announcement of the design for the Space Launch System (SLS), which the space agen cy touted as the most powerful rocket since which rocket put U.S. astronauts on the Moon?
(1) Saturn V (2) Saturn III (3) Saturn VII (4) Saturn I
8. Indian Space Research Organisation's rocket polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV), on October 12, 2011, scored yet again by launching the MeghaTropiques and three other satellites. Megha-Trbpiques is the weather satellite of
(1) India-France
(2) India-US
(3) India-Russia
(4) India-Singapore •
9. Which of the following satellites is/are correct regarding the satellites launched by the Indian Space Research. Organisation's rocket polar satellite launch vehicle, PSLV, in Oc tober 2011?
(a) The PSIN-C18 weighs 230 tonnes and stands 44 metres tall.
(b) The four satellites weighed 1,042.6 kg.
(c) India has become only the
second country to launch
such a mission --- the first
being a US-Japan com-
bined mission in 1997. Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(1) Only a
(2) Only b
(3) Only b
(4) All of the above
10. Which of the following is/are correct regarding Jugnu satellite?
(a) It is a nano-satellite dev eloped by engineers at the ITT-Kanpur, under guidance of scientists at ISRO.
(b) It also aims to test GPS system in satellite system and test MEMS (Intertial Measurement Unit) in space.


Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(1) Only a
(2) Only
(3) Neither a nor b
(4) Both a and b
11. Which of the following statements regarding Indian Space Research Organisation and its rocket polar satellite launch vehicle, PSLV‘ is /are correct?
(1) PSLV has launched 53 satellites
(2) PSLV has launched 27 foreign payloads
(3) Megha-Tropiques, with its circular orbit inclined 20 degrees to the equator, will enable climate research and aid scientists seeking to refine prediction models
(4) All of the above
12. Which rocket carried China's first space labofatory, Tiangong-1, was launched from the Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi Desert on Septembet 29, 2C11?
(1) Long March
(2) Small Step
(3) Long Leap
(4) Middle Kingdom
13. A Russian Soyuz-2 rocket on October 2, 2011, launched a navigation satellite, in the first launch since a freighter carried by the flagship vehicle crashed into Earth in August 2011. What is the name of the satellite?
(l) crt-k:,,, (2) Bukharin
(3) GLOIASS (4) RUSNASS
14. European 3pace Agency (ESA) Scientists in October 2011 announced that Venus has an ozone layer. The thin layer, hundreds of times less dense than the Earth's, was discovered by which European Space Agency spacecraft?
(1) Darwin (2) Hubble
(3) Venus (4) Luna
15. New observations ir. October 2011 confirmed that Eris, the dwarf planet whose discovery got Pluto kicked out of the
planet club, is almost exactly the same size' as Pluto - and May be a hlL 6rnaller. When was Pluto kicked oui. of the planet club?
(1) 2005 (2; 2006
(3) 2008 (4) 2009
16. A new and powerful telescope was reported in October 2011 that it was -being used by NASA astronomers for studying the atmospheres of planets and the formation of stars. However, unlike most of the space agency's telescopes, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) flies around mounted on a
(1) Air Force One
(2) Boeing 747 jet
(3) Air Bus 360
(4) U.S. Bomber Jets
17. A Soyuz rocket lifted off on October 21. 2011, on its maiden flight from Europe's space base, carrying the first two satellites in the Galileo geopositioning system from Kourou in French ,Guiana. The launch marked an unprecedented step in space cooperation, being the first by the veteran rocket beyond Russia's historic bases at
(1) Chelyabinsk
(2) Plesetsk and Baikonur
(3) Minsk and Gorki
(4) All of the above

18. The world's highest webcam, the solar-powered camera, was installed at 18,618 feet on, a smaller mountain facing the Everest in the Nepalese Himalayas, beaming live images of Mount Everest to scientists studying the effects of climate change on the planet's tallest peak. What is the name of that mountain?
(1) Kala. Patthar
(2) Shiv Parbat
(3) Dcv Ghar
(4) Darshan Parbat
19. Which of the following institutions come under Indian IiiiUative for uravita-tionalwave Observations (indiG0) which was in news in October 2011?
(1) Inter-University for Astronomy and Astrophysics (1UCAA) and Institute fer Plasma Research (IPR)
(2) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and Raman Research
tute (RRI)
(3) Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RR CAT)
(4) All of the above
20. The entire DNA sequence of a woman who lived to -115 was pieced together by scientists. The woman, who was the oldest in the world at the time of, her death, had the mind of someone decades younger and no signs of dementia, said the experts of which country in October 2011?
(1) The Netherlands
- (2) Denmark
(3) South Africa
(4) Ireland
21. The largest virus yet discovered, called Megavirus chilensis was in October 2011 isolated from ocean water pulled up off the coast of
(1) Chile
(2) Mauritius
(3) New Zealand
(4) Ivory Coast
22. The University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, announced to have developed two varieties of wheat for making bread in October 2011— one is resistant to the deadly Ug99 disease and another that can help combat malnutrition. The varieties are
(1) UAS-404 and UAS- 428
(2) UAS-304 and UAS- 328
(3) UAS-304 and UAS- 428
(4) UAS-204 and UAS- 328

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)

AGRICULTURE Questions

1. As per data released by the Tea Board on October 3, 2011, tea production went up by three per cent to 127 million kg in August 2011, while exports registered an increase of  to 19.42 million kg during the month.
(1) 5 per cent
(2) 10 per cent
(3) 15 per cent
(4) 20 per cent
2. Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar announced on October 13, 2011, that wheat produc-
tion is expected to cross
to set a new record in the on-
going 2011-12 crop year
(1) 66 million tonnes
(2) 86 million tonnes
(3) 96 million tonnes
(4) 106 million tonnes
3. According to a NABARD re lease on October 6, 2011_ loans disbursed to State Governments by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) crossed the Rs.1 lakh crore mark. The loans were for creating
(1) Water wells
(2) Rural infrastructure
(3) Irrigation facilities
(4) Power generation
4, What was the extent of capital infusion in NABARD (National Bank fore Agriculture and Rural Development) approved by the Union Cabinet, on October 25, 2011, over a two-year period to help it in mobilising higher resources from the market?
(1) Rs. 1,000 crore
(2) Rs. 2,000 crore
(3) Rs.3,000crore
(4) Rs. 5,000 crore
5. S. Ayyappan, Director General, Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), and Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education. Government of India. on October 24, 2011, announced that sugarcane production in the country has gone up from 526 million tonnes to
(1) 620 million tonnes
(2) 715 million tonnes
(3) 780 million tonnes
(4) 810 million tonnes
64The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on October 25, 201 1. approved the setting up of how many new inega food park projects in addition to the 15 ongoing projects under the Int rast roc tore Development Scheme involving a government grant of Rs.787.50 crore?
(1) Five
(2) Ten
(3) Fi fteen
(4) Twen ty- five
7. Under the guidelines issued by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs regarding mega food parks in October 2011. each mega food park must
(1) Benefit at least 6,000 farm. ers / producers directly
(2) Benefit 25,000-30,000 farmers indirectly
(3) Generate about. 4-0,000 direct and indirect jobs
(4) All of the above
8. The Chairman of the Empowered Group of Ministers on Food Pranab Mukherjee approved decision to provide an additional 19.80 lakh tonnes of subsidised food--grains to backward districts in 27 States and Union Territories. How many districts are there?
I) 69 districts
(2) 96 districts
(3) 174 districts
(4) 200 districts
ANSWERS
1. (3) 2. (2) 3. (2) 4. (3)
5.1:3) 6. (3) 7. (4) 8. (3)

India General Knowledge Questions

14. With reference to the Diwali bonanza° package for exporters, announced by the Union ministry of Commerce in October 2011, which sector was given duty credit under Market Linked Focus Product Scheme (ML14-13S) for export to the U.S. and Europe?
(1) Apparel
(2) Spices
(3) Leather
(4) All of the above.
15. With reference to the visit of Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang to India in October 2011, which of the following statements is/are correct?
(a) He invited Indian business and technical expertise in sectors such as healthcare, oil and gas, manufacturing, agro-industry, pharma-ceuticals, automotive. IT, shipping and ports, electrical consumer appliances, education and road infrastructure.
(b) Vietnam's exports to India crossed $1 billion in 2010- 11, a jump of 92 per cent over the previous year and India's exports to Vietnam also increased to $2.6 billion.
(c) Beginning 2010, Vietnam
has implemented a 10-year
long modernisation policy. Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(1) Both a and b
(2) Only c
(3) Only a
(4) All of the above
16. In accordance with the Foreign Trade Policy (Frp) unveiled in New Delhi in October 2011, the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) announced that
to commemorate 25 years of partnership?
Inter national Monetary Fund
(2) World Bank
(3) Asian Development Bank
(4) Bank of New York
10. Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar, on October 12, 2011, released the provisional data of India's exports and imports for the month of September 2011 in New Delhi. As per the data even as exports continued to maintain a 'robust growth', registering a
growth at $24.80 billion despite downturn in the U.S. and eurozone.
(1) 16.8 per cent
(2) 24.3 per cent
(3) 36.3 per cent
(4) 38.5 per cent
11. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Videsh Ltd. (OVL), the overseas arm of ONGC, on october 12, 2011, inked an agreement with Vietnam's national oil company to jointly explore for oil and gas in South China sea in Vietnam, India and third countiles.
(1) VietnamOil
(2) PetroVietnam
(3) Oil Vietnam
(4) PetroViet
12. Union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, on October 13, 2011, announced a package for exporters in New Delhi, taking the total "Diwali bonanza" to Rs.1,700 crore, in a bid to cushion exporters from slowdown in the U.S. and 'Europe. What was the amount of this package?
(1) Rs, 250-crore
(2) Rs. 675-crore
(3) Rs. 900-crore
(4) Rs. 1200-crore
13. In the package for exporters announced by the government in October 2011, shipments to Latin America, Africa and CIS regions were announced to be eligible for additional one per
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17. Which of the following features of India-Turkey trade relations surfaced during Vice-President Hamid Ansari's visit to the latter in October 2011?
(a) Trade has more than dou bled in the past five years. from $1.5 billion in 2005 to $4 billion in 2010.
(b) Exports have become increasingly diverse on both sides.
(c) For the current calendar year, the -bilateral trade is expected to touch $6,5-7 billion, surpassing the target of $5 billion the two governments *set for 2012.
Select the correct answer us-
ing the codes given below:
(1) All of the above
(2) Both a and c
(3) Only b
(4) Both ID and c
IS. During the India visit of Myanmar President U Theirs Sein in October 2011 rildia sought to consolidate its ties by offering an additional line of credit. What is the amount of this credit?
(1) $100million
(2) $250 million
(3) $500 million
(4) $1000 million
19. The India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Surnrnit that was held in South Africa in October 2011, tasked the Working Group on Trade and Investment to examine all issues related to trade holistically, including issues relating to
(1) Non-tariff barriers
(2) Maritime and air links
(3) Opportunities for investments
(4) All of the above

20. Which of the following deci sions was made by the IndiaBrazil-South Africa (II3SA) Summit that was held in South Africa in October 2011?
(a) To set up a technical team under the IBSA's working group on trade and investment to reconcile trade data and devise a common reporting format.
(b) The South African and Indian trade ministers decided to enter into long-term contracts for purchase of raw materials and commodities.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(1) Both a and b
(2) Neither a nor b
(3) Only 13
(4) Only a
21. Which of the following aspects of India-Afghanistan trade relations was highlighted by Afghanistan Trade and Industry Minister Anwar Ul Hag Ahady who visited India in October 2011?
(1) The bilateral trade between the two nations stood at $557.81 million in 2010-11.
(2) To enhance the bilateral trade, Mr. Aha.dy said trade between the two must be routed through Wagah border instead of Karachi, which is costly.
(3) India imported 75 tonnes of Afghan apples a week at the peak of the season in 2010.
(4) All of the above
22. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his visiting Nepali counterpart Baburam Bhattarai, on October 21, 2011, formalised the long pending Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPPA), which commits one State to providing compensation to commercial entities, whose
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country of origin is the other and applies particularly in cases of
(1) Wars
(2) National emergency
(3) Armed conflict
(4) All of the above
23. With reference to the Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPPA) between India and Nepal which was signed in New Delhi in October 2011, which of the fol lowing is/are its important provisions?
(1) Investments from either country in the territory of the other country are to be accorded 'National Treatment' and 'Most Favoured Nation' treatment.
(2) It provides for elaborate dispute resolution mechanisms between investors and the government concerned, and between governments, including international arbitration.
(3) Both (1) and (2)
(4) None of these
24. The Union Cabinet on October 25, 2011, approved a proposal to increase India's contribution to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to make it one of the largest shareholders in the multilateral lending agency. What is its rank among the largest shareholders after this approval?
(1) Third
(2) Fifth
(3) Eighth
(4) Tenth