Showing posts with label CURRENT AFFAIRS JUNE 2013. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 20, 2013

CURRENT AFFAIRS/GENERAL AWARENESS : JUNE 2013





1) World Environment Day ('WED') is celebrated every year on
A.      5 June
B.      5 July
C.       15 June
D.      15 July
2) Rituparno Ghosh, the renowned National award winning Bengali film maker died on 30 May 2013 of cardiac arrest at his south Kolkata residence. He got national award for which film?
A.      Elipatayam
B.      Deol
C.       Unishe April
D.      Pan Sing Tomar
3) 86th version of Scripps National Spelling Bee completion is won by?
A.      Arvind Mahankali
B.      Snigdha Nandipati
C.       Sukanya Roy
D.      Anamika Veeramani
4) _______,won the women’s title in  11th Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon in a timeline of 6 hours, 2 minutes and 10 second
A.      Ang Dami Sherpa
B.      Uttar Kumar Rai
C.       Mingma Lamu
D.      Ang Puti Sherpa
5) The seventh edition of the annual Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas will be held at
A.      New Delhi
B.      Rome
C.       Paris
D.      Sydney
6) The Department of Telecom (DoT) decided to levy 650 crore Rupees penalty on ______for violating licence conditions.
A.      Vodafone
B.      Airtel
C.       Reliance
D.      Aircel
7) _________on 29 may 2013 bagged a six-year contract from the Department of Posts (DoP) worth over Rs 1100 crore for the project called India Post 2012.
A.      Infosys
B.      CTS
C.       TCS
D.      Wipro
8) The President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas named _______as his new Prime Minister
A.      Rami Hamdallah
B.      Salam Fayyad
C.       Fattah Salim
D.      Salman Nishat
9) _________defeated Stuttgart in the German cup final in Berlin on 1 June 2013 to win the tournament. The final score was 3-2. It became the first German team to win the Bundesliga, the European cup and the German cup in the same season.
A.      Bayer
B.      SC Freiburg
C.       Bayern Munich
D.      Man united
10) Who is the new chief of DRDO?
A.      Avinash Chander
B.      Rajeev Shukla
C.       Kirti Chauvhan
D.      Joel Mario Dicruz
11) Which country recently approved the draft law meant for the development of Hindu religious properties as well as for protection of these properties from land grab and encroachment?
A.      India
B.      Pakistan
C.       Bangladesh
D.      Singapore
12) Japan has unveiled its new levitating bullet train, which can travel at speeds of upto
A.      400 Km/hr
B.      450 Km/hr
C.       500 Km/hr
D.      550 Km/hr
13) East Coast Railway (ECoR) decided to suspend the night movement of trains (mainly the freight trains) from 8 pm to 6 am on the 450 kilometer long
A.      Kottavalasa-Kirandul line
B.      Madras-Calcutta Howrah line
C.       Titlagarh-Jharsuguda Single line
D.      Bobbili-Salur Single line
14) Who won the Women's Singles title of French Open Tennis tournament. In the final, she defeated Maria Sharapova in straight sets by 6-4, 6-4.
A.      Serena Williams
B.      Selena Williams
C.       Victoria Azarenka
D.      Li Na
15) Union Government plans to roll out a _______rupees green energy corridor project to facilitate the flow of renewable energy into the national grid.
A.      A 43000-crore
B.      B.42000-crore
C.       C.41000-crore
D.      D.45000-crore
16)  Which country ranked first on list of countries which distribute spam all over the world, according to new report of SophosLabs?

A. China
B. India
C. US
D. Spain
17)Nawaz Sharief sworn in as _________Prime Minister to Pakistan. He became the first person to serve as prime minister for a third term
A.      25
B.      27
C.       18
D.      30
18) New national security advisor of America is?
A.      Tom Donilon
B.      Susan Rice
C.       Lydia Nsekera
D.      Janez Jans
19) ________became the first woman to be elected to the FIFA (The Fédération Internationale de Football Association)Executive Committee (ExCo) for a full term of four years
A.      Lydia Nsekera
B.      Victoria Benalle
C.       Jane Marie
D.      Helen Jack