Current affairs/ General awaress August 2013

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Current affairs/ General awareness Questions for month july 2013

1. Which State/Union Territory has been ranked first amongst 35 States and Union Territories with regard to Financial Inclusion, according to a recent CRISIL report?

1)      Puducherry 

2)      Chandigarh 

3)       Kerala

4)      Tamil Nadu 

5)      Andhra Pradesh

2. Who launched Pilot project of crime and criminal Tacking systems?

1)      Dr. Manmohan Singh

2)      Sushil Kumar Shinde

3)      P. Chidambaram

4)       A.K Antony

5)      None of these

3. The CERC ruled out the allegation of the Association of Power Producers that state-run NTPC has abused its dominant position while signing power purchase pacts recently. Expand the acronym CERC.

1)      Central Electricity Regulatory Committee 

2)      Central Electricity Regulatory Commission

3)      Centralised Electricity Redressal Commission 

4)      Centre for Electricity Regulation and Commissioning

5)      None of these

4. Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)?

1)       Girija Vyas 

2)       Sudha Sharma 

3)      Kushal Singh

4)      Krishna Tirat

5)       Aruna Roy

5. The small borrowers in rural areas still prefer to take informal route for their credit needs. Which of the following is the informal route of credit?

1)      Credit cards 

2)      Debit cards 

3)      RRBs 

4)      Commercial banks 

5)       Money lenders 

6. 'An Angel in the Cockpit' is written by?

1)      Vijay Mallya

2)      Vijaypat Singhania 

3)       Kiran Bedi 

4)       Ratan Tata 

5)       None of these 

7. Who among the following is a football player?

1)       Fernando Alonso 

2)      Kimi Raikkonen 

3)      Lewis Hamilton 

4)      Sebastian Vettel 

5)      Fernando Torres 

8. A centralized database with online connectivity to branches, internet as well as ATM-network which has been adopted by almost all major banks of our country is known as?

1)       Investment Banking

2)       Core Banking

3)      Mobile Banking

4)      National Banking

5)       Specialized Banking

9. Whose signature appears on Indian Rs. 100 note? 

1)       Finance Minister 

2)      RBI Governor

3)      Finance Secretary

4)       Chairman, Planning Commission

5)      None 

10. Who is the 12^th president of Pakistan?

1)      Mamnoon Hussain

2)      Gilani

3)      Nasar Hussain

4)      Ajmal Khan

5)      None of these

11. Nawaz Sharif has been sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for a record third term. He heads which of the following political parties?

1)      Pakistan Muslim League (N)   

2)      Pakistan People’s Party           

3)      Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

4)      All Pakistan Muslim League

5)      None of these

12. The interest rate stated on a bond, note or other fixed income security, expressed as a percentage of the principal (face value) is termed as

1)      Call rate

2)      Repo rate

3)      Discount rate  

4)      Coupon rate    

5)      None of these

General Awareness May 2013

31st May

• India and Thailand signed a treaty for the extradition of runaways wanted for terrorism, transnational crimes, economic offenses and other serious crimes.

• TVS Logistics Services Ltd. acquired second company in US called Wainwright Industries, the end-to-end supply chain provider.
• As per CSO DATA released on 31 May 2013, economic growth fell to a decade's low of 5 per cent for the entire 2012-13 fiscal

• UNESCO in the Month of May 2013 had declared India's Nicobar Islands as a world biosphere reserve under its Man and the Biosphere Programme.

• According to World Health Organisation, World No-Tobacco day is observed every year on 31 May 2013.

• On 31 May Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year old Indian-American won the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest, as children from the community scripted history by dominating the prestigious competition for the sixth year in a row, grabbing top three slots this year

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

CURRENT AFFAIRS / General awareness MAY 2013

1)The US Senate on 23 May 2013 approved ­_______was as the most senior US Judge of the South Asian descent to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

A.      Srikanth Srinivasan

B.      B.N. Sreenivasan

C.      Sreenivasa Guru Nath

D.      D.K. Sreekant

2) Indian National Defence University (INDU) was laid down by the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh at

A.      Udhampur,J&K

B.      Binola, Gurgaon

C.      Chandimandir,Haryana

D.      Banglore, Karnataka

3) _______was today sworn in as CAG by President Pranab Mukherjee in the Rashtrapati Bhavan here.

A.      Vinod Ray

B.      Ashok Chavla

C.      Shashi Kant Sharma

D.      Shanthi Bhushan

4) An 80-year-old Japanese mountain climber who has had four heart surgeries reached the top of Mount Everest becoming the oldest person to conquer the world's highest mountain. Who was he?

A.      Yuichiro Miura

B.      Yenluk gin

C.      Meu-ji-kin

D.      D.Feri-Ki

5) Who was the new chairman of Medical Council of India?

A.      R.K. Sreevastava

B.      Ram Krishna Murthy

C.      Ram Kiran

D.      Dr. Saji Kumar

6)The Big Apple is the nick name of which city

A.      A.Hong Kong

B.      New Delhi

C.      New York

D.      Singapore

7) The only satellite of Ecuador, collided with the Russian space debris, which is that satellite?

A.      Pegaso

B.      Equvax-I

C.      GOES-N

D.      ASTROSAT

8) The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee conferred the _____ Jnanpith Award for the year 2011 on Pratibha Ray on 22 May 2013 at Balyogi Auditorium in New Delhi.

A.      A.48^th

B.      B.47^th

C.      C.46^th

D.      D.49^th

9) Lydia Davis won 2013 Man Booker International Prize for her innovative and influential writing. She is from which country?

A.      England

B.      Germany

C.      America

D.      Canada