(1) INTERNATIONAL (1) In which country the tallest communication tower named skruty is situated ?

Answer: Tokyo (Japan) (2) Who is the worlds shortest women who is still alive ? Answer: Jyothi Amge (3) Who is the new leader of North Korea who has been recently elected ? Answer: Kim Jong Un (4 ) How many years have been completed by African National Congress recently ? Answer: 100 yrs . ( 5) Who is the first Indian American person who had been elected as governor for Lousiana in states of U.K.? Answer: Bobby Jindal . ( 6) Which year is called as International Year Of Cooperative according to UNO ? Answer: 2012 year ( 7) Worlds oldest yoga teacher who had been entered in Guinnes Book of Records for yoga recently ? Answer: Bernice Bates . ( 8) After how many years America had totaly set back his millitary army from Irak ? Answer: 9yrs ( 9) Shoedar cruze missile was launched and tested by by which country ? Answer: Iran (10) Who is the American Ambassador to India in 2011? Answer: Timothy J.Reomer. (11) For how many yrs the great leader of North Korea has headed the country ? Answer: 17 yrs (12) Which is the Worlds first Hydrogen based three wheeler vehicle ? Answer: High Alpha ( 13) Who is the person who had won the election in US Republican in Florida Primary results recently ?

Answer: Mitt Romney (14) According to the new census Jan 2012 , what is the % population of China ? Answer: 51.27 % (15) Whos name had been kept for the fly over bridge constructed in Islamabad recently? Answer: Yousaf Raja Gillani . (16) Who is the President who had signed on millitary spending bills twice recently ? Answer: Barack Obama (17) Which is the nation which joined UNO organisation recently ? Answer: Pakistan .(18) A credit Standard and Poors , due to which reasons it had reduced the rating of France , Italy and other 9 countries recently ? Answer: Debt crices. (19) According to the fortune magazine s annual ranking for 100 besr companies to work for 2012,which company stood first ? Answer: Google. (20) Who inagurated the new mission control centre the SHAR ? Answer: Prathiba Patil (21) Who is the Managing director for the International Monetary Fund ( I M F )? Answer: Christine Legaude . (22) Which was the protest movement that begain against financial greed & curruption in America recently ? Answer: Occupy wall street (2) INDIA & WORLD (1) On 20 Jan 2012, Russia had leased which nuclear powered submarine to India recently ? Answer: K-152 Nerpa (2) Which country has got the deal of 126 fighters to India recently ? Answer: French (3) In American International affairs website which state of Indian borders have been wrongly mapped ?

Answer: Jammu Kashmir (4) How many countries have signed the multilateral agreement to check tax evasion and avoidence recently ? Answer: three (5) Which two countries agreed to establish a working mechanism on consultation and coordination on border affairs ? Answer: India & China (6) In which feild India and Japan had made agreement to enhance their cooperation ? Answer: Infrastructure sector (7) What is the place of India in a global press freedom index in the past years ? Answer: 131 (8) On which issue India & USA signed recently ? Answer: Labuor & employment (9) How many agreements India had signed with Trinidad & Tobago ? Answer: 5 (10) Name the new pact which was signed by the countries recently ? Answer: shade (3) NATIONAL (1) The birthday of the great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujam was declared as ? Answer: National Mathematics Day (2) Where will be the first cooperative university will set up ? Answer: Sibsagar (Assam ) (3) Which year is celebrated as National Mathematics day ? Answer: 2012 (4) What is the Total per capital income of all states in India ? Answer: Rs.54,835 /(5) Which ministry had been given to Mr. Ajit singh by the U P A government ? Answer: Civil Aviation minister

(6) How many news paper companies have been registered under the Register of News papers for India according to the authority in 2010-2011? Answer: 4853 (7) What is the mascot name for national youth festival ? Answer: Yakhi (8) On which day our national anthem Janaganamana has completed its hundred years ? Answer: 27-12-2011 (9) Who is the first women who had been selected as Javan in Indian Army ? Answer: Santhi Tigga (10) Who is the 19th Director General of Indian coast guard ? Answer: M.P.Muralidharan (11) To whom was the Review commite on the Delhi School Education Act &Rules 1973 (DSEAR-79) report was submitted? Answer: Sheila Dikshit (12) According to the survey done by the Brand Trust Report who is the person who had won the confidence of peoplein the country ? Answer: Anna Hazare (13) In which five years plan the national slum development programme will be launched by the government ? Answer: 12th five years plan (14) Who had launched the Interanet Prahari Project worth of 299 crore recently? Answer: P.Chidambaram (15) The ISRO chief Madhavan Nair and other three who were blacklisted in which deal, the government quit them away? Answer: Antrix Devas (16) From which year the implementation of common medical entrance test will be conducted according to the medical council of India ? Answer: 2013 (17) Which is the nodel agency for all anti -terror activities in the country, for which the government gave approval recently?

Answer: National counter Terrorism Centre (18) Who is the chief guest for the Pravasi Bharathiya Devas conference held at Jaipur on Jan 7th 2012 ? Answer: Kamal PerseBissesor (19) Where was the United Nation Research center for the North-East set up recently ? Answer: Guwahati (20) From which year the implementation of common medical entrance test will be conducted according to the medical council of India ? Answer: 2013 (21) Name the project which was inagurated by Mr.Chidambaram recently worth of 299 crore ? Answer: Interanet Prahari projet (4) STATES (1) The Panch Parmeshwar scheme was launched by which state government ? Answer: Madhya Pradesh (2) In 2010-2011 ,what is the per capital income of Andhra pradesh ? Answer: Rs.60,458/(3) Name the chief minister who had won the award for great vaccine innovation ? Answer: Nitish Kumar (4) According to the report presented by the central government our state debt in the year 2010-2011 is ? Answer: Rs.1,32,805 crore (5) Which Indian company is going launch a new diesel plant in Gurgoan recently ? Answer: Maruthi (6) The bullet train between which two states will announced in railway budget 2012? Answer: Ahmedabad-Mumbai (7) For the year 2012 in which place Andhra pradesh stood in urbunisation? Answer: 17th (8) For how many Assembly seats election have been held in Uttarakhand on 30th Jan 2012 recently? Answer: 70

(9) Which state governors period has been extended by one year by the government recently ? Answer: Andhra pradesh (10) Which state had agreed for the establishment of internal state board for pranahita- chevella sujatha sravanti project ? Answer: Maharashtra 911) Who is the person replaced in the place of E.Sridharan for Delhi Metro Rail M D on 31st Dac 2011? Answer: Mangu singh (12) In which state the 10th Pravasi Bharathi Divas event inagurated from Jan 7th to 9th 2012 ? Answer: Jaipur (13) What is the total strentgh of Muncipalities in the state A .P ? Answer: 161 (14) Who is the governor of Tamilnadu who has been appointed recently ? Answer: K.Rosaiah (15) Which are the two states where assembly elections had been held on 30 th Jan 2012 ? Answer: Punjab ,Uttarkhand (16) The assembly polling were held on 28th Jan 2012 for how many seats in Manipur ? Answer: 60 (17) In which place our state warangal NIT stands according to the survey done by the country ? Answer: 8th (18) According to the national election commision which state minister had been ordered to cover the status of elephants which are election symbol of the party recently ? Answer: Uttar Pradesh (19) For many seats the assembly election had been held in Punjab ? Answer: 117 (20) Which state University had given Dr. to the Bangladesh P.M Shaik Hassina recently ? Answer: Tripura (21) In which state the united nation research center for north -east set up ?

Answer: Assam (22) Which is the first state to issue e-stamp papers in all denominations in India ? Answer: Delhi (23) According to the National child Right which state stood in top one position ? Answer: Kerala (24) Which state topped in the list in utilizing the fund for minorities according to the minority affairs ministry? Answer: Jammu & kashmir (25) How many new tourism projects have been sanctioned for Jammukashmir by the union government? Answer: 7 (5) CONFERENCES (1) In which city the geospatail world forum 2012 conference was held recently ? Answer: Hyderabad (2) Which is the forum which had conference on the current & relavent issues on global problems recently? Answer: World Economic Forum (WEF) (3) On which issue the conference is being organized by International Advanced Research centre for powder metallurgy and new materials (ARCI) recently ? Answer: Nano science technology (4) On which issue President Pratibha Paatil constituted a committee recently ? Answer: Production of Agriculture sector (6) AWARDS AND HONOURS (1) Who had been awarded Sialedra Kumar singh award by the (UPA) chair person Sonia Gandhi? Answer: D.Balavenkatatesh verma (2) To whom the Guljarilal Nanda Bharat Sevak Samaj has been awardedby Kerala government? Answer: T.K.Nair (3) The prestegious International sports Association Fair play is awarded to which player? Answer: Mahendrasingh Dhoni (4) How many people have been awarded the prestegious Man Asia award from India ?

Answer: 3 persons (5) The Mahatma Gandhi International Award for peace & Reconsilation award has been presented to whom ? Answer: Dalai Lama (6) Who had given the 2011 FIFA Best player award on 9th Jan 2012? Answer: Lionel Messi (7) Who has been shortlisted for UKs Biggest contemporary Art Prize , Artes mundi recently? Answer: Sheela Gowda (8) Who is the person who had conferred the Ashoka Chakra on 63rd Republic Day by the president Pratibha Patil ? Answer: Lt.Navdeep singh (9) To which award the Indian American sciencetist Venkataram Ramakrishna has been selected by the Britan ? Answer: Knight hood (10) On which date the Infosis 2011 awards have been awarded recently at Banglore ? Answer: Jan 9th (11) Which university has honoured Dr to Bangladesh P.M Shaik Hassina recently ? Answer: Tripura university (12) For the yr2011 who had won the perstegious (CNR ) sahitya puraskaram recently? Answer: Ratna Markandapuram Srinivas 913) Who has been presented with pride of India award by the Indian -American community in Washinton? Answer: Mallikarjuna Kharge (14) Which university had got the honour Universities with potecial for excellence? Answer: Ossamania university (15) Who is the Bollywood actor who had received a green globe award from Arnold Schwaizenegger recently ? Answer: Abishek Bachan (16) How many researchers got Infosis prize for the year 2011, which was presented by the former president A.P.J Abdul Kalam?

Answer: 6 (17) Who had won the best steel company of India for the year 2009-2010 ? Answer: Steel Authority of India (18) Where was the 69th golden globe awards been presented on 15 th Jan 2012 ? Answer: Los angeles (19) Which award has been given to the famous music director A.R Rahamn for the muisc composing for the song If I Rise ? Answer: Critics choice movie (20) Name the person Who had run barefoot 150 km in 24 hours and made a new world record ? Answer: Abhijeet Buruah (7) SPORTS & GAMES (1) Who is the first Indian women to have received an International Grand Master tittle in the game of chess championship to get gold medal ? Answer: Koneru Humpy (2) Who has been selected for player of the year award given by all India football assocaition ? Answer: Sunil chhetri (3) Who had won the world super series batmintton tittle ? Answer: Wang-Yihan (china) (4) In which country the womens team chess championship tournament held ? Answer: Turkey (5) For the year 2011, who had been selected for International Tennis Federation Woeld champion award? Answer: Novak djikovic (6) Which country had won the Hopman cup tennis tittle which held on Jan 7th 2012? Answer: Czech republic (7) Where will the Assia criket cup matches 2012 will be conducted ? Answer: Bangladesh (8) For which game Abinav Bindra won gold medal ?

Answer: Air rifle shooting (9) In which place the South Central Asian Gymnastics championships event held recently ? Answer: Dhaka (10) Who is the person who had won the FIFA Ballondor award recently ? Answer: Lionel Messi (11) International player for batmiton Sina Nehal has ranked which place recently? Answer: 4th (12) Who are the two Indian shooters who got selected for the London olympic games ? Answer: Manavjeet singh sidhu & Imran Hassankhan (13) Who is the first Indian tennis player who won the carier mens doubles grand slam 2012? Answer: Leander paes (14) In the Archery championship from AP Jyothi surekha got which medal ? Answer: Gold medal (15) In which place India stood in the International test series ranking ? Answer: 3rd place (16) In which country the 2012 Olympic Hockey tournament is going to be held ? Answer: London (17) Who is the Indian criket player who stood in top ten positions according to ICCranking ? Answer: Sachin tendulkar (18) Which is the country who had invited the sand artist Sudharshan Pattnaik from Odisha to parcipate at the International Sand Championship recently? Answer: Japan (8) ECONOMY (1) What is the revised economic GDP growth rate for 2011-2012 financial year ? Answer: 8.4 % (2) Which are the two countries where female infant mortality is higher than male infant mortality? Answer: India & China

(3) India had signed a TIEA agreement with which country ? Answer: Guernsey (4) What is the national infant mortality rate reduced from ? Answer: 50 % to 47 % (5) What is industrial growth rate in Dec 2011 ? Answer: 3.1 % (6) How much can a customer transact per day by way of mobile banking ? Answer: Rs.50,000/(7) How much money is government going to spend on economic census for the year 2012? Answer: 800 crore (8) Name the bank which has been opened by SBI, which is exclusively for women customers ? Answer: Vasundhara Jubilee Senoritia (9) What is the minimum investment amount per client managed by portfolio manages decided by SEBI ? Answer: Rs.25,000 to 5,00,000 (10) How much of fund is spent on improving quality education by all states in 2009-2010 in a survey ? Answer: 1% (11) Which country had successfully launched an observation satillite into orbit above earth recently? Answer: Iran (12) Who will audit the performence of the schemes under the ministers of rural development ? Answer: Comptroller & Auditor General of India (13) Regarding to check tax evasion & avoidance India had signed a multilateral agreement with which countries recently ? Answer: France &German (14) What is the gross national income grew in the year 2010-2011 ? Answer: 7.9 % (15) Which powered ATMs are going to be installed in the rural areas by the government ? Answer: Solar power

(16) What is the GDP growth percentage for the year 2011-2012 according to the government estimation ? Answer: 6.9 % (9) SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (1) Scientists had produced a artificial human semen which will help in what? Answer: Infertile men (2) Which beverage can be treat tremors in humans recently ? Answer: Alcohol (3) High speed bullet train was launched by which country at Quingdao ? Answer: China (4) Which missile was successfully test fired by India recently ? Answer: Agni-1 (5) From which place the Interceptor missile was launched successfully? Answer: Orissa (6) The earth observation satellite from where it was launched recently ? Answer: Sriharikota (7) Which country has invented the worlds fastest K-computor recently ? Answer: Japan (8) Which is the earth -size planet orbiting in space discovered by the NASAs kepler? Answer: kepler- 20e & 20f (10) PERSONS IN NEWS (a) APPOINTMENTS (1) Who has been appointed as microfinance ombudsman for the SKS microfinance ? Answer: Virghese Jacob (2) Who is the 19th Director general of Indian coast Guard ? Answer: M.P.Muralidharan (3) Who is the new 7th chief minister of Arunachal pradesh ? Answer: Naban tukisworn

(4) Who is the new advocate general who was appointed by state government ? Answer: D.Sundharam reddy (5) Who is the independent Director of Infotec enterprises for the year 2012 ? Answer: Vikas sehgal (b) RESIGNS (1) Who is the person who is US ambassdor to India resigned in the year 2011 ? Answer: Timothy Roemer (2) Which state minister had resigned recently after indictment in illegal mining scan ? Answer: Karnataka (3) Who is the women general secretary for SAARC who resigned recently? Answer: Fathima Dhiyana Saeed (c) DEATHS (1) M.B.Hussan Farook who died recently was the governor of which state ? Answer: Kerala (2) The former deputy chief minister P.Jaganath rao who died recently worked in which year cabinet ? Answer: 1982 (3) Freedom fighter of Indian diplomacy who was an architect of Indo-soviet treaty passed away in New Delhi on 31st Jan 2012 ? Answer: A.K.Damodharam (d) VISITORS (1) Who is the P.M of Thailand who visited India and has been the chief guest for the 63rd Republic Day ? Answer: Yingluck Shina Watra (2) Who is the president of Mali who visited India recently ? Answer: Amadou Toumani Toure (3) Kamla persad Bissesar is Prime minister for which country who visited India recently ? Answer: Trindad &Tobago (4) Which countries P.M is Sheik Hasina who visited India on 12th Jan 2012 ?

Answer: Bangladesh (e) OTHERS (1) Who is the Myanmar oposition leader who is standing for parliment on 1st April by election in 2012? Answer: Aung San Suu Kyi (2) What did the pakistan supreme court said against its P.M Yousaf Raza Gilani recently ? Answer: Not an honest man (3) Who had been Jailed more than 20 years for charging against secretly filming T.V documentery ? Answer: Sarah Ferguson (11) PLACES IN NEWS (1) What is the magnitude of earth quake on rickter scale which took place in Japan recently ? Answer: 7 (12) ABBREVIATIONS -Nil(13) BOOKS IN NEWS (1) Who is the author of the book who wrote 20 great personalities of India ? Answer: Gopalkrishna Gandhi (2) Who wrote the book Pharaoh & the King ? Viswanath Venkat Dasari (3) Which is the book writen by MarkTuly recently ? Answer: Non stop India (4) Who wrote the book The sence of an ending ? Answer: Julian Barnes (5) Who is the author who had recieved Business Book of the year award 2010 for his book Fault lines? Answer: Raghuraman rajan (14) COMMITTEES (1) Who had constituted a committee to increase the productivity of agriculture sector?

Answer: Pratibha Patil (2) Where was the 19th ASEAN summit took place ? Answer: Bali ( Indonesia) (3) To whom the review committee on the Delhi Education Act & Rules 1973 submitted its report ? Answer: Sheila Dikshit

February 2012 Current Affairs Bit Bank

INTERNATIONAL 1. Who had won the US Republic Florida Primary election held recently ? Answer: Mitt Romney 2. By the end of which year the American military is going to end the combat operations in Afghanistan? Answer: 2013yr 3. What is the mechanism policy of EU to double their renewable energy? Answer: Rio+20 4. In which place the National Australia Bank was opened its Maiden Branch in India recently ? Answer: Mumbai 5. Which country is going to grant India the MFN status by the end of 2012 ? Answer: Pakistan 6. Who is new US abbassador to India ? Answer: Nancy J.Powell

INDIA & WORLD 1. What is the bilateral trade target set up by India & China recently Answer: $100b 2. China wants to work with India in which issue recently ? Answer: piracy fight

3. Between which two countries the 12th defence policy group meeting was held in New delhi ? Answer: India & US

NATIONAL 1.Which disease had been included in lifestyle other than diabetes and hypertension ? Answer: cancer 2. Which are the three most happiest countries where people reside ? Answer: Indonesia,India &Mexico 3. From which place India is going to test its most ambitious missile Agni- V ? Answer: Odisha 4. According to researchers which country is losing its forests more rapidly ? Answer: India 5. Samsung had launched which type of note book into the market recently ? Answer: series 5 ultra 6. From which date the implementation of Matatma Gandhi Rural Employment, Guarantee Act will start ? Answer: 4/1/2012 7. Who inaugurated the 12th polio summit 2012 which was held in NewDelhi recently ? Answer: Manmohan singh

STATES 1. How many people died of malaria worldwide in 2010-2011 according to the world malaria report ? Answer: 46800 2. Name the maths social net work in face book called ? Answer: Teaching Tomorrow 3. Which city in A.P had decided to become cycle proud and introduced no Motor vehicle zones across 20km of roads ? Answer: Vishakapatnam

4. Which state Government had shortlisted for the two companies for setting up the E-waste dismantlity facilities ? Answer: West Bengal 5. Who had launched a major state wide de- warming campaign in Delhi recently ? Answer: Sheila Dikshit 6. Which state ranked top in investment proposal in the year 2011 ? Answer: Gujarat

CONFERENCES 1.Where was the National Conference on Governance meeting organised on Jan 29 2012 ? Answer: New Delhi 2. Where was the 58th annual meeting of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons held at ? Answer: Kolkata 3. On which date the Indian -Asean summit was held for two days in NewDelhi recently ? Answer: 12 th Feb 4. Who inaugurated the 15th National conference on e-governance held for two days ? Answer: Mr.M.Naveen Patnaik

AWARDS & HONOURS 1. The P.M of Mauritius Navinchandra Ramloolam had been honoured with which Dr. recently ? Answer: Doctor of law 2. Who had been awarded as sports women of the year 2012 recently at Laureus sports awards ? Answer: Vivian Chruiyot 3. Who is the Indian to receive the pretigious honour, Manager of the Year 2011 award recently ? Answer: Siva ram krishna prasad 4. To which tennis player the serbian president Boris Tadic conffered the highest Serbain award Gold star of Karadjordge for 2012?

Answer: Novack Djokovic 5. Who had been graced as chief guest for the 5th Ramnath Goenka Awards for the excellence in Journalism 2012, held at Taj palace in NewDelhi ? Answer: Hamid Ansari 6. Who had won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year Award for 2011 ? Answer: Rahul Batia

SPORTS & GAMES 1. Who had won the mens national grass court tennis championship from A.P ? Answer: Saketh Mineni 2. Which country had won the Africa nations cup title cup which held on 13 Feb 2012 ? Answer: Zambia 3. Who is the cricket player who had awarded with ESPN Cricin for best batting performance award in test matches ? Answer: Sachin tendulkar 4. W ho is the cricket batsman who had announced recently retirement from one day cricket ? Answer: Ricky Poting 5. Who is the person, who had won the Mens 85 plus 5km walk event held at Manipur from A.P on the opening day of 33rd National Masters Atheletics Championship ? Answer: G.Satyanarayana rao 6. Who won the SAIL SBI open Golf title on 25 Feb 2012 held in Delhi ? Answer: Anirban Lahiri

ECONOMY 1. The RBI of India is going to issue how much rupee note denomination with insert letter R in the Mahata Gandhi series ? Answer: Rs 1000 2. The RBI had made an announcement to bring Rs 5 coin was devoted to which person recently ?

Answer: Bhagat singh 3. Who had directed the Unoin Government to issue Broad band license to Qual comm ? Answer: Telecom dispute settlement Appellate Tribunal 4. Who had issued a circular for development of white label automated teller machines from non-banks ? Answer: Reserve Bank of India

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1. What is name of home cleaning robot within the vaccum cleaner segment ? Answer: Niche 2. Which country had launched the self guided bullet missile ? Answer: US (America ) 3. What is the name of orbit above, an observation satellite launched by Iran on 3 Feb 2012 ? Answer: Navid 4. Which is the new planet discovered by the researchers recently found water on it ? Answer: GJ1214b 5. Name the new US-based racing bike which was manufactured by the worlds largest two wheeler Hero Motocorp recently? Answer: Erik Buell Rcing 6. Name the new gene, which was discovered by the UK scientists recently ? Answer: Meg I 7. Name the Chinas global navigation and positioning network known as ? Answer: Beidou PERSONS IN NEWS a) Appointments 1. Who had been appointed as the Honarary secretary for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from Andhrapradesh ? Answer: Dr.P.Raghuram

b) Resigns 1. Who is the president of Maldives who had resigned on 7 Feb 2012 ? Answer: Mohamed Nasheed 2. Who is the world bank president who resigned recently for completing his five yrs term ? Answer: Robert Zoelllick 3. Who is the German president who had resigned recently over a scandal recieved before becoming the head of the state ? Answer: Christian Wulff c) Deaths 1. Who is the pop music singer ,six times Grammy award winner deid on 11 Feb 2012 Answer: Whitney Huoston 2. Who is the British Journalist who on 22 Feb was shot dead by the French photographers in Syria ? Answer: Marie Colvin 3. Who is the foriegn correspondent and a two time pulitzer prize winner died in Eastern Syria on 16 Feb 2012 ? Answer: Anthony Shadid d) Visitors 1. Mr.Navinchandra Ramgoolan is P.M of which country who visited India on 7Feb 2012 for six days ? Answer: Mauritius e) Miscellaneous 1. Name the Indian-American person who had made himself the cover of the prestigous Time magazine recently? Answer: Preet Bharara

BOOKS IN NEWS 1. Who is the author of the book Nirbasan whose opening ceremony of the book releasing was cancelled in India ? Answer: Taslima Nasreen

2. Who was the author of the book Time Guerrilla recently released of his own memoir ? Answer: Fidel Castro 3. Name the book which was released by the vice president of India Mr.Hamid Ansari in Newdelhi recently? Answer: Sufism & Indian Mysticism

March 2012 Current Affairs Bit Bank

INTERNATIONAL 1. How many EU states had signed the pact for budget discipline on 2 March 2012 ? Answer: 25 states 2. Who is the Asia s richest man according to the forbes list ? Answer: LI Ka Shing 3. Which are the most ethical firms of the world according to the report revealed by the Ethical Institutes ? Answer: Tata & Wipro 4. Which is worlds largest art, antiques market owing country ? Answer: China 5. Which country gave a call to boycott American products recently for voting against a resolution? Answer: Srilanka

INDIA & WORLD 1.Who is the Arab League head , who discussed on the issue of Syrian fate failed recently held in Cairo on 3 March2012? Answer: Nabil Elaraby 2. Who had inaugurated the trade show in Jakarta by India, to reach the target of $ 25 billion by 2015 ? Answer: Mr. Anand Sharma 3. Where was the Indo-Israel free trade agreement meeting was held recently? Answer: Hyderabad

NATIONAL 1.Which are the two new missiles developed by defense research & development laboratory handed over to Navy & IAF on 3 March 2012? Answer: Torpedo & Akash 2. Who is the next Army cheif for the Indian Army after the retirement of Gen.V.K.Singh on 31 May 2012? Answer: Lt,Gen.Bikram singh 3. Who is Asias richest woman with a net worth of $ 12billion in our country? Answer: Savitri Jindal 4. Who is the Foreign minister of Italy who has been camping in India relating with two Italian Marines recently? Answer: Staffan De Misture 5. How many new trains had been introduced by the railway minister in Railway budget 2012-13? Answer: 75 6. Which company had opened centre of excellence for oracle recently for IT services and business solutions ? Answer: Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS) 7. Name the project which had been sanctioned 423crore rupees loan assistance in Gujarat from NABARD Answer: Narmada link project

STATES 1. Which state recorded the highest voting percentage in the history of election, which were held in the month of Feb in five states recently? Answer: Goa 2. Who is the first independent woman loco driver in SCR? Answer: S. Satyavathi 3. What is the assets declared by Mayawati while her nomination for the Rajya Sabha recently? Answer: 111.64 crore 4. Which is the plan , which was launched by the Chief minister of A.P Kiran Kumar recently?

Answer: SHG Linkage credit plan 5. From which place in Andhra Pradesh the first International flight took off recently? Answer: Visakhapatnam

CONFERENCES 1. Who inaugurated the 50th golden jubilee celebration of Afro-Asian Rural Development Organisation held in New Delhi recently? Answer: Manmohan singh 2. In which place the Turkeys World Trade Bridge International Summit is going to be held ? Answer: Istanbul 3. In which place was the International Monitory Fund Summit was held recently ? Answer: New Delhi 4. Where was the second conference of nuclear security summit held recently? Answer: Seoul 5. Where will be the third Nuclear Security Summit is going to be held next year ? Answer: Netherland

AWARDS & HONOURS 1. Who is the Telugu novelist, who had been awarded Kurra Kotisuryamma Memorial Award for his outstanding contribution to Telugu literature? Answer: Bheemaraju Venkataramana 2. Who is the worlds tallest man, finally stopped growing after treated ? Answer: Sultan Kosen 3. Who had been awarded with Ugadi Puraskaram from the Andhra Pradesh Government recently? Answer: P.Surya Rao 4. Who is the women, awarded with Nirmal Gram Puraskar for the year 2012 from Andhra Pradesh from the President Pratibha Patil recently? Answer: Y.Chintamma

5.How many new World Records were set up in 12 hours by the former England cricketer Andrew Flintoff and Steve Harmison ? Answer: 14 6. Who is the Hungarian Mathematician who has been awarded with Abel Prize for the year 2012? Answer: Endre Szemerede

SPORTS & GAMES 1. To which place India dropped in ODI championship Table after losing their triangular series in Australia? Answer: 3rd place 2. Who is cricket player who made 100 centuries in his career recently? Answer: Sachin Tendulkar 3. Who is the sportswoman from Andhra Pradesh ,who is going to represent India at the World Cup for Archery which is going to held in China in April 2012? Answer: Jyothi Surekha 4. Who had won the BNP Paribas Womens single title for the year 2012? Answer: Victoria Azarenka 5. Who is the Worlds no-1 ranking Golf player , Who had won the US PGA Transitions Championship held at Florida recently? Answer: Luke Donald 6. W ho had been the Player of the Tournament in the Asia Cup 2012 held at Dhaka recently ? Answer: Shakib Ali Hasan

ECONOMY 1. What is the name of the new card product which was launched by ICICI bank for the super rich recently? Answer: Sapphiro 2. In which place is Indian railways in World ranking? Answer: Fourth place 3.What is the percentage of service tax , which had been raised in the budget 2012-13?

Answer: 12% 4.What is the per capita income of India for the year 2012-13 ? Answer: Rs. 60972 5. Which country is the highest consumer of oil in per capita terms ? Answer: United states 6. Which country stood at the least place in service sector ? Answer: India 7.What is the per capita GDP of Qatar ? Answer: 44.45 lakh 8. How much financial aid was granted by the World Bank to India ? Answer: $4.3billion 9. Name the new equality saving scheme announced in the budget 2012-13 recently? Answer: The Rajiv Gandhi Equality saving scheme

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1. In how many planets in solar system life may exist according to the researchers ? Answer: 5 Planets 2. What is the name of the second largest Moon of Saturn? Answer: Rhea 3. What is the name of the submarine which had been taken as lease from Russia recently? Answer: INS Chakra 4. Which type of Asprin was invented by the scientist to fight against Cancer? Answer: Gas-filled

PERSONS IN NEWS a) Appointments

1. Who is the new M.D for Hyundai Motors India , who was appointed recently? Answer: Bo Shin Seo 2. Who is the New President of Germany , who has been elected recently? Answer: Joachin Gauck 3. Who is the new Railway minister for UPA Government ? Answer: Mukhul Roy b) Resigns 1. Who is the Railway minister , who had resigned recently from the cabinet for raising the railway fares ? Answer: Dinesh Trivedi c) Deaths 1.Who is the philanthropist who died recently, vice chairman of Sankar foundation? Answer: Sankar Rao d) Visitors 1.Who is the Egypt Ambassador, who visited India for the golden jubilee celebration of (AARDO)? Answer: Mr.Ahmed Abulkheir 2. Who is the Turkish Ambassador who visited Hyderabad recently? Answer: Dr.Burak Aklapar 3. Who is the managing director of International monitory fund ( IMF) , who visited India recently? Answer: Christine Lagarde 4. Who is the Prime ministe of Canada who had visited Thailand recently? Answer: Staphen Harper 5. Who is the US Secretary of commerce who visited India for bilateral trade meeting ? Answer: John Bryson e) Miscellaneous 1. Who is Bollywood Actress to become the sixth Bollywood celebrity to be honoured with a wax likeness? Answer: Madhuri Dixit

ABBREVIATIONS 1. AIMA stands for ___________All India Management Association

BOOKS IN NEWS 1. Who had written the book Didi: A Political biography of Mamata Benerjee recently? Answer: Monobina Gupta 2. Russian court dismissed the plea seeking ban on which Holly Literature book translation recently ? Answer: Bhagwad Gita

April 2012 Current Affairs Bit Bank

INTERNATIONAL 1. Aung San Suu Kyi who recently won in Myanmar parliament elections, belongs to which political party? Answer : Nation League for Democracy (NLD) 2.The US Govenment announced an additional 12.2 million aid to which country recently? Answer : Syria

3. Who is the Chief of Laskhar e-Taiba, a reward money of $10 million has been announced on him by America? Answer : Hafiz Saeed

INDIA & WORLD 1. Indias which board was admitted as the 11th member of MDEP recently? Answer : Atomic Energy Regulatory 2.Which two countries signed an agreement on Contract Workers ? Answer : India & UAE 3. Which countries had signed six agreements in diverse areas recently including oil& gas?

Answer : India & Qatar 4. In which country the Industrial Canton Fair is going to be held? Answer : China

NATIONAL 1. Where is the largest Tulip garden is situated in Asia? Answer: Srinagar 2. Which country had stated to expand the members in UN Security Council recently? Answer : India 3. Where was the oldest and largest bank of South Korea had set its branch recently in India ? Answer : Chennai 4.Commemorative Postage Stamp of which president was released to mark the birth centenary recently? Answer : R.Venkataraman 5. Union Government decided to raise working capital ECB resources for which sector recently? Answer : Aviation sector

STATES 1. Where was the foundation stone for countrys first financial city laid up in ? Answer : Bangalore 2. In which state the 4G services were launched recently? Answer : Kolkata

CONFERENCES 1. In which place was the 20th ASEAN Summit held recently? Answer : Combodia 2.Where was the RIC trilateral conference held recently?

Answers : Mascow 3. Where was the 6th summit of the Americas held recently? Answer : Colombia

AWARDS & HONOURS 1.Who is the Democratic leader of Myanmar awarded with Sukarno Prize for creation of Democracy in the country? Answer : Aung San Suu Kyi 2. Which award has been presented to Lt.Gen.Bikram Singh? Answer : Gallantry Award

SPORTS & GAMES 1. Novack Djikivic world no-1 defeated whom to claim the Miami masters title in the final held in Florida? Answer : Andy Murrey 2. Who is the first woman wrestler to be qualified for the Olympics afterwinning gold in Astana recently? Answer : Geeta Kumari 3. Who is the Tennis player captured her 40th career title in WTA tournament? Answer : Sarena Williams 4. Who had won the 11th Asian Billiards championship held in Goa recently? Answer : Pankaj Advani 5. Where was the Archery World Cup Stage-I games held recently? Answer : Shanghai 6. Who had won the Mens Single Asian Badminton Championship recently? Answer : Chen Jin

ECONOMY

1.With the cooperation of which country Multiskill development centre is going to start in Bangalore and Gulberg? Answer : Germany 2. According to the World Economic Outlook report what is the lowered economic growth of India in 2012? Answer : 6.9%

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1. What is name of the Worlds first flying car ? Answer : Terrafugia 2. Where was the new ISRO spy satellite centre was launched recently? Answer : Sriharikota 3. In which place India has successfully carried out the AWACS test flight recently? Answer : Brazil 4. From which place the Agni-v long range ballistic missile was test fired recently? Answer : Odisha 5.What is the name of the ballistic missile which was test fired by Pakistan recently? Answer : Hatf-IV 6. What is the name of all weather radar imaging satellite launched recently by India ? Answer : RISAT-I 7. What is the name of the stealth frigate which was inducted into navy recently? Answer : INS Teg

PERSONS IN NEWS A)Appointments 1. Who is the new special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan? Answer : Amarendra Khatua 2. Who is the new king of Malaysia elected recently? Answer : Sultan Abdul Halim

3. Who had been appointed as UNHCR special envoy recently? Answer : Angelina Jolie 4. Who had been appointed as the President of World Heart Federation ? Answer : Dr.Srinath Reddy

B) Resigns 1.Lucas Papademos is president of which country resigned recently due to early elections in the country? Answer : Greece 2.Who is the president of Mali resigned recently? Answer : Amadov Toumani Toure 3. What is the name of Jordan Prime minister who resigned recntly? Answer : Awn aL Khasawneh C)Deaths 1. Who is the legendary newsman popular CBS 60Minutes programmer died recently? Answer : Mike Wallace

2.Who is president of Malawi died of heart attack recently? Answer : Binju Wa Mutharika

D)Visitors 1.The Chancellor of Exchequer of UK, who visited India for the fifth economic financial ministerial meeting held in New Delhi? Answer : George Osborne 2. Who is the Pakistan president visited India recently? Answer : Asif Ali Zardari 3.Who is the Norwegian Minister of Trade & Industry visited India regarding Telenor issue recently? Answer : Trond Giske E)Miscellaneous

1. Which city is the worlds most impressive city according to the Wealth report? Answer : London 2. Which organisation has became the heritage of the sank Titanic ship 100 years ago? Answer : UNESCO

PLACES IN NEWS 1. Where is the name of the worlds highest tunnel bridge located in China? Answer : Aizhai

Books in news 1.Reflections of a Statesman book was written on whose life history ? Answer : R.Venkataraman

Committees in news 1. Under whom the two member Adarsh Judicial Commission was set up by the Maharashtra Government? Answer : N.N.Kumbahar

May 2012 Current Affairs Bit Bank

INTERNATIONAL 1.Who is the new president of Russia recently taken sworn? Answer : Vladimir Putin 2. The Hamburg harbour celebrates how many years recently? Answer: 823 years 3. Which company become number one mobile company in the world? Answer: Samsung 4. Which country had discovered petroleum recently?

Answer: Bangladesh 5.Liberias president for his war crimes sentenced to jail for ? Answer: 50years INDIA & WORLD 1.What is the place where Pakistan lost nearly 140 soldiers after a masive avalannde entombed the Gayari army base recently? Answer: Siachen 2.Sahar signed an agreement to build and develop a new city in which country? Answer: Bangladesh 3. India made dozen agreements with which country recently? Answer: Myanmar NATIONAL 1. The country with the greatest numbers of preterm birth with 35,19,100 is ________? Answer: India 2. Where was the statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled recently? Answer: South Africa 3. What is the position of India in cyber crime according to report given by SDA? Answer: fifth place 4. Where will be the 46th Asian Development Bank Meeting of 2013 will be held? Answer: New Delhi 5. How many years were completed by our existing parliament after the first election held in 13 May 1952? Answer: 60 years 6. What is the name of the TAPI gas pipeline project (TGPP) which originate from the Turkmenistan reaches to India via Afghanistan and Pakistan? Answer: Peace pipeline 7. Whose death anniversary is observed as the Anti Terrorism Day? Answer: Rajiv Gandhi

8. Osmania University Ranked ______ in the top 121 Universities in the country according to Nielsen survey Answer: 6th STATES 1.The Indian Institute of Chemical Technology Hopes to Establish Deflouridation Plants in which states? Answer : A.P & Rajasthan CONFERENCES 1. At which place the World Wildlife Fund summit is going to be held ? Answer: Brazil 2. Where was the NATO summit 2012 held for Three days recently ? Answer: Chicago AWARDS & HONOURS 1. Who had been awarded Kalpana Chawla Excellence Award? Answer : Miss Vinya Mishra & Sushma Seth 2. Who is the person from India got the prestigious International Jurists award? Answer : Mulayam Singh Yadav 3. Who has been conferred The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun title recently? Answer: Ratan Tata 4. Who has been awarded the first Tagore Award for cultural harmony ? Answer : Pt Ravi Shankar 5.who awarded in 65th cannes film festival as best actor ? Answer: Mads Mikkelsen 6. Rahul Battachary who is an Indian won British friction prize on ? Answer: Literature SPORTS & GAMES 1.Who had won the World Snooker Title for 2012 held at Sheffield? Answer: Ronnie OSullivan

2.What is the new national record set by Krishna Poonia atTrack crew Throwdown Meet recently in Hawaii? Answer : 64.76m 3. Who had won the World Cup Title recently held at Antalya, Turkey? Answer: Deepika Kumari 4. Who had won the Madrid Mens Open title held at Madrid , Spain recently? Answer: Roger Federar 5. Who had won the National Junior Boxing championship for 2012 Answer: Manjeet Singh 6. Sania-Mattek pair recently won which title? Answer: Brussel open Title 7. who won orange cap in IPL-5 ? Answer : Chris Gale (RCB) 8. The total 6s in th IPL is Answer: 728 9. Formulae one Manacco Grand pix won by ? Answer: Mark Weber 10.the winner of thomas cup in London olympics is ? Answer: Lin danled(china) 11. chattisgardh girls and boy clinch national tites on which game ? Answer : Basket ball 12. Grand master Anand belongs to which state in India? Answer: Chennai ECONOMY 1.Which state topped the list of highest per capita income in the country with 1,92,652 rupees? Answer: Goa 2.The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided assistance of how many USD aid to India?

Answer: $6.25 billion 3. What are the norms called for the implementation of the new global capital adequacy which was directed by the RBI to Indian Banks? Answer: Basel-III 4. Andhrapradesh high court invalidated which % sub-quato for Minority? Answer: 4.5% SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1. Which country had recently test fired a short range ballistic missile ? Answer: Pakistan 2. Which country has launched TMA-04M rocket recently? Answer: Russia 3.India test fired the which type of Akash Missile recently? Answer: Surface to air 4. pakistan test fired Nuclear capable _______ Missile ? Answer: Hatf9 PERSONS IN NEWS a)Appointments 1. Name the Vatican Envoy to India and Nepal, who inaugurated A.P Mission Congress? Answer : Sarvotore Pennacchio 2. Who has been appointed as the German ambassador to India recently? Answer: Michael steiner 3. who selected as a member of Borad Federation Against drugs from India? Answer : Kiran Bedi b) Resigns 1. Who is Snooker champion announced his retirement recently? Answer : Stephen Hendry 2. Who is the Indian American scientist quits from top energy post recently?

Answer : Apunava Majumdar 3. who is vice president and CCO of infosys Bpo reginesed recently? Answer: Ritesh Idnani c)Deaths 1.Who is the Afghan peace negotiator shot dead recently? Answer : Arsalan Rahmani Daulat 2. Who is the Mexican novelist played dominant role in Latin America died recently? Answer : d)Visitors 1. Who is the EU Ambassador to India visited Nagaland to interact with chamber of commerce and industry recently? Answer: Joao Cravinho 2. who is the democracy Icon in Myanmar ,first visit to abroad in 24years is ? Answer: Aung san suu kyi e)Miscellaneous 1. Where is the worlds largest temple is going to be built by Mahavir Mandir trust? Answer : Bihar 2. At which place the Awan ka Cinema film festival is going to be organized? Answer : Kargil 3. Tallest residential building princess tower located at ? Answer : Dubai 4. Worlds richest lady according to business review weekly ? Answer : Gina Rinehart 5. who is the present president of myanmar ? Answer: Theinsein DAYS & DATES 1. The laughter day is celebrated on which day? Answer: First Sunday of May every month Carlos Fuentes

2. Anti tobacco day is celebrated on which day? Answer : May 31st BOOKS IN NEWS 1. Who is the author of the book Harbinger of Social Justic ? Answer: Sarah Booth

COMMITTEES 1.Where was the 47th IAC committee meeting of NDA held? Answer: Khadakwasla Places in News 1. In which region of Italy faced powerfull earth quake ? Answer: north eastern region

December 2012 Current Affairs Bit Bank

INTERNATIONAL
1. Who announced a $10 million donation for a global war chest to educate all girls by 2015 set up in the name of Malala Yousafzai? Ans: Pakistans President Asif Ali Zardari 2. Who elected as a Prime Minister with a clear victory over the Prime Minister and leader of the Democratic Party of Japan(DPJ) Yoshihiko Noda in the Parliament elections of Japan on 26 December 2012? Ans: Shinzo Abe 3. Who is Ans: Park Chung-hee the first woman President of South Korea?

4. Which bill that will give intelligence and security agencies sweeping powers to conduct surveillance passed by Pakistans National Assembly on 20 December 2012? Ans: Fair Trial Bill 2012 5) Which state the Pakistan Government officially recognised as an independent state on 26 December 2012? Ans:Kosovo

INDIA & WORLD

1. Who is the Bihars State Chief minister recently among Foreign Policy magazine The Top 100 Global Thinkers List ? Ans: Nitish Kumar

2. Which Country had agreed to set up barbed wire Fencing along Tripura border on 2 December 2012? Ans: Bangladesh 3. Which Ans: Ukraine country signed with India on 10 December 2012 on five pacts?

4. According to the 2011 Britain population census record what percent of the Hindu religion became a thirdlargest religion in the Nations ? Ans: 1.5 % 5. According to the which survey report India nonetheless has one of the largest Muslim populations in the world ? Ans: Pew research

NATIONAL
1. Which Criminal Law bill Passed Ans: Sexual Assault a Gender-Neutral Offence by Lok Sabha on 4 December 2012 ?

2. On 7 December 2012 The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) cleared a major expansion plan of the strategic Karwar naval base Phase II Alpha of the project Seabird in Ans: Karnataka 3. Which bill providing for quota for SCs and STs in government job promotions was on 2012 December 17 passed by Rajya Sabha? Ans: Constitution 117th Amendment Bill 4. The Union Government of India on 23 December 2012 constituted a three-member Commission to suggest measures for saftey of women.Who is the head of this Commiitte? Ans: Former Chief Justice of India J.S. Verma 5. On 25 December 2012 Government of India decided to set up five-year project for restoring the overall which structure of critical sectors of India? Ans: Cyber Security 6. Which amendment bill 2011 have Ans: Banking Laws Amendment Bill, 2011 been passed by Lok Sabha on 20 December 2012?

7. Whose commission appointed for Delhi incident victim Nirbhayas Case on December 2012? Ans: Usha mehra

STATES
1. Which Scheme announced Ans: Special Health Scheme 2. Which state Ans: Meghalaya Lokayukta Bill, by Assam government on 12 December 2012 ?

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3. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi was launched a major food security programme of Delhi Government on 15 December 2012. What is the name of the program? Ans: Annshri Yojna

4. Which state government on 17 December 2012 ordered a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the matter of multi-crore irrigation scam? Ans: Maharashtra 5. Which State had became the first state that announced some measures for making public transport safer via use of technology on 23 December 2012? Ans: Karnataka

CONFERENCE
1. What is the theme of ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit held from 20 21 December 2012 in New Delhi ? Ans: ASEAN India Partnership for Peace and Shared Prosperity 2. Which Ans: Poland of the following country will host the Climate Conference in 2013?

AWARDS & HONOURS

1. Who was honoured with award of National Tansen Samman for year 2011 -12 for their contribution to Hindustani classical music? Ans: Rajan and Sajan 2. Which state received the Silver Icon Web Ratna Award 2012 for its public grievance redressal website? Ans: Bihar 3. Who received the Yuri Milner Foundation award for the work on black holes and in the discovery of a new subatomic particle believed to be the long-sought Higgs boson? Ans: Stephen Hawking 4. Who will be honoured with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously and he is also the first Indian to got this award? Ans: Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar 5. Who is former BBC correspondent had been conferred with Lifetime Achievement Award for 2012 on 16 December 2012? Ans: Sir Charles Wheeler 6. Who is the Indian-origin girl won the prestigious a wildlife conservation award in South Africa ? Ans: Afeefah Patel 7. Who was honoured Ans: C. Govindarajanar with Tolkappiyar award by the President on 21 December 2012?

8. Who is the Bollywood actor attended the Italys River to River Film Festival from India and honoured by the Government of Italy Ans: Amitabh Bachchan 9. Who became the first Emirati and Arab to win the Tagore Peace Prize on 26 December 2012? Ans: Shihab Ghanem 10. W ho was honoured with Canadas Highest Civilian Award the Order of Canada in December 2012? Ans: Venkatesh Mannar

SPORTS & GAMES

1. Who won the 23rd Lal Bahadur Shastri hockey tournament at the Shivaji Stadium New Delhi on 4 December 2012? Ans: Air India 2. Who set the record for most goals in a calender year by scoring his 86th goal of 2012? Ans: Barcelonas soccer player Lionel Messi 3. Who was named Swiss Female athlete of the year at the 2012 Credit Suisse Sports Awards on 16 December 2012 in Zurich ? Ans: Nicola Spirig 4. Who had been named the AIFF (All India Football Federation) Player of the Year on 20 December 2012? Ans: Rahim Nabi 5. Who is the Ans: Sachin Tendulkar 6. Who won Ans: Kashyap Parupalli Indian cricketer retired from ODIs on 23 December 2012?

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7. Which country won the Asian Mens Hockey Champions Trophy 2012 in Qatar on 26 December 2012? Ans: Pakistan 8. Who won Ans: Aman Indora the gold medal for India in Azerbaijan boxing tourney?

9. Who won the World Tennis Championship title on 29 December 2012 in Abu Dhabi ? Ans: Novak Djokovic 10. Who got the gold medal in the mens rapid fire pistol event at the 56th National Shooting Championship in New Delhi? Ans: Vijay Kumar 11. Who is the Australian player inducted in the International Cricket Councils Hall of Fame on 4 January 2013 at the Sydney Cricket Ground? Ans: McGrath

ECONOMY
1. According to US intelligence counsel which country economy dominate the world economy by 2030? Ans: India 2. According to the International Telecommunications Communication Union (ITU) Information Society 2012 Observe report number of cell phone connections exceeding the worlds population by Ans: 2014 3. How much amount was loss by India in the form of black money during the period 2001 to 2010? Ans: $123 billion

4. According to an Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) survey which business group in India perceived to be Indias best-known global brand within and outside the country? Ans: Tata Group

SCIENCE & TECNOLOGY

1. What is the name of the scientist developed Smart Phone application to easily observe the heart beat of a patient? Ans: Jems Haythers 2. Which country scientists were developed a new technology that allows electronic messages sent from mobile phones to be directly projected on to contact lens placed in the recipients eyes? Ans: Belgian 3. What are the Ans: Ebb and Flow names of NASAs twin probes crashed successfully onto Lunar Mountain?

4. Which discovery top placed in Journal Sciences 2012 Top 10 list released on 22 December 2012 ? Ans: Discovery of the Higgs Boson 5. What is the name of protein found by the Chris Ormandy, researcher of Sydneys Garvan Institute to makes breast cancer tumours more aggressive and resistant to treatment? Ans: ELF5

PERSONS IN NEWS APPOINTMENTS

1. Who was appointed Ans: Parthasarathy Shome 2. Who appointed Ans: Vijay Kumar 3. Who elected Ans: Vinod Rai as as Adviser to Finance Minister of India on 6 December 2012?

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5. Who is the first woman president of Chicago-based Federation of Indian Associations (FIA)? Ans: Rita Singh 6. Who was appointed as the new chief of Border Security Force(BSF) on 18 December 2012? Ans: Subhash Joshi 7. Who sworn as the new Chief Minister of Gujarath for 4th consecutive time on 26 December 2012? Ans: Narendra Modi

RESIGNS

1. Who is the Singapores Parliament speaker resigned on 12 December 2012 over an extramarital affair with a staff member of the Peoples Association? Ans: Michael Palmer 2. Who is the Israeli Foreign Minister submitted his resignation on 16 December 2012 due to a pending indictment against him for fraud and breach of trust? Ans: Avigdor Lieberman

DEATHS
1. Who is Ans: Besse Cooper 2. Who is Ans: Yao Defen the worlds oldest woman died on 4 December 2012?

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3. Who is the Britist astronomer and Who was a former president of the British Astronomical Association passes away on 9 December 2012? Ans: Sir Patrick Moore 4. Who is the former Ranji cricketer ,who did the highest score in the first class cricket died on 11 december 2012? Ans: BB Nimbalkar 5. Who is the Sitar maestro and the receiver of Bharat Ratna passes away in San Diego on 11 December 2012? Ans: Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar 6. Who is the co-inventor Ans: Norman Joseph of bar code with Bernad Silver died on 9 December 2012?

7. Who is the the worlds oldest person and a resident of Iowa, had died on 17 December 2012 in Johnston? Ans: Dina Manfredini 8. Who is the former hockey player and Donee of Padma Shree award died on 20 December 2012? Ans: Leslie Claudius

VISITORS
1. Who is the Ans: haled Meshaal Palestnian Hamas leader visited the Gaza on 6th December 2012?

2. Who is the Pakistans Ans: Rehman Malik

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MISCELLANEOUS
1. Which country person Jiroemon Kimura (115 years) had been named the new oldest person in the world by Guinness World Records on 18 December 2012 ? Ans: Japan

2. Harvard Business Review (HBR) prepared a 100 best performing global chief executives list.Who was the first among the Indian CEOs featured in this list? Ans: Subir Raha

PLACES IN NEWS
1. Which of the following country was hit by the powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 on 7 December 2012? Ans: Japan

ABBREVIATIONS
1. What is the full of U N Ans: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2. G A Ans: General Anti Avoidance Rules A R F C C C . ?

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BOOKS IN NEWS
1. Who is the author of Former India opener Late Pankaj Roy Book Pankaj, Bengal`s Forgotten Hero? Ans: Bengali sports journalist Gautam Bhattacharya 2.What is the name Ans: My Tryst with Justice of a book written by Former Chief Justice P N Bhagwati?

3. What is the name of the M.S. Subbulakshmi Ans: M.S. Subbulakshmi Queen of Carnatic Music

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COMMITTEES
1. Whose Committee had appointed by Market regulator Sebi to frame a single set of guidelines for all types of foreign investors? Ans: K.M. Chandrashekhar

Union Public Service Commission Combined Defence Services Examination Datex- 18 09 2011 1) A recent survey ( by Bloomberg ) shows that the USA has fallen behind emerging markets in Brazil, China and India as the preferred place to invest. Why is it so ? 1) unstable economic situation of the USA which the global investors feel not likely to improve in the near future. 2) Global investors are finding Brazil, China and India to be actually more amenable to foreign investment Ans 2

2) On 15th March 2011, foreign ministers of G 8 nations failed to reach an agreement on military action against Libya because : 1) Germany and Russia blocked flight restrictions sought by Britain and France 2) French attempt for a no fly zone could not reach consensus 3) United Nations has been non supportive for any kind of action against Libya Ans 1 & 2

3) South Pacific Island Nation Samoa, positioned to the east of the International Date Line, on May 2011 decided to forego a day and shift to the time zone on its west. The reason for this shifting is to 1) facilitate smooth Internal administration through out the country 2) attain political stability in the country 3) facilitate trade with Australia and New Zealand 4) promote tourism industry in the country Ans 3

4) Which of the following changes have been brought in Egypt after the recent popular uprising that overthhrew President Hosni Mubarak ? 1) Adopting a new constitution 2) Reducing presidential terms from 6 years to 4 years 3) Limiting the president to two terms 4) Presidential candidate must be over 40 years Ans 1 & 2

5) Which one of the following teams won the maximum number of gold medals in the 34th National Games 2011 held in Jharkhand ? 1) Manipur 2) Services 3) Haryana

4) Maharashtra Ans 2

6) Who among the following was chosen for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2010 ? 1) K. Balachander 2) D. Ramanaidu 3) V. K. Murthy 4) Adoor Gopalakrishnan Ans 1

7) The Shillong Declaration , in news recently, was on 1) Food Security Act 2) Right to Education Act 3) Prevention of Corruption Act 4) Right to Information Act Ans 4

8) According to the Census 2011, which one among the following Union Territories has the least population ? 1) Daman and Diu 2) Dadra and Nagar Haveli 3) Lakshadweep 4) Puducherry Ans 3

Union Public Service Commission Combined Defence Services Exam February 2011

1. The Civil Liability of Nuclear Damage Bill, passed in the Lok Sabha on August 2010, does not make provision for 1. establishment of claims commission and appointment of claims commissioner 2. a liability cap of Rs. 1,500 crore on an operator in case of an accident 3. a liability cap of Rs. 1,500 crore also on the Government of India in case of an accident 4. liability of the operator even if an accident is unintentional Ans 1

2. In August 2010, a container ship had collided with another ship in the Arabian Sea near Mumbai. Which one of the following was the consequence of that ? 1. The container ship was not damaged 2. The container ship sank and the entire oil of the ship spilled in the sea causing great damage to the aquatic lives 3. The container ship was tilted, some boxes fell into the sea, some moderate scale of oil spill took place and subsequently the ship was made upright 4. The container ship was just tilted and subsequently made upright Ans 3

3. In August 2010, Russian President hosted a summit of four nations to discuss about the menace of terrorism and narcotics at the Black Sea Resort Sochi. The countries attended were 1. Brazil, Russia, India and China 2. Russia, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan 3. Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan 4. Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan Ans 4

4.According to Goldman Sachs review of emerging economies, by 2050 which one of the following would be the order of the largest economies in the world ? 1. China USA India Brazil Mexico

2. USA China India Brazil Mexico 3. China USA Brazil India Mexico 4. USA Mexico China India Brazil Ans 1

5. Which one among the following is not true regarding the draft National Food Security Bill ? 1. Every BPL family in the country shall be entitled to 25 kg of wheat or rice per month @ Rs. 3 per kg 2. The distribution will be on universal entitlement by ensuring coverage of every adult under the public distribution scheme 3. The Central Government shall allocate required quantity of wheat and / or rice from the central pool to State Governments, which will be distributed through fair price shops 4. The draft Bill has been cleared by the Group of Ministers for discussion in the Cabinet Ans -4

6. Currently half of the worlds population live in just 6 countries. Identify them from the following 1. India, China, Pakistan, Brazil, Bangladesh, Indonesia 2. India, China, Bangladesh, South Africa, Pakistan, Indonesia 3. China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan 4. China, India, Bamgladesh, Unites States, Pakistan, Indonesia Ans 3