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Current affairs for 2012

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Q 1.) In which city of the world, a two-day Nuclear Security Summit was held in March,2012, in which the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh represented India?
a) Vienna            
b) Washington
c) Beijing
d) Seoul        
      
Q 2.) Recently the original text of Bhagavad Gita has been translated into which of the following language?
a) Russian           
b) French
c) Polish              
d) German        

Q 3.) The Security Council of the United Nations consists of 5 permanent members and the remaining 10 members are elected by the General Assembly for a term of:
a) One year       
b) Two years
c) Three years  
d) Four years

Q 4.)  Who among the following was appointed as a director on board of Bank of America – the first non-American on the board of the one of the largest financial institutions in the world?
a) Azim Premji  
b) Ratan Tata
c) Mukesh Ambani         
d) KV Kamath   

Q 5.) Which of the following pairs of books and authors is not correctly matched?
a) The Audacity of Hope – Bill Clinton     
b) Lucknow Boy – Vinod Mehta
c) An Argumentative Indian – Amartya Sen         
d) The Sense of an Indian –Julian Barnes 

             

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Q 6.) The National Housing Bank was set up in India as a wholly-owned subsidiary of which one of the following?
a) State Bank of India    
b) Reserve Bank of India
c) ICICI Bank      
d) NABARD       
 
Q 7.) Which of the following country celebrates its Independence and National Day on 27th March?
a) Bangladesh   
b) Nepal
c) Bhutan            
d) Sri Lanka    
    
Q 8.) Name the new Chairman for the Bar Council of Delhi.
a) Rajeev Khosla              
b) Vijay Kumar Sondhi
c) Adish C Aggarwala     
d) Ramesh Gupta     
       
Q 9.) In a quiet, yet significant exception to its transit policy for Indian goods, Pakistan for the first time has opened Karachi port to let Indian wheat pass through its territory to which of the following country?
a) Uzbekistan   
b) Iran
c) Tajikistan       
d) Afghanistan

Q 10.)  In which of the following Indian cities Metro system comes under the Indian Railways?
a) Delhi Metro  
b) Bangalore Metro
c) Kolkata Metro             
d) Jaipur Metro

Q 11.) Which of the following is a newly introduced saving scheme with 10-year maturity by the Post Office of India rate of which has been increased by 50 points?
a) National Saving Certificate     
b) Public Provident Fund
c) Post Office Time Deposit        
d) National Savings Scheme

Q 12.) The term ‘BSR’ refers to:
a) Bank’s Selling Rate    
b) Basic Statistical Returns
c)Annual returns submitted by banks to RBI in respect of priority sector advances           
d)Quarterly statement of advances to agriculture  
          
Q 13.) Who has been elected as the new President of Senegal?
a) Abdoulaye Wade       
b) Macky Sall
c) Abdou Diouf 
d) Leopold Sedar   
          
Q 14.) Reserve Bank of India (RBI), with regard to RTGS, has decided that:
a) RTGS would be accessible to all retail customers          
b) There would be no floor ceiling for routing transactions through RTGS
c) Settlement of transactions of the clearing corporation of India and the stock market would be conducted through RTGS               
d) All of the above 
         
Q 15.) Which Indian discus thrower has qualified for this year’s Olympic?
a) Krishna Poonia            
b) Seema Antil
c) Vikas Gowda
d) Harwant Kaur   
           
Q 16.) Which state of India has recently started the process to export one lakh metric tonnes of potatoes to Malaysia?
a) Uttar Pradesh              
b) Haryana
c) Madhya Pradesh        
d) Maharashtra

Q 17.)  In which city of Rajasthan after establishing a quail farming centre some time ago, the University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences has started an emu breeding centre in the college campus?
a) Jaipur              
b) Bharatpur
c) Bikaner           
d) Jodhpur  
       
Q 18.) In which country the foreign currency denominated bonds “Bulldog Bonds” are issued?
a) US    
b) UK
c) Japan               
d) India

Q 19.) At which of the following places in India, an international conference on ‘Women in science and engineering’ is scheduled to be held shortly?
a) Madurai         
b) Sikar
c) Bahraich         
d) Bangalore 
    
Q 20.) At which of the following places the session of the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), where the decision will be taken whether to include Western Ghats in India as a World Heritage Site?
a) Paris
b) Rome
c) New Delhi     
d) St Petersburg

Q 21.)  Which Indian boxer settled for a silver medal at Czech Grand Prix?
a) Shiva Thapa  
b) Vikas Krishan
c) Jai Bhagwan  
d) Sumit Sangwan 
          
Q 22.)   On the current account balances maintained by the Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) with them, the commercial banks may:
a) Pay interest up to 9 per cent 
b) Waive incidental charges
c) Pay interest as applicable to saving accounts 
d) Pay interest at such rates as may be mutually agreed to   
       
Q 23.) To protest against pollution in the Ganga, which guru was on hunger strike recently?
a) Baba Ramdev              
b) Swami Gyan Swaroopanand
c) Guru Swami Shivananda         
d) Swami Nigamananda 
              
Q 24.) Which bank has approved credit to support India’s project called Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan?
a) World Bank   
b) International Monetary Fund
c) Asian Development Bank       
d) International Development Bank  
     
Q 25.) After sixty four years of Independence which Indian state saw a locomotive train for the first time recently?
a) Arunachal Pradesh    
b) Nagaland
c) Mizoram        
d) Manipur

Q 26.) Recently which insurance company has reduced its term insurance rates?
a) SBI Life           
b) Kotak Life
c) ICICI Prudential Life   
d) Life Insurance Corporation of India   
 
Q 27.) The Finance Ministry has constituted a 12-member advisory group on international taxation headed by
a) Revenue Secretary   
b) Board of Direct Taxes
c) Director General of International Taxation      
d) FICCI

Q 28.) Which Indian state has ranked third in the country as far as per capita deposits are concerned?
a) Delhi
b) Chandigarh
c) Goa  
d) Ahmadabad 

Q 29.)  In the context of Indian news in recent times, what is MCX-SX?
a) A kind of super computer      
b) Title of Mars Impact Probe
c) Stock Exchange           
d) Banking industry

Q 30.) In Railway Budget 2012-13, a Railway Design Centre is proposed to be set up in which college campus?
a) Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur      
b) National Institute of Technology, Calicut         
c) International Institute of Fashion Design, Pune
d) National Institute of Design, Ahmadabad    
   
ANSWERS:

1.
d
9.
d
17.
c
25.
d
2.
c
10.
c
18.
b
26.
d
3.
b
11.
d
19.
b
27.
a
4.
c
12.
b
20.
d
28.
c
5.
a
13.
b
21.
a
29.
c
6.
b
14.
d
22.
d
30.
d
7.
a
15.
b
23.
b


8.
c
16.
b
24.
a




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