Q Sivathanu Pillai has been given the Padma Bhushan award by President Pranab Mukherjee recently. The distinguished scientist is the chief of which of the following programmes?
1) Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme2) BrahMos Aerospace 3) Agni-V 4) K-15
Ans.) 2
Q For the effective implementation of policies and programmes chartered out in the 12th Five Year Plan, planning commission has come with a new initiative, IBIN. What is the full form of the same?
1) India Backbone Initiative Network 2) India Broader Implementation Network
3) India Backbone Implementation Network 4) India Broad-based Implementation Norms
Ans.) 3
Q National Panchayati Raj Diwas is observed on which of the following dates to mark the passing of the Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992, which institutionalized Panchayati Raj.
1) April 21 2) April 22 3) April 23 4) April 24
Ans.) 4
Q Union
Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles, Anand Sharma launched 21
New Textile Parks recently.These Parks approved under Scheme for
Integrated Textile Parks (SITP) take the total number of parks to ___ in
the country.
1) 51 2) 55 3) 61 4) 72
Ans.) 3
Q Italy’s Parliament elected who amongst the following as the new president of the country?
1) Romano Prodi 2) Marco Antonio Bertolotti 3) Lamberto Dini 4) Giorgio Napolitano
Ans.) 4
Q Who amongst the following has been named as the Prime Minister-Designate by the President of Italy recently?
1) Enrico Letta 2) Silvio Berlusconi 3) Mario Monti 4) Giuliano Amato
Ans.) 1
Q Archana Bhargava has been appointed as the Chairman and the Managing Director of which of the following banks recently?
1) Bank of Baroda 2) United Bank of India 3) Union Bank of India 4) Canara Bank
Ans.) 2
Q The
deal sealed between Jet Airways and the Etihad Airways was in news
recently. The board of directors of Jet Airways has approved a proposal
to allot ______ stake to Etihad Airways.
1) 10 per cent 2) 12 per cent 3) 20 per cent 4) 24 per cent
Ans.) 4
Q Indian businesses and consumers will soon be able to check the authenticity of a product with the help of a mobile phone application.Name the application which is being developed by the Interpol.
1) I-Register 2) I-Checkit 3) Info-world 4) I-Sure
Ans.) 2
Q Name the European country which parliament has recently passed a bill that would make smoking in the presence of children equal to an act of physical violence.
1) Greece 2) Finland 3) Latvia 4) Denmark
Ans.) 3
Q Which of the following countries has joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) as a dialogue partner
recently? China, Russia and four Central Asian nations Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the SCO in 2001 as a
regional security bloc.
1) Turkey 2) Afghanistan 3) Turkmenistan 4) Azerbaijan
Ans.) 1
Q The
Technical Expert Committee (TEC), appointed by the Supreme Court, has
called for a moratorium of how many years on open field trials of Bt
food crops until adequate regulatory mechanisms and safety standards are
put in place?
1) 2-years 2) 5-years 3) 10-years 4) 15-years
Ans.) 3
Q The government has set up a six-member inter-ministerial committee to suggest measures to boost Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) exports. This committee is headed by
1) Ajit Kumar Seth 2) Pulok Chatterji 3) Omita Paul 4) RS Gujral
Ans.) 4
Q Which of the following cities has been finalised as the venue of the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to be held in November?
1) Canberra 2) New Delhi 3) Colombo 4) Naypyidaw
Ans.) 3
Q What is the expanded form of ECGC as used in banking/financial sector?
1) Export Creditors’ Guarantee Corporation of India 2) Export Credential Guarantee Corporation of India 3) Export Credit Garnering Corporation of India 4) Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India
Ans.) 4
Q Name the person who has been listed by the Forbes as the first billionaire of Nepal with a net worth of $ 1-billion recenlty. He is also known as the noodle billionaire for his Wai Wai noodles.
1) Krishna Prasad Bhattarai 2) Upendra Mahato 3) Binod Chaudhary 4) Min Bahadur Gurung
Ans.) 3
Q Name the Indian who has won Whitley Award recently, an international nature conservation prize dubbed as‘Green Oscar’.
1) Aparajita Datta 2) Anil Agarwal Madhay 3) Maneka Gandhi 4) Medha Patkar
Ans.) 1
Q Which of the following countries is hosting the 19th edition of the biennial event, Commonwealth Table Tennis championship 2013?
1) Sri Lanka 2) India 3) Australia 4) South Africa
Ans.) 2
Q With the fluctuating gold price in international markets, the demand for gold ETFs is picking pace in India. What is the full form of ETF as used in banking/financial parlance?
1) Extensively Traded Fund 2) Exchange Traded Fund 3) Exchange Trusted Fund 4) Easily Transferable Fund
Ans.) 2
Q India has gifted a Dornier 228 aircraft for maritime surveillance to which of the following countries recently?This is in response to a request from the Government of this country.
1) Zaire 2) Mozambique 3) Seychelles 4) Maldives
Ans.) 3
Q The World Thalassaemia Day is observed on which of the following dates? This year’s Thalassaemia International Federation (TIF) theme is “The right for quality health care of every patient with thalassaemia: major and beyond”.
1) May 7 2) May 8 3) May 9 4) May 12
Ans.) 2
Q In a bid to simplify the rules governing overseas investors in India, the government is planning to introduce a new
classification for investors that do not come under the foreign direct
investment (FDI) route. The new class is called FPI which stands for
1) Foreign Priority Investors 2) Foreign Portfolio Investors
3)Foreign Preferential Investors 4) Foreign Parallel Investors
Ans.) 2
Q The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is gearing up for a trial of plastic currency notes as on an average, about _________ paper notes in circulation get disposed of every year.
1) 5 per cent 2) 10 per cent 3) 15 per cent 4) 20 per cent
Ans.) 4
Q The 20th Asian Athletics Championship is scheduled to be held in which of the following Indian cities in the month of July this year?
1) Chennai 2) Bangalore 3) New Delhi 4) Ahmedabad
Ans.) 3
Q According to a report of the parliamentary standing committee on finance, between March 2011 and December 2012 alone, the public sector banks’ corporate loans worth _______crore have turned into bad debts (NPA).
1) Rs 63,000 crore 2) Rs 75,000 crore 3) Rs 83,000 crore 4) Rs 95,000 crore
Ans.) 3
Q The hope of Bihar getting a backward state status has grown stronger with a committee has been announced
to be formed that will evolve new criteria for backwardness of states
and submit the report to the Centre within a month. This committee will
be headed by
1) P Chidambaram 2) Raghuram Rajan 3) Montek Singh Ahluwalia 4) Jairam Ramesh
Ans.) 2
Q India and which of the following countries has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Technical Cooperation in the field of Spatial Planning, Water Management and Mobility Management recently?
1) Poland 2) Netherlands 3) Belgium 4) Argentina
Ans.) 2
Q Despite efforts to ramp up indigenous coal production, the Planning Commission feels that India will still face a shortfall of about_______of coal by the end of the 12th Plan period.
1) 50 million tonnes 2) 100 million tonnes 3) 150 million tonnes 4) 200 million tonnes
Ans.) 4
Q The Padma Bhushan awardee writer from India, UR Ananthamurthy, is in the running for the Man Booker International Prize 2013. He writes in which of the following languages?
1) Tamil 2) Hindi 3) English 4) Kannada
Ans.) 4
Q India and China have firmed up eight agreements during the recent visit of Chinese premier Li Keqiang to New Delhi. The two countries have set a target of _______by 2015 for bilateral trade.
1) USD 50 billion 2) USD 65 billion 3) USD 75 billion 4) USD 100 billion
Ans.) 4
QAs different regulatory bodies have been set up to regulate different sectors, chit funds in India are regulated by which of the following institutions?
1) RBI 2) State governments 3) Sebi 4) IRDA
Ans.) 2
Q The Inflation-Indexed bonds announced by the government will make their debut in the month of June. These bonds, initially, will be indexed against
1) Wholesale Price Index 2) Consumer Price Index 3) Sensex 4) Nifty
Ans.) 1
Q The novelist, short story writer, poet and critic Ravuri Bharadwaja has been selected for the prestigious Jnanpith award for the year 2012. He writes in which of the following languages?
1) Oriya 2) Hindi 3) Telugu 4) Urdu
Ans.) 3
Q Kankasanthurai harbour, which is being built with India’s assistance, is situated in which of the following countries?
1) Iran 2) Bangladesh 3) Sri Lanka 4) Maldives
Ans.) 3
Q The
12th SAARC LAW Annual Conference and the 9th SAARC Chief Justices
Conference were organised in which of the following places recently?
1) Thimphu 2) Kabul 3) Chennai 4) Dhaka
Ans.) 1
Q African Union leaders met in Addis Ababa for the 50th anniversary celebrations of the bloc recently. Addis Ababa is the capital city of
1) Ethiopia 2) Cameroon 3) Nigeria 4) Chad
Ans.) 1
Q Name the bank which has announced to launch first-of-its-kind debit-cum-credit card within a month. This card will perform the dual function of being both a credit and debit card.
1) Central Bank of India 2) State Bank of India 3) Bank of Baroda 4) Bank of India
Ans.) 1
Q The
multi-purpose Kishau dam, which will generate 660 MW of electricity,
besides providing irrigation facility, will come up on which of the
following rivers?
1) Tons 2) Manjira 3) Godavari 4) Penna
Ans.) 1
Q The Asian Athletic Championship is set to be organised at which of the following places in India?
1) Chennai 2) New Delhi 3) Pune 4) Mumbai
Ans.) 3
Q The Vienna headquartered OPEC supplies about 35 per cent of the global oil supplies. Expanded the term OPEC.
1) Organisation of Petroleum Exploring Countries 2) Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
3) Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Companies 4) Organisation of Petroleum Exploring Companies
Ans.) 2
Q The
National Green Tribunal (NGT) has allowed the Sterlite Industries
Limited to commence operation of its copper plant in Tamil Nadu
recently. Who among the following is the chairman of the NGT at present?
1) SB Sinha 2) Swatanter Kumar 3) Syed Nazim Husain Zaidi 4) VS Sirpukar
Ans.) 2
Q The
United Nations Organisation for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO)
has recently designated the Great Nicobar Islands as biosphere reserve.
It is now ____Indian reserve in UNESCO world network.
1) Third 2) Fifth 3) Seventh 4) Ninth
Ans.) 4
Q The new sanctions imposed by the US on Iran has targeted its currency and auto industry seeking to render Iranian money useless outside the country. Name the currency of Iran.
1) Dinar 2) Lira 3) Dirham 4) Rial
Ans.) 4
Q Which of the following type of contract is ‘interest rate swap’?
1) Trade Contract 2) Loan Contract 3) Financial Contract 4) Risk Contract
Ans.) 3
