For Sept Current Affairs Part1;Part III
Q Chinese navy conducted the largest-ever joint naval drills with which of the following countries in the Sea of Japan recently?
1) North Korea 2) Pakistan 3) Iran 4) Russia
Ans.) 4
Q President Pranab Mukherjee praised the Indian Statistical Institute for its exemplary contribution in research, teaching and application of statistics, natural and social sciences addressing the Council Members of the Institute recently. The institute is based in
1) New Delhi 2) Mumbai 3) Kolkata 4) Chennai
Ans.) 3
Q The Supreme Court directed all states to pay acid attack victims a new compensation towards medical treatment and aftercare rehabilitation pointing out that the compensation notified earlier was negligible. What is the new compensation?
1) Rs 50,000 2) Rs 1 lakh 3) Rs 2 lakh 4) Rs 3 lakh
Ans.) 4
Q Who among the following has been selected for the prestigious Lokmanya Tilak award for 2013?
1) Amartya Sen 2) Jagdish Bhagwati3) Kiran Bedi 4) E Sreedharan
Ans.) 4
Q Who among the following is set to become the first woman managing director at the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India in its near six decades of existence?
1) Kishori J Udeshi 2) Usha Thorat 3) Shyamala Gopinath 4) Usha Sangwan
Ans.) 4
Q India beat which of the following nations 1-0 to lift the South Asian Football Federation Under-16 Championships title recently?
1) Pakistan 2) Nepal 3) Malaysia 4) Bangladesh
Ans.) 2
Q In a move to help transgenders and bring them into the social mainstream, which of the following state govts has announced a new scheme called “Mythri”?
1) Gujarat 2) Madhya Prasesh 3) Karnataka 4) Tamil Nadu
Ans.) 3
Q Who among the following has been selected to be honoured with the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi National Sadhbhavna Award for his contribution towards promotion of communal harmony and peace?
1) Alla Rakha 2) Hariprasad Chaurasia 3) Amjad Ali Khan 4) Shivkumar Sharma 5) Ustad Zakir Hussain Ans.) 3
Q India’s no. 1 player Aditya Mehta clinched the gold medal in the World Games defeating China’s Liang Wenbo. Aditya plays?
1) Chess 2) Badminton 3) Snooker 4) Squash
Ans.) 3
Q Which of the following has become the first state in the country to establish State Natural Calamities Relief fund of Rs 125 cr?
Q Chinese navy conducted the largest-ever joint naval drills with which of the following countries in the Sea of Japan recently?
1) North Korea 2) Pakistan 3) Iran 4) Russia
Ans.) 4
Q President Pranab Mukherjee praised the Indian Statistical Institute for its exemplary contribution in research, teaching and application of statistics, natural and social sciences addressing the Council Members of the Institute recently. The institute is based in
1) New Delhi 2) Mumbai 3) Kolkata 4) Chennai
Ans.) 3
Q The Supreme Court directed all states to pay acid attack victims a new compensation towards medical treatment and aftercare rehabilitation pointing out that the compensation notified earlier was negligible. What is the new compensation?
1) Rs 50,000 2) Rs 1 lakh 3) Rs 2 lakh 4) Rs 3 lakh
Ans.) 4
Q Who among the following has been selected for the prestigious Lokmanya Tilak award for 2013?
1) Amartya Sen 2) Jagdish Bhagwati3) Kiran Bedi 4) E Sreedharan
Ans.) 4
Q Who among the following is set to become the first woman managing director at the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India in its near six decades of existence?
1) Kishori J Udeshi 2) Usha Thorat 3) Shyamala Gopinath 4) Usha Sangwan
Ans.) 4
Q India beat which of the following nations 1-0 to lift the South Asian Football Federation Under-16 Championships title recently?
1) Pakistan 2) Nepal 3) Malaysia 4) Bangladesh
Ans.) 2
Q In a move to help transgenders and bring them into the social mainstream, which of the following state govts has announced a new scheme called “Mythri”?
1) Gujarat 2) Madhya Prasesh 3) Karnataka 4) Tamil Nadu
Ans.) 3
Q Who among the following has been selected to be honoured with the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi National Sadhbhavna Award for his contribution towards promotion of communal harmony and peace?
1) Alla Rakha 2) Hariprasad Chaurasia 3) Amjad Ali Khan 4) Shivkumar Sharma 5) Ustad Zakir Hussain Ans.) 3
Q India’s no. 1 player Aditya Mehta clinched the gold medal in the World Games defeating China’s Liang Wenbo. Aditya plays?
1) Chess 2) Badminton 3) Snooker 4) Squash
Ans.) 3
Q Which of the following has become the first state in the country to establish State Natural Calamities Relief fund of Rs 125 cr?
1) Uttarakhand 2) Gujarat 3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Karnataka
Ans.) 4
Q Who among the following has become the first differently-abled Indian to win a gold medal in the recently-held sixth edition of the Para Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France?
1) Devendra Jhajharia 2) RD Singh 3) Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda 4) Sharath Gayakwad
Ans.) 1
Q Name the Indian chess player who has won Politiken Cup in Denmark recently.
1) Pendyala Harikrishna 2) Parimarjan Negi 3) Abhijeet Gupta 4) Krishnan Sasikiran
Ans.) 2
Q As per the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) prescribed guidelines that if a borrower, who has already availed corporate debt restructuring, plans to seek recast for the second time, then banks will have to provide _______as provision.
1) 5 per cent 2) 10 per cent 3) 15 per cent 4) 20 per cent
Ans.) 3
Q The South Korean city of Incheon won the bid to host the 2014 Asian Games over India's New Delhi as announced by the Olympic Council of Asia recently. The inaugural edition of Asian Games was hosted by
1) Beijing, China 2) Jakarta, Indonesia 3) Tokyo, Japan 4) New Delhi, India 5) Manila, Philippines
Ans.) 4
Q Which of the following state has become the first state in the country to disburse salary of its staff through their Aadhaar-linked bank accounts?
1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Rajasthan 3) Maharashtra 4) Delhi
Ans.) 3
Q RITES is the engineering and consultancy arm of Indian Railways. Expand the term RITES.
1) Rail India Technical and Engineering Services 2) Rail India Tourism and Expedition Services
3) Rail India Training and Experimental Services 4) Rail India Technical and Economic Services
Ans.) 4
Q General public can now access over 3,500 govt data banks on a single website having a wealth of information, ranging from beneficiaries under various schemes to industrial output numbers. Name the website.
1) www.info.gov.in 2) www.data.gov.in 3) www.public.nic.in 4) www.govtinfo.nic.in
Ans.) 2
Q The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is considering the recommendation made by Oliver Wyman on an organisational rejig. What is Oliver Wyman?
1) A renowned international economist 2) Adviser to US Secretary of Finance
3) An international consulting firm 4) Advisory arm of IMF
Ans.) 3
Q Which of the following states has decided to recruit 11000 constables and 1500 women police personnel and set up one women police station in each district to curb the crime against women?
1) Punjab 2) Delhi 3) Haryana 4) Uttar Pradesh
Ans.) 3
Q In a major step towards completing its nuclear triad, India activated the atomic reactor on-board the nuclear submarine INS Arihant paving the way for its operational deployment by the Navy. The submarione has been?
1) indigenously developed 2) sourced from France 3) sourced from Russia 4) sourced from Israel
Ans.) 1
Q Indian Table Tennis Players Soumyajit Ghosh and Manika Batra bagged the men’s and women’s singles titles respectively of __________recently.
1) Malaysia Open 2) Singapore Open 3) Brazil Open 4) Indonesia Open
Ans.) 3
Q The typhoon Utor hit which of the following countries recently forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate?
1) Myanmar 2) China 3) Japan 4) South Korea
Ans.) 2
Q Which of the following countries will receive uninterrupted 250 megawatt power supply from India from Sep? This country has already given sovereign guarantee for the power purchase for 25 years to Vidyut Vyapar Nigam, a unit of NTPC.?
1) Nepal 2) Bangladesh 3) Sri Lanka 4) Myanmar
Ans.) 2
Q Nicaragua wants to involve Indian businessmen in a $40-bn project to connect which of the following two oceans by a mammoth canal, longer than the Panama Canal?
1) The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans 2) The Pacific and Indian Oceans
3) The Atlantic and Indian Oceans 4) The Pacific and Arctic Oceans 5) The Atlantic and Arctic Oceans Ans.) 1
Q Name the greenest state of the country with a forest cover 47.3% of its total geographical area which is more than double the national average of 21%? It is also the only state to have increased its forest cover in the past two decades.
1) Arunachal Pradesh 2) Sikkim 3) Assam 4) Kerala5) Maharashtra
Ans.) 2
Q The G20 Leaders' Summit is scheduled to be held in which of the following cities on Sep 5-6, 2013? The G20 is the leading international cooperation forum,focusing on the most important international economic and financial issues.
1) Beijing 2) Jakarta 3) St. Petersburg 4) Kuala Lumpur
Ans.) 3
Q The Election Commission of India (ECI), for the first time in the country, used the Voters Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) system on trial basis during an Assembly Constituency bye-polls in which of the following states recently?
1) Karnataka 2) Haryana 3) Nagaland 4) Assam
Ans.) 3
Q Who among the following has become the first woman Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of the country? She succeeded Satyananda Mishra.
1) Kiran Desai 2) Deepak Sandhu 3) Sujatha Singh 4) Usha Sangwan
Ans.) 2
Q The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in order to screen 26 applications to start bank operations in the country, has set up an external committee under the chairmanship of who among the following?
1) D Subbarao 2) Bimal Jalan 3) Urijit Patel 4) Nachiket Mor
Ans.) 2
Q Name the unmanned spacecraft launched by the US space agency NASA to the Moon recently. The space mission is aimed at studying Moon's atmosphere.
1) Grail 2) Antares 3) Cygnus 4) Ladee
Ans.) 4
Q The 9th World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial conference is scheduled to be held in Dec 2013 at which of the following places?
1) Manila, Philippines 2) Bali, Indonesia 3) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 4) Bangkok, Thailand
Ans.) 2
Q Which of the following is the novel written by the Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri which has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize this year?
1) The Lowland 2) Need New Names 3) A Tale for the Time Being 4) The Testament of Mary 5) Harvest
Ans.) 1
Q Who among the following has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)? He is the first Olympic gold medalist to become president.
1) Jacques Rogge 2) Thomas Bach 3) Richard Carrion 4) Puerto Rican 5) Denis Oswald
Ans.) 2
Ans.) 4
Q Who among the following has become the first differently-abled Indian to win a gold medal in the recently-held sixth edition of the Para Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France?
1) Devendra Jhajharia 2) RD Singh 3) Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda 4) Sharath Gayakwad
Ans.) 1
Q Name the Indian chess player who has won Politiken Cup in Denmark recently.
1) Pendyala Harikrishna 2) Parimarjan Negi 3) Abhijeet Gupta 4) Krishnan Sasikiran
Ans.) 2
Q As per the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) prescribed guidelines that if a borrower, who has already availed corporate debt restructuring, plans to seek recast for the second time, then banks will have to provide _______as provision.
1) 5 per cent 2) 10 per cent 3) 15 per cent 4) 20 per cent
Ans.) 3
Q The South Korean city of Incheon won the bid to host the 2014 Asian Games over India's New Delhi as announced by the Olympic Council of Asia recently. The inaugural edition of Asian Games was hosted by
1) Beijing, China 2) Jakarta, Indonesia 3) Tokyo, Japan 4) New Delhi, India 5) Manila, Philippines
Ans.) 4
Q Which of the following state has become the first state in the country to disburse salary of its staff through their Aadhaar-linked bank accounts?
1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Rajasthan 3) Maharashtra 4) Delhi
Ans.) 3
Q RITES is the engineering and consultancy arm of Indian Railways. Expand the term RITES.
1) Rail India Technical and Engineering Services 2) Rail India Tourism and Expedition Services
3) Rail India Training and Experimental Services 4) Rail India Technical and Economic Services
Ans.) 4
Q General public can now access over 3,500 govt data banks on a single website having a wealth of information, ranging from beneficiaries under various schemes to industrial output numbers. Name the website.
1) www.info.gov.in 2) www.data.gov.in 3) www.public.nic.in 4) www.govtinfo.nic.in
Ans.) 2
Q The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is considering the recommendation made by Oliver Wyman on an organisational rejig. What is Oliver Wyman?
1) A renowned international economist 2) Adviser to US Secretary of Finance
3) An international consulting firm 4) Advisory arm of IMF
Ans.) 3
Q Which of the following states has decided to recruit 11000 constables and 1500 women police personnel and set up one women police station in each district to curb the crime against women?
1) Punjab 2) Delhi 3) Haryana 4) Uttar Pradesh
Ans.) 3
Q In a major step towards completing its nuclear triad, India activated the atomic reactor on-board the nuclear submarine INS Arihant paving the way for its operational deployment by the Navy. The submarione has been?
1) indigenously developed 2) sourced from France 3) sourced from Russia 4) sourced from Israel
Ans.) 1
Q Indian Table Tennis Players Soumyajit Ghosh and Manika Batra bagged the men’s and women’s singles titles respectively of __________recently.
1) Malaysia Open 2) Singapore Open 3) Brazil Open 4) Indonesia Open
Ans.) 3
Q The typhoon Utor hit which of the following countries recently forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate?
1) Myanmar 2) China 3) Japan 4) South Korea
Ans.) 2
Q Which of the following countries will receive uninterrupted 250 megawatt power supply from India from Sep? This country has already given sovereign guarantee for the power purchase for 25 years to Vidyut Vyapar Nigam, a unit of NTPC.?
1) Nepal 2) Bangladesh 3) Sri Lanka 4) Myanmar
Ans.) 2
Q Nicaragua wants to involve Indian businessmen in a $40-bn project to connect which of the following two oceans by a mammoth canal, longer than the Panama Canal?
1) The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans 2) The Pacific and Indian Oceans
3) The Atlantic and Indian Oceans 4) The Pacific and Arctic Oceans 5) The Atlantic and Arctic Oceans Ans.) 1
Q Name the greenest state of the country with a forest cover 47.3% of its total geographical area which is more than double the national average of 21%? It is also the only state to have increased its forest cover in the past two decades.
1) Arunachal Pradesh 2) Sikkim 3) Assam 4) Kerala5) Maharashtra
Ans.) 2
Q The G20 Leaders' Summit is scheduled to be held in which of the following cities on Sep 5-6, 2013? The G20 is the leading international cooperation forum,focusing on the most important international economic and financial issues.
1) Beijing 2) Jakarta 3) St. Petersburg 4) Kuala Lumpur
Ans.) 3
Q The Election Commission of India (ECI), for the first time in the country, used the Voters Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) system on trial basis during an Assembly Constituency bye-polls in which of the following states recently?
1) Karnataka 2) Haryana 3) Nagaland 4) Assam
Ans.) 3
Q Who among the following has become the first woman Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of the country? She succeeded Satyananda Mishra.
1) Kiran Desai 2) Deepak Sandhu 3) Sujatha Singh 4) Usha Sangwan
Ans.) 2
Q The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in order to screen 26 applications to start bank operations in the country, has set up an external committee under the chairmanship of who among the following?
1) D Subbarao 2) Bimal Jalan 3) Urijit Patel 4) Nachiket Mor
Ans.) 2
Q Name the unmanned spacecraft launched by the US space agency NASA to the Moon recently. The space mission is aimed at studying Moon's atmosphere.
1) Grail 2) Antares 3) Cygnus 4) Ladee
Ans.) 4
Q The 9th World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial conference is scheduled to be held in Dec 2013 at which of the following places?
1) Manila, Philippines 2) Bali, Indonesia 3) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 4) Bangkok, Thailand
Ans.) 2
Q Which of the following is the novel written by the Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri which has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize this year?
1) The Lowland 2) Need New Names 3) A Tale for the Time Being 4) The Testament of Mary 5) Harvest
Ans.) 1
Q Who among the following has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)? He is the first Olympic gold medalist to become president.
1) Jacques Rogge 2) Thomas Bach 3) Richard Carrion 4) Puerto Rican 5) Denis Oswald
Ans.) 2
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