Q.1
Union cabinet has given nod to raise FDI in insurance sector to 49 per cent
which was till date restricted to 1) 74% 2)
40% 3) 25% 4) 26% 5) 100%
Q.2
The government has approved the 12th Five Year Plan document in which
allocation for health has increased by 335 per cent with a target of achieving
a total public spending of 1.85 per cent of the GDP. The allocated amount is 1)
Rs 3,00,018 cr 2) Rs 2.00518 cr 3) Rs
1,17,707 cr 4) Rs 2,15,113cr 5) None of these
Q.3
Recently Turkey’s parliament approved a bill authorizing military operation
against Syria after Syrian shelling on Rukish territory. Name the present
Turkish prime minister who led this process. 1) Recep Tyyip Erdogan 2) Reza Rahimiin 3) Abdullah Gut 4) Bulent Ecevit 5) None of these
Q.4
NBFCs (Non-Banking Financial Corporation) which have foreign holding of more
than 75 per cent and up to 100 per cent are now allowed to open any number of
subsidiaries. What is the minimum paid up capital required for NBFCs to avail
the above facility? 1 ) $100 million 2)
$50 million 3) $75 million 4) $125
million 5) None of these
Q.5
Oil India and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) are set to complete acquisition of
30 per cent stake in Carizo Oil and Natural Gas Niobrara Shale Asset for $52.5
million making their foray into 1) Australian market 2) Vietnamese market 3) US
market 4) European market 5) None
of these
Q.6
After acquiring a majority stake in Gujarat Gas Co Ltd (GGCL) for about Rs
2,464 crore the acquiring company is optiong to acquiring another 26 per cent
from the market. Name the company. 1) IOC 2) HPCL 3) ONGC 4)
GSPC 5) None of these
Q.7
After lagging behind in net run rate in current T-20 World Cup 2012 in quarter
final match with South African team, Indian Cricket team fail to make it to
semi-final constructively for 1) three times 2) four times 3) five times
4)
two times 5) None of these
Q.8
Indian football team won Nehru Cup last month and moved a place up in the
latest FIFA ranking. What is India’s current position in FIFA ranking? 1) 167th 2) 168th 3) 169th 4) 170th 5) 175th
Q.9
I ventured capital fund dedicated to promoting Dalit entrepreneurs has been
registered by market regulator SEBI, which will pave way for creating a corpus
to support business owned by people for the Scheduled Castes. Name the venture
capital fund. 1) Dalit Venture Capital 2) SC Venture Capital 3) DICCI Venture
Capital Fund
4)
Start up Venture Capital 5) None of
these
Q.10
The UN women launched the first ever knowledge hub for elected women
representatives living in rural areas of South Asia recently. The centre will
train 65000 women of Panchayati Raj institutions in 16 districts of five
states. Name the executive direction of UN women. 1) Helen Clark 2) Carlos Lopes 3) Jimmy Kolker 4) Michelle
Bachelet 5) None of these
Q.11
Name the noted Islamic scholar and former president of Jama’at-e-Islami Hind, a
leading Islamic organisation and founder of Islamic Academy of India who passed
away recently at the age of 81 years. 1) Dr. Abdul Haq
2)
Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Omari 3)
Mohammad Hidayatullah 4) Zameer Uddin Shah 5) None of these
Q.12
Recently President Pranab Mukherjee presented Niryat Shree and Niryat Bandhu
awards at Vigyan Bhawan. These awards are presented by which organisation? 1)
Federation of Indian Commerce and Industry 2) Federation of Indian Export
organisation 3) Export Promotion Department 4)
Ministry of Commerce and Industry 5) None of these
Q.13
Based on the recommendations of the standing committee of the ministry of food
and consumer affairs the Union cabinet recently cleared amendments to the FCRA.
It stands for 1) Foreign Companies Regulation Act
2)
Forward Contract Regulation Act 3) Failed Companies Regulation Act 4) Future
Commodities Regulation Act
5)
None of these
Q.14
India First Life Insurance has launched a device comprising a samsung tablet PC
and a battery powered printer which enables an agent to issue a policy on the
spot with or without access to internet. Name the service. 1) Magic Bricks 2) Magic Stick 3) Magic Boards 4) Magic Box 5) None of these
Q.15
Who is the writer of the book “An Indian Summer: A Personal Experience of
India”? 1) James Cameron
2)
N. Ram 3) Ken Auletta 4) Henrique Capriles 5) None of these
Q.16
Vijay Kelkar Committee had suggested the government to sell part of its shares
in SUUTI meet its Rs 30,000 crore disinvestment target. SUUTI stands for 1)
Special Undertaking of Unit Trust of India
2)
Specified Undertaking of Unit Trust of India 3) Significant Undertaking of Unit
Trust of India 4) Specified Unit Undertaking Transfer Initiative 5) None of
these
Q.17
The Indian Air Force which turns 80 on October 8 will get brand new heavy duty
helicopters. Therese heavy duty helicopters are 1) Apache 2) Mi-28 Havoc 3) CH-47 Chinooks 4) MI-26 5) MI-17 V-5
Q.18
Pfizer, the Indian unit of US drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has decided to challenge
the country’s patent office for revoking a patent for its cancer drug used to
cure a certain type of kidney cancer. Name the drug. 1) Plerixafor
2)
Avastin 3) Synovir 4) Sutent 5) None
of these
Q.19
Diversified conglomerate Mahindra and Mahindra has announced to start its fifth
school in Srinagar as part of its strategy to train and create a pool of one
million employable youth by 2012. What is the name of that school? 1) Mahindra
Prime School 2) Mahindra Prepratory
School 3) Mahindra Technology School 4)
Mahindra Pride School 5) None of these
Q.20
After achieving the distinction of being the first district in the country to
achieve 100% literacy which district of Kerala state is on way to become first
district in the country to have bank account for every adult? 1) Kozhikode
2)
Ernakulam 3) Thiruvananthapuram 4) Thrissur 5) None of these
Q.21
Government has decided to merge two centrally sponsored schemes—Horticulture
Mission for North East and Himalayan states and National Bamboo Mission with
which ongoing programme for 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017) period? 1) National
Agriculture Mission 2)
National Mission for Green India 3) National Horticulture Mission 4) National
Water Mission 5) None of these
Q.22
Recently Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued notice to which
troubled airline asking why its permit should to be canceled or suspended as it
has grounded its fleet temporarily? 1) Air India 2) Alliance Air
3)
Jagson Airlines 4) Kingfisher 5) None of these
Q.23
Which of the following birds has been declared as state bird of Delhi recently
with the issue of a notification in this effect? 1) Pigeon 2) Sparrow 3) Peacock 4) Pelican 5) None of these
Q.24
Ananay Classical dance festival being organised in Purana Qila was participated
by Saroja Viadyanathan and others with form of dance is she associated with 1)
Bharatnatyam 2) Kathak 3) Odissi 4)
Kuchipudi 5) None of these
Q.25
The Union Cabinet recently approved amendments to the Companies Bill 2011.
Which of the following statements is correct in this regard? 1) It limits the
number of companies an auditor can serve to 20.
2)
Appointment of auditors for five years shall be subject to ratification by
members at every annual general meeting.
3) The rate of interest on inter corporate loans will be prevailing rate
of interest on dated government securities. 4) All the above 5) None of these
Q.26
Recently Russia extended its lease of a key military base in which country for
30 years strengthening Moscow’s strategic position in the region ahead of NATO
withdrawal from Afghanistan? 1) Tajikistan 2)
Turkmenistan
3)
Uzbekistan 4) Pakistan 5) None of these
Q.27
Name the company owned by billionaire Paypal co-founder Elon Musk which is
among several private companies working with NASA to send flights to and from
the ISS. 1) Space-Z 2) Boeing 3) Space-X 4)
Orbital
5)
None of these
Q.28
Name the world’s third most popular web browser which turned 10 recently. It
has come up with a new project to generate and collect content in local
languages 1) Netscape navigator 2) Mozilla Firefox 3) Internet Explorer
4)
Chrome 5) None of these
Q.29
Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanedk lost ATP Japan open Men’s
double final to 1) J. Monaco and K Nishikori 2) D Boracciali and F Cermak 3) B
Paire and S wawrinka 4) Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares
5)
None of these
Q.30
Name the world no. 2 tennis player who won China open for a third time beating
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France. 1) Novak Djokovic 2) Roger Federar 3) Milas
Rasnic 4) Tomas Berdych 5) None of these
Q.31
Organised by Wash United and Quicksand design studio jointly and supported by
several NGOs, starting from Sevagram in Vardha district of Maharashtra and
ending at Bettiah, Bihar, Nirmal Bharat Yatra is aimed at:
1)
making the country open defecation free 2) to ensure proper sanitation in rural
India 3) distributing free soaps to poor families 4) Both 1) and 2) 5) None of these
Q.32
With the seal of approval from government, India hopes to officially become the
seventh nation to ratify the Nagoya Protocol. This protocol will ensure 1)
preventing biopiracy 2) communities getting benefitted from the commercial
exploration of their natural genetic resources 3) protection of farmer’s right
4) Both 2) and 3) 5) Both 1) and 2)
Q.33
Name the first movie depicting raid by US Special forces to kill Osama Bin
Laden which is made by National Geographic Channel and will be telecasted on
November 4. 1) The Superb Seal 2) Zero Dark Thirty 3) Seal Team Six 4) Osama
Assassination 5) None of these
Q.34
Sania Mirza with her partner defeated Slovakia-Chinese pair to enter final of
women’s doubles of the China open tournament. Name her Spanish partner. 1)
Katarina Srebotnik 2) Nuria
Llagostera Vives 3) Jie Zheng
4)
Milos Ruonic 5) None of these
Q.35
Supreme Court recently dismissed a petition for removal of the governor of
Tamil Nadu on the ground that he faces a criminal case in Andhra Pradesh. Who
is the present governor of Tamil Nadu? 1) ELS Narsimhan
2)
K Rosaiah 3) Hansraj Bhardwaj 4)
Sardar Surjit Singh Barnala 5) None of these
Q.36
Much awaited delivery of aircraft carrier Gorshkov (rechristened as INS
Vikramaditya) is likely to be further delayed by at least six months from the
promised December 2012. At a cost of about $2.34 billion it is bring
refurbished at which Russian shipyard? 1) Admiralty Shipyard 2) Baltic Shipyard
3) Sevmash Shipyard 4) Russian Shipyard No. 10 5) None of these
Q.37
Karnataka recently decided to file review petition before Cauvery River
Authority’s chairman to reconsider the order to release 9,000 cusecs of water
to Tamil Nadu. Name the Chairman of Cauvery River Authority (CRA). 1) Manmohan
singh 2) Justice NP Singh 3) M Mallikarjun Kharge 4)KH Muniyappa 5) None of
these
Q.38
Delhi cabinet recently gave its nod for an agreement with INTACH for
conservation and refurbishment work of 16 monuments. INTACH stands for 1)
Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage 2) International Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage 3)
Indian National Tourism, Art and Cultural Hosting 4) Indo-Nepalese Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage 5)
None of these
Q.39
The eleventh meeting of conference of parties (COP-11) to the convention on
Biological Diversity (CBT) which was represented by over 170 countries began in
Hyderabad recently. Who assumed the charge as president of COP-11 for next two
years? 1) Mohammad Saif Ali Afkham 2)
Ryu Matsumoto 3) Daid Cadman 4)
Jayanthi Natarajan 5) None of these
Q.40
In which country Hugo Chavez won yet another re-election, defeating Henrique
Capriles and gaining six more years in the power? 1) Greece 2) Venezuela 3)
Turkey 4) Yugoslavia 5) None of these
Q.41
Nobel prize for medicine for 2012 is shared by John B Gardon of UK and Shinya
Yamanaka of Japan for their discovery: 1) of stem cells 2) in virto
fertilization technique 3) that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become
pluripolent 4) of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity 5) None
of these
Q.42
With the relaxing the souring norms of FDI in single brand retail, IKEA, a
furniture and home furnishing chain recently filed the final document seeking
permission. Which country does IKEA belongs to? 1) Sweden 2) Switzerland 3)
Netherlands 4) Germany 5) Italy
Q.43
Cisco systems Inc recently ended a longstanding sales partnership with which
Chinese major after allegations that it sold CISCO networking gear to Iran? 1)
Huawei 2) China Unicon 3) ZTE 4) Haier 5) Lenovo
Q.44
In the latest ICC T20 ranking what is India’s position? 1) 1st 2) 2nd 3) 3rd 4) 4th 5) 6th
Q.45
Name the first Indian corporate to receive the go-ahead from RBI for
refinancing expensive rupee loans with cheaper dollar credit. 1) Shell 2) Videcon Industries 3) General Inswaran
Corporation of India 4) Essar Group 5) None of these
Q.46
From which country Abu Hamza-al-Masri, extremist Egyptian-born preacher and
four other extradited to US recently? 1) Egypt 2) Greece 3) UK 4) Malaysia 5)
None of these
Q.47
The popular Mobile game of wingless birds, Angry Bird’s franchise is making
mullah through licensing pacts with Indian Companies. Its original licensed
merchandise is: 1) Rovio Entertainment 2)
Dream Theatre 3) Cross Word 4)
Excel group 5) None of these
Q.48
Name the film by Sanjiv Jaiswal about how the caste system came into existence
which faced unnecessary delay due to objections by a high-caste group which is
to be released soon. 1) Fareb 2)
Chakrabyuh 3) Shudra: The Rising 4) Dharma Chakra 5) None of these
Q.49
Who won recently concluded Japanese Grand Prix? 1) Fernando Alonso 2)SebastianVettol 3) Kamai Kobayashi 4) Lewis
Hamilton 5) Jenson Button
Q.50
Name the committee set up to examine issues related to sugar decontrol. 1)
Tejendra Khanna Committee
2)
Ghosh Committee 3) Rangarajan Committee 4) RK Talwar Committee 5) None of these
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