Q. 1 India has signed an enhanced air services agreement with which
country, immediately raising airline seats by 10 per cent on each way in a
response to growing passenger traffic between the two countries? 1) Malaysia 2) Singapore3) Mauritius 4)
Thailand5) None of these
Q. 2 Name the state government which introduced a New Lokayukta Bill in
its Assembly which curtails the 'primacy' of the Chief Justice of the state
High Court and the Governor in the matter of appointment of the Lokayukta, on April
3.1) Karnataka 2) Gujarat3) Jammu & Kashmir 4) Maharashtra5) None of these
Q. 3 National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) under
Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) has sanctioned 500 crore rupees to
carry out development works during the current financial year for the state1)
UP 2) Chhattisgarh3) Assam 4) Bihar5) Jammu & Kashmir
Q. 4 Which of the following is the only company to have 4G airwaves for
all of India's 22 service areas?1) Reliance Industries Ltd 2) Reliance
Communications3) Bharti Airtel 4) Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 5) None of these
Q. 5 State-owned organization which signed loan agreements worth Rs
1,870 crore with three public sector banks, to partially finance its capital
expenditure plans on April2?1) BHEL 2) GAIL3) SAIL 4) NTPC 5) None of these
Q. 6 Which of the following states has launched-a national flagship
programme Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) for adolescents on
April 2?1) Assam 2) Sikkim3) Nagaland 4) Manipur5) Mizoram
Q. 7 Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh, hit by Maoist movement,
will raise specialised forces trained in guerrilla warfare on the lines of the
'Greyhounds'. Greyhounds is a special police unit in 1) Andhra Pradesh 2)
Assam3) West Bengal 4) Jammu & Kashmir5) Nagaland
Q. 8 India on April 2 inked a $252-million loan agreement with which of
the following organizations for continued improvement of rural roads in Assam,
Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal? 1) Asian Development Bank
(ADB) 2) International Monetary Fund (IMF)3) World Bank 4) SAARC development
Bank5) None of these
Q. 9 Federal Reserve is the financial organisation of1) USA 2) Britain3)
France 4) Japan5) Germany
Q. 10 The Finance Minister, Michalis Sarris who has resigned after an
investigation was ordered into how the country’s economy nearly collapsed last
month belongs to1) Greece 2) Cyprus3) Syria 4) France5) None of these
Q. 11 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala who died on April 3 was a legendary1)
Musician and Composer 2) Screenwriter and Novelist3) Vocalist and Lyricist 4)
Singer and Actor5) None of these
Q. 12 The state government demanded that the Gojjri language be included
in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, giving it the status of an official
language. The Gojjri language is spoken in which of the following states?1)
Assam 2) Mizoram3) Jammu and Kashmir 4) Rajasthan5) Sikkim
Q. 13 The government of India on April 3 said there was no reason for
two million plus strong Indian workforce in the country to be
"paranoid" on account of a new labour law -'Nitaqat'. Nitaqat is the
law of the country1) Bahrain 2) Saudi Arabia3) United Arab Emirates 4) Qatar5)
Oman
Q. 14 The Country’s first fully private greenfield airport is scheduled
to commence in May at 1) Pune 2) Karaikal3) Kochi 4) Tiruchi5) Goa
Q. 15 Finance Minister P Chidambaram has inaugurated the 100th overseas
office of which bank at Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) recently?1)
Bank of Baroda 2) State bank of India3) Punjab National Bank 4) Punjab and
Sindh Bank5) None of these
Q. 16 Which of the following countries of South Asia is the first to
roll out a full nationwide mobile fourth-generation (4G) network?1) India 2)
Sri Lanka3) Bangladesh 4) Thailand5) None of these
Q. 17 In which of the following states a campaign called “My vote is not
for sale” has launched on April 4 by a body of social activists?1) Jammu and
Kashmir 2) Karnataka3) Maharashtra 4) Gujarat5) West Bengal
Q. 18 The events of the International Shooting Sport Federation, ISSF
Shooting World Cup 2013 began on April 4 in 1) Changwon, South Korea 2) Seoul,
South Korea3) Chongju, North Korea 4) Pyongsong, North Korea5) None of these
Q. 19 The CRF Institute has ranked which of the following software
Companies in India as the number one employer in Europe for 2013?1) Wipro 2)
HCL Technologies3) Tata Consultancy Services 4) Infosys5) None of these
Q. 20 The U.N. made history on April 2 when it passed an unprecedented
arms trade treaty (ATT) to better regulate the international sale in weapons.
Which of the following group of countries opposed the treaty? 1) Iraq, Syria
and North Korea 2) Iran, Syria and North Korea 3) Iran, Syria and Pakistan 4)
Iraq, Syria and South Korea5) None of these
Q. 21 Renowned American Roger Ebert died on April 4 at 70 after a long
battle with cancer. He was a 1) Novelist 2) Film critic3) Screenwriter 4)
Lyricist5) Actor
Q. 22 Babu Jagjivan Ram, popularly known as Babuji, was a freedom
fighter and social reformer.The nation paid homage to this great leader on 5th
April, which was his 106th birth anniversary. His birth anniversary is
celebrated as 1) Shanti Diwas 2) Samta Diwas 3) Kisan Diwas 4) Shakti Diwas 5)
None of these
Q. 23 Chinese scientists have developed the world’s lightest substance
with a density only one-sixth that of the air, named 1) Graphite aerogel 2)
Diamond aerogel 3) Carbon aerogel 4) Helium aerogel 5) None of these
Q. 24 What is the full form of IFRS? 1) International Financial
Reporting Standards 2) International Financial Reporting System 3)
International Financial Reporting Solution 4) International Financial Reporting
Service 5) None of these
Q. 25 Which country did India sign a treaty with on April 5 to cooperate
with each other in dealing with various crimes, including terrorism? 1) South
Africa 2) Somalia 3) Nigeria 4) Azerbaijan 5) Mali
Q. 26 In the ongoing International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)
Shooting World Cup in Korea, Rahi Sarnobat beat Kyeongae Kim 8-6 to become the
first pistol shooter from India to win a World Cup gold medal in 1) 10-metre
pistol 2) 20-metre pistol 3) 25-metre pistol 4) 30-metre pistol 5) None of
these
Q. 27 The third ministerial-level meet of SAARC on Poverty Alleviation
started in Nepal on April 5.Which of the following countries is NOT a member of
SAARC? 1) India 2) Bangladesh 3) Myanmar 4) Bhutan 5) Maldives
Q. 28 The United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the 1) United
Nations International Year of Women Empowerment 2) United Nations International
Year of Water Cooperation 3) United Nations International Year of Peace 4)
United Nations International Year of Biodiversity 5) United Nations
International Year of Forests
Q. 29 Name the President who will return 5% of his salary to the
country’s treasury in a show of solidarity with workers reeling under the
pressure of $85 billion in government-wide spending cuts. 1) Francois Hollande
2) Barack Obama 3) Pranab Mukherjee 4) Asif Ali Zardari 5) None of these
Q. 30 World Bank lauded achievements of which Indian state under
National Livelihoods Mission on April 4 as 46 development blocks of 10
districts of the state have been covered under the project’s first phase? 1) UP
2) MP 3) Bihar 4) Gujarat 5) Jammu and Kashmir
Q. 31 Name the renowned historian who died on April 5. He was an expert
in epigraphy and deciphered several ancient scripts. 1) Anand Krishna 2)
Bratindra Nath Mukherjee 3) Ranabir Chakrabarti 4) Suchandra Ghosh 5) S. P.
Gupta
Q. 32 One of the world's largest hypermarket chains Auchan, which entered
India last year under an agreement with Max Hypermarket India, has plans to
open 60 stores in India, is company of 1) US 2) UK 3) France 4) Australia 5)
Japan
Q. 33 Facebook on April 4 announced an "operating system" like
app that would convert Android phones into a 'Facebook phone', named 1)
Mapathon 2) Real 3) Home 4) Friend 5) Chacha
Q. 34 Nomination papers of which former president of Pakistan for a
parliamentary constituency in Pakistan’s Punjab province was rejected on April
5? 1) Asif Ali Zardari 2) Muhammad Rafiq Tarar 3) Pervez Musharraf 4) Muhammad
Mian Soomro 5) None of these
Q. 35 Which country has launched an inquiry into the mapping contest
‘Mapathon 2013’ held by Internet giant Google in February-March this year? 1)
US 2) Germany3) UK 4) India 5) China
Q. 36 Who among the following has been appointed as the chairman of
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2013-14? 1) S. Gopalakrishnan 2) Adi
Godrej 3) N. S. Raghavan 4) Naina Lal Kidwain5) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Q. 37 Which of the following terms is not associated with the game of
cricket? 1) Long leg 2) Hook 3) Cut 4) Mid-wicket 5) Love
Q. 38 Jnanpith Award is given for excellence in the field of 1) Music 2)
Politics 3) Literature 4) Sports 5) None of these
Q. 39 The Union Cabinet recently gave its approval to the home
ministry's plan to raise anti-Naxal Special Forces in four states of India on
the lines of Greyhounds of Andhra Pradesh. Which of the following is not
covered under the plan? 1) West Bengal 2) Bihar 3) Chhattisgarh 4) Jharkhand 5)
Odisha
Q. 40 The Indian women's cricket team finished the Twenty20
International series with 3-0 clean sweep against 1) Pakistan 2) Bangladesh 3)
Sri Lanka 4) Indonesia 5) None of these
Q. 41 Which of the following Indian states is all set to send a woman
representative to Rajya Sabha for the first time? 1) Manipur 2) Nagaland 3)
Meghalaya 4) Tripura 5) Mizoram
Q. 42 Who among the following has been appointed as the President of the
newly-formed Indian Tennis Players Association (ITPA).The Association has come
up after 11 top players revolted against AITA, demanding better playing conditions.
1) Leander Paes 2) Mahesh Bhupathi 3) Jaideep Mukherjea 4) Somdev Devvarman 5)
Mustafa Ghouse
Q. 43 Who among the following has won the high quality final match of
the 12th Asian Billiards championship 2013 held at Indore in Madhya Pradesh? 1)
Geet Sethi 2) Pankaj Advani 3) Rupesh Shah 4) Siddharth Parikh 5) Dhruv Sitwala
Q. 44 Name the Indian Navy's Lt Cdr who became the first Indian to
circumnavigate the globe, solo and non-stop, in a sail boat over a 150-day
voyage. 1) DK Joshi 2) Abhilash Tomy 3) Uday Kumar 4) Abhishek Kumar 5) None of
these
Q. 45 Name the Indian bank which will discontinue a free accident
insurance cover given to its home and car loan customers from July 2013. 1)
State Bank of India 2) Bank of Baroda 3) ICICI Bank 4) HDFC 5) Axis bank
Q. 46 Which of the following states has launched free diagnosis scheme
in a phased manner from April 7 on the eve of the World Health Day? Under this
scheme, patients can undergo 57 free diagnostic tests at government hospitals linked
to medical colleges. 1) New Delhi 2)
Rajasthan 3) UP 4) Gujarat 5) Karnataka
Q. 47 This year the World Health Day was Celebrated on 7th April to mark
the anniversary of the founding of WHO (World Health Organisation) in 1948. The
theme for 2013 is 1) High Blood Pressure 2) Good Health adds life to years 3)
Anti-microbial resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow 4) Road safety 5)
Safe Motherhood
Q. 48 With which country has India signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to
strengthen cooperation between the two nations in Steel & Mining? 1) UK 2)
Tanzania 3) Nepal 4) South Africa 5) None of these
Q. 49 India's London Olympics Silver medalist Vijay Kumar is associated
with which of the following games? 1) Billiards 2) Shooting3) Cycling 4)
Athletics5) Tennis
Q. 50 India's Praksh Nanjappa won a bronze medal at the ISSF World Cup
at Changwon, Korea on April 6 in the1) 10m air pistol 2) 25m air pistol3) 30m
air pistol 4) 50m air pistol5) None of these
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