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Q1. Who has sworn in as the 40th Chief Justice of India on 19 July 2013?

Ans. Justice Palanisamy Sathasivam

Note: Justice Sathasivam, 64, is also the first CJI from Tamil Nadu. The term ofhis office will be till 26 April 2014.

Q2. Name the justice who retired from the office of Chief Justice of India on 18

July 2013 after a short term of just nine months?

Ans. Justice Altamas Kabir

Q3. Union Cabinet of India on 17 July 2013 gave its approval to rename the

Bengaluru International Airport. What will be its new name?

Ans. Kempegowda International Airport

Note: Hiriya Kempegowda, who was popularly called Kempegowda was a rulerunder the Vijayanagar Empire. He ruled almost all the parts of Karnataka during16th century. He was also said to be the founder of the city of Bengaluru.


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Q4. Supreme Court of India on 16 July 2013 upheld a Bombay High Court verdict

which quashed the state governments order to ban dance bars in

Maharashtra. In which year dance bars were banned in Maharashtra?

Ans. 2004

Q5. Name the leading Sprinters who were found positive in Doping Test

recently?

Ans. Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell

Q6. NASA in July 2013 announced the discovery of Neptunes ............th moon

using Hubble Space Telescope?

Ans. 14

Note: It was named S/2004 N1

Q7. On 14 July 2013, which Indian won the Commonwealth Chess

Championship?

Ans. Abhijeet Gupta

Note: He is a grandmaster and former world junior champion

Q8. Which party won the National Assembly elections in Bhutan on 14 July 2013

by having secured a majority of thirty two seats?

Ans. Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

Q9. Name the 82 year old Veteran Tamil film lyricist who passed away in

Chennai on 18 July 2013?

Ans. Vaali


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Q10. As per the latest data by World Federation of Exchanges, which stock

exchange in India has regained its position as the worlds largest bourse in

terms of volume in equity trade in June 2013?

Ans. National Stock Exchange (NSE)

Q11. Which day of July was observed across the world as Nelson Mandela

International Day to earmark freedom, justice and democracy?

Ans. 18 July

Note: In November 2009, the UN General Assembly declared 18 July as theNelson Mandela International Day to recognize the former South African

Presidents contribution to the culture of peace and freedom.

Q12. Name the Asian country which on 19 July 2013 lifted control on banks

allowing them to set their own lending rates, a move to arrest slowdown and

spur growth as well as to liberalise the economy?

Ans. China

Q13. Ministry of Environment and Forests on 19 July 2013 gave green clearance

for an international airport in which district of Kerala?

Ans. Kannur

Note: Kannur airport would be the fourth international airport in Kerala afterThiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode.

Q14. Where was the National Tourism Ministers Conference held on 18 July

2013?

Ans. New Delhi


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Q15. Name the member of Jharkhand Ranji Squad and the inventor of

Mahendra Singh Dhonis signature Helicopter shot who died on 17 July 2013 at a

hospital in New Delhi?

Ans. Santosh Lal

Q16. Recently, Union Cabinet approved amendments to the marriage directed

in favour of woman. What is the main clause of it?

Ans. Married woman will get a share of her husband's ancestral property asreparation in case of a divorce.

Q17. Union government on 17 July 2013 approved a proposal to amend ..............Act for providing more powers to the market regulator SEBI to crack down on

Ponzi schemes?

Ans. SEBI Act

Q18. Which Indian publisher in the month of July 2013, launched a new website

that caters particularly to the young readers?

Ans. Penguin Books India

Note: The new portal for young readers is calledyoungreaders.penguinbooksindia.com.

Q19. Name the URL of the website of NCC launched by Union Ministry of

Defence on 15 July 2013?

Ans. www.nccindia.nic.in

Q20. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 15 July 2013 imposed fines of around 49.5

crore on 22 private and public sector banks. Why RBI has taken such an action?

Ans. For violating KYC/anti-money laundering norms.


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Q21. Union Health Minister on 16 July 2013 announced that the government

would provide free pre-natal health care and ambulance facilities to pregnant

women across the country. Who is the present Union Health Minister?

Ans. Ghulam Nabi Azad

Q22. Name the freedom fighter as well as the Communist Party of India-Marxist

(CPI-M) leader who died on 18 July 2013 in Kolkata?

Ans. Samar Mukherjee

Q23. Which golfer on 14 July 2013 won the Scottish Open title?

Ans. American golfer Phil Mickelson

Q24. IT Company Satyam on 15 July 2013 formally merged with which company?

Ans. Tech Mahindra

Q25. Shane Warne on 19 July 2013 joined the list of cricket legends to be

inducted into the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Hall of Fame at Lord's

during the second Ashes test. He is the ............th male member of the Hall of

Fame?

Ans. 69

Q26. Name the National Tobacco Control Campaign launched recently by

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India?

Ans. Tears you apart


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Note: The aim of the campaign is to raise the public awareness regardingdangers of smokeless tobacco which is consumed by millions of Indians everyday.

Q27. Which place was named as the World Book Capital for the year 2015?

Ans. Incheon is in South Korea

Q28. Supreme Court of India on 17 July 2013 refused to reduce the age of

juvenile from 18 to .............. years and dismissed a plea that minors involved in

heinous crimes should not be protected under the law.

Ans. 16

Q29. Union Cabinet of India on 11 July 2013 approved the proposal for setting

up of a National Aviation University (NAU) in the name of Rajiv Gandhi National

Aviation University at which place?

Ans. Rae Bareli in the State of UP

Q30. Union government of India on 17 July 2013 constituted an empowered

Group of Ministers ( EGoM) for timely implementation of major projects related

to the North-Eastern region. Who will hold its chairmanship?

Ans. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram

Q31. Who was appointed as the next Police Commissioner of Delhi on 16 July

2013?

Ans. Bhim Sain Bassi

Q32. Name the largest wine producer of India, which recently decided to enter

and make its mark in the wine market of Sikkim?


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Ans. Sula Vineyard

Q33. Union Government of India on 16 July 2013 raised the FDI limit in Telecom

Sector from 74 percent to ............. percent?

Ans. 100

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