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OCTOBER 20131) In which country thousands of government
servants were asked to go on leave without paytemporarily as the government had no funds topay their salary: USA
2) One of the main factors behind the recent ShutDown crisis in USA was the popular health careprogrammes of the government. What is thepopular name for this programme: Obamacare
3) Name the diplomat who has been appointedHigh Commissioner of India in United Kingdom:
Ranjan Mathai4) The International Day of Older Person is
celebrated on which day: October 1
5) In the recently compiled Global Human CapitalIndex, what is Indias rank: 78th
6) Indias minister of external affairs visited ______to impress upon early implementation of 13thamendment to constitution: Sri Lanka
7) In the neighbouring country Sri Lanka, what isthe context of 13th amendment to theirconstitution: Devolution of powers to theprovinces
8)
The 2013 meet of CHOGM is to be held at whichplace: Colombo, Sri Lanka
9) What is the full form of CHOGM:Commonwealth Heads of GovernmentMeeting
10) The summit of CHOGM is held every _____years: Two
11) How many countries are the member of TheCommonwealth: 53
12) Headquarter of The Commonwealth is located at:London, UK
13) _________ is designated as head of the
Commonwealth: British Monarch
14) Name the middle Asian country visited by IndianPresident recently: Turkey
15) Name the capital of Turkey:Ankara
16) Which Turkish University honoured IndianPresident with honorary doctorate in PoliticalScience: Istanbul University
17) Currency of Turkey is ________: Turkish Lira
18) In a recent survey of top 400 universities in
world, _________ has been ranked as No. 1university in India: Panjab University
19) Election Commission has declared assemblyelections in _____ states: Five
20) Which North Eastern State is going to haveelections in November 2013: Mizoram
21) In which UT assembly elections are to be held infirst week of December: Delhi
22) Election commission has given the option to thevoters not to vote for any candidate, if theydecide so. This option has been named as:None of the above (NOTA)
23)
Two day international Rhino conference was heldat: Bandar Lampung, Indonesia
24) Lampedusa an island near ______ was in newsas over 300 persons drowned there after a boat,with up to 500 African asylum seekers, caughtfire and sank: Italy
25) Rohan Bopanna along with French partnerEdouard Roger-Vasselin, won the mens doublestitle at_____________ held at Tokyo, Japan:Japan Open Tennis
26) Name the team that won the Champions LeagueCricket recently: Mumbai Indians
27)
The final match of the Champions League,Cricket was held at _________ stadium in Delhi:Feroz Shah Kotla
28) Name the veteran Indian film director who hasbeen nominated to head the accomplished juryfor the Seventh Asia Pacific Screen Awards(APSA): Shyam Benegal
29) The Seventh Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA)to be held in_______: Brisbane, Australia
30) The Busan International Film Festival is held inwhich country: South Korea
31) Name the acclaimed Cambodian director who
received the Asian Filmmaker of the Year awardat the Busan International Film Festival in SouthKorea: Rithy Panh
32) Which international IT giant has joined handswith Archaeological Survey of India to provide360- degree online panoramic imagery of 100nationally-important monuments: Google
33) Name the Sri Lankas first elected Tamil ChiefMinister of the Northern Province in the first everprovincial elections held after clearance of LTTE
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which country:Azerbaijan
73) What is the popular full form of the scientificresearch organization CERN: European Councilfor European Research
74) Mulatu Teshome has been elected president ofwhich country: Ethiopia
75) Sachin Tendulkar reached the coveted landmarkof 50,000 runs across all formats of cricket atwhich stadium: Feroze Shah Kotla stadium,New Delhi
76) India has signed agreements with ______countries, who pledged their commitment to theambitious Nalanda University project: Seven
77) The prestigious International Nalanda Universityis located is which place: Rajgir, DisttNalanda, Bihar
78) Name the Nobel laureate who has beendesignated to head the Nalanda University as itsChancellor: Prof.Amartya Sen
79) In the Global Hunger Index India has beenranked at ________ place: 63rd
80) Which district of Odisha was hardest hit by therecent cyclone Phailin: Ganjam
81) Authorities worldover have appreciated theexcellent preparations done by the NDRF andIMD for minimizing the possible damage fromthe cyclone Phailin: What is the full form ofNDRF and IMD: National Disaster ResponseForce (NDRF), Indian MetrologicalDepartment (IMD)
82) Govt. has decided to bring all post offices acrossthe country on CBS platform to cover largernumber of people, particularly in rural areas for
banking services. What is CBS: Core BankingSolution
83) Name the place in distt. Datia of MadhyaPradesh which witnessed a gruesome stampedekilling over 120 persons: Rattangarh
84) The World Boxing Championships was held inwhich place:Almaty, Kazakhstan
85) Name the freedom fighter, ex Minister andDeputy Chairman of the Planning Commissionwho passed away recently: Dr. Mohan Dharia
86) M.S. Swaminathan, Eminent agriculture scientisthas been honoured with which prestigious prize
for his work for national integration: IndiraGandhi Award for National Integration
87) Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist for girlseducation has been honoured with SakharovHuman Rights Prize. The prize is given by whichorganization: European Parliament
88) Name the renowned scientist who has writtenthe book My Brief History: A Memoir : StephenHawking
89) Under which loan scheme the receipt of annuity
amount has been exempted from income tax:Reverse Mortgage Scheme
90) Who are the likely beneficiaries under thereverse mortgage loan scheme: PropertyOwning Senior Citizens
91) Government has increased MSP of wheat by Rs.50 to Rs. ______ per quintal: 1400
92) Name the CEO of ICICI bank who has beenranked as top women business leader of India:Ms. Chanda Kochhar
93) Name the remittance system for which RBI hasissued new revised guidelines: RTGS
94) Government has decided to include skilled labourin sericulture under the MNREGA Scheme. Whatis sericulture: Rearing of silk worms
95) NPCI has launched Aadhaar-based remittancesfor bank account holders. What is the full form ofNPCI: National Payments Corporation ofIndia
96) What is the main objective of NPCI: Topromote various forms of electronicbanking in India
97) Which city has been voted as countries topbusiness destination in terms of infrastructure,human capital, city culture and basic quality ofliving: Bangalore
98) Indian Prime Minister recently visited Russia andmet their President. What is the name of RussianPresident:Vladimer Putin
99) South zone and North zone were declared jointwinners of the in the final of Duleep trophyplayed at Kochi, Kerala. It is from which sports:Cricket
100)
Which big hydel project of India is celebrating itsGolden Jubilee: Bhakra Dam, Punjab
101) 5thSouth Asian Conference on Sanitation held atwhich place: Kathmandu, Nepal
102) Name the first Indian to win a silver medal at the2013 ITTF Asian Table Tennis championship heldin Beijing, China: Bhavina HashmukhbhaiPatel
103) Name the player who scored the fastest evercentury by an Indian batsman in ODI, off 52balls, playing against Australia at Sawai ManSingh Stadium, Jaipur:Virat Kohli
104)
Man Booker Prize 2013 has been awarded to________for her novel, The Luminaries.Eleanor Catton
105) Name the eminent Telugu novelist, short storywriter, poet critic and 2012 Jnanpith awardwinner who passed away recently: RavuriBharadhwaja
106) The Indian Open Snooker Tournament 2013title was won by _________ of China: DingJunhui
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107) The Indian Open Snooker Tournament 2013was held at which place: New Delhi
108) Name the first ever India-Russia joint militaryexercise that began on October 19 at theMahajan field firing range in Rajasthan near theIndo-Pak border: Indra 2013
109) What is the objective of recently conductedIndo-Russian joint military exercise: forimproving anti-terrorist operations
110) Name the latest National Tennis champions inmens & womens category: Mohit Mayur andPrerna Bhambri
111) With which country India recently signed aborder defence pact: China
112) What is the officially name of the border defencepact signed between India and China: BorderDefence Co-operation Agreement
113) What is the official designation of the PrimeMinister of China: Premier
114) What is the name of the Premier of China: Li
Keqiang115) Which mega steel company has been asked by a
UN Human Rights panel to stop the work at itsOdisha plant as it may lead to displacement ofthousands of people and disruption in theirlivelihoods: Posco
116) The Union Cabinet has approved the biggestever foreign investment in India's aviation sector- Jet Airways' proposed sale of its 24 per centequity to ___________airline: Etihad Airways
117) The Etihad Airways is the national airline ofwhich country: United Arab Emirates
118)
To which country India has agreed to start apower transmission line to export 500 millionmegawatt of electricity: Bangladesh
119) Name the Indian power cooperate which hasjoined hands with Bangladesh powerdevelopment board to form Bangladesh IndiaFriendship Power Company to promote 1,320-MW Maitri thermal power project in Bangladesh:National Thermal Power Corporation(NTPC)
120) UNO recently passed a regulation to destroyhuge amounts of chemical in which country:Syria
121)
Which railway station near Kolkata has beenrenamed as Komagata Maru station to salute themartyrs of September 29, 1914, who arrivedthere by the ship of the same name: BudgeBudge
122) __________has become the first company in thecountry to achieve sales of more than Rs1,00,000 crore in a quarter: RelianceIndustries Ltd.
123) INS Sunayna, the indigenously built warship iswhich type of ship: Naval offshore Patrol
Vessel (NOVP)
124) Terry Walsh has been appointed chief coach ofwhich national mens sports team: Hockey
125) The new chief coach of mens national hockeyteam Terry Walsh is from which country:
Australia
126) India and China will hold joint military exercisesfrom November 4 in _______ region in Southwest China: Chengdu
127) What is the objective of the proposed Indo-Chinajoint military exercise: To practice counterinsurgency and counter terrorismmanoeuvres
128) Which corporate has been allowed bygovernment to start a new domestic airline
jointly with Singapore Airlines: Tata Group
129) What is the name of proposed new domesticairline started jointly by Tata and Singaporeairlines: 'Tata SIA Airlines Limited'
130) Government has decided to contribute a sum ofRs. ______ crore towards capital infusion inpublic sector banks: 14,000
131) For what purpose government is contributing Rs.14,000 crore in capital of public sector banks: Toenable banks to meet Basel III capitalrequirements
132) Name the two Latin American Countries visitedby the Vice President Hamid Ansari: Peru &Cuba
133) Sanjeev Rajput won the gold in which event inthe Asian Air Gun shooting championship inTehran, Iran: Mens 50-metre free rifleevent
134)
Bru community which has settled in largenumber of refugee camps in Tripura and Assam,belongs to which state: Mizoram
135) Air Costa is the new regional airline started inwhich part of the country: Andhra Pradesh
136) Name the Indian scientist in whose name theGod Particle has been named as Higgs Boson:Satyendra Nath Bose
137) The Nobel prize 2013 for physics has beengiven to Franois Englert,Belgium and Peter W.Higgs, UK for which achievement: for theoutstanding research for discovery of God
Particle
138) The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2013 has beenawarded to how many scientists: Three
139) The three scientists Martin Karplus, MichaelLevitt and Arieh Warshel have been given Nobelprize in Chemistry for 2013 for research in whichfield: for developing computer models thatpredict complex chemical reactions thatcan be used for tasks like creating newdrugs
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140) Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine has beenawarded for which achievement: Forbreakthroughs in understanding how keysubstances are moved around within a cell
141) The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2013 has beenawarded to author Alice Munro for which field ofliterature: Contemporary short stories
142) Nobel Laureate for 2013 literature Nobel Prize Alice Munro is from which country: Canada
143) What is the formal official name for theEconomics Nobel Prize: The SverigesRiksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
144) The Nobel Prize for economics for 2013 has beenawarded for what purpose: For research inempirical analysis of asset prices
145) The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 has been awardedto which organization: Organization for theProhibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
146) Currently, OPCW is in news for handling whichinternational assignment: Destruction ofdumps of chemical weapons in Syria as per
UN mandate
147) The headquarters of Nobel Peace prize winningorganization OPCW is located at which place:The Hague, Netherland
148) Why the Nobel prizes are delivered on a fix day December 10 every year: It is the deathanniversary of Alfred Nobel
149) All Nobel Prizes except the peace prize arepresented at _____, Sweden: Stockholm
150) The Nobel Prize for Peace is presented at_______, Norway: Oslo
151)
The Nobel Prize for Peace is not decided inSweden, instead, it is decided by an expertcommittee of _________: Parliament ofNorway
152) India has been ranked __________ out of 136countries on a Global Gender Gap Indexcompiled by Geneva-based World EconomicForum: 101st
153) According to a recent survey by Global Initiativefor Restructuring Environment and Management(GIREM) and DTZ, _______ is the best businessdestination in the country: Bangalore
154) Name the Formula One champion who has wonfour successive titles in the current season:
Sebastian Vettal155) Sebastian Vettal, the formula one world
champion is from which country: Germany
156) Indias only Formula One Racing Track BuddhaInternational Circuit is located at which place:Noida, UP
157) Worlds largest airport Al-Maktoum Internationalis located at which place: Dubai, UAE
158) Which financial institution proposes to launch aspecial loan scheme for creation of storageinfrastructure like construction of Warehouses,
Silos, cold storages and cold chaininfrastructure: NABARD
159) Govt. plans to start National Financial ReportingAuthority (NFRA) for what purpose: As awatchdog for the accounting and auditingpolicies and standards for adoption bycompanies.
160) With which bank Australian Trade Commissionhas signed a MoU to raise the productivity and
exports of Indias food and agricultural sector:Yes Bank
161) To which state World Bank has provided $360million loan for modernisation of irrigation anddrainage systems: Uttar Pradesh
162) India is planning a cross country highway withwhich two other countries: Myanmar andThailand
163) The trilateral highway with Myanmar andThailand will start from ________ in Manipur,India : Moreh
164) The trilateral highway with Myanmar andThailand will end at ______ in Thailand: Mae
Sot165) Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project
will link Kolkata port with Sittwe port in whichcountry: Myanmar
166) In the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit TransportProject, Kaladan is the name of a _______ inMizoram: River
167) The World Agricultural Congress and Trade Fairto be held at ______: Hyderabad
168) Supreme Court ruled that MPs/MLAs will losetheir seats immediately if they are convicted ofoffences that carry a prison term of more than
______years: Two
169)
The 2013 Norton Report by Symantec says thatIndia is among the worlds top ______ countrieswith the highest number of incidences of cybercrime: Five
170) Indian Navy has recently inducted Hawk MK 132aircraft. It is what type of aircraft: AdvancedJet Trainer
SEPTEMBER 2013171) The book Communist Cookbook has written by:
Sharmishta Roy Chowdhury
172) Who is the author of the book Punjab: A Historyfrom Aurangzeb to Mountbatten: Rajmohan
Gandhi
173) The GDP growth rate for the quarter ending June30thwas pegged at _______: 4.4%
174) The Asia Cup Hockey was held at which place:Ipoh, Malaysia
175) 2014 Hockey World Cup will be held at whichplace: The Hague, Netherlands
176) Name the country who won the Asia Cup Hockeyby defeating India: South Korea
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177) As per the Land Acquisition Bill passed by LokSabha, govt. has to pay compensation upto
______ times of market value for acquiring landin rural areas: four
178) As per the Land Acquisition Bill passed by LokSabha, govt. has to pay compensation upto
______ times of market value for acquiring landin urban areas: two
179) G-20 group of countries held a meeting of their
Heads at which place: St. Petersburg, Russia
180) Name the ace footballer from UK who created anew record by becoming the expensive mostplayer in the history of football: Gareth Bale
181) Noted footballer Gareth Bale has beencontracted by which Club for a sum of 100million Euros: Real Madrid, Spain
182) Diana Nyad, the 64 year old lady swimmer fromUSA created a world record for what: forlongest distance swimming 110 mile(177 kms)
183) Haraprasad Das, eminent Oriya writer, has been
honoured with which prestigious award for hisbook Vamsha: Moortidevi Award - 2012
184) Name the country who won SAFF footballchampionship by beating India:Afghanistan
185) What is the full form of SAFF: South AsiaFootball Federation)
186) The SAFF football championship was recentlyheld at which place: Kathmandu, Nepal
187) As per new companies law, the corporates arerequired to spend _______ % of their profitstowards CSR activities: Two
188)
Write the full form of CSR: Corporate SocialResponsibility
189) India recently launched multi bandcommunication satellite - GSAT-7 for whatpurpose: Data gathering for defence forces
190) The GSAT- 7 satellite was launched from whichplace: Kourou, French Guiana (An overseasterritory of France, at joining Brazil)
191) The GSAT-7 satellite was launched in a _____Orbit, about 36000 kms above Earths surface:Geosynchronous
192) Name the book on tax administration written by
noted economist Parthasarthi Shome, Advisor tothe Finance Minister: Indian TaxAdministration: A Dialogue
193) Dr. Raghuram Rajan, the new governor of RBIwas holding which position before this: ChiefEconomic Advisor, Ministry of Finance
194) As per the PFRDA bill, 2011, government haspermitted FDI upto _____% in the pensionsector: 26
195) Write the full form PFRDA: Pension Fund
Regulatory and Development Authority
196) Name the tennis star who won US Open menssingles title: Rafael Nadal
197) Noted tennis star Rafael Nadal is from whichcountry: Spain
198) Famous sports person Novak Djokovic is fromwhich game: Tennis
199) Tennis star Novak Djokovic hails from which
country: Serbia
200) Name the tennis star who won US Openwomens singles title: Serena Williams
201) Noted tennis star Serena Williams from whichcountry: USA
202) Name the prestigious sports event recently wonby tennis star Leander Paes: US Open 2013mens doubles crown
203) Name the world renowned music maestro whoconducted the Bavarian State Orchestra in J & K:Zubin Mehta
204) The musical concert conducted by Jubin Mehtaat Shalimar Garden, Srinagar (J&K) was namedas____________: Ehasas-e-Kashmir
205) Tony Abbott has been elected as new PrimeMinister of which country:Australia
206) With which country India has enlarged itscurrency swap arrangement from $15 billion atpresent to $ 50 billion: Japan
207) India has been ranked at _____ place in terms ofits global competitiveness in 2013: 60th
208) _________has emerged as most literate state inIndia with 94.65 per cent literacy, compared withKeralas 93.91 per cent: Tripura
209) Share of agriculture in Indias GDP is about____%: 13.7
210) Control of Forward Markets Commission hasrecently been taken over by _________ Ministry:Finance
211) Govt. has approved setting up of the BharatRural Livelihood Foundation, a partnershipbetween government, corporate India,academics and civil society, with a contributionof Rs 500 crore for what purpose: To engagecorporates for help to counter Naxalinfluence
212)
RBI has setup Bimal Jalan Committee for whatpurpose: To scrutinize the applications fornew bank licences
213) Name the head of the committee formed tostrengthen the framework of monetary policy toavoid friction between the RBI and the FinanceMinistry: Urjit PatelCommittee
214) Who has been elected as President ofInternational Olympics Committee: ThomasBach
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215) Indias trade deficit narrowed to $10.9 billion inAugust from $12.26 billion in July. What does itrepresents: The amount by which exportsare short of imports
216) Which is the single largest item contributing tothe import bill of India: Petroleum
217) As per the RBI guidelines, cash withdrawals ofup to Rs. _________ a day from point of saleterminals are allowed: 1,000
218) Which type of banking transactions can becarried out using plastic money: Debit / Creditcard transactions
219) What is the popular name for the total moneysupply M3 in the country: Broad Money
220) What is the priority sector lending target fixed bythe government for foreign banks in India:40%; if the branches are less than 20,then 32%
221) If an Indian bank in private sector fails toachieve priority sector lending targets, what willbe the penal action: It will have to deposit
the short fall amount in RuralInfrastructure Development Fund
222) The government has approved a proposal toinvest USD 4.3 billion in which internationalfinancial institution: World Bank
223) Eighth Womens Hockey Asia Cup was recentlyheld at which place: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
224) Which big industrial country has decided to saygood bye to nuclear power: Japan
225) Name the spacecraft that has become the firstman-made object to venture into interstellarspace:Voyager-1
226) Name the wrestler who won silver medal at theWorld Wrestling Championship:Amit Kumar
227) Name the wrestler who won bronze medal infree style wrestling in the World WrestlingChampionship: Bajrang
228) World Wrestling Championship were held atwhich place: Budapest, Hungary
229) Name the hockey player who will captain theIndian Womens Hockey team in Asia Cup: RituRani
230) Name the Indian origin girl who was crown as
Miss America recently: Nina Davuluri231) Jhumpa Lahri, a Noted Novelist of Indian origin
is settled in which country: USA (New York)
232) Which city has been named to host 2020Olympic Games: Tokyo
233) The 2016 Olympics are to be held at whichplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
234) Name the recently tested nuclear capablesurface to surface long-range ballistic missilewhich has a strike range of more than 5000 kms:
Agni-V
235) From which place India conducts its missiletests: Wheeler Island off Odisha coast
236) NASA has launched an unmanned spacecraftLadee for what purpose: To explore thesurface of moon
237) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia hasrecently been honured with which prestigiousIndian Award: Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace,Disarmament and Development-2012
238) The first ever North East Festival to showcaseeight states of North East India, their customs,heritage, traditions, music, dances, tourism willbe held at which place: New Delhi
239) Reserve Bank has directed that gold jewelleryaccepted as security will have to be valued at theaverage of the closing price of 22 carat gold forthe preceding _______ days: 30
240) Durand Cup is associated with which sports:Football
241) Durand Cup for 2013 was won by _____________ after a gap of 73 years:Mohammedan Sporting, Kolkata
242) Durand Cup Football tournament was held atwhich place: New Delhi
243) Dinesh K. Sarraf has been appointed head ofwhich Maharatna company: Oil and NaturalGas Corporation
244) With a view to boost exports, government hasraised interest subvention on export loans to
_______ percent: Three
245) 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup will be hosted jointlyby which two countries: Australia and NewZealand
246) Govt. has recently relaxed certain pre conditionsin case of FDI in which field: Multi BrandRetail
247) With which country India has an arrangement topay in Indian rupees for its import of crude oil:Iran
248) Name the veteran British journalist andbroadcaster, famous for his TV interviews ofvarious Heads of States, who passed awayrecently: David Frost
249) How many industries are there in the core sectorwithin Index of Industrial Production (IIP): Eight
250) Which country has agreed to contribute 41%share in the creation of a $100-billion CurrencyReserve Fund (CRF) by BRICS: China
251) Name the new Chief Information Commissionerof India: Ms. Deepak Sandhu
252) Which state has decided to observe BitiaJanamostava to promote awareness forprotection of girl child: Bihar
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253) Name the noted Bengali author who was killed inAfghanistan by Taliban: Sushmita Banerjee
254) The mobile phone business of Nokia Corporationof Finland has been taken over by whichmultinational company: Microsoft
255) A robot astronaut called ________developed byToyota Company of Japan, has made history bybecoming the first robot ever to speak in space:Kirobo
256) As per recent RBI guidelines, Indians travellingabroad can carry Indian currency of up toRs.__________ per person: 10,000
257) Which organization of USA has announced that itwill not cut down its USD 85 billion a monthstimulus programme, spreading cheers amongthe financial markets around the world: FederalReserve System (popular name Fed)
258) As per new RBI guidelines, the MSF and BankRate have been calibrated at ________ basispoints above repo rate: 200
259) Which state in India has recorded the lowest
proportion of 3.66 % of poor living belowpoverty line in urban areas: Sikkim
260) Which state in India has the lowest proportion 5.09%, of the poor living below poverty line:Goa
261) India has recorded the largest increase in itsUHNI club among the BRICS nations in the lastone year, with a total of 7,850 super rich peoplein the country. What is the full form of UHNI:Ultra-High Networth Individual
262) Recent RBI guidelines have asked banks to closeaccounts of those customers who use their credit
or debit cards for ________ transactions:Online Forex
263) As per the food security Act notified recently,________ % of countrys population will becovered under food guarantee: 67
264) Which state in India emerged as the hottestinvestment destination for new projects: Odisha
265) World largest solar power plant is being setup inIndia at which place: Sambar Lake, Rajasthan
266) Govt has finalised the timeline forimplementation of the mega ADKIC project topromote industrial activity in north India. What is
the full form of ADKIC: Amritsar-Delhi-Kolkata Industrial Corridor
267) For which part of India govt. has approved Rs.2,130 crore expenditure under Special
Accelerated Road DevelopmentProgramme (SARDP): North East Region
268) RBI has allowed banks to open branches,including in Tier 1 centres without its priorpermission. Which city come under tier 1:Centres cities with population of one lakhand above
269) The Reserve Bank has advised banks to allot adifferent product code in their core bankingsolution to which type of accounts: Accountswhich are dormant or inoperative for overtwo years
270) Which film will represent India in the BestForeign Film category at 2014 Oscar Awards inUSA: The Good Road
271) Govt. has submitted in Supreme Court that it
intends to go ahead with SethusamudramProject. It is located in which area of India:Rocky terrain between India and Sri Lankain the Gulf of Mannar
272) What is the geographical name for theSethusamudram:Adams Bridge
273) At which place is the World's highest-altitudecivilian airport, located 4,411 meters above sealevel: Daocheng, Near Tibet, China
274) Super Typhoon Usagi has caused widespreaddamage in which part of the world: Philippinesand Taiwan
275)
Who has been elected as the 12th President ofPakistan: Mamnoon Hussain
276) Recently India post released a commemorativestamp in the memory of freedom fighter andveteran journalist Lala Jagat Narain. Name thenews paper founded by him: Punjab Kesari
277) Kaesong industrial park was the matter ofdispute between which two countries: Northand South Korea
278) Govt. has started a Rs. 1000 crore NirbhayaCorpus Fund for what purpose: Forempowerment and protection of women
279)
Name the first programme started from NirbhayaFund, aimed at helping the women who needspecial protection measures, such as women inprostitution or widowed women: Shubh
280) Ray Dolby, an inventor and audio pioneer fromUSA, founder of Dolby Laboratories, passedaway recently. He is known for which product:Dolby Stereo Sound System
281) Insurance Regulatory and DevelopmentAuthority (IRDA) has become the first regulatorin the world to start an ___________system:Insurance Repository
282)
With which country recently signed the DTAAagreement: Latvia
283) Name the international literary prize that hasnow been made open to English authors from allover the world: The Man Booker Prize
284) President of which country recently cancelled itsofficial visit to USA to protest against the spyingexcesses of National Security Agency of USA:Dilma Rousseff of Brazil
285) Which country has recently started DirectBanking, offering banking services not through
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branches but through various other means likeinternet, mobiles and ATMs: China
286) Name the former world heavyweight boxingchampion, considered one of the greatest fighterof his era, who passed away recently: KenNorton
287) The Union Ministry of Minority Affairs is planningto rope in celebrities as brand ambassadors forthe five minority communities. Name these five
communities: Muslims, Sikhs, Christians,Buddhist and Parsis
288) Name the organization that has acquired the Rs.600 crore research vessel named SamudraRatnakar: Geological Survey of India
289) Who has been elected as Chancellor of Germanyfor the third time in a row: Angela Markel(Ms)
290) India has been granted authorizing nationstatus for certifying which type of products:Electronics and IT Products
291) Sandeep Tulsi Yadav created history by winning
Indias first ever wrestling medal in_________category at World WrestlingChampionships: Greco-Roman
292) Name the Indian who has been honoured withClinton Global Citizen Award: Bunker Roy
293) RBI has directed banks to stop ________loansschemes as they tend to befool the consumersinto believing that bank funding come for free:zero per cent
294) With which country India conducted a jointmilitary exercise in general combat and mountainwarfare: Nepal
295)
Indo-nepal joint military exercise was recentlyheld at which place: Pithoragarh, Uttrakhand
296) Erna Solberg has been elected as Prime Ministerof which country: Norway
297) Sultan of Johor Cup Hockey tournament washeld at Johar Bahru in which country: Malaysia
298) National Junior Athletics Championship heldat_________, Kerala: Kochi
299) In which country a legislative decree has beenpassed for reserving one seat in their parliamentfor persons of Sikh/Hindu religion:Afghanistan
300) Wolesi Jirga is the equivalent of Indian LokSabha in which country:Afghanistan
301) A severe earthquake of 7.7 magnitude thatcaused widespread devastation in _______district of Balochistan, Pakistan:Awaran
302) Name the author of the book Never Go Back:Lee Child
303) The sustainable mountain development summitwas held at which place: Kohima, Nagaland
304) The picture, The Good Road, that has been
nominated from India to Oscars, has been madein which language: Gujarati
305) Name the film that won the Best Asian FilmAward at the 38th Toronto International FilmFestival in Canada: Qissa, A Punjabi Film
306) Govt has notified ________ as the new date forimplementing GAAR:April 1, 2016
307) What is the full form of GAAR: General AntiAvoidance Rules
308) GAAR form an internal part of which law:Income Tax Act
309) Grand Master Vidit Gujrathi who won the bronzemedal at an international event, is from whichgame: Chess
310) The 18th International Children's Film Festival(ICFFI)will be held at which place: Hyderabad
311) The Golden Elephant award for best film is givenat which film festival: International Children'sFilm Festival
312) Name the movie that won the best film award at
the Ladakh International Film Festival:OASS
313) Horticulture Mission for North East andHimalayan States (HMNEH) and NationalBamboo Mission (NBM) have been merged withwhich other major national mission: NationalHorticultural Mission (NHM).
314) RBI Governor Dr. Raghuram G Rajan hasrecently been honoured for his ground breakingresearch work by which German Bank:Deutsche Bank
315) A panel headed by Raghuram Rajan hasrecommended a new methodology based on a
________for devolving funds for development ofstates: 'Multi Dimensional Index (MDI)'.
316) As per Raghuram Rajan report on allocation offunds for development of states, which are thethree development categories of the states:Least, Relatively and Less developed
317) A panel headed by Raghuram Rajan hasidentified which state of India as leastdeveloped: Odisha, followed by Bihar
318) A panel headed by Raghuram Rajan hasidentified which state of India as mostdeveloped: Goa, followed by Kerala
319) Supreme Court has ruled that for a vibrantdemocracy the voter has the right to negativevoting by rejecting all the candidates in fray byexercising the option of _________in EVMs andballot papers:None of the Above (NOTA)
320) For which metro city ADB has offered a $ 400million loan to improve water and sanitationsystem: Kolkata
321) NASAs unmanned rover Curiosity has recentlydiscovered traces of water in the soil cover ofwhich planet: Mars
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322) Miss Philippines _______ has been selected asMiss World 2013: Megan Young
323) What is the name of latest search algorithmlaunched by google: Hummingbird
324) In a recent ruling of National Green Tribunal,digging of ________ has been banned acrossthe country: Soil (Earth)
325) India has been ranked at ______ place in terms
of corruption risk: 69
th
326) Patan Patola which recently got the GI tag from
the Geographical Indication (GI) Registry,Chennai, is a popular type of _____ fromGujarat: Double-sided saree
327) Which state in India has offered highest price forsugarcane procurement at Rs. 301 per quintal:Haryana
AUGUST 2013328) Govt. has announced to continue a subvention of
_________on crop loans upto Rs. 3 lacs, if they
are paid in time: 3%329) In which public sector oil company, government
has decided to disinvest 10% of its stake:Indian Oil Corporation
330) The South Asian Football Federation under 16championship held at Kathmandu was won bywhich country: India
331) Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan has recently beendecorated with which prestigious award: RajivGandhi National Sadhbhavna Award
332) The oranges grown in Nagpur area have beengranted GI Tag. What is the full form of GI:
Geographical Indication333) What is the government target for disinvestment
during the year 2013-14: Rs. 40,000 crore
334) Name the women pole vaulter who has won theWorld Athletics Championship thrice: YelenaIsinbayeva
335) The World Athletics Championships 2013 washeld at: Moscow, Russia
336) Hassan Rouhani has been elected as ______ ofIran: President
337) Which country recently temporarily closed 19 ofits diplomatic missions in the Middle East and
North Africa as a precaution against terroristattack: USA
338) In which sports did Indian girls recently createhistory by winning countrys first ever bronzemedal in that sport: Hockey
339) India recently launched National MonsoonMission. What is its objective: Improvedprediction of monsoon rainfall
340) In which format of cricket India has been rankedas no. 1 in the world: ODI (One Day
International)
341) Name the sports man who became first Indian towin World Games snooker gold medal: AdityaMehta
342) Raghuram G Rajan has been appointed to whichimportant position: Governor, RBI
343) Name the institution that recently imposed a banon the mining of sand throughout the country:National Green Tribunal
344) Village Khirsara in Kutch, Gujarat was in newsrecently for what reason: Large number ofHarrappan era artifacts were found there
345) Name the Indian IT company against which ahuman rights violation case has been filed inUSA: Infosys
346) Name the iconic 80 years old newspaper of USAthat was sold of recently: The WashingtonPost
347) The World Bank and the Asian DevelopmentBank (ADB) have agreed to provide $ 400 millionto India for what purpose: for reconstructionand rehabilitation in the disaster-hit areasin Uttarakhand
348) Which country has agreed to supply 145 state-of-the art 155 mm towed Howitzer guns toIndia: USA
349) Name the Indian shuttler who became the firstIndian woman singles player to win a medal(bronze) at the World Badminton Championship:PV Sindhu
350) World Badminton Championships were held atwhich place: Guangzhou, China
351) Mens singles title at World BadmintonChampionship was won by: Lin Dan, China
352) Womens singles title at World BadmintonChampionship was won by: RatchanokIntanon, Thailand
353) Lt. Col. Sudhakar Jayant of Indian Army wongold medal in which sport at the internationallevel: Weight lifting
354) Where in India was a half marathon of 21 kmswas organized, for the first time at an height of10,050 feet: Keylong, Himachal Pradesh
355) Name the Indias first nuclear submarine whoseatomic reactor was activated recently: INS
Arihant
356) The shortfall of total inflow of foreign currencycompared to total out flow of foreign currency ina country is known as _________: Current
Account Deficit
357) If our total exports are less than our totalimports, the balance of trade in this situation is
_________: Negative
358) Who is the first women sprinter to win bothindividual 100 m / 200 m and 4 x 100 m relay in
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359) Indias fiscal deficit stood at 2.63 trillion rupees($43.57 billion) in the first quarter of the currentfiscal year. What is its link with the govt.borrowing: It represents the amount ofgovt. borrowing
360) Why government has hiked import duty onrefined gold bars for a third time in eight months
to 10 percent from the earlier 8 percent: Tocontrol the outflow of foreign currency
361) Latest RBI data shows that gross NPA of publicsector banks have increased to 1.76 lakhs croreas on 30thJune. What is the name of first stageof NPA Account: Substandard
362) The govt. has setup production target for foodgrains at ______ million tonnes for the year2013-14: 259
363) Name the Swiss trainer aircraft recently inductedin Indian Airforce to train its pilots: Pilatus PC-7
364)
Which two countries are having a border disputeover Gibraltar area in Mediterranean sea: Spainand UK
365) IAAF World Championship 2013 were held inwhich City: Moscow, Russia
366) Write the full form of abbreviation IAAF:International Association of AthleticsFederations
367) Name the athlete who won largest number ofgold medals (3) at IAAF World Championship2013 at Moscow: Usain Bolt, Jamaica
368) Name the nuclear weapon capable missile
recently test fired by India: Prithvi II
369) What is the strike range of Prithvi II missile:350 kms
370) Name the Indias first indigenous aircraft carrier,that was launched at Cochin Shipyard Limited on
August 12: INS Vikrant
371) Name the Indias second aircraft career which isdue to join navy by the end of this year: INS
Vikramaditya
372) Name the only operational aircraft career withthe Indian navy: INS Viraat
373) Dilip Trivedi has been appointed as DirectorGeneral of which paramilitary force: CentralReserve Police Force
374) Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been elected asPresident of which country: Mali
375) Name the Indian Navys kilo-class submarinethat sank at the naval dockyard in Mumbai dueto two massive explosions inside the submarine,killing all the 18 mariners: INS Sindhurakshak
376) Desh Prem Azad who passed away recently wasa prominent coach of which sports: Cricket
377) At which place in Ladakh, J & K, Indian airforcelanded its heavy lift transport plane C-130Super Hercules on the worlds highest air strip:Daulat Beg Oldie
378) The filing of RTI (Right to Information Act)applications for all central government ministriesand departments has been made online withlaunch of website www.rtionline.gov.in. Theprescribed fees can be paid through internet
banking of which bank: SBI and its associatebanks
379) Which state has decided to provide free cycles togirl students of class 9 and 10 in all govt andprovincial schools: Assam
380) Which area in district Rayagada in Odisha was innews as all the 12 gram sabhas thereunanimously decided to not to allow bauxitemining for Vedanta Aluminum, a multi crore FDIproject: Niyamgiri Hills
381) Asian Youth Games were held at which place:Nanjing, China
382)
Name the Indian weightlifter who clinched a goldmedal in the 77 kg category in Asian YouthGames held at Nanjing, China: Venkat RahulRagala
383) Which bank plans to deploy over 1.25 lakh point-of-sale (PoS) terminals in the next 18 months topromote cashless transactions at merchantoutlets: State Bank of India
384) Name the ratio which shows the proportionbetween total deposits and total loans of a bankor area: Credit Deposit Ratio
385) The Insurance Regulatory & DevelopmentAuthority has permitted which type of institutions
to act as insurance brokers with the objective ofincreasing insurance penetration in the country:Banks
386) If a bank becomes a insurance broker instead ofa corporate agent, what difference it will make inthe insurance selling options of the bank: as abroker they can sell insurance products ofmore than one company
387) As per revised areas norms for multiproductSEZs, the minimum area requirement has nowbeen fixed at______: 500 hectares
388) SEZs only for electronics hardware, agro-based
food processing, biotechnology, handicrafts cannow be setup in an area of ________ hectaresonly: 10
389) Name the element based on which physicistshave developed most precise clock of the world:
Ytterbium
390) The Reserve Bank has imposed monetarypenalties ranging from 50 lakhs to two crore on
Allahabad Bank, Bank of Maharashtra,Corporation Bank, Dena Bank, IDBI Bank andIndian Bank for which offence: Violation of
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391) With a view to ensure free and fair elections, theVoter Verifiable Paper Trail (VVPAT) system willbe used on trial basis for the first time in whichstate: Nagaland
392) Name the scheme wherein one youth from eachrural household that completes 100 days of workunder the Mahatma Gandhi National RuralEmployment Guarantee Programme will be
eligible for skill training and job placement underthe National Skill Development Scheme:National Skill Certification and MonetaryReward Scheme
393) The Union Cabinet cleared a proposal to scrapthe collegium system of appointing judges to theSupreme Court and High Courts. What is thealternative suggested for this system: Judicial
Appointments Commission
394) RBI has increased the ceiling for FDI in assetreconstruction companies (ARCs) from 49%to__%: 74%
395) What is the function of a asset reconstructioncompany: Recovery of banks bad loans
396) The government has approved setting up of 12mega food parks during the 12th Plan period(2012-17) with an allocation of Rs 1,714 crore.What is the purpose of setting up of a megafood park: Boosting the food processingindustry
397) The MPCE, which reflects purchasing powerstands at Rs. 1287.17 for rural areas in 2011-12.What is the full form of MPCE: Monthly PerCapita Expenditure
398) What is the MPCE for urban areas for the period
2011-12: Rs.2477.02
399) Name the two global credit rating agencieswhich have decided to maintain the BBB ratingfor India: Fitch; Standard & Poors
400) As per RBI directives and recent governmentguidelines, the Adhaar Card is complete andvalid proof for satisfying KYC norms for openingbank account subject to one condition. What isthat condition: The current address of theperson should be same as mentioned in the
Adhaar Card
401) The Lusofonia Games will be held in which placein India: Goa
402) In Lusofonia games, sports persons and athletesfrom only ________ speaking countries takepart: Portuguese
403) Which Indian sports person has been appointedthe brand ambassador to promote worlds largestfootball league Barclays English Premier Leaguefootball in India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
404) Name the Iraqi Prime Minister who visited Indiarecently: Nouri al-Maliki
405) Shailendra Kumar Mandal, Assistant Professor inthe Department of Architecture at NationalInstitute of Technology, Patna has been awardedthe prestigious Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship.Name the sponsoring country for this fellowship:USA
406) As per a recent study India ranks _____ in termsof number of internet users: 3rd
407) Indian women's recurve team (archery) won the
gold medal in which international event: TheWorld Cup Archery (Stage IV)
408) The World Cup Archery championship was heldat which place: Wroclaw, Poland
409) 40th National Women's Premier ChessChampionship was held at which place:Kolkata
410) The government has set up a Tax AdministrationReform Commission under___________, advisorto the Finance Minister: Parthasarathy Shome
411) What is the objective of setting up of the TaxAdministration Reform Commission: to review
the application of tax policies and tax lawsin the country
412) Name the sports person who has been selectedas the captain of Indian hockey team: SardaraSingh
413) Mr. Ronjan Sodhi has been honoured with whichbig award recently: Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Award
414) Name the highest recognition given by govt. inthe field of sports: Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Award
415) What is the amount of cash reward given by
under Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award: Rs. 7.50lakh
416) Arjuna Awards are given in which field: Sports
417) Name the cricketer who has been given ArjunaAward 2013:Virat Kohli
418) Mr. Gagan Jeet Bhullar has been given ArjunaAward for which sports: Golf
419) Name the womens badminton championrecently honoured with Arjuna Award: Ms. P.V.Sindhu
420) Dronacharya Awards in sports are given for what
purpose: Excellence in coaching421) Name the sports award given for life time
achievement of a sports person: DyanchandAward
422) What is the amount of cash reward given toArjuna, Daronacharya and Dhyanchandawardees: Rs. 5 lakh
423) Rajya Sabha passed an amendment to which actfor allowing persons in jail or in police custody tocontest elections: Representation of the
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424) Name one main reason for recent sharp slump inthe value of Rupee against Dollar: Higherdemand of dollars for higher value ofimports and shortage of dollars ininternational market
425) A number of artifacts belonging to Harrappan erawere discovered from a place near Bhuj inGujarat. What is the name of that place:
Khirsara
426) On what basis planning commission decides thecut off point for identifying BPL families: percapita consumption expenditure
427) The latest poverty line declared by planningcommission classifies a person in rural areabelow poverty line if his MPCE is below Rupees816. What is the full form of MPCE: MonthlyPer capita Consumption Expenditure
428) Persons having MPCE below Rupees _____ inurban areas are classified as living below povertyline: 1000
429)
What is the approximate share of exports in theIndias GDP: 17%
430) Recently RBI increase the interest subvention onexport loans to 3% from existing 2%. For whatpurpose it has been done: To promote exportsand to earn more dollars
431) RBI has extended non CTS chequesacceptance dead line to _______: 31stDecember, 2013
432) Abbreviation CTS stands for: ChequeTruncation System
433) CTS pertains to which activity of banking:
Clearance of local / outstation cheques
434) In the cheque truncation system 2010guidelines, what has been truncated (cut short):Physical movement of cheques
435) What is the name of the proposed new allwomen bank: Bhartiya Mahila Bank
436) Recently government has allowed _____ moreairports of the country to start tourist visa onarrival facility: Four
437) The international Sepak Takraw Super Series2013 was held at which place in India: NewDelhi
438)
What is the popular name for Sepak TakrawSports: Kick Volleyball
JULY 2013439) FIFA Confederations Cup is associated with
which sport: Football
440) The last FIFA Confederations Cup was held inwhich country: Brazil
441) Name the team that was beaten by Brazil to win
the FIFA Confederation Cup: Spain
442) Name the university that has been grantedexemption from various taxes and restrictions onimport / export of items: Nalanda University
443) Nalanda University is situated in which state:Bihar
444) _________, the Nobel laureate is the ProjectDirector of Nalanda University: Dr. AmartyaSen
445) The International Cricket Council (ICC) hasannounced that India will host the World T20Cup competition in _______ year: 2016
446) India has been granted permission to hold WorldTest Cricket Championship, for the first time inwhich year: 2021
447) K.K. Paul has been appointed governor of whichstate: Meghalaya
448) Government has set up an investment target of1.15 lakh crore rupees for PPP projects ininfrastructure sector in the next six months.What is the full form of PPP: Public PrivatePartnership
449) Virendra Kataria has been appointed Lt.Governor of which Union Territory: Puducherry
450) Name the Academician who has been appointedas Lt. Governor of Delhi: Najeeb Jung
451) Justice ______ has been appointed as 40thChiefJustice of India: P. Sathasivam
452) Douglas C. Engelbart who passed away recentlywas a renowned scientists in which field:Computers, Inventor of Mouse
453) Indian Navy recently took delivery of INS Trikand
from which country: Russia
454) INS Trikand is what type of war ship: StealthFrigate
455) Sriniwas D Patil has what linkage with the SikkimState: He is the governor of Sikkim
456) Name the IAS officer who has been appointed asthe new Union Foreign Secretary: SujathaSingh
457) Anil Goswami has been appointed as the new________ of India: Home Secretary
458) Lt. General A.K. Singh retired has beenappointed as _______ of Andaman NicobarIsland: Lt. Governor
459) As per a recent ruling of the Supreme Court inthe contest of cheque dishonor, Court has heldthat only ________ who has signed the chequecan be held liable for the dishonor: Drawer
460) Cheque bouncing due to insufficiency of funds inthe account is a offence under section _____ ofNegotiable Instruments Act: 138
461) India recently launched IRNSS-1A satellite fromSriharikota. What is the full form of IRNSS:
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462) What is the purpose of launching IRNSS: Todevelop a local GPS for India
463) What is the total number of satellites in theproposed IRNSS project: Seven
464) What is a number of industries covered in thecore sector as part of index of industrialproduction: Eight
465) Write the full form of GSLV: GeosynchronousSatellite Launch Vehicle
466) Name the place in Egypt which has been the epi-centre of large scale prodemocracy protest:Tahrir Square
467) In which sector government raise the FDI limitfrom 74% to 100%: Telecom
468) 5thNational Fencing Federation Cup competitionwas recently held at ___________, Punjab:Patiala
469) Marrakesh Treaty has recently been adopted by
more than 150 countries for what purpose: Tofacilitate access of published work to blind/ visually impaired persons
470) The city of Marrakesh where the recentconference of World Intellectual PropertyOrganisation (WIPO) was held is in whichcountry: Morocco
471) Government has released National CyberSecurity Policy 2013 with what objective: Tocounter threats from various cyberincidents
472) Grand Master Parimarjan Negi is a noted sportsperson from which field: Chess
473) 20th Asian Athletics Championship were held at_______, Maharashtra: Pune
474) Arvind Mayaram Committee was setup for whatpurpose: To review foreign directinvestment policy
475) As per the proposed Food Security Bill, whatpercentage of population has to be covered inrural areas: 75%
476) As per the proposed Food Security Bill, whatpercentage of population has to be covered inurban areas: 50%
477)
The benefit of subsidized food grains under theproposed food security bill shall be available towhich category of people: To be decided byeach State, individually
478) The Indian Ocean Rim Association for regionalcooperation economic and business conferencewas recently held at which place: Mauritius
479) Name the President of Egypt who was removedfrom office by the army due to widespread publicprotest against him: Mohammed Morsi
480) Vikas Gowda won the first gold medal for Indiain the 20thAsian Athletics Championship held atPune. Name the game for which he won thegold: Discus Throw
481) Name the first cricket player from Jammu &Kashmir to join Indian Cricket Team: ParvejRasool
482) Francisco Garcia has been appointed head coachof Indias senior womens __________ team:
Basketball
483) Inbee Park of South Korea is a famous sportsperson from which field: Golf
484) ________ has been declared as the first smokefree state of India: Himachal Pradesh
485) India has ranked _______ in the GlobalInnovation Index (GII) 2013: 66th
486) Yarnell Hill in Arizona, suffered wide spread wildfire spreading over 30 square miles. It is inwhich country: USA
487) Legendary actor and villain Pran passed away
recently. Write his full name: Pran KrishanSikand
488) Name the prestigious award that was conferredrecently on veteran actor Pran: Dada SahebPhalke Award
489) R. Chandrashekhar has been elected asPresident of NASSCOM. What is the full form ofNASSCOM: National Association of Softwareand Services Companies
490) Hemant Soren has been sworn-in as 9th ChiefMinister of _____ State: Jharkhand
491) M.S. Raghavan has been appointed Chairman
and Managing Director of _______ bank: IDBIBank
492) Marion Bartoli of __________ won the womensWimbledon Trophy: France
493) The Wimbledon championship of tennis is held atwhich place: London (UK)
494) Name the winner of mens singles WimbledonCup:Andy Murray
495) Andy Murray, the noted tennis player is fromwhich country: UK (United Kingdom)
496) Name the film that won IIFA awards for bestfilm, best director, best actor, best story and
music: Barfi
497) World Population day is celebrated on whichday: 11thJuly
498) What is the name of the first all women bank tobe started by November 1: Bhartiya MahilaBank
499) State Bank of India has launched a prepaid card,State Bank Xpress Money Card for what purpose:To facilitate inward remittances from UAE
500) Name the Indias youngest puglist who won a
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gold medal in boxing at Asian Championship heldat Amman, Jordan: Shiva Thapa
501) Name the internationally renowned Buddhisttemple town in Bihar that was in news as it wasrocked by a series of terrorist bomb attacks:Bodhgaya
502) RBI has advised banks that it will refund _____percent of losses suffered by banks on accountof receiving counterfeit notes of Rs. 100 and
above if they report the matter to police: 25%
503) Name the company which has started first whitelabel ATMs in India: Tata CommunicationsPayment Solutions
504) What is the name of white label ATMs launchedby house of Tatas: Indicash
505) A white label ATM is one which is licenced toand maintained by a ________: Non BankingEntity
506) Which three countries have entered into atripartite agreement on maritime cooperation tosecure sea routes in the Indian Ocean region:
India, Sri Lanka and Maldives
507) As per a recent verdict of Supreme Court, MPs,MLAs and MLCs would automatically lose theirmembership if sentenced to jail for not less than
________years by the trial court: two
508) In a pathbreaking verdict, Supreme Court hasdebarred persons in jail or police custody fromwhich activity: Contesting Elections
509) The prestigious Tagore award for CulturalHarmony for 2013 has been given to _____:Zubin Mehta
510) Zubin Mehta, winner of 2013 Tagore award is an
internationally renowned person from whichfield: Music
511) Name the satellite launched by NASA to studythe effects of sun on weather: IRIS
512) What is the full form of IRIS, the satellite launchby NASA to study sun: Interface RegionImaging Spectrograph
513) Worlds largest telescope Square KilometerArray (SKA) has started its test run in whichcountry:Australia
514) To strengthen their recovery efforts, banks havestarted naming and shaming the guarantors
too, besides the borrowers. What does it means:Banks will publish the photograph ofdefaulter borrower and their guarantor inthe notice published in news paper
515) The bad loans or the loans where recovery is notproper are called ________ in banking parlance:Non Performing Assets(NPA)
516) Govt. has approved of the first-ever NationalAviation University of the country at _______ inUttar Pradesh: Rae Bareli
517) Indias first only for women university will besetup at Rae Bareli, UP. What is its name:Indira Gandhi National University forWomen
518) Name the country that recently passed, for thefirst time in its history, law that allows abortionin limited cases: Ireland
519) To help ST students avail professional education,the govt. has decided to increase the total family
income ceiling under its scholarship scheme fromRs two lakh to Rs. _________lakh per annumfrom this fiscal: Rs 4.50
520) What do we call the amount that represents theshort falls in earnings from exports and spendingon imports: Trade Deficit
521) In the context of banking, which two items arerepresented in CD ratio: Credits (Loans) andDeposits
522) The Reserve Bank of India has advised banks tocomplete account opening process in all thedistricts which have started DBT scheme. What
is the full form of DBT: Direct BenefitTransfer
523) In which state President rules has been revokedrecently: Jharkhand
524) The RBI imposed a total fine of Rs. 49.5 crore on22 banks for what offence: Violation of anti-money laundering and know-your-customer Norms
525) Supreme Court recently quashed the notificationfor National Eligibility Entrance Test. This is thecommon entrance test for which course:Medical Courses
526)
Govt. has decided to raise a special MountainStrike Corps for deployment at which place: Lineof Actual Control (LAC) with China
527) What is the average national literacy rate inIndia as per 2011 census: 74%
528) Name the country which is celebrating 100 yearsof arrival of Sikhs in that country: USA
529) Which country has recently launched 3 satellitesfor scientific experiment on space maintenancetechnologies: China
530) ISRO is planning to launch a major spacemission in October- November this year to study
which planet: Mars531) Amar G. Bose the Indo-American visionary
entrepreneur and acoustics pioneer passed awayrecently. He was famous for which products:High-Quality Bose Audio Systems andSpeakers
532) Prem Bhatia award are given in which field:Journalism
533) The steel plant scrapped by POSCO is located inwhich area: Gadag, Karnataka
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534) Corporate giant Arcelor Mittal announcedcancelation of its Rs. 72000 crore steel plant inIndia. The plant was planned to be setup inwhich area: Keonjhar, Odisha
535) Name the US Vice President who visited Indiarecently: Joe Biden
536) Which Indian state received largest number ofdomestic tourists in 2012:Andhra Pradesh
537)
Devendra Jhajharia created history bybecoming the first differently-abled Indian to wingold in javelin throw at which internationalgames: The IPC Athletics WorldChampionships in Lyon, France. (IPC -International Paralympics Committee)
538) RBI decided to provide support of Rs. 25000crore to the banks for meeting liquidityrequirements of which financial segment:Mutual Fund
539) Which European country suffered its first heatwave after almost a gap of 7 years: Britain
540) Name the famous city of USA that has filed for
bankruptcy: Detroit
541) The Detroit city of USA that filed for bankruptcyis famous for which product:Automobiles
542) Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) hasadvised that those earning up to Rs. _____lakhin salary a year will have to file IT returns thisyear: Five
543) Name the new Chairman of the EmpoweredCommittee of State Finance Ministers on GST:
Abdul Rahim Rather
544) Name the latest advanced meteorologicalspacecraft launched by India: INSAT-3D
545) The INSAT-3D satellite was launched from therocket of which country: France
546) The book The New Bihar has been written by:N.K. Singh and Lord Nicholas Stern
547) Which Indian port has been given the Major Portof the Year award: Paradip, Odisha
548) Vidya Subrahmaniam, Associate Editor of TheHindu, has been given which award for the BestCommentary and Interpretative Writing for 2010:Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism
Award
549)
Ramon Magsaysay Award are given for whatpurpose and in which country: for excellencein community services; Philippines
550) As per the latest Planning Commission figurespercentage of people living below poverty line inIndia in 2011-12 has come down to ______percent: 21.9%
551) As per recent Planning Commission figures,person spending less then Rs. _______ per dayin rural areas are to be classified as belowpoverty line: Rs. 27.20
552) As per recent Planning Commission figures,person spending less then Rs. _______ per dayin urban areas are to be classified as belowpoverty line: Rs. 33.33
553) Govt. has appointed a committee underchairmanship of _________ to devise the newmethodology for fixing the poverty line: Dr. C.Rangarajan
554) Fixation of poverty line at present is done as per
the methodology suggested by _______: LateSuresh Tendulkar
555) The Finance Ministry has constituteda forum headed by___________, adviser to thefinance minister to interact with industry groupson a regular basis on tax-related issues ordisputes: Parthasarathi Shome
556) Name the country that planes to hold 7 thRegional Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas convention inNovember 2013:Australia
557) Name the cycling champion who won the famousTour de France, the cross country cycle race held
in France: Christopher Froom, UK558) Which Indian stock exchange has been ranked
no. 1 in the world in terms of volumes in equitytrades: National Stock Exchange
559) Name the legendary sports person whose namehas been recommended by the sports ministryfor the Bharat Ratan: Major Dhyan Chand(Hockey)
560) Last meeting of Finance Ministers and centralbank Governors from the G20 group of advancedand emerging nations was held at which place:Moscow,Russia
561)
What is the latest directive from the financeminister to public sector banks in the context ofATMs: Install ATMs in all branches byMarch, 2014
562) Name the Indias multi barrel rocket launchersystem which has been tested successfullyrecently: Pinaka
563) The global tiger day is celebrated on which date:July, 29
564) Who has been elected as the new President ofPakistan: Mamnoon Hussain
565) Manmoon Hussain is going to be the ______
President of Pakistan: 12
th
566) In its first quarter review of Monetary Policy
review RBI has lowered the growth projection forthe current fiscal from _________ to _______:5.7 to 5.5
567) The new Director General of NationalInvestigation Agency is: Sharad Kumar
568) The bank rate has been aligned with which otherfinancial benchmark: MSF
569) Full form of MSF is: Marginal Standing
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to strengthen the rupee, the government hasenhanced the limit for foreign investments ingovernment securities from 25 billion US Dollarsat present to ______billion US Dollars: 30billion US Dollars
606) Name the one of the major regulatory body inIndia that has celebrated its 25 years of itsestablishment: SEBI
607) SEBI had acquired _____ Status in 1992 with thepassage of the SEBI Act:Statutory
608)
The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM)headed by P. Chitambram has decided to make adisinvestment of 9.33% in which industry:Minerals and Metals Trading Corporation(MMTC)
609) Which telecom company has decided todiscontinue the 160-year-old telegraph servicefrom July 15, 2013: BSNL
610) RBI imposed a fine of Rs 5 crore on Axis Bank,Rs 4.5 crore on HDFC Bank Rs 1 crore on ICICIBank for violation of KYC norms. What is the fullform of KYC: Know Your Customer
611) What is the objective of Know Your Customerprovisions:To Curb Money Laundering
612)
Recently, Reserve Bank has asked the banks toexpand their branches in unbanked rural centersto promote______: Financial Inclusion
613) The Reserve Bank has extended the deadline forbanks to complete the process of allotting a
_____code to all their customers to March 31,2014: Unique Customer Identification Code(UCIC)
614) The Reserve Bank will soon put into circulationnew five rupee coins to commemorate 150thbirth anniversary of________: Motilal Nehru ,father of Jawahar Lal Nehru
615) Name the Indias first Regional NavigationSatellite launched by ISRO: IRNSS-1A
616)
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)has opened a navigation centre at which placenear Bangalore for the proposed Indian RegionalNavigation Satellite System (IRNSS): Byalalu
617) Name theSwiss made basic trainer aircraft thathas been inducted for the first time in the Indian
Air Force:Pilatus, PC-7 Mk-II
618) Name the manned spaceflight launched by theChina under is its longest manned mission.SHENZHOU-10
619) Name the country which has developed theworld fastest computer recently:CHINA
620) What is the name of world fastest computer
developed by China?Tianhe-2621) What is name of the project launched by Google
to float Internet beaming antennas into thestratosphere abroad giant, jellyfish-shapedhelium balloons, some 12 miles above the earth:Project Loon
622) Name the first heavy duty multipurpose cargoaircraft that has been inducted in IAF recently:Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
623) Name the forum where the Defence Ministers ofAsia-Pacific countries engage in dialogue aimedat building confidence and fostering practical
security cooperation: SHANGRI-LA DIALOGUE
624) Name the place where the Shangri-La Dialoguewas held recently:Singapore
625) Recently, UK has agreed to pay compensationtotaling 20 million to the victim of which revolt:Mau Mau revolt against British rule inKenya in the 1950s.
626) Name the place where the G-8 summit of theworld leaders held recently: Lough Erne,Northern Ireland
627)
Name the person who headed the G-8 summitheld recently in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland:David Cameron Prime Minister of UK
628) Name the country which becomes the 28thmember of European Union on July 1st:Croatia
629) Name the country whose Constitutional Courthas ordered the dissolution of parliament andcalled for fresh elections: Kuwait
630) Name the 13-year-old boy from New York was innews as he won the $ 30,000 Scripps NationalSpelling Bee contest by correctly spelling"knaidel," a kind of dumpling: ArvindMahankali
631) Name the Former CIA technician of US NationalSecurity Agency who was in news as he acted asa whistle blower revealing that the NSA allegedlyused several data-mining tools to covertly suckup vast amounts of data from the servers ofGoogle, Apple and Facebook, across the nations,including India:Edward Snowden
632) Name theCzech Prime Minister who was in newsas he resigned over a corruption and spyingscandal involving his top aide. Petr Necas
633) Name the Indian-origin sculptor in UK who washas been honoured with Knighthood, one of thehighest honours in Britain, by Queen Elizabeth II:Anish Kapoor
634)
Name the current scientific advisor of DefenceMinister:Dr. Avinash Chander
635) Name the newly elected President of Iran:Hassan Rouhani
636) Recently the Founder of Sulabh movementBindeshwar Pathak was honoured by FrenchGovernment for what reason: Bringing about atoilet revolution in India liberatingthousands of manual scavengers from theinhuman practice.
637) Name the American women Author who has wonthe Womens Prize for Fiction 2013: AM Homes
638) Give the name of the book for which A M Homesthe American women Author has won the
Womens Prize for Fiction 2013: May We BeForgiven
639) The book New Digital Age is written by______:Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
640) The book Noughts and Crosses is written by:Malorie Blackman
641) Name the veteran Congress Leader, who heldseveral positions as Union Minister and diedrecently in the naxal attack in Chattisgarh:V CShukla
642) Name the place in Turkey which was in newswhere thousands of people staged
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demonstrations against Turkeys Islamist-rootedgovernment:Taksim Square
643) Give the name of the Capital and Prime Ministerof Turkey:Ankara, Tayyip Erdogan
644) Name the Indian woman who became the firstmountaineer to scale all the seven highestcontinental peaks after climbing AlaskasMcKinley Peak in North American continent:Premlata Agrawal
645) Name the Indian weightlifter who won three
gold medals in the boys 77 kg category at the15th Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships:R
V Rahul
646) 15th Asian Youth Weightlifting Championshipswas held recently in_______: Doha, Quatar
647) Name the Indian women boxer who has won thegold medal in Senior National Women's BoxingChampionship:Preeti Beniwal
648) Name the place where the Senior NationalWomen's Boxing Championship was held:Khatima, Uttarakhand
649) ______ has created history by becoming the firstIndian male shuttler to win a grand prix outsideIndia by winning the Gold at Thailand Open atBangkok:Kidambi Srikanth
650) _______ is selected as Captain of IndianWomens Hockey team:Ritu Rani
651) Name the place where the National inter-StateAthletics championship was held: Chennai,Tamil Nadu.
652) Name the shot that has been accepted byInternational Cricket Council (ICC) as alegitimate part of the game: SwitchHit/Reverse Sweep
653) Name the player who has won the French OpenTennis (Men Singles):Rafael Nadal (Spain)
654) Rafael Nadal (Spain) lifted the French Open
Tennis title beating _______:David Ferrer(Spain)
655) Name the women player who has won thesingles French Open Tennis title: SerenaWilliams (USA)
656) Serena Williams (USA) won French Open Tennistitle defeating _______: Maria Sharapova(Russia)
657) Name the player who has won the U.S. OpenGolf tournament at Ardmore, Pennsylvania(USA):Justin Rose, of England
658) Name the country that has been invited as thePrinciple Guest Country at the International FilmFestival of India 2014: China
659)
Historical forts of which state have been grantedworld heritage status by UNESCO:Rajasthan
660) Who has been appointed as the new RailwayMinister of India: Mallikarujna Kharge
661) Oscar Fernandes has been appointed as newminister for _______ ministry: Roads andHighways
662) As per a recent survey, investors of which cityhave been ranked at the top in terms of theirfinancial intelligence: Mumbai
663) Recently opened 11 kms long railway tunnel inJ&K links which two stations: Banihal and
Qazigund
664) Any resident of India whose father or any ofwhose other male progenitors in the male line isor was of European descent is known as
________ citizen: Anglo Indian
665) Anglo Indians are defined under which article ofour constitution: 366(2)
666) Name the famous sports event that is heldannually at Roland Garros, France: FrenchOpen Tennis Cup
667)
Govt. has started the Nirbhaya Fund with Rs.1,000 crore for what purpose: Forempowerment of women and girls
668) Recently started Banihal Qazigund rail sectionin J&K will ensure round the year connectivity ofKashmir valley. The section passes throughwhich mountain range: Pir Panjal
669) Ralte, Indias first hydroelectric project that hasbeen bid out through tariff based internationalcompetitive bidding is located on which river:Chenab, J&K
670) Name the U.S Secretary of State (foreignminister) who recently visited India: John Kerry
671) Which Indian city is first in South Asia to launchthe heat wave preparation and warning systemunder Heat Action Plan:Ahemdabad
672) K. Ratna Prabha Committee has been formed tofinalise modalities for a media campaign for whatpurpose: To protest against indecentportrayal of women in mass media.
673) Name the new programme that has beenlaunched by merging programmes for deserts,wastelands and drought prone areas:Integrated Watershed ManagementProgramme
674) The new manufacturing policy targets raisingshare of manufacturing in GDP to_____% by
2025 from the present 16%: 25%675) Estimates released by the National SampleSurvey Organization show that percentage ofrural poor has fallen to ______in 2011-12 from29% estimated for 2009-10: 24.5%
676) As per recent news reports, the CAD touch ahigh record of 4.8% of GDP in 2012-13. What isthe full form of CAD: Current Account Deficit
677) The shortfall between the total outflow andinflow of foreign currency is known as: Current
Account Deficit
678) Name the two top minerals produced in India, interms of their value in rupees: Coal and CrudeOil (32% each)
679)
IIFCL Mutual Fund has launched Indias first IDFfor $ one billion. What is the full form of IDF:Infrastructure Development Fund
680) Air India has tied up with India Post for launch ofLogistics Post for what purpose: For carriage oflogistics
681) The Reserve Bank of India has extended thetime period for buyback of FCCBs by companiesunder the approval route to Dec. 31, 2013,considering weak global market conditions. Whatis FCCB: Foreign Currency ConvertibleBonds
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682) MSP for Paddy has been fixed at Rs. 1310 perquintal for the current Kharif season. What isMSP: Minimum Support Price
683) India has offered $150 million of credit forproject exports to set up a SEZ at Sittwein which country: Myanmar
684) Name the bank that has offered a choice to itscustomers to select their account number:IndusInd Bank
685) Tata Communications Payment Solutions Ltd.
(TCPSL) has become first company in India toroll out white label ATMs. What is a white label
ATM:An ATM licenced to and operated by anon banking company
686) Where in world scientist have discovered a newlanguage called Light Warlpiri:Australia
687) Wide spread blazes in peat swamp forests ofwhich country caused heavy pollution, extendingto even neighbouring countries: Indonesia
688) Name the country that has passed a landmarkimmigration reforms bill that will allow citizenshipto some 11 million illegal immigrants: USA
689) Supreme Constitutional court of which countryhas ruled that the upper house of the countrywas formed illegally: Egypt
690) Jiri Rusnok has been elected as Prime Minister ofwhich country: Czech Republic
691) M.S. Swaminathan Award is given for excellencein which field:Agriculture
692) The book Cobalt Blue has been written by:Sachin Kundalkar
693) India won the ICC Champions Trophy beatingEngland at the Edgbaston ground in UK. It is inwhich city: Birmingham
694) RBI has decided to grant new bank licences toNOFHCs only. What is NOFHCs: Non-OperativeFinancial Holding Company
695)
The Reserve Bank has set up________committee to review the relevance ofexisting financial benchmarks and suggest newones to improve regulation of the sector:
Vijaya Bhaskar
696) RBIs main policy rates like repo rate, reverserepo rate, bank rate, marginal standing facilityrate put together are known as _______:Financial Benchmarks
MAY 2013697) Name the first ever squadron of naval supersonic
MiG-29K fighters that has been inducted in the
Indian Navy recently: Black Panthers698) MiG-29K aircraft, recently inducted by the Indian
Navy will operate from the decks of whichaircraft carrier:INS Vikramaditya
699) Admiral Gorshkov is the other name of whichaircraft carrier inducted by india recently: INS
Vikramaditya
700) INS Vikramaditya which is likely to becommissioned by the end of this year is an
________:Aircraft Carrier
701) Who has been elected as the new Chief ChiefMinister of Karnataka: K Siddaramaiah
702) Name the new Prime Minister of Pakistan:Nawaz Sharif
703) Madrid Open Cup Womens title held in Spainrecently was won by_____:Serena Williams
704) Madrid Open Cup mens title held in Spainrecently was won by: Rafael Nadal
705)
Rafael Nadal who won the Madrid Open Cupmens title held in Spain recently belongs towhich country: Spain
706) The activities involving collection of money froma large number of public investors with apromise of huge returns, which are typically paidfrom the deposits taken from new investors, areknown as: Ponzi Schemes
707) Government has set up IMG to tackle PonziShemes. What is the full from of IMG: Inter-Ministerial Group
708) Recently Government has clarified that_______
tax wont be levied on farmlands: Wealth Tax709) Mount Everest is shedding its frozen cloak as its
glaciers have shrunk at an alarming rate of 13per cent over the last 50 years due to whichenvironment phenomenon: Global Warming
710) G7 Finance Ministers summit was held at whichplace on 11thMay, 2013:London, UK
711) Name the Cyclonic storm that caused widespreaddamage in the north and eastern parts of SriLanka and Myanmar:Mahasen
712) Indian scientists have developed a new vaccinefor diarrhea. What is the name of vaccine:
ROTAVAC713) ROTAVAC the new vaccine for diarrhea which
India has developed recently is an: OralVaccine
714) Name theRenowned Islamic scholar, progressivethinker, author and Dawoodi Bohra reformistleader from Mumbai who has passed awayrecently:Asghar Ali Engineer
715) Asghar Ali Engineer who recently passed awaywas an eminent:Author
716) Name theRemotely Operated Vehicle which theNASA has recently launched to study Greenland
Ice: GROVER717) GROVER, the Remotely Operated Vehicle which
the NASA has recently launched to studyGreenland ice. What is the full form of GROVER:Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle forExploration and Research
718) A long range maritime snooping and anti-submarine reconnaissance warfare aircraft, madein USA is being inducted in Indian navy for thefirst time. Name the aircraft being inducted:Poseidon8I
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719) Poseidon-8I is the warfare aircraft recentlyinducted by Indian Navy for what purpose: Todetect threats and neutralize them ifrequired long before they come anywherenear Indian shores
720) Name the bond announced by RBI to belaunched every month starting from 4th June,2013 to attract household savings of up to Rs.15,000 crore this fiscal so as to discourage
investments in gold: Inflation Indexed Bonds721) Why the RBI has announced to launch Inflation
Indexed bonds every month: To attracthousehold savings of up to Rs 15,000 croreso as to discourage investments in gold
722) Recently which authority in India has announcedto launch Inflation Indexed bonds every monthof this fiscal year:RBI
723) What would be the maturity period of theinflation indexed bonds to be launched by theRBI: 10 years
724) The expert committee headed by Raghuram G
Rajan, Chief Economic Adviser to measurebackwardness of the states would considerwhich parameters: Factors like per capitaincome and other human developmentindicators
725) Government has declared 2013 as ____ year tobattle the deepening water conflicts and watertables: Water Conservation Year
726) Name the Pharmaceutical Company which haspaid $500 MN as fine for distribution of certainadulterated drugs made at its India units:Ranbaxy
727) Recently a global rating agency MOODYs has
pegged INDIAs Growth rate at:6.5%
728) India got the observers status in _________,which was established to discuss cooperativemeasures to protect Arctic environment:ArcticCouncil
729) Give the name of the countries which are theobserver members of the Arctic Council: China,Italy, Japan, South Korea, Singapore andIndia
730) How many permanent members are there in theArctic Council:8
731) Give the Name of permanent members of the
Arctic Council: Canada, Denmark, Finland,Iceland, Russia, Norway, Sweden and USA
732) Govt. has enhanced the income ceiling limit forthe creamy layer persons under OBC quota, from
___ to ___: Rs. 4.5 lakh a year toRs. 6 lakh
733) Govt. plans to start the ceremonial flag loweringceremony at which place that at present is heldonly at Wagah border: Hussainiwala Border,Ferozepur, Punjab
734) Who has been appointed as the Comptroller and
Auditor General of India recently: ShashiKantSharma
735) Name the person whose term as Comptroller andAuditor General of India expired recently:VinodRai
736) RBI has clarified that the proposedinflation indexed bond or IIBs will be treated likeany other government bonds and will also beeligible for the purpose of investment under
______ by the banks: Statutory LiquidityRatio
737) What is the name of the person who won theGrand Prize at the prestigious CopenhagenInternational Sand sculpture festival held inDenmark:Sudarsan Pattnaik
738) Name the Premier of China who visited Indiarecently: Li Keqiang
739) India and China recently agreed to share regularinformation about the three hydrological stationson which river: Brahmputra
740) China has agreed to make further improvements
to the existing facilities for Pilgrimage to:Kailash Mansarovar, Near India ChinaBorder
741) India and China have called for increasedpeople-to-people interaction and for declarationthat 2014 be declared as the: Year ofExchanges
742) India and China have called for declaring 2014as the Year of Exchanges: To boostunderstanding and friendship
743) Which bank has launched a special accountnamed as Eve Account: Deutsche Bank
744)
Deutsche Bank has launched a special accountnamed 'Eve Account' targeted at ____ women:Urban
745) Name the place where the International BoxingCup was held: Limassol, Cyprus
746) In which tournament the Indian boxers createdhistory by winning a record haul of 10 medals:International Boxing Cup
747) What is the name of the parliament of theBangladesh: Jatiyo Shangshad
748) Name the first women speaker of Bangladesh:Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury
749)
Which Indian personalities have found a place inthe 500 most powerful people on the planet:Prime Minister Manmohan Singh andCongress President Sonia Gandhi
750) Name the Place in Ladakh on Chinese borderwhich was in news as the Chinese troops pitchedtheir army tents in that area in clear cutviolations of international norms: Daulat BegOldi
751) Out of these industries - Coal, Natural Gas,
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Crude Oil, Solar Power, Electricity, Cement,Steel, Petroleum Products, which one is not apart of group of 8 Core Industries:Solar Power
752) Conference of Parties to the StockholmConvention on Persistent Organic Pollutantsmeet in Geneva has approved non-chemical aswell as chemical substitutes to which drug:Endosulfan
753) National Urban Health Mission is the sub mission
under: National Health Mission
754) Who won the Grand Prix Gold title (Badminton)at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, beating Juan Gu ofSingapore:P.V. Sindhu
755) Name the