Weekly Current Affairs: November 01-11th, 2012

1. Finance Minister recently revealed a five-year roadmap for fiscal consolidation. The target

deficit in 2016-17 is _________?

Answer: 3 per cent

The deficit brought down to 4.8 per cent by 2013-14

4.2 per cent in 2014-15

3.6 per cent in 2015-16

3 per cent in 2016-17

2. Recently, where the International Conference & Exhibition on Green Buildings was held in India:

Answer: Hyderabad

3. Recently RBI modified its various ratios / rates. The present rates are as follows:

Bank Rate : 9 %

Repor ate : 8 %

Reverse Repo Rate : 7 %

C R R : 4.25 %

S L R : 23 %

4. Which country has won the inaugural Asian Women’s Cricket Council’s Twenty20 Asia Cup after

beating Pakistan in final at Guangzhou, China?

Answer: India

5. Recently Stock Holding Corporation of India (SHCIL), the country's first and one of the largest

security custodians to financial institutions is merged with one of the commercial bank. Name of this

bank is?

Answer: IDBI Bank

6. Which Asian country is going to conduct the state of its people’s happiness through second

Gross National Happiness (GNH) survey?

Answer: Bhutan

7. The 28th National Junior Athletic championships were held in which city and state, recently?

Answer: Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh on 1st November.

8. Shilpotsav-2012, an annual event conducted by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, for

the purpose of ________________?

The objective is to provide a platform to the beneficiaries assisted under the developmental schemes

of various Finance & Development Corporations and National Institutes to showcase their art &

craft.

9. As per the World Economic Forum (WEF), what is the rank of India in the recent financial

development index?

Answer: 40th India’s ranking went down 4 places to 40th in 2012 compared to the previous year, due

to poor enforcement of contracts and lack of liberalization.

10. Who is known as the father of Malayalam language?

Answer: Thunchath Ezhuthachan. Recently, a university has been inaugurated ‘The Malayalam

University’ named after Thunchath Ezhuthachan’s name at Tirur in Malappuram district.

11. Recently, who among has received the 27th Indira Gandhi award for National Integration,

which carries an amount of Rs. 5 lakh in cash and a citation. The Award is given on the Martyrdom?

Answer: Gulzar

12. Recently, who has been appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive of Bombay

Stock Exchange (BSE), Asia’s oldest stock exchange?

Answer: Ashish Kumar Chauhan

13. Recently, scientists which countries have developed a bio-fertilizer product?

Answer: India and Switzerland

14. A recently launched Mission by Kerala state which aims for empowerment of women through

forming self-help groups _____________________(Name of this Mission)?

Answer: Kudumbashree project for poverty reduction launched on 17 May 1998.

15. Han Suyin, who emerged as among the most powerful voices serving as a bridge between China

and the West in the 20th century and later became an ambassador for China-India relations after her

marriage to an Indian colonel, died in Lausanne, Switzerland was a well-known ______________?

Answer: Writer (Chinese-Belgian British writer)

16. Which State is set to become the first State in the country to provide ‘pucca’ houses to all its

citizens?

Answer: Sikkim. Sikkim Government launched a Rs 211 crore ‘social housing’ project. Under the

project, housing will be provided to around 30, 000 people residing in ‘kutcha’ houses as on January

1, 2011, an official release said. In its first phase, the project, named the ‘Chief Minister’s Rural

Housing Mission’, will allocate around 6,000 single-storey earthquake-resistant ‘pucca’ houses free

of cost by 2013 to the poor .

17. Which U.S. university is organising a three-day international conference, ‘Ramanujan 125,’ to

mark the 125th birth anniversary celebration of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan?

Answer: University of Florida

18. Who is the new Chairperson and Managing Director of the Bank of India?

Answer: Vijayalakshmi R. Iyer

19. Recently, which international organisation has released the ‘World Development Report 2013:

Jobs’?

Answer: World Bank

20. Recently, where the Sixth Conference of the Association of SAARC Speakers and

Parliamentarians was held?

Answer: Pakistan

21. Which country has won the recently held Asian Kabbadi Championship?

Answer: Pakistan

22. A online file tracking system of the secretariat titled "Information and Data Exchange Advanced

System' (IDEAS) has been launched by which state Govt.?

Answer: Kerala

23. Recently, where the new Rail Coach Factory has been inaugurated?

Answer: Lalganj

24. What is the rank of India on Ernst & Young’s renewable attractiveness index?

Answer: 4th. India ranks fourth on Ernst & Young’s renewable attractiveness index after China, the

US and Germany.

Chief Ministers of the states

S.No. State Name

1 Andhra Pradesh Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy

2 Arunachal Pradesh Nabam Tuki

3 Assam Tarun Gogoi*

4 Bihar Nitish Kumar*

5 Chhattisgarh Raman Singh*

6 National Capital Territory of

Delhi† Sheila Dixit

7 Goa Manohar Parrikar

8 Gujarat Narendra Modi

9 Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda

10 Himachal Pradesh Prem Kumar Dhumal

11 Jammu & Kashmir Omar Abdullah*

12 Jharkhand Arjun Munda*

13 Karnataka Jagadish Shettar

14 Kerala Oommen Chandy

15 Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chauhan

16 Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan

17 Manipur Okram Ibobi Singh

18 Meghalaya Mukul Sangma*

19 Mizoram Lal Thanhawla

20 Nagaland Neiphiu Rio*

21 Orissa Naveen Patnaik

22 Pondicherry† N. Rangaswamy

23 Punjab Prakash Singh Badal*

24 Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot

25 Sikkim Pawan Kumar Chamling

26 Tamil Nadu J.Jayalalitha

27 Tripura Manik Sarkar*

28 Uttarakhand Vijay Bahuguna

29 Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav

30 West Bengal Mamata Banerjee*

† Union Territories * Coalition government

Governors of the states

Indian State Name

Andhra Pradesh E.S.L. Narasimhan

Arunachal Pradesh General Joginder Jaswant Singh

Assam Janaki Ballabh Patnaik

Bihar Devanand Konwar

Chhattisgarh Shekhar Dutt, SM

Goa Bharat Vir Wanchoo

Gujarat Kamla Beniwal

Haryana Jagannath Pahadia

Himachal Pradesh Urmila Singh

Jammu and Kashmir Narinder Nath Vohra

Jharkhand Syed Ahmed

Karnataka Hans Raj Bhardwaj

Kerala Hans Raj Bhardwaj ("additional charge" due to the death of M. O. H. Farook)

Madhya Pradesh Ram Naresh Yadav

Maharashtra K. Sankaranarayanan

Manipur Gurbachan Jagat

Meghalaya Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary

Mizoram Vakkom Purushothaman

Nagaland Nikhil Kumar

Orissa Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare

Punjab Shivraj Patil

Rajasthan Margaret Alva

Sikkim Balmiki Prasad Singh

Tamil Nadu Konijeti Rosaiah

Tripura Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil

Uttarakhand Aziz Qureshi

Uttar Pradesh Banwari Lal Joshi

West Bengal M.K. Narayanan

However, Delhi and Pondicherry have a measure of self-government with an elected legislature and cabinet- hence the role of

the Lieutenant-Governor in those territories is more akin to that of a state governor. The other 4 territories have an

administrator appointed, who is an Indian Administrative Service officer.

Union Territory Name of the Governor

Andaman and Nicobar Lt. Gen. Bhopinder Singh PVSM,AVSM

Delhi Tejendra Khanna

Pondicherry Iqbal Singh

Administrators

Union Territory Name

Chandigarh Shivraj Patil

Dadra and Nagar Haveli B.S. Bhalla

Daman and Diu B.S. Bhalla

Lakshadweep Amar Nath