July 2012 Current Affairs (111)

INTERNATIONAL  

1. Cyprus’s main Theme for its EU precidency is ?

Answer : Towards a Better Europe

2. The Mexican Government declared a national animal heath emergency on 2 July in the face of aggressive ____?

Answer :  Bird flu

3. U.S & China pledged to ease strains in their relationship renewed disputes over ?

Answer :  South China sea

4. Who passed the bill to protect leaders from contempt of court proceedings from Pakistan?

Answer :  Asif Ali zardari

5. Name the space craft in which sumitha willians took aoff for the International space station recently?

Answer :  Soyuz

6.U.S cut Military aid to ______?

Answer : Pakistan

INDIA & WORLD

1.Foreign direct Investment flows into India in 2011 is ?

Answer : $32 billion

2. Who is the foreign secretary of pakistan at present ?

Answer :  Abhas Jilani

3. What is the name of the Islands offered by Mauritius to India , preserve tax treaty ?

Answer :  North & South Agalega Islands

4.What is the name of the trade and Insdustry Minister ?

Answer : Hanna Tettch

5. India had invoked a lowpermitting Nato pharma to manufracture Nexavar drug to cure ?

Answer :  Cancer

6.Which countries signed pact for funding two new units at the kundakulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamilnadu?

Answer : India & Russia

7.Which country is in best place in ‘Child development Index’ ?

Answer : Japan

8.What is the British University which conferred an honorary degree of Doctorate of letters to the elected president Pranab Mukherjee?

Answer : University of Wolverhampton\

NATIONAL1.Which place of india recognised recently under world heritage list ?

Answer :  Western Ghats

2.Inda, south east Asia nations join hands to protech____?

Answer :  Wildlife

3.Which state has represented the highest no:of suicides According to ” accidental deaths & Suicides in India 2011″?

Answer :  West Bengal

4. what is the second competitive city in our country according to International think tank report on 11 July 2012?   Answer :  Mumbai

5. How many central universities are there in India ?

Answer :  41

6. which associationa was ban was extended by Government of india due to anti – India posture ?

Answer :  LTTE

7.Who is the 13th President of India ?

Answer :  Pranab Mikharjee

STATES

1.Which type of license in Karnataka indicates donation of organs ?

Answer : Driving License

2. Which scheme was implemented by Madhya Pradesh according to delivery Monitoring unit?

Answer :    MNREGA

3.According to Goa scheme ‘Ladli Lakshmi’ the women can avail of Rs.1Lakh to meet ?

Answer : Wedding expenses

4. Who is  the new CM of Karanataka ?

Answer : Jagadish shettar

5. Orissa chief Minister Naveen patnaik on 13 July 2012 announced increase in the representation of woment in Urban local bodies (ULBs) from 3 percent to ______?

Answer : 50 %

6.What is the major festival in Rajastahan celebrated inviting rains by women____

Answer :  Teej

CONFERENCES  

1. who represented India in 1st East Asia Educational Minister’s Meeting ?

Answer : Purandhareswari

2. What is the conference held yo  help wartorn Afghanistan ?

Answer : Tokyo conference

3. The first World Hindi Conference will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from ?

Answer : September 22 -24

4. What is the name of the conference held by NASA recently for which it has included two indian Innovators ?  

Answer : Conference on waste management

AWARDS & HONOURS 

1.Who is the received Nayudamma award for the year 2012 ?

Answer : V.Rahjanna

2.Who is the APCC secretary ?

Answer : Ananda Babu

3. The winner ‘Golden Peacock Environment Management ‘ Award 2012 is ?

Answer :  Manipal University

4. ” Lanco Infratech” Jopurnal was adjudged best in which category ?

Answer : cover design

5. “Mining Engineer of the year” Award for 2010-11 was presented to ___?

Answer :    Narendra Kumar Nanda , director od NMDC

6. What is the award recently won by sundarsham Patnaik ?

Answer : People’s choice medal Award

7.How many  Indo- American scientists got’Presidential early career Awards’2012 ?

  Answer : four

SPORTS & GAMES 

1.Who won the AT & T golf Tournament on 1 July 2012 ?

Answer : Tiger woods

2.who was the winner of “UEFA Eurocup Foot ball championship”?

Answer : Spain

3.The rishcest domestic golf event in the country costs ?

Answer : Rs.1.25 crores

4.M.R .Venkatesh became the grand master chess tournament event at ?

Answer :  USA

5.How many gold medals won by india in aAsian wrestlers cadet championship ay Bishket?

Answer :  5

6. Who won British Grand prix in Formula 1?

Answer : Webber

7. Who won Monsoon Regatta sailing championship held at hyderabad ?

Answer : saravanan

8.Who is the swiss National won 7 WimbeldonTitles ?

Answer :  Roger Federer

9.Who is the south African wicket keepeer announced retirement aftera an eye injury?

Answer : Mark Boucher

10. Highest number of doping tests were conducted in which games ?

Answer :  London Olympic Games 2012

11. Who sets another National record of 50 m breast stroke event in 35.42 seconds ?

Answer : Jaya veena

12. Who is the fastest bowler from Australia retired recently from International cricket?

Answer :Brett Lee

13. Who will be the India’s flag -bearer in London Olympics

Answer : Sushil kumar

14. Who won Swedish open title in Men’s Singles ?

Answer : David Ferrer

15. Who Won Scottish Golf Open on 16 Juy 2012 ?

Answer : Jeev Mailkha

16. West Classic Title won by ?

Answer :  Serena Williams

17.Who is the first saouth Africa but man to score a triple century?

Answer : Hashima Amla

18. The Gagan Narang associated with which game ?

Answer : Air Rifle

ECONOMY

1.Tata AIG wants to merge in ?

Answer : Tata AIA Life

2.Which facility was launched by RBI for G-secs trading ?

Answer :   Web based system for online trading

3.To whom ICICI bank sold its debt in Kingfisher ?

Answer :  Srei arm

4.India stod on which position in the production of pharma products .

Answer : 3rd largest producer

5.India falls in which place for the most preferred destination as reported by UNCTAD?

Answer : 3rd

6. what are the 5 states to build 9,000 km of rural roads to connect through?

Answer :  Assam,Chattigarh, Madhya praedesh, orissa & West Bengal

7. How many crores Coal India LTD wants to Invest on Rail  Infrastructure in 3 states ?

Answer : 7,500 crores

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1.Which plants Reactor is going to restart in Japan after a huge Earth Quake ?

Answer :  Ohi Nuclear plant

2.The Zebrafish research facility is availabale at ?

Answer :  CCMB

3.What is the alternative source of stem cell ?

Answer : Amniotic stem cell

4.What is the HIV test that rcently got FDA permission ?

Answer :  Ora Quick Test

5.What is “God Particle”?

Answer :  a sub-atomic Particle

6. ‘Chang’e-3′ mission to moon by ?

Answer :  China

7. What is the anti-HIV drug, first approved by USFDA?

Answer :  Truvada

8. Brahmos Missile has been inducted in all the three wings of Indian armed forces but not in ?

Answer : Russia

PERSONS IN NEWS     a)Appointments

1. Who is newly elected president of mexico?

Answer :  Enrique Nieto

2. Who is the newly appointed as controller General of accounts ?

Answer : Jawahar Thakur

3. Who is appointed as additional secretary and financial advisor in the ministry of steel

Answer : E.k.Bharat Bhushan

4. Who is the 1st woman MD in India of US food company Heinz’s ?

Answer : Seema Modi

5. who is the new CEO of yahoo!

Answer :   Marissa Mayer

6.Which country’s New envoy key Karzai Aid to India ?

Answer : Afghanistan

7.Who has been appointed as the Standing committee members of Rajya sabha ?

Answer :  Sachin & Rekha

8. Who has been appointed as the firsts chancellor for  Nalanda University?

Answer : Amertya sen

9. Who is the new president of Ghana ?

Answer : John Dramani Mahama,

10. Who is the new Secretary of President Pranab ?

Answer :   Omita Paul

b) Resigns

 1.In which fraud the Barclays bank was involved?

Answer : Fraud of manipulating global benchmark lending rates

2. Who resigned as karnataka CM ?

Answer :Mr sadananda Gowda

c)Deaths

 1. Who is the Tamil Language computing championship away recently ?

Answer : Anto peter

2.Truvada , the first anti HIV drug approvedby USFDA was developed by _____?

Answer : Antonin Holy

3.Veteran Socialist leader who died on 17 July 2012 ?

Answer :   Mrinal Gore

4.Who is the first US woman to travel into space?

Answer :  sally Ride

5.Who was the head of women’s regiment of subhasg chandra Bose’s Indian National Army(INA)?

Answer : Lakshmi sehgal

d)Visitors

 1. which country S. M Krishna external affairs Minister of India visited recently om 1July?

Answer : Tajikistan

2.Who is the Indian Envoy to visit Tibet after 10 years ?

Answer : S.Jaishakar

3. The UN envoy who visited syria  on 9 July 2012 is ?

Answer : Kofi annan

e)Miscellaneous

1.The President of which country won 5times as a president ?

Answer : Ice land

2.What is the nickname of the south Philippines Crocodile which enters in Guinness world Record as largest in Captivity in the world ?

Answer :   Lolong

3. Oldest Meteor Impact was found in ?

Answer : Green Land

4.What is the name of the world’s smallest fly?

Answer :   Eury platea nanaknihali

5. What is the name of the Europe’s tallest builifing ?

Answer : shard

6. How many days logged by Hillary clinton on the road , since 2009 ?

Answer :   351 days

7. Who is the Anglo Indian to vote in Presidential election in 2012 ?

Answer : Derek o’Brian, a Trinamool congress M.P

DAYS & DATES  

1. World Population Day is observed on ?

Answer : July 11

2. Parents Day is Obeserved on ?

Answer : July 2

BOOKS IN NEWS

1.Which book was written by Journalist Khalid A-H Ansari?

Answer : Sachin:Born to Bat

2. Which book was released recently by D.Subba Rao RBI Governor in chennai on July 4 ?

Answer : Indian Banking Expectations

3. what is the name of the Book released by Rahul Dravid is ?

Answer :  Timeless Steel

4.What is the title of the book released on hockey Olympics?

Answer : Profiles of Indian Hockey Olympics

COMMITTEES

1.Which committee was appointed by PM for the alternative route for sethu samudram ?

Answer :    R.K.Pachuri expet committee

2. Which committee was set up by the kapil sibal to analyze the cartoons in NCERT text books

Answer : Thorat committee

3. Mr . Kris Gopala Krishna Executive co- chariman of ?

Answer : Infosys

4. P.M Constituted an expert committee to prepare and finalize guidelines for ?

Answer : GAAR norms

5. SSTCG Committee to Coordinate among _____?

Answer : Security Agencies

Places in News

1. Which region in Russia faced floods on 7 July 2012 ?

Answer : Russia’s southern Krasnodar

2. what is the main origin of the earth quake struck in Northern India on 11 July ?

Answer :   Hindhukush

June 2012 Current Affairs (102)

INTERNATIONAL   

1.India joined recently in which council of nations in Geneva on June 1st?

Answer:  UNHRC

2. Who is the Ex-President of Egypt sentenced to life imprisonment ?

Answer: Hosni Mubarak

3.What is the company that is recently bought by google

Answer: Meebo

4. The defence secretary of which country visited India recently to discuss china’s growing assertiveness

Answer: U.S

5.What is the prize money given for Noble prize?

Answer:  10million crowns

6.What is the organization that conducts auction on Gandhi’s memorabilia?

Answer:  Sotheby’s London

7. Who is the new President of Egypt ?

Answer:  Mohammed Morsey

8. Who is newly appointed Saudi Arabian Prince ?

Answer: Prince salmon Bin Abdul Aziz

9.The PM of Pakistan who was disqualified by court of Prime Minister-ship recently, is ?

Answer: Yusuf Raza Gilani

10. Who is the new PM of Greece ?

Answer:  Antoni Samara

11.The Oracle CEO, who bought Hawaii’s sixth largest island,Lanai , is ?

Answer:   Larry Ellison

12.Who was the Kenya’s Internal security minister killed in helicopter crash on 10 June 2012?

Answer: George Saitoti

13. Which Agency given the list of failed state Index ?

Answer: Foreign policy agency

14. Which party Parvez Ashraf belongs to?

Answer:  Pakistan peoples party

15. Who is elected as the president of Egypt ?

Answer: Islamic Mohamed Mursi

16. Who is composed the official song for London 2012 Olympics?

Answer:   Muse

17.Which country’s court held US health care Law constitutional ?

Answer:  U.S

INDIA & WORLD

1.India allowed which country FDI?

Answer:   pakistan

2. who is elected as the 2nd highest court of US?

Answer:  srikanth srinivasan

3.Who is the richest sports person in India according to Forbe’s list of World’s 100 richest sports person ?

Answer:  M.S.Dhoni

4. In the 7th G-20 summit ,how much contribution did India made to IMF’s bailout Fund ?

Answer:  10million US Dollars

5. Which company want to invest 1.5billion euros to set up 25 stores in the country under single brand retail FDI?

Answer: IKEA

NATIONAL

1.who is the artist recently called off the Israel visit to disapprove Israeli policies?

Answer: Zakir Hussain

2.Which country stood 1st for the strongest annual growth rate according to the global survey by knight frank ?

Answer:  Brazil

3. What is the name of only country where the world’s largest selling soap brand is being launches as deodorant ?

Answer: India

4.Which computer educator creates India’s first 3D ad film ?

Answer: Aptech

5.Who is the president of NASSCOM?

Answer: Som Mittal

STATES

1.Who won in the by-elections of A.P?

Answer: Y.S.R Congress party

2.What is the sex ratio of urban girls out of 1000 boys according to 2011 census in A.P state ?

Answer: 946

3.India’s first River-lake link project launched In ?

Answer:  Bundelkhand

4.Which state Government announced an un-employment scheme ?

Answer: Rajasthan

CONFERENCES

1. Indian science congress held at ?

Answer: Kolkatta

2.What is the name of the alternative International AIDS conference held by India ?

Answer:  Dubar Mahila Samanway samiti (DMSS)

3.Who inaugurated the 28th Annual conference of chief commissioners and Directors General of Income Tax in the capital?

Answer: Pranab Mukharjee

4.Rio+20 earth summit took place at ?

Answer: Rio de Janeiro

AWARDS & HONOURS

1.who is the first Indian to receive Wisden India outstanding achievement award?

Answer: Sachin Tendulkar

2. Who awarded as the Best actor in IIFA awards?

Answer: Ranbir Kapoor

3. Which Organization got wins Effie award ?

Answer: Ogilvy Mumbai

4) Who got Mexican Honour from India during G-20 summit ?

Answer: R.K.Pachauri

5.Which organization received “2012 World Business & Development Award”  ?

Answer: ITC

6. which organization awarded as G20 challenge award for Medicare?

Answer: Apollo

7.Who bagged the “Entrepreneur of the year award,2012″ of Hyderabad Management Association?

K.Ravi, M.D of NCL industries

8. Ratan Tata was recently honoured for his innovation in philanthropy by _______

Answer: Rockefeller foundation Life Time achievement award

SPORTS & GAMES  

1.Who won ITF men’s future title, which held in Mandya karanataka on June 2nd  2012 ?

Answer: Saket Myneni

2.Who won on June 4 a golden Medal in prost pree elite women’s discus throw event, where she belong s to Russia ?    Answer:  Darya Pischalnikova

3.who won the French open title 2012 in mixed doubles?

Answer:  Bhupati-sania

4.Eurocup is oraganized by

Answer: UEFA

5. Who won the 2012 French Open title in Men’s singles?

Answer: R

6.Who is the Indian Cricketer appointed as a brand ambassador of Nepal cricket Association?

Answer:  M.S.Dhoni

7. Who is the First woman to win 3 tittles of indonesia open super series in  India badminton history?

Answer: Saina Nehwal

8.Who is the Indian Hockey goal Keeper suspended recently for being positive in the doping test?

Answer: Adrin D’souza

9.Who won bronze in Junior women’s meeting of shooting hopes Championship concluded at Plzen in Czench Republic on 10 June ?

Answer: Tejaswini

10.Who won the 800m race in Diamond league meet with a time of one minute 41.74 seconds ?

Answer: Rudisha

11. Who shared the title with humpy in the FIDE women’s Grand Pix ?

Answer: Anna Muzychuk

12.Who is organizes the Wimbledon Championship?

Answer:  All England Club

13.The country which is going to sent women athletes in the Olympics for the first time ever

Answer: Saudi

14.Who is the first amputee runner to compete at the Olympic games ,2012?

Answer: Oscar Pistorius

ECONOMY

1.Bihar topped in Gross State domestic product with which percent Growth in 2011-12?

Answer:    13.1

2.Which Federation stated 10 point agenda for economic survival of India ?

Answer: CII (The confederation of Indian Industry)

3. Which rating agency downgraded 15 of the world’s biggest banks on 21 June ?

Answer:  Moody

4.Which organization set the norms for listing SEs?

Answer: SEBI

5.What is the current limit of foreign investment in government bonds?

Answer:  20 billion dollar

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1.which vegetable’s genome was sequenced completely in 2012?

Answer:  Tomato

2. what is the name of the missile test fired by the pakistan recently.

Answer: Haft VII(babur)
3.When did the largest solar flare occurred ?

Answer: March 7.2012

4.Where the largest database of martian impact creates on Mars is ?

Answer: At the university of Colorado

5.who is the first woman Astronaut of china sent into space ?

Answer:  Liu Yang

6.Fourth human spaceflight shenzhon-9 was launched into space by which country in 2012 ?

Answer: China

7.What is the technology that is currently being used in India to detect cyclones and Tsunamis, implemented by NIO & ISRO

Answer: Aerial Microwave Radar Gauge

8.What is the first country where German house was started for the first time ?

Answer:  U.S

PERSONS IN NEWS a)Appointments

1.Who is appointed as the IAF’s western Air command chief ?

Answer:  Arup Raha

2.Who is appointed as the new chairman of LIC ?

Answer:   Dinesh Kumar Mehrotra

3.Who is the cricketer taken oath as a  Rajya sabha MP recently on June 4?

Answer: Sanchin Tendulkar

4.Who is recently appointed navy chief?

Answer: D.K.Joshi

5.who retired as CEC recently?

Answer: S.Y.Qureshi

6. who appointed as  the head of DGH ?

Answer: R.N.Chaubey

7.Present deputy governor who reappointed recently of RBI ?

Answer:  K.C.Chakrabarty

8. Who is the new CEO of Tata Global ?

Answer: Harish Bhat

9.Who is the chairman of FAI- south ?

Answer: K.Rahul raju

10 . who is new chief of ICC ?

Answer:  Alan Isaac

11. who is the new commissioner of Delhi Police after B.K.Gupta ?

Answer: Neeraj Kumar

12. Who is appointed as the US ambassador to Myanmar ?

Answer:   Derek Mitchell

b) Resigns 

1. who resigned as the commerce secretary of president Obama ?

Answer:  John E. Bryson

2.Who is the union minister for micro,small and medium enterprises resigned recently on fraud corruption charges   Answer:  Virbadra Singh

c)Deaths

1. Who is the first women to win Nobel Prize in Economics ?

Answer: Elinor Ostrom

2.The first boxer to win the first olympic gold medal,who died  recently?

Answer: Teofila Stevenson

3.Mehdi Hassan, how died recently is a ______ by profession?

Answer:    Ghazal Singer

4.Who is national secretary of CITU died recently?

Answer: Dipankar Mukherjee

d)Visitors

1.Which place visited by PM Manmohan after 2 summits ?

Answer: Pretoria

2.Who is the US Defence secretary visited india recently ?

Answer: Leon Pnetta

e)Miscellaneous  

1. Britain Queen Elizabeth-II celebrated her diamond Jubilee at ?

Answer:   Thames ,London

2.Who is the Japanese mountaineer climbs the world’s 14 tallest mountains ?

Answer: Hirotaka Takeuchi

3.Who won Indian Spell Bee by spelling word “Belligerent” conducted by Times of India ?

Answer:    Samvida Venkatesh

4.Who beat the R.J.Rolling book harry potter record of fastest selling in a week?

Answer: Erika Mitchell

DAYS & DATES

1.The world’s environment day is celebrated on
Answer:    5th June

2. Refusee Day is obeserved on ?

Answer: 21st June

BOOKS IN NEWS

1. Abdul kalam “Turning points” is a sequel of ?

Answer: Wings of fire

2.What is the book released about L.K.Advani?

Answer:   Those were the day and then -The Life & times of L.K.Advani

COMMITTEES

1.Who headed the (GTA) high power committee?

Answer: Retire Justice Shyamal sen

Places in News

1.Which country faced earth quake of Magnitude of 5.9 rectar scale on june 4.
Answer:   Indonesia Sumitra island

2.What is the happiest place on earth as announced the new Economics Foundations Happy Planet Index ?

Answer: costa Rica

Abbrevations

1.IUCN stands for ?

Answer:  International Union for Conservation of Nature

2.ESI stands for ?

Answer:   Environmental Sustainable Index

May 2012 Current Affairs (65)

INTERNATIONAL 

1.Who is the new president of Russia recently taken sworn?

Answer : Vladimir Putin

2. The Hamburg harbour celebrates how many years recently?

Answer: 823 years

3. Which company become number one mobile company in the world?

Answer:  Samsung

4.  Which country had discovered petroleum recently?

Answer: Bangladesh

5.Liberia’s president for his war crimes sentenced to jail for ?

Answer: 50years

INDIA & WORLD   

1.What is the place where Pakistan lost nearly 140 soldiers after a masive avalannde entombed the Gayari army base recently?

Answer:  Siachen

2.Sahar signed an agreement to build and develop a new city in which country?

Answer: Bangladesh

3. India made dozen agreements with which country recently?

Answer:  Myanmar

NATIONAL 

1. The country with the greatest numbers of preterm birth with 35,19,100 is ________?

Answer:  India

2. Where was the statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled recently?

Answer:  South Africa

3. What is the position of India in cyber crime according to report given by SDA?

Answer: fifth place

4. Where will be the 46th Asian Development Bank Meeting of 2013 will be held?

Answer: New Delhi

5. How many years were completed by our existing parliament after the first election held in 13 May 1952?

Answer: 60 years

6. What is the name of the TAPI gas pipeline project (TGPP) which originate from the Turkmenistan reaches to India via Afghanistan and Pakistan?

Answer: Peace pipeline

7. Whose death anniversary is observed as the Anti Terrorism Day?

Answer: Rajiv Gandhi

8. Osmania University Ranked ______ in the top 121 Universities in the country according to Nielsen survey

Answer: 6th

STATES  

1.The Indian Institute of Chemical Technology  Hopes to Establish Deflouridation Plants in which states?

Answer : A.P & Rajasthan

CONFERENCES

 1. At which place the World Wildlife Fund summit is going to be held ?

Answer:   Brazil

2. Where was the NATO summit 2012 held for Three days recently ?

Answer:  Chicago

AWARDS & HONOURS  

1. Who had been awarded Kalpana Chawla Excellence Award?

Answer : Miss Vinya Mishra & Sushma Seth

2. Who is the person from India got the prestigious International Jurists award?

Answer :  Mulayam Singh Yadav

3. Who has been conferred “The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun” title recently?

Answer:   Ratan Tata

4. Who has been awarded the first Tagore Award for cultural harmony ?

Answer : Pt Ravi Shankar

5.who awarded in 65th cannes film festival as best actor ?

Answer:   Mads Mikkelsen

6. Rahul Battachary who is an Indian won British friction prize on ?

Answer:  Literature

SPORTS & GAMES    

1.Who had won the World Snooker Title for 2012 held at Sheffield?

Answer:  Ronnie O’Sullivan

2.What is the new national record set by Krishna Poonia atTrack crew Throwdown Meet recently in Hawaii?

Answer : 64.76m

3. Who had won the World Cup Title recently held at Antalya, Turkey?

Answer: Deepika Kumari

4. Who had won the Madrid Men’s Open title held at Madrid , Spain recently?

Answer: Roger Federar

5. Who had won the National Junior Boxing championship for 2012

Answer: Manjeet Singh

6. Sania-Mattek pair recently won which title?

Answer:  Brussel open Title

7. who won orange cap in IPL-5 ?

Answer : Chris Gale (RCB)

8. The total 6′s in th IPL is

Answer:  728

9. Formulae one Manacco Grand pix won by ?

Answer:   Mark Weber

10.the winner of thomas cup in London olympics is ?

Answer:  Lin danled(china)

11. chattisgardh girls and boy clinch national tites on which game ?

Answer : Basket ball

12. Grand master Anand belongs to which state in India?

Answer:  Chennai

ECONOMY

1.Which state topped the list of highest per capita income in the country with 1,92,652 rupees?

Answer:   Goa

2.The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided assistance of how many USD aid to India?

Answer: $6.25 billion

3. What are the norms called for the implementation of the new global capital adequacy which was directed by the RBI to Indian Banks?

Answer:  Basel-III

4. Andhrapradesh high court invalidated which % sub-quato for Minority?

Answer: 4.5%

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 

1. Which country had recently test fired  a short range ballistic missile ?

Answer:   Pakistan

2. Which country has launched TMA-04M rocket  recently?

Answer:  Russia

3.India test fired the which type of Akash Missile recently?

Answer:  Surface to air

4. pakistan test fired Nuclear capable _______ Missile ?

Answer:  Hatf9

PERSONS IN NEWS  

Appointments

1. Name the Vatican Envoy to India and Nepal, who inaugurated A.P Mission Congress?

Answer : Sarvotore Pennacchio

2. Who has been appointed as the German ambassador to India recently?

Answer: Michael steiner

3. who selected as a member of Borad Federation Against drugs from India?

Answer : Kiran Bedi

 Resigns 

1.  Who is Snooker champion  announced his retirement recently?

Answer : Stephen Hendry

2. Who is the Indian American scientist quits from top energy post recently?

Answer : Apunava Majumdar

3. who is vice president and CCO of infosys Bpo reginesed recently?

Answer:  Ritesh Idnani

Deaths

1.Who is the Afghan peace negotiator shot dead recently?

Answer : Arsalan Rahmani Daulat

2. Who is the Mexican novelist played dominant role in Latin America died recently?

Answer :    Carlos Fuentes

Visitors 

1. Who is the EU Ambassador to India visited  Nagaland to interact with chamber of commerce and industry recently?   Answer:  Joao Cravinho

2. who is the democracy Icon in Myanmar ,first visit to abroad in 24years is ?

Answer:  Aung san suu kyi

Miscellaneous

 1. Where is the world’s largest temple is going to be built by  Mahavir Mandir  trust?

Answer : Bihar

2. At which place the “Awan ka Cinema” film festival is going to be organized?

Answer :  Kargil

3. Tallest residential building “princess tower” located at  ?

Answer : Dubai

4. World’s richest lady according to business review weekly ?

Answer : Gina Rinehart

5. who is the present president of myanmar ?

Answer:  Theinsein

DAYS & DATES 

1. The laughter day is celebrated on which day?

Answer: First Sunday of May every month

2. Anti tobacco day is celebrated on which day?

Answer : May 31st

BOOKS IN NEWS

1. Who is the author of the book ‘Harbinger of Social Justic’ ?

Answer:    Sarah Booth

COMMITTEES

 1.Where was the 47th IAC committee meeting of NDA held?

Answer:  Khadakwasla

Places in News

 1. In which region of Italy faced powerfull earth quake ?

Answer:   north eastern region

April 2012 Current Affairs (51)

INTERNATIONAL

1. Aung San Suu Kyi who recently won in Myanmar parliament elections, belongs to which political party?

Answer   : Nation League for Democracy (NLD)

2.The US Govenment announced an additional 12.2 million aid to which country recently?

Answer    :  Syria

3. Who is the Chief of Laskhar e-Taiba,  a reward money of $10 million has been announced on him  by America?

Answer    : Hafiz Saeed

INDIA & WORLD

1. India’s which board was admitted as the 11th member of MDEP recently?

Answer : Atomic Energy Regulatory

2.Which two countries signed an agreement on  Contract Workers ?

Answer : India & UAE

3. Which countries had signed six agreements in diverse areas recently including oil& gas?

Answer :  India & Qatar

4. In which country the  Industrial “Canton Fair” is going to be held?

Answer :  China

NATIONAL

1. Where is the largest Tulip garden is situated in Asia?

Answer:  Srinagar

2. Which country had stated to expand the members in UN Security Council recently?

Answer : India

3. Where was the oldest and largest bank of South Korea had set its branch recently in India ?

Answer :  Chennai

4.Commemorative Postage Stamp of which president was released to mark the birth centenary recently?

Answer : R.Venkataraman

5. Union Government decided to raise working capital ECB  resources for which sector recently?

Answer : Aviation sector

STATES

1. Where was the foundation stone for country’s first financial city laid up in ?

Answer : Bangalore

2. In which state the 4G services were launched recently?

Answer : Kolkata

CONFERENCES

1. In which place was the 20th ASEAN Summit held recently?

Answer :  Combodia

2.Where was the RIC trilateral conference held recently?

Answers : Mascow

3. Where was the 6th summit of the Americas held recently?

Answer : Colombia

AWARDS & HONOURS

1.Who is the Democratic leader of Myanmar awarded with Sukarno Prize for creation of Democracy in the country?

Answer : Aung San Suu Kyi

2. Which award has been presented to Lt.Gen.Bikram Singh?

Answer :  Gallantry Award

SPORTS & GAMES

1. Novack Djikivic world no-1 defeated whom to claim the Miami masters title in the final held in Florida?

Answer : Andy Murrey

2. Who is the first woman wrestler to be qualified for the Olympics afterwinning gold in Astana recently?

Answer :  Geeta Kumari

3. Who is the Tennis player captured her 40th career title in WTA tournament?

Answer : Sarena Williams

4. Who had won the 11th Asian Billiards championship  held in Goa recently?

Answer : Pankaj Advani

5. Where was the Archery World Cup Stage-I games held recently?

Answer :  Shanghai

6. Who had won the Men’s Single Asian Badminton Championship recently?

Answer :  Chen Jin

ECONOMY

1.With the cooperation of which country Multiskill development centre is going to start in Bangalore and Gulberg?

Answer : Germany

2. According to the World Economic Outlook report what is the lowered economic growth of India in 2012?

Answer : 6.9%

 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
1. What is name  of the World’s first flying car ?

Answer : Terrafugia

2. Where was the new ISRO  spy satellite centre was launched  recently?

Answer : Sriharikota

3. In which place India has successfully  carried out the AWACS test flight recently?

Answer :  Brazil

4. From which place the Agni-v long range ballistic missile was test fired recently?

Answer :  Odisha
5.What is the name of the ballistic missile which was test fired by Pakistan recently?

Answer :  Hatf-IV

6. What is the name of all weather radar imaging satellite launched recently by India ?

Answer : RISAT-I

7. What is the name of the stealth frigate which was inducted into navy recently?

Answer : INS Teg

PERSONS IN NEWS

Appointments

1. Who is the new special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan?

Answer : Amarendra Khatua

2. Who is the new king of Malaysia elected recently?

Answer :  Sultan Abdul Halim

3. Who had been appointed as UNHCR special envoy recently?

Answer : Angelina Jolie

4. Who had been appointed as the President of World Heart Federation ?

Answer : Dr.Srinath Reddy

 Resigns 

1.Lucas Papademos is president of which country resigned recently due to early elections in the country?

Answer : Greece

2.Who is the president of Mali resigned recently?

Answer :  Amadov Toumani Toure

3. What is the name of Jordan Prime minister who resigned recntly?

Answer :  Awn aL Khasawneh

Deaths

1. Who is the legendary newsman popular CBS “60Minutes” programmer died recently?

Answer :    Mike Wallace

2.Who is president of Malawi died of heart attack recently?

Answer : Binju Wa Mutharika

Visitors    

1.The Chancellor of Exchequer of UK, who visited India for the fifth economic financial ministerial meeting held in New Delhi?

Answer :  George Osborne

2. Who is the Pakistan president visited India recently?

Answer : Asif Ali Zardari

3.Who is the Norwegian Minister of Trade & Industry visited India regarding Telenor issue recently?

Answer : Trond Giske

Miscellaneous  

1. Which city is the world’s most impressive city according to the Wealth report?

Answer : London

2. Which organisation has became the heritage of the sank Titanic ship 100 years ago?

Answer : UNESCO

PLACES IN NEWS    

1. Where is the  name of the world’s highest tunnel bridge located in China?

Answer : Aizhai

Books in news

1.”Reflections of a Statesman” book was written on whose life history ?

Answer : R.Venkataraman

Committees in news  

1. Under whom the two member Adarsh Judicial Commission was set up by the Maharashtra Government?

Answer :  N.N.Kumbahar

March 2012 Current Affairs (63)

INTERNATIONAL

1. How many  EU states had signed the pact for budget discipline on 2 March 2012 ?

Answer: 25 states

2. Who is the Asia ‘s richest man according to the forbes list ?

Answer: LI Ka Shing

3. Which are the most ethical firms of the world according to the report revealed by the Ethical Institute’s ?

Answer: Tata & Wipro

4. Which is world’s largest art, antiques market owing country ?

Answer: China

5. Which country gave a call to boycott American products recently for voting against a resolution?

Answer: Srilanka

INDIA & WORLD

1.Who is the Arab League head , who discussed on the issue of Syrian fate failed recently held in Cairo on 3 March2012?

Answer: Nabil Elaraby

2. Who had inaugurated the trade show in Jakarta by India,  to reach the target of $ 25 billion by 2015 ?

Answer: Mr. Anand Sharma

3. Where was the Indo-Israel free trade agreement meeting was held recently?

Answer: Hyderabad

NATIONAL

1.Which are the two new missiles developed by defense research & development laboratory handed over to Navy & IAF on 3 March 2012?

Answer: Torpedo & Akash

2. Who is the next Army cheif for the Indian Army after the retirement of Gen.V.K.Singh on 31 May 2012?

Answer: Lt,Gen.Bikram singh

3. Who is Asia’s richest woman with a net worth of $ 12billion in our country?

Answer: Savitri Jindal

4. Who is the Foreign minister of Italy who has been camping in India relating with two Italian Marines recently?

Answer: Staffan De Misture

5. How many new trains had been introduced by the railway minister in Railway budget 2012-13?

Answer: 75

6. Which company had opened centre of excellence for oracle recently for IT services and business solutions ?

Answer: Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS)

7. Name the project which had been sanctioned 423crore rupees loan assistance in Gujarat from NABARD

Answer: Narmada link project

STATES

1. Which state recorded the highest voting percentage in the history of election, which were held in the month of Feb in  five states recently?

Answer: Goa

2. Who is the first independent woman loco driver in SCR?

Answer: S. Satyavathi

3. What is the assets declared by Mayawati while her nomination for the Rajya Sabha recently?

Answer: 111.64 crore

4. Which is the plan , which was launched by the Chief minister of A.P Kiran Kumar recently?

Answer: SHG Linkage credit plan

5. From which place in Andhra Pradesh the first International flight took off recently?

Answer: Visakhapatnam

CONFERENCES

1. Who inaugurated the 50th golden jubilee celebration of Afro-Asian Rural Development Organisation held in New Delhi recently?

Answer: Manmohan singh

2. In which place  the Turkey’s World Trade Bridge International Summit is going to be held ?

Answer: Istanbul

3. In which place was the International Monitory Fund Summit was held recently ?

Answer: New Delhi

4. Where was the second  conference of nuclear security summit held recently?

Answer: Seoul

5. Where will be the third Nuclear Security Summit is going to be held next year ?

Answer: Netherland

AWARDS & HONOURS

1. Who is the Telugu novelist, who had been awarded Kurra Kotisuryamma Memorial Award for his outstanding contribution to Telugu literature?

Answer: Bheemaraju Venkataramana

2. Who is the world’s tallest man, finally stopped growing after treated ?

Answer: Sultan Kosen

3. Who  had been awarded with Ugadi Puraskaram from the Andhra Pradesh Government recently?

Answer: P.Surya Rao

4. Who is the women, awarded with Nirmal Gram Puraskar for the year 2012 from Andhra Pradesh from the President Pratibha Patil recently?

Answer: Y.Chintamma

5.How many new World Records were set up in 12 hours by the former England cricketer Andrew Flintoff and Steve Harmison ?

Answer: 14

6. Who is the Hungarian Mathematician who has been awarded with Abel Prize for the year 2012?

Answer: Endre Szemere’de

SPORTS & GAMES

1. To which place India dropped in ODI championship Table after losing their triangular series in Australia?

Answer: 3rd place

2. Who is cricket player who made 100 centuries in his career recently?

Answer: Sachin Tendulkar

3. Who is the sportswoman from Andhra Pradesh ,who is going to represent India at the World Cup for Archery which is going to held in China in April 2012?

Answer: Jyothi Surekha

4. Who had won the BNP Paribas Women’s single title for the year 2012?

Answer: Victoria Azarenka

5. Who is the World’s no-1 ranking Golf player , Who had won the US PGA Transitions Championship held at Florida recently?

Answer: Luke Donald

6. Who had been the ‘Player of the Tournament’ in the Asia Cup 2012 held at Dhaka recently ?

Answer: Shakib Ali Hasan

ECONOMY

1. What is the name of the new card product which was launched by ICICI bank for the super rich recently?

Answer: Sapphiro

2. In which place is Indian railways in World ranking?

Answer: Fourth place

3.What is the percentage of service tax , which had been raised in the budget 2012-13?

Answer: 12%

4.What is the per capita income of India for the year 2012-13 ?

Answer: Rs. 60972

5. Which country is the highest consumer of oil in per capita terms ?

Answer: United states

6. Which country stood at the least place in service sector ?

Answer: India

7.What is the per capita GDP of Qatar ?

Answer: 44.45 lakh

8. How much financial aid was granted by the World Bank to India ?

Answer: $4.3billion

9. Name the new equality saving scheme announced in the budget 2012-13 recently?

Answer: The Rajiv Gandhi Equality saving scheme

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1. In how many planets in solar system life may exist according to the researchers ?

Answer: 5 Planets

2. What is the name of the second largest Moon of Saturn?

Answer: Rhea

3. What is the name of the submarine which had been taken as lease from Russia recently?

Answer: INS Chakra

4. Which type of Asprin was invented by the scientist to fight against Cancer?

Answer: Gas-filled

PERSONS IN NEWS

Appointments

1. Who is the new M.D for Hyundai Motors India , who was appointed recently?

Answer: Bo Shin Seo

2. Who is the New President of Germany , who has been elected recently?

Answer: Joachin Gauck

3. Who is the new Railway minister for UPA Government ?

Answer: Mukhul Roy

 Resigns

1. Who is the Railway minister , who had resigned recently from the cabinet for raising the railway fares ?

Answer: Dinesh Trivedi

 Deaths

1.Who is the philanthropist who died recently, vice chairman of Sankar foundation?

Answer: Sankar Rao

 Visitors

1.Who is the Egypt Ambassador, who visited India for the  golden jubilee celebration of (AARDO)?

Answer: Mr.Ahmed Abulkheir

2. Who is the Turkish Ambassador who visited Hyderabad recently?

Answer: Dr.Burak Aklapar

3. Who is the managing director of International monitory fund ( IMF) , who visited India recently?

Answer: Christine Lagarde

4. Who is the Prime ministe of Canada who had visited Thailand recently?

Answer: Staphen Harper

5. Who is the US Secretary of commerce who visited India for  bilateral trade meeting ?

Answer: John Bryson

Miscellaneous

1. Who is Bollywood Actress to become the sixth Bollywood celebrity to be honoured with a wax likeness?

Answer: Madhuri Dixit

ABBREVIATIONS

1. AIMA stands for ___________

Answer:All India Management Association

BOOKS IN NEWS

1. Who had written the book ” Didi: A Political biography “of Mamata Benerjee recently?

Answer: Monobina Gupta

2. Russian court dismissed the plea seeking ban on which Holly Literature book translation recently ?

Answer: Bhagwad Gita