1. President Pratibha Patil on 18 April 2012 released a commemorative postage stamp to mark the birth centenary of President R. Venkataraman at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. Which of the following facts about the former president is not true?

1. R. Venkataraman was the 10th president of India

2. He held office from 25 July 1987 to 25 July 1992

3. had the unique distinction of having worked with four Prime Ministers namely- V. P Singh, Chandrashekhar and P. V Narasimha Rao and Rajiv Gandhi

4. R. Venkataraman had played a significant role in the industrialisation of Tamil Nadu. An outstanding administrator, he was also known as the father of industrialisation

a. Only 3

b. 2 & 3

c. 3 & 4

d. Only 1

Answer: (d)

2. Which ministry in its meeting on 17 April 2012, decided to set up three new committees to accelerate procurements and border infrastructure projects?

a. Defence Ministry

b. Railways Ministry

c. Commerce Ministry

d. Home Ministry

Answer: (a)

3. Veteran litterateur, freedom fighter and former Minister Nityananda Mohapatra died on 17 April 2012. Which of the following facts about him are not true?

1. Post independence was elected thrice as MLA from Bhadrak, twice as Congress candidate and once on Janata Dal ticket.

2. He rose to literary prominence as editor of Odia magazine Dagara

3. Mohapatra was the recipient of Kendriya Sahitya Academy and Odisha Sahitya Academy awards

4. He wrote the famous flag-song for the Orissa unit of the CPI Ei lal patakara tale.

5. His famous books include Bhangahada, Gharadiha, Nahonm Tistami Baikunthe, Kalagara Dharagara and Priya O Priyatama

a. Only 4

b. Only 2

c. Only 1

d. Only 3

Answer: (c)

4. Name the Italian tourist who was released by the Maoists in Orissa on 12 April 2012 ?

a. Bosusco Paolo

b. Joel Melchiori

c. Giacomo Sanfelice

d. None of the above

Answer: (a)

5. Identify the person, with whom the following statements are attached.

1. He was born on February 7, 1948 in Letpadan, Burma

2. He was re-elected general secretary of the CPI(M) at the 20th party congress

3. He was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI (M) in 1985

4. He became a member of the Politburo in 1992

a. Sitaram Yechury

b. AB Bardhan

c. Prakash Karat

d. D Raja

Answer: (c)

Important DaysSignificances of Days

January

01 – New Year Day

11 – APSRTC Establishment Day

12 – National Youth Day

13 – World Laughter Day

15 – Army Day

21 – Manipur Day, Meghalaya Day, Tripura Day

23 – Desh Prem Divas

25 – Himachal Pradesh Day

26 – Indian Republic Day, Jammu & Kashmir Day, International Customs Day

30 – Martyr’s Day, Sarvodaya Day

February

14 – Valentines Day

24 – Central Excise Day

28 – National Science Day

March

08 – Mothers Day

13 – No Smoking Day

15 – World Disabled Day

17 – St. Patricks Day

21 – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

22 – World Water Day

23 – World Meteorological Day

27 – World Stage ArtistsDay

31 – Financial Year Ending

April

01 – Fools Day

05 – National Maritime Day

07 – World Health Day

18 – World Heritage Day

22 – World Earth Day

23 – Easter Day

24 – World Lab Animals Day

25 – National Administrative Professionals Day

May

01 – Gujarat Statehood Day, International Labour Day, Maharastra Statehood Day

03 – International Sun Day, World Asthma Day, World Press Freedom Day

04 – Coal Miner’s Day

05 – World Athletics Day

07 – National Institute of Sports Founder’s Day

08 – World Red Cross Day

11 – National Resurgence Day, Technology Day

12 – International Nurses Day, Mothers Day

13 – International Criminal Court Day, National Solidarity Day

15 – International Day of Families

16 – Sikkim Day

17 – World Telecommunications Day

20 – World Metrology Day

21 – Anti Terrorism Day

22 – International Day for Biological Diversity

24 – Commonwealth Day

28 – Official Language Day, Telugu People’s Self-respect Day

30 – Goa Statehood Day

31 – World No-Tobacco Day

June

01 – International Children’s Day

03 – World Naturist Day

04 – International Day for Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

05 – World Environment Day

16 – Father’s Day

21 – Hugging Day, World Music Day

23 – International Olympic Day, Rath Yatra

26 – International Anti – Drugs Day, International Day against Drug Abuse and illicit Trafficking

27 – World Diabetes Day

July

01 – Architecture Day, Doctor’s Day, International Jokes Day

02 – World Sports Journalists Day

04 – Free 4th of July

06 – World Zonnosis Day

07 – International day of Co-Operatives

11 – World Population Day

20 – Man Walks on the Moon

26 – Kargil Vijay Divas

August

01 – World Breast-feeding Week

03 – Liberation Day

05 – Friendship Day

06 – Hiroshima Day

09 – August Kranti Divas

10 – Dengue Prevention Day

12 – International Youth Day

13 – Left Hander’s Day

15 – Indian Independence Day, West Bengal Day

19 – World Photography Day

20 – World Mosquito Day

24 – Kolkata’s Birth Day, Sanskrit Day

26 – Women’s Equality Day

29 – National Sports Day, Telugu Language Day

September

01 – Nutrition Week 1-7

04 – Minority Welfare Day

05 – Teachers Day

08 – World Literacy Day

10 – Haryana Statehood Day, Punjab Statehood Day

14 – Hindi Day

15 – Engineers Day

16 – International Day of the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

18 – International Day of Peace

21 – Biosphere Day, World Alzheimer’s Day

22 – Girl Child Week 22-26

24 – Girl Child Day, World Heart Day

26 – CSIR Foundation Day

27 – World Tourism Day

28 – Gunners Day

October

01 – International Music Day, International Day for Older Persons, National Voluntary Blood Donation Day, World Habitat Day(1st Monday)

02 – Gandhi Jayanthi, Human Rights Protection Day, Prisoner’s Day, World Ostony Day, World Wide Life Week (2-8)

03 – World Animal Day

04 – International Mental Health Health Week (4-10)

08 – Air Force Day

09 – National Postal Week(9-14), World Postal Day

10 – World Disaster Reduction Day (2nd Wednes Day), World Mental Health Day

12 – World Sight Day

13 – World Arthritis Day

14 – World Standards Day

15 – World White Cane Day

16 – World Anaesthesiologists Day, World Food Day

17 – International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

21 – Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders Day

24 – Disarmament Week(24-30), United Nations Day

27 – Infantry Day

30 – World Thrift Day

31 – Halloween Day, National Integration Day

November

01 – Andhra Pradesh Formation Day, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab States Formation Day

05 – International Week of Science & Peace (5-11)

09 – Legal Services Day, Uttaranchal State Formation Day

10 – Forest Martyrs Day

11 – Armistice Day, Education Day

12 – National Broadcasting Day

14 – Cooperative, Universal Children’s Day, World Diabetes Day

15 – Jharkhand State Formation Day

16 – International Day for Tolerance, National Press Day

17 – National Day for the Deaf

18 – Territorial Army Day

19 – National Integration Day

20 – Africa Industrialization Day

21 – World Fisheries Day, World Television Day

25 – Flag Day, International Day against Violence against Women

26 – National Law Day

December

01 – Border Security Force (BSF) Raising Day, Nagaland Day, World AIDS Day

02 -International Day for Abolition of Slavery (UNO)

03 – International Day of Disabled Persons, World Conservation Day

04 – Chemical Disaster Prevention Day, Navy Day

05 – International Volunteers Day

06 – Armed Forces Day, Civil Defence Day

07 – International Civil Aviation Day

08 – Handicrafts week (8-15)

09 – National Immunization Day

10 – Human Rights Day, International Childrens Day of Broadcasting

11 – UNICEF Day

12 – Assam Rifles Raising Day

14 – National Energy Conservation Day

16 – Vijay Divas

17 – Pensioner’s Day

18 – International Migrants Day, Minorities Rights Day

22 – Mathematics Day

23 – Kisan Day

24 – National Consumer Day

25 – X-Mas Day

26 – Boxing Day

28 – Central Reserve Police Force Anniversary

29 – International Day for Biological Diversity

Authors of Famous Books

Famous Books and Authors

• Ramayana - Valmiki

• Mahabharatha - Vedavyasa

• Bhagavath Geetha - Vedavyasa

• Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippatu – Thunjathu Ezhuthachan

• Krishnagatha – Cherussery

• Uthararamacharitham – Bhavabhoothi

• Harshacharitha – Banabhatta

• Neethisathakam – Bharthruhari

• Meghdoot – Kalidasa

• Swapnavasavadatta - Bhasan

• Kumarasambhava – Kalidasa

• Abhijanana Sakundalam – Kalidasa

• Malavikagnimithra – Kalidasa

• Panchathantra – Vishnu Sharma

• Ramacharithamans – Tulasidas

• Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore

• Anandamath – Bankim Chandra chatterji

• The Story of My experiments with truth – Mahatma Gandhi

• The discovery of India – Jawaharlal Nehru

• Durgesha Nandini - Bankim Chandra chatterji

• Godaan – Munshi Premchand

• Coolie – Mulk Raj Anand

• Odyssey – Homer

• Lliad – Homer

• Das Capital – Karl Marx

• Communist Manifesto – Marx and Engels

• Crime and punishment – Dostoevsky

• War and Peace - Tolstoy

• Anna Karenina – Tolstoy

• Mother – Maxim Gorky

• Nana – Emile Zola

• Rubaiyat – Omar Khayyam

• Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

• Oliver twist – Charles Dickens

• Asian Drama – Gunnar Myrdal

• Hamlet – Shakespeare

• Othello – Shakespeare

• Macbeth – Shakespeare

• King Lear – Shakespeare

• The adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Don Quixote – Niguel de Cervantes

• The Old man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

• The good earth – Pearl S. Buck

• Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

• Ivanhoe – Walter Scott

• The apple Cart – Bernard Shaw

• Man and Superman - Bernard Shaw

• Treasure Island – R.L Stevenson

• Chithirappaavai – P.V Akhilandam

• The Time Machine – H.G Wells

• Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

• Divine Comedy – Dante

• Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

• Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

Laureus award

1.Laureus Award is giving in the field of ?

Ans: Sports

2.2012 Laureus Award winners Who won Sports man of the year award ?

Ans: Novak Djokovic

3.Who won Sports women of the year award ?

Ans: Viviya Cheruiot

4.Which Football team won Team of the Year award ?

Ans: FC Barcelona

5.What is the nationality of Viviya Cheruiot?

Ans: Kenya

Some more questions

1.World's biggest CO2 Emitter as per IEA report(2012)?

Ans: china

2.What is the full form of IEA ?

Ans: International energy agency

3.Where is the Headquarters of IEA ?

Ans: Paris

4.Tipaimukh hydel power project is situated at which Indian state ?

Ans: Mani poor

5.World chess Champion 2012 ?

Ans: viswanathan anand

6.2012 IPL Winners ?

Ans: Kolkata Knight riders [Runner up - Chennai Super kings ]

7.2012 world snooker championship winner ?

Ans: Ronnie O'sullivan

8.US National Humanities Medal 2012 ?

Ans: Amartya Sen

9.2012 Golden Bear award winning Documentary in Berlin film Festival ?

Ans: Ceasar Must Die

10.2012 European tour title winner- ?

Ans:Jbe Kruger (South Africa)

11. European tour title is related to which sports item?

Ans: sports

12. 2012 Jindal Prize Winner ?

Ans: A P J Abdul Kalam and Santhosh Hegde

13.2012 Africa Cup of nations winner ?

Ans: zambia

14.Who is the writer of the book "My life in action" ?

Ans: jackie chan

15.Who is the writer of the book "Pakistan a personal History"?

Ans: Imran khan (Former Pakistan cricketer)

16.Who wrote the book "Controversially yours " , which was published in 2011 ?

Ans: shoaib akhtar (Former Pakistan cricketer)

17."An appeal from death row" is a book by ?

Ans: Perarivelal (rajiv gandhi murder convict )

18.Who wrote the book "No Higher Owner" ?

Ans: condalisa rice

19.Who is the writer of "Room of many colors" ?

Ans:Ruskin Bond (Well known Novelist)

20."A shot at History" is the autobiography of?

Ans: Abhinav Bindra (shooting champion)

21.Current IOC Chairman ?

Ans: R S Butola

22.Current Sail Chaiman ?

Ans: C S Verma

23.Prime minister's Economic Advisory council chairman ?

Ans: C Rangarajan

24.Current IPL Chairman ?

Ans: Rajiv Shukla

25.Present BJP President ?

Ans: Nitin Gadkari

Quizzes on the India Current Affairs section are designed to cover the wide range of national issues and other informations related to India from different segments which are of general human interest. Taking the India Current Affairs Quiz for January 2012 will update you on the latest incidents that occured in India. The quizzes on India Current Affairs will equip you to take all competitive examinations as well.

1. He was conferred with the first S K Singh Award for excellence in the Indian Foreign Service on 6 January 2012. Identify the diplomat.

a. Ranjan Mathai

b. Shivshankar Menon

c. D Bala Venkatesh Verma

d. K. Raghunath

Answer: (c)

2. Which Ministry prepared draft policy seeking to increase private participation and opens the doors for foreign direct investors for expanding its network?

a. Railways Ministry

b. Ministry of Rural Development

c. Ministry of Commerce and Industry

d. Defence Ministry

Answer: (a)

3. Six researchers from five science streams were honoured with this prize by the former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in Bangalore on 9 January 2012. Name the prize in question.

a. Infosys Prize

b. India Science Prize

c. Rolls-Royce Science Prize

d. Young Scientist Award

Answer: (a)

4. Which one of the following state governments launched Panch Parmeshwar scheme?

a) Madhya Pradesh

b) Bihar

c) UP

d) Kerala

Answer: (a) Madhya Pradesh

5. The Cabinet Committee on Security approved the setting up of NCTC. What is the full form of NCTC?

a) National Counter Terrorism Centre

b) National Trade Cooperation

c) National Central Terrorism Centre

d) National Council for Trade Cooperation

Answer: (a) National Counter Terrorism Centre