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BSC : Question of Day : BSCQues. : 1 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala who died on April 3 was a legendary

1) Musician and Composer 2) Screenwriter and Novelist

3) Vocalist and Lyricist 4) Singer and Actor

5) None of these Ans.) 2

Ques. : 2 The state government demanded that the Gojjri language be included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution,giving it the status of an official language. The Gojjri language is spoken in which of the following states?

1) Assam 2) Mizoram

3) Jammu and Kashmir 4) Rajasthan

5) Sikkim Ans.) 3

Ques. : 3 The government of India on April 3 said there was no reason for two million plus strong Indian workforce in thecountry to be "paranoid" on account of a new labour law -'Nitaqat'. Nitaqat is the law of the country

1) Bahrain 2) Saudi Arabia

3) United Arab Emirates 4) Qatar

5) Oman Ans.) 2

Ques. : 4 The Country’s first fully private greenfield airport is scheduled to commence in May at

1) Pune 2) Karaikal

3) Kochi 4) Tiruchi

5) Goa Ans.) 2

Ques. : 5 Finance Minister P Chidambaram has inaugurated the 100th overseas office of which bank at Dubai InternationalFinance Centre (DIFC) recently?

1) Bank of Baroda 2) State bank of India

3) Punjab National Bank 4) Punjab and Sindh Bank


Ques. : 6 Which of the following countries of South Asia is the first to roll out a full nationwide mobile fourth-generation (4G)network?

1) India 2) Sri Lanka

3) Bangladesh 4) Thailand


Ques. : 7 In which of the following states a campaign called “My vote is not for sale” has launched on April 4 by a body ofsocial activists?

1) Jammu and Kashmir 2) Karnataka

3) Maharashtra 4) Gujarat

5) West Bengal Ans.) 2

Ques. : 8 The events of the International Shooting Sport Federation, ISSF Shooting World Cup 2013 began on April 4 in

1) Changwon, South Korea 2) Seoul, South Korea

3) Chongju, North Korea 4) Pyongsong, North Korea


Ques. : 9 The CRF Institute has ranked which of the following software Companies in India as the number one employer inEurope for 2013?

1) Wipro 2) HCL Technologies

3) Tata Consultancy Services 4) Infosys


Ques. : 10 The U.N. made history on April 2 when it passed an unprecedented arms trade treaty (ATT) to better regulatethe international sale in weapons. Which of the following group of countries opposed the treaty?

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1) Iraq, Syria and North Korea 2) Iran, Syria and North Korea

3) Iran, Syria and Pakistan 4) Iraq, Syria and South Korea


Ques. : 11 Renowned American Roger Ebert died on April 4 at 70 after a long battle with cancer. He was a

1) Novelist 2) Film critic

3) Screenwriter 4) Lyricist

5) Actor Ans.) 2

Ques. : 12 Babu Jagjivan Ram, popularly known as Babuji, was a freedom fighter and social reformer.The nation paidhomage to this great leader on 5th April, which was his 106th birth anniversary. His birth anniversary is celebrated as

1) Shanti Diwas 2) Samta Diwas

3) Kisan Diwas 4) Shakti Diwas


Ques. : 13 Chinese scientists have developed the world’s lightest substance with a density only one-sixth that of the air,named

1) Graphite aerogel 2) Diamond aerogel

3) Carbon aerogel 4) Helium aerogel


Ques. : 14 What is the full form of IFRS?

1) International Financial Reporting Standards 2) International Financial Reporting System

3) International Financial Reporting Solution 4) International Financial Reporting Service


Ques. : 15 Which country did India sign a treaty with on April 5 to cooperate with each other in dealing with various crimes,including terrorism?

1) South Africa 2) Somalia

3) Nigeria 4) Azerbaijan

5) Mali Ans.) 4

Ques. : 16 In the ongoing International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Shooting World Cup in Korea, Rahi Sarnobat beatKyeongae Kim 8-6 to become the first pistol shooter from India to win a World Cup gold medal in

1) 10-metre pistol 2) 20-metre pistol

3) 25-metre pistol 4) 30-metre pistol


Ques. : 17 The third ministerial-level meet of SAARC on Poverty Alleviation started in Nepal on April 5.Which of thefollowing countries is NOT a member of SAARC?

1) India 2) Bangladesh

3) Myanmar 4) Bhutan

5) Maldives Ans.) 3

Ques. : 18 The United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the

1) United Nations International Year of WomenEmpowerment

2) United Nations International Year of WaterCooperation

3) United Nations International Year of Peace 4) United Nations International Year of Biodiversity

5) United Nations International Year of Forests Ans.) 2

Ques. : 19 Name the President who will return 5% of his salary to the country’s treasury in a show of solidarity with workersreeling under the pressure of $85 billion in government-wide spending cuts.

1) Francois Hollande 2) Barack Obama

3) Pranab Mukherjee 4) Asif Ali Zardari


Ques. : 20 World Bank lauded achievements of which Indian state under National Livelihoods Mission on April 4 as 46development blocks of 10 districts of the state have been covered under the project’s first phase?


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1) UP 2) MP

3) Bihar 4) Gujarat

5) Jammu and Kashmir Ans.) 2

Ques. : 21 Name the renowned historian who died on April 5. He was an expert in epigraphy and deciphered severalancient scripts.

1) Anand Krishna 2) Bratindra Nath Mukherjee

3) Ranabir Chakrabarti 4) Suchandra Ghosh

5) S. P. Gupta Ans.) 2

Ques. : 22 One of the world's largest hypermarket chains Auchan, which entered India last year under an agreement withMax Hypermarket India, has plans to open 60 stores in India, is company of

1) US 2) UK

3) France 4) Australia

5) Japan Ans.) 3

Ques. : 23 Facebook on April 4 announced an "operating system" like app that would convert Android phones into a'Facebook phone', named

1) Mapathon 2) Real

3) Home 4) Friend

5) Chacha Ans.) 3

Ques. : 24 Nomination papers of which former president of Pakistan for a parliamentary constituency in Pakistan’s Punjabprovince was rejected on April 5?

1) Asif Ali Zardari 2) Muhammad Rafiq Tarar

3) Pervez Musharraf 4) Muhammad Mian Soomro


Ques. : 25 Which country has launched an inquiry into the mapping contest ‘Mapathon 2013’ held by Internet giant Googlein February-March this year?

1) US 2) Germany

3) UK 4) India

5) China Ans.) 4

Ques. : 26 Who among the following has been appointed as the chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for2013-14?

1) S. Gopalakrishnan 2) Adi Godrej

3) N. S. Raghavan 4) Naina Lal Kidwai

5) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Ans.) 1

Ques. : 27 Which of the following terms is not associated with the game of cricket?

1) Long leg 2) Hook

3) Cut 4) Mid-wicket

5) Love Ans.) 5

Ques. : 28 Jnanpith Award is given for excellence in the field of

1) Music 2) Politics

3) Literature 4) Sports


Ques. : 29 The Union Cabinet recently gave its approval to the home ministry's plan to raise anti-Naxal Special Forces infour states of India on the lines of Greyhounds of Andhra Pradesh. Which of the following is not covered under the plan?

1) West Bengal 2) Bihar

3) Chhattisgarh 4) Jharkhand

5) Odisha Ans.) 1

Ques. : 30 The Indian women's cricket team finished the Twenty20 International series with 3-0 clean sweep against

1) Pakistan 2) Bangladesh

3) Sri Lanka 4) Indonesia


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Ques. : 31 Which of the following Indian states is all set to send a woman representative to Rajya Sabha for the first time?

1) Manipur 2) Nagaland

3) Meghalaya 4) Tripura

5) Mizoram Ans.) 3

Ques. : 32 Who among the following has been appointed as the President of the newly-formed Indian Tennis PlayersAssociation (ITPA).The Association has come up after 11 top players revolted against AITA, demanding better playingconditions.

1) Leander Paes 2) Mahesh Bhupathi

3) Jaideep Mukherjea 4) Somdev Devvarman

5) Mustafa Ghouse Ans.) 3

Ques. : 33 Who among the following has won the high quality final match of the 12th Asian Billiards championship 2013held at Indore in Madhya Pradesh?

1) Geet Sethi 2) Pankaj Advani

3) Rupesh Shah 4) Siddharth Parikh

5) Dhruv Sitwala Ans.) 3

Ques. : 34 Name the Indian Navy's Lt Cdr who became the first Indian to circumnavigate the globe, solo and non-stop, in asail boat over a 150-day voyage.

1) DK Joshi 2) Abhilash Tomy

3) Uday Kumar 4) Abhishek Kumar


Ques. : 35 Name the Indian bank which will discontinue a free accident insurance cover given to its home and car loancustomers from July 2013.

1) State Bank of India 2) Bank of Baroda

3) ICICI Bank 4) HDFC

5) Axis bank Ans.) 1

Ques. : 36 Which of the following states has launched free diagnosis scheme in a phased manner from April 7 on the eve ofthe World Health Day? Under this scheme, patients can undergo 57 free diagnostic tests at government hospitals linked tomedical colleges.

1) New Delhi 2) Rajasthan

3) UP 4) Gujarat

5) Karnataka Ans.) 2

Ques. : 37 This year the World Health Day was Celebrated on 7th April to mark the anniversary of the founding of WHO(World Health Organisation) in 1948. The theme for 2013 is

1) High Blood Pressure 2) Good Health adds life to years

3) Anti-microbial resistance: no action today, nocure tomorrow

4) Road safety

5) Safe Motherhood Ans.) 1

Ques. : 38 With which country has India signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to strengthen cooperation between the two nations inSteel & Mining?

1) UK 2) Tanzania

3) Nepal 4) South Africa


Ques. : 39 India's London Olympics Silver medalist Vijay Kumar is associated with which of the following games?

1) Billiards 2) Shooting

3) Cycling 4) Athletics

5) Tennis Ans.) 2

Ques. : 40 India's Praksh Nanjappa won a bronze medal at the ISSF World Cup at Changwon, Korea on April 6 in the


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1) 10m air pistol 2) 25m air pistol

3) 30m air pistol 4) 50m air pistol


Ques. : 41 Who among the following took over as the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom)Chairman for the year 2013-14 on April 8?

1) N Chandrasekaran 2) R Chandrasekaran

3) Krishnakumar Natarajan 4) N. R. Narayana Murthy


Ques. : 42 Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first woman Prime Minister, died on March 8. Which of the following political partiesdid she lead?

1) Labour Party 2) Democratic Unionist Party

3) Conservative Party 4) Scottish National Party


Ques. : 43 Which of the following oil producers made its latest oil discovery, the 26th discovery so far, in the RJ-ON-90/1block (Rajasthan) on April 9?

1) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. 2) Gas Authority of India Ltd.

3) Cairn India 4) Reliance Industries Limited


Ques. : 44 Which of the following organisations has Venu Srinivasan-led TVS Motor Company inked a long-termco-operation agreement with to roll out ‘Made in India’ bikes in the below-500cc category?

1) Yamaha 2) BMW Motorrad

3) Chevrolet 4) Porsche


Ques. : 45 Which of the following famous persons has Swedish luxury carmaker Volvo Auto India signed as its brandambassador?

1) Sachin Tendulkar 2) Saina Nehwal

3) Mahendra Singh Dhoni 4) Jeev Milkha Singh


Ques. : 46 India on April 8 joined the Madrid Protocol. The protocol pertains to the

1) Free trade agreement 2) Sustainable development

3) Registration of trade marks 4) Cutting carbon emissions


Ques. : 47 Recently, the medium-range nuclear-capable Agni-II missile was successfully test-fired from the Wheeler Islandoff Odisha coast with a strike range of more than 2,000 km. The missile is a(n)

1) Surface-to-air missile 2) Surface-to-surface missile

3) Air-to-air missile 4) Air-to-water missile


Ques. : 48 Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head at point-blank range by the Taliban for advocatinggirls' education, has signed a deal for around USD 3 million to publish her memoir. The book will be titled

1) The Test of My Life 2) The Truth of My Life

3) I am Malala 4) Malala: The braveheart


Ques. : 49 Which of the following is CAPART associated with?

1) Energy Sector 2) Rural development

3) Infrastructure 4) Foreign trade

5) High-end technology Ans.) 2

Ques. : 50 In which of the following cities is the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) located?

1) New York 2) Washington

3) Basel 4) Davos


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5) Paris Ans.) 3

Ques. : 51 Name the weightlifter who won silver in the 50kg boys’ category at Tashkent, Uzbekistan, giving India the firstmedal in the World Youth Weightlifting Championships on April 8.

1) Deepak Lather 2) Ravi Kumar Katulu

3) Soram Hitlar Tagru 4) Jamjang Deru


Ques. : 52 Name the state government which has announced a special health care scheme named ‘Sneha Sparsh’ fortreatment of complicated diseases like liver transplant for 12 year -old children on April 10.

1) Jammu & Kashmir 2) UP

3) Assam 4) Maharashtra

5) Kerala Ans.) 3

Ques. : 53 With an aim to creating experts in public health, which of the following states will establish the country's firstpublic health university in the state?

1) Sikkim 2) Odisha

3) Bihar 4) Karnataka

5) Jharkhand Ans.) 2

Ques. : 54 Name the French technology services company which was bought by Tata Consultancy Services for over 75million euro (Rs 530 crore) in a deal aimed at giving India's largest software company an extra edge in the crucial Europeanmarket.

1) Lodestone 2) Alti SA

3) Dassault Systèmes 4) Auralog


Ques. : 55 Japanese two-wheeler manufacturer Yamaha Motor has announced setting up of its fifth global research anddevelopment (R & D) headquarters that would help develop low-cost models in future, in India at

1) Devas, MP 2) Manesar, Haryana

3) Surajpur, UP 4) Aithar, Uttarakhand


Ques. : 56 Pakistan on April 10 successfully test-fired nuclear-capable Hatf-IV ballistic missile with a range of

1) 200km 2) 500km

3) 600km 4) 900km


Ques. : 57 Which of the following states has decided to start a new scheme called Mission Olympics-2020 for specialcoaching to selected state’s players to represent the country in Olympics-2020 on April 10?

1) UP 2) Haryana

3) MP 4) Chhattisgarh

5) Manipur Ans.) 3

Ques. : 58 Recently, the UN Security Council has unanimously approved the first-ever "offensive" UN peacekeepingbrigade to battle rebels groups in which of the following countries?

1) Mali 2) Somalia

3) Democratic Republic of Congo 4) South Sudan


Ques. : 59 Summer Olympics 2016 will be organised in

1) China 2) Brazil

3) Russia 4) South Africa

5) UK Ans.) 2

Ques. : 60 Banking sector falls under which of the following sectors?

1) Service Sector 2) Industrial Sector

3) Small Scale Sector 4) Medium Scale Sector



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Ques. : 61 Name the British scientist who died on April 10.He was awarded a Nobel prize for his pioneering work indeveloping In vitro fertilisation (IVF) leading to the birth of the first test tube baby.

1) Dr Patrick Steptoe 2) Robert Edwards

3) Martin Johnson 4) Ruth Rendell


Ques. : 62 Uruguay becomes the second Latin American country to allow gay marriage on April 11.The first was

1) Brazil 2) Venezuela

3) Chile 4) Argentina

5) Peru Ans.) 4

Ques. : 63 Which among the following is the largest economy of Europe?

1) France 2) Germany

3) Italy 4) UK


Ques. : 64 Zao Wou-ki, whose works routinely fetch millions of dollars at auction, has died on April 9 in Switzerland aged93.He was a legendary

1) Screenwriter 2) Painter

3) Singer 4) Writer


Ques. : 65 National Safe Motherhood Day is observed on which of the following days?

1) April 7 2) April 10



Ques. : 66 Bangladesh has opposed the process of constructing dams on two rivers — the Mawphu dam across riverUmiew and Myntdu dam across river Myntdu. These two dams are situated in

1) Manipur 2) Mizoram

3) Meghalaya 4) Sikkim

5) Tripura Ans.) 3

Ques. : 67 Which of the following stock exchange is all set to unveil India’s first debt trading platform?

1) NSE 2) BSE

3) MCX-SX 4) HSE


Ques. : 68 Who among the following has took over as Managing Director and CEO of National Stock Exchange (NSE) inthe first week of April?

1) Ravi Narain 2) Chitra Ramkrishna

3) Shikha Sharma 4) Harsh Mariwala


Ques. : 69 With which country has India crossed the first milestone towards the development of the fifth generation fighteraircraft (FGFA), completing the preliminary design?

1) US 2) Germany

3) Russia 4) Japan


Ques. : 70 Who among the following has been sworn in as the new president of Kenya?

1) Uhuru Kenyatta 2) Mwai Kibaki

3) Daniel arap Moi 4) Jomo Kenyatta


Ques. : 71 Which of the following state/UT governments has launched a centralised emergency response system “Dial-100”to enable the police to reach a complainant within minutes?


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1) Karnataka 2) Goa

3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Maharastra


Ques. : 72 The Conference on Sustainable Tourism of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) began onApril 12 in

1) Bangalore 2) Chennai

3) Hyderabad 4) New Delhi

5) Pune Ans.) 3

Ques. : 73 Which of the following Internet giants will allow users to decide what happens to their data after they die orbecome inactive online? It is the first major company to deal with the sensitive issue.

1) Google 2) Microsoft

3) Facebook 4) Yahoo


Ques. : 74 Which of the following international organizations has come out with a multi-billion-dollar four-year plan aimed atbringing down poverty levels in seven low-income Indian states?

1) International Monetary Fund 2) World Bank

3) Asian Development Bank 4) SAARC Development Bank


Ques. : 75 Which of the following state governments on April 11 launched a new scheme named “Amma Hstam” on theoccasion of Ugadi festival to supply nine essential food items to the poor at a subsidized rate?

1) Kerala 2) Tamil Nadu

3) Karnataka 4) Andhra Pradesh


Ques. : 76 Which country did India sign an agreement with on April 11 for cooperation in disaster management?

1) US 2) China

3) Japan 4) Russia

5) Bangladesh Ans.) 4

Ques. : 77 Which country did India sign an agreement with on April 12 for cooperation in the field of election managementand administration?

1) Bhutan 2) Nepal

3) Mauritius 4) Sri Lanka

5) Bangladesh Ans.) 3

Ques. : 78 Name the Member of Parliament of India who has been elected unanimously as the chairman of the Asian Forumof Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD).

1) Meira Kumar 2) P.J. Kurien

3) Shashi Tharoor 4) Sachin Pilot

5) Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia Ans.) 2

Ques. : 79 The most powerful tool used by the Reserve Bank of India to control inflation is to

1) Raise interest rates 2) Reduce currency supply

3) Raise currency supply 4) Reduce interest rates

5) Raise interest rates and reduce currency supply Ans.) 1

Ques. : 80 Which of the following is the currency of South Korea?

1) Yen 2) Kyat

3) Won 4) Rupee

5) Ringgit Ans.) 3

Ques. : 81 Which of the following organisations has been conferred with the status of 'Miniratna - Category 1' recently?

1) NMDC Limited 2) Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited

3) North Eastern Electric Power Corporation(Neepco)

4) Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited


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5) Bharat Pumps & Compressors Limited Ans.) 3

Ques. : 82 Who among the following has been conferred with prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award 2012, the highestofficial recognition for film personalities in India?

1) Amrish Puri 2) Amitabh Bacchan

3) Rajesh khanna 4) Pran Sikand


Ques. : 83 India is the 3rd largest agri producer in the world. Which is the first?

1) China 2) US

3) Brazil 4) Japan


Ques. : 84 Name the country whose new government will be recognised by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), after a22-year break in relations with the once-chaotic country, towards encouraging rehabilitation there?

1) Mali 2) South Sudan

3) Somalia 4) Haiti


Ques. : 85 Moody’s is a/an

1) Mutual Fund Company 2) International charity organization

3) Military risk Assessment Company 4) Credit rating agency


Ques. : 86 Germany will support building up which of the following sectors in India by providing soft loans of up to 1 billioneuros (USD 1.3 billion) for a six-year period starting next year?

1) Nuclear energy 2) Oil and Natural gas

3) Renewable energy 4) Coal exploring


Ques. : 87 London Olympics quarter-finalist Parupalli Kashyap jumped a place to achieve his career-best world ranking of 7in the latest list. He is associated with the game of

1) Tennis 2) Cricket

3) Badminton 4) Chess

5) Billiards Ans.) 3

Ques. : 88 The Vice President, Shri Mohd. Hamid Ansari released the book entitled “Religion, Law and Society Across theGlobe” on April 12, 2013 authored by,

1) Ismat Chughtai 2) Shri Sanil Sachar

3) Prof. Tahir Mahmood 4) Ashok Banker

5) Amitav Ghosh Ans.) 3

Ques. : 89 The country's first interoperable RIFD-based electronic toll system was rolled out on which of the followingNational Highway? The system would allow vehicles fitted with electronic tags to sail through six toll plazas automatically.

1) Delhi-Gurgaon 2) Delhi-Jaipur

3) Ahmedabad-Mumbai 4) Mumbai-Pune


Ques. : 90 Name a doyen of anti-British Bengal revolutionary era who died on April 11. He was a part of Masterda’sJugantor, a revolutionary group that took part in the famous Chittagong Armoury Raid on April 18, 1930.

1) Surya Sen 2) Binod Bihari Chowdhury

3) Benoy Basu 4) Bina Das


Ques. : 91 Name the industrialist popularly known as the country's 'takeover specialist', who passed away on April 14.

1) Sanjiv Goenka 2) Harsh Vardhan Goenka

3) Rama Prasad Goenka 4) Keshav Prasad Goenka



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Ques. : 92 The Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has resigned, after a long-running dispute with President Mahmoud Abbas.Salam Fayyad belongs to

1) Cyprus 2) Syria

3) State of Palestine 4) Israel

5) Jordan Ans.) 3

Ques. : 93 The Chief Minister of which state has announced the inauguration of first railway station of the state atMendipathar very soon?

1) Arunachal Pradesh 2) Sikkim

3) Meghalaya 4) Mizoram


Ques. : 94 Which of the following is not a part of World Bank?

1) Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency 2) International Finance Corporation

3) International Centre for Settlement of InvestmentDisputes

4) Bank for International Settlements Committee


Ques. : 95 Who among the following is the winner of Augusta Masters golf tournament 2013? He is the first Australianwinner of the Masters.

1) Angel Cabrera 2) Jason Day

3) Adam Scott 4) Louis Oosthuizen

5) Kenny Perry Ans.) 3

Ques. : 96 Dr Hilary Koprowski, the Polish-born researcher who died on April 11, developed the first successful oralvaccination for which of the following diseases?

1) Polio 2) Rabies

3) Measles 4) Mumps


Ques. : 97 Who among the following has won the Venezuelan Presidential polls, declared on April 15?

1) Henrique Capriles 2) Nicolas Maduro

3) Jorge Rodriguez 4) Tibisay Lucena


Ques. : 98 US Secretary of State John Kerry has proposed a 20 per cent cut in the American aid to which of the followingcountries? It is a move reflecting the unease in their ties over issues related to human rights, reconstruction and politicalintegration.

1) Syria 2) Sri Lanka

3) Afghanistan 4) Pakistan

5) Iraq Ans.) 2

Ques. : 99 Which of the following organizations is headquartered at Manila, capital of the Philippines?

1) ASEAN 2) ADB

3) SAARC 4) APEC


Ques. : 100 Which of the following nations is NOT a member of G8?

1) US 2) China

3) Italy 4) France

5) Canada Ans.) 2

Ques. : 101 Name the country which is planning to fire 15,000 public sector workers by next year as part of a reformprogramme -- a highly controversial issue in the Mediterranean country long criticised for its large and sluggish civil service.

1) Syria 2) Palestine

3) Greece 4) Algeria

5) Turkey Ans.) 3


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Ques. : 102 Chandigarh lifted the 3rd Hockey India Sub-Junior Men’s National Championship (North Zone) title afterdefeating

1) Karnataka 2) Punjab

3) UP 4) Tamil Nadu


Ques. : 103 Doling out sops for unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled workers, Delhi Government on April 16 increased theirminimum wages by

1) 6% 2) 4%

3) 3% 4) 8%

5) 12% Ans.) 1

Ques. : 104 Which country did India sign the new Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with on April 8?

1) Malta 2) Austria

3) Mauritius 4) Belgium

5) Croatia Ans.) 1

Ques. : 105 India and Finland have identified several key areas of collaboration in sustainable development for mutualbenefits. Which of the following is the focus of the key areas?

1) Solar energy applications for oil and gas projects2) Solar energy applications for electricitygeneration

3) Solar energy applications for water treatment4) Solar energy applications for transport andreconnaissance


Ques. : 106 Goldman Prize was declared recently. The award is also known as

1) Oscars of the corporate sector 2) Oscars of sports

3) Oscars of the environment movement 4) Oscars of Information Technology


Ques. : 107 The Nobel Prize won by British scientist Francis Crick has sold for $2.27m (£1.47m) at auction in New York.The award had been given for the discovery of

1) Polypeptide hormone 2) DNA

3) X-rays 4) Treatment of skin diseases with light

5) Non-cellular fermentation Ans.) 2

Ques. : 108 Name the Indian-American economist from Harvard University whose pioneering work was cited by USPresident Barack Obama in his last year's State of the Union Address. He has won the prestigious John Bates Clark medal2013, often described as the 'Baby Nobel'.

1) Jagdish Bhagwati 2) Narayana Kocherlakota

3) Alok Bhargava 4) Avinash Kamalakar Dixit

5) Raj Chetty Ans.) 5

Ques. : 109 Which of the following is called plastic money?

1) Debit Card 2) Identity Card

3) Visiting Card 4) Banker’s Cheque


Ques. : 110 An earthquake rocked Delhi, NCR and Jaipur in North India at around 4.19 pm on April 16. The earthquake wasalso felt in Afghanistan, Pakistan and some other parts of Asia. The earthquake measuring 7.8 on Richter Scale had itsepicentre on the

1) India-Pakistan border 2) India-Afghanistan border

3) Pakistan-Iran border 4) Pakistan-Afghanistan border


Ques. : 111 “Not for Turning” is the biography of

1) K. Anji Reddy 2) Margaret Thatcher

3) Phil Ramone 4) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

5) Rama Prasad Goenka Ans.) 2


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Ques. : 112 World Haemophilia Day is observed on April 17.What is the theme of this year?

1) "Count Me In" 2) “50 years of Advancing Treatment for All”

3) The Many Faces of Bleeding Disorders – Unitedto Achieve Treatment for All"

4) "Together, We Care"

5) "Improve Your Life” Ans.) 2

Ques. : 113 Who among the following became the youngest athlete of the state to be conferred with the Sher-i-KashmirSports Award declared on April 16?

1) Navjot Singh 2) Harleen Singh

3) Sonal Gupta 4) Kamal Singh

5) Manvinder Singh Ans.) 1

Ques. : 114 Banks in India are regulated under

1) Companies Act, 1956 2) Banking Regulation Act, 1949

3) Reserve Bank of India, 1934 4) International IFRS Act


Ques. : 115 FirstRand Bank which opened ATM in the nation’s largest slum Dharavi last month, is bank of the country

1) US 2) UK

3) India 4) South Africa

5) Germany Ans.) 4

Ques. : 116 “Damodaran Committee, which submitted its report in 2011, is related to

1) Customer services in banks 2) Management of co-operative Sector

3) Reforms in the insurance sector 4) Rejuvenation of higher education


Ques. : 117 Which of the following retail venture, has entered into the Guinness World Records by opening a record 315outlets across 10 states in the country, at one time

1) Reliance Q Shop 2) Sahara Q Shop

3) Big Bazaar 4) SPAR


Ques. : 118 Noted personality of yesteryear, T K Ramamurthy died in Chennai on April 17 following brief illness. He was alegendry

1) Film critic 2) Music composer

3) Lyricist 4) Singer

5) Screen Writer Ans.) 2

Ques. : 119 The famous 'Pooram' festival, whose main attraction is a parade by caparisoned elephants, organisers are in afix over its successful conduct due to a ban on parading them in daytime to protect them from heatwave, is a festival of

1) Tamil Nadu 2) Kerala

3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Odisha


Ques. : 120 IMF on April 17, cut its 2013 forecast for global growth to 3.3 per cent, down from its projection in January of

1) 4.4 per cent 2) 4.1 per cent

3) 4 per cent 4) 3.5 per cent

5) 6 per cent Ans.) 4

Ques. : 121 Name the Telugu writer who was selected for the prestigious Jnanpith award for the year 2012.

1) R Ananthamurthy 2) Dr Ravuri Bharadwaja

3) Jayakanthan 4) JM Sali


Ques. : 122 The recent CAG reports point out several performances and financial anomalies in Kol Dham Hydro ElectricPower Project. The project belongs to


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1) Jammu & Kashmir 2) Uttarakhand

3) Himachal Pradesh 4) Meghalaya


Ques. : 123 As per the data released by the Ministry of Rural Development recently, job generation under the MNREGAscheme has _______ over the years.

1) increased 2) declined

3) remained constant 4) mixed trend


Ques. : 124 Which of the following statements is/are not correct about National Population Register (NPR)?

1) It is a project of home ministry. 2) It is a substitute for Aadhar (UID).

3) It collects identity through three biometrics-photographs, fingerprints and iris impression.

4) All the residents above five years of age have tobe enrolled mandatorily.

5) It will be used for identification and providingtarget groups access to government schemes andsocial sector benefits.

Ans.) 2

Ques. : 125 Name the player who became the first bowler to take three hat-tricks in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

1) Yuvraj Singh 2) Rohit Sharma

3) Amit Mishra 4) Praveen Kumar


Ques. : 126 Indian cinema will complete its journey of 100 years on May 3 this year. India's first silent feature film "RajaHarishchandra" was screened on May 3, 1913 at

1) Coronation Theatre 2) Majestic Cinema

3) Prabhat Studios 4) Bombay Talkies

5) Wadia Movietone Ans.) 1

Ques. : 127 Rohinton Nariman, who resigned from his post recently, was the

1) Advocate General of Delhi 2) Solicitor General of India

3) Attorney General of India 4) Assistant Solicitor General of India


Ques. : 128 For the first time since 2006, Spain crashed out of the first round of the Davis Cup recently. Which of thefollowing countries has defeated Spain in the world group tie?

1) Sweden 2) France

3) Canada 4) Japan


Ques. : 129 Although the Union Cabinet approved a proposal for FDI in insurance to 49 per cent. The current percentage ofFDI in India

1) 0 per cent 2) 26 per cent



Ques. : 130 Name the only women chief election commissioner of India, who died on April 17

1) Rama Devi 2) Leela Seth

3) Fathima Beevi 4) Anna Chandy


Ques. : 131 Which of the following politicians of India has been named by Time magazine among the 100 most influentialpeople in the world in its annual list of global achievers?

1) Pranab Mukherjee 2) P Chidambaram

3) Jairam Ramesh 4) Sushma Swaraj

5) Manmohan Singh Ans.) 2

Ques. : 132 Name the woman officer who was appointed Special Director General of the country's largest paramilitary forceCRPF on April 18. This is the first time a woman officer is occupying the second top post in the hierarchy of the force.


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1) Kiran Bedi 2) Nisha Priya Bhatia

3) Anjali Gupta 4) Aruna Bahuguna


Ques. : 133 Which of the following state’s Rural Management and Development Department has bagged the prestigiousPrime Minister's Award for Excellence in Public Administration for 2011-12?

1) MP 2) Sikkim

3) Bihar 4) Assam

5) Guajarat Ans.) 2

Ques. : 134 The Olympic gold medalist, Britain's Chris Hoy has announced his retirement from the sport on April 19. He wasassociated with the-

1) Hockey 2) Swimming

3) Cycling 4) Shooting

5) Weightlifting Ans.) 3

Ques. : 135 Union Cabinet on April 18 approved the proposal to increase dearness allowance (DA) to 80 per cent,benefiting about 50 lakh employees and 30 lakh pensioners of the central government. Earlier, it was




Ques. : 136 According to United Nations report, Indian economy is likely to grow in 2013 at



5) 8 per cent Ans.) 4

Ques. : 137 The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved allocation of enhanced funds to the tune of Rs 12,000crore as a special plan under the Backward Region Grant Fund for the 12th five year plan (2012-13 to 2016-17) against Rs5,600 crore in the previous plan for

1) UP 2) Bihar

3) MP 4) Jharkhand


Ques. : 138 What is the limit of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) at present in private banks in India?

1) 26% 2) 49%

3) 100% 4) 74%


Ques. : 139 P V Sindhu is associated with which of the following games?

1) Tennis 2) Badminton

3) Golf 4) Shooting

5) Wrestling Ans.) 2

Ques. : 140 World Heritage day is observed on

1) 18 April 2) 19 April

3) 22 April 4) 27 April


Ques. : 141 The is a situation of a political storm in India over the leakage of report that Prime Minister Manmohan Singhand Finance Minister P Chidambaram get a clean chit in the draft JPC report on 2G scam. The panel is chaired by whoamongst the following?

1) Yashwant Sinha 2) PC Chacko

3) J P Agarwal 4) Murli Manohar Joshi


Ques. : 142 Who amongst the following has written the book titled ‘Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry In TheIndo-Pacific’?


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1) Ira Pande 2) C Raja Mohan

3) Sunil Janah 4) Amish Tripathy


Ques. : 143 Which of the following Indian cities, after a long gap of 25 years, will host the four-day 44th World Trade CentreGeneral Assembly? The event will see over 300 global experts, policymakers, industrialists and marketing gurus.

1) Mumbai 2) New Delhi

3) Kolkata 4) Bangalore


Ques. : 144 The veteran cricketer Mike Denness passed away recently. He belonged to which of the following countries?

1) South Africa 2) New Zealand

3) Australia 4) England


Ques. : 145 Ahead of his 40th birthday, the wax statue of Sachin Tendulkar has been unveiled at which of the followingcricket grounds recently?

1) Lords 2) Eden Gardens

3) Sydney 4) The Oval

5) Melbourne Ans.) 3

Ques. : 146 A Sivathanu Pillai has been given the Padma Bhushan award by President Pranab Mukherjee recently. Thedistinguished scientist is the chief of which of the following programmes?

1) Integrated Guided Missile DevelopmentProgramme

2) BrahMos Aerospace

3) Agni-V 4) K-15


Ques. : 147 For the effective implementation of policies and programmes chartered out in the 12th Five Year Plan, planningcommission has come with a new initiative, IBIN. What is the full form of the same?

1) India Backbone Initiative Network 2) India Broader Implementation Network

3) India Backbone Implementation Network 4) India Broad-based Implementation Norms


Ques. : 148 Which of the following state governments has decided to expand the network of web enabled Online TreasuryInformation System in the State to seven more districts in addition to existing two districts?

1) Haryana 2) Punjab

3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Madhya Pradesh


Ques. : 149 Indian shuttler PV Sindhu defeated who amongst the following to storm into the last-eight stage in the women’ssingles category in Badminton Asia Championships at Taipei recently?

1) Eriko Hirose 2) Shixian Wang

3) Juliane SCHENK 4) LI Xuerui


Ques. : 150 Name the country which has launched a bio-satellite packed with an array of mice and other small creaturesaboard its famed Soyuz rocket recently? This is an effort to study the effects of long flights on living organisms.

1) China 2) US

3) France 4) Russia


Ques. : 151 The International Mother Earth Day is observed on which of the following dates?




Ques. : 152 Ms Shakuntala Devi passed away recently at a Bangaluru hospital following respiratory problems. She was adistinguished ______.


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1) Mathematical genius 2) Sitar Maestro

3) Classical Dancer 4) Social Activist


Ques. : 153 Name the Chinese province which was hit by a powerful earthquake recently. The authorities are continuing amassive rescue operation after the earthquake killed at least 188 people and left more than 11,000 others injured.

1) Yunnan 2) Sichuan

3) Guangdong 4) Shandong

5) Zhejiang Ans.) 2

Ques. : 154 About 185 people were killed and several others wounded during fierce clashes between the Boko Harammilitants and the state military. These militants are active in which of the following countries?

1) Cameroon 2) Benin

3) Ghana 4) Nigeria


Ques. : 155 Which of the following statements is/are correct with respect of European Union’s (EU) latest stand on Syria?

1) The EU foreign ministers met in Luxembourg todiscuss issues related to easing the oil embargoagainst Syria to help the rebel opposition.

2) The 27-nation bloc had slapped a ban oninvestments in Syrian oil in September 2011,followed by a ban on imports of oil in December.

3) Exports of crude provided up to one third ofSyria’s revenues and EU used to buy nearly 95percent of the Syrian crude.

4) All the above


Ques. : 156 The five-day event, 8th World Chambers of Congress, is being held in which of the following cities? This is theyear’s biggest international gathering of chamber and business leaders being held for the first time in the West Asia.

1) Abu Dhabi 2) Qatar

3) Muscat 4) Manama


Ques. : 157 Who amongst the following has won the Monte Carlo Masters men’s singles title recently?

1) Novak Djokovic 2) Rafael Nadal

3) Andy Murray 4) Roger Federer


Ques. : 158 Who amongst the following has won the women’s race of the London Marathon held recently amid tight securityarrangements?

1) Priscah Jeptoo 2) Atsede Baysa

3) Yukiko Akaba 4) Edna Kiplagat


Ques. : 159 Cheteshwar Pujara is the only Indian batsman to figure in the ICC’s latest Test rankings retaining number sevenposition. Who amongst the following holds the top position amongst the batsmen?

1) AB de Villiers 2) Shivnarine Chanderpaul

3) Hashim Amla 4) KC Sangakkara


Ques. : 160 Name the veteran politician and parliamentarian who has been elected unopposed as the new President ofBangladesh?

1) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad 2) Abdul Hamid

3) Fakhruddin Ahmed 4) Muhammad Yunus


Ques. : 161 The Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to provide Z-category security to which of the following Indianindustrialists recently?

1) Ratan Tata 2) Mukesh Ambani

3) Anil Ambani 4) Navin Jindal



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Ques. : 162 Name the Nigerian President who has set up a committee to investigate the possibility of granting a generalamnesty to militants from the group known as Boko Haram.

1) Bola Ahmed Tinubu 2) Goodluck Jonathan

3) Umaru Musa 4) Muhammadu Buhari


Ques. : 163 Who amongst the following has won the men’s section of London Marathon held recently?

1) Feyisa Lilesa 2) Ayele Abshero

3) Emmanuel Mutai 4) Tsegaye Kebede


Ques. : 164 Which of the following countries has topped the list of countries receiving remittances according to the latestedition of the World Bank’s Migration and Development Brief?

1) Nigeria 2) Mexico

3) Philippines 4) China

5) India Ans.) 5

Ques. : 165 Which of the following Indian automakers has been conferred with the prestigious ‘Indian Multinational of theYear’ award at the AIMA Managing India Awards 2013?

1) Tata Motors 2) Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd

3) Hero Moto Corp 4) Bajaj Auto Ltd


Ques. : 166 Consider the following statements with respect to Jagdish Saran Verma, who passed away recently, andchoose the correct sentence(s):

1) He served as the 27th Chief Justice of India.2) He headed the three member committee tosuggest improvement in criminal law to tackle crimeagainst women.

3) He was the first chairperson of the NewsBroadcasting Standards Authority.

4) All the above

5) Only 1) and 2) Ans.) 4

Ques. : 167 Lalgudi Jayaraman, who passed away recently, was a legendary

1) violinist 2) guitarist

3) flute player 4) tabla palyer


Ques. : 168 Name the person who has been appointed as the vice-chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce(CCI) recently?

1) Ratan Tata 2) Anil Agrawal

3) Sunil Bharti Mittal 4) Ravi Ruia


Ques. : 169 National Panchayati Raj Diwas is observed on which of the following dates to mark the passing of theConstitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992, which institutionalised Panchayati Raj.




Ques. : 170 The name of PV Sandhu is associated with which of the following games?

1) Cricket 2) Tennis

3) Badminton 4) Billiards


Ques. : 171 Sunil Bharti Mittal has been elected as the Vice-Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce recently.Who amongst the following has been elected as the chairman of ICC?

1) Harold McGraw III 2) Gerard Worms

3) Rajan Bharati Mittal 4) Victor K Fung



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Ques. : 172 Name the female voice behind hit Hindi songs like ‘Mere Piya Gaye Rangoon’, ‘Kabhi Aar Kabhi Paar’ and‘Kajra Mohabbat Wala’, the legendary singer of Hindi film industry, who died recently.

1) Salma Aagha 2) Noor Jahan

3) Shamshad Begum 4) Suraiya Jamaal Sheikh


Ques. : 173 International conference called ‘Heart of Asia’ is to be held in Kazakhstan which is a part of the Istambulprocess that aims to stabilise which of the following war-torm countries?

1) Syria 2) Afghanistan

3) South Sudan 4) Nigeria


Ques. : 174 The 6th Edition of Wireless, Mobile Networking Conference 2013 was held at which of the following citiesrecently?

1) Dubai 2) Manama

3) Manila 4) Kuala Lumpur


Ques. : 175 The 13th Finance Commission has sanctioned assistance of _______ for development of various tourismdestinations in Madhya Pradesh.

1) Rs 100 crore 2) Rs 120 crore



Ques. : 176 Pralhad Bramhachari, who passed away recently, was a noted ________.

1) Classical dancer 2) Folk singer

3) Journalist 4) Historian


Ques. : 177 There is a widespread outrage witnessed against the Kolkata-based Saradha Realty India in recent days.Consider the following statements in this regard and choose the correct sentence(s):

1) Market regulator Sebi has ordered to close all itscollective schemes and refund the money ofinvestors within three months.

2) Its Managing Director Sudipto Sen has beenarrested from Jammu and Kashmir.

3) The Sebi had carried another investigation aboutthree years ago after a reference was received fromthe Director Economic Offences investigation Cell,Government of West Bengal.

4) All the above


Ques. : 178 Union Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles, Anand Sharma launched 21 New Textile Parks recently.These Parks approved under Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP) take the total number of parks to ___ in the country.

1) 51 2) 55

3) 61 4) 72


Ques. : 179 Who amongst the following has been appointed as the President of Editors Guild of India? Editors Guild of Indiais the organisation of the editors of various magazines and newspapers of India.

1) TN Ninan 2) Narasimhan Ravi

3) KK Katyal 4) BG Vergese


Ques. : 180 Italy’s Parliament elected who amongst the following as the new president of the country?

1) Romano Prodi 2) Marco Antonio Bertolotti

3) Lamberto Dini 4) Giorgio Napolitano


Ques. : 181 Who amongst the following has been appointed as the President of Editors Guild of India? Editors Guild of Indiais the organisation of the editors of various magazines and newspapers of India.


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1) TN Ninan 2) Narasimhan Ravi

3) KK Katyal 4) BG Vergese


Ques. : 182 MR Poovamma has won the gold in the 17th Federation Cup athletics championships at the National Institute ofSports (NIS) recently. She won the medal in which of the following categories?

1) 100m 2) 150m

3) 200m 4) 400m


Ques. : 183 Who amongst the following has been named as the Prime Minister-Designate by the President of Italy recently?

1) Enrico Letta 2) Silvio Berlusconi

3) Mario Monti 4) Giuliano Amato


Ques. : 184 Archana Bhargava has been appointed as the Chairman and the Managing Director of which of the followingbanks recently?

1) Bank of Baroda 2) United Bank of India

3) Union Bank of India 4) Canara Bank


Ques. : 185 Name the promoter of the collapsed chit fund company Saradha Group that has bankrupted small depositors inWest Bengal and nearby areas.

1) Amar Gopal Bose 2) Sudipta Sen

3) Purnendu Chatterjee 4) Aveek Sarkar


Ques. : 186 The deal sealed between Jet Airways and the Etihad Airways was in news recently. The board of directors ofJet Airways has approved a proposal to allot ______ stake to Etihad Airways.




Ques. : 187 The WIPO, a United Nations body, has pointed out the need for a second interpretation of global intellectualproperty law. What is the full form of WIPO?

1) World Intellectual Property Organisation 2) World Inherent Property Organisation

3) World Intellectual Propriety Organisation 4) World Invertible Property Organisation


Ques. : 188 Indian businesses and consumers will soon be able to check the authenticity of a product with the help of amobile phone application. Name the application which is being developed by the Interpol.

1) I-Register 2) I-Checkit

3) Info-world 4) I-Sure


Ques. : 189 The unexpected 4-0 defeat of Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final made news recently. Which of thefollowing teams defeated Barcelona?

1) Aston Villa 2) Manchester United

3) Barton Rovers 4) Bayern Munich


Ques. : 190 Sunil Bharti Mittal has been appointed the vice-chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)recently. This world business organisation with presence in over 90 countries is based in

1) London 2) New York

3) Paris 4) Tokyo


Ques. : 191 World Intellectual Property Day is observed on which of the following dates?


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Ques. : 192 The London Olympics quarter-finalist, Parupalli Kashyap, was ousted in the first-round of the India Opensingles event recently but moved up a place to the career-best in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings. What ishis current BWF (singles) ranking?

1) Second 2) Forth

3) Sixth 4) Eighth


Ques. : 193 In the wake of an alleged fraud by Kolkata-based Saradha group, the Central Government has ordered a SFIOprobe into the matter of suspected misuse of the public money by various chit fund companies. What is the full form of SFIO?

1) Serial Fraud Investigation Office 2) Serious Fraud Investigation Office

3) Specific Fraud Investigation Office 4) Stock Fraud Investigation Office


Ques. : 194 The newly formed no frills airline, AirAsia India, is a joint venture company comprising three partners, TataSons, AirAsia and

1) Toss Financial 2) Telestra Tradeplace

3) Capital Group 4) Barclays Capital


Ques. : 195 Which of the following recently published books is written by Sandipan Deb?

1) The Last War 2) The City of Devi

3) Samudra Manthan 4) Chanakya’s New Manifesto


Ques. : 196 Which of the following countries has become the first country outside South Asia to legislate against castediscrimination recently?


3) UK 4) Norway


Ques. : 197 CERT India, the government body that monitors cyber threats within the country, has warned of a new variantof a computer worm that steals bank account details from infected computers recently. What is the expanded form of CERT?

1) Indian Centralised Emergency Response Team 2) Indian Computer Experts’ Response Team

3) Indian Computer Emergency Redressal Team 4) Indian Computer Emergency Response Team


Ques. : 198 Who amongst the following has been elected as the ninth President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)recently?

1) Haruhiko Kuroda 2) Takehiko Nakao

3) Mitsuo Sato 4) Tadao Chino


Ques. : 199 Name the product which has been accorded the Geographical Indication (GI) registration by Chennai-basedGeographical Indication Registry recently? A GI is a name or sign used on certain products which corresponds to a specificgeographical location or origin in the world.

1) Lucknow Zardozi 2) Varanasi Saree

3) Bhagalpuri Silk 4) Assamese Gamosa


Ques. : 200 Name the European country which parliament has recently passed a bill that would make smoking in thepresence of children equal to an act of physical violence.

1) Greece 2) Finland

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Ques. : 201 Ahead of company’s annual shareholder meeting, Fred Amoroso has resigned as the chairperson of which ofthe following internet companies with immediate effect?

1) Rediff 2) Yahoo

3) AT & T 4) Amazon


Ques. : 202 Which of the following countries has joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) as a dialoguepartner recently? China, Russia and four Central Asian nations Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed theSCO in 2001 as a regional security bloc.

1) Turkey 2) Afghanistan

3) Turkmenistan 4) Azerbaijan


Ques. : 203 Anil Goswami has been appointed as new secretary in which of the following Ministries? He is the firstbureaucrat from Jammu and Kashmir cadre to be appointed to this post.

1) Ministry of Home Affairs 2) Ministry of Corporate Affairs

3) Ministry of Civil Aviation 4) Department of Atomic Energy


Ques. : 204 Name the Indian shuttler who has become the first Indian lady to reach the semifinals of the $200,000 IndiaOpen badminton championship?

1) Saina Nehwal 2) Arundhati Pantawane

3) PV Sindhu 4) Aparna Popat


Ques. : 205 Union Minister of State for Power (Independent Charge) Jyotiraditya Scindia recently dedicated the third unit ofIndira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project at Jharli to the nation. Jharli is located in which of the following states?

1) Himachal Pradesh 2) Punjab

3) Haryana 4) Rajasthan


Ques. : 206 The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) has awarded the lifetimeachievement award to who amongst the following recently?

1) Neerja Chowdhury 2) Alka Saxena

3) Mrinal Pande 4) Jai Chandiram


Ques. : 207 The Technical Expert Committee (TEC), appointed by the Supreme Court, has called for a moratorium of howmany years on open field trials of Bt food crops until adequate regulatory mechanisms and safety standards are put in place?

1) 2-years 2) 5-years

3) 10-years 4) 15-years


Ques. : 208 Name the country which has alleged that China has de facto occupied its disputed Scarborough Shoal in theSouth China Sea. It claims that the shoal is well within its 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone of the country, asrecognized by international law.

1) Vietnam 2) Philippines

3) Taiwan 4) Japan


Ques. : 209 The race for the next Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reached in the final stagewith only two names, Heremino Blanco from Mexico and Roberto Carvalho de Azevedo from Brazil left in the field. Who is thepresent DG of the WTO?

1) Pascal Lamy 2) Tim Groser

3) Taeho Bark 4) Haruhiko Kuroda


Ques. : 210 India has acceded to Madrid Protocol which allows Indian companies to register their trademarks in ____countries by filing a single application.


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1) 50 2) 69

3) 70 4) 89


Ques. : 211 Examine the following statements with respect Sarabjit Singh, who was attacked by fellow prisoners in aKarachi jail recently and now is in deep coma, and choose the correct sentence(s):

1) He was convicted of alleged involvement in astring of bomb attacks in Punjab province inPakistan that killed 14 people in 1990 and wasawarded death sentence.

2) His mercy petitions were rejected by the courtsand the President but the outgoing PakistanPeople’s Party-led government put off his executionfor an indefinite period.

3) Pakistan has proposed to send him to India fortreatment and has sought visa and transportationfacility from Indian authorities.

4) Only 1) and 2)

5) All 1), 2) and 3) Ans.) 4

Ques. : 212 Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands will have to wait for their third title of the season as they endedrunners-up at the WTA Porsche Tennis Grand Prix after losing the summit clash to _______ recently.

1) Sabine Lisicki and Mona Barthel 2) Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond

3) Svetlana Kuznetsova and Vera Zvonareva 4) Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci


Ques. : 213 Who amongst the following has clinched the men’s singles title at the India Open Super Series badmintontournament held in New Delhi recently?

1) Kenichi Tago 2) DU Pengyu

3) Lee Chong Wei 4) Chen Long


Ques. : 214 The government has set up a six-member inter-ministerial committee to suggest measures to boost Micro, Smalland Medium Enterprises (MSME) exports. This committee is headed by

1) Ajit Kumar Seth 2) Pulok Chatterji

3) Omita Paul 4) RS Gujral


Ques. : 215 America experts has alleged Syrian regime of using chemical weapons against the rebel opposition. Samples ofwhich of the following chemical agents have been traced?

1) Kolokol-1 2) Sarin

3) Ethyl iodoacetate 4) Benzyl bromide


Ques. : 216 NN Vohra has been given an extension of five years as the governor of which of the following states recently?

1) Haryana 2) Himachal Pradesh

3) Odisha 4) Jammu and Kashmir


Ques. : 217 Serbian lawmakers have overwhelmingly supported an agreement aimed at normalising relations withbreakaway Kosovo region. Kosovo has declared its independence in _______.

1) 2005 2) 2006

3) 2007 4) 2008


Ques. : 218 Which of the following cities has been finalised as the venue of the Commonwealth Heads of GovernmentsMeeting (CHOGM) scheduled to be held in November?

1) Canberra 2) New Delhi

3) Colombo 4) Naypyidaw


Ques. : 219 The Boeing Dreamliner 787 aircraft returned to commercial service after the US agency declared it safe to fly.Which of the following airlines became the first one to use the plane since it was grounded earlier this year?


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1) Nippon Airways 2) Ethiopian Airlines

3) Air India 4) American Airlines


Ques. : 220 Who amongst the following has won the woman’s singles title of the WTA Porsche Grand Prix played atStuttgart recently? Sweeping her second title in 2013, she has become the first player to retain the title since LindseyDavenport in 2005.

1) Li Na 2) Maria Sharapova

3) Victoria Azarenka 4) Serena Williams


Ques. : 221 The prisoners of Guantanamo detention facility of US are on hunger strike protesting against their indefinitedetention and being held without charge. This detention camp is situated in which of the following countries?

1) Afghanistan 2) Cuba

3) Ethiopia 4) Nigeria


Ques. : 222 Consider the following statements with respect to Statistical Institute of Asia Pacific (SIAP), one of the mostactive organs of the UN, and choose the correct sentence(s):

1) India has been elected to the governing councilof the 41-member prestigious SIAP recently.

2) The SIAP was established in Tokyo in 1970 by20 countries in Asia and the Pacific and the UnitedNations Development Programme (UNDP).

3) The governing council of SIAP bears arepresentative designated by the Government ofJapan and eight representatives nominated byother members.

4) All the above


Ques. : 223 Name the country whose Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi escaped an assassination attempt in the capital city ofthe country recently.

1) Egypt 2) Syria

3) Cambodia 4) Nigeria


Ques. : 224 The 143rd birth anniversary of the father of Indian Cinema, Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, was celebrated recently.The one of the most prestigious awards in Indian cinema, Dadasaheb Phalke Award (for lifetime contribution to cinema), wasinstituted by the Government of India in his honor in which of the following years?

1) 1959 2) 1969

3) 1979 4) 1989


Ques. : 225 Who amongst the following has won the Barcelona Open men’s singles title recently? He clinched the title for arecord 7th time.

1) David Ferrer 2) Rafael Nadal

3) Andy Murray 4) Novak Djokovic


Ques. : 226 Name the rising Indian shuttler who is participating in Malaysia Grand Prix Gold 2013 badminton tournament asthe top seed in the women's singles category in Kuala Lumpur.

1) Rituparna Das 2) Arundhati Pantawane

3) PC Thulasi 4) PV Sindhu


Ques. : 227 What is the expanded form of ECGC as used in banking/financial sector?

1) Export Creditors’ Guarantee Corporation of India 2) Export Credential Guarantee Corporation of India

3) Export Credit Garnering Corporation of India 4) Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India


Ques. : 228 Who among the following is the author of the recently published book titled Che In Paona Bazaar?


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1) Zoya Hasan 2) Kishalay Bhattacharjee

3) Harish Dhillon 4) Basudeb Pal Majumdar


Ques. : 229 Following the global trend, the civil aviation ministry has allowed domestic airlines to unbundle which of thefollowing services and charge separately for them? It will allow airlines to keep a lower base fare and give passengers theflexibility to pay for services they need.

1) Check-in baggage 2) Allotment of preferred seats

3) Meals 4) All the above


Ques. : 230 Name the footballer who has been named the player and young player of the year by Professional FootballAssociation (PFA) for 2012-13. He has become only the third person to clinch the double accolade in the same season.

1) Jermain Colin Defoe 2) Gareth Bale

3) Wayne Mark Rooney 4) Aaron Justin


Ques. : 231 The Director General of World Trade Organistion (WTO), Pascal Lamy, will step down later this year. Butbefore that, he is busy agreeing all the _____ members of WTO on an agenda for the ministerial meeting scheduled in Bali.

1) 139 2) 149

3) 159 4) 169


Ques. : 232 The CERC recently ruled out the allegation of the Association of Power Producers that state-run NTPC hasabused its dominant position while signing power purchase pacts recently. CERC stands for

1) Central Electricity Regulatory Committee 2) Central Electricity Regulatory Commission

3) Centralised Electricity Redressal Commission4) Centre for Electricity Regulation andCommissioning


Ques. : 233 India is building the heaviest and largest parts of the Tokamak, the machine behind the biggest scientificcollaboration on the planet till date. The project called ITER, includes 34 nations and is aimed at producing cheap clean andsafe energy through

1) Nuclear fission 2) Nuclear fusion

3) Solar Energy 4) Wind Energy


Ques. : 234 Queen Beatrix is all set to step down in favour of her eldest son Willem Alexander soon. Known for her charitywork, she held the throne for 33 years in

1) Japan 2) Argentina

3) Netherlands 4) Spain


Ques. : 235 Harin Raval has resigned from his post following difference with his seniors on the matter the draft report of thecoal block allocation scam. He has resigned as _____.

1) Solicitor General 2) Additional Solicitor General

3) Attorney General 4) Advocate General


Ques. : 236 The World Bank has lowered the growth forecast of India for the current fiscal from 7 per cent to ___ per cent.The decline in the agriculture sector is being seen as the reason behind it.

1) 5 2) 5.1

3) 6 4) 6.1


Ques. : 237 The Golden Girl (Bangaru Talli) scheme has been launched in which of the following states? It is targeted toprotect girl child and ensure her education and is limited to two children of each BPL family.

1) Karnataka 2) Andhra Pradesh

3) Kerala 4) Tamil Nadu



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Ques. : 238 May 1 is celebrated as the Labour Day. This day is also celebrated as the formation day of which of thefollowing states?

1) Rajasthan 2) Assam

3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Gujarat

5) Odisha Ans.) 4

Ques. : 239 The Finance Bill has been passed in Lokh Sabha finally. Which of the following is/are highlight(s) of this bill?

1) Wealth tax on agricultural land has been ruledout

2) The residency norms for investors from countriessuch as Mauritius has been eased

3) There is provision for higher duty on SportsUtility Vehicles

4) All the above


Ques. : 240 The World Wide Web is celebrating its 20th year in the service. Who among the following had invented theWWW at Cern laboratory 20 years back?

1) Robert Hooke 2) Tim Berners-Lee

3) Zacharias Janssen 4) VA Shiva Ayyadurai


Ques. : 241 Krishna Poonia will participate in the opening leg of the prestigious Diamond League Meetings series in Dohasoon. She is an ace Indian player of ________.

1) Badminton 2) Discus Throw

3) Archery 4) Long Jump


Ques. : 242 The Parliament of Bangladesh has elected who amongst the following as its first woman and the youngestspeaker till date recently?

1) Dipu Moni 2) Shahara Khatun

3) Begum Motia Chowdhury 4) Shrin Sharmin Chowdhury


Ques. : 243 The Peshawar High Court in Pakistan imposed a ban on former President Pervez Musharraf recently. He hasbeen banned ________from contesting elections.

1) for life 2) for one year

3) for two years 4) for five years


Ques. : 244 Name the person who has been listed by the Forbes as the first billionaire of Nepal with a net worth of $1-billionrecenlty. He is also known as the noodle billionaire for his Wai Wai noodles.

1) Krishna Prasad Bhattarai 2) Upendra Mahato

3) Binod Chaudhary 4) Min Bahadur Gurung


Ques. : 245 For the most of the last eight quarters, India’s second largest software service company, Infosys, has beenlagging behind the industry average causing worries for stock markets. Who among the following is the CEO of the companyat the present?

1) K Gopalakrishnan 2) SD Shibulal

3) Srinath Batni 4) Srikantan Moorthy

5) V Balakrishnan Ans.) 2

Ques. : 246 The Chief Economic Advisor at the Finance Ministry, Raghuram Rajan, is pitching for the early passage of theinsurance bill which seeks to increase the foreign direct investment level to __________from the current 26 per cent.




Ques. : 247 Which of the following statements is correct? SX 40 is

1) the name of a new mid-size sedan launched byMaruti Suzuki

2) the name of a new submarine launched missiledeveloped by DRDO

3) a newly developed nuclear fusion reactor 4) the name of the index of MCX-SX


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Ques. : 248 The finance bill, 2013, proposes CTT on non-agro commodities such as gold, silver and crude oil amongothers. Sellers will now have to pay tax at the rate of 0.01 per cent on transactions in these items. What is the expanded formof CTT?

1) Cumulative Transaction Tax 2) Commodity Transaction

3) Conducive Transaction Tax 4) Common Transaction Tax


Ques. : 249 The US agency for International Development (USAID) has been expelled by the president Evo Morales inwhich of the following countries recently? The agency has been alleged of undermining the present government.

1) Bolivia 2) Ecuador

3) Paraguay 4) Peru


Ques. : 250 The Union Cabinet has given its nod to policy guidelines for FM radio phase-III that will open up 294 cities toprivate radio services. At present who many cities are covered by FM radio services?

1) 46 2) 68

3) 86 4) 92


Ques. : 251 What is the expanded form of WIPO? It is a United Nations body.

1) World Inherent Property Organisation 2) World Intellectual Priority Organisation

3) World Intellectual Property Organisation 4) World Inherent Priority Organisation


Ques. : 252 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has hinted to lower its lending programme to developing countriesincluding India as its investments are not yielding adequate returns. Which of the following countries is the biggest borrowerof ADB at present?

1) Pakistan 2) Japan

3) Indonesia 4) India


Ques. : 253 Which of the following statements is/are correct about the rising tennis player of India, Somdev Devvarman?

1) The AITA has recommended his name for theprestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award for theyear 2013.

2) He had won the singles gold in 2010Commonwealth Games.

3) He had won gold in both singles and doubles inthe Guangzhou Asian Games in 2010.

4) All the above


Ques. : 254 World Press Freedom Day observed on which of the following dates?


3) May 3 4) May 5


Ques. : 255 The 92nd birth anniversary of Satyajit Ray, the legendary artist counted among the great masters of worldcinema, was celebrated on May 2. Which of the following is not a film made by him?

1) Pather Panchali 2) Teesri Kasam

3) Apur Sansar 4) Shatranj Ke Khilari

5) All are Satyajit Ray’s films Ans.) 2

Ques. : 256 Sticking to its cautious stance, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cut the repo rate by just 0.25 per cent in itsrecent policy review. Now the effective repo rate has become


3) 7.25 per cent 4) 7 per cent


Ques. : 257 Name the Indian who has won Whitley Award recently, an international nature conservation prize dubbed as‘Green Oscar’.


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1) Aparajita Datta 2) Anil Agarwal Madhay

3) Maneka Gandhi 4) Medha Patkar


Ques. : 258 Which of the following is the highest award given for the lifetime achievement in sports in India?

1) Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2) Dhyan Chand Award

3) Dronacharya Award 4) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Award


Ques. : 259 Who among the following has been voted the new president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC)recently?

1) Hafez Al Medlej 2) Yusuf Al Sarkel

3) Worawai Makudi 4) Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa


Ques. : 260 The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has finally approved Swedish furniture retailer IKEA’sproposal to start single brand retail venture in India. IKEA has proposed to invest______ in India in single brand retail venture.

1) Rs 10,500 crore 2) Rs 8,500 crore

3) Rs 6,500 crore 4) Rs 5,500 crore


Ques. : 261 Who among the following is the current Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation(WIPO), a Unite Nations body? He was in Indian recently to attend the 7th Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting andPiracy.

1) Kamil Idris 2) Francis Gurry

3) Pascal Lamy 4) Takehiko Nakao


Ques. : 262 RBI in its monetary policy for 2013-14 had reduced the repo (short-term lending) rate by 0.25 percent andpegged the economic growth rate for the current fiscal at

1) 5.7 percent 2) 6.1 percent

3) 6.7 percent 4) 7.1 percent


Ques. : 263 Consider the following statements with respect to National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) and indentify thecorrect statement(s):

1) The Rs 22,507-crore mission has got theCabinet nod recently.

2) The government has introduced this scheme toprovide healthcare to the urban poor on the lines ofits flagship National Rural Health Mission.

3) The Mission will be implemented through a PPPmodel at all the levels and includes setting up oneprimary health centre for every 50,000-60,000people

4) All the above


Ques. : 264 The Finance Minister P Chidambaram cautioned Rajan Katoch recently not to hurt legitimate investments whileprobing money laundering cases. Rajan Katoch is the Director of which of the following institutions at present?

1) Sebi 2) Enforcement Directorate (ED)

3) Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) 4) Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO)


Ques. : 265 The 15-member Indian cricket squad has been picked up for the ICC Champions Trophy to be held in _____incoming June.

1) South Africa 2) New Zealand

3) England 4) Australia


Ques. : 266 What is the current ranking of India among 179 countries in the 2013 World Press Freedom Index released bythe Reporters Without Borders recently?


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1) 173th 2) 160th

3) 154th 4) 140th


Ques. : 267 Who among the following heads the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) in India?

1) The Prime Minister 2) The Finance Minister

3) The Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission 4) The Governor of RBI


Ques. : 268 The young woman scientist, Jenita Mary Nongkynrih, hails from which of the following states? She has beenselected for this year's ISRO Young Scientist Award for her urban information system project in the North East.

1) Mizoram 2) Manipur

3) Meghalaya 4) Arunachal Pradesh


Ques. : 269 The 46th Annual Meeting of the ADB Board of Governors was held in which of the following Indian citiesrecently?

1) Mumbai 2) Bangalore

3) Chennai 4) Noida


Ques. : 270 The rising Indian shuttler, PV Sindhu, has entered into her maiden Grand Prix Gold final in Kuala Lumpur. Shedefeated who amongst the following in the semi-finals?

1) Juan Gu 2) Sapsiree Tearattanachai

3) Wang Yihan 4) LI Xuerui


Ques. : 271 The 13th general elections in Malaysia were held recently and the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional (NationalFront), retained its 56-year hold on power. Name the person who leads this coalition and is all set to become the next PrimeMinister of the country.

1) Anwar Ibrahim 2) Muhyiddin Yassin

3) Mohamed Azmin bin Ali 4) Najib Razak


Ques. : 272 The British Conservative MP, Nigel Evans, has been arrested over allegations of rape and sexual assault totwo men. He holds which of the following positions in the House of Commons of the British Parliament at present?

1) The Deputy Speaker 2) The Speaker

3) The Leader of Opposition 4) The Chancellor of the Exchequer


Ques. : 273 Which of the following statements is/are correct with respect to the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), amega infrastructure project between the political capital and the business capital of India, i.e. Delhi and Mumbai?

1) The 1,483-km long corridor will have six-lanehighways.

2) The corridor stretch includes nine industrialtownships, three ports and six airports.

3) The project will cost $90 billion and is beingdeveloped with technical and financial assistancefrom South Korea.

4) All the above


Ques. : 274 Who among the following has authored the recently published book titled ‘The Sea of Innocence’?

1) Kishwar Desai 2) Kalpana Swaminathan

3) Sindhu V Nair 4) Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay


Ques. : 275 The Presidential Board of FIDE, the world chess body, has approved the staging of the World ChessChampionship match in Chennai in November this year. The championship will be played between Viswanathan Anand andwho amongst the following?

1) Boris Gelfand 2) Magnus Carlsen

3) Veselin Topalov 4) Vladimir Kramnik



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Ques. : 276 Consider the following statements with respect to poll-bound Pakistan and identify the correct sentence(s):

1) This will be the first time in the history of the66-years old nation that a democratically electedgovernment will complete its full term.

2) This will be the first time that a democraticallyelected government transitioned to another electedgovernment.

3) This will be the first time that there is a triangularbattlefield as all other elections were a cleartwo-party contest and the third front failed to makeits presence felt.

4) All the above


Ques. : 277 Which of the following countries is hosting the 19th edition of the biennial event, Commonwealth Table Tennischampionship 2013?

1) Sri Lanka 2) India

3) Australia 4) South Africa


Ques. : 278 The rising star of Indian badminton, PV Sindhu, has won her maiden Malaysian Open Grand Prix Gold titlerecently and has become the second Indian to reach this feat. Who among the following is the first one to achieve this feat?

1) Aparna Popat 2) Jwala Gutta

3) Saina Nehwal 4) Ashwini Ponnappa


Ques. : 279 The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has made e-filing of I-T returns mandatory for individuals earningmore than Rs 5 lakh taxable income during the financial year ended March 31, 2013. Earlier e-filing was mandatory forindividuals having a taxable income of more than _______.

1) Rs 6 lakh 2) Rs 8 lakh



Ques. : 280 The president of Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB), Takahiko Nakao, has announced that the bankwill maintain its annual lending to India for the next three years. The ADB is lending around ________to India every year atpresent.

1) $2 billion 2) $4 billion



Ques. : 281 In a strategically significant move to counter China’s presence in the region, India has announced to upgradeChabahar port situated in which of the following countries?

1) Afghanistan 2) Kazakhstan

3) Iran 4) Turkmenistan


Ques. : 282 The Union Defence Minister AK Antony commissioned which of the following fighter aircrafts into the front lineunit of the Indian Navy squadron at Goa’s Naval Base INS Hansa recently? The squadron will be christened as INAS 303“Black Panthers”.

1) MIG-29K 2) Sea Harrier

3) MiG-21 Fishbed 4) Sukhoi Su-30MKI


Ques. : 283 Who among the following has been appointed as the chairman of the technical committee of the All IndiaFootball Federation (AIFF) recently?

1) Balaji Narasimhan 2) Baichung Bhutia

3) Arup Debnath 4) Ashim Biswas


Ques. : 284 India is planning to establish a National Institute of Mining in which of the following countries as a part of India’sreconstruction efforts in the country?

1) Iran 2) Kyrgyzstan

3) Afghanistan 4) Kazakhstan



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Ques. : 285 Indian pistol shooters competing in the ISSF World Cup will be without the services of coach Sayed Wajid Ali ashe has been denied visa to travel for the May 4-13 tournament. The tournament will be held in which of the followingcountries?

1) US 2) UK

3) China 4) France


Ques. : 286 The Annual ICC Cricket Committee meeting will be held in London under its new Chairman on May 28-29. Whoamong the following is the new chairman of ICC Cricket Committee?

1) Kumar Sangakara 2) Andrew Strauss

3) Clive Llyod 4) Anil Kumble

5) L Sivaramakrishnan Ans.) 4

Ques. : 287 The name of Saikhom Mirabai Chanu is associated with which of the following games? She has bagged threebronze medals in the World Championship of the game recently.

1) Archery 2) Weightlifting

3) Table Tennis 4) Discus Throw


Ques. : 288 The Central Government is pushing for the passage of food security bill in the current session of theParliament. Which of the following is the first state in the country to pass a food security act?

1) Uttarakhand 2) Chhattisgarh

3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Gujarat


Ques. : 289 With the fluctuating gold price in international markets, the demand for gold ETFs is picking pace in India. Whatis the full form of ETF as used in banking/financial parlance?

1) Extensively Traded Fund 2) Exchange Traded Fund

3) Exchange Trusted Fund 4) Easily Transferable Fund


Ques. : 290 Name the online collection of Rabindranath Tagore’s works launched by the President Pranab Mukherjeerecently. It is a tribute to Tagore as part of his 150th birth anniversary celebrations and will archive his works in manuscriptand print in both Bengali and English.

1) Bichitra 2) Gurudev

3) Vividha 4) Guru-Kumbh


Ques. : 291 As per the amendments cleared by the Union Cabinet recently, which of the following categories will beprovided with the benefit of low interest loans under the amended National Rural Livelihood Mission (Aajeevika)?

1) Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) 2) Landless labourers

3) SCs and STs 4) Marginal Farmers


Ques. : 292 India has gifted a Dornier 228 aircraft for maritime surveillance to which of the following countries recently? Thisis in response to a request from the Government of this country.

1) Zaire 2) Mozambique

3) Seychelles 4) Maldives


Ques. : 293 The World Asthma Day is observed on which of the following dates? The theme for this year is “You CanControl Your Asthma.”

1) May 1 2) May 3

3) May 5 4) May 7


Ques. : 294 Giulio Andreotti, who died recently, was the former Prime Minister of which of the following countries?

1) Spain 2) France

3) Poland 4) Italy



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Ques. : 295 The Save the Children foundation released its 14th annual State of the World's Mothers Report recently.According to the report, which of the following countries has the highest child mortality rate (child deaths within one day of thebirth) in the world?

1) India 2) China

3) Nepal 4) Bangladesh


Ques. : 296 The online portal Cobrapost, in its second sting operation has exposed 23 scheduled banks as well as the LICwith irregularities and the MoF has asked these banks and LIC to take immediate action against erring employees. The portalhas made which of the following revelations?

1) Violation of Anti Money Laundering Guidelines 2) Violation of Know Your Customer (KYC) norms

3) Taking bribe for awarding loans 4) All the above


Ques. : 297 The SC has dismissed the petitions against commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP)clearing the commissioning of its first unit anytime after May 15. In the first stage the unit with capacity of ________will becommissioned followed by the second with the same capacity in 2014.

1) 200 MW 2) 500 MW

3) 1000 MW 4) 1500 MW


Ques. : 298 Profulla Chandra Borua passed away recently at the age of 76. He was a veteran _________.

1) Journalist 2) Author

3) Historian 4) Geologist


Ques. : 299 The State Literacy Mission (TSLM) of which of the following states has announced to make the state free fromilliteracy by August this year recently?

1) Tripura 2) Kerala

3) Nagaland 4) Mizoram


Ques. : 300 The government has revealed that the National Population Policy, 2000, has been implemented with varyingdegree of success across different states. The objectives of the NPP were to address the unmet need for contraception andachieving a stable population by____.

1) 2020 2) 2025

3) 2030 4) 2045


Ques. : 301 After the outbreak of bird flu in China, around 11,000 people have been diagnosed with dengue and 34 deathshave been reported due to the disease in the first four months of this year in which of the following countries?

1) Thailand 2) Sri Lanka

3) Bangladesh 4) Myanmar


Ques. : 302 Examine the following statement with respect to a new scheme meant for tribal forest dwellers and identify thecorrect statement(s):

1) The Union Minister of Tribal Affairs & PanchayatiRaj, V Kishore Chandra Deo, launched TribalForest Dwellers Empowerment Scheme recently.

2) This scheme, by National Scheduled TribesFinance and Development Corporation (NSTFDC),is meant for economic development of ScheduleTribes who are beneficiaries of Forest Rights Act2006.

3) Under the scheme NSTFDC will generateawareness, provide training as well as providefinancial assistance without charging any interestfrom the beneficiaries.

4) All the above


Ques. : 303 The World Thalassaemia Day is observed on which of the following dates? This year’s ThalassaemiaInternational Federation (TIF) theme is “The right for quality health care of every patient with thalassaemia: major andbeyond”.


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1) May 7 2) May 8

3) May 9 4) May 12


Ques. : 304 Which of the following countries has claimed both the men’s and women’s titles of the 19th CommonwealthTable Tennis Championships held in New Delhi recently?

1) India 2) England

3) Singapore 4) Australia


Ques. : 305 At least 55 people have been killed in attacks on an army base, a police station and a prison by Boko Harammilitants dressed in army uniforms recently. These militants are active in which of the following countries?

1) Somalia 2) South Sudan

3) Mali 4) Nigeria


Ques. : 306 In a bid to simplify the rules governing overseas investors in India, the government is planning to introduce anew classification for investors that do not come under the foreign direct investment (FDI) route. The new class is called FPIwhich stands for

1) Foreign Priority Investors 2) Foreign Portfolio Investors

3) Foreign Preferential Investors 4) Foreign Parallel Investors


Ques. : 307 Name the volcano which erupted in Philippines recently killing at least five people. It is famous for its almostperfect cone shape and has erupted around 50 times since records began, with the most violent in 1814.

1) Mount Taal 2) Mount Ragang

3) Mount Pinatubo 4) Mount Mayon

5) Mount Cagua Ans.) 4

Ques. : 308 Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1) British liquor giant Diageo has appointed Indian-origin Ivan Menezes as its next chief executiveofficer (CEO).

2) The Diageo is the world’s biggest spirits groupand maker of brands like Smirnoff vodka, JohnnieWalker scotch and Guinness beer.

3) The Diageo had acquired 53.4 per cent share ofliquor baron Vijay Mallya’s United Spirits Ltd (USL)in USD 2 million in 2012.

4) All the above


Ques. : 309 Alex Ferguson has announced his retirement bringing down the curtains on his glittering 26-year-oldassociation with which of the following English football teams recently? He is known for his stellar role in making the club aglobal brand valued at $3 billion.

1) Liverpool 2) Chelsea

3) Manchester United 4) Newcastle United


Ques. : 310 The report “Estimates of State Domestic Product-2012-13 of Delhi” states that the state gross domestic product(GSDP) has grown at 9% in last fiscal year and has become the _____ largest in India.

1) tenth 2) eighth

3) sixth 4) second


Ques. : 311 UK-based retailer Marks & Spencer is under the government’s scanner for selling multiple brands in a singlestore as the finance ministry has raised the matter with the DIPP. DIPP stands for

1) Department of Industrial Policy and Practices 2) Department of International Policy and Promotion

3) Department of Illegal Practices and Promotions 4) Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion


Ques. : 312 The World Red Cross and Red Crescent day is observed on which of the following dates?


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1) May 8 2) May 9

3) May 12 4) May 15


Ques. : 313 The name of Roberto Azevedo has been finalised for the post of the Director General of WTO. He hails fromwhich of the following countries?

1) Mexico 2) Brazil

3) Japan 4) Malaysia


Ques. : 314 In the latest rankings of world universities released by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a reputed British educationand career advice company, IIT Delhi’s electrical engineering department has been ranked the ____ best globally, the highestentry from India across all categories.

1) 37th 2) 39th

3) 43rd 4) 50th


Ques. : 315 Gilt funds, as they are conveniently called, are mutual fund schemes floated by asset management companieswith exclusive investments in which of the following?

1) Blue Chip Companies 2) Government Securities

3) Gold 4) Commodities


Ques. : 316 In the recently concluded 19th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships held in New Delhi, Indian menhave succeeded to secure _______ in the team event.

1) gold medal 2) silver medal

3) bronze medal 4) no medal

5) Indian team left the championship midway Ans.) 2

Ques. : 317 Touted as the richest prize-money badminton tournament in the world, IPL-style Indian Badminton League willbe held from August 14-31 across six cities in India. Featuring international and national stars, it will be a _____ league.

1) USD 0.5-million 2) USD 1-million

3) USD 2-million 4) USD 5-million


Ques. : 318 Name the auto giant which has launched Enjoy MPV recently. The company has set the target of securing adouble-digit market share in the category.

1) Honda 2) General Motors

3) Ford Motors 4) Renault


Ques. : 319 The Cabinet Committee on Unique Identification Authority of India (CC-UIDAI) has approved phase four of thescheme, which will enroll an additional 40 crore residents. Till date, 31 crore residents have been issued UID numbersthrough this scheme which started in

1) 2009 2) 2010

3) 2011 4) 2012


Ques. : 320 The government is reviewing the set target in exports to be achieved by March 2014 in view of the global anddomestic economic slowdown. What is the set target till now?




Ques. : 321 Faced with declining exports, the government has announced a slew of measures including extension of thepopular EPCG scheme to all sectors to boost exports. EPCG stands for

1) Expert Promotion Capital Goods 2) Export Promotion Capital Goods

3) Experimental Promotion of Capital Goods 4) Excessive Promotion of Capital Goods



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Ques. : 322 Willem-Alexander is the new King of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the youngest monarch in Europe. TheKingdom of Netherlands consists of which of the following countries along with Netherlands?

1) Sint Maarten 2) Curaçao

3) Aruba 4) All the above


Ques. : 323 The name of who among the following has been finalised to be the next Chief Minister of Karnataka after theCongress party won the state assembly elections recently?

1) Mallikarjun Kharge 2) Madhusudan Mistry

3) Luizinho Faleiro 4) K Siddaramaiah


Ques. : 324 The Finance Ministry is upbeat over picking-up of IIP and now is expecting that with the current trendcontinuing, the economic growth rate would cross 6 per cent in 2013-14. Expand the term IIP.

1) Indian Index of Production 2) International Index of Production

3) Indicator of Industrial Production 4) Index of Industrial Production


Ques. : 325 Which of the following states in India is running the Teerth Darshan Yojana through which it facilitates theelderly people of the state tour the centres of their faith?

1) Rajasthan 2) Gujarat

3) Uttarakhand 4) Madhya Pradesh


Ques. : 326 Name the country which has appealed to avert death sentence of Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, accused of abomb blast in Delhi. Bhullar was extradited from this country to India.

1) France 2) US

3) Germany 4) UK


Ques. : 327 The world’s third largest retailer Tesco Plc is interested to start operations in India. This retail giant is based inwhich of the following countries?

1) UK 2) Italy

3) Spain 4) South Korea


Ques. : 328 Marissa Mayer, known for her aggressive acquisitions, is the head of which of the following internet giants?

1) Google 2) Oracle

3) Yahoo 4) Rediff


Ques. : 329 The names of Achantha Sarath Kamal and Mouma Das are associated with which of the following games?These names were in news recently.

1) Tennis 2) Table Tennis

3) Badminton 4) Weightlifting


Ques. : 330 Industrial body SIAM is associated with which of the following industries?

1) Automobiles 2) Medicines

3) Software 4) Textile


Ques. : 331 Nawaz Sharif is all set for a record third term as Pakistan’s Prime Minister after the recent parliamentaryelections in the country. He heads which of the following parties?

1) Pakistan Muslim League (N) 2) Pakistan People’s Party

3) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf 4) All Pakistan Muslim League



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Ques. : 332 The International Nurses’ Day is celebrated on May 12. This day is celebrated on the birth anniversary of whoamong the following, considered the founder of modern nursing?

1) Mother Teresa 2) Clara Barton

3) Florence Nightingale 4) Mary Seacole


Ques. : 333 What is ‘Mahasen’ which was in news recently?

1) A cyclonic storm 2) A new variety of high-yield wheat

3) A harvest festival celebrated in Gujarat4) A specially designed fishing boat used in TamilNadu


Ques. : 334 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is gearing up for a trial of plastic currency notes as on an average, about_________ paper notes in circulation get disposed of every year.




Ques. : 335 The government is gearing up for the second phase of the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme and hasasked banks to install ATMs at their branches in all the concerned districts. The second phase, starting on 1st July, will cover______new districts.

1) 78 2) 43

3) 121 4) 152


Ques. : 336 Who among the following has won the Spanish Grand Prix Formula One race recently?

1) Mark Webber 2) Sebastian Vettel

3) Felipe Massa 4) Fernando Alonso


Ques. : 337 Name the tennis player who has won the Madrid Open tennis tournament’s women’s singles title recently?

1) Maria Sharapova 2) Serena Williams

3) Li Na 4) Victoria Azarenka


Ques. : 338 The iconic German Bakery, the eatery that came into focus after a bomb blast that killed 17 people and injuredover 60 others in 2010, has been formally reopened after three years. It is located in which of the following cities?

1) Gandhi Nagar 2) Ahmedabad

3) New Delhi 4) Pune


Ques. : 339 The level of carbon dioxide has passed a long-feared milestone of 400 ppm, the highest in 3-million years.Which of the following countries, at present, is the largest emitter of this gas in the world?

1) US 2) UK

3) China 4) India


Ques. : 340 We often come across the news of IED being planted at highway and other routes and elsewhere and thesecurity personnel detected and defused them. IED stands for

1) Implanted Electronic Device 2) Interconnected Electronic Device

3) Improvised Electronic Device 4) Improvised Explosive Device


Ques. : 341 Consider the following statements with respect to commissioning of MIG-29 K fighters into Indian Navy recentlyand identify the correct sentence(s):

1) The MiG-29 K Black Panther squadron (IANS303) has been commissioned into the Indian Navycomprising 16 aircrafts.

2) MiG-29 K is a potent fifth generation carrierborne stealth fighter armed with anti-aircraft andanti-ship missiles, precision bombs andsophisticated weapon delivery system.


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3) The commissioned squadron will be integratedwith aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, likely to becommissioned later this year.

4) All the above


Ques. : 342 The 20th Asian Athletics Championship is scheduled to be held in which of the following Indian cities in themonth of July this year?

1) Chennai 2) Bangalore

3) New Delhi 4) Ahmedabad


Ques. : 343 The President Pranab Mukherjee recently conferred the Asom Ratna award (2012) posthumously to MamoniRaisom Goswami and Srimanta Sankardeva award to cine star

1) Nana Patekar 2) Sharmila Tagore

3) Hema Malini 4) Shabana Azmi


Ques. : 344 As SIP stands for Systematic Investment Plans, STP stands for

1) Systematic Transfer Plans 2) Systematic Trading Plans

3) Systematic Term Plans 4) Systematic Top-up Plans


Ques. : 345 As per the data released by the office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India recently,among the top Indian cities, the number of working women is lowest in

1) Mumbai 2) Kolkata

3) Chennai 4) New Delhi


Ques. : 346 Which of the following statements is/are correct? CERT is

1) a world famous laboratory 2) the cyber watchdog of India

3) the acronym for Computer Emergency ResponseTeam

4) Both 1) and 3)

5) Both 2) and 3) Ans.) 5

Ques. : 347 Name the latest social networking site developed by an Indian entrepreneur, Pushkar Mahatta, which is all setto take on Facebook and Twitter.

1) OmniBus 2) WorldFloat

3) UniFloat 4) HangOut


Ques. : 348 According to a report of the parliamentary standing committee on finance, between March 2011 and December2012 alone, the public sector banks’ corporate loans worth _______crore have turned into bad debts (NPA).

1) Rs 63,000 crore 2) Rs 75,000 crore

3) Rs 83,000 crore 4) Rs 95,000 crore


Ques. : 349 As per the recent news in newspapers, IDBI is all set to lose the battle to take over SHCIL. Expand the termSHCIL.

1) Stock Holding Company of India Limited 2) Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited

3) Stock Heralding Corporation of India Limited 4) Share Holding Corporation of India Limited


Ques. : 350 Who among the following has won the men’s singles title of the Madrid Masters tennis tournament recently?The women’s singles title of the same was clinched by Serena Williams.

1) Roger Federer 2) Novak Djokovic

3) Rafael Nadal 4) Andy Murray



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Ques. : 351 The Antrix Corporation Limited is the marking arm of which of the following?

1) Indian Space Research Organisation2) Defense Research and DevelopmentOrganisation

3) Ordinance Factory Board 4) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited


Ques. : 352 As the post of Attorney General of India is a Constitutional post under Article 76 of the Constitution of India,which of the following is true about the posts of the Solicitor General and the Additional Solicitors General in India?

1) These are constitutional posts 2) These are only statutory posts

3) These are autonomous posts 4) They are private practitioners


Ques. : 353 In the wake of the Supreme Court's scathing observations on CBI, the government has formed a Group ofMinisters (GoM) to draft a law to insulate the investigating agency from external influence. It is headed by

1) Manish Tewari 2) Kapil Sibal

3) Salman Khurshid 4) P Chidambaram


Ques. : 354 The Bhagya Jyothi scheme, under which electricity connections are provided to BPL households, has beenimplemented in which of the following states?

1) Andhra Pradesh 2) Madhya Pradesh

3) Odisha 4) Karnataka


Ques. : 355 The hope of Bihar getting a backward state status has grown stronger with a committee has been announcedto be formed that will evolve new criteria for backwardness of states and submit the report to the Centre within a month. Thiscommittee will be headed by

1) P Chidambaram 2) Raghuram Rajan

3) Montek Singh Ahluwalia 4) Jairam Ramesh


Ques. : 356 Commonwealth Games gold-medallist Manoj Kumar and rising star L Devendro Singh are the prominent faceswhich represent India in the game of

1) Archery 2) Boxing

3) Weightlifting 4) Discus Throw


Ques. : 357 The indigenously developed rotavirus vaccine ROTAVAC has shown positive results during the different phasesof its clinical trials. The vaccine is developed to prevent which of the following diseases?

1) Pneumonia 2) Chickenpox

3) Diarrhea 4) Marasmus


Ques. : 358 Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in 1993 bomb blasts case, has urged a designated TADA court inMumbai to allow him to surrender before Yerwada jail in Pune. What is expanded form of the acronym TADA?

1) Terrorist and Destructive Act (Prevention) Act2) Terrorism and Destructive Activities (Prevention)Act

3) Terrorising and Disturbing Activities (Prevention)Act

4) Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention)Act


Ques. : 359 India and which of the following countries has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on TechnicalCooperation in the field of Spatial Planning, Water Management and Mobility Management recently?

1) Poland 2) Netherlands

3) Belgium 4) Argentina


Ques. : 360 The former dictator Rios Montt has been sentenced for genocide and crime against humanity which is the firsttime that a perpetrator has been punished for genocide in his/her own country. He belongs to which of the followingcountries?


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1) Guatemala 2) Ethiopia

3) Nigeria 4) Congo


Ques. : 361 Vinod Rai will step down from which of the following posts by the end of May this year?

1) Attorney General of India 2) Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)

3) Chief Election Commissioner of India4) The Chief Economic Advisor to the Governmentof India


Ques. : 362 France, the second largest economy in the euro zone, has confirmed that it is now in recession. Which of thefollowing countries is the biggest economy in the Euro Zone?

1) Germany 2) UK

3) Italy 4) Spain


Ques. : 363 Which of the following countries has launched a new ‘superpriority’ same-day visa service for urgent travelersfrom India recently? It is a first-of-its-kind service to be launched by the country.

1) US 2) South Korea

3) Japan 4) UK


Ques. : 364 Asghar Ali Engineer passed away recently in Mumbai after a prolonged illness. He was a noted

1) Hindu scholar 2) Islamic scholar

3) Historian 4) Wildlife Photographer


Ques. : 365 The government is planning to bring a proposal to the cabinet for an out-of-court settlement with British telecomgiant Vodafone on tax dispute issue. The telecom major, for its 2007 acquisition of Hutchison mobile in India, is liable to pay

1) Rs 11,200 crore 2) Rs 10,000 crore



Ques. : 366 The Reserve Bank of India, in a bid to lure investors away from gold, the imports of which have widened India’scurrent account deficit, is going to issue which of the following instruments for the first time in over a decade?

1) Fixed Net Asset Value (NAV) bonds 2) Inflation-Indexed Bonds (IIB)

3) Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS) 4) National Guaranteed Return Bonds (NGRB)


Ques. : 367 In a bid to re-enter the Olympic movement from which it was banished, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) hasvowed to International Olympic Council (IOC) to abide with which of the following reforms?

1) Its constitution will be rewritten to set age cap of70 for sports federation’s office bearers.

2) It will guarantee that no office bearer gets morethan three terms.

3) An IOC observer will be present during the IOAelections.

4) All the above


Ques. : 368 The Arctic Council, in its biennial meeting, has agreed to expand to include six new nations as observer states.Which of the following is not among them?

1) China 2) Singapore

3) India 4) Japan

5) Germany Ans.) 5

Ques. : 369 Who among the following has been appointed as the first CEO of the low cost airline AirAsia India, a jointventure of the AirAsia, Tata Sons and Telestra Tradeplace?

1) Aditya Ghosh 2) Mittu Chandilya

3) Tony Fernandes 4) Rahul Bhatia



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Ques. : 370 Identify the correct sentence(s) among the following in the context of India’s foreign direct investment policy onmulti-brand retail ventures:

1) The foreign investor should make a minimuminvestment of $100 million, and 50 per cent of itshould be invested in back-end infrastructure.

2) A foreign retailer must source 30 per cent of thevalue of goods being sold by it from domestic micro,small and medium enterprises.

3) One-stop approval for operating the retailbusiness across the country.

4) Only 1) and 2)


Ques. : 371 Three players, S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila have been arrested on the charges of spot-fixingfor IPL matches recently. These players were playing for which of the following IPL teams?

1) Mumbai Indians 2) Rajasthan Royals

3) Royal Challengers Bangalore 4) Hyderabad Sunrisers


Ques. : 372 Consider the following statements with respect to ‘put and call’ option, which has been cleared recently, andchoose the correct statements among them:

1) This regulation has been framed by Sebi.2) It mandates that for merger and acquisitions,listed firms could use such options that create aright to buy/sell more shares in the future.

3) Earlier, Sebi had given special permission forusing this option in the deal between Cairn andVedanta.

4) All the above


Ques. : 373 Following the international trend, the CEO and MD of Infosys has taken a pay cut of 26 per cent in financialyear 2012-13. Infosys is the second largest information-technology company of the country. Name the largest IT company ofthe country.

1) Wipro 2) TCS

3) Satyam-Mahindra 4) HCL


Ques. : 374 The World Hypertension Day is observed on which of the following dates?

1) May 15 2) May 17

3) May 21 4) May 29


Ques. : 375 What amount has been fixed by the central government recently for the annual plan of Bihar for the financialyear 2013-14?

1) Rs 12,000 crore 2) Rs 20,000 crore

3) Rs 34,000 crore 4) Rs 42,000 crore


Ques. : 376 Nearly nine lakh ASHA workers are engaged in providing qualitative healthcare to people in rural India. What isthe expanded form of ASHA?

1) Accredited Specialist Health Activists 2) Associated Social Health Activists

3) Accredited Social Health Activists 4) Associated Specialist Health Activists


Ques. : 377 Larry Page is the CEO of which of the following global internet giants? He made news recently after revealing aproblem with his vocal cords that makes it difficult for him to speak and breathe occasionally.

1) Google 2) Yahoo

3) Oracle 4) Apple


Ques. : 378 The Shapoorji Pallonji Group has announced to buy a majority stake in the USD 200-million Lux Internationalgaining access to Europe and Africa. Lux is a 110-year-old company based in

1) Spain 2) Switzerland

3) France 4) Italy



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Ques. : 379 The Union Cabinet has given its approval for increase in the present income criterion for applying the CreamyLayer restriction throughout the country from of Rs 4.5 lakh per annum to _____per annum.

1) Rs 5 lakh 2) Rs 5.5 lakh

3) Rs 6 lakh 4) Rs 6.5 lakh


Ques. : 380 Clearing the legal hurdles, the law minister Kapil Sibal has set the stage for the government to offload theremaining stake in Balco and two other companies. The government had sold 51 per cent stake in Balco to which of thefollowing companies?

1) Sterlite Industries 2) Jindal Aluminium Limited

3) Mishra Dhatu Nigam 4) Sundaram - Clayton Limited


Ques. : 381 The government is considering providing Sovereign Guarantee of Rs 24,000 crore to the Indian EnergyInsurance Pool to provide insurance to domestic refineries that have been refused cover from European re-insurers. What isthe reason of denial by EU re-insurers?

1) These refineries are processing Iranian crude2) These are not listed in European stockexchanges

3) These are supplying refined oil to Iran 4) These are running in deficit since long


Ques. : 382 Former dictator Jorde Rafael Videla, who died recently, belonged to which of the following countries? He wasserving a jail term for crime against humanity during his dictatorship.

1) Argentina 2) Nigeria

3) Netherlands 4) Cambodia


Ques. : 383 For the alleged price fixing by the companies of which of the following industries, the Competition AppellateTribunal (Compat) has ordered them to deposit Rs 630 crore as penalty within four weeks?

1) Textile 2) Beverage

3) Cement 4) Telecom


Ques. : 384 The IBSA women’s forum, recently, has recommended developing a comprehensive action plan to end all formsof violence against women. IBSA is an association of India, Brazil and which of the following countries?

1) South Africa 2) Singapore

3) Argentina 4) Both 1) and


Ques. : 385 The department of telecommunication is working on a proposal to disallow crossholding by one telecom firm ina competing one in the same circle. As per the present rules, a telecom company can acquire up to _____in its rival companyin the same circle.




Ques. : 386 According to an exchange notification published recently, Shikha Sharma has got a salary increase of 10 percent effective June 1. She is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of which of the following private sectorbanks?

1) ICICI 2) HDFC

3) Axis Bank 4) Yes Bank


Ques. : 387 The Indian American software mogul, Vivek Ranadive, has become the first person of Indian descent to becomethe owner of a major US sports team buying Sacramento Kings. The team is associated with which of the following games?

1) Baseball 2) Basketball

3) Football 4) Volleyball



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Ques. : 388 The finance ministry is considering raising the penalty for violations of RBI guidelines by banks. What is themaximum penalty under the law at present for the above violations by banks?

1) Rs 1 crore 2) Rs 50 lakh



Ques. : 389 The government has announced the roll out of direct subsidy transfer for LPG connections starting from June.What consumers need to avail this facility?

1) An Aadhar number 2) An Aadhar number linked with a bank account

3) Providing the Aadhar number to LPG distributorsto link it with LPG consumer number

4) All the above


Ques. : 390 The entry of new low cost carrier, AirAsia India, has brought new competition in the airlines sector. Which of thefollowing is the biggest low cost airline in India at present?

1) Jet Airways 2) Spicejet

3) Indigo 4) GoAir


Ques. : 391 The committee looking into the US retail giant Walmart’s lobbying activities to enter into Indian retail market,has submitted its report to Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot recently. Who among the following headed the committee?

1) Mukul Mudgal 2) VN Khare

3) RC Lahoti 4) Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal


Ques. : 392 Consider the following statements with respect to planned subsidy for the electric and hybrid vehicles in Indiaand choose the correct statement(s):

1) The government, under National Electric MobilityMission Plan 2020, envisages around seven millionelectric and hybrid vehicles in seven years.

2) The scheme includes non-levy of value addedtax, no road tax and 15 per cent concession on theon-road price of the vehicle.

3) Currently, only Delhi has implemented thisscheme.

4) All the above are correct


Ques. : 393 Despite efforts to ramp up indigenous coal production, the Planning Commission feels that India will still face ashortfall of about_______of coal by the end of the 12th Plan period.

1) 50 million tonnes 2) 100 million tonnes

3) 150 million tonnes 4) 200 million tonnes


Ques. : 394 The finance minister, in the budget for 2013-14, had proposed a surcharge of 10 per cent on individuals termedas super rich or High Net-worth Individuals (HNIs). These are the individual with yearly income of

1) Rs 1 crore and above 2) Rs 2 crore and above

3) Rs 5 crore and above 4) Rs 10 crore and above


Ques. : 395 Examine the following statements with respect to the BSE Shariah index and identify the correct alternative(s):

1) The BSE, with Taqwaa Advisory and ShariahInvestment Solutions (TASIS), launched BSE TASISShariah 50 index in 2010.

2) The index consists of the 50 largest and mostliquid Shariah compliant stocks within the BSE 500.

3) The index has the largest number of listedShariah compliant stocks in the world after that ofPakistan.

4) All the above


Ques. : 396 The much hyped Nirbhaya fund launched in the name of the Delhi gang rape victim, is still stuck in thebureaucratic red tape. What is the size of the fund announced for the women’s empowerment?





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Ques. : 397 The Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India, runs micro-credit scheme through NMDFC in order toempower the minorities through economic development. Expand the term NMDFC.

1) National Minority Deployment and FinanceCorporation

2) National Minority Development and FinancingCompany

3) National Minority Development and FinanceCorporation

4) National Minority Development FundingCorporation


Ques. : 398 Paul Erik Hoyer Larsen has been elected the chairman of which of the following international sports governingbodies?

1) Badminton World Federation 2) International Tennis Federation

3) World Chess Federation 4) FIFA


Ques. : 399 Who among the following has won the Rome Masters tennis tournament’s women’s singles final recently?

1) Serena Williams 2) Victoria Azarenka

3) Sara Errani 4) Simona Halep


Ques. : 400 Who is the winner of World Table Tennis Championships women’s singles final held in Paris recently?

1) Ding Ning 2) Li Xiaoxia

3) Liu Shiwen 4) Zhu Yuling


Ques. : 401 The legendry footballer, David Beckham, retired from professional football recently. He was captaining which ofthe following teams when he announced his retirement?

1) Paris Saint-Germain 2) Manchester United

3) Real Madrid 4) Milan


Ques. : 402 Indian archer Deepika Kumari played two finals but had to settle for silver in both the events in the first StageWorld Cup Archery tournament held in ______recently.

1) Seoul 2) Shanghai

3) Kuala Lumpur 4) Madrid


Ques. : 403 The name of Samina Baig was in the news recently as she became the first woman of her country to scaleMount Everest, the world’s highest mountain peak (8,848 m). She is from

1) Saudi Arabia 2) Pakistan

3) Bahrain 4) Kuwait


Ques. : 404 The Padma Bhushan awardee writer from India, UR Ananthamurthy, is in the running for the Man BookerInternational Prize 2013. He writes in which of the following languages?

1) Tamil 2) Hindi

3) English 4) Kannada


Ques. : 405 The Oil ministry’s technical arm for exploration, Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, has recommended thatthree gas discoveries reported by Reliance Industries in the KG-D6 block should be taken away from it. KG-D6 block issituated off the _______coast.

1) Andhra Pradesh 2) Tamil Nadu

3) Kerala 4) Gujarat


Ques. : 406 Who among the following has clinched the Rome Masters tennis tournament’s men’s singles title recently?

1) Rafael Nadal 2) Roger Federer

3) David Ferrer 4) Andy Murray

5) Novak Djokovic Ans.) 1


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Ques. : 407 The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is all set to pay a state visit to which of the following countries? Hewill be the first Japanese Prime Minister to visit the country in 36 years.

1) China 2) South Korea

3) Myanmar 4) Bangladesh


Ques. : 408 India and China have firmed up eight agreements during the recent visit of Chinese premier Li Keqiang to NewDelhi. The two countries have set a target of _______by 2015 for bilateral trade.

1) USD 50 billion 2) USD 65 billion

3) USD 75 billion 4) USD 100 billion


Ques. : 409 The Anti-Terrorism Day is observed annually across the nation on which of the following dates? On this dateIndia’s youngest Prime Minister late Rajiv Gandhi fell to the designs of terrorists in 1991.

1) May 19 2) May 20

3) May 21 4) May 22


Ques. : 410 Who among the following has been appointed as the new Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of Indiarecently?

1) R Chandrasekhar 2) Sindhushree Khullar

3) Sumit Bose 4) Shashi Kant Sharma


Ques. : 411 In another set-back to Indian Premier League (IPL), which of the following teams withdrew itself from the eventrecently?

1) Sunrisers Hyderabad 2) Kolkata Knight Riders

3) Pune Warriors 4) Delhi Daredevils


Ques. : 412 India-China trade has risen sharply in the last one decade and reached $66 billion in 2012, compared to $3billion in 2000. However, the balance of trade has remained highly in favour of China and the trade deficit for India in 2012has reached to




Ques. : 413 Consider the following statements with respect to the new Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India andindentify the correct option(s):

1) The CAG is appointed for a term of six years ortill the incumbent attains the age of 65 years,whichever is earlier.

2) The President of India appoints the CAG of India,in terms of Article 148 (1) of the Constitution ofIndia.

3) After completing eventful five and a half years,Vinod Rai retired as CAG to make way for ShashiKant Sharma recently.

4) All the above


Ques. : 414 Vice president Hamid Ansari has gone on a four-day official visit to which of the following countries?

1) Uzbekistan 2) Kazakhstan

3) Kyrgyzstan 4) Tajikistan


Ques. : 415 Name the IT outsourcing company which has sacked its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Phaneesh Murthy afterit came to learn that he had not disclosed his relationship with a subordinate to the company.

1) Infosys 2) iGate

3) Mahindra Satyam 4) Patni


Ques. : 416 India's Saurav Ghosal, ranked 19 in the world in the respective game, is associated with which of the followinggames?


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1) Billiards 2) Golf

3) Squash 4) Table Tennis


Ques. : 417 Indians have become the largest foreign-born group in London with 2.63 lakh people born in India are livingthere. Now, what per cent of all foreign-born residents in London are Indians?

1) Nearly 9% 2) Nearly 11%

3) Nearly 15% 4) Nearly 19%


Ques. : 418 Kanya Vidya Dhan Yojana is associated with which of the following states in India?

1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Uttar Pradesh

3) Haryana 4) Rajasthan


Ques. : 419 As different regulatory bodies have been set up to regulate different sectors, chit funds in India are regulated bywhich of the following institutions?

1) RBI 2) State governments

3) Sebi 4) IRDA


Ques. : 420 The Inflation-Indexed bonds announced by the government will make their debut in the month of June. Thesebonds, initially, will be indexed against

1) Wholesale Price Index 2) Consumer Price Index

3) Sensex 4) Nifty


Ques. : 421 India has successfully test-fired BrahMos supersonic cruise missile capable of carrying a warhead of 300 kg.This missile system is jointly developed by India and

1) Russia 2) US

3) Israel 4) Germany


Ques. : 422 Who among the following has topped the Forbes’s world’s most powerful women of the year list releasedrecently?

1) Dilma Rousseff 2) Angela Merkel

3) Milinda Gates 4) Mishelle Obama

5) Sonia Gandhi Ans.) 2

Ques. : 423 Examine the following facts in connection with India’s first inflation-indexed bonds to be launched on 4 June andchoose the correct option(s):

1) These bonds will not get any special taxtreatment but will count towards the statutoryliquidity ratio (SLR) requirements of banks.

2) The RBI is planning to issue Rs12,000 crore toRs15,000 crore of these bonds in 2013-14 in linewith a budget announcement.

3) These 10-year bonds will have a fixed couponrate and their principal value will be linked to theWholesale Price Index (WPI).

4) Only 2) and 3)

5) All 1), 2) and 3) Ans.) 5

Ques. : 424 Ben Bernanke is the chairman of which of the following institutions at present?

1) WTO 2) IMF

3) World Bank 4) Federal Reserve of US


Ques. : 425 On his Pakistan visit, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has been conferred the country’s highest civil award

1) Nishan-e-Pakistan 2) Nishan-e-Imtiaz

3) Sitara-e-Pakistan 4) Hilal-e-Pakistan



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Ques. : 426 The cabinet of which of the following states has given its nod to a proposal with provisions that Class III orequivalent rank daily wage employees will retire at the age 60 and that of Class IV or equivalent rank at the age of 62 and willget National Pension benefits?

1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Uttarakhand

3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Himachal Pradesh


Ques. : 427 The chief minister of which of the following states has won the United Nation's Public Service Award for hisMass Contact Programme? In this programme, he directly engaged with people in the state to address their grievances.

1) Kerala 2) Bihar

3) Chhattisgarh 4) Rajasthan


Ques. : 428 Industry body COAI is associated with which of the following industries?

1) Automobiles 2) Textile

3) GSM Mobile Service 4) Computer Hardware


Ques. : 429 Delhi’s Lokayukta Justice Manmohan Sarin has indicted CM Sheila Dikshit for allegedly misusing governmentfunds for political gain ahead of assembly elections in 2008. He has also sought reimbursement of what amount either fromher or from her party?




Ques. : 430 Expand the term IFCI as used in the financial world?

1) Industrial Forecasting Corporation of India 2) Industrial Finance Corporation of India

3) International Finance Corporation of India 4) Industrial Finance Corpus of India


Ques. : 431 Who among the following has been declared the winner of the fifth Man Booker International Prize?

1) Lydia Davis 2) UR Ananthamurthy

3) Intizar Husain 4) Yann Martel


Ques. : 432 What amount has been finalised as the Annual Plan for Madhya Pradesh for the current fiscal?

1) Rs 22,000 crore 2) Rs 23,500 crore

3) Rs 27,000 crore 4) Rs 35,500 crore


Ques. : 433 The novelist, short story writer, poet and critic Ravuri Bharadwaja has been selected for the prestigiousJnanpith award for the year 2012. He writes in which of the following languages?

1) Oriya 2) Hindi

3) Telugu 4) Urdu


Ques. : 434 A seasoned coach, S Subramaniam, passed away recently. He was associated with which of the followinggames?

1) Volleyball 2) Badminton

3) Squash 4) Basketball


Ques. : 435 The government has given green signal for the manufacturing and plying of a new category of vehicles calledquadricycles. Which of the following is correct in this regard?

1) These new four-wheelers will have a max speedof 70 kmph and seating capacity of four.

2) These can be registered as commercial vehiclesonly.

3) The first product in this category in India is RE60developed by Bajaj Auto.

4) All the above



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Ques. : 436 Name the empire form Pakistan who has been sacked by the ICC from the Champions Trophy for allegedlybeing involve in betting scandal related to IPL.

1) Shakeel Khan 2) Asad Rauf

3) Aleem Dar 4) Tariq Ata


Ques. : 437 Name the Indian-American who has become the first south Asian judge to America’s second highest court.

1) Bijoy Sahoo 2) Kumble Subbaswamy

3) Venkatesh Narayanamurti 4) Srikanth Srinivasan


Ques. : 438 Meg Whitman is the CEO of which of the following multinational IT companies?

1) Hewlett and Packard 2) Lenovo

3) IBM 4) Oracle


Ques. : 439 Several real-estate developers are planning to tap the ECB route to avail easy finance for providing affordablehousing. What is the expanded form of ECB?

1) Extensive Commercial Borrowings 2) External Commercial Borrowings

3) Extra Commercial Borrowings 4) Excess Commercial Borrowings


Ques. : 440 Anand Shetty, who passed away recently, was an outstanding former international

1) sprinter 2) boxer

3) swimmer 4) archer


Ques. : 441 The name of Gurunath Meiyappan, who has been arrested by Mumbai crime branch for his alleged involvementin IPL betting scandal, is associated with the IPL franchise

1) Rajasthan Royals 2) Pune Warriors

3) Chennai Superkings 4) Mumbai Indians


Ques. : 442 Who among the following is the Indian Premiere League (IPL) commissioner at present?

1) Rajiv Shukla 2) N Srinivasan

3) Lalit Modi 4) Arun Jaitley


Ques. : 443 Kankasanthurai harbour, which is being built with India’s assistance, is situated in which of the followingcountries?

1) Iran 2) Bangladesh

3) Sri Lanka 4) Maldives


Ques. : 444 What is the term used for a basic bank account opened with a commercial bank, generally offered to under-privileged people, which requires either nil minimum balance or very low minimum balance? Services available to suchaccount are limited.

1) Students savings bank account 2) Salary account

3) Current account 4) No-frills account


Ques. : 445 The Union Minister Veerapa Moily has been presented with a "Global Citizen Award" by Bangkok University forhis role in transforming which of the following cities as a global IT hub during his tenure as Karnataka Chief Minister?

1) Bangalore 2) Chennai

3) Hyderabad 4) Mangalore


Ques. : 446 The 'Nitaqat' law, which is being implemented in Saudi Arabia and is seen as a threat for a large number ofIndians working there, makes it mandatory for local companies to hire one Saudi national for every _____migrant workers.


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1) 2 2) 5

3) 10 4) 20


Ques. : 447 Who among the following Indian women is/are included among the top 10 of the most powerful women of theworld list compiled by Forbes magazine for 2013?

1) Sonia Gandhi 2) Sushma Swaraj

3) Chanda Kochhar 4) Mamta Banerjee

5) All the above Ans.) 1

Ques. : 448 The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal to grant the status of a classical language to which of thefollowing languages?

1) Bengali 2) Oriya

3) Maithili 4) Malayalam


Ques. : 449 The 12th SAARCLAW Annual Conference and the 9th SAARC Chief Justices Conference were organised inwhich of the following places recently?

1) Thimphu 2) Kabul

3) Chennai 4) Dhaka


Ques. : 450 President Robert Mugabe has signed new the Constitution of the country into law recently clearing the path tocrucial elections later this year. Name the country which Mugabe is ruling since its independence from Britain in 1980?

1) Zaire 2) Zimbabwe

3) Nigeria 4) Uganda


Ques. : 451 Mahendra Karma, the person who set up the Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh, has been shot dead in a Maoistattack recently. What is Salwa Judum?

1) The highest council of tribes of Chhattisgarh 2) An annual gathering of tribes

3) An anti-Naxal tribal militia trained and armed bythe state

4) A campaign to encourage tribal people to sendtheir children to schools


Ques. : 452 The name of an American of Chinese descent, Yitang Zhang, was in news recently for which of the followingreasons?

1) He has warned India not to believe Chineseadministration

2) He has discovered a landmark theorem in thedistribution of prime numbers

3) He has been caught spying for China4) He is campaigning in support of democracy inChina


Ques. : 453 African Union leaders met in Addis Ababa for the 50th anniversary celebrations of the bloc recently. AddisAbaba is the capital city of

1) Ethiopia 2) Cameroon

3) Nigeria 4) Chad


Ques. : 454 Which of the following automotive major has announced to recall over 22,000 cars from the market due to afaulty breaking system?

1) Renault 2) Ford

3) Nissan 4) General Motor


Ques. : 455 Who among the following has won the Monaco Grand Prix Formula One championship recently?

1) Lewis Hamilton 2) Sebastian Vettel

3) Mark Webber 4) Nico Rosberg



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Ques. : 456 Mumbai Indians has won the sixth edition of the Indian Premiere League (IPL) recently for the first time. Whichof the following franchise has won the IPL more than once?

1) Rajasthan Royals 2) Kolkata Knight Riders

3) Sunrisers Hyderabad 4) Chennai Super Kings


Ques. : 457 Who among the following has authored the recently published book titled ‘The Black Coat’?

1) Nilanjan Banerjee 2) Neamat Imam

3) Kishwar Desai 4) Nilima Bhat


Ques. : 458 The IPL style tennis tournament, Indian Premier Tennis League (IPTL), scheduled to start in late 2014 and tobe played in six Asian cities sporting the biggest names of tennis, is founded by

1) Leander Paes 2) Mahesh Bhupati

3) Prakash Amritraj 4) Purav Raja


Ques. : 459 TM Soundararajan (TMS), who passed away recently, was a veteran

1) playback singer 2) musician

3) novelist 4) poet


Ques. : 460 The centrally sponsored programme ICDS is aimed at ensuring proper growth and development of pre-schoolchildren, women and adolescent girls in India. What is the expanded form of ICDS?

1) International Child Development Services 2) Integrated Child Development Services

3) International Child Development Scheme 4) Intensified Child Development Services


Ques. : 461 The investigation of the recent massacre in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh which claimed 27 lives, mainlyCongress leaders, is handed over to

1) CBI 2) NIA

3) CID 4) Crime branch of Chhattisgarh police


Ques. : 462 Who among the following scored most runs in the recently concluded IPL-6 tournament?

1) Mike Hussey 2) Virat Kohli

3) Suresh Raina 4) Chris Gayle


Ques. : 463 Which of the following companies has discovered a huge reserve of natural gas in KG basin recently?

1) Jubilant 2) Hinduja

3) RIL 4) Essar


Ques. : 464 Name the bank which has announced to launch first-of-its-kind debit-cum-credit card within a month. This cardwill perform the dual function of being both a credit and debit card.

1) Central Bank of India 2) State Bank of India

3) Bank of Baroda 4) Bank of India


Ques. : 465 To further curb gold imports, the RBI, in its monetary policy statement for 2013-14, has barred banks from whichof the following?

1) Granting advances for purchases of gold bullion2) Granting advances for purchases of goldjewellery

3) Granting advances for purchases of gold coins4) Granting advances for purchases of units of goldETFs



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Ques. : 466 Which of the following films has won the best film award, The Palme D’Or, at the 66th Cannes Film Festivalwhich concluded recently?

1) The Past 2) Blue is the Warmest Color

3) Like Father, Like Son 4) Heli


Ques. : 467 CNES is the space agency of which of the following countries? Its president Jean-Yves Le Gall visited ISRO’sheadquarters at Bangalore recently.


3) Italy 4) France


Ques. : 468 Which of the following countries carry the distinction of being the first dialogue partner of the Community ofLatin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)? Formed in 2011, CELAC comprises all states of North and South America,barring US and Canada.

1) China 2) India

3) Japan 4) Germany


Ques. : 469 The government has implemented 66 of 72 recommendations made by Sachar Committee. This committee wasappointed in 2005 to prepare a report on the latest social, economic and educational condition of the _______community ofIndia.

1) Scheduled Cast 2) Scheduled Tribes

3) Muslim 4) Migrant


Ques. : 470 Rana Kapoor is the CEO of which of the following private sector banks?

1) Yes Bank 2) Kotak Mahindra

3) Saraswat Bank 4) IndusInd Bank


Ques. : 471 The 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest, when Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa TenzingNorgay climb the Earth's highest mountain, was celebrated on May 29. Sherpa was a Nepalese while Edmund Hillary was acitizen of

1) New Zealand 2) Germany

3) France 4) UK


Ques. : 472 Which of the following countries has topped among the developed nations in the recently released Better LifeIndex compiled by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)?

1) UK 2) Australia

3) Germany 4) Japan


Ques. : 473 The 12th edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup will be staged in 2019 in which of the following countries?

1) West Indies 2) Australia

3) England 4) New Zealand


Ques. : 474 Odisha has emerged as the champion in the men's event in the 3rd Hockey India Sub-Junior NationalChampionship while ___________has emerged as the women’s event champion.

1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Jharkhand

3) Haryana 4) Chandigarh


Ques. : 475 Which of the following countries has recently announced to go ahead with deliveries of S-300 anti-aircraftmissiles to Syria which will help it deter foreign intervention?

1) Iran 2) China

3) Russia 4) Pakistan



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Ques. : 476 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is considering the inclusion of one of the eight removed sports fromthe list of 25 core sports in the 2020 Olympics. Which of the following is one of the removed sports?

1) Wrestling 2) Boxing

3) Basketball 4) Archery


Ques. : 477 The name of India's Jamjang Deru is associated with which of the following games? He has bagged threemedals (including two gold medals) in a recent championship in Doha?

1) Wrestling 2) Archery

3) Weightlifting 4) Squash


Ques. : 478 Which of the following internet companies has bought the micro-blogging platform Tumblr for USD 1.1 bnrecently?

1) Google 2) Yahoo

3) Microsoft 4) Apple


Ques. : 479 The European Patent Office, announcing the winners of the European Inventor Award 2013, has honouredIndia-born Ajay Bhatt-led team at US tech-giant Intel. This team is had developed which of the following path-breakingtechnologies?

1) Blue ray disc 2 2) Universal Serial Bus (USB)

3) Octa-core processors 4) Near field communication (NFC)


Ques. : 480 Which of the following countries has recently ordered the extradition of Ravi Shankaran, one of the mainaccused in the Naval war room leak case, to India?

1) UK 2) Germany

3) France 4) US


Ques. : 481 Indian filmmakers are vying for access in China’s growing market for cinema which is largely dominated byHollywood films. China allows only ______foreign movies every year to be release there.

1) 34 2) 50

3) 64 4) 80


Ques. : 482 Which of the following mobile handset makers has come up with its high-end model named ‘Mega’ recently?

1) Nokia 2) HTC

3) Samsung 4) LG


Ques. : 483 The chairman of which of the following network marketing firms in India was arrested under Prize Chits andMoney Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act recently?

1) RCM Business 2) Hindustan Unilever Network

3) Amway 4) Modicare


Ques. : 484 The multi-purpose Kishau dam, which will generate 660 MW of electricity, besides providing irrigation facility,will come up on which of the following rivers?

1) Tons 2) Manjira

3) Godavari 4) Penna


Ques. : 485 Vijay Bahuguna is the chief minister of which of the following Indian states at present?

1) Chhattisgarh 2) Uttarakhand

3) Himachal Pradesh 4) Assam



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Ques. : 486 The rising Indian tennis star Somdev Devvarman was defeated in the second round of French Open tennistournament by who among the following recently?

1) Roger Federer 2) Rafael Nadal

3) Novak Djokovic 4) David Ferrer


Ques. : 487 The target set by the Planning Commission for power generation in 12th plan is

1) 66,000 MW 2) 72,000 MW

3) 88,000 MW 4) 92,000 MW


Ques. : 488 India is all set to activate the atomic reactor on board which of the following indigenous nuclear submarinessoon?

1) INS Chakra 2) INS Shishumar

3) INS Shindhughosh 4) INS Arihant


Ques. : 489 Which of the following IT majors has bagged a six year contract worth Rs 1,100 crore for end-to-end ITmodernisation programme from the Department of Post (DoP)?

1) Infosys 2) Wipro

3) HCL 4) TCS


Ques. : 490 As CTBT stands for Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, FMCT stands for

1) Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty 2) Futuristic Material Cut-off Treaty

3) Formidable Material Cut-off Treaty 4) Forbidden Material Cut-off Treaty


Ques. : 491 India is home to the second largest population of people with HIV or AIDS in the world. Which of the followingcountries has the largest population with HIV or AIDS?

1) US 2) South Africa

3) Brazil 4) Indonesia


Ques. : 492 Rituparno Ghosh, who died recently, was a versatile

1) Film maker 2) Lyrist

3) Musician 4) Actor


Ques. : 493 Atul Rai has recently resigned as the Managing Director and CEO of which of the following organisations?

1) IFCI 2) SIDBI

3) Unit Trust 4) LIC


Ques. : 494 The UNESCO has designated which of the following places in India as a world biosphere reserve under its‘Man and the Biosphere Programme’?

1) Andaman Islands 2) Nicobar Islands

3) Lakshadweep 4) Sri Rangam


Ques. : 495 The Asian Athletic Championship is set to be organised at which of the following places in India?

1) Chennai 2) New Delhi

3) Pune 4) Mumbai


Ques. : 496 Which of the following e-commerce majors shut down its digital music store named ‘Flyte’ recently?

1) Jabong 2) Amazon

3) Flipkart 4) Myntra



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Ques. : 497 India has signed a much awaited extradition treaty with which of the following countries recently? It took 20years to negotiate the treaty.

1) Japan 2) Singapore

3) UK 4) Thailand


Ques. : 498 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has earmarked which of the following days as 'World No Tobacco Day'?

1) May 31 2) May 30

3) May 29 4) May 28


Ques. : 499 Recently, a letter written by Rudyard Kipling was put for auction in which he had admitted of plagiarism. Whichof the following books was written by him?

1) The Lost World 2) The Jungle Book

3) Treasure Island 4) A Tale of Two Cities


Ques. : 500 The ambitious project to develop a 3,200-km highway linking India with Thailand in under consideration. Thishighway will link India with Thailand through

1) China 2) Myanmar

3) Bhutan 4) Bangladesh


Ques. : 501 Who among the following has been appointed DRDO chairman and Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister ofIndia recently?

1) S Sundaresh 2) K Tamilmani

3) Avinash Chander 4) A Sivathanu Pillai


Ques. : 502 Yingluck Shinawatra is the current Prime Minister of which of the following countries?

1) Singapore 2) Thailand

3) Bhutan 4) Myanmar


Ques. : 503 As the government has rolled out its ambitious direct benefit transfer programme for cooking gas from June 1,LPG consumers in 18 districts now get ______in their bank accounts as they book an LPG cylinder.

1) Rs 435 2) Rs 535

3) Rs 735 4) Rs 935


Ques. : 504 The Planning Commission has approved the annual Plan outlay for Delhi for the year 2013-14 of

1) Rs 14,524 crore 2) Rs 16,626 crore

3) Rs 18,700 crore 4) Rs 20,626 crore


Ques. : 505 As per the data released by Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), the Indian economy grew at its slowestpace in a decade in 2012-13. What has been its rate of growth during 2012-13?




Ques. : 506 As part of modernization, 75 Pilatus PC-7 MK-II basic trainer aircrafts has been inducted in the Indian Air Forcerecently. These aircrafts have been procured from which of the following countries?

1) France 2) Italy

3) Israel 4) Switzerland


Ques. : 507 The Vienna headquartered OPEC supplies about 35 per cent of the global oil supplies. Expanded the termOPEC.


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1) Organisation of Petroleum Exploring Countries 2) Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries

3) Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Companies 4) Organisation of Petroleum Exploring Companies


Ques. : 508 Name the boy/girl who has won the 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee contest in US.

1) Arvind Mahankali 2) Vismaya Kharkar

3) Pranav Sivakumar 4) Vanya Shivashankar


Ques. : 509 The proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant in Maharashtra, which will be a European Pressurised Reactor(EPR) with six units (each of 1,650 MW capacity), is to be set up with the help of


3) Russia 4) US


Ques. : 510 The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has allowed the Sterlite Industries Limited to commence operation of itscopper plant in Tamil Nadu recently. Who among the following is the chairman of the NGT at present?

1) SB Sinha 2) Swatanter Kumar

3) Syed Nazim Husain Zaidi 4) VS Sirpukar


Ques. : 511 The apex court of which of the following countries has ruled the parliament of the country as unconstitutionalrecently?

1) Egypt 2) Syria

3) Iran 4) Pakistan


Ques. : 512 Which of the following Indian cities will host the 4th edition of World Cup Kabaddi?

1) New Delhi 2) Chandigarh

3) Lucknow 4) Gurgaon


Ques. : 513 India is all set to become the sixth nation after the US, Russia, Japan, China and Europe to launch a mission towhich of the following planets?

1) Jupiter 2) Mercury

3) Mars 4) Venus


Ques. : 514 Which of the following countries has signed an agreement with the International Labour Organization (ILO) toprovide approximately USD 2.5 million for a programme to improve working conditions in export-oriented industries inBangladesh?

1) US 2) Norway

3) Japan 4) China


Ques. : 515 In a major top management re-shuffle, software major Infosys has appointed who among the following as thenew executive chairman of its Board for 5 years?

1) Rohan Murthy 2) NR Narayana Murthy

3) Nandan Nilekani 4) Kris Gopalakrishnan


Ques. : 516 The World Environment Day is observed on which of the following dates?

1) Jun 1 2) Jun 3

3) Jun 5 4) Jun 7


Ques. : 517 Vina Mazumdar, who died recently, was a

1) noted historian 2) feminist and pioneer in womens studies in India

3) renowned anthropologist 4) pioneer of adult education


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Ques. : 518 The United Nations Organisation for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) has recently designated theGreat Nicobar Islands as biosphere reserve. It is now ____Indian reserve in UNESCO world network.

1) Third 2) Fifth

3) Seventh 4) Ninth


Ques. : 519 The IFSC is an alphanumeric code that uniquely identifies a bank-branch. Expand the term IFSC.

1) Indian Forward System Code 2) Indian Facilitation System Code

3) Indian Fundamental System Code 4) Indian Financial System Code


Ques. : 520 Which of the following countries has pledged to invest USD 1-bn for strengthening social systems and securityin the conflict-stricken Sahel region in Africa?

1) US 2) China

3) India 4) Japan


Ques. : 521 Consider the following with respect to Sebi’s minimum public shareholding norms for listed private sectorcompanies and choose the correct statements:

1) The promoters holding will be capped at 75 percent.

2) There must be at least 25 per cent public shareholding in the firms.

3) The deadline set by the Sebi to comply with thenorms ended on Jun 3.

4) All the above


Ques. : 522 The RBI Governor D Subbarao has allayed fears of stagflation in the Indian economy and asserted that thecentral bank is sensitive to growth concerns. Which of following statements is/are correct about stagflation?

1) Persistent high inflation combined with highunemployment and slow economic growth

2) Persistent high inflation combined with highemployment and fast economic growth

3) Low inflation combined with high unemploymentand slow economic growth

4) Low inflation combined with high employmentrate and fast paced economic growth


Ques. : 523 Setting a new bench mark in transparency, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has ruled which of thefollowing answerable under the Right to Information Act declaring them public authorities?

1) Private firms receiving govt aid 2) Labour unions

3) Political parties 4) Sports authorities


Ques. : 524 Bollywood actor Jiah Khan allegedly committed suicide recently. She had acted in which of the following films?

1) Houseful 2) Nishabd

3) Ghajini 4) All the above


Ques. : 525 Name the country which recently imposed 2-child limit on its minority Muslims.

1) Thailand 2) Myanmar

3) Bhutan 4) China


Ques. : 526 Which of the following countries has been given the ICC Shield for finishing as the No 1 ODI team in theChampionship table (between April 1, 2012 and April 1, 2013)?

1) England 2) India



Ques. : 527 In an attempt to wean the investors away from gold, the govt has launched first tranche of inflation-linked bondstotaling _______recently.


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Ques. : 528 Name the 15-year old boy who has become the youngest Indian to scale the Mount Everest, the highest peakin the world.

1) Nameirakpam Chingkheinganba 2) Raghav Joneja

3) Prithvi Singh Chahal 4) Shubham Kaushik


Ques. : 529 Expand the term FSDC.

1) Financial Solidarity Development Council 2) Financial Stability and Development Council

3) Financial Studies and Development Centre 4) Financial Security and Development Council


Ques. : 530 Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the present Prime Minister of which of the following countries? The country is facingthe worst protests in a decade.

1) Turkey 2) Egypt

3) Syria 4) Ghana


Ques. : 531 Which of the following states is set to sign an MOU with the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) to tap its vast resources to help give the state's educational system a face lift?

1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Tamil Nadu

3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Maharashtra


Ques. : 532 During the recent visit of the foreign minister of which of the following countries to India, both the countriesdecided to speed up the process of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and also reviewed the progress in Mutual Legal AssistanceTreaty?

1) New Zealand 2) Australia

3) South Africa 4) Japan


Ques. : 533 The new sanctions imposed by the US on Iran has targeted its currency and auto industry seeking to renderIranian money useless outside the country. Name the currency of Iran.

1) Dinar 2) Lira

3) Dirham 4) Rial


Ques. : 534 The Cabinet has recently approved a proposal for non-binding conciliation with the British telecom majorVodafone. The conciliation will be under the

1) UK arbitration law2) The United Nations Commission on InternationalTrade Law

3) Hong Kong arbitration law 4) Indian arbitration law


Ques. : 535 Name the cricketer suspended by the Bangladesh Cricket Board for his alleged involvement in the match fixingin Bangladesh Premier League T20? An ICC inquiry in this regard is in progress.

1) Junaid Siddique 2) Mohammad Ashraful

3) Aftab Ahmed 4) Abdur Razzak


Ques. : 536 The Union Cabinet has cleared a legislation to set up the long-pending real estate regulator aimed at protectinghome buyers from unscrupulous developers and builders. Which of the following statements is/are correct in this regard?

1) There will one real state regulator for the entirecountry.

2) Private developers will have to register projectsbefore sale and can advertise only after getting allclearances.

3) All project details to be publicly disclosed. 4) All the above



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Ques. : 537 Expand the term NELP.

1) National Experts on Licensing Policy 2) National Exploration Liaisoning Policy

3) National Exploration Licensing Policy 4) National Export Licensing Policy


Ques. : 538 The men’s and women’s hockey teams of India have departed for Rotterdam to participate in the FIH WorldLeague Round 3 (semifinals). Indian men’s squad is headed by Sardara Singh while the women’s team is led by

1) Jaspreet Kaur 2) Ritu Rani

3) Rashmi Singh 4) Vandana Kataria


Ques. : 539 Atul Chitnis died recently after a long battle with cancer. He was a pioneer of _____ in India.

1) open source software movement 2) business process outsourcing

3) law process outsourcing 4) e-commerce revolution


Ques. : 540 Indian has recently allowed which of the following countries to train its forces at Indian Army establishments foran additional five years? The earlier agreement with this country had expired recently.

1) Japan 2) Thailand

3) Singapore 4) Philippine


Ques. : 541 To check the spiraling gold imports, which is putting huge pressure on the current account deficit, the govt hashiked the import duty on gold from existing 6 per cent to




Ques. : 542 India and which of the following countries have been agreed to hold their first ever bilateral naval exercise in2015 and make it a regular feature in coming years?


3) Australia 4) US


Ques. : 543 Which of the following automobile companies in India has launched a small car named Vibe recently?

1) General Motor 2) Mahindra and Mahindra

3) Renault 4) Nissan


Ques. : 544 The Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC), the apex body of the financial sector regulators inIndia, is led by

1) The governor of RBI 2) The Finance Minister

3) The Prime Minister 4) The Law Minister


Ques. : 545 Name the athlete who has set a new meet record in the men’s long jump event (jumping 8m) in the NationalInter-State Athletics meet in New Delhi recently?

1) Arshad Khan 2) Prem Kumar

3) Ankit Sharma 4) Neeraj Kumar


Ques. : 546 Name the world’s largest online retail company which has entered the Indian e-commerce space recently.

1) ebay 2) Amazon

3) Staples Inc 4) Walmart


Ques. : 547 The term ICAAP is used in the context of which of the following?


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1) Risk Management 2) Dealing with Public Companies

3) Capital Adequacy Ratio 4) Right to Information Act


Ques. : 548 Which of the following type of contract is ‘interest rate swap’?

1) Trade Contract 2) Loan Contract

3) Financial Contract 4) Risk Contract


Ques. : 549 What is the expanded form of the term FRBM Act?

1) Financial Responsibility and BudgetManagement Act

2) Fiscal Responsibility and Budget ManagementAct

3) Forward Responsibility and Budget ManagementAct

4) Financial Restrictions and Budget ManagementAct


Ques. : 550 The US president Barack Obama has appointing who among the following as his national security adviserrecently?

1) Susan Rice 2) Tom Donilon

3) Paul Ryan 4) Colin Powell


Ques. : 551 The DGCA in India is conducting a preliminary examination into charges that Ranbaxy Laboratories haspleaded guilty in the US. Expand the term DCGA.

1) Drug Coordinator General of India 2) Drug Controller General of India

3) Drug Curator General of India 4) Drug Control Group of India


Ques. : 552 The name of the national champion Saurav Ghosal is associated with which of the following games?

1) Shooting 2) Squash

3) Billiards 4) Basketball


Ques. : 553 The Miss World competition 2013 is scheduled to be organised in which of the following cities?

1) Bali, Indonesia 2) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

3) Manila, Philippines 4) Sao Paulo, Brazil


Ques. : 554 The US State Department has renewed six-month waivers on recent Iran sanctions for which of the followingcountries?

1) India 2) China

3) Pakistan 4) Japan


Ques. : 555 Consider the following statements with respect to multi-brand retail in India and govt’s recent stand in thisregard and choose the correct statement(s):

1) The govt had allowed 51 per cent FDI inmulti-brand retail in 2012.

2) The interested firms need to invest USD 100-mnequally divided into front-end and back-end.

3) Franchisee route will not be allowed andinfrastructure (front and back) should be build rightfrom scratch.

4) All the above


Ques. : 556 India's premier anti-terror information and intelligence support organisation proposed in the aftermath of theterrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008, National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID), has to become operational by

1) 2013 2) 2015

3) 2016 4) 2020



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Ques. : 557 India and which of the following countries has signed an umbrella agreement on financial and technicalcooperation in the field of energy, environment and management of natural resources recently?

1) Japan 2) Germany

3) Singapore 4) South Korea


Ques. : 558 Who among the following has been appointed as the India’s new High Commissioner in Islamabad?

1) TCA Raghavan 2) S Jaishankar

3) Nirupama Rao 4) Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa


Ques. : 559 Austria has withdrawn its troops from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) deployed atGolan Heights. The UNDOF had been deployed there to monitor a ceasefire between Israel and which of the followingcountries since 1974?

1) Syria 2) Iraq

3) Turkey 4) Lebanon


Ques. : 560 The Forbes’ 2013 list of highest-paid athletes has been topped by who among the following? Indian cricketerMS Dhoni has been ranked at 16th place in the list.

1) Kobe Byrant 2) Roger Federer

3) Tiger Woods 4) Maria Sharapova


Ques. : 561 The election campaign for the post of President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has begun. Whois the present president of IOC?

1) Antonio Samaranch 2) Jacques Rogge

3) Thomas Bach 4) Aicha Garad Ali


Ques. : 562 Name the athlete who has set a new national record in 3000 meter steeplechase for women while performing inthe 53rd National Athletics championships recently.

1) OP Jaisha 2) Preeja Sreedharan

3) Sudha Singh 4) Asha Roy


Ques. : 563 The foundation of the India’s first defence university, Indian National Defence University (INDU) has been laiddown at which of the following places? It will become operational by 2018.

1) Nasik 2) Bangalore

3) Allahabad 4) Gurgaon


Ques. : 564 The department of telecommunication (DoT) has imposed a fine of Rs 1,263 crore for allegedly under reportingrevenues during financial years 2008-09 to 2010-11 on

1) Idea 2) Bharti Airtel

3) Vodafone 4) Reliance Communication


Ques. : 565 McGraw Hill Financial is the promoter company of which of the following credit rating agencies?

1) Standard & Poor’s 2) CIBIL

3) Moody’s 4) Fitch


Ques. : 566 The market regulator Sebi had mandated that all listed private sector companies must have at least _____percent public share holding.

1) 15 2) 20

3) 25 4) 30



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Ques. : 567 The book titled Righteous Republic has been written by who among the following?

1) Kuldeep Mathur 2) Ananya Vajpeyi

3) Narendra Jadhav 4) Ashwini Deshpande


Ques. : 568 The billionaire Ambani brothers has announced a deal, wherein Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Jio will usetowers owned by Anil Ambani’s Reliance Infratel. The deal is valued at more than ________over the lifetime of the contract.

1) Rs 8,000-crore 2) Rs 10,000-crore

3) Rs 11,000-crore 4) Rs 12,000-crore


Ques. : 569 The World Oceans Day is observed on which of the following dates?

1) Jun 1 2) Jun 4

3) Jun 5 4) Jun 8


Ques. : 570 The defending Women's Singles champion of Thailand Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament, Saina Nehwal,has bowed out of the competition being defeated in quarterfinals in the hands of

1) Tine Baun 2) Ratchanok Intanon

3) Juan Gu 4) Wang Yihan


Ques. : 571 Who among the following has won the women’s singles title of the French Open tennis tournament recently?

1) Maria Sharapova 2) Serena Williams

3) Victoria Azarenka 4) Agnieszka Radwanska


Ques. : 572 Name the badminton player who has become the first Indian to win a Grand Prix Gold men’s singles title outsidethe country by winning the Thailand Open recently.

1) Srikant Kidambi 2) Nandagopal Kidambi

3) Ajay Jairam 4) Parupalli Kashyap


Ques. : 573 The news of a surveillance agency, National Security Agency (NSA), spying into private info of people aroundthe world is doing rounds in media. NSA belongs to which of the following countries?

1) India 2) US

3) UK 4) China


Ques. : 574 Who is the Chief Information Commissioner of India at present?

1) Deepak Sandhu 2) ML Sharma

3) Satyananda Mishra 4) Annapurna Dixit


Ques. : 575 As per the news in financial newspapers, impact investment is picking pace in India. What exactly is the impactinvestment?

1) The investments that directly impact the citizensof a country.

2) The investments aimed at financial returns andhas nothing to do with social welfare.

3) The investments aimed at financial returns thatcome along with social benefits.

4) The investments made in conflict-riddencountries to gain control over the weak regimes.


Ques. : 576 What is the India’s position in the recently released seventh edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI)?

1) 141 2) 145

3) 155 4) 162


Ques. : 577 India is planning to establish direct air connectivity as well as direct shipping lines with which of the followingcountries currently?


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1) Maldives 2) Singapore



Ques. : 578 Expand the term IATA.

1) International Air Travel Association 2) International Air Transportation Association

3) International Air Traffic Association 4) International Airport Transaction Agency


Ques. : 579 During the recent visit of Chinese premier Li Keqiang, China stressed upon reviving the ‘Southern Silk Route’.This route goes through which of the following countries?

1) India 2) Bangladesh

3) Myanmar 4) All the above


Ques. : 580 The first unit of 1,400-MW of Rajpura thermal power plant will start generating power from Dec 8 this year. Thispower plant is situated in which of the following states?

1) Haryana 2) Gujarat

3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Punjab


Ques. : 581 Who among the following has won the men’s singles title of the 2013 French Open tennis tournament recently?

1) Rafael Nadal 2) David Ferrer

3) Roger Federer 4) Novak Djokovic


Ques. : 582 India is considering supplying which of the following items to Pakistan via Amritsar-Lahore route? An Indiandelegation in this regard visited Pakistan recently.

1) Liquefied Natural Gas 2) Electricity

3) Wheat 4) Both 1) and 2)


Ques. : 583 Who among the following has authored the book titled ‘The New Digital Age’?

1) Chris Anderson and David Sally 2) Jaron Lanier

3) Nate Silver 4) Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen


Ques. : 584 The RBI has fined three banks for violation of KYC norms recently after a news portal, Cobrapost, exposedthem a few months back. These three banks are

1) Axis Bank 2) HDFC Bank

3) ICICI Bank 4) All the above


Ques. : 585 Name of Edward Snowden is doing rounds in the media since last few days for which of the following reasons?

1) He leaked details of US mission to kill Osama binLaden.

2) He leaked details of the US top-secret phoneand internet surveillance

3) He leaked the details of proposed US mission inChina Sea

4) He passed the US missile defense technology toChina


Ques. : 586 Expand the term OECD.

1) Organisation for External Co-operation andDevelopment

2) Organisation for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment

3) Organisation for Economic Coordination andDevelopment

4) Organisation for Economic Co-operation andDiversification


Ques. : 587 President Pranab Mukherjee laid foundation stone of the permanent headquarters of the National Commissionfor Women in New Delhi recently. This building is named


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1) Nari Bhawan 2) Nirbhaya Bhawan

3) Sarojini Bhawan 4) Mahadevi Bhawan


Ques. : 588 What is the total number of telecom circles in India for which spectrums of 2G and 3G have been auctioned?

1) 19 2) 22

3) 25 4) 32


Ques. : 589 Which of the following states has announced to raise a new special forces battalion, KATS, to deny leftextremists and religious fundamentalist outfits the use of the State’s remote terrains of the state?

1) Kerala 2) Karnataka

3) Jammu and Kashmir 4) Madhya Pradesh


Ques. : 590 Who among the following has won the Canadian Grand Prix Formula One championship held in Montrealrecently?

1) Sebastian Vettel 2) Lewis Hamilton

3) Fernando Alonso 4) Mark Webber


Ques. : 591 Which of the following countries has topped the recently released seventh edition of the Global Peace Index(GPI)?

1) Norway 2) Iceland

3) Denmark 4) New Zealand


Ques. : 592 The former Union Minister Vidya Charan Shukla passed away recently. He was associated with which of thefollowing political parties?

1) Bharatiya Janata Party 2) Indian National Congress

3) Chhattisgarh Nirman Sabha 4) Communist Party of India


Ques. : 593 In which of the following countries the civil aviation authorities had to cancel 1,800 flights throughout thecountry as air traffic controllers went on a three-day strike recently?

1) UK 2) France

3) Germany 4) Spain


Ques. : 594 The External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid went on a three-day visit to which of the following countriesrecently? The visit was aimed at wooing the country to invest in India especially in infrastructure sector.

1) Singapore 2) Thailand

3) South Korea 4) Norway


Ques. : 595 Which of the following countries has launched its latest manned space mission named Shenzhou-10 carryingthree astronauts on board?

1) North Korea 2) China

3) Singapore 4) Japan


Ques. : 596 Who among the following is not a deputy governor of the RBI at present?

1) Urjit R Patel 2) HR Khan

3) Anand Sinha 4) Arvind Mayaram

5) KC Chakrabarty Ans.) 4

Ques. : 597 The international sports body FIDE is associated with which of the following games?

1) Football 2) Basketball

3) Baseball 4) Chess


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Ques. : 598 Who among the following is the author of the book titled ‘The Physics of Wall Street’?

1) James Owen Weatherall 2) Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3) Nilanjan Banerjee 4) Jim Simons


Ques. : 599 The only port in India that is a public company, Ennore port, is situated in which of the following cities?

1) Chennai 2) Visakhapatnam

3) Vadodara 4) Mumbai


Ques. : 600 Consider the following statements with respect to the state of Delhi as recently released findings of Census2011 present the picture of the state and choose the correct statement(s):

1) Only one in 10 women in Delhi is employed2) The fertility rate of the state has declined overthe past decade.

3) The sex ratio of the state is the worst since 1901. 4) All the above


Ques. : 601 India’s research station at the Antarctica, Himadri research station, is situated in which of the followingcountries?

1) Finland 2) Norway

3) Denmark 4) Canada


Ques. : 602 Padmasree Warrior, one of the most powerful women in the Silicon Valley, is the Chief Technology and StrategyOfficer of which of the following IT giants?

1) CISCO 2) Oracle

3) HP 4) Dell


Ques. : 603 The Hyderabad high court has cleared the merger of which of the following two companies recently?

1) Mahindra Satyam and Tech Mahindra 2) Infosys and iGate

3) Wipro Ltd and Wipro BPO 4) iGate and Patni


Ques. : 604 Consider the following with respect to India’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) and choosethe correct statement(s):

1) It is an initiative of govt of India and state govts topromote ecologically sustainable growth whileaddressing India’s energy security challenges.

2) The Mission has set the ambitious target ofdeploying 20,000 MW of grid connected solarpower by 2022.

3) Under the second phase of the mission, the govthas decided that 75 per cent of 750 MW solarproject will be built with local content.

4) All the above


Ques. : 605 Which of the following leading tyre manufacturers of India has announced the takeover of US based CooperTire for Rs 14,500 crore?

1) Apollo tyres 2) MRF Tyres

3) JK Tyres 4) CEAT


Ques. : 606 The Decision Review System (DRS) is recently implemented in which of the following games? India is opposingthis system.

1) Cricket 2) Football

3) Chess 4) Hockey


Ques. : 607 The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced to withdraw which of the following services from Jul15?


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1) Telegram 2) Fixed line telephone

3) Fax 4) 2G Mobile Services


Ques. : 608 The Indian Air Force (IAF) has received which of the following heavy lift aircrafts which will provide it the world'smost advanced humanitarian and strategic capabilities once the fleet becomes operational?

1) C-212 Aviocar 2) Airbus A400M

3) C-17 Globemaster III 4) C-5 Galaxy


Ques. : 609 The government has set a target of 80 per cent literacy rate to be achieved by _____with special emphasis onfemale education.

1) 2014 2) 2015

3) 2017 4) 2020


Ques. : 610 The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on disinvestment has cleared 9.33 per cent stake sale of thetrading giant MMTC through the Offer For Sale (OFS) route recently. What is the full form of MMTC?

1) Metals Manufacturing and Trading Corporation 2) Minerals Manufacturing and Trading Corporation

3) Minerals and Metals Trading Company 4) Minerals and Metals Trading Corporation


Ques. : 611 A panel set up by Sebi has proposed to merge various classes of Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) into asingle foreign entity called FPI. Expand the term FPI.

1) Foreign Preferential Investors 2) Foreign Portfolio Investors

3) Foreign Public Investors 4) Foreign Periodic Investors


Ques. : 612 The govt has extended its support to All India Football Federation (AIFF) to bid to host which of the followingfootball tournaments in 2017?

1) FIFA World Cup 2) Asian Nations Cup

3) Under – 17 World Cup 4) Under – 20 World Cup


Ques. : 613 Name the unseeded Indian badminton player who has defeated the maverick Indonesian shuttler Taufik Hidayatplaying his last international match in the Indonesia Open Super Series Premier in Jakarta recently.

1) Parupalli Kahsyap 2) Sourabh Varma

3) Ajay Jayaram 4) Sai Praneeth


Ques. : 614 The Government of which of the following countries has announced the immediate closure of the publictelevision and radio broadcaster of the country recently?

1) Egypt 2) Spain

3) Greece 4) Turkey


Ques. : 615 European space consortium Arianespace is all set to launch India's INSAT-3D. This is an exclusive

1) Educational Satellite 2) Meteorological Satellite

3) Exploration Satellite 4) Broadcasting Satellite


Ques. : 616 HC Gupta has quit as a member of which of the following institutions recently after CBI is all set to quiz him inthe Coalgate scam?

1) Competition Commission of India (CCI) 2) Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)

3) National Green Tribunal (NGT)4) Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority(IRDA)



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Ques. : 617 Gary Kenneth Toomey has been appointed CEO of which of the following Indian airlines recently?

1) Indigo 2) AirAsia India

3) Go Air 4) Jet Airways


Ques. : 618 The term ‘reti opening’ is associated with which of the following games?

1) Cricket 2) Chess

3) Golf 4) Baseball


Ques. : 619 The World Blood Donor Day is celebrated on which of the following dates?

1) Jun 11 2) Jun 14

3) Jun 17 4) Jun 21


Ques. : 620 A National Centre for Disease Control's (NCDC) team is camping in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar to find thecause of which of the following diseases which has claimed many lives in past few months?

1) Acute Encephalitis Syndrome 2) Acute Diarrhea

3) Acute Hepatitis 4) Drug Resistant Tuberculosis


Ques. : 621 A National Centre for Disease Control's (NCDC) team is camping in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar to find thecause of which of the following diseases which has claimed many lives in past few months?

1) Acute Encephalitis Syndrome 2) Acute Diarrhea

3) Acute Hepatitis 4) Drug Resistant Tuberculosis


Ques. : 622 The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has announced to open which of the followingnew route(s) to book a train ticket from July 1?

1) Through SMS 2) Through a call

3) Through Facebook 4) All the above


Ques. : 623 The Export-Import bank of India has recently provided a USD 300-million line of credit to the government ofwhich of the following countries for a railway link?

1) Eretria 2) Ethiopia

3) Mozambique 4) Kenya


Ques. : 624 After the successful disinvestment of its 9.33 per cent share in MMTC, the govt of India now plans to dilute itsstake in Coal India. Currently, ____per cent share the coal miner is held by the govt.

1) 90 2) 80

3) 75 4) 65


Ques. : 625 Name the chairman of the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC).

1) PJ Nayak 2) YH Malegam

3) Debi Prosad Pal 4) BN Srikrishna

5) Dhirendra Swarup Ans.) 4

Ques. : 626 The World Bank in its latest edition of the Global Economic Prospects report, released recently, has projectedthe Indian economic growth at ____ per cent in the 2013 fiscal year (ending in March 2014).

1) 5.7 2) 6.5

3) 6.7 4) 7.5


Ques. : 627 The term ‘golden handshake’ is associated with which of the following?


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1) Merger and acquisition 2) Free trade agreement

3) Voluntary retirement benefits 4) Share market


Ques. : 628 According to the recent data released by NCRB, Delhi has highest rate of violent crimes in the country. Expandthe term NCRB.

1) National Criminal Research Bureau 2) National Crime Records Bureau

3) National Crime Research Bureau 4) National Criminal Records Bureau


Ques. : 629 In which of the following states, ‘Chalo Assembly’ rally was organised recently by the parties and peopledemanding a separate state?

1) Maharashtra 2) Madhya Pradesh

3) Uttar Pradesh 4) Andhra Pradesh


Ques. : 630 According to a UN report released recently, India will surpass China to become the most populous country ofthe world by

1) 2020 2) 2025

3) 2028 4) 2030


Ques. : 631 Name the Indian-origin sculptor who has been honoured with knighthood, one of the highest honours in Britain,by Queen Elizabeth II recently.

1) Gyaneshwar Rao 2) Anish Kapoor

3) Ram Chandra Shukla 4) Nitish Bharti


Ques. : 632 Who among the following has been elected the new president of Iran?

1) Ali Larijani 2) Trita Parsi

3) Hassan Rohani 4) Yasmin Alem


Ques. : 633 On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to achieve which of the following feats?

1) Succeeded to ascent earth’s highest peak,Mount Everest.

2) Clinched a gold medal in the Olympics

3) Made a solo space flight4) Became the first women pilot of a fighter aircraftin the world


Ques. : 634 Which of the following countries has won UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) award for itsoutstanding progress in eradicating hunger?

1) Bangladesh 2) Sri Lanka

3) India 4) China


Ques. : 635 Name the new chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) appointed by the government recently.

1) Sushobhan Sarkar 2) SB Mainak

3) VK Sharma 4) Usha Sangwan

5) SK Roy Ans.) 5

Ques. : 636 Who among the following is the author of the recently published book titled ‘The Pity of Partition’?

1) Ayesha Jalal 2) Dipankar Gupta

3) Amish Tripathi 4) Ashwin Sanghi


Ques. : 637 The respected Sweden-based think tank SIPRI is associated with which of the following?

1) Arms control and non-proliferation 2) Preparing world peace index (WPI)


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3) Publishing economic outlook of world’ emergingeconomies

4) Credit rating


Ques. : 638 Three time champion and the world’s number two, Saina Nehwal, suffered defeat at the hands of who amongthe following in the semifinals of the Indonesian Open Super Series Premier in Jakarta recently?

1) Tine Baun 2) Juliane Schenk

3) Wang Yihan 4) Ratchanok Intanon


Ques. : 639 Which of the following items has emerged as India’s largest agricultural export item for 2012-13, a second yearin a row?

1) Flowers 2) Basmati

3) Guargum 4) Wheat


Ques. : 640 What do you mean by mis-selling?

1) Selling a new product to an existing customertaking advantage to one’s goodwill

2) Misrepresenting or misleading an investor aboutthe characteristics of a product or service.

3) Selling a product in the market for which there isno demand.

4) Selling a product on a price higher than theoriginal price of the product.


Ques. : 641 In a bid to finalise the free trade agreement with the European Union, India has proposed to reduce customsduty on which of the following items from current 150 per cent to just 40 per cent?

1) Sports cars 2) Wines and Spirit

3) Solar Panels 4) Packaged food


Ques. : 642 The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is observed on which of the following dates every year?

1) June 15 2) June 17

3) June 20 4) June 23


Ques. : 643 Who among the following has been sworn in as the new railway minister of India recently?

1) Santosh Chowdhury 2) KS Rao

3) Girija Vyas 4) Mallikarjun Kharge


Ques. : 644 The recent attempt by the Sri Lankan govt. to amend the 13th Amendment of the Sri Lankan constitution hascreated a fresh controversy. What the 13th amendment is all about? Through this

1) Sri Lanka had agreed to devolve some authorityto the provinces.

2) Sri Lanka had agreed to ceasefire with the Tamilmilitants.

3) the Sri Lanka govt. agreed to carry a detailedinquiry in the matter of human rights violation in thecivil war of the country.

4) Sri Lanka accepted all the demands ofinternational community to qualify to getinternational aid.


Ques. : 645 An Indian child, Pinki, will perform the flip of the coin at the men's singles final event this year at Wimbledon.She will represent which of the following non-profit organisations which has been picked as the charity partner to the event?

1) Save the Child 2) CRY

3) Pratham 4) Smile Train


Ques. : 646 The Confederations Cup is associated with which of the following games?


3) Hockey 4) Tennis



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Ques. : 647 The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is taking refuge in the embassy of which of the following countries inLondon at present? He is staying there since past year to avoid being extradited to Sweden.

1) Ecuador 2) Spain

3) Turkey 4) Norway


Ques. : 648 The 39th Summit of the Group of Eight took place in Northern Ireland recently. Which of the following countriesis not a member of G8 at present?

1) US 2) Russia

3) Canada 4) Italy

5) All are members Ans.) 5

Ques. : 649 Which of the following countries topped the freestyle team rankings in the recently concluded Junior AsianWrestling Championship at Phuket, Thailand?

1) China 2) Japan

3) India 4) Thailand


Ques. : 650 Which of the following countries has succeeded in making the world’s fastest supercomputer till date, Tianhe-2,which is capable of performing 54.9 quadrillion operations per second?

1) Japan 2) China

3) Singapore 4) South Korea


Ques. : 651 Goa celebrated its Revolution Day on June 18. On this day, the state was liberated from the shackles of theerstwhile colonial rule of

1) French 2) Portuguese

3) Dutch 4) British


Ques. : 652 The broadcasting regulator TRAI has mandated that for showing advertisements and promotional clips on thetelevision, there will be a cap of ____ minutes per hour effective from coming October.

1) 10 2) 12

3) 15 4) 18


Ques. : 653 India has invited which of the following countries to become the 'principal guest country' at the International FilmFestival of India (IFFI) 2014, scheduled to be held in Goa?

1) US 2) UK

3) China 4) Japan


Ques. : 654 India has signed a loan agreement of 255 Million US dollar with which of the following institutions for NationalAIDS Control Project-IV recently?

1) World Bank 2) International Monetary Fund

3) Asian Development Bank 4) Federal Bank, US


Ques. : 655 Finance Minister P Chidambaram has launched the maiden Infrastructure Debt Fund (IDF) Scheme of IIFCL inNew Delhi recently. IIFCL stands for

1) India Industrial Finance Company Limited2) International Infrastructure Finance CompanyLimited

3) India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited 4) India Infrastructure Funding Company Limited


Ques. : 656 The telecom regulator TRAI has announced reduction in which of the following telecom services with effectfrom 1st July 2013?

1) National calls 2) National roaming

3) National SMS 4) Mobile Internet



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Ques. : 657 The Constitutional Court of which of the following countries has ordered the dissolution of 50-memberparliament and called for fresh elections recently?

1) Iran 2) Turkey

3) Egypt 4) Kuwait


Ques. : 658 Which of the following committees was appointed to look into the integration and harmonization of wage, salary,etc of employees of erstwhile companies, Air India and Indian Airlines?

1) Dharmadhikari Committee 2) Kirit Parikh Committee

3) Varadharajan Committee 4) Ram Mohan Committee


Ques. : 659 Which of the following in not included in the eight core sector industries in India?

1) Crude oil 2) Automobiles

3) Cement 4) Steel

5) Fertilizers Ans.) 2

Ques. : 660 Which of the following pairs of ratios/rates is NOT correctly matched?

1) CRR – 4 per cent 2) Repo rate – 7.25 per cent

3) SLR – 24 per cent 4) Bank rate – 8.25 per cent


Ques. : 661 Tuareg rebels are active in which of the following countries? The govt of the country has signed a peace dealwith them to pave the way for general elections.

1) Uganda 2) Mali

3) Nigeria 4) Guinea


Ques. : 662 The Air India had constituted Dholakia Committee for which of the following purposes? The recommendationsof the committee have been sent for the immediate implementation.

1) Increasing competitiveness 2) Restructuring domestic and international fares

3) Cost cutting 4) Ceasing domestic operations


Ques. : 663 The govt has approved Planning Commission's proposal to merge the 147 Centrally Sponsored Schemes(CSS) and bring it down to ___ across various sectors for effective implementation and monitoring of the 12th Five Year Plan.

1) 90 2) 80

3) 66 4) 50


Ques. : 664 Divij Sharan and Purav Raja are associated with which of the following games?

1) Badminton 2) Tennis

3) Squash 4) Billiards


Ques. : 665 Which of the following terms is directly associated with the functioning of the RBI?

1) Initial Public Issue 2) Education Loans

3) Loan Against Property 4) Open Market Operations


Ques. : 666 Al Maliki is Prime Minister of which of the following countries at present? The External Affairs Minister of IndiaSalman Khurshid was on a two day visit to the country recently.

1) Malaysia 2) Indonesia

3) Iraq 4) Kuwait


Ques. : 667 The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has approved the inclusion of East Rennell in the list of endangeredsites. This largest raised coral atoll in the world is situated in which of the following countries?


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1) Greenland 2) Iceland

3) Finland 4) Solomon Islands


Ques. : 668 Which of the following statements is/are correct with respect to the recommendations made by a govt panelheaded by economic affairs secretary Arvind Mayaram regarding raising foreign investment limits in various sectors?

1) The FDI ceiling in the defence sector be raisedto 49 percent under the government approval route.

2) The FDI limit in multi-brand retail be raised to 74percent under the Foreign Investment PromotionBoard (FIPB).

3) The FDI limit in telecom sector be raised to 100percent under the FIPB route and retaining of 49percent FDI under automatic route.

4) All the above


Ques. : 669 The RBI has set which of the following deadlines for the submission of application for the new bank licences?

1) July 1 2) July 31

3) Oct 1 4) Dec 31


Ques. : 670 The annual plan for Gujarat for 2013-14 has been finalized at _______by the Planning Commission recently.

1) Rs 51,000 crore 2) Rs 53,000 crore

3) Rs 57,500 crore 4) Rs 59,000 crore


Ques. : 671 Indian hockey team crashed out of FIH World League Round 3 recently losing to Australian team and hencefailed to qualify directly for the 2014 World Cup to be played in

1) Berlin 2) Hague

3) Seoul 4) Canberra


Ques. : 672 According to a study, World Wealth Report 2013, India has clocked the second highest growth in the populationof High Net-worth Individuals (HNIs) in 2012 only behind

1) Hong Kong 2) China

3) Brazil 4) Malaysia


Ques. : 673 Which of the following companies has come up with the plans of beaming Internet with the help of giantballoons in the areas without access to Internet?

1) Microsoft 2) IBM

3) Google 4) Yahoo


Ques. : 674 Which of the following is not a function of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?

1) Issuance of currency 2) Banker of the Govt

3) Controller of banks 4) Controller of credit

5) All are functions of the RBI Ans.) 5

Ques. : 675 Consider the following with respect to Commodity Transaction Tax (CTT) and choose the correct statement(s):

1) The CTT will come into effect from July 1, 2013.2) The CTT will be charged at 0.01 per cent on thetransactions of various non-agriculturalcommodities, including gold, sugar and edible oils.

3) The tax would be levied on futures trading andnot on spot trading in the commodities.

4) All the above


Ques. : 676 Italy has become the recent country to ratify Istanbul Convention. This convention is aimed at which of thefollowing?

1) Combating violence against women 2) Combating violence against children

3) Combating violence against animals4) Combating violence against development offissile material


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Ques. : 677 The UN General Assembly had declared which of the following days as “Nelson Mandela International Day” inrecognition of the former South African President’s contribution to the culture of peace and freedom?

1) Jun 18 2) Jul 18

3) Aug 18 4) Sep 18


Ques. : 678 The NSSO under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released the key indicators ofemployment and unemployment in India recently. NSSO stands for

1) National Statistics Survey Office 2) National Sample Survey Office

3) National Specific Survey Office 4) National Systematic Survey Office


Ques. : 679 Who among the following has been appointed the new Chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT) recently?

1) Sudha Sharma 2) Poonam Kishore Saxena

3) AK Singh 4) Sudhir Chandra


Ques. : 680 Name the university which has become the country’s first-ever technical university for women?

1) Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University 2) Bharati Vidyapeeth's Technical University

3) Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology 4) National Institute of Technology, Delhi


Ques. : 681 The recent forest fire in which of the following countries has increased the pollution in the neighbouringcountries, Singapore and Malaysia to a hazardous level?

1) Indonesia 2) Papua New Guinea

3) Cambodia 4) Philippines


Ques. : 682 Electricity tariff across the country is bound to increase by a minimum 15 to 17 paise per unit as the governmenthas allowed power producers to pass on higher cost of _______to consumers.

1) imported coal 2) enriched coal

3) artificial coal 4) advanced coal


Ques. : 683 Six hill forts situated in which of the following states of India have been including in UNESCO's World HeritageList recently?

1) Delhi 2) Madhya Pradesh

3) Rajasthan 4) Andhra Pradesh


Ques. : 684 The Cabinet has cleared government's 5 per cent stake sale in Neyveli Lignite (NLC) that would help garneraround Rs 466 crore to the exchequer. This miner is based in

1) Jharkhand 2) Andhra Pradesh

3) Odisha 4) Tamil Nadu


Ques. : 685 Which of the following IT initiatives of the Govt of India has been given the ‘21st Century Achievement Award2013’ by the International Data group’s Computerworld Honors Laureate under the category ‘Economic Development’ recentlyin Washington, US?

1) DBT 2) CERT

3) UIDAI 4) SARAL Programme


Ques. : 686 The Rangachary Committee is associated with which of the following?

1) Taxation of foreign investors 2) Taxation of development centres and IT sector

3) Taxation of export oriented textile companies 4) Taxation of agriculture based companies



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Ques. : 687 The first Gas Based Power Project in India awarded with the Clean Development Mechanism by the UnitedNations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) was recently inaugurated by the President of India in which ofthe following states?

1) Rajasthan 2) Himachal Pradesh

3) Tripura 4) Assam


Ques. : 688 Name the novel written by Amitav Ghosh which is in race to win Warwick Prize for Writing, the biennial prize runby the University of Warwick, England?

1) River of Smoke 2) Sea of Poppies

3) Life after Life 4) Shoes of the Dead


Ques. : 689 Which of the following firms has bought the first-of-its-kind online bus ticketing portal, RedBus, from itspromoters recently?

1) Make My Trip 2) Ibibo

3) Yatra.com 4) Expedia


Ques. : 690 As per the provisions of RBI Act, what is the highest denomination bank note that RBI can issue?

1) Rs 1,000 2) Rs 2,000

3) Rs 5,000 4) Rs 10,000


Ques. : 691 One of the world’s most active and iconic volcanoes, Mount Etna, has been granted World Heritage status byUNESCO recently. This volcano is situated in which of the following countries?

1) Spain 2) Italy

3) Germany 4) US


Ques. : 692 Mahendra Singh Dhoni has not won which of the following tournaments under his captaincy as of now?

1) ICC Word Cup 2) ICC Champions Trophy

3) ICC Under-19 World Cup 4) ICC T20 World Cup

5) None of the above Ans.) 3

Ques. : 693 Whose approval is required for appointment of a foreign exchange dealer by a bank?

1) RBI 2) IBA

3) The Ministry Finance 4) Discretion of the bank


Ques. : 694 In its recent move to crack down on immigration abuse, Britain has identified six countries as high-risk. Which ofthe following countries is not included in the list?

1) India 2) Pakistan

3) Bangladesh 4) Nigeria

5) All are included Ans.) 5

Ques. : 695 As per the news published in financial newspapers, the govt of India is planning to do away with the SpecialEconomic Zones (SEZ). SEZ programme was launched in

1) 1998 2) 2002

3) 2004 4) 2006


Ques. : 696 The Arvind Mayaram Committee has recommended nine sectors as those where Indian ownership and controlwill be mandatory. These sectors include

1) Broadcasting 2) Insurance

3) Print Media 4) Defence production



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Ques. : 697 The finance ministry is considering a proposal to make LTUs mandatory for some categories of taxpayers.Expand the term LTU.

1) Limited Taxpayer Units 2) Local Taxpayer Units

3) Least Taxpayer Units 4) Large Taxpayer Units


Ques. : 698 The Planning Commission of India has given its in-principle approval to the ‘Project Ananta’, a programme thatseeks to pull Anantapur district of ______out of the clutches of the perennial drought.

1) Tamil Nadu 2) Andhra Pradesh

3) Karnataka 4) Kerala


Ques. : 699 Who among the following has won the Tal Memorial Chess tournament held in Moscow recently?

1) Sergey Karjaikin 2) Viswanathan Anand

3) Boris Gelfand 4) Vladimir Kramnik


Ques. : 700 Shikhar Dhawan was awarded ‘golden bat’ in the recently concluded Champions Trophy. Who among thefollowing won the ‘golden ball’ in the above tournament?

1) R Ashwin 2) James Anderson

3) Ravindra Jadeja 4) Ravi Bopara


Ques. : 701 The govt has launched a placement linked skill development scheme, Roshini, targeting 50,000 rural men andwomen in 24 _______ districts of the country.

1) Draught-hit 2) Naxal-hit

3) Most backward 4) Tribal


Ques. : 702 Which of the following organisations release annual “Doing Business” report that ranks 185 countries byaggregating 10 different indicators?

1) IMF 2) World Bank

3) The US Federal Reserve 4) ADB


Ques. : 703 Which of the following days is observed as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking?

1) Jun 21 2) Jun 23

3) Jun 24 4) Jun 26


Ques. : 704 Raj Jain quit as the India head of which of the following organisations recently?

1) Walmart 2) ebay

3) Microsoft 4) Videocon


Ques. : 705 Which of the following countries has claimed the top spot in the ‘2013 Foreign Direct Investment ConfidenceIndex’ in a survey conducted by global consulting firm AT Kearney?

1) US 2) China

3) South Korea 4) India


Ques. : 706 Expand the term NSDL as used in financial parlance.

1) National Super Depository Limited 2) National Securities Depository Limited

3) National Securities Depot Limited 4) National Shares Depository Limited


Ques. : 707 What do you mean by ‘white ATMs’?


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1) ATMs owned by banks 2) ATMs owned by non-bank agencies

3) ATMs owned by foreign banks 4) ATMs installed inside a business establishment


Ques. : 708 Consider the following statements with respect to Pir Panjal rail tunnel inaugurated recently and identify thecorrect statement(s):

1) The 11-km long tunnel connects the Bichelrivalley in Jammu with Qazikund in Kashmir.

2) This tunnel runs 2.5 km below the Jawahartunnel.

3) Built at a cost of Rs 800-crore, it is the longestrail tunnel in India.

4) All the above


Ques. : 709 The tallest twisted tower of the world has been constructed at which of the following places recently?

1) New York 2) Shanghai

3) Dubai 4) Rio de Janeiro


Ques. : 710 The 29th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (India chapter) on November 8 and 9 will be hosted bywhich of the following Indian cities?

1) Mumbai 2) Chennai

3) Hyderabad 4) Kochi


Ques. : 711 The RBI will not entertain any claim in respect of a note, which is alleged to have

1) stolen 2) lost

3) wholly destroyed 4) All the above


Ques. : 712 Which of the following states/UTs has been ranked on top in the recent financial inclusion index released by therating and analysis agency CRISIL?

1) Gujarat 2) Kerala

3) Chandigarh 4) Puducherry


Ques. : 713 Which of the following instruments cannot be endorsed?

1) A bank draft 2) A promissory note

3) A fixed deposit receipt 4) A cheque


Ques. : 714 The Bank of England is considering replacing the image of Charles Darwin from one of its notes and replacingit with that of Jane Austen. Which of the following novels was not authored by the renowned novelist Jane Austen?

1) Mother 2) Pride and Prejudice

3) Sense and Sensibility 4) Emma

5) Persuasion Ans.) 1

Ques. : 715 The state run ONGC and OIL has acquired gas assets of Videocon located in which of the following countriesfor $2.5 bn?

1) Nigeria 2) Vietnam

3) Mozambique 4) Algeria


Ques. : 716 The merger of Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam was in news recently. The new single entity TechMahindra has become the ____biggest IT firm in India.

1) third 2) fourth

3) fifth 4) sixth


Ques. : 717 The KM Chandrasekhar Committee is associated with which of the following?


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1) Standardising and unifying the rules regardingforeign investments into the capital markets

2) Standardising and unifying the rules regardingdomestic investments into the capital markets

3) Standardising and unifying the rules regardingIndian investments into the foreign capital markets

4) Standardising and unifying the rules regardingfund collection by chit fund companies from public


Ques. : 718 Carlo Ancelotti has been appointed the manager of which of the following famous soccer teams?

1) Real Madrid (Spain) 2) Chelsea (England)

3) Barcelona (Spain) 4) Manchester United


Ques. : 719 The market regulator Sebi has announced to merge FIIs, sub-accounts and QFIs in a new class called

1) Foreign Preferential Investors 2) Foreign Portfolio Investors

3) Foreign Priority Investors 4) Foreign Periodic Investors


Ques. : 720 The Indian contingent took home the highest tally of awards so far in the recently-concluded 60th Cannes Lionsfestival of creativity. India clinched ____lions (awards).

1) 14 2) 22

3) 33 4) 54


Ques. : 721 In a dramatic swipe just ahead of elections, ruling Labor Party has dethroned Julia Gillard and brought_________as the new Prime Minister of Australia.

1) Penny Wong 2) Stephen Conroy

3) Kevin Rudd 4) Anthony Albanese


Ques. : 722 A line of credit of USD 84-mn from World Bank was recently approved for the Panchayat Strengthening Projectof which of the following states?

1) Bihar 2) Maharashtra

3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Odisha


Ques. : 723 Which of the following govt initiatives won the prestigious international recognition of excellence in publicservice, the United Nations Public Service Award 2013?

1) Mass Contact Programme of Kerala2) Graamin Haat programme of Dept of Cottageand Rural Industries in Madhya Pradesh

3) Swavalamban of District Administration ofDhanbad in Jharkhand

4) All the above


Ques. : 724 According to the Boston Consulting Group's (BCG) 13th annual global wealth management report, which of thefollowing countries has the highest density of millionaires in the world at present?

1) Qatar 2) Kuwait

3) US 4) China


Ques. : 725 Which of the following world organisations publish the ‘World Investment Report’?

1) UNCTAD 2) IMF

3) ADV 4) WTO


Ques. : 726 The govt has recently approved near doubling of natural gas prices effective from Apr 1, 2014. In this firstrevision in gas prices in 3 years, the gas price is set at ____.

1) USD 4.2/mmBtu 2) USD 6.3/mmBtu

3) USD 8.4/mmBtu 4) USD 10.5/mmBtu



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Ques. : 727 The India Post is all set to venture into banking operations and has sought help from the govt for meetingminimum paid up capital requirement as per the RBI norms. What is the minimum paid up capital requirement for thispurpose?


3) Rs 700 crore 4) Rs 1,000 crore


Ques. : 728 Which of the following denominations of Indian currency notes are signed by the Finance Secretary of India?

1) Rs 1 2) Rs 2

3) Rs 5 4) Rs 10


Ques. : 729 Elbegdorj Tsakhia has won the recently held presidential elections in which of the following countries?

1) Cyprus 2) Bolivia

3) Mongolia 4) Armenia


Ques. : 730 As per the recent report published by FATF, an inter-governmental body, India has addressed shortfalls in itsblack money fight. Expand the term FATF.

1) Financial Action Task Force 2) Financial Activity Task Force

3) Financial Advancement Task Force 4) Financial Alternatives Task Force


Ques. : 731 Which of the following veteran tennis players is not among those who shockingly exited the 2013 Wimbledontournament in the first round itself?

1) Mahesh Bhupathi 2) Rafael Nadal

3) Maria Sharapova 4) Roger Federer


Ques. : 732 India has retained its position as the world's 3rd most attractive FDI destination. Which of the followingcountries is leading the list published by UNCTAD recently?

1) Brazil 2) Indonesia

3) United States 4) China


Ques. : 733 Leo Puri is set to be appointed as the Managing Director of which of the following organisations?

1) Axis Bank 2) UTI Asset Management Company

3) LIC 4) Oriental Bank of Commerce


Ques. : 734 India is the largest supplier of which of the following items to the European Union (EU)?

1) Textiles 2) Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API)

3) Petroleum products 4) Herbal Cosmetics


Ques. : 735 Which of the following telecom majors has succeeded to win the first release of licence for telecom operationsin Myanmar recently?

1) Bharti Airtel 2) Vodafone

3) Telenor 4) China Mobile


Ques. : 736 The latest findings by the analysis firm CRISIL has pointed out that only ___of Indians have a simple savingsbank account at present.

1) half 2) one-third

3) one-fourth 4) one-fifth


Ques. : 737 The early tsunami warning system has been installed recently at Rangachang situated in _______.


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1) Andaman and Nicobar Islands 2) Tamil Nadu

3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Puducherry


Ques. : 738 TAM is associated with the rating of which of the following?

1) Film industry 2) Television viewership

3) Educational institutions 4) Newspapers


Ques. : 739 Which of the following financial products in India completed 20 years in operation recently?

1) Life Insurance 2) Gold loans

3) Education loans 4) Mutual Funds


Ques. : 740 Which of the following companies has launched the first white-level ATM of the country recently?

1) Tata Communications 2) Reliance Capital

3) Birla Capital 4) Modi Finance


Ques. : 741 The Central Govt has announced a hike in the support price of paddy marginally by Rs 60 to _____per quintalfor the 2013-14 crop year.

1) Rs 1,210 2) Rs 1,250

3) Rs 1,310 4) Rs 1,350


Ques. : 742 The Daitari iron ore mines might soon close down on the allegations of carrying mining activities without forestclearance. These mines are situated in which of the following states in India?

1) Odisha 2) Jharkhand

3) Uttarakhand 4) Madhya Pradesh


Ques. : 743 Who among the following will be sworn in as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) taking over from Altamas Kabiron Jul 16?

1) AK Patnaik 2) P Sathasivam

3) GS Singhvi 4) Gyan Sudha Misra


Ques. : 744 India has launched IRNSS-1A satellite in the space as its first step towards building own satellite navigationsystem. Expand the term IRNSS.

1) Indian Regional Network Satellite System 2) Indian Revolving Navigational Satellite System

3) Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System 4) Indian Responsive Navigational Satellite System


Ques. : 745 Indian army is planning to replace its 150-km range Prithvi ballistic missiles with the newly developed quick-response _______missiles.

1) Prahar 2) Trishul

3) Nag 4) Astra


Ques. : 746 Tahrir Square, which was in news recently, is situated in which of the following countries?

1) Turkey 2) Syria

3) China 4) Egypt


Ques. : 747 The govt banned the top-selling drug Pioglitazone recently citing its severe side effects as the reason. Thisdrug was used to treat which of the following diseases?

1) Cancer 2) Hypertension

3) Diabetes 4) Blood Pressure



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Ques. : 748 The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced to start World Test Championship. Its inaugural editionwill be played in England in _______.

1) 2014 2) 2015

3) 2016 4) 2017


Ques. : 749 Among the several measures taken by the RBI to curb current account deficit (CAD), it has now asked banksnot to

1) convert gold bought through credit cards intoEMIs

2) convert consumer goods bought through creditcards into EMIs

3) convert apparels bought through credit cards intoEMIs

4) convert luxury goods bought through credit cardsinto EMIs


Ques. : 750 As announced by the ICC recently, India will host which of the following tournaments?

1) T20 Cup in 2016 2) World Test Championship in 2021

3) Word Cup (50-over format) in 2023 4) All the above


Ques. : 751 Who among the following has been elected the new President of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA)recently?

1) Suresh Kalmadi 2) Dahlan Jumaan Al-Hamad

3) HRH Prince Imran 4) Gideon Sam


Ques. : 752 The project to develop Astra missiles is finally back on track after a long delay due to technical glitches. This isIndia’s first __________missile.

1) Air-to-air 2) Submarine launched

3) UAV launched 4) Reusable


Ques. : 753 India held the 16th round of border talks with which of the following countries recently?


3) Nepal 4) China


Ques. : 754 Which of the following teams won the Confederation Cup football tournament recently?

1) Spain 2) Germany

3) Argentina 4) Brazil


Ques. : 755 Which of the following countries has become the first country in South Asia to ban cosmetic testing on animals?

1) China 2) Japan

3) India 4) Thailand


Ques. : 756 Name the 28th member of the European Union which has been granted membership recently.

1) Montenegro 2) Croatia

3) Serbia 4) Albania


Ques. : 757 Which country has given its nod to the world’s first clinical trial for ‘induced pluripotent stem’ cells, known as‘iPS cells’ which uses stem cells harvested from a patient’s own body?

1) South Korea 2) UK

3) Japan 4) US


Ques. : 758 The US space agency NASA has launched Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft recentlyaimed at studying


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1) The Mars 2) The Sun

3) The Jupiter 4) The Moon


Ques. : 759 INS Trikand ship, armed with the supersonic BRAHMOS missile system among others, was commissioned intothe Indian Navy recently. This Talwar class combat ship has been sourced from

1) Russia 2) France

3) Israel 4) US


Ques. : 760 The United Nations has adopted ‘Marrakesh Treaty’ recently. This treaty is related to

1) Increasing access to higher education for blinds 2) Increasing access to books for blinds

3) Increasing access to books for blinds 4) Increasing access to employment opportunities


Ques. : 761 Who among the following has been appointed the new Delhi lieutenant-governor replacing Tejendra Khanna?

1) Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary 2) KK Paul

3) Najeeb Jung 4) Virendra Kataria


Ques. : 762 Who among the following has won the British Grand Prix 2013 recently?

1) Felipe Massa 2) Sebastian Vettel

3) Lewis Hamilton 4) Nico Rosberg


Ques. : 763 Who is the vice-chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) at present? The PrimeMinister is the chairman of the authority.

1) KM Singh 2) JK SINHA

3) B Bhattacharjee 4) Shashidhar Reddy


Ques. : 764 Who among the following has been appointed as the next foreign secretary replacing Ranjan Mathai?

1) Anil Goswami 2) Rajiv Takru

3) Sujatha Singh 4) Ashish Bahuguna


Ques. : 765 The credit of being world’s first internet search engine goes to which of the following?

1) Google 2) Yahoo Search

3) AltaVista 4) MSN Search


Ques. : 766 The NCR Planning Board had cleared the inclusion of three more districts in the NCR. Who among thefollowing is the Chairman of the board?

1) Girija Vyas 2) Kamal Nath

3) Oscar Fernandes 4) Mallikarjun Kharge


Ques. : 767 The Jet-Etihad deal is still stuck in pipeline. As the largest foreign investment in the Indian aviation sector sofar, this deal is valued at

1) Rs 1,058 cr 2) Rs 2,058 cr

3) Rs 3,058 cr 4) Rs 4,058 cr


Ques. : 768 Narendra Modi has asked farmers from across the country to contribute iron blocks for construction of a hugestatue of Sardar Patel at Sardar Sarovar Dam. It will be name

1) Statue of Unity 2) Statue of Integrity

3) Statue of Sovereignty 4) Lauh Purush



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Ques. : 769 The military has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the president and his opponents to reach an agreement in whichof the following countries recently?

1) Syria 2) Egypt

3) Mali 4) Nigeria


Ques. : 770 Parimarjan Negi is associated with which of the following games?

1) Wrestling 2) Badminton

3) Table Tennis 4) Chess


Ques. : 771 The telecommunication commission of India has approved the enhancement of the foreign direct investmentlimit in the telecom sector to 100 per cent from current ____per cent.

1) 26 2) 49

3) 74 4) 85


Ques. : 772 Egypt's powerful military has ousted President Mohammed Morsi and suspended the constitution. Which of thefollowing statements is/are correct about Mohammed Morsi?

1) He was country's first democratically electedpresident.

2) He was country’s second democratically electedpresident.

3) He was country’s third democratically electedpresident.

4) He was country’s fourth democratically electedpresident.


Ques. : 773 Examine the following statements with respect to ordinance promulgated for the food security bill and identifythe correct sentence(s):

1) It provides the two-third population of the countrythe right to 5 kg of foodgrain every month at highlysubsidised rates of Rs 1-3 per kg.

2) The beneficiaries will be identified by the states,which will also implement the programme under theTargeted Public Distribution System.

3) When implemented, it will be the biggest suchscheme in the world with the govt spendingestimated at Rs 125,000 crore annually.

4) All the above


Ques. : 774 The Union Cabinet has granted a special one-time dispensation of Rs 710 crore recently for land acquisition forexpansion and upgradation of rural roads network in which of the following states?

1) Uttarakhand 2) Himachal Pradesh

3) Jharkhand 4) Jammu & Kashmir


Ques. : 775 The Finance Minister has advised banks to reduce base rates to provide a powerful stimulus to credit growthfor the economy. What is base rate?

1) The minimum rate of interest that a bank isallowed to charge from RBI for its deposits.

2) The minimum rate of interest that a bank isallowed to charge from other banks.

3) The minimum rate of interest that a bank isallowed to charge from its customers.

4) The minimum rate of interest that a bank isallowed to charge on industrial loans.


Ques. : 776 Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil has been appointed the new governor of which of the following states?

1) Sikkim 2) West Bengal

3) Kerala 4) Haryana


Ques. : 777 Name the Indian woman entrepreneur, who has received UAE’s prestigious ‘Emirates Woman Award 2013’.

1) Naina Lal Kidwai 2) Vandana Gandhi

3) Indira Nooyi 4) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw



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Ques. : 778 Name the first health insurance company in India that has come up with ‘swipe to claim’ facility that will provideon the spot cashless approval solution to customers?

1) Max Bupa 2) L&T Insurance

3) Star Health 4) ICICI Lombard


Ques. : 779 The insurance companies in India do not provide insurance cover for which of the following as of now?

1) Illness 2) Accident

3) Retirement 4) Wedding


Ques. : 780 Evo Morales is the president of which of the following countries? The plane carrying him was diverted to Viennarecently and searched for Edward Snowden.

1) Sweden 2) Ecuador

3) Bolivia 4) Slovenia


Ques. : 781 The UN has urged nations to step up efforts to achieve the eight anti-poverty targets named MillenniumDevelopment Goals (MDGs). What is the deadline set to achieve these goals?

1) 2013 2) 2014

3) 2015 4) 2020


Ques. : 782 According to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, in cheque bouncing case for a cheque issued from a jointaccount, who can be prosecuted under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act?

1) Only the person who signed the cheque2) All the persons named in the joint accountcollectively

3) Any one of the individuals named in the jointaccount

4) Only the firm that issued the cheque and notany+ individual


Ques. : 783 Which of the following countries has given its approval to the controversial IVF technique that would lead to thecreation of babies with three parents? This technique is aimed at checking the genetic diseases.


3) China 4) UK


Ques. : 784 The Indian Post has applied for bank licence along with 25 other applicants. Its vast presence in rural areasgoes in its favour but which of the following may hinder its efforts?

1) Its being a loss making enterprise 2) Its being a govt enterprise

3) Its lacking in IT infrastructure 4) Its lacking in customer services


Ques. : 785 Vikas Gowda bagged the first gold for India in the Asian Athletics Championships in Pune in which of thefollowing games?

1) Discuss Throw 2) Weightlifting

3) Shot Put 4) Long Jump


Ques. : 786 Which of the following companies in India provides credit information of individuals?

1) CRISIL 2) CIBIL

3) ICRA 4) CARE


Ques. : 787 Who among the following has been sworn in as an interim president in Egypt after the military ousted theincumbent Mohammed Morsi recently?

1) Adly Mahmoud Mansour 2) Gehad El-Haddad

3) Mahdi Aakef 4) Mohammed Badie



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Ques. : 788 The tech visionary Douglas Engelbart died recently. Which of the following inventions made by himrevolutionised personal computing?

1) QWERTY keyboard 2) Universal Serial Bus (USB)

3) Computer Mouse 4) Compact Disc


Ques. : 789 Who among the following has been named as the next president of the $100-billion IT industry’s apex bodyNasscom?

1) Ganesh Natarajan 2) Ravi Venkatesan

3) R Chandrasekhar 4) S Ramadorai


Ques. : 790 Expand the term RCEP.

1) Regional Co-operation for Economic Partnership 2) Regional Comprehensive Economic Pact

3) Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership4) Regional Confederation for EconomicPartnership


Ques. : 791 Which of the following days in India has been designated by the govt as the National Statistical Day? It marksthe birth anniversary of Prof. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the doyen of Indian statistics and founder of the IndianStatistical Institute in Kolkata.

1) Jun 29 2) Jul 29

3) Aug 29 4) Sep 29


Ques. : 792 The book titled ‘Shoes of the Dead’ is written by who among the following?

1) Ravinder Singh 2) Kota Neelima

3) Khaled Hosseini 4) Amish Tripathi


Ques. : 793 The new UN Millennium Development Goals report for 2013 has revealed that the poverty rate in India declinedfrom 49 per cent in 1994 to ____in 2010.

1) 25 2) 33

3) 35 4) 43


Ques. : 794 Who among the following will head the Indian cricket squad on Zimbabwe tour for five ODI matches as theselection committee opted to rest the seniors for the tour?

1) Virat Kohli 2) Suresh Raina

3) R Ashwin 4) Shikhar Dhawan


Ques. : 795 As per the provisions of the new National Food Security Act, the pregnant women and lactating mothers willreceive maternity benefit of

1) Rs 2000 2) Rs 4000

3) Rs 6000 4) Rs 8000


Ques. : 796 Britain is set to deport radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada to which of the following countries to face terrorcharges?

1) Israel 2) Jordan

3) US 4) Spain


Ques. : 797 At present, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) mandates banks to apply interest on deposits at _______ intervals.

1) daily 2) monthly

3) quarterly 4) yearly



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Ques. : 798 The govt has decided to raise the import duty on sugar from 10 per cent to what per cent? The move is aimedat discouraging overseas buying amid a drop in local prices due to ample supplies.




Ques. : 799 MS Raghavan has taken charge as the Chairman and Managing Director of which of the following banksrecently?

1) Bank of Baroda 2) IDBI Bank

3) Canara Bank 4) Allahabad Bank


Ques. : 800 According to figures compiled by ‘The Banker’ magazine, ICBC has become the biggest bank in the world interms of balance sheet strength. This bank belongs to which of the following countries?

1) South Korea 2) China

3) Singapore 4) Brazil


Ques. : 801 The Solapur thermal power project of NTPC is facing agitation from farmers seeking higher compensation fortheir land. This project is situated in

1) Maharashtra 2) Karnataka

3) Gujarat 4) Bihar


Ques. : 802 Which of the following countries is the world's biggest consumer of sugar?

1) China 2) US

3) Indonesia 4) India


Ques. : 803 Mohamed El-Baradei has been named as the new prime minister to head a caretaker government in which ofthe following countries recently?

1) Syria 2) Kuwait

3) Iraq 4) Egypt


Ques. : 804 A UN report has revealed that despite widespread poverty in the country, India is on track to meet the UnitedNations' Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of poverty reduction by

1) 2014 2) 2015

3) 2018 4) 2020


Ques. : 805 Which of the following nations is planning to launch satellites to monitor the world's oceans to counter piracyand monitor the movements of ships?

1) US 2) Japan

3) China 4) India


Ques. : 806 The Union Rural Development Ministry approved Rs 4,130-cr for the construction of rural roads in which of thefollowing states recently?

1) Uttarakhand 2) Maharashtra

3) Bihar 4) Andhra Pradesh


Ques. : 807 Who among the following has won the women’s singles title at the Wimbledon tennis tournament recently?

1) Marion Bartoli 2) Sabine Lisicki

3) Li Na 4) Serena Williams



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Ques. : 808 Who won the 2013 German Grand Prix Formula One championships?

1) Kimmi Raikkonen 2) Fernando Alonso

3) Sebastian Vettel 4) Lewis Hamilton


Ques. : 809 India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC), which is set to be launched into water soon and is slated to becomeoperational by 2018, will be rechristened as

1) INS Vikrant 2) INS Viraat

3) INS Vikramaditya 4) INS Veer


Ques. : 810 Expand the term IPAB.

1) Intellectual Property Application Board 2) Intellectual Property Authorisation Board

3) Intellectual Property Appellate Board 4) International Property Appellate Board


Ques. : 811 Despite China’s opposition, India has moved forward to become a part of Regional Comprehensive EconomicPartnership (RCEP) agreement. Aimed at creating one of the most significant free trade blocs in the world, RCEP has beenbrought by

1) Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) 2) Asean +6

3) G8 4) WTO


Ques. : 812 As we read in newspapers, rupee reached a record low of below Rs 61/$. This unprecedented fall of the Indiancurrency is likely to cause which of the following?

1) Hike in fuel prices 2) Widening of fiscal deficit

3) Foreign education, travel to cost more 4) Gain to exporters


Ques. : 813 After fighting a long turf war with Indian Air Force, the Army is all set to get its own armed attack helicoptersquadron of which of the following helicopters?

1) Mi-8 2) Mi-35

3) Rudra 4) Cheetah


Ques. : 814 The ICAO is set to audit the Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s safety oversight capability soon to assess itsflying safety standards. What is the expanded form of ICAO?

1) Intermediary Civil Aviation Oraganisation 2) International Civil Aviation Oraganisation

3) Intergovernmental Civil Aviation Oraganisation 4) Indian Civil Aviation Oraganisation


Ques. : 815 In which of the following countries, ex-railway minister Liu Zhijun has been sentenced to suspended death witha two year reprieve for bribery and abuse of power?

1) Japan 2) North Korea

3) China 4) Vietnam


Ques. : 816 Name the tennis player who ended the 77-year old wait for UK to clinch men’s singles title at Wimbledonrecently?

1) Roger Federer 2) Andy Murray

3) David Ferrer 4) Rafael Nadal


Ques. : 817 Shiv Thapa, who won a gold medal in Asian Championships in Amman, recently, is associated with which of thefollowing games?

1) Weightlifting 2) Boxing

3) Archery 4) Shooting



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Ques. : 818 International Finance Corporation (IFC) is considering a women’s investment fund that would seek to invest inwomen owned businesses globally. IFC is investment arm of which of the following?

1) Bank of America 2) International Monetary Fund (IMF)

3) World Bank 4) Asian Development Bank (ADB)


Ques. : 819 The former Delhi police Chief, Dr KK Paul took over as the new Governor of which of the following north-eastern states recently?

1) Meghalaya 2) Tripura

3) Mizoram 4) Arunachal Pradesh


Ques. : 820 Recently, India has signed an agreement for avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasionwith respect to taxes on income and on capital with which of the following countries?

1) Sweden 2) Albania

3) Norway 4) Poland


Ques. : 821 Which of the following pairs won the men’s doubles title of the Wimbledon tennis tournament recently?

1) L Paes and R Stepanek 2) J Blake and J Melzer

3) I Dodig and M Melo 4) B Bryan and M Bryan


Ques. : 822 Which of the following major commercial banks in India has NOT promoted insurance companies to introduceinsurance products in the country so far?

1) State Bank of India 2) ICICI Bank

3) IDBI Bank 4) Punjab National Bank

5) Central Bank of India Ans.) 5

Ques. : 823 ‘Anna Bhagya’ scheme to distribute 30kg foodgrain at Re1/kg has been launched in which of the followingsouthern states of India?

1) Kerala 2) Karnataka

3) Tamil Nadu 4) Andhra Pradesh


Ques. : 824 The World Population Day is observed on which of the following days?

1) Jul 11 2) Jul 12

3) Jul 13 4) Jul 15


Ques. : 825 Which of the following pairs of Indian companies and their overseas acquisitions is not matched correctly?

1) Tata Motors – Jaguar Land Rover 2) Mahindra and Mahindra – Ssangyong

3) Apollo Tyres – Cooper Tires 4) Hero Moto Corp – AVL


Ques. : 826 Examine the following statements with respect to recent announcement made by the market regulator SEBIregarding buyback norms for the companies and choose the correct statement(s):

1) The companies are now required to buy backshare amounting to at least 50 per cent of theamount earmarked, up from 25 per cent.

2) A fourth of the buy back proceeds will have to beput in the escrow account

3) The companies are now barred from furthercapital-raising for 12 months from the closure of theoffer.

4) All the above


Ques. : 827 Expand the term USOF.

1) Universal Serial Obligation Fund 2) Universal Service Obligation Fund

3) Universal Serious Obligation Fund 4) Universal Stock Obligation Fund



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Ques. : 828 India was the world’s largest importer of arms last year and is trying hard to reverse this reality. India aims toprocure _____per cent of defence supplies locally in a decade.

1) 25 2) 50

3) 75 4) 100


Ques. : 829 The ‘Project O-sint’ of Delhi police is associated with which of the following?

1) Tracing the missing children2) Locating a place with the help of navigationsystem

3) Open Source Intelligence4) Shaming criminals by publishing theirphotographs and details on social sites


Ques. : 830 Which of the following companies has been ranked on top among Indian firms in the recently release ‘Fortune500’ list?

1) Reliance Industries 2) Tata Steel

3) Indian Oil 4) State Bank of India


Ques. : 831 A high-level committee on manufacturing chaired by the Prime Minister has set the target to hike the steelproduction capacity of the country from current 120mt to ____mt by 2025.

1) 150 2) 200

3) 250 4) 300


Ques. : 832 Which of the following may be the possible fallout(s) when a life insurance policy is lapsed due to non-paymentof the premiums?

1) Death/accident benefit claim will not be available.2) Bonus (share of surplus of the insurer) will not beavailable.

3) If lapsed before it acquires paid-up value, thepremiums paid to the insurer are forfeited.

4) If lapsed within the first two years for aconventional life policy, the income tax rebateclaimed earlier is disallowed and the deduction isadded as income of the relevant year.


Ques. : 833 Which of the following companies has been ranked on top in the world in the recently released ‘Fortune 500’list?

1) Walmart Stores 2) Exxon Mobil

3) Toyota Motors 4) Royal Dutch Shell


Ques. : 834 Who among the following has been facilitated with the 2013 edition of prestigious Tagore Award?

1) Zubin Mehta 2) Lata Mangeskar

3) Late Maqbool Fida Husain 4) SH Raza


Ques. : 835 The govt approved the Modified Industrial Infrastructure Upgradation Scheme (MIIUS) with an outlay of____during the 12th Five Year Plan period ending March 2017 recently.




Ques. : 836 Lajja Gauswami is associated with which of the following games? She clinched a silver medal in the gamerecently.

1) Archery 2) Shooting

3) Squash 4) Chess


Ques. : 837 The first-ever national Aviation University of the Country, Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University, would comeup at which of the following places?


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1) Lucknow 2) Bhopal

3) Rae Bareli 4) Udaipur


Ques. : 838 The Allahabad High Court stayed with immediate effect which of the following type of rallies throughout UttarPradesh recently?

1) Religion-based rallies 2) Region-based rallies

3) Cadre-based rallies 4) Caste-based rallies


Ques. : 839 The AERB gave clearance for commencing controlled nuclear fission at the stalled Kudankulam Nuclear PowerProject (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu recently. What is the full form of AERB?

1) Atomic Engineering Regulatory Board 2) Atomic Energy Regulatory Board

3) Atomic Establishment Regulatory Board 4) Atomic Entities Regulatory Board


Ques. : 840 The proposed price hike for the natural gas produced in India from Apr 2014 (from current $4.2 to $8.4 permmbtu) invited a widespread opposition from all quarters. Which of the following may be the positive outcome(s) of thedecision?

1) It could help staunch declining domesticproduction and increase gas output as blocksearlier declare unviable may become viable now.

2) It will attract investors to the oil and gas sector inIndia with the opportunity of earning good margins.

3) It will attract investors to the oil and gas sector inIndia with the opportunity of earning good margins.

4) All the above


Ques. : 841 As per the recent landmark verdict of the Supreme Court, who among the following has/have been disqualifiedfrom contesting elections to legislative bodies?

1) A person who is in jail 2) A person who is in police custody

3) A person subjected to preventive detention underany law

4) All the above


Ques. : 842 Which of the following countries has been ranked on first position in the Global Innovation Index (GII) ranking of2013? India is ranked at 64th position in it.


3) Sweden 4) Switzerland


Ques. : 843 The lawmakers of which of the following traditionally conservative country passed a groundbreaking lawrecently that allows abortion in limited cases?

1) Chile 2) Ireland

3) Norway 4) Indonesia


Ques. : 844 India and which of the following countries are set to hold their second round of discussions on uranium salesoon?

1) Australia 2) US

3) Japan 4) France


Ques. : 845 Which of the following oil-rich gulf nations has offered three discovered oilfields to India on nomination basisand has agreed to renegotiate an oil block that has been pending since 2000?

1) Iran 2) Iraq

3) Kuwait 4) Jordan


Ques. : 846 Who among the following has been sworn in as the ninth Chief Minister of Jharkhand recently?


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1) Shibu Soren 2) Arjun Munda

3) Hemant Soren 4) Sudesh Mahto


Ques. : 847 Which of the following state govts has announced interest-free loans to farmers up to Rs 2 lakh and at one percent interest for loans between Rs 2 lakh and Rs 3 lakh recently in its budget?

1) Rajasthan 2) Madhya Pradesh

3) Karnataka 4) Haryana


Ques. : 848 Legendary actor Pran, loved and feared in equal measure by moviegoers for his roles, passed away recently atthe age of 93. Which of the following was his first film?

1) Zanjeer 2) Yamla Jat

3) Devdas 4) Ziddi

5) Naseeb Ans.) 2

Ques. : 849 The United Nations has declared which of the following days as the Malala Day to recognise the bravery ofPakistani teen activist Malala Yousafzai?

1) Jul 11 2) Jul 12

3) Jul 13 4) Jul 15


Ques. : 850 In order to boost the capital base of RRBs, the govt decided to recapitalize 40 selected RRBs in 21 states onthe recommendation of a panel headed by RBI Deputy Governor

1) KC Chakrabarty 2) Urjit R Patel

3) HR Khan 4) Anand Sinha


Ques. : 851 A powerful typhoon, Soulik, hit which of the following countries recently?

1) Japan 2) US

3) Canada 4) Taiwan


Ques. : 852 . The Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), an independent body within the telecom department thatsubsidises telecom infrastructure in rural India, agreed to provide a subsidy of _________to state-run Bharat Sanchar NigamLtd (BSNL) recently.

1) Rs 1,150-crore 2) Rs 1,200-crore

3) Rs 1,350-crore 4) Rs 1,500-crore


Ques. : 853 Which of the following foreign banks has regained its position as the most profitable foreign bank operating inIndia recently?

1) Citibank 2) Standard Chartered Bank

3) HSBC 4) BNP Paribas


Ques. : 854 Anup Chetia, a wanted north-east militant, is all set to be brought to India soon from which of the followingcountries where he is in jail since 1997?


3) Bhutan 4) Sri Lanka


Ques. : 855 Amar Bose, the founder and the chairman of the Massachusetts-based company Bose Corporation, diedrecently. Bose Corporation is a/an renowned ________company.

1) Security systems 2) Home appliances

3) Video-technology 4) Audio-technology



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Ques. : 856 Controversial businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, who was a key figure in the Bofors payoffs scandal, diedrecently. He belonged to which of the following countries?

1) Spain 2) UK

3) Italy 4) Sweden


Ques. : 857 The Kundankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu attained criticality recently. It is the country's first

1) Nuclear power plant with total capacity of 1,000MW

2) Pressurised water reactor

3) Nuclear power plant built with US assistance4) Nuclear power plant built with indigenoustechnology


Ques. : 858 The telegram service in the country, the harbinger of good and bad news for generations, has beendiscontinued recently by BSNL. It remained in service for _____years.

1) 160 2) 161

3) 162 4) 163


Ques. : 859 The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka as the new head of which ofthe following United Nations bodies recently?

1) United Nations Women 2) UNESCO

3) UNICEF 4) International Labour Organisation (ILO)


Ques. : 860 The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) won the parliamentary elections in Bhutan recently. These were the_____parliamentary elections in Bhutan.

1) First 2) Second

3) Third 4) Fifth


Ques. : 861 What are the stakes of the Centre, the sponsor banks and the state govts respectively in Regional Rural Banks(RRBs)?

1) 50 per cent, 35 per cent and 15 per cent 2) 50 per cent, 25 per cent and 25 per cent

3) 35 per cent, 30 per cent and 35 per cent 4) 35 per cent, 35 per cent and 30 per cent


Ques. : 862 The ‘Bastille Day’ parade, which was held in France recently, commemorates which of the following?

1) The beginning of democracy in the country 2) Voting rights conferred to women for the first time

3) The start of the French Revolution 4) French victory over Russia


Ques. : 863 Santosh B Nayar has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director of which of thefollowing organisations?

1) Food Corporation of India (FCI)2) Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Limited(IFFCO)

3) Industrial Financial Corporation of India (IFCI)4) India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited(IIFCL)


Ques. : 864 Which of the following countries has overtaken USA as the top buyer of Nigerian crude oil recently as per thenews published in newspapers?

1) India 2) China

3) France 4) Japan


Ques. : 865 Who among the following has won the 19th edition of Commonwealth Chess Championship title recently?

1) Tania Sachdev 2) Abhijeet Gupta

3) Krishnan Sasikiran 4) Parimarjan Negi



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Ques. : 866 The recently opened ‘New Century Global Centre’, being called the world’s largest standalone structure, issituated in which of the following countries?

1) UAE 2) US

3) Malaysia 4) China


Ques. : 867 Name the Japanese car maker which unveiled its low-cost car ‘Go’ in India recently?

1) Suzuki 2) Toyota

3) Nissan 4) Mitsubishi


Ques. : 868 The finance ministry has finalised who among the following to be the chief executive of Bhartiya Mahila Bank,which will launch its operations from November with six branches?

1) Vijayalakshmi R Iyer 2) Usha Ananthasubramanian

3) Usha Thorat 4) Shyamala Gopinath


Ques. : 869 The sale of the recently published book titled 'Cuckoo's Calling' shoot up after the name of its original writercame into media. Who is its original writer?

1) Edward Snowden 2) Salman Rushdie

3) JK Rowling 4) Lydia Davis


Ques. : 870 Which of the following countries is in process to avail a massive USD 5.4-bn loan package to revive its ailingeconomy?

1) South Africa 2) Turkey

3) Pakistan 4) Indonesia


Ques. : 871 Kynan Chenai, who clinched a gold medal in the Singapore Open Championships recently, is a rising Indian______.

1) Golfer 2) Cueist

3) Shooter 4) Archer


Ques. : 872 In which of the following countries a war crimes court sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ghulam Azam to 90years imprisonment recently?

1) Pakistan 2) Afghanistan

3) Bangladesh 4) Indonesia


Ques. : 873 In the recent revision of the foreign direct investment (FDI) cap, the civil aviation sector was left unchanged.What is the FDI cap in this sector at present?




Ques. : 874 Which of the following communities belonging to India celebrated 100 years of its immigration to US recently?

1) Jain 2) Sikh

3) Sindhi 4) Gujarati


Ques. : 875 Expand the term NCCC.

1) National Communication Coordination Centre 2) National Cyber Censor Centre

3) National Communication Censor Centre 4) National Cyber Coordination Centre


Ques. : 876 The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) under the drug price control order (DPCO) has reducedthe prices of ___ drugs.


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1) 254 2) 348

3) 424 4) 582


Ques. : 877 Who among the following has authored the book titled ‘The Dispensable Nation’?

1) Bipin Chandra 2) Vali Nasr

3) Sachin Kundalkar 4) Ajay Navaria


Ques. : 878 The ‘Tungurahua’ volcano erupted recently in which of the following countries?

1) Italy 2) Argentina

3) Ecuador 4) Cameroon


Ques. : 879 The ‘Ngultrum’ is the currency of which of the following countries?

1) Thailand 2) Maldives

3) Bhutan 4) South Korea

5) Malaysia Ans.) 3

Ques. : 880 An individual in India cannot open an account in which of the following banks?

1) Regional Rural Banks 2) Foreign Banks

3) Reserve Bank of India 4) Scheduled Commercial Bank

5) Urban Cooperative Bank Ans.) 3

Ques. : 881 Which of the following pairs of organisations and their heads is NOT correctly matched as of now?

1) World Bank – Jim Yong Kim 2) IMF – Julia Gillard

3) ADB – Takehiko Nakao 4) WTO – Pascal Lamy

5) ILO – Guy Ryder Ans.) 2

Ques. : 882 Kaesong industrial region is situated in which of the following countries?

1) North Korea 2) South Korea

3) Japan 4) China


Ques. : 883 World's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal has announced to scrap its USD 12-bn steel plant project in which ofthe following India states over inordinate delays, problems in acquiring land and securing iron ore linkages?

1) Karnataka 2) Odisha

3) Maharashtra 4) Jharkhand


Ques. : 884 To help the crisis-ridden mutual funds sector tide over liquidity problems, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hasopened a special borrowing window of

1) Rs 75,000-cr 2) Rs 55,000-cr

3) Rs 35,000-cr 4) Rs 25,000-cr


Ques. : 885 The Nelson Mandela International Day is observed on which of the following days as declared by the UNGeneral Assembly?

1) Jul 11 2) Jul 12

3) Jul 15 4) Jul 18


Ques. : 886 Examine the below given facts in the context of govt’s decision to form a mountain attack corps along the Lineof Actual Control (LAC) and identify the correct statements:

1) The new Corps' will be headquartered atPanagarh in West Bengal.

2) Under the new corps, 1,00,000 troops will betrained and deployed along the China border.

3) The new corps will be raised at the cost ofaround Rs 65,000 crore.

4) All the above



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Ques. : 887 Upholding provisions of the Juvenile Act, the Supreme Court, recently, turned down a plea to reduce age ofjuvenile. What is the age below which one is declared a juvenile at present?

1) 21 years 2) 18 years

3) 16 years 4) 14 years


Ques. : 888 The govt of India has launched a nation-wide campaign called “Tears you apart”. It is aimed at controlling whichof the following?

1) Sexually transmitted diseases 2) Tobacco use

3) Littering at public places 4) Open defecation


Ques. : 889 Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1) In courier services, up to 100 per cent FDI wouldnow be allowed under automatic route.

2) In credit information firms, up to 74 per cent FDIwould now be allowed under automatic route.

3) In multi-brand retail, up to 49 per cent FDI wouldnow be allowed under automatic route.

4) All the above


Ques. : 890 Joe Biden, who visited India recently, is holding which of the following positions in the US at present?

1) Secretary of state 2) Secretary of Senate

3) Governor of California 4) Vice President


Ques. : 891 The govt will promulgate an ordinance to empower the Sebi, the capital markets regulator, to directly go forsearch and seizure operations on errant listed companies. Currently, Sebi can do this

1) After approval from the chief metropolitanmagistrate

2) After approval from the Ministry of Finance

3) After approval from the Registrar of Companies 4) After approval from the RBI governor


Ques. : 892 Who among the following has been appointed as the next Delhi Police Commissioner recently succeedingNeeraj Kumar?

1) Abhayanand 2) Bhimsen Bassi

3) Deo Raj Singh Nagar 4) Shriniwas Vashisht


Ques. : 893 The South Korean steel major Posco has pulled out of its proposed Rs 30,000-cr steel project which was to beset up in

1) Odisha 2) Madhya Pradesh

3) Karnataka 4) Tamil Nadu


Ques. : 894 Justice P Sathasivam has been sworn in as the new Chief Justice of India (CJI) by President PranabMukherjee. He is ____CJI.

1) 30th 2) 32nd

3) 40th 4) 42nd


Ques. : 895 The Supreme Court of India has quashed which of the following notifications published by the Medical Councilof India (MCI) recently?

1) Holding common entrance test for MBBS, BDSand post-graduate courses.

2) Accreditation given to 12 colleges in one do.

3) Making it mandatory for post graduate aspirantsto serve in rural areas.

4) Mandatory examination for those studied fromabroad.


Ques. : 896 In which of the following states, 27 children died and several were admitted in hospital after they consumed themid-day meal at their school?


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1) Tamil Nadu 2) Bihar

3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Haryana


Ques. : 897 Deepika Kumari and Laishram Bombayla Devi represent India in which of the following games?

1) Boxing 2) Shooting

3) Archery 4) Weightlifting


Ques. : 898 The Hockey India has announced to appoint former South Africa player Dave Staniforth as ___________ of theIndian senior and junior men's teams.

1) Physiologist 2) Assistant coach

3) Senior coach 4) Goalkeeping coach


Ques. : 899 The two-day G20 ministerial meeting was held in which of the following cities recently?

1) Moscow 2) London

3) Washington 4) Toronto


Ques. : 900 Renowned Lyricist Vaali, who authored more than 15 thousand songs during his life-time, passed awayrecently. He wrote in which of the following languages?

1) Telugu 2) Tamil

3) Bengali 4) Oriya


Ques. : 901 As announced by the govt, India aims to achieve 80 per cent literacy rate by

1) 2015 2) 2016

3) 2017 4) 2018


Ques. : 902 Fulfilling the long pending demand of the people of Karnataka, as well as the State Govt, the Union Cabinetgave its approval for renaming Bengaluru International Airport as _________recently.

1) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport 2) Kempegowda International Airport

3) Vasanth Shivashankar Padukone InternationalAirport

4) Yashwant Vithoba Chittal International Airport


Ques. : 903 Which of the following nations in not a member of G20, a club of 20 developed and developing nations?

1) Saudi Arabia 2) Brazil

3) Canada 4) US


Ques. : 904 The book titled ‘The Hope Factory’ is authored by who among the following?

1) Bipin Chandra 2) Lavanya Sankaran



Ques. : 905 The GSP is a program under which developing countries can receive preferential treatment for exports. What isthe expanded form of GSP?

1) General System of Preference 2) Gradual System of Preferences

3) Geographical System of Preference 4) Generalized System of Preferences


Ques. : 906 The US President Barack Obama has announced to appoint person of Indian origin (PIO) Nisha Desai Biswalas Assistant Secretary of State for

1) Europe 2) Africa

3) South and Central Asia 4) North and East Asia



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Ques. : 907 Which of the following leading industrial cities based in US has filed for bankruptcy recently?

1) Los Angeles 2) Chicago

3) Detroit 4) Houston


Ques. : 908 The central bank of China announced recently to scrap the floor on lending rates and allowed financialinstitutions (for the first time) to set rates themselves. Which of the following is the central bank of China?

1) The Central Bank of China 2) The People’s Bank of China

3) The People’s Reserve Bank of China 4) The Red Reserve of China


Ques. : 909 Pradeep Sangwan, who failed a random dope test and is found guilty of consuming banned drugs, played forwhich of the following franchisees of IPL during its sixth edition? He is only the second cricketer in the history of IPL to havebeen found guilty.

1) Kolkata Knight Rider 2) Delhi Daredevils

3) Rajasthan Royals 4) Mumbai Indians


Ques. : 910 Bowing to pressure from international lenders, which of the following countries moved to put more than 25,000state workers on notice for dismissal by the end of the year recently?

1) Spain 2) Turkey

3) Greece 4) Cuba


Ques. : 911 Which of the following statements is correct about a recent legislation in Britain?

1) It has legalised gay marriage 2) It has introduced a new liberal asylum policy.

3) It has given the most favoured nation (MFN)status to Pakistan.

4) It has exempted India of visa fee imposed on fivenations including India recently.


Ques. : 912 The Supreme Court recently quashed the notification published by the Medical Council of India (MCI) toconduct NEET. What does NEET stands for?

1) National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test 2) National Enhanced Eligibility Test

3) National Efficiency-cum-Entrance Test 4) National Eligibility-cum-Efficiency Test


Ques. : 913 The finance ministers of BRICS’ member countries met as a follow up of the Durban Summit in which of thefollowing cities recently?

1) Moscow 2) New Delhi

3) Beijing 4) Brasília


Ques. : 914 The world number three Deepika Kumari came up with a stunning effort to lead India to a commanding win overwhich of the following countries in Women’s Recurve Team Final at Archery World Cup Stage 3 being held in Medellin,Colombia?

1) Japan 2) China

3) South Korea 4) Thailand


Ques. : 915 Which of the following statements is/are correct about the recent ruling of the Supreme Court of India in thecontext of sale of acid over-the-counter?

1) There will be total ban on the sale.2) It will be sold only to those individuals who comewith a guarantor.

3) It will be sold only to those individuals who comewith an identity proof.

4) It will be sold only to the individuals above 45years of age.


Ques. : 916 Prince Philippe ascended the throne after the abdication of his father Albert II recently in which of the followingcountries?


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1) Spain 2) Greece

3) Belgium 4) Argentina


Ques. : 917 The fast rising Indian pair of Divij Sharan and Purav Raja clinched its first ever ATP tour level title defeatingwhich of the following pairs in the summit clash of the Claro Open?

1) A Peya and B Soares 2) Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Igor Sijsling

3) Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic 4) Bob and Mike Bryan


Ques. : 918 As per the recent announcement made by the Human Resources Development Minister M M Pallam Raju, themodel schools which are being set up with a view to provide quality secondary education, will be operational from theacademic session

1) 2013-14 2) 2014-15

3) 2015-16 4) 2016-17


Ques. : 919 Who among the following is the Bhutan's Prime Minister-elect after the recent parliamentary elections held inthe country?

1) Tshering Tobgay 2) Lyonpo Zangley Drukpa

3) Khandu Wangchuk 4) Jigme Thinley


Ques. : 920 According to the data released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority recently, which of the followingcountries continued its reign as Sri Lanka’s largest tourist market?

1) Britain 2) US

3) Germany 4) India


Ques. : 921 Which of the following states in India is the largest producer of rice in the country?

1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Andhra Pradesh

3) Tamil Nadu 4) West Bengal


Ques. : 922 The Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has announced to invest $5.1 billion (Rs 30,290 crore) in the next three yearsin its shale gas business in which of the following countries?

1) India 2) China

3) US 4) Australia


Ques. : 923 IDA is an international financial institution which offers concessional loans and grants to the world's poorestdeveloping countries. It is a part of

1) World Bank 2) Asian Development Bank

3) United Nations 4) G-7


Ques. : 924 A five-member panel, headed by former Canara Bank CMD MBN Rao, prepared the blueprint for which of thefollowing?

1) New bank licences 2) Bhartiya Mahila Bank

3) Mechanism to arrest falling rupee4) Measures to stop departure of foreigninstitutional investors (FIIs)


Ques. : 925 Who among the following has taken over as Vice-Chief of the Air Staff? He is also a front runner for Air Chief ofIndia after NAK Browne retires in Dec.

1) SP Tyagi 2) Kishan Kumar Nohwar

3) Anup Raha 4) DC Kumaria



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Ques. : 926 Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the latest revision of the Internet Protocol (IP) which provides

1) Internet connection across the world 2) Necessary clearance to launch new websites

3) An identification and location system forcomputers on networks

4) Specifications for hardware manufacturers tocomply with international standards


Ques. : 927 The new National Manufacturing Policy aims to create 100-mn jobs and increase the share of manufacturing inIndia’s Gross Domestic Product from 16 per cent now to ____by 2022.




Ques. : 928 Which of the following state govts has launched the ‘Phulwari’ scheme to curb malnutrition among childrenaged 6 months to 3 years?

1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Haryana

3) Bihar 4) Karnataka

5) Chhattisgarh Ans.) 5

Ques. : 929 Iran has signed a contract to export gas worth USD 3.7-bn a year, supplying 25-mn cubic metres of gas perday, with which of the following countries?

1) India 2) China

3) Iraq 4) Pakistan


Ques. : 930 The new infectious disease MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) is haunting health authorities acrossthe world. Which of the following is correct about MERS?

1) The first death due to this disease was recordedin Jun 2012 in Saudi Arabia.

2) This disease is similar to SARS.

3) It shows flu-like symptoms but causes kidneyfailure.

4) All the above


Ques. : 931 Satish Babu has been elected to the 2014 Nominating Committee of the ICANN. What does ICANN stands for?

1) Internet Committee for Assigned Numbers andNames

2) International Corporation for Assigned Numbersand Names

3) International Committee for Assigned Numbersand Names

4) Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers andNames


Ques. : 932 According to the latest statistics released by Ministry of Tourism on tourism in India during the year 2012, whichof the following states received highest number of domestic tourists?

1) Uttarakhand 2) Tamil Nadu

3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Jammu and Kashmir


Ques. : 933 Expand the term RIDF.

1) Regional Infrastructure Development Fund 2) Rural Infrastructure Development Fund

3) Rural Industries Development Fund 4) Rural Industries Development Foundation


Ques. : 934 As per the recent data released by the Planning Commission, poverty ratio in India has declined to _____in2011-12.




Ques. : 935 As per the recent news in media, unprecedented heat waves have killed 760 people so far in which of thefollowing countries?


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1) USA 2) Norway

3) Russia 4) UK


Ques. : 936 Name the Afghanistan's first and only female governor who has won prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award for2013.

1) Seng Raw 2) Habiba Sarabi

3) Safia Amajan 4) Hanifa Safi


Ques. : 937 According to the latest survey by the Nielsen, India has been ranked at which of the following positions in theGlobal Consumer Confidence Index?

1) First 2) Second

3) Third 4) Fourth


Ques. : 938 Who among the following has won the best actor award at the 14th edition of the International Indian FilmAcademy (IIFA) Awards 2013 held in Macau recently?

1) Ranbir Kapoor 2) Ranveer Singh

3) Manoj Bajpai 4) Irrfan Khan


Ques. : 939 The 14th meeting of the Home Secretaries of India and which of the following countries was held in New Delhirecently?

1) Sri Lanka 2) Bangladesh

3) Pakistan 4) China


Ques. : 940 Who among the following has authored the book titled Unclaimed Terrain?

1) Vandana Shiva 2) Sachin Garg

3) Ajay Navaria 4) Sachin Kundalkar


Ques. : 941 Chinese navy conducted the largest-ever joint naval drills with which of the following countries in the Sea ofJapan recently?

1) North Korea 2) Pakistan

3) Iran 4) Russia


Ques. : 942 As per the news published in newspapers recently, India’s bilateral trade with which of the following countriesreached $4.4-bn in 2012 which was merely $200-mn in 1992?

1) Italy 2) Spain

3) Israel 4) Taiwan


Ques. : 943 As per the latest data released by the Planning Commission recently, the poverty ratio is highest in which of thefollowing states?

1) Bihar 2) Arunachal Pradesh

3) Manipur 4) Jharkhand

5) Chhattisgarh Ans.) 5

Ques. : 944 The name ‘George Alexander Louis’ was doing rounds in the international media recently. This name isassociated with who among the following?

1) The black boy killed by an officer in US whichcaused countrywide protests.

2) The first royal king of UK.

3) The baby boy born to Prince William and his wifeKate Middleton in UK.

4) The Belgian king who abdicated in favour of hisson.



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Ques. : 945 Name the only Indian film to be selected at the upcoming Venice International Film Festival 2013?

1) Kush 2) Kahaani

3) Barfi 4) Paan Singh Tomar


Ques. : 946 The pole vault queen and double Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva has announced to retire after the WorldAthletics Championships, which would take place in August. She belongs to which of the following countries?

1) US 2) China

3) Russia 4) Uzbekistan


Ques. : 947 The newly created Department of disability affairs, which will strive to meet the needs and welfare of disabled inthe country, has been created in which of the following ministries?

1) Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment 2) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

3) Ministry of Human Resource Development 4) Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports


Ques. : 948 Yves Le Drianis, who paid an official visit to India recently, is the defence minister of which of the followingcountries?

1) Germany 2) France

3) Israel 4) Canada


Ques. : 949 In one of the largest recalls in the history of auto industry in India, which of the following companies recalled 1.llakh vehicles of its multi-purpose vehicle brand?

1) Ford 2) General Motors

3) Suzuki 4) Mahindra and Mahindra


Ques. : 950 Which of the following is NOT the name of a country?

1) Gabon 2) Benin

3) Anguilla 4) Pogo

5) Togo Ans.) 4

Ques. : 951 Consider the following in the context of recent auction of players for the Indian Badminton League (IBL) andidentify that which of the following pairs of players and the franchisee is not correctly matched?

1) Lee Chong Wei – Mumbai Masters 2) Saina Nehwal – Hyderabad Hotshots

3) Sai Praneeth – Delhi Smashers 4) P Kashyap – Banga Beats

5) Jwala Gutta – Lucknow Warriors Ans.) 5

Ques. : 952 In a bid to make sanitation for all a global development priority, the United Nations General Assemblydesignated which of the following days as World Toilet Day?

1) 14 Nov 2) 19 Nov

3) 21 Nov 4) 29 Nov


Ques. : 953 After seven years of design and groundwork, India finally put into space Insat-3D satellite recently. It is anadvanced _______satellite.

1) communication 2) weather

3) exploration 4) defence


Ques. : 954 In which of the following countries, a widely reported train accident took place in which a speeding train turneddown while taking a turn killing 78 people and injuring over 140?

1) UK 2) Canada

3) Spain 4) France



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Ques. : 955 President Pranab Mukherjee praised the Indian Statistical Institute for its exemplary contribution in research,teaching and application of statistics, natural and social sciences addressing the Council Members of the Institute recently.The institute is based in

1) New Delhi 2) Mumbai

3) Kolkata 4) Chennai


Ques. : 956 India’s K Jennitha Anto has become the World Chess Champion after winning the 13th IPCA World Women’sIndividual Chess Championships. Her victory came in ____category.

1) Under-19 2) Disabled

3) Man vs Computer 4) Round-robin


Ques. : 957 Geethu Anna Jose in one the country’s best players associated with which of the following games?

1) Basketball 2) Squash

3) Badminton 4) Tennis


Ques. : 958 According to latest foreign direct investment (FDI) figures released by the British govt recently, which of thefollowing countries has emerged as the largest investor in UK? India emerged as the fourth largest investor in UK.

1) US 2) Japan

3) Germany 4) France

5) Italy Ans.) 1

Ques. : 959 Name India's biggest crude oil producing state which is in process to have its first oil refinery?

1) Gujarat 2) Maharashtra

3) West Bengal 4) Rajasthan


Ques. : 960 Noted scientist Obaid Siddiqi, who died recently, was a pioneer in which of the following fields?

1) Physics 2) Biology

3) Chemistry 4) Mathematics


Ques. : 961 Who among the following has written the recently published book ‘The Hungry Ghosts’?

1) Harish Chandola 2) Shyam Selvadurai

3) AG Noorani 4) Manvendra Singh


Ques. : 962 Dipu Moni came to India on a three-day visit recently. She is foreign minister of which of the followingcountries?

1) Myanmar 2) Thailand

3) Mauritius 4) Bangladesh


Ques. : 963 Who among the following has become the first cricketer to hit 400 sixes in an international career?

1) Shahid Afridi 2) Kevin Pietersen

3) Virat Kohli 4) Chris Gayle


Ques. : 964 Who among the following has written the novel titled ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’?

1) Bhaichand Patel 2) Ketaki Sheth

3) Rukmini Bhaya Nair 4) Dipankar Gupta


Ques. : 965 The Supreme Court directed all states to pay acid attack victims a new compensation towards medicaltreatment and aftercare rehabilitation pointing out that the compensation notified earlier was negligible. What is the newcompensation?


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1) Rs 50,000 2) Rs 1 lakh



Ques. : 966 Continuing its victory streak, the Indian cricket team clinched the five-match ODI series against which of thefollowing countries recently? It was India’s fourth ODI series win in a row.

1) England 2) West Indies

3) Sri Lanka 4) Zimbabwe


Ques. : 967 The Ministry of Finance has asked all public sector banks to set up ATMs in all branches by _______to enablecustomers in rural pockets to do banking round-the-clock.

1) Mar, 2013 2) Sep, 2013

3) Mar, 2014 4) Sep, 2014


Ques. : 968 The suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Shahzad Ahmad was convicted for killing a police inspector andassaulting other cops recently. He has been convicted in which of the following cases?

1) Best Bakery case 2) Batla House encounter

3) Bangalore bomb blast 4) Mumbai bomb blast


Ques. : 969 After Malayalam, Oriya is soon to get the status of classical language. Which of the following languages in NOTamong the five declared classical languages till now?

1) Kannada 2) Telugu

3) Marathi 4) Tamil

5) Sanskrit Ans.) 3

Ques. : 970 The WHO FCTC is the first international treaty negotiated under the auspices of World Health Organisation(WHO). What is the expanded form of FCTC?

1) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 2) Forward Convention on Tobacco Control

3) Foundational Convention on Tobacco Control 4) First Convention on Tobacco Control


Ques. : 971 India produced record 18.45 million tonnes of pulses in the crop year of 2012-13. Which of the following statesis the largest producer of pulses in the country at present?

1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Rajasthan

3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Gujarat


Ques. : 972 Publicis Groupe SA and Omnicom Group Inc have agreed to merge in an all-stock deal to create the world'slargest _____company recently, toppling market leader WPP Plc.

1) investment 2) advertising

3) internet 4) retail


Ques. : 973 Defending champions India will take on arch-foes Pakistan in their opening match of the ICC cricket World Cupto be played in 2015 which will be hosted by

1) West Indies 2) Australia and New Zealand jointly

3) England 4) India and Sri Lanka jointly


Ques. : 974 Who among the following has been selected for the prestigious Lokmanya Tilak award for 2013?

1) Amartya Sen 2) Jagdish Bhagwati

3) Kiran Bedi 4) E Sreedharan


Ques. : 975 Name the India-born nominee of ruling PML-N party of Pakistan, who is set to become the 12th Presidentsucceeding incumbent Asif Ali Zardari.


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1) Khursheed Alam 2) Raza Rabbani

3) Wajihuddin Ahmed 4) Mamnoon Hussain


Ques. : 976 The Israeli Cabinet has voted in favor of which of the following to give a push to the Middle East peace processrecently?

1) To cut its troops on the Palestinian border 2) To release 104 Palestinian prisoners

3) To recognise the new govt of Palestine 4) To provide financial assistance to Palestine


Ques. : 977 The breaststroke specialist Ruta Meilutyte became the first swimmer to break a world record winning the 100metres in one minute 04.35 seconds at the 15th FINA World Championships recently. She belongs to which of the followingcountries?

1) Lithuania 2) Estonia

3) Latvia 4) China

5) Russia Ans.) 1

Ques. : 978 Who among the following has won the Hungarian Grand Prix recently?

1) Mark Webber 2) Lewis Hamilton

3) Fernando Alonso 4) Sebastian Vettel


Ques. : 979 The name of Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of Gautam Budh Nagar, Durga Shakti Nagpal, was in newsrecently for which of the following reasons?

1) Being suspended by the Uttar Pradesh stategovt.

2) Ordering demolition of a makeshift temple in thedistrict.

3) Allegedly being killed by her husband.4) Her harsh steps against drug peddlers in thedistrict.


Ques. : 980 The Global Tiger Day is observed on which of the following days?

1) Jul 12 2) Jul 18

3) Jul 29 4) Jul 30


Ques. : 981 In a bid to further curb the import of the metal, the Govt has ordered that for gold exports from SEZs, ___percent value addition is must.

1) 1 2) 2

3) 3 4) 5


Ques. : 982 Who among the following is set to become the first woman managing director at the Life Insurance Corporation(LIC) of India in its near six decades of existence?

1) Kishori J Udeshi 2) Usha Thorat

3) Shyamala Gopinath 4) Usha Sangwan


Ques. : 983 Who among the following was the first woman deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?

1) Kishori J Udeshi 2) Usha Thorat

3) Shyamala Gopinath 4) Usha Sangwan


Ques. : 984 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in its recent policy review, has lowered the growth projection for the currentfiscal to what per cent and asked the govt to undertake policy measures to improve investment climate?





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Ques. : 985 The ruling UPA coalition unanimously decided to create Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh clearing thedeck for the new state. When created, Telangana will be ____state of India.

1) 28th 2) 29th

3) 30th 4) 31st


Ques. : 986 Who among the following has been appointed as the new Director General (DG) of the National InvestigationAgency (NIA)?

1) SC Sinha 2) Sharad Kumar

3) KK Paul 4) Sujata Singh


Ques. : 987 Name the chief executive officer of Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA) who resigned from the post recentlyto press for a separate Gorkhaland.

1) Vikramjit Sen 2) Madan Tamang

3) Bimal Gurung 4) Deep Thapa


Ques. : 988 India beat which of the following nations 1-0 to lift the South Asian Football Federation Under-16Championships title recently?

1) Pakistan 2) Nepal

3) Malaysia 4) Bangladesh


Ques. : 989 The govt has proposed to raise __________by way of disinvestment in the current fiscal.

1) Rs 10,000 cr 2) Rs 20,000 cr

3) Rs 30,000 cr 4) Rs 40,000 cr


Ques. : 990 Who among the following has written the book titled ‘The Infatuations’?

1) Shyam Selvadurai 2) Javier Marias

3) Raza Rumi 4) Devdutt Pattanaik

5) Rukmini Bhaya Nair Ans.) 2

Ques. : 991 In a move to help transgenders and bring them into the social mainstream, which of the following state govtshas announced a new scheme called “Mythri”?

1) Gujarat 2) Madhya Prasesh

3) Karnataka 4) Tamil Nadu


Ques. : 992 Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has filed paperwork to run for a Senate seat in which of the followingcountries?

1) Equador 2) UK

3) Australia 4) Chile


Ques. : 993 Indian envoy VP Haran met Bhutan’s new Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay recently to convey him the messageof restoring the supply of ______to his country from Aug 1.

1) Fuel 2) Foodgrains

3) Machinery 4) Arms


Ques. : 994 The US Senate approved James Comey as new director of which of the following?

1) FBI 2) CIA

3) Federal Reserve 4) USAID


Ques. : 995 Taliban backed militants stormed into the prison at Dera Ismail Khan city freeing over 250 prisoners recently inwhich of the following countries?


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1) Iraq 2) Pakistan

3) Afghanistan 4) Iran


Ques. : 996 Name the legendary woman tennis player who was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame recently?

1) Venus Williams 2) Steffi Graf

3) Martina Navratilova 4) Martina Hingis


Ques. : 997 The Formula One management has dropped which of the following countries from its 2014 schedule? The US(New Jersey) and Russia (Sochi) are set to host their maiden races in 2014.

1) India 2) Austria

3) Hungry 4) Germany


Ques. : 998 Who among the following has been selected to be honoured with the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi NationalSadhbhavna Award for his contribution towards promotion of communal harmony and peace?

1) Alla Rakha 2) Hariprasad Chaurasia

3) Amjad Ali Khan 4) Shivkumar Sharma

5) Ustad Zakir Hussain Ans.) 3

Ques. : 999 The suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist Shahzad Ahmed, convicted in the 2008 Batla House encountercase, has been sentenced by a Delhi court to

1) death 2) life imprisonment

3) 10-year imprisonment 4) 5-year imprisonment


Ques. : 1000 Which of the following Internet giants has launched ‘Start Searching India’ campaign aimed at helping Internetusers to get the most out of it?

1) Microsoft 2) Google

3) Yahoo 4) Sun Microsystems


Ques. : 1001 The US Army Private Bradley Manning has been acquitted of aiding the enemy, the most serious charge hefaced, but was convicted of espionage, theft and other charges. He is convicted of spilling secrets to

1) Al Qaeda 2) Lashkar-e-Taiba

3) ISI 4) Wikileaks


Ques. : 1002 India’s no. 1 player Aditya Mehta clinched the gold medal in the World Games defeating China’s Liang Wenbo.Aditya plays

1) Chess 2) Badminton

3) Snooker 4) Squash


Ques. : 1003 Which country has given a one-year asylum to Edward Snowden?

1) Brazil 2) Ecuador

3) Russia 4) Uruguay


Ques. : 1004 Uruguay is on the verge of legalising the production, sale and consumption of

1) cocaine 2) marijuana

3) cannabis 4) LSD


Ques. : 1005 The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) has revoked the patent granted to the British drug majorGlaxoSmithKline Pharma for its breast cancer drug

1) Tamoxifen 2) Raloxifene

3) Tykerb 4) Toremifine


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Ques. : 1006 Mohit Sharma has become the second Indian to get Man of the Match award on his ODI debut. Who was thefirst?

1) Sandeep Patil 2) Brijesh Patel

3) Chetan Sharma 4) Amit Mishra


Ques. : 1007 The breaststroke specialist Ruta Meilutyte became the first swimmer to break a world record winning the 100metres in one minute 04.35 seconds at the 15th FINA World Championships recently. She belongs to which of the followingcountries?

1) Lithuania 2) Estonia

3) Latvia 4) China

5) Russia Ans.) 1

Ques. : 1008 Name India's biggest crude oil producing state which is in process to have its first oil refinery?

1) Gujarat 2) Maharashtra



Ques. : 1009 In one of the largest recalls in the history of auto industry in India, which of the following companies recalled1.l lakh vehicles of its multi-purpose vehicle brand?

1) Ford 2) General Motors

3) Suzuki 4) Mahindra and Mahindra


Ques. : 1010 Who among the following has authored the book titled Unclaimed Terrain?

1) Vandana Shiva 2) Sachin Garg

3) Ajay Navaria 4) Sachin Kundalkar


Ques. : 1011 IDA is an international financial institution which offers concessional loans and grants to the world's poorestdeveloping countries. It is a part of

1) World Bank 2) Asian Development Bank

3) United Nations 4) G-7


Ques. : 1012 According to the data released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority recently, which of thefollowing countries continued its reign as Sri Lanka’s largest tourist market?

1) Britain 2) US

3) Germany 4) India


Ques. : 1013 The Union Minister Pallam Raju with other from Andhra region has offered to quit in protest against decision toform Telangana. He is _______minister in the present cabinet.

1) Human Resources Development 2) Chemicals and Fertilizers

3) Law and Justice 4) Communications and Information Technology


Ques. : 1014 In an attempt to develop ways and means to reduce carbon foot-print through technological innovation, theJawaharlal Nehru National Solar mission seeks to develop ______of power generating capacity by the end of 13th five Yearplan.

1) 5,000 MW 2) 10,000 MW

3) 15,000 MW 4) 20,000 MW


Ques. : 1015 Since Iran is an important country for India for its long-time energy security, who is visiting Iran to representIndia at the inauguration ceremony of new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani?


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1) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh 2) Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid

3) Finance Minister P Chidambaram 4) Vice President Hamid Ansari


Ques. : 1016 Which of the following countries has decided to give Edward Snowden, the US National Security Agency'ssecret telephone and Internet surveillance programme leaker, temporary asylum?

1) Ecuador 2) Venezuela

3) Chile 4) Russia


Ques. : 1017 Expand the term MIDF.

1) Marketing Industry Development Fund 2) Manufacturing Industry Development Fund

3) Manure Industry Development Fund 4) Mutual Fund Industry Development Fund


Ques. : 1018 The govt has approved a scheme for providing short-term crop loans to farmers at concessional rate and inaddition to this, subvention of 3 per cent will also be provided to those farmers who repay their loans on time. Theconcessional rate will be




Ques. : 1019 The govt is all set to amend the RTI Act to thwart an order of the CIC. This amendment is aimed at

1) keeping non-govt organisations (NGOs) out ofthe purview of the CIC.

2) keeping political parties out of the purview of theCIC.

3) keeping BCCI out of the purview of the CIC.4) keeping private banks out of the purview of theCIC.


Ques. : 1020 V Dakshinamoorthy, who passed away recently, was a veteran

1) music director 2) film director

3) violist 4) flutist


Ques. : 1021 The World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), an annual celebration, is observed from _______in more than 120countries.

1) 1st Aug until 7th Aug 2) 1st Jul until 7th Jul

3) 1st Jun until 7th Jun 4) 1st May until 7th May


Ques. : 1022 The administration of which of the following countries has announced a grant of more than half a milliondollars for the victims of the Oak Creek Gurdwara shootout which took place a year ago?

1) UK 2) US

3) Canada 4) Italy


Ques. : 1023 Indian girls created history by winning country's first ever bronze medal in the junior women hockey WorldCup. They defeated which of the following countries to achieve this feat?

1) England 2) Pakistan

3) South Korea 4) Japan


Ques. : 1024 The 4,411-metre-high Daocheng Yading airport, which will become the world’s highest civilian airport when putinto operation later this year, is coming up in which of the following countries?

1) Japan 2) Thailand




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Ques. : 1025 The Karbi Anglong district, which is in news for violence over the demand for a separate state, is situated in

1) West Bengal 2) Assam

3) Maharashtra 4) Uttar Pradesh


Ques. : 1026 Indian cricket team whitewashed Zimbabwe 5-0 recently. This victory marks

1) India’s maiden 5-0 whitewash abroad 2) India’s maiden series win abroad

3) India’s maiden 5-0 whitewash against any teamanywhere

4) India’s second 5-0 whitewash abroad


Ques. : 1027 Expand the term FMC.

1) Foreign Markets Commission 2) Forward Markets Commission

3) Forward Markets Corporation 4) Foreign Markets Corporation


Ques. : 1028 The govt appointed Arundhati Bhattacharya as Managing Director of which of the following banks recently?

1) Union Bank of India (UBI) 2) Punjab National Bank (PNB)

3) State Bank of India (SBI) 4) Bank of Baroda (BoB)


Ques. : 1029 In which of the following countries, the Supreme Court upheld a tax fraud conviction and a four-year jailsentence to former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi recently?

1) Spain 2) France

3) Greece 4) Italy


Ques. : 1030 Who among the following has written the book titled ‘Making Peace With The Earth’?

1) Vandana Shiva 2) Bhaichand Patel

3) Kuldip Nayar 4) Rukmini Bhaya Nair


Ques. : 1031 The govt approved creation of the Special National Investment Fund for meeting the minimum publicshareholding of 10 per cent requirement in six Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) as

1) These PSUs are not keen to comply with theSebi norms.

2) The govt is not willing to lose its control overthese companies.

3) These PSUs are newly established and lack anytrack record to attract public investment.

4) These PSUs are not financially sound.


Ques. : 1032 India has launched the project to build its biggest Indigenous Aircraft Carrier warship with a displacement of40,000-tonne. Which of the following countries is not among the nations capable of designing and building 40,000-tonneaircraft carriers till date?

1) UK 2) Russia

3) France 4) US


Ques. : 1033 Expand the term WDRA.

1) Wasteland Development Regulatory Authority2) Warehousing Development and ResearchAuthority

3) Warehousing Development Regulatory Authority 4) Wildlife Development and Research Authority


Ques. : 1034 Who among the following has won the Zimbabwean’s presidential elections for the seventh straight termrecently?

1) Morgan Tsvangirai 2) Robert Mugabe

3) Sen John Landa 4) Joyce Teurai Ropa Mujuru



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Ques. : 1035 Consider the following statements with respect to the National Skill Development Council (NSDC) and identifythe correct statements:

1) The Finance Minister P Chidambaram hasallocated of Rs 1,000 cr for NSDC in the budget for2013-14.

2) It aims to train 1 mn youth in the country withspecialised skills in the next few years.

3) It guarantees the placement of all the trainees inPublic Sector Undertakings.

4) All the above

5) Only (1) and (2) Ans.) 5

Ques. : 1036 Suicide bombers tried to bomb the Indian consulate in which of the following countries where 12 people werekilled when the attackers detonated explosives short of the target?

1) Afghanistan 2) Pakistan



Ques. : 1037 Which of the following has become the first state in the country to establish State Natural Calamities Relieffund of Rs 125 cr?

1) Uttarakhand 2) Gujarat

3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Karnataka


Ques. : 1038 Shanghai Tower, which is under construction as the tallest building of China, is set to be the second tallestbuilding of the world. The tallest building of the world is situated at which of the following places?

1) Dubai 2) New York

3) Kuala Lumpur 4) Paris


Ques. : 1039 After the govt’s move on Telangana, the country is witnessing protests demanding creation of separate statesfrom various regions. Which of the following is NOT correctly matched in this regard?

1) West Bengal: Gorkhaland 2) Assam: Bodoland

3) Uttar Pradesh: Purvanchal, Bundelkhand, AwadhPradesh, and Paschim Pradesh

4) Maharashtra: Vidarbha


Ques. : 1040 Which of the following ministries under Govt of India has become the first Central Ministry to be awarded ISO9001:2008, Quality Management System certification by the Bureau of Indian Standards?

1) Ministry of Finance 2) Ministry of Steel

3) Ministry of Planning 4) Ministry of Space


Ques. : 1041 The Saraswati Samman is given every year in which of the following fields?

1) Classical Music 2) Classical Dance

3) Literary work (in any Indian language which isthe part of Eighth Schedule of the Constitution)

4) Literary work (in Hindi language)


Ques. : 1042 The Vice President of India M Hamid Ansari released the book titled ‘The Future of Indian Agriculture’ recently.This book is written by

1) Yoginder K Alagh 2) Kuldip Nayar



Ques. : 1043 Who among the following has been appointed the new RBI Governor to succeed D Subbarao when he retireson 5 Sep?

1) Raghuram G Rajan 2) Kaushik Basu

3) Arvind Mayaram 4) Saumitra Chaudhuri


Ques. : 1044 Who among the following has become the first differently-abled Indian to win a gold medal in the recently-heldsixth edition of the Para Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France?


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1) Devendra Jhajharia 2) RD Singh

3) Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda 4) Sharath Gayakwad


Ques. : 1045 Amazon founder and chief executive officer Jeffrey P Bezos has agreed to buy which of the following iconicnewspaper of the US for USD 250 mn?

1) The New York Times 2) The Washington Post

3) Newsweek 4) New York Post


Ques. : 1046 Name the Indian chess player who has won Politiken Cup in Denmark recently.

1) Pendyala Harikrishna 2) Parimarjan Negi

3) Abhijeet Gupta 4) Krishnan Sasikiran


Ques. : 1047 Which of the following sate govts has decided to appoint Arogya Mitras in each privately run charitablehospitals to ensure that poor patients get treatment under the Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayi Yojana (RGJY)? RGJY is meant toprovide insurance cover to patients belonging to the Below Poverty Line (BPL).

1) Maharashtra 2) Rajasthan

3) Delhi 4) Himachal Pradesh


Ques. : 1048 In Japan, tens of thousands people gathered to mark the 68th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of theJapanese city Hiroshima. The city was bombed on ______ (1945) which killed an estimated 140,000 people.

1) Aug 4 2) Aug 5

3) Aug 6 4) Aug 7


Ques. : 1049 As per the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) prescribed guidelines that if a borrower, who has already availedcorporate debt restructuring, plans to seek recast for the second time, then banks will have to provide _______as provision.




Ques. : 1050 As rupee touched its all-time low level of Rs 61.51 against the US dollar recently, Indian stock market slippedbelow the trillion-dollar level in terms of total valuation of all listed companies. Which of the following countries is NOT amongthe 13 members of the trillion-dollar club?

1) Australia 2) Brazil

3) Switzerland 4) Canada

5) Russia Ans.) 5

Ques. : 1051 Which of the following games has/have been excluded in the upcoming 2014 Glasgow CommonwealthGames?

1) Team events in shooting 2) Greco Roman Wrestling

3) Archery 4) All the above


Ques. : 1052 The South Korean city of Incheon won the bid to host the 2014 Asian Games over India's New Delhi asannounced by the Olympic Council of Asia recently. The inaugural edition of Asian Games was hosted by

1) Beijing, China 2) Jakarta, Indonesia

3) Tokyo, Japan 4) New Delhi, India

5) Manila, Philippines Ans.) 4

Ques. : 1053 Consider the following statements with respect to the appointment of new governor of the Reserve Bank ofIndia (RBI) and choose the correct statement(s):

1) The erstwhile chief economic advisor in thefinance ministry, Raghuram Rajan, has beenappointed as the 23rd Governor of the RBI.

2) The appointment of Raghuram Rajan as the newgovernor of RBI has been done for a term of threeyears.

3) Raghuram Rajan is the first non-IAS servant tosteer the RBI till date.

4) All the above


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Ques. : 1054 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) imposed a penalty of Rs 5,62,555 on which of the following banks recentlyfor violation of the terms of agreement with RBI for opening and maintaining currency chests? Earlier, the RBI had imposed apenalty of Rs 3 cr on the same bank for violating know your customer (KYC)/anti-money laundering norms.

1) Punjab National Bank (PNB) 2) State Bank of India (SBI)

3) HDFC Bank 4) Axis Bank


Ques. : 1055 Name the new Hindi television serial to be aired by the Doordarshan which through its narrative wouldshowcase the benefits of UPA govt's policies and schemes?

1) Poorva Suhani Aayi Re 2) Chaki Purva Ki Aur

3) Bharat Nirman 4) Badhate Kadam


Ques. : 1056 Which of the following state has become the first state in the country to disburse salary of its staff throughtheir Aadhaar-linked bank accounts?


3) Maharashtra 4) Delhi


Ques. : 1057 The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the owners of which of the following leading mobilemanufacturers in India recently over the charges of allegedly giving a bribe of Rs 30-lakh to engineers of the North DelhiMunicipal Corporation?

1) Samsung 2) Micromax

3) Carbonn 4) Nokia


Ques. : 1058 The book titled ‘Revolution From Above: India’s Future and the Citizen Elite’ has been written by who amongthe following?

1) Gomathi Narayanan 2) Yusuf Ansari

3) Romila Thapar 4) Dipankar Gupta


Ques. : 1059 As per the data released by Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), agriculture sector is estimated to grow at____ in 2012-13 at 2004-05 prices.




Ques. : 1060 Which of the following countries recently unveiled its biggest warship since World War II named “Izumo”?

1) South Korea 2) North Korea

3) Japan 4) China


Ques. : 1061 RITES is the engineering and consultancy arm of Indian Railways. Expand the term RITES.

1) Rail India Technical and Engineering Services 2) Rail India Tourism and Expedition Services

3) Rail India Training and Experimental Services 4) Rail India Technical and Economic Services


Ques. : 1062 The Section 33 of the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995 of the Indian Constitution envisages ¬¬_____percent reservations for persons with disability in identified posts in Government establishments.

1) One 2) Two

3) Three 4) Four


Ques. : 1063 Name the defending women’s singles champion of the World Badminton Championships whom India's risingshuttler PV Sindhu defeated in the quarterfinals in Guangzhou, China recently.


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1) Yihan Wang 2) Wang Shixian

3) Saina Nehwal 4) Li Xuerui


Ques. : 1064 The 'NSDF 50' scheme is associated with which of the following?

1) To identify 50 athletes in various disciplines forcustomised training to improve the India's Olympicperformance.

2) To identify 50 MSMEs and provide them financialassistance to boost manufacturing sector in thecountry.

3) To select 50 meritorious students from across thecountry and provide them scholarships for highereducation.

4) To identify 50 sites to be developed asmanufacturing hubs.


Ques. : 1065 Which of the following awards is/are associated with the field of sports?

1) Arjuna award 2) Dhyanchand award

3) Dronacharya award 4) All the above


Ques. : 1066 General public can now access over 3,500 govt data banks on a single website having a wealth ofinformation, ranging from beneficiaries under various schemes to industrial output numbers. Name the website.

1) www.info.gov.in 2) www.data.gov.in

3) www.public.nic.in 4) www.govtinfo.nic.in


Ques. : 1067 As a measure to arrest the slide in the rupee, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced to sell govt bondsworth _____every Monday to check volatility in the forex market.

1) Rs 12,000 cr 2) Rs 14,000 cr

3) Rs 18,000 cr 4) Rs 22,000 cr


Ques. : 1068 Consider the following statements with respect to Companies Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha in Dec 2012and adopted by the Rajya Sabha by voice vote recently and choose the correct statement(s):

1) The bill will replace the nearly five decade oldCompanies Act.

2) The bill prescribes 33 new definitions includingthe concept of one person company.

3) Under the provisions of the bill, the name of theNational Advisory Committee on Accountingstandards has been changed to National FinancialReporting Authority.

4) All the above


Ques. : 1069 Cabinet has approved the proposal for establishing a ‘New Media Wing’ in the Information and BroadcastingMinistry for which of the following purposes recently?

1) To censor the news published in the onlinemedia.

2) To propagate India’s stand on internationalissues on the online media.

3) Publicizing govt’s initiatives through multiplesocial media platforms.

4) Publicizing govt’s initiatives through mobiledisplays and electronic hoardings.


Ques. : 1070 Indian under-19 cricket team ended their tour of which of the following countries recently winning thelimited-overs series 2-0?


3) Australia 4) New Zealand


Ques. : 1071 Which of the following plans has been proposed by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation in12th Five Year Plan, which will replace the existing Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY)?

1) National Urban Livelihoods Mission 2) National Urban Employment Mission

3) Rashtriya Shahari Rozgar Yojana 4) Rajiv Gandhi Shahari Rozgar Yojana



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Ques. : 1072 In the context of recent notification issued by IRDA on licensing banks as insurance brokers, which of thefollowing statements is/are correct?

1) Banks should apply under the direct brokercategory.

2) Banks should obtain prior approval of theReserve Bank of India (RBI) before applying for alicence to act as an insurance broker.

3) The licence, once granted, will be valid for tenyears. There is no requirement of capital for entitieslicensed under this particular regulation.

4) Only 1) and 2)


Ques. : 1073 A new govt headed by Prime Minister Jiri Rusnok lost parliamentary confidence vote recently creating asituation of political uncertainty in

1) Czech Republic 2) Philippines

3) Indonesia 4) Slovakia


Ques. : 1074 Which of the following statements is/are correct in the context of features of the recently passed CompaniesBill 2012?

1) Business friendly corporate Regulation/pro-business initiatives

2) Good Corporate Governance and CSR

3) Better framework for insolvency regulation 4) All the above


Ques. : 1075 The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is considering the recommendation made by OliverWyman on an organisational rejig. What is Oliver Wyman?

1) A renowned international economist 2) Adviser to US Secretary of Finance

3) An international consulting firm 4) Advisory arm of IMF


Ques. : 1076 The Ulchi Freedom Guardian is the name of an annual critical alliance exercise between which of the followingtwo countries?

1) US and South Korea 2) US and Japan

3) US and Australia 4) US and Israel


Ques. : 1077 India named a young 18-member squad to be led by the inspirational Sardar Singh in the crucial Asia Cuphockey tournament scheduled from Aug 24th to 1st Sep in

1) Prague, Czech Republic 2) Ipoh, Malaysia

3) Seoul, Korea 4) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


Ques. : 1078 Expand the term USSD.

1) User Supplementary Service Data 2) Unstructured Supplementary Support Data

3) User Structured Service Data 4) Unstructured Supplementary Service Data


Ques. : 1079 India entered into a select club of countries capable of designing and building an aircraft carrier with thelaunch of the first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant recently. It is a ____tonne carrier.

1) 20,000 2) 40,000

3) 60,000 4) 80,000


Ques. : 1080 Kishtwar was in news recently for communal violence. It is situated in which of the following states?

1) Andhra Pradesh 2) Karnataka

3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Jammu and Kashmir


Ques. : 1081 Fighting between two Arab tribes, Rezeigat and the rival Maaliya, killed more than 100 people in Darfur regionin


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1) Nigeria 2) Algeria

3) Sudan 4) Somalia


Ques. : 1082 Which of the following states has decided to recruit 11000 constables and 1500 women police personnel andset up one women police station in each district to curb the crime against women?

1) Punjab 2) Delhi

3) Haryana 4) Uttar Pradesh


Ques. : 1083 In a major step towards completing its nuclear triad, India activated the atomic reactor on-board the nuclearsubmarine INS Arihant paving the way for its operational deployment by the Navy. The submarione has been

1) indigenously developed 2) sourced from France

3) sourced from Russia 4) sourced from Israel


Ques. : 1084 The finance ministry has written to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), as well as other regulators such as theSecurities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), to issue directives for financial companies to start accepting e-KYC. Which ofthe following is a valid e-KYC?

1) Bank passbook 2) Aadhaar number

3) Driving licence 4) Voter ID


Ques. : 1085 The term ‘Death Cross’ is associated with which of the following?

1) Stock Exchange 2) Defence

3) Christianity 4) Astronomy


Ques. : 1086 Bhutan's new Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay will embark on his maiden visit to India soon to discuss issueslike rupee crunch and funds for the Himalayan nation's ________plan with Indian leadership.

1) 9th five-year 2) 10th five-year

3) 11th five-year 4) 12th five-year


Ques. : 1087 Which of the following countries has announced to sell 145 state-of-the-art 155mm towed Howitzers to Indiaworth about USD 885 mn recently?

1) Switzerland 2) Russia

3) US 4) Germany


Ques. : 1088 India's rising shuttler PV Sindhu has settled for a bronze medal at the World Championships. She wasdefeated in the semifinals by

1) Li Xuerui 2) Ratchanok Inthanon

3) Wang Shixian 4) Juliane Schenk


Ques. : 1089 Asian Games gold medalist Sudha Singh failed to qualify for women’s_________ in the 14th IAAF WorldAthletics Championships in Moscow.

1) discuss throw 2) 3000m steeple chase

3) 100-metre sprint race 4) butterfly swimming


Ques. : 1090 Who among the following has won gold medal at the IWF World Masters weightlifting championships held inTurin, Italy recently?

1) Jan-Olof kesson 2) Jari Huuskonen

3) Yogeshwar Dutt 4) Sudhakar Jayant



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Ques. : 1091 The military of which of the following countries launched an offensive against a Muslim rebel groupBangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement active in that country recently?

1) Egypt 2) Argentina

3) Malaysia 4) Philippine


Ques. : 1092 Expand the term NSDF.

1) National Squash Development Fund 2) National Sugarcane Development Fund

3) National Sports Development Fund 4) National Soybean Development Fund


Ques. : 1093 Indian Table Tennis Players Soumyajit Ghosh and Manika Batra bagged the men’s and women’s singles titlesrespectively of __________recently.

1) Malaysia Open 2) Singapore Open

3) Brazil Open 4) Indonesia Open


Ques. : 1094 Name the trap shooter who has been recommended for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award for2013. He is the first Indian to win two back-to-back World Cup gold medals.

1) Ronjan Sodhi 2) Rajkumari Rathore

3) Vijay Kumar 4) Gagan Narang


Ques. : 1095 Name the electronics major which has launched its range of smartphones and tabs that will support contentand user interface in nine major regional languages of India.

1) Samsung 2) LG

3) Nokia 4) Apple

5) Micromax Ans.) 1

Ques. : 1096 As part of efforts to contain the current account deficit, the Govt raised customs duty on gold and platinumfrom 8 per cent to ______recently.




Ques. : 1097 Which of the following states in India observed 'Patriots Day' on 13 Aug to pay tribute to the warriors whofought with British in the war of 1891?

1) Assam 2) Manipur

3) Tripura 4) Arunachal Pradesh


Ques. : 1098 The Govt of India’s ‘Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) programme is aimed at providing which of the followingfacilities to the entire rural India?

1) Drinking water supply 2) Sewerage system

3) Waste management system 4) Both 1) and 2)


Ques. : 1099 In which of the following countries, the President Enrique Pena Nieto has proposed to open up state-run oilindustry to private sector to fulfill the needs of investment and expertise to develop new oil and gas fields?

1) Brazil 2) Chile

3) Cuba 4) Mexico


Ques. : 1100 The inaugural Indian Badminton League (IBL) kicked off at the Siri Fort sports complex in New Delhi recently.Which of the following statements is/are correct with respect to IBL?

1) It is a USD 1-mn event.2) A total of 90 matches will be played during thetournament which features six franchises.

3) The top four teams will clash in the semi-finalsand the winners will meet in the final on August 31in Mumbai.

4) All the above


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Ques. : 1101 Who among the following has won the Montreal Masters tennis tournament recently?

1) Novak Djokovic 2) Roger Federer

3) Milos Raonic 4) Rafael Nadal

5) Andy Murray Ans.) 4

Ques. : 1102 Expressing concern over the recent tragedy in Uttarakhand, the Supreme Court of India has prohibited thesetting up of which of the following projects in the state?

1) New residential projects 2) Developing new industrial hubs

3) New hydro-electric power projects 4) Developing new tourist spots


Ques. : 1103 Who among the following is not included in the list of awardees of Arjuna award for 2013?

1) Virat Kohli (Cricket) 2) Gaganjeet Bhullar (Golf)

3) P V Sindhu (Badminton) 4) Kavita Chahal (Boxing)

5) Ronjan Sodhi Ans.) 5

Ques. : 1104 In a major setback to the Indian Navy, a submarine caught fire after a massive explosion and sank in thedockyard in Mumbai recently. Name the submarine.

1) INS Sindhukesri 2) INS Sindhurakshak

3) INS Sindhuratna 4) INS Vindhyagiri


Ques. : 1105 India's Vikas Gowda is associated with which of the following games?

1) Discus throw 2) Archery

3) Shooting 4) Wrestling


Ques. : 1106 Who among the following has clinched the women’s singles title of Rogers Cup recently?

1) Serena Williams 2) Sorana Cirstea

3) Maria Sharapova 4) Victoria Azarenka


Ques. : 1107 Amid demands from various parties, govt said in Lok Sabha that it will consider bringing a constitutionalamendment to annul a Supreme Court order against reservation for faculty in________.

1) central universities 2) Indian Institute of Technology (IITs)

3) Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) 4) superspeciality section in AIIMS


Ques. : 1108 The Public Sector Banks (PSBs) are banks where a majority stake (i.e. more than 50%) is held by the govt.Which of the following banks is the second largest public sector bank among the 26 PSUs in India?

1) Punjab National Bank 2) Bank of Baroda

3) Canara Bank 4) Bank of India

5) Central Bank of India Ans.) 1

Ques. : 1109 The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is an international organisation for approval of Carbon CreditProjects under which of the following?

1) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2) United Nation Security Council

3) European Union + US Panel4) United Nations Framework Convention onClimate Change

5) Kyoto Protocol Ans.) 4

Ques. : 1110 Which of the following statements is/are correct with respect to IFSC code used in banking system?

1) IFSC stands for Indian Financial Standard Code.2) IFSC is used by the NEFT system to route themessage to the destination banks/branches.

3) It is an 11 digit alphanumeric unique code. 4) All the above



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Ques. : 1111 Which of the following international organisations and the Centre signed an agreement for US $300 mnadditional loan to upgrade 254 kilometres of deteriorated highways in northern and southern Bihar?

1) International Monetary Fund (IMF) 2) The Asian Development Bank (ADB)

3) Word Bank 4) Bank of Japan


Ques. : 1112 Expand the term CTS.

1) Cheque Tracking System 2) Cheque Transfer System

3) Cheque Timing System 4) Cheque Truncation System


Ques. : 1113 The multi media campaign ‘Glimpses of India Story’ of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is an attempt

1) to reach the people informing them about richIndian culture and heritage.

2) to reach the people to create awareness aboutsanitation and hygiene.

3) to reach the people to create awareness aboutimportance of girl child.

4) to reach the people informing them about variouswelfare schemes of the govt.


Ques. : 1114 Hundreds of people were killed in which of the following countries recently when the security forces, backedby bulldozers and armoured vehicles, stormed camps occupied by supporters of the ousted president of the country?

1) Syria 2) Egypt

3) Nigeria 4) Mali


Ques. : 1115 Who among the following has written the book titled ‘The Billionaire’s Apprentice’?

1) Devdutt Pattanaik 2) Dipankar Gupta

3) Vinod Mehta 4) Anita Raghavan


Ques. : 1116 India 'A' clinched the cricket tri-series title with a comfortable 50-run victory over Australia 'A' recently. It wasIndia's ______'A' tournament victory since the concept was introduced in 1994.

1) First 2) Third

3) Fifth 4) Sixth


Ques. : 1117 Former National champions B Adhiban and Krishnan Sasikiran are associated with which of the followinggames?

1) Chess 2) Billiards

3) Discus throw 4) Archery


Ques. : 1118 The self regulatory body of the TV industry, BCCC, slapped penalties on two channels for airing objectionablecontent recently. What is the full form of BCCC?

1) Broadcasting Content Complaints Council 2) Broadcasting Control and Complaints Council

3) Broadcasting Content Complaints Committee 4) Broadcasting Control and Complaints Committee


Ques. : 1119 NASA's Juno spacecraft reached halfway to which of the following planets recently, touching a milestone in itsfive-year voyage?

1) Mercury 2) Jupiter

3) Venus 4) Mars


Ques. : 1120 The typhoon Utor hit which of the following countries recently forcing tens of thousands of people toevacuate?

1) Myanmar 2) China

3) Japan 4) South Korea



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Ques. : 1121 Ibrahim Keita won the presidential elections in which of the following countries recently?

1) Malaysia 2) Congo

3) Mali 4) Algeria


Ques. : 1122 The naval guards of which of the following countries detained the Indian vessel MT Desh Shanti, which wasbringing crude oil from Iraq, for allegedly causing pollution recently?

1) Pakistan 2) Iran

3) Saudi Arabia 4) Oman


Ques. : 1123 As per the decision made by the central govt recently, one young member of each village household will beprovided skill and placement support who has completed a specified number of days of work under

1) Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana 2) Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana

3) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural EmploymentGuarantee Act

4) Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana


Ques. : 1124 India has planned to double bilateral trade with which of the following countries to USD 10 bn in next threeyears? Since the free trade agreement become operational in 2000, trade has multiplied by as much as eight times betweenthe two countries.

1) Sri Lanka 2) Thailand

3) Myanmar 4) Singapore


Ques. : 1125 Name the France's top female tennis player and the current Wimbledon women's champion, who hasannounced retirement from professional tennis recently?

1) Sabine Lisicki 2) Marion Bartoli

3) Samantha Stosur 4) Kirsten Flipkens


Ques. : 1126 Mohamed ElBaradei, who resigned from his post recently, was

1) Director General of the International AtomicEnergy Agency

2) The joint UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria

3) Interim president of Egypt 4) Interim vice president of Egypt


Ques. : 1127 What does ‘Kite Flying’ refers to in the banking terminology?

1) The practice of depositing and withdrawingfrequently in a bank account.

2) Opening of multiple accounts with differentnames by any individual

3) Doing unauthorised business 4) Permitting drawls against uncleared cheques


Ques. : 1128 Consider the following with respect to Indo-China relation in present context and choose the incorrectstatement:

1) The fifth round of the strategic dialogue betweenthe two countries will be held on Aug 20 in NewDelhi.

2) The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh isexpected to visit China in Oct.

3) India and China have signed a water-sharingagreement only recently.

4) The two countries have set a target of USD 100bn by 2015 for bilateral trade.

5) All are correct Ans.) 3

Ques. : 1129 Which of the following countries will receive uninterrupted 250 megawatt power supply from India from Sep?This country has already given sovereign guarantee for the power purchase for 25 years to Vidyut Vyapar Nigam, a unit ofNTPC.


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Ques. : 1130 Kalyan Mitter, who passed away in Kolkata, was a former

1) Hockey player 2) Shuttler

3) Cricketer 4) Cueist


Ques. : 1131 The Union Cabinet gave its approval to the proposal for establishing the International Centre for DrinkingWater Quality in which of the following cities recently?

1) Delhi 2) Bangalore

3) Kolkata 4) Chennai


Ques. : 1132 India has made it clear that its lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, would be a lone mission by India. Earlier whichof the following countries was assisting India in this mission?

1) US 2) UK

3) France 4) Russia


Ques. : 1133 The Union Cabinet approved the proposal for setting up of the Tax Administration Reform Commission(TARC). Consider the following statements in this context and choose correct statement(s):

1) The term of the Commission will be 18 months.2) The Commission will review the application of taxpolicies and tax laws in India in the context of globalbest practices

3) The Commission will recommend measures tostrengthen the capacity of the tax system in Indiathat would reflect best global practices.

4) Only 2) and 3)

5) All 1), 2) and 3) Ans.) 5

Ques. : 1134 In which of the following countries, tens of thousands of Islamists headed for mass rallies at the "Friday ofAnger" protests in the capital city and other parts against the killing of general people by the army?

1) Syria 2) Spain

3) Egypt 4) Malaysia


Ques. : 1135 India launched GSLV-D5 rocket carrying communication satellite GSAT-14, from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradeshrecently. With this launch, India has joined an elite group of nations with

1) advanced communication satellite 2) indigenous cryogenic rocket engine technology

3) advanced geosynchronous satellite launchvehicle

4) indigenous satellite control facility


Ques. : 1136 Name the former strongman of the ruling Chinese Communist Party who is facing charges of bribery,embezzlement and abuse of power.

1) Zhou Yongkang 2) Bo Xilai

3) Wang Lijun 4) Gu Kailai


Ques. : 1137 Rohan Bopanna and Edouard Roger-Vasselin knocked out which of the following pairs to advance to thesemifinals of the ATP Cincinnati Masters, in Cincinnati recently?

1) Leander Paes and Radek 2) Kevin Anderson and Jonathan Erlich

3) Andy Murray and Colin Fleming 4) Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez


Ques. : 1138 Name the Indian grappler who has won a bronze medal in the 96-kg freestyle category at the World JuniorWrestling Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria recently.

1) Sushil Kumar 2) Yogeshwar Dutt

3) Satywart Kadian 4) Vijender Singh


Ques. : 1139 In a path breaking research, the scientists of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) havediscovered the gene mutations leading to _______chronic disease among Indians.


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1) Pancreatitis 2) Hepatitis

3) Lung 4) Intestine


Ques. : 1140 The National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL) is hopeful of disposing its payment liabilities within set timeframe.The exchange is fighting an unprecedented ________payment crisis.

1) Rs 1,600-cr 2) Rs 2,600-cr

3) Rs 3,600-cr 4) Rs 4,600-cr

5) Rs 5,600-cr Ans.) 5

Ques. : 1141 The govt has formulated a draft of the National Sports Development Bill, 2013. The Bill is aimed at

1) bringing all the sports federations under directcontrol of the sports ministry

2) bringing all the sports federations under directcontrol of the Sports Authority of India

3) bringing all the sports federations under the RTIAct

4) utilising access fund of one federation for thedevelopment of the other


Ques. : 1142 The nation observed Sadbhavana Divas on 20 Aug. This day commemorates the birth anniversary of which ofthe following Indian leaders?

1) Lal Bahadur Shashtri 2) Indira Gandhi

3) Rajiv Gandhi 4) Syama Prasad Mukherjee


Ques. : 1143 As per recently released data by CEA, 10 thermal power stations in India have sufficient coal for more than 15days while another 22 have stocks for more than 10 days as on 13th Aug. Expand the term CEA.

1) Central Estimates Authority 2) Central Electricity Authority

3) Coal-based Electricity Authority 4) Coal-stock Estimation Authority


Ques. : 1144 Who among the following is the author of the recently published book titled ‘The Hope Factory’?

1) V Sudarshan 2) Raza Rumi

3) Lavanya Sankaran 4) Jyotirmaya Sharma


Ques. : 1145 The Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt equalled the world record of eight gold medals when he anchored theJamaican 4x100m relay team to victory at the World Athletics Championships recently. Who others have achieved this feat sofar?

1) Michael Johnson 2) Carl Lewis

3) Allyson Felix 4) All the above


Ques. : 1146 The Global Footprint Network, an international think-tank, observed 20th Aug as the World Overshoot Day’.What does it mean?

1) The population of the world crossed 7 bn mark.2) We have used as much natural resources as ourplanet can regenerate this year.

3) The population of the world is expected to startdecreasing after this day.

4) Our planet has regenerated as much naturalresources as we need for the whole year.


Ques. : 1147 Troubled cricketer Jesse Ryder was handed a six month ban after testing positive for outlawed substancesrecently. He plays for which of the following countries?

1) New Zealand 2) England

3) South Africa 4) Australia


Ques. : 1148 Teen sensation Kush Kumar has given India its first Gold medal of the second Asian Youth Games in Nanjing,China. He bagged the coveted yellow metal in which of the following games?

1) Snooker 2) Squash




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Ques. : 1149 Sports Minister Jitendra Singh has ordered an inquiry into the issue due to which 17 Indian track and fieldathletes were not allowed to participate in the Asian Youth Games in Nanjing, China. What is the issue?

1) Athletes being above the stipulated weight of 60kg

2) Athletes being below the stipulated weight of 60kg

3) Athletes being above the stipulated age of 17years

4) Athletes being below the stipulated age of 17years


Ques. : 1150 Abdul Karim Tunda was arrested recently at the Indo-Nepal Border. He is an operative of

1) Babbar Khalsa 2) Indian Mujahideen

3) Jaish-e-Mohammed 4) Lashkar-e-Taiba


Ques. : 1151 The social activist Dr Narendra Dabholkar, who was shot dead recently in Pune, was a renowned

1) Anti-superstition activist 2) Anti-leprosy activist

3) Anti-discrimination activist 4) Anti-dowry activist


Ques. : 1152 Bangladesh received goodwill hospital ship 'Peace Ark' on a week-long visit to provide free medical services tothe people and conduct academic exchanges with the country's military hospitals. The ship belongs to which of the followingcountries?

1) Japan 2) South Korea

3) US 4) China


Ques. : 1153 The army of which of the following countries claimed to have killed the leader of the militant Islamist groupBoko Haram, Abubakar Shekau in a recent shoot-out? Thousands of people have died since Boko Haram began itsinsurgency in 2009 in the country.

1) Congo 2) Algeria

3) Nigeria 4) Mali


Ques. : 1154 India celebrates its National Sports Day every year on which of the following dates?

1) 19th Aug 2) 22th Aug

3) 29th Aug 4) 31th Aug


Ques. : 1155 Suja Lowenthal, the Chennai-born Indian-American has announced her bid to run for Mayor in which of thefollowing countries? Currently, she is serving her second term as city council there.

1) Canada 2) US

3) Australia 4) UK


Ques. : 1156 The govt has decided to institute a Rail Tariff Authority (RTA) through an executive order. What is the purposeof setting up RTA?

1) To make the Railways self- sufficient2) To find additional sources of income for therailways to subsidise passenger fares.

3) To bring the freight fares at par with roadtransport to attract more freight.

4) To discourage without ticket travelling in trainswith introduction of variety of modes to buy tickets.


Ques. : 1157 In a significant step for automobile research & development (R&D) in the country, the Indian Space ResearchOrganization (ISRO) and which of the following automobile major have developed a hydrogen-powered bus which has startedits trial run recently?

1) Mahindra and Mahindra 2) Ashok Leyland

3) Tata Motors 4) Force Motors


Ques. : 1158 Renowned poetess and social activist Sugathakumari has been conferred with the prestigious SaraswatiSamman award for 2012. She writes in which of the following languages?


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1) Tamil 2) Oriya

3) Bengali 4) Malayalam

5) Kannada Ans.) 4

Ques. : 1159 In a first bilateral visit by a head of govt of which of the following countries in 38 years, the Prime Minister Nurial-Maliki visited India recently?

1) Iran 2) Iraq

3) Kuwait 4) Norway


Ques. : 1160 The filing of RTI applications for all central govt ministries and departments goes online with the launch of thenew website

1) www.rtidept.gov.in 2) www.rtionline.nic.in

3) www.rtidept.nic.in 4) www.rtionline.gov.in


Ques. : 1161 Taking cognisance of the massive outpouring of public grief and anger over Narendra Dabholkar's killing,Maharashtra govt decided to promulgate an ordinance for enacting a Bill against

1) Superstition 2) Blind faith

3) Black magic 4) All the above


Ques. : 1162 Which of the following countries warned international health authorities of several countries that dairy productsexported to them could contain a strain of bacteria causing botulism, a potentially fatal illness?

1) Denmark 2) New Zeland

3) Sri Lanka 4) China


Ques. : 1163 The recently published book ‘The Moon Baller’ is autobiography of which of the following professional tennisplayers of Indian?

1) Nirupama Vaidyanathan 2) Sania Mirza

3) Vijay Amritraj 4) Mahesh Bhupathi


Ques. : 1164 Mohammad Karim Khalili, who visited India, recently, is the Vice President of which of the following countries?

1) Iraq 2) Iran

3) Afghanistan 4) Bangladesh


Ques. : 1165 In a significant decision, the govt gave its approval to a much-deferred bill which seeks to scrap the collegiumsystem of appointing judges to the Supreme Court and high courts. This system will be replaced by

1) Judicial Appointments Committee 2) Department of Judicial Appointments

3) Department of Judicial Services 4) Judicial Appointments Commission


Ques. : 1166 Ali Asghar Soltanieh announced his resignation as representative of which of the following countries to theUN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently?

1) Iran 2) Pakistan

3) Tunisia 4) Cambodia


Ques. : 1167 Months after his resignation as Union Law Minister, Ashwani Kumar has been appointed by Prime MinisterManmohan Singh as his special Envoy to visit which of the following countries in the rank of a Cabinet Minister?

1) US 2) Pakistan

3) China 4) Japan


Ques. : 1168 Anjana Dhavalu Thamake clinched the third gold for India at the second Asian Youth Games in Nanjingrecently in


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1) the girl's 100m race 2) the girl's 200m race

3) the girl's 400m race 4) the girl's 800m race


Ques. : 1169 Which of the following renowned female tennis players has pulled out of the US Open because of a rightshoulder injury recently?

1) Serena Williams 2) Victoria Azarenka

3) Maria Sharapova 4) Li Na


Ques. : 1170 Nishi Vasudeva has been appointed as the first woman director of a public sector oil company. Name the PSU.

1) HPCL 2) OIL

3) ONGC 4) IOL


Ques. : 1171 As per the news published in the newspapers recently, which of the following mobile handset makers hasthreaten the govt to quit from India citing unfavourable conditions as reason?

1) Samsung 2) Nokia

3) Sony 4) LG


Ques. : 1172 Name India's ace wrestler who, recently, made the revelation that he was offered to lose the 2010 WorldChampionship final in Moscow in return for huge money?

1) Narsingh Pancham Yadav 2) Yogeshwar Dutt

3) Sushil Kumar 4) Amit Kumar


Ques. : 1173 The ‘Anna Bhagya’ scheme, launched by the Karnataka govt, is aimed at with which of the following?

1) Providing 30 kg of rice at Re one per kg to belowpoverty line (BPL) families.

2) Providing 50 kg of rice at Re one per kg to belowpoverty line (BPL) families.

3) Providing annual insurance cover of Rs 30,000to members of below poverty line (BPL) families.

4) Providing monthly scholarship of Rs 300 to thestudents from below poverty line (BPL) families whoenroll in class 10.


Ques. : 1174 The quadrennial event, FIH World Cup, will be held in which of the following cities in 2014?

1) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2) Sydney, Australia

3) Tokyo, Japan 4) Seoul, South Korea

5) Hague, Netherlands Ans.) 5

Ques. : 1175 A United Nations committee has found which of the following countries guilty of violations of international lawfor indefinite detention of the 46 asylum seekers, most of them Sri Lankan Tamils?

1) Canada 2) Australia

3) UK 4) Norway


Ques. : 1176 Nicaragua wants to involve Indian businessmen in a $40-bn project to connect which of the following twooceans by a mammoth canal, longer than the Panama Canal?

1) The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans 2) The Pacific and Indian Oceans

3) The Atlantic and Indian Oceans 4) The Pacific and Arctic Oceans

5) The Atlantic and Arctic Oceans Ans.) 1

Ques. : 1177 Who among the following has written the book titled ‘The Mirror Of Beauty’?

1) Vinod Mehta 2) Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

3) Anita Raghavan 4) Boria Majumdar


Ques. : 1178 India signed a broad-based energy cooperation agreement with which of the following countries recently? Thecountry is second largest oil exporter to India.


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1) Iran 2) Iraq

3) Saudi Arabia 4) Bahrain


Ques. : 1179 A major fire broke out at the state-owned HPCL refinery-cum-petrochemical complex killing at least threepeople and injuring as many as 35 others at ________recently.

1) Mangalore 2) Kochi

3) Vishakhapatnam 4) Kandla


Ques. : 1180 American scientists have developed the world’s most accurate atomic clock. This clock is based on which ofthe following elements?

1) Hydrogen 2) Rubidium

3) Cesium 4) Ytterbium


Ques. : 1181 As per the data released by the global digital measurement and analytics firm comScore, what is India’sposition in terms of Internet users in the world at present?

1) First 2) Second

3) Third 4) Fourth


Ques. : 1182 The report titled ‘Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission Report’, is associated with which of thefollowing countries?

1) Afghanistan 2) US

3) Sri Lanka 4) Bangladesh


Ques. : 1183 Which of the following Pakistan-based Kashmiri militant group has taken the responsibility of ambush on anIndian army patrol in Poonch sector in which five soldiers were killed?

1) Hizbul Mujahideen 2) Lashkar-e-Taiba

3) Jaish-e-Mohammad 4) Indian Mujahideen


Ques. : 1184 The Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar suspended 12 MPs belonging to a particular state for five days overdisruption of House proceedings during monsoon session. These MPs belong to which of the following states?

1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Gujarat

3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Bihar


Ques. : 1185 Name the software company whose CEO Steve Ballmer has announced to retire in next twelve months afterremaining more than a decade at the helm?

1) Oracle 2) Microsoft

3) Sun Microsystems 4) IBM


Ques. : 1186 Which of the following states has notified an affordable housing policy, 2013 to facilitate additional affordablehouses in urban areas of the state? The policy is aimed at making available apartments of redefined size at predefined rateswithin a time frame.

1) Delhi 2) Haryana

3) Punjab 4) Rajasthan


Ques. : 1187 In a breakthrough development, which of the following countries has released world's first zinc-enriched ricevariety capable of fighting diarrhea and pneumonia-induced childhood deaths and stunted growth?

1) China 2) Indonesia

3) Bangladesh 4) Singapore



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Ques. : 1188 The New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah laid the foundation stone of the world’s biggestSolar Park in which of the following states recently? The state is emerging as a major energy hub of the country.

1) Haryana 2) Gujarat

3) Uttarakhand 4) Rajasthan

5) Tamil Nadu Ans.) 4

Ques. : 1189 What is expanded form of CEPA?

1) Comprehensive Economic PartnershipAgreement

2) Comprehensive Energy Partnership Agreement

3) Comprehensive Ecosystems ProtectionAgreement

4) Comprehensive Engineering PartnershipAgreement


Ques. : 1190 The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) imposed a penalty of 3.10 crore rupees onwhich of the following insurers for violation of various norms, including those related to early-death claims and groupinsurance?

1) Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance 2) Max Life

3) ICICI Prudential 4) IFFCO Tokyo


Ques. : 1191 Name the state which is taking effective measures to tackle the Porcine Reproductive and RespiratorySyndrome (PRRS), a disease which spreads through swines?

1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Mizoram

3) Manipur 4) Bihar


Ques. : 1192 A skill development programme named Roshini, aimed at bringing youth in the main stream, is being run in thenaxal-affected states of the country. Which of the following is such a scheme being implemented in the state of Jammu andKashmir?

1) Hunar 2) Himayat

3) Kaushal 4) Aagaz


Ques. : 1193 The social networking site Facebook with six other technology giants has launched a mission named‘Internet.org’. Consider the following statements in this regard and choose the correct statement(s):

1) The nine year mission is aimed to makingInternet access available to additional 5 bn people.

2) The Facebook founder and CEO MarkZuckerberg will head the mission.

3) The mission is based on the Internet searchgiant Google’s ‘Project Loon’, a balloon-mountedInternet access service.

4) All the above


Ques. : 1194 The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) is looking at relaxing FDI norms for housing toattract foreign investment. At present, what is the lock-in period for FDI in housing sector?

1) Ten years 2) Five years

3) Three years 4) Two years


Ques. : 1195 Which of the following terms is associated with the game of tennis?

1) Birdie 2) Double fault

3) Reti opening 4) Checkmate


Ques. : 1196 The Mithi Virdi nuclear power plant is to come up in which of the following states? The Nuclear PowerCorporation of India Limited (NPCIL) project is facing steep opposition from the local population.

1) Rajasthan 2) Gujarat

3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Odisha



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Ques. : 1197 The United Nations General Assembly declared which of the following dates as the International Day of Sportfor Development and Peace recently?

1) 6 Apr 2) 6 May

3) 6 Jun 4) 6 Jul


Ques. : 1198 India’s women archery team beat which of the following countries to clinch recurve team gold medal in ArcheryWorld Cup in Poland recently? It is their second World Cup title in a row.


3) Australia 4) Russia


Ques. : 1199 Name the NASA’s telescope which marked its ten years in space recently. The infrared telescope has madesome astonishing finds such as spotting the first light from a planet beyond our solar system and discovering the largest ringaround Saturn since its launch in 2003.

1) Copernicus Observatory (OAO-3) 2) AGILE Space Telescope

3) High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO 3) 4) Spitzer Space Telescope


Ques. : 1200 Who among the following is the author of the book titled ‘The Bone Season’?

1) Javier Marias 2) Mark Leibovich

3) Samantha Shannon 4) Reza Aslan


Ques. : 1201 Which of the following countries has offered India to assist in Megacity Policing, an advance system ofsurveillance, control room design and its operation by various security agencies and police authorities?

1) Russia 2) US

3) UK 4) China

5) Germany Ans.) 2

Ques. : 1202 Which of the following countries has launched its first indigenously developed modern military attackhelicopter named WZ-10 recently?

1) South Korea 2) India

3) China 4) Japan


Ques. : 1203 Name the greenest state of the country with a forest cover 47.3% of its total geographical area which is morethan double the national average of 21%? It is also the only state to have increased its forest cover in the past two decades.

1) Arunachal Pradesh 2) Sikkim

3) Assam 4) Kerala

5) Maharashtra Ans.) 2

Ques. : 1204 The govt has framed a comprehensive policy named the ‘National Policy for Containment of AntimicrobialResistance’ recently. The policy is aimed to address the problem of

1) Multi-drug resistance 2) Unaffordable life saving drugs

3) Poor of essential drugs4) Non-availability of substitutes of antibiotic drugsto which many diseases has develop resistance


Ques. : 1205 The term IUCD is associated with which of the following? It is used as a tool in one of the scheme floated bythe govt.

1) Immunization 2) Irrigation

3) Family planning 4) Urban development


Ques. : 1206 The govt denied to raise foreign investment limit in the banking sector recently. Currently, the aggregateforeign investment (FDI, FII and NRI) limit for private banks and public sector banks respectively is

1) 49 per cent, 20 per cent 2) 51 per cent, 24 per cent




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Ques. : 1207 The Election Commission of India has decided to use Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) for the first time withVoter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) facility. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct in the context to VVPATEVMs?

1) It is planned to introduce VVPAT in the by-poll ofNoksen Assembly constituency in Nagaland.

2) The Govt of India amended the Conduct ofElection Rules, 1961 in order to use VVPATSystems.

3) It will enable voters to see a printout of theirballot displaying the name, election symbol andserial number of the chosen candidate.

4) All the above


Ques. : 1208 The govt has banned duty free import of which of the following electronic items by air travelers with a view tocontrol down sliding rupee? Earlier, air travelers can bring this electronic item for personal use without paying any duty.

1) Flat screen television 2) High-end mobile handset (above Rs 20,000)

3) Digital camera 4) Laptop computer


Ques. : 1209 The disease named ‘Ug99’ affects which of the following crops? Though, India does not face any immediatethreat from the disease, experts have warned to stay prepared to tackle it.

1) Maize 2) Rice

3) Wheat 4) Soybean


Ques. : 1210 India has banned hunting of sharks for their fins in a move to protect the endangered species. Due to demandof shark fins from which of the following countries, their hunt has exploded worldwide?

1) US 2) China

3) Japan 4) France


Ques. : 1211 The Ministry of Finance has launched the National Skill Certification and Monetary Reward Scheme namedSTAR, through which it aims to help those individuals who wish to acquire a new skill or upgrade their skills to a higher level.Expand the term STAR.

1) Systematic Training Assessment and Reward 2) Standard Training Assessment and Reward

3) Standard Training Accreditation and Reward 4) Skill Training Assessment and Reward


Ques. : 1212 The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, recently, expressed concerns over the continuous decline in ODA, aterm used to measure aid, and has asked the nations to reverse the fall. Expand the term ODA.

1) Official Development Assistance 2) Official Development Advances

3) Offshore Development Assistance 4) Official Derivative Assistance


Ques. : 1213 What does the term ‘Brownfield Project’ refer to?

1) A project that needs to remodel or demolish anexisting structure.

2) A project that lacks any constraints imposed byprior work.

3) A project that is executed to establishmanufacturing units.

4) A project to develop residential apartments.


Ques. : 1214 In the wake of deaths of infants after receiving Pentavalent vaccine recently, the govt decided to conduct astudy to ascertain its safety. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct about pentavalent vaccine?

1) It is a vaccine given to children up to five years ofage.

2) It protects children against five deadly childhooddiseases.

3) It is a vaccine given to children above five yearsof age.

4) It is a newly developed vaccine that protectschildren from all the deadly childhood diseases.


Ques. : 1215 The National Food Security Bill is finally passed by the Lok Sabha. As per the Bill, what per cent of food grainallocation has been provisioned for rural and urban population respectively?


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Ques. : 1216 The govt has decided to extend Tourist Visa on Arrival facility at four more airports of the country. This facilitycan be availed by citizens of ____countries.

1) 11 2) 12

3) 15 4) 27


Ques. : 1217 Who among the following is the only player representing India in the singles category in the last grand slam ofthe year, the US Open tennis tournament?

1) Somdev Devvarman 2) Leander Paes

3) Mahesh Bhupati 4) Rohan Bopanna


Ques. : 1218 Which of the following states in NOT going for the assembly elections in 2013 as per the normal schedule?

1) Chhattisgarh 2) Rajasthan

3) Mizoram 4) Madhya Pradesh


Ques. : 1219 In which of the following countries, recently, the high court declared constitutional a law brought by the govtmake peace process with Marxist FARC rebels possible?

1) Colombia 2) Ecuador

3) Nigeria 4) Sudan


Ques. : 1220 In order to provide interest subsidy on loans raised by electricity distribution companies to improve thedistribution network, an interest subsidy scheme, NEF, has been set up by the govt. Expand the term NEF.

1) National Efficiency Fund 2) National Exchangeable Fund

3) National Electricity Fund 4) National Endorsement Fund


Ques. : 1221 As per the provisions of the new land acquisition bill, in the case of PPP projects, the entity seeking land hasto secure consent of 70 per cent of affected families in this regard and for the private entities, getting the consent of_________ of the affected families is must.




Ques. : 1222 In the current economic scenario, it is speculated that India is mulling the option of pledging a part of its goldreserves to prop up the depleting rupee. Similarly, in 1991, India had to pledge 67 tonne of gold reserves to

1) The World Bank 2) International Monetary Fund

3) Federal Reserve of US 4) Asian Development Bank


Ques. : 1223 India’s first full-fledged military communication spacecraft, GSAT-7, was launched recently from Kourou inSouth America on a European Ariane 5 launcher. This spacecraft is meant for exclusive use by

1) The Navy 2) The Army

3) The Air Force4) The Paramilitary Forces involved in anti-Maoistoperations


Ques. : 1224 One of India's most wanted terrorists, Yasin Bhatkal, was arrested from the Indo-Nepal border in north Biharafter being on the run for over five years. He is an _________operative.

1) Indian Mujahideen 2) Jaish-e-Mohammed

3) Lashkar-e-Taiba 4) Hizbul Mujahideen



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Ques. : 1225 DC Prashant, who passed away recently, was a former member of the parliament (MP) and a veteran

1) Journalist 2) Actor

3) Historian 4) Environmentalist


Ques. : 1226 Name the state govt which has decided to set up a State Civil Supply Corporation for better management ofpublic distribution system. The proposed corporation, to be set up in Private-Public-Partnership mode, will also monitor theimplementation of Food Security programme in the state.

1) Delhi 2) Haryana

3) Assam 4) Himachal Pradesh


Ques. : 1227 A two-day summit of the South East Asian Defence Ministers was held in which of the following citiesrecently? Senior defense officials from the US, China, Japan, South Korea and other regional powers also attended thetwo-day ASEAN summit.

1) Miri 2) Brunei

3) Seoul 4) Phnom Penh


Ques. : 1228 International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances is observed on which of the following dates?

1) 30 Jun 2) 30 Jul

3) 30 Aug 4) 30 Sep


Ques. : 1229 The Noble laureate Seamus Heaney, who hailed from Ireland, passed away recently. He was an acclaimed

1) Poet 2) Novelist

3) Guitarist 4) Guitarist


Ques. : 1230 The G20 Leaders' Summit is scheduled to be held in which of the following cities on Sep 5-6, 2013? The G20is the leading international cooperation forum, focusing on the most important international economic and financial issues.

1) Beijing 2) Jakarta

3) St. Petersburg 4) Kuala Lumpur


Ques. : 1231 Name the nation which announced to make a public apology for a series of executions carried out by its armyin its former colony in Indonesia between 1945 and 1949? It will also pay 20,000 euros to the widows of those killed.

1) The Netherlands 2) France

3) Spain 4) UK


Ques. : 1232 Thousands of people from across the world have registered with a not-for-profit foundation which intends toestablish a permanent human settlement by 2023 on the planet _______.

1) Venus 2) Jupiter

3) Mars 4) Mercury


Ques. : 1233 The ‘Ahimsa Messenger’ programme of the Ministry of Women and Child Development was launched in NewDelhi recently. The programme aims at

1) Preventing violence against women 2) Preventing violence against children

3) Generating awareness about basic legal rights,procedures and provisions amongst women andchildren

4) All the above


Ques. : 1234 Indian hockey team defeated which of the following teams in the semifinals of the Asia Cup hockey tournamentin Ipoh, Malaysia?

1) Argentina 2) Malaysia

3) South Korea 4) Pakistan



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Ques. : 1235 What is expanded form of the term NSSO?

1) National Serial Survey Organisation 2) National Scheduled Survey Organisation

3) National Special Survey Organisation 4) National Sample Survey Organisation


Ques. : 1236 Which of the following is a foreign bank operating in India at present?

1) Axis Bank 2) Federal Bank

3) BNP Paribas 4) Yes Bank


Ques. : 1237 The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) stayed the operation of the telecomregulator Trai’s mandated advertisment cap recently. Earlier, Trai had set a deadline of Oct 1 for implementation of a_________ad cap per clock hour.

1) 10-minute 2) 12-minute

3) 15-minute 4) 18-minute


Ques. : 1238 What is the name of the India’s first military satellite GSAT-7 to be used exclusively by the Indian Navy? Thesatellite has a 2,000-nautical mile footprint over the crucial Indian Ocean Region (IOR).

1) Hawk 2) Rukmini

3) Rohini 4) Eagle


Ques. : 1239 Which of the following franchises emerged as the champion of the inaugural edition of Indian BadmintonLeague (IBL) recently?

1) Awadhe Warriors 2) Mumbai Masters

3) Pune Pistons 4) Hyderabad Hotshots

5) Krrish Delhi Smashers Ans.) 4

Ques. : 1240 One-of-its-kind Jal Satryagraha, the unique protest in which people immerse themselves in the backwaters ofNarmada river, was recently staged in which of the following states? The protesters are opposing the govt’s decision to raisethe height of Indira Sagar Dam.

1) Tamil Nadu 2) Madhya Pradesh

3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Uttarakhand


Ques. : 1241 The first verdict in the Dec 16 gangrape and murder case, an incident which shook the nation, waspronounced by the Juvenile Justice Board recently. What is the maximum punishment that can be awarded under the JuvenileJustice Act?

1) One year 2) Two years

3) Three years 4) Five years


Ques. : 1242 Fars News Agency (FNA) is a leading independent news agency based in which of the following countries?


3) Iran 4) Egypt


Ques. : 1243 As part of its commitment to the continued socio-economic development of Bhutan, India announced an aid forit including a special package during the recent visit of Bhutan’s new Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay? The total amount ofthe aid is

1) Rs 2,000 cr 2) Rs 3,000 cr

3) Rs 4,000 cr 4) Rs 5,000 cr


Ques. : 1244 The Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad launched new health initiatives worth Rs. 500-cr under NationalRural Health Mission (NRHM) in which of the following states recently? The schemes aim to provide accessible, equitableand affordable healthcare services across the states.


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3) Uttarakhand 4) Assam


Ques. : 1245 Which of the following teams won the 2013 edition of the Asia Cup hockey tournament held in Ipoh, Malaysia?

1) Malaysia 2) South Korea

3) India 4) New Zealand


Ques. : 1246 Who among the following is NOT a recipient of Dronacharya Awards for 2013, the highest award conferred tocoaches in India?

1) Poornima Mahato (Archery) 2) KP Thomas (Athletics)

3) Narinder Singh Saini (Hockey) 4) Mahavir Singh (Boxing)


Ques. : 1247 As a major boost to strategic airlift capabilities of the Indian Air Force, Defence Minister AK Antony inductedwhich of the following 75-80 tonne heavy-lift transport aircraft into service at the Hindon airbase in New Delhi recently?

1) C-130J Super Hercules 2) Boeing C-135 Stratolifters

3) C-17 Globemaster III 4) Lockheed C-141 Starlifter


Ques. : 1248 Amid alarming capital account deficit, India is considering to import crude oil from which of the followingcountries as it pays the country in rupee and not in dollars? Paying in rupee, India saves in foreign exchange.

1) Iraq 2) Saudi Arabia

3) United Arab Emirates 4) Iran


Ques. : 1249 World’s leading mobile service provider Vodafone has exited the market of which of the following countriesselling its subsidiary Verizon Wireless in around USD 130-bn recently?

1) US 2) Japan

3) China 4) Germany


Ques. : 1250 In an unprecedented move, which of the following Arabian countries has adopted a law criminalising domesticviolence targeting women, children and domestic workers?

1) Iran 2) Saudi Arabia

3) UAE 4) Jordan


Ques. : 1251 The person who exposed the most extensive US global surveillance operations, Edward Snowden, has beenawarded with "whistleblower prize 2013" worth USD 3,900 in absentia by which of the following countries recently?

1) Germany 2) Norway

3) Italy 4) Russia


Ques. : 1252 Which of the following companies is in process to acquire devices and services business of the world’sleading handset maker Nokia in a total transaction estimated to be around $7 bn?

1) Samsung 2) LG

3) Google 4) Microsoft


Ques. : 1253 Who among the following has written the book titled ‘A Fort of Nine Towers’?

1) Qais Akbar Omar 2) Balaji Venkataraman

3) Samantha Shannon 4) Aruni Kashyap


Ques. : 1254 Name the leading Indian software company whose board member and the global head of its manufacturingand engineering services vertical, Ashok Vemuri, resigned recently. He was seen as a frontrunner to succeed as the nextCEO of the company.


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1) Wipro 2) Tech Mahindra

3) Infosys 4) TCS


Ques. : 1255 The ambitious ‘Zero Landless Project’, aimed at providing land to all landless people in the state by 2015, waslaunched in which of the following states recently?

1) Gujarat 2) Kerala



Ques. : 1256 The Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, a girls' right activist, has won which of the followingprestigious international prizes recently?

1) International Children's Bravery Prize 2) International Child Leader Prize

3) International Children's Peace Prize 4) International Future Leader Prize


Ques. : 1257 Which of the following football clubs has shelled out a whopping USD 132 mn to secure footballer Gareth Baleplay for the team? Gareth Bale has become the world's most expensive player in history.

1) Manchester United 2) Real Madrid

3) FC Barcelona 4) Bayern Munich


Ques. : 1258 Which of the following cricketers has set a new world record for the highest individual T20 international scoreas he made a stunning 156 against England recently?

1) Aaron Finch 2) Steve Smith

3) Glenn Maxwell 4) Mitchell Marsh


Ques. : 1259 NSIC is the short form for a public sector establishment. What is the full form of NSIC?

1) National Small Industries Corporation Limited 2) National Steel Industry Corporation Limited

3) National Scheduled Industries CorporationLimited

4) National Sipping Industry Corporation Limited


Ques. : 1260 Amid emerging economies witnessing sharp volatility after US indicated tapering of quantitative easing (QE),India has raised the issue of "orderly exit" from QE. Examine the following statements in the context QE and identify thecorrect statement(s):

1) The QE is a govt monetary policy occasionallyused to increase the money supply by buying govtsecurities or other securities from the market.

2) This measure is used when interest rates havealready been lowered and have failed to producethe desired effect.

3) The major risk of QE is that, although moremoney is floating around, there is still a fixedamount of goods for sale which eventually lead tohigher prices or inflation.

4) Only 1) and 2)

5) All 1), 2) and 3) Ans.) 5

Ques. : 1261 Consider the following statements in the context of RBI’s measure to contain the falling rupee and choose thecorrect statements:

1) The RBI reduced the limit for overseas directinvestment by domestic companies, other than oilPSUs, under the automatic route from 400 per centof their net worth to 100 per cent.

2) The central bank barred resident individuals fromusing remittances for purchase of property outsideIndia.

3) The limit for remittances under the LiberalisedRemittances Scheme was lowered from $200,000per financial year to $75,000.

4) All the above


Ques. : 1262 According to the data released by the International Coffee Organisation (ICO), what is India’s position amongthe major coffee producing countries in the world in the year 2012?


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1) First 2) Third

3) Fifth 4) Seventh


Ques. : 1263 Name the long distance swimmer from US who on her fifth attempt entered the record books as the firstperson to swim from Cuba to Florida, the distance of 180 km, without a shark cage?

1) Gertrude Ederle 2) Dara Torres

3) Susie Maroney 4) Diana Nyad


Ques. : 1264 The National Commercial Bank (NCB) of UAE has selected which of the following Indian software companiesto implement a new core banking software platform for the Bank? The agreement between the two parties will be valid for twoyears.

1) Wipro Technologies 2) Infosys

3) Tata Consultancy Services 4) Tech Mahindra


Ques. : 1265 The Eleventh Congress of the Asian Pacific Postal Union, an inter-governmental organization of 32 countries,was organised in which of the following cities recently?

1) Beijing 2) Tokyo

3) New Delhi 4) Jakarta


Ques. : 1266 The practice of frequent policy reviews by RBI is under consideration as it forces the central bank to bear theburden of market expectations more often. Currently, the RBI announces its policy how many times in a year?

1) Two 2) Four

3) Six 4) Eight


Ques. : 1267 Renowned author Frederik Pohl, who over decades gained a reputation of being a literate and sophisticatedwriter, has died at age 93. He wrote in which of the following genres?

1) Romance 2) Science fiction

3) Short stories 4) Drama

5) Satire Ans.) 2

Ques. : 1268 In a severe embarrassment for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a top IPS officer considered close to himhas resigned from service attacking his govt of having failed to protect the interest of policemen jailed for encounter deaths.Name the IPS officer.

1) Vakhatsinh Vanaar 2) DG Vanzara

3) PP Pandey 4) Bharat Patel


Ques. : 1269 The Pension Fund Regulatory & Development Authority (PFRDA) Bill has been passed in the Lok Sabharecently. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct in this regard?

1) The Bill seeks to give statutory powers to theinterim regulator constituted by an executive orderin 2003.

2) The Bill has fixed the ceiling on foreign directinvestment (FDI) in the pension sector at 26 percent, to move in sync with that for the insurancesector.

3) The Bill keeps the option of FDI cap outside thepurview of the legislation, as it could be raisedthrough an executive order.

4) All the above


Ques. : 1270 The historic Land Acquisition Bill has got the nod of both the houses of the Parliament. Which of the followingin NOT a highlight of the Bill?

1) The new law will not apply to Special EconomicZones (SEZs).

2) The bill stipulates mandatory consent of at least70 per cent for acquiring land for Public PrivatePartnership (PPP) projects and 80 per cent foracquiring land for private companies.


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3) The "urgency clause" in the bill can be used onlyin case of natural calamities and national securityand not for private parties.

4) The new law provides for compensation not onlyto the farmers but also to the landless people whomay lose their livelihood.


Ques. : 1271 Which of the following countries reserved seats for the representative of Hindus and Sikhs of local origin inthe Lower House of the Parliament of the country recently?

1) Afghanistan 2) Bangladesh

3) Pakistan 4) Myanmar


Ques. : 1272 The Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated 64 IT Labs with high speed Internet connection inall the 64 districts of the country recently. These labs have been established with a grant received from which of the followingcountries?

1) China 2) Japan

3) India 4) US

5) South Korea Ans.) 3

Ques. : 1273 Pakistani teenager Malala Yousefzai inaugurated Europe's largest public library, recently, in which of thefollowing cities?

1) Birmingham 2) Perth

3) Munich 4) Helsinki


Ques. : 1274 The Election Commission of India (ECI), for the first time in the country, used the Voters Verifiable Paper AuditTrail (VVPAT) system on trial basis during an Assembly Constituency bye-polls in which of the following states recently?

1) Karnataka 2) Haryana

3) Nagaland 4) Assam


Ques. : 1275 Easing the External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) norms, the RBI has allowed the companies to use suchfunds for general corporate purposes. Which of the following statements is/are correct in this regard?

1) This facility will be available to real estatecompanies only.

2) A minimum paid-up equity of 25 per cent shouldbe held directly by the lender to avail the facility.

3) The repayment of the principal shouldcommence only after completion of minimumaverage maturity of seven years and noprepayment allowed before maturity.

4) All the above

5) Only (2) and (3) Ans.) 5

Ques. : 1276 Which of the following countries is in process to prosecute the Japanese camera and medical equipmentmaker Olympus and its subsidiary Gyrus Group for their involvement in a 1.7 bn dollar accounting fraud which came to light in2011?

1) US 2) China

3) UK 4) Germany


Ques. : 1277 Who among the following has authored the book titled ‘Three Chancellors’?

1) Kota Neelima 2) Nilanjan Banerjee

3) Ayesha Jalal 4) Neamat Imam


Ques. : 1278 Which of the following cricketing countries has announced to host India in 2014 for five Test matches for thefirst time in 50 years?

1) Australia 2) England

3) New Zealand 4) Zimbabwe

5) South Africa Ans.) 2

Ques. : 1279 The process of revival of the urea plant at Talcher, closed since 2002 ordered by the Board for Industrial andFinancial Reconstruction (BIFR), has been initiated. The plant, expected to be revived in three years, is situated in which ofthe following states?


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1) Karnataka 2) Odisha

3) Tamil Nadu 4) Rajasthan


Ques. : 1280 Who among the following has written the book titled ‘Foreign’?

1) APJ Abdul Kalam 2) Chander Suta Dogra

3) Shamsur Rahman Faruqi 4) Sonora Jha


Ques. : 1281 The govt is set to relocate the Forward Market Commission (FMC) to Finance Ministry soon. Earlier FMC wasworking under which of the following ministries?

1) Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and PublicDistribution

2) Ministry of Agriculture

3) Ministry of Commerce and Industry 4) Ministry of Planning


Ques. : 1282 The United Nations marked which of the following dates as the International Day of Charity recently? The daycoincides with the anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa.

1) 5 Aug 2) 5 Sep

3) 5 Oct 4) 5 Nov


Ques. : 1283 In which of the following countries, the govt opted to end the system of secret voting in the national legislaturerecently? Under the existing laws, senators and deputies vote on bills in secret.

1) Spain 2) France

3) Brazil 4) Russia


Ques. : 1284 The US military has developed a high-tech protection gear called Bioscavenger for its soldiers. This new gearis aimed at

1) dealing with decomposing bodies in thebattlefield

2) providing food supply to frontline soldiers

3) mass destruction of enemies4) protecting soldiers from potential chemicalweapons


Ques. : 1285 The name of Beebone virus was doing rounds recently in news media and a host of countermeasures anddefences to beat its attacks were being suggested. This notorious virus infects

1) Human being 2) Cattles

3) Computers 4) Wheat crop


Ques. : 1286 Name the country where Indian writer Sushmita Banerjee was shot dead recently. Her book about her escapefrom the militant’s captivity became a bestseller in India and was made into the Hindi film.


3) Afghanistan 4) Egypt


Ques. : 1287 Who among the following has become the first woman Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of the country?She succeeded Satyananda Mishra.

1) Kiran Desai 2) Deepak Sandhu

3) Sujatha Singh 4) Usha Sangwan


Ques. : 1288 What is the expanded form of the term TERI?

1) The Enterprise and Resources Institute 2) The Engineering and Research Institute

3) The Energy and Research Institute 4) The Energy and Resources Institute



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Ques. : 1289 Every year, there is a country partner for the two-day annual event Global Skills Summit organised by theindustry body FICCI. Which of the following was the partner country of the 2013 Global Skills Summit (GSS)?

1) Germany 2) UK

3) New Zealand 4) Norway


Ques. : 1290 World acclaimed orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta was conferred the prestigious Tagore Award for CulturalHarmony by President Pranab Mukherjee recently. He is the second recipient of the award after

1) Lata Mangeshkar 2) Amjad Ali Khan

3) Late Pandit Ravi Shankar 4) Hariprasad Chaurasia


Ques. : 1291 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in order to screen 26 applications to start bank operations in the country,has set up an external committee under the chairmanship of who among the following?

1) D Subbarao 2) Bimal Jalan

3) Urijit Patel 4) Nachiket Mor


Ques. : 1292 The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations have agreed to set up a $100-bn foreigncurrency reserve pool to deal with contingencies. What will be India’s contribution to the pool?

1) $5 bn 2) $10 bn

3) $18 bn 4) $22 bn


Ques. : 1293 In yet another step to attract foreign money, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) allowed non-resident investors(NRIs) to acquire shares of listed Indian companies through stock exchanges

1) under the foreign direct investment (FDI) scheme 2) in compliance with FEMA regulations

3) as a foreign institutional investor (FII) 4) as a qualified foreign investor (QFI)


Ques. : 1294 Uber Cup, an international team competition for ladies, is associated with which of the following games?


3) Badminton 4) Chess


Ques. : 1295 The Pension Fund Regulatory & Development Authority (PFRDA) Bill has been passed in the Lok Sabharecently. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct in this regard?

1) The Bill seeks to give statutory powers to theinterim regulator constituted by an executive orderin 2003.

2) The Bill has fixed the ceiling on foreign directinvestment (FDI) in the sector at 26 per cent, tomove in sync with that for the insurance sector.

3) The Bill keeps the option of FDI cap outside thepurview of the legislation, as it could be raisedthrough an executive order.

4) All the above


Ques. : 1296 Which of the following states has been selected for the prestigious National Literacy Award for 2013? Everyyear one state is awarded on the International Literacy Day for remarkable progress in the field of education.

1) Bihar 2) Chhattisgarh

3) Tripura 4) Himachal Pradesh


Ques. : 1297 Vithalbhai Patel, who passed away recently, was a senior Congress party leader and a famous

1) Lyricist 2) Singer

3) Author 4) Musician


Ques. : 1298 The International Literacy Day is celebrated on which of the following dates every year?

1) 5 Sep 2) 8 Sep

3) 5 Oct 4) 8 Oct



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Ques. : 1299 The world famous orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta performed in the Shalimar Gardens in Jammu andKashmir recently. What was the title of the concert organised by the German embassy which assumed much attentionfollowing opposition by separatists?

1) Ehsaas-e-Kashmir 2) Ehsaas-e-Jannat

3) Haqeeqat-e-Kashmir 4) Halaat-e-Kashmir


Ques. : 1300 The ace Indian tennis player Leander Paes with his partner Radek Stepanek won US Open doubles titledefeating which of the following pairs recently?

1) Bob and Mike Bryan 2) Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares

3) Colin Fleming and Jonathan Marray 4) Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer


Ques. : 1301 Ritu Rani leads the Indian women's team in which of the following games at present?


3) Basketball 4) Hockey


Ques. : 1302 Which of the following films won the Venice Golden Lion award for the best film at the Venice film festivalrecently?

1) Dabba 2) Philomena

3) Holy GRA 4) Miss Violence

5) A Street in Palermo Ans.) 3

Ques. : 1303 A Bill related to the practice of manual scavenging in the country was passed by the Lok Sabha recently.Which of the following statements is/are correct about the Bill?

1) It seeks to prohibit employment of individuals asmanual scavengers.

2) It seeks to provide rehabilitation of thoseinvolved in this work and their families through jobsand other provisions.

3) It seeks to prohibit construction of insanitarylatrines that need manual scavengers to cleanthem.

4) All the above


Ques. : 1304 Name the renowned science fiction writer of novels like Star Trek, Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean,who died recently?

1) Ann Carol Crispin 2) Aaron Allston

3) Brian Daley 4) Victoria Strauss


Ques. : 1305 Name the unmanned spacecraft launched by the US space agency NASA to the Moon recently. The spacemission is aimed at studying Moon's atmosphere.

1) Grail 2) Antares

3) Cygnus 4) Ladee


Ques. : 1306 The NEERI has developed a technology which can be implemented for the treatment of chemical industrywastewater. Expand the term NEERI.

1) National Ecological Engineering ResearchInstitute

2) National Experimental Engineering ResearchInstitute

3) National Environmental Engineering ResearchInstitute

4) National Enterprise Engineering ResearchInstitute


Ques. : 1307 Which of the following cities has won the right to host the 2020 edition of the Olympic Games, the world’sbiggest sporting event?

1) St Petersburg 2) Tokyo

3) Madrid 4) Istanbul



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Ques. : 1308 India’s Sania Mirza and her Chinese partner Jie Zheng lost their US Open semifinals match to which of thefollowing pairs?

1) Roberta Vinci and Sara Errani 2) Serena Williams and Venus Williams

3) Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua 4) Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka


Ques. : 1309 Who among the following won the women’s singles title of US Open tennis tournament?

1) Flavia Pennetta 2) Serena Williams

3) Victoria Azarenka 4) Li Na


Ques. : 1310 As shown by the second World Happiness Report published by the UN General Assembly recently, which ofthe following countries houses the happiest people in the world? India is ranked at the 111th position in the list.

1) Norway 2) Denmark

3) Switzerland 4) Sweden

5) Canada Ans.) 2

Ques. : 1311 As five states are lined up for assembly polls this year, the election commission has set the maximumexpenditure limit for assembly candidates. What is the limit?




Ques. : 1312 The Islamist militant group Moro Liberation Front is fighting with the state army in which of the followingcountries? The state army has launched a major offensive against the group.

1) Nigeria 2) Malaysia

3) Philippine 4) Indonesia


Ques. : 1313 The Disaster Response Exercise and Exchange (DREE) is a civil-military disaster preparedness and responseexercise which took place between the armies of the US and which of the following countries recently?

1) South Korea 2) Australia

3) India 4) Nepal

5) Sri Lanka Ans.) 4

Ques. : 1314 After the recent national elections, Erna Solberg is set to form a new govt in which of the following countries?

1) Norway 2) Sweden

3) Switzerland 4) Spain


Ques. : 1315 As per the new rules put in place by the Ministry of Personnel, bureaucrats and their dependent familymembers will now avail complex medical treatment abroad at the govt’s expenses. Which of the following services will beeligible for this facility?

1) Indian Police Service (IPS) 2) Indian Administrative Service (IAS)

3) Indian Forest Service (IFoS) 4) All the above


Ques. : 1316 Who among the following has won the men’s singles title of the US Open tennis tournament recently?

1) Andy Murray 2) Roger Federer

3) Novak Djokovic 4) Rafael Nadal


Ques. : 1317 Global competitiveness report is published by which of the following?

1) World Economic Forum 2) World Bank

3) IMF 4) European Central Bank


Ques. : 1318 The Catalytic Development Programme (CDP) being run by the govt is aimed at development of which of thefollowing?


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1) Horticulture 2) Sericulture

3) Bee farming 4) Poultry farming


Ques. : 1319 Which of the following countries is set to opt out of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the ICC hascharged its Prime Minister as well as its deputy President with crimes against humanity?

1) Chad 2) Kenya

3) Belize 4) Albania


Ques. : 1320 The Jamaican sprinter widely regarded as the fastest person ever, Usain Bolt, has announced to retire afterthe 2016 Olympics scheduled to be held in

1) Rio de Janeiro 2) Tokyo

3) Glasgow 4) Gold Coast City


Ques. : 1321 The 9th World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial conference is scheduled to be held in Dec 2013 at whichof the following places?

1) Manila, Philippines 2) Bali, Indonesia

3) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 4) Bangkok, Thailand


Ques. : 1322 The US space agency NASA has identified four landing sites for its mission to which of the followingplanets/satellite where its InSight lander is scheduled to land in Mar 2016?

1) Moon 2) Mars

3) Jupiter 4) Mercury


Ques. : 1323 As a first step towards finding a sustainable way to meet the growing demand for meat, researchers at aninstitute in the Netherlands produced world’s first lab-grown _________ with cells from a cow recently.

1) Burger 2) Pizza

3) Patties 4) Loaf


Ques. : 1324 A multinational anti-terrorism exercise was organised in which of the following countries recently which wasparticipated by soldiers from 18 countries?

1) Japan 2) Indonesia

3) Malaysia 4) Philippines


Ques. : 1325 India and which of the following countries, the two major LNG consuming countries in Asia, have agreed towork together to ensure stability in procurement and pricing of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Asia-Pacific region?

1) Japan 2) China

3) Indonesia 4) South Korea


Ques. : 1326 The World First Aid Day is observed around the world on the second Saturday of September every year inorder to raise public awareness of how first aid can save lives. This observance was started by

1) World Health Organisation (WHO) 2) Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

3) Amnesty International4) World Human Rights Commission and RescueCenter


Ques. : 1327 Which of the following is the novel written by the Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri which has beenshortlisted for the Man Booker Prize this year?

1) The Lowland 2) Need New Names

3) A Tale for the Time Being 4) The Testament of Mary

5) Harvest Ans.) 1


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Ques. : 1328 Who among the following has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)? He is thefirst Olympic gold medalist to become president.

1) Jacques Rogge 2) Thomas Bach

3) Richard Carrion 4) Puerto Rican

5) Denis Oswald Ans.) 2

Ques. : 1329 As the govt has paved the way for the foreign universities to open campuses in India, which of the followingconditions have been imposed for the same?

1) To qualify for setting up campuses in India,foreign varsities should figure in top 400 globaluniversities rankings by various agencies.

2) These universities are required to maintain aminimum corpus of Rs 25 crore.

3) Under the non-repatriation clause, foreignvarsities cannot remit surpluses from Indianoperation to parent country.

4) All the above


Ques. : 1330 Which of the following domestic auto makers of India forayed into Indonesia with its wholly-owned subsidiaryin an attempt to grow its overseas markets?

1) Mahindra and Mahindra 2) Tata Motors

3) Force Motors 4) Ashok Leyland


Ques. : 1331 Which of the following banks overtook State Bank of India (SBI) in terms of market capitalisation to becomethe country's second-most valuable bank recently?

1) HDFC Bank 2) ICICI Bank

3) Axis Bank 4) Canara Bank

5) Bank of Baroda Ans.) 2

Ques. : 1332 The Union Health Ministry has decided to expand the NPCDCS programme to all districts of country in 12thPlan. This programme aims at preventing which of the following diseases?

1) Cancer 2) Diabetes

3) Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke 4) All the above


Ques. : 1333 India extended USD144mn line of credit to which of the following countries for development of powertransmission and distribution projects and reduce the gap of power shortage in the country?

1) Serbia 2) Estonia

3) Bolivia 4) Liberia


Ques. : 1334 Who among the following was conferred the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament andDevelopment recently?

1) Tawakel Karman 2) Tawakel Karman

3) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 4) Leymah Gbowee


Ques. : 1335 Under the Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA) scheme of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), anyindividual, including those from weaker section of the society, can open zero balance account in which of the following banks?

1) Public sector banks 2) Private sector banks

3) Foreign banks operating in India 4) All the above


Ques. : 1336 To avoid the US military intervention, Syria agreed for which of the following proposed by Russia?

1) To allow US to acquire and destroy its chemicalweapons stocks.

2) To place its chemical weapons stocks underinternational control.

3) To reduce its chemical weapons stocks tominimum possible level.

4) Not to use chemical weapons against the rebelsfurther.



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Ques. : 1337 The Union Health Ministry has roped in who among the following as the brand ambassador for its tobaccocontrol programme?

1) Rahul Dravid 2) Sachin Tendulkar

3) Yuvraj Singh 4) Virat Kohli


Ques. : 1338 Consider the following statements with respect to India's Mars mission to be launched in Oct-Nov 2013 andchoose the correct statement(s):

1) It is India’s very first inter-planetary Mars Orbitermission.

2) The mission will explore Mars surface formethane that will reveal any traces of life in the redplanet.

3) The spacecraft will take nine months to reachMars, situated around 280 million kilometers awayfrom Earth and it will take the ground centres 40minutes to receive and send signals to thespacecraft.

4) Only 2) and 3)

5) All 1), 2) and 3) Ans.) 5

Ques. : 1339 A committee headed by M Damodaran, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi),submitted its recommendations recently. The Committee was set up to look into which of the following issues?

1) Banking Customer Service 2) Security of online transactions

3) New bank licences 4) Regulation of microfinance institutions


Ques. : 1340 The govt has approved a proposal to invest in World Bank bonds which will help India get additional fundingfor infrastructure projects. What amount will India invest in the bonds?

1) USD 3.2 bn 2) USD 4.3 bn

3) USD 6.8 bn 4) USD 11.3 bn


Ques. : 1341 After the successful initial public offering (IPO) by Facebook, which of the following social networking sites hasdecide to go public with its IPO recently?

1) WorldFloat 2) Myspace

3) Renren 4) Twitter


Ques. : 1342 The govt, under the Modified Special Incentive Package Scheme (M-SIPS), provides incentives to thecompanies investing in which of the following industries?

1) Sipping 2) Electronics

3) Renewable Energy 4) Agriculture


Ques. : 1343 Consider the following statements in the context of long-awaited decision by the US administration forconditional authorisation to export domestically produced LNG and choose the correct statement(s):

1) The US has granted conditional authorisation toexport domestically produced LNG to countries thatdo not have Free Trade Agreement with America.

2) The exports have been permitted from a terminal,where India's GAIL has a major stake.

3) The commencement of supply is expected tostart from 2017-18.

4) All the above


Ques. : 1344 The First Sree Narayana Guru Global Secular and Peace Award 2013 was conferred to who among thefollowing?

1) Oommen Chandy 2) Shashi Tharoor

3) Jayalalithaa Jayaram 4) N Chandrababu Naidu


Ques. : 1345 Who among the following has been elected as the Regional Director of World Health Organisation'sSouth-East Asia Region (SEAR)? India occupied the post after a gap of 44 years.


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1) C Mani 2) Poonam Khetarpal Singh

3) PK Pradhan 4) Sharat Chauhan


Ques. : 1346 The international day for preservation of Ozone layer is observed on which of the following dates? Itcommemorates the signing of the Montreal Protocol.

1) 14 Sep 2) 14 Oct

3) 14 Nov 4) 14 Dec


Ques. : 1347 The Vice President Hamid Ansari released a book titled “India and Malaysia : Interwined Strands” recently.This book is authored by who among the following?

1) Nirupama Rao 2) Veena Sikri

3) Shivshankar Menon 4) Ranjan Mathai


Ques. : 1348 As per the latest data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which of the following states has emergedas the top investment destination in India during 2012-13?

1) Karnataka 2) Gujarat

3) Maharashtra 4) Odisha


Ques. : 1349 The health ministers of the South-East Asian countries adopted the ‘New Delhi Declaration on High BloodPressure’ at the 31st meeting of WHO-SEAR in New Delhi recently. WHO-SEAR comprises ______member countries.

1) 09 2) 10

3) 11 4) 13


Ques. : 1350 In the biggest vehicle recall since the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) introduced avoluntary recall policy, which of the following automakers has announced to recall 166,021 units of its hatchback and sedan?

1) General Motors 2) Tata Motors

3) Ford India 4) Renault


Ques. : 1351 The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) allowed foreign institutional investors (FIIs) to investdirectly in the debt market in India recently. What is the investment limit for FIIs to invest in govt debt?

1) USD 10 bn 2) USD 20 bn



Ques. : 1352 The Central govt called a meeting of the National Integration Council (NIC) to discuss how to combatcommunalism and casteism in the country in the present scenario. Who among the following are the members of the Council?

1) Chief Ministers of all States and Union Territories2) Leaders of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha andthe Rajya Sabha

3) Union Ministers 4) All the above


Ques. : 1353 The Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa inaugurated the train service to Northern Province of thecountry which was destroyed 23 years ago. This project was executed with full grant assistance from which of the followingcountries?

1) US 2) Japan

3) China 4) India


Ques. : 1354 Examine the following with respect to insurance repositories launched by the Insurance Regulatory andDevelopment Authority (IRDA) recently and identify the correct statement(s):

1) The insurance repository system is the first of itskind in the world.

2) The insurers will be allowed to enter intoagreements with one or more repositories.


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3) The objective of creating an insurance repositoryis to provide policyholders a facility to keepinsurance policies in electronic form.

4) All the above


Ques. : 1355 The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh handed over keys of more than 8 thousand houses built for slumdwellers at Dhanas village of Union Territory of Chandigarh recently. Fitted with all modern amenities, these housed havebeen built under

1) JNNURM 2) Bharat Nirman

3) Rajiv Awas Yojana 4) Indira Awaas Yojana


Ques. : 1356 After being found guilty of spot-fixing during IPL 6, the tainted cricketers have been punished by the Board ofControl for Cricket in India (BCCI). Which of the following is correctly matched in this regard?

1) S Sreesanth – Life ban 2) Ankeet Chavan – Life ban

3) Harmeet Singh – Let off for lack of strongevidence against him

4) Siddharth Trivedi – One-year suspension


Ques. : 1357 As announced by the Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, the seventh AIIMS-like institute will come up atwhich of the following places?

1) Rae Bareilly 2) Indore

3) Cuttack 4) Raipur


Ques. : 1358 Who among the following has authored the recently published book titled ‘Fractured Times’ ?

1) Robert Galbraith 2) Eric Hobsbawm

3) Mark Leibovich 4) Reza Aslan


Ques. : 1359 The International Day of Democracy is observed on which of the following days internationally?

1) 15 Sep 2) 16 Sep

3) 17 Sep 4) 18 Sep


Ques. : 1360 Which of the following countries is all set to become nuclear free as it started the process to switch off its lastworking nuclear reactor recently with no restart in sight due to public hostility towards atomic power?

1) Sweden 2) Japan

3) Norway 4) Germany


Ques. : 1361 Consider the following statements with respect to the nuclear-capable 'Agni-V' missile tested for second timerecently and choose the correct statement(s):

1) It is the fifth and the last missile under the Agniseries.

2) It is a three stage, solid propellant missile fittedwith new technologies in terms of navigation andguidance, warhead and engine.

3) It is a surface-to-surface missile, which can carrya nuclear warhead of more than one tonne and iscapable of striking a range of more than 5000 km.

4) All the above


Ques. : 1362 The ‘Nai Duniya Awards for Excellence’ was presented by the Vice President of India M Hamid Ansari recentlyto outstanding media persons for their contribution in

1) Urdu Journalism 2) Hindi Journalism

3) Bengali Journalism 4) Oriya Journalism


Ques. : 1363 The union cabinet approved a proposal to invest $4.3 billion in bonds of IBRD, an arm of the World Bank.Expand the term IBRD.


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1) International Bank for Reconciliation andDevelopment

2) International Bank for Restructuring andDevelopment

3) International Bank for Renovation andDevelopment

4) International Bank for Reconstruction andDevelopment


Ques. : 1364 The International Conference on ‘Public Health Priorities in the 21st Century: the Endgame for Tobacco’ washeld at which of the following places recently?

1) Bangalore 2) Hyderabad

3) New Delhi 4) Kolkata


Ques. : 1365 According to a new research commissioned by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, what portion of thefood produced for human consumption in the world is lost or wasted?

1) Two-third 2) Half

3) One-third 4) One-fourth


Ques. : 1366 The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has formed a nine-member committee to examine therecommendations made by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on pricing of spectrum. Who is heading theCommittee?

1) Sadhana Dixit 2) Nirmala Dev

3) SC Misra 4) Anil Kaushal


Ques. : 1367 During the recent visit of the foreign minister to which of the following countries India committed to provide allpossible assistance in the field of renewable energy to the country?

1) Cambodia 2) Chile

3) Thailand 4) Portugal


Ques. : 1368 Who among the following has authored the book titled ‘The Seagull and the Urn’?

1) Subarno Chattarji 2) S Hussain Zaidi

3) Shome Dasgupta 4) Amish Tripathi


Ques. : 1369 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) tightened regulations governing non-banking finance companies (NBFCs)lending against gold jewellery. Which of the following is correct in this regard?

1) Strict documentation for high value loans againstgold and prohibition of misleading advertisementsby NBFCs such as gold loans in 2-3 minutes.

2) It has been made mandatory for NBFC to obtainprior approval of the RBI to open branchesexceeding 1000.

3) The auction of the gold for non-payment of theloan only after five years from the date ofcommencement of loan and that also with thewritten permission of debtor.

4) Only 1) and 2)


Ques. : 1370 Who among the following has topped the annual Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans releasedrecently?

1) Larry Page 2) Michael Dell

3) Mark Zuckerberg 4) Bill Gates

5) Warren Buffett Ans.) 4

Ques. : 1371 Which of the following Bollywood actors has been conferred the 'Pride of the Nation' award constituted by AntiTerrorist Front, a forum chaired by MS Bitta?

1) John Abraham 2) Shahrukh Khan

3) Ajay Devgan 4) Amitabh Bachchan



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Ques. : 1372 Name the Indian wrestler who won a silver medal in the 55 kg category at World Wrestling Championships inBudapest, Hungary recently?

1) Amit Kumar Dahiya 2) Satyawart Kadian

3) Arun Kumar 4) Sushil Kumar


Ques. : 1373 The tropical storm Ingrid hit which of the following countries recently flooding towns and cities, cutting offhighways and setting off deadly landslides and killing several people?

1) US 2) Japan

3) Canada 4) Mexico


Ques. : 1374 The Durand Cup is associated with which of the following games?

1) Hockey 2) Cricket

3) Football 4) Golf


Ques. : 1375 The Eklavya model residential schools are being set up by the govt for which of the following types ofstudents? At present, 111 out of 158 sanctioned schools have become fully functional.

1) Children of landless labourers 2) Tribal students

3) Girl students 4) Students with interest in sports


Ques. : 1376 Nina Davuluri has become the first woman of Indian-origin to win 2014 crown of which of the following beautycontests recently?

1) Miss Canada 2) Miss Australia

3) Miss America 4) Miss China


Ques. : 1377 The Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) has pegged India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP)growth at what per cent during the current financial year (2013-14)?




Ques. : 1378 The South East Asian Regional Organisation (SEARO), one of WHO's six regional offices, has itsheadquarters in which of the following cities?

1) New Delhi 2) Kathmandu

3) Bangkok 4) Jakarta


Ques. : 1379 Dilma Rousseff called off her state visit to US in the aftermath of the revelations that the America spied on her.She is the president of which of the following countries at present?

1) Argentina 2) Brazil

3) South Africa 4) Malaysia


Ques. : 1380 Which of the following states is on top in terms of the Aadhaar enrolment and is all set to become the firststate in the country with a 100 per cent Aadhaar enrolment?

1) Tripura 2) Himachal Pradesh

3) Kerala 4) Delhi


Ques. : 1381 The Indian market regulator, SEBI has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with its counterpart CNVto promote mutual assistance and exchange information related to securities markets in both the countries. CNV belongs to

1) Spain 2) Norway

3) Latvia 4) Argentina



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Ques. : 1382 In a bid to protect the domestic industry, the govt has increased the import duty on gold and silver jewelleryfrom 10 per cent to




Ques. : 1383 The supreme court of which of the following countries handed down death penalty to fundamentalist AbdulQuader Mollah for war crimes recently?

1) Myanmar 2) Bangladesh

3) Afghanistan 4) China


Ques. : 1384 Name the Indian wrestler who won bronze in the 60kg freestyle category at World Wrestling championshipsheld in Budapest, Hungry recently?

1) Bajrang Kumar 2) Satyawart Kadian

3) Sushil Kumar 4) Pawan Kumar

5) Amit Kumar Ans.) 1

Ques. : 1385 India is pitching for its full membership in the central Asia security grouping Shanghai CooperationOrganisation (SCO). Which of the following countries is NOT a member of SCO as of now?

1) Kyrgyzstan 2) Kazakhstan

3) Afghanistan 4) China

5) Russia Ans.) 3

Ques. : 1386 Which of the following statements is/are NOT correct with respect to the recommendations made by the MDamodaran Committee on consumer-friendly measures in banking?

1) A guaranteed payment of up to Rs 5 lakh (raisedfrom Rs 1 lakh) under deposit insurance to anaccount holder if a bank fails.

2) No liability on customer for losses in ATM andonline transactions and instant blocking of ATMcard through SMS for lost/misused cards.

3) A third-party Know Your Customer data bank.4) Compensation for delayed return or loss of titledeeds in the custody of banks.


Ques. : 1387 The Central Govt has approved a special package of Rs 1000 crore to strengthen sports infrastructure inwhich of the following states recently?

1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Himachal Pradesh

3) Jharkhand 4) Chhattisgarh

5) Jammu and Kashmir Ans.) 5

Ques. : 1388 Tony Abbott was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of which of the following countries recently?

1) Norway 2) Spain

3) Australia 4) Canada


Ques. : 1389 The UN agency, OPCW, is associated with the implementation of a global treaty on banning

1) Land mines 2) Nuclear weapons

3) Biological weapons 4) Chemical weapons


Ques. : 1390 Who among the following is the Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Japan at present?

1) Pawan Kumar Bansal 2) Ashwani Kumar

3) Manish Tiwari 4) Ambika Soni


Ques. : 1391 The aviation authorities of the US barred President Nicolas Maduro headed to China from flying throughcountry’s airspace recently. Maduro is the president of which of the following countries at present?

1) Venezuela 2) Egypt

3) Indonesia 4) Vietnam



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Ques. : 1392 The US central bank Federal Reserve, in its recent policy review, left its stimulus programme unchanged.Under its bond-purchase programme, the bank is currently purchasing bonds worth _______every month.




Ques. : 1393 Name the cyclist who became the planet's fastest cyclist paddling his cycle to record 133.78 kph speedrecently.

1) Sebastiaan Bowier 2) Wil Baselmans

3) Wouter Lion 4) Sam Wittingham


Ques. : 1394 Which of the following teams won the Durand Cup Football tournament recently? The team won the cup aftera gap of 73 years.

1) ONGC 2) Mohammedan Sporting

3) Churchill Brothers 4) Mohun Bagan


Ques. : 1395 Tigmanshu Dhulia won the best director award at the 11th Norway Bollywood Film Festival held in Oslorecently for his film

1) Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns 2) Kahaani

3) Paan Singh Tomar 4) Talaash


Ques. : 1396 Jaywant Lele, who passed away recently, was a former secretary of

1) AIFF 2) IOA

3) BCCI 4) BAI


Ques. : 1397 Which of the following Indian industrial houses has applied for setting up a domestic airline in collaborationwith the Singapore Airlines with an initial investment of $100 mn?

1) KK Birla Group 2) Ruia Group

3) Reliance Industries 4) Tata Group


Ques. : 1398 Name the bank which will pay a total of $920 mn in fine to US and UK regulators for trading losses met bytraders that shook the financial world in 2012?

1) HSBC 2) JPMorgan

3) CITI Bank 4) Standard Chartered


Ques. : 1399 . In which of the following countries, recently, masked terrorists stormed into a packed shopping mall andopened indiscriminate firing killing at least 68 people and injuring over 100?

1) Pakistan 2) Syria

3) Kenya 4) China


Ques. : 1400 Iran finally took control of its civilian nuclear reactor at Bushehr recently. Iran has completed this project withthe help from which of the following countries?

1) Russia 2) France



Ques. : 1401 The ousted and scandal-tainted politician of China, Bo Xilai, has been sentenced by a court to

1) Death 2) Suspended death

3) Life imprisonment 4) 30 years jail term



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Ques. : 1402 Name the Indian woman archer, who appearing in the fourth successive World Cup final clinched silver medalrecently.

1) Deepika Kumari 2) Dola Banerjee

3) Rimil Buriuly 4) Bombayala Devi


Ques. : 1403 Name the grappler who created history by winning India's first-ever medal in the Greco-Roman category of theSenior World Wrestling Championships in the 66kg division recently.

1) Amit Kumar Dahiya 2) Rajbir Chhikara

3) Sandeep Tulsi Yadav 4) Bajrang Kumar


Ques. : 1404 The Soyuz spaceships, which have been the only vehicles delivering crews to the International Space Station(ISS) since the US space shuttle fleet was retired from service in 2011, is associated with which of the following countries?

1) Germany 2) Japan

3) Russia 4) Israel


Ques. : 1405 KN Basha, the retired judge of the Madras High Court, has assumed charge as chairman of which of thefollowing tribunals in India recently?

1) Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (ATE) 2) Intellectual Property Appellate Tribunal (IPAB)

3) National Green Tribunal (NGT)4) Telecom Disputes Settlement and AppellateTribunal (TDSAT)


Ques. : 1406 Who among the following has won the 2013 Singapore Grand Prix formula one championships recently?

1) Lewis Hamilton 2) Nico Rosberg

3) Kimi Raikkonen 4) Fernando Alonso

5) Sebastian Vettel Ans.) 5

Ques. : 1407 India has decided to buy 6 more C-130J 'Super Hercules' aircrafts from US for over Rs 4,000 crore in additionto existing six planes. The new lot of six planes will be located at which of the following places selected to be headquarters ofthe proposed Mountain Strike Corps of the army along the China border?

1) Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh 2) Bangalore, Karnataka

3) Panagarh, West Bengal 4) Shilong, Meghalaya


Ques. : 1408 The ‘HotSpot’ technology is used in which of the following games?

1) Kabaddi 2) Golf

3) Cricket 4) Chess


Ques. : 1409 Which of the following movies is the official entry of India to the 2014 Oscars?

1) Celluloid 2) English Vinglish

3) Bhaag Milkha Bhaag 4) The Lunchbox

5) The Good Road Ans.) 5

Ques. : 1410 The international governing body for which of the following games is abbreviated as AIBA?

1) Badminton 2) Boxing

3) Boating 4) Archery


Ques. : 1411 Which of the following industries is/are identified by Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of Indiaas heavily polluting and kept in ‘red’ category?

1) Aluminium smelter 2) Copper smelter.

3) Cement 4) All the above



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Ques. : 1412 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced a 13-member committee to frame a clear and detailed visionfor financial inclusion across the country headed by

1) Shikha Sharma 2) Nachiket Mor

3) Vikram Pandit 4) Adtya Puri


Ques. : 1413 A multinational force, AMISOM, is conducting peacekeeping operations with the backing of the United Nationsin which of the following countries at present?

1) Somalia 2) Uganda

3) Nigeria 4) Mali


Ques. : 1414 Which of the following statements is/are correct in the light of recent ruling by the Supreme Court regardingAadhaar numbers?

1) The Aadhar numbers are not mandatory foravailing govt benefits and services.

2) The Aadhar numbers are mandatory for availinggovt benefits and services.

3) There is no need to spend crores of rupees onthe UID project as other identity proofs aresufficient to establish one’s identity.

4) Only 1) and 3)


Ques. : 1415 The Govt is putting all its efforts to stick to its market borrowing target for 2013-14 and keep the fiscal deficit to4.8% of gross domestic product. What is its target for total borrowing during the financial year 2013-14?

1) Rs 2.35 trillion 2) Rs 3.44 trillion

3) Rs 5.79 trillion 4) Rs 6.91 trillion


Ques. : 1416 Indian environmentalist Bunker Roy and who among the following have been declared winners of this year'sprestigious 'Clinton Global Citizens Awards' in US?

1) Amarya Sen 2) Anna Hazare

3) Muhammad Yunus 4) Malala Yousafzai


Ques. : 1417 Who has authored the book titled ‘The Competent Authority’?

1) Rana Mitter 2) Shovon Chowdhury

3) Sanjay Bahadur 4) Amitava Kumar


Ques. : 1418 The sixth Asia Pacific Population Convention was held in which of the following countries recently?

1) China 2) Bangladesh



Ques. : 1419 The parliament of which of the following countries approved a new five-year term for the Prime Minister HunSen following weeks of political turmoil over his disputed election?

1) Spain 2) Turkey

3) Cambodia 4) Venezuela


Ques. : 1420 The new Hollywood film titled ‘The Fifth State’, scheduled to be released in October this year, is based on thelife of who among the following?

1) Rupert Murdoch 2) Edward Snowden

3) Chelsea Manning 4) Julian Assange

5) Daniel Domscheit-Berg Ans.) 4

Ques. : 1421 Which of the following is NOT a regulatory body functioning in India at present?

1) Director General of Hydrocarbon 2) PFRDA

3) Forward Markets Commission 4) CERC



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Ques. : 1422 Who among the following has been conferred the ‘Humanitarian Achievement Award’ at this year'sSouth-South Awards ceremony recently?

1) Will Clinton 2) Nelson Mandela

3) Fidel Castro 4) Desmond Tutu


Ques. : 1423 The coalition led by Angela Merkel has won the recent poll held in Germany and she is all set to become thechancellor for the ________time.

1) First 2) Second

3) Third 4) Fourth


Ques. : 1424 Which of the following is NOT correctly matched regarding industries and their respective bodies?

1) Automobile – SIAM 2) Real State – CREDAI

3) Software – NASSCOM 4) Transport – TAI


Ques. : 1425 What is India’s rank in terms of competitiveness in the ‘Global Competitiveness Report 2013-14’ released bythe World Economic Forum (WEF) recently?

1) 60th 2) 64th

3) 110th 4) 115th


Ques. : 1426 Krona is the name of urrency of which of the following countries?

1) Norway 2) Sweden

3) Finland 4) Poland


Ques. : 1427 The oil-reach Mangala, Bhagyam and Aishwariya fields are located in which of the following states?

1) Gujarat 2) Madhya Pradesh

3) Rajasthan 4) Tamil Nadu


Ques. : 1428 Ace cricketer Virat Kohli has been appointed as the brand ambassador of which of the following centralparamilitary forces in a first such arrangement? He will boost the morale of its rank and will be its face at public events.

1) CRPF 2) CISF

3) BSF 4) ITBP


Ques. : 1429 The RBI has banned zero per cent interest rate schemes recently. Such schemes were commonly beingoffered on which of the following types of transactions?

1) Purchase of consumer goods through debitcards

2) Purchase of consumer goods through creditcards

3) Car loans 4) Education loan


Ques. : 1430 Battling a record current account deficit (CAD) due to mounting oil import bill, the petroleum ministry has comeup with a mega fuel conservation drive. Which of the following measure(s) is/are being propagated by the ministry?

1) Staggered office timings for govt offices todecongest traffic and encourage the use of publictransport.

2) Introduce "Free Cycle Scheme" in select cities forsaving fuel.

3) Keeping fuel stations closed at night. 4) All the above


Ques. : 1431 The powerful typhoon Usagi hit which of the following countries recntly?

1) Japan 2) China

3) France 4) Vietnam



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Ques. : 1432 Indian eves defeated which of the following countries to qualify for the semi-finals of the eighth women's AsiaCup hockey tournament recently?

1) Malaysia 2) Pakistan



Ques. : 1433 The govt has promulgated the ordinance on convicted lawmakers recently. According to the present day law,an individual convicted for what period cannot fight elections under the Representation of People's Act?

1) More than six months 2) More than 1 year

3) More than 2 years 4) More than 3 years


Ques. : 1434 The govt has launched a new skill development named 'Learn and Earn' which is meant for

1) Youth of minority communities 2) Youth of Jammu & Kashmir state

3) Youth of tribal communities 4) Youth of naxal-affected areas


Ques. : 1435 Who among the following is the Indian ambassador to the United States at present?

1) Sujatha Singh 2) Chokila Iyer

3) Nirupama Rao 4) Ranjan Mathai


Ques. : 1436 Now villages with just 100 people would also get access to electricity as per the re-vamped Rajiv GandhiGrameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY). Earlier, villages with what population were considered for the programme?

1) At least 300 2) At least 500

3) At least 1000 4) At least 1500


Ques. : 1437 In a recent survey carried out in 16 cities across four continents, which of the following Indian cities wasranked as the world’s second most honest city? The Finnish capital city of Helsinki topped the list.

1) New Delhi 2) Kolkata

3) Mumbai 4) Chennai


Ques. : 1438 Consider the following with respect to the seventh pay commission announced by govt and choose the correctstatement(s):

1) The Commission will revise the salaries,allowances and pensions of about 80 lakh govtemployees and pensioners.

2) Its recommendations are likely to be implementedwith effect from January 1, 2016. The Sixth PayCommission was implemented from Jan 1, 2006.

3) The govt constitutes Pay Commission almostevery ten years.

4) All the above


Ques. : 1439 The Ministry of Minority Affairs has launched Jiyo Parsi scheme recently with a aim to

1) Provide free healthcare facility of Parsi people.2) Encourage the Parsis in India to adopt healthylife style.

3) Contain the dwindling population of Parsis inIndia.

4) Provide free health insurance cover to all Parsisin India.


Ques. : 1440 The Indian women hockey team was defeated by which of the following countries in the semifinal match of theeighth Asia Cup hockey tournament in Kuala Lumpur recently?

1) Pakistan 2) Malaysia



Ques. : 1441 China is in process to lease 3m hectare of arable farmland in which of the following countries in an agreementworth $1.7 bn aimed at reducing its dependency on foodgrain imports?


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1) Madagascar 2) Ukraine

3) Belarus 4) Romaniya


Ques. : 1442 The World Tourism Day is observed on which of the following dates globally?

1) 21 Sep 2) 22 Sep

3) 26 Sep 4) 27 Sep


Ques. : 1443 Which of the following social networking sites has launched a system for emergency alerts which can helpspread critical information when other lines of communication are down?

1) Google+ 2) Orkut

3) Facebook 4) Twitter


Ques. : 1444 As per the notification published by the govt, the controversial General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR)provision, which seeks to check tax avoidance by investors routing their funds through tax havens, will come into effect from

1) Apr1, 2014 2) Apr1, 2015

3) Apr1, 2016 4) Apr1, 2018


Ques. : 1445 Name the anti-chemical weapons activist(s) who has/have won the Swedish Right Livelihood Award?

1) Paul Walker 2) Hans Herren

3) Denis Mukwege 4) Raji Sourani


Ques. : 1446 Who among the following has been awarded the fifth Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics 2013, inrecognition of his ground-breaking research work which influenced financial and macro-economic policies around the world?

1) Raghuram Rajan 2) Amartya Sen

3) Christine Lagarde 4) Kaushik Basu


Ques. : 1447 As per the report submitted by the Raghuram Rajan committee recently, which of the following states inmarked as the least developed state in the country?

1) Uttrakhand 2) Jammu and Kashmir

3) West Bengal 4) Odisha

5) Goa Ans.) 4

Ques. : 1448 Which of the following Internet giants celebrated its 15th birthday recently?

1) Microsoft 2) Google

3) Yahoo 4) Amazon


Ques. : 1449 Consider the following with respect to the General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) and choose the correctstatement(s):

1) It will apply to entities availing tax benefit of atleast Rs 3 cr.

2) It will apply to foreign institutional investors (FIIs)that have claimed benefits under any Double TaxAvoidance Agreement (DTAA).

3) Investments made by a non-resident by way ofoffshore derivative instruments or P-Notes throughFIIs, will not be covered by the GAAR provisions.

4) All the above


Ques. : 1450 Consider the following and identify the correct statement(s):

1) Faced with high current account deficit (CAD),the govt allowed unlisted companies to directly liston stock exchanges abroad to raise funds foracquisitions or retiring debts.

2) As of now, unlisted companies are not allowed todirectly list in overseas markets without prior orsimultaneous listing in Indian markets.


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3) This scheme will be implemented on a pilot basisfor a period of two years from the date ofnotification and then the impact of this arrangementwill be reviewed.

4) Only 1) and 3)

5) All 1), 2) and 3) Ans.) 5

Ques. : 1451 India's nuclear operator NPCIL (Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited) has signed an agreement forsetting up an atomic plant in India with Westinghouse of

1) US 2) France

3) Germany 4) Japan


Ques. : 1452 As per the Raghuram Rajan panel report released recently, which of the following are the most developedstates in the country?

1) Goa and Gujarat 2) Haryana and Punjab

3) Kerala and Goa 4) Gujarat and Maharashtra


Ques. : 1453 Who among the following is the winner of the 2013 women’s Table Tennis World Cup?

1) Liu Siwen 2) Guo Yan

3) Fan Ying 4) Wu Yang


Ques. : 1454 The World rabies Day is observed on which of the following dates?

1) Sep 22 2) Sep 24

3) Sep 26 4) Sep 28


Ques. : 1455 Which of the following countries started receiving electricity from India on trial basis recently?

1) Sri Lanka 2) Pakistan

3) Bhutan 4) Bangladesh


Ques. : 1456 India's first ever Naval and Maritime Exposition and Conference, NAMEXPO 2013, was held at which of thefollowing places recently?

1) Mumbai 2) Cochin

3) Kolkata 4) Goa


Ques. : 1457 Which of the following countries will host the 2014 NATO summit first time in more than 20 years?

1) England 2) Canada

3) Denmark 4) France

5) Italy Ans.) 1

Ques. : 1458 The book title ‘The Competent Authority’ is authored by

1) Jhumpa Lahiri 2) Manjula Padmanabhan

3) Javier Marias 4) Shovon Chowdhury


Ques. : 1459 As announced by the BCCI, which of the following teams will start a four-week tour of India from 31 Oct duringwhich Sachin Tendulkar is expected to play his 200th Test?

1) England 2) West Indies



Ques. : 1460 Which of the following countries has won the 3rd Sultan of Johor Cup Under-21 hockey tournament recently?

1) Malaysia 2) Japan

3) India 4) South Korea



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Ques. : 1461 The US space agency NASA has announced that its Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemicalused to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and other consumer products, on

1) Moon 2) Titan (Saturn's moon)

3) Europa (Jupiter’s moon) 4) Phobos (Mars’ moon)


Ques. : 1462 What is the full form of ASCI? It is the abbreviated form of the self-regulatory voluntary organization of theadvertising industry that curbs misleading ads.

1) Advertisement Screening Council of India 2) Advertising Supervision Council of India

3) Advertisement Support Council of India 4) Advertising Standards Council of India


Ques. : 1463 The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its long-awaited review inStockholm recently. Consider the following in this context and identify the correct statement(s):

1) Humans are responsible for the global warmingand the temperatures would rise another 0.3 to 4.8degrees Celsius this century.

2) The sea levels would rise between 26 and 82centimetres by 2100, and there is a higher risk forheatwaves, floods and droughts.

3) The fossil-fuel burning must be urgently curbedto limit future damage to the climate system.

4) All the above


Ques. : 1464 The supreme court of which of the following countries has barred murder convicts from contesting in theupcoming polls recently?

1) Nepal 2) Maldives



Ques. : 1465 The book titled ‘Maddaddam’ has been authored by

1) Susan Crossan 2) Supriya Dravid

3) Margaret Atwood 4) Samantha Shannon


Ques. : 1466 The International Day of Older Persons is observed on which of the following dates?

1) 1 Oct 2) 2 Sep

3) 3 Sep 4) 5 Sep


Ques. : 1467 Which of the following countries has approved a policy for senior citizens ensuring that they lead a dignifiedlife? According to the policy, people attaining 65 years of age will be considered "senior citizens".

1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Delhi

3) Uttar Pradesh 4) Maharashtra


Ques. : 1468 Who among the following has been elected chairperson of the International Coffee Council recently at its111th session at Belo Horizonte in Brazil?

1) Norman Kelly 2) MGVK Bhanu

3) Prakash Chauhan 4) Jawaid Akhtar


Ques. : 1469 Iraq has signed the CTBT accord recently. Which of the following major countries has not signed the treaty sofar?

1) UK 2) China

3) France 4) Russia


Ques. : 1470 Which of the following is the name of a campaign launched by the Ministry of Tourism to promote tourism inHimalayas?

1) 777 day of incredible Indian Himalayas 2) 555 day of incredible Indian Himalayas




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Ques. : 1471 India can now test electronics and IT products and issue globally-valid certificates with respect to cyber-security as it has been granted 'Authorising Nation' status under the international agreement CCRA. Expand the term CCRA.

1) Common Criteria Reporting Arrangement 2) Common Criteria Referring Arrangement

3) Common Criteria Registration Arrangement 4) Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement


Ques. : 1472 The Prime Minister Manmohan singh inaugurated NTPC's Sipat thermal power plant recently in

1) Chhattisgarh 2) Madhya Pradesh



Ques. : 1473 Name the person who has been awarded with the ‘Policy Leadership Award 2013’ in agriculture during theAgriculture Leadership Summit-2013 organized by the leading national agriculture magazine ‘Agriculture Today’ in New Delhirecently.

1) Navin Patnaik 2) Sharad Pawar

3) Prakash Singh Badal 4) Nitish Kumar


Ques. : 1474 Which of the following technology giants has created a new company called Calico to make improvements inhuman health and well-being?

1) IBM 2) Google

3) Yahoo 4) Wipro


Ques. : 1475 Who among the following has been appointed the chairman of the World Gold Council (WGC) recently? TheWorld Gold Council is the market development organization for the gold industry.

1) Ian Tefler 2) Randall Oliphant

3) Kelvin Dushnisky 4) Aram Shishmanian


Ques. : 1476 Which of the following agencies is empowered to declare any industrial establishment as a sick unit?

1) SEBI 2) CII

3) BIFR 4) CCI


Ques. : 1477 The grand palace called Neermahal is located in which of the following states in the vast Rudrasagar Lake?The state govt has decided to restore the palace as a major tourist attraction.

1) Arunachal Pradesh 2) Tripura

3) Mizoram 4) Assam


Ques. : 1478 The 2nd India-Africa Forum Summit was held in Addis Abeba recently where India committed to provideAfrican nations over the next three years a line of credit worth

1) $5 bn 2) $10 bn

3) $15 bn 4) $20 bn


Ques. : 1479 Iraq has signed the CTBT accord recently. Which of the following major countries has not signed the treaty sofar?

1) UK 2) China

3) France 4) Russia


Ques. : 1480 Which of the following is the name of a campaign launched by the Ministry of Tourism to promote tourism inHimalayas?





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Ques. : 1481 India can now test electronics and IT products and issue globally-valid certificates with respect to cyber-security as it has been granted 'Authorising Nation' status under the international agreement CCRA. Expand the term CCRA.

1) Common Criteria Reporting Arrangement 2) Common Criteria Referring Arrangement

3) Common Criteria Registration Arrangement 4) Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement


Ques. : 1482 The Prime Minister Manmohan singh inaugurated NTPC's Sipat thermal power plant recently in

1) Chhattisgarh 2) Madhya Pradesh



Ques. : 1483 Name the person who has been awarded with the ‘Policy Leadership Award 2013’ in agriculture during theAgriculture Leadership Summit-2013 organized by the leading national agriculture magazine ‘Agriculture Today’ in New Delhirecently.

1) Navin Patnaik 2) Sharad Pawar

3) Prakash Singh Badal 4) Nitish Kumar


Ques. : 1484 Which of the following technology giants has created a new company called Calico to make improvements inhuman health and well-being?

1) IBM 2) Google

3) Yahoo 4) Wipro


Ques. : 1485 Who among the following has been appointed the chairman of the World Gold Council (WGC) recently? TheWorld Gold Council is the market development organization for the gold industry.

1) Ian Tefler 2) Randall Oliphant

3) Kelvin Dushnisky 4) Aram Shishmanian


Ques. : 1486 Which of the following agencies is empowered to declare any industrial establishment as a sick unit?

1) SEBI 2) CII

3) BIFR 4) CCI


Ques. : 1487 The grand palace called Neermahal is located in which of the following states in the vast Rudrasagar Lake?The state govt has decided to restore the palace as a major tourist attraction.

1) Arunachal Pradesh 2) Tripura

3) Mizoram 4) Assam


Ques. : 1488 The 2nd India-Africa Forum Summit was held in Addis Abeba recently where India committed to provideAfrican nations over the next three years a line of credit worth

1) $5 bn 2) $10 bn

3) $15 bn 4) $20 bn


Ques. : 1489 India is building its first-of-its-kind strategic oil storage(s) at which of the following places in an effort toinsulate itself from supply disruptions? It will be enough to meet nation's oil requirement for 13-14 days.

1) Padur 2) Mangalore

3) Visakhapatnam 4) All the above


Ques. : 1490 Consider the following statements with respect to the recent CBI court verdict in the 17-year-old multi-crorefodder scam and identify the correct sentence(s):

1) The former Bihar chief minister and RashtriyaJanata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav hasbeen convicted and sentenced to five years inprison and fined Rs 25 lakh.

2) The former Bihar chief minister JagannathMishra has been sentenced to four years in prison.


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3) According to a recent Supreme Court ruling, theconviction disqualifies Lalu Prasad Yadav fromcontinuing as a Member of Parliament (MP).

4) All the above


Ques. : 1491 India is set to sign a historic ‘Motor Vehicles Agreement’ with which of the following countries allowing thecargo trucks from both sides to ply within each other’s territories?


3) Myanmar 4) Pakistan


Ques. : 1492 Which of the following universities has been ranked on top among the Indian institutions of higher education inthe recent Times Higher Education World University Rankings?

1) Panjab University 2) Delhi University

3) IGNOU 4) BHU


Ques. : 1493 Which of the following states has been given the national award for protecting interests of senior citizens andensuring their welfare by Union Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry on the eve of International Day of Older Persons?

1) Delhi 2) Gujarat

3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Haryana


Ques. : 1494 Which of the following countries announced to leave the 54-member Commonwealth group recently?

1) Senegal 2) Bahamas

3) Cyprus 4) Gambia


Ques. : 1495 In its efforts to ease liquidity in the market, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced to purchase govtsecurities on Oct 7 to infuse in the market

1) Rs 5,000 cr 2) Rs 10,000 cr

3) Rs 12,000 cr 4) Rs 15,000 cr


Ques. : 1496 As per the recent report of the UNICEF, the global infant mortality rate (IMR) has declined from 61 deaths in1990 to ____ deaths in 2011. The infant mortality rate is the deaths of infants under one year of age in a given year per 1,000live births in the same year.

1) 35 2) 37

3) 42 4) 47


Ques. : 1497 Which of the following countries has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) recently?

1) Iraq 2) Iran

3) Israel 4) Egypt

5) China Ans.) 1

Ques. : 1498 The Miss India Navneet Kaur has won which of the following challenge rounds at the recent Miss Worldcompetition held in Bali, Indonesia?

1) Beauty with a Purpose 2) Beach Fashion

3) Sports 4) Top Model

5) Multimedia Ans.) 5


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