1. President Pratibha Patil on 18 April 2012 released a commemorative postage stamp to mark the birth centenary of President R. Venkataraman at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. Which of the following facts about the former president is not true?
1. R. Venkataraman was the 10th president of India
2. He held office from 25 July 1987 to 25 July 1992
3. had the unique distinction of having worked with four Prime Ministers namely- V. P Singh, Chandrashekhar and P. V Narasimha Rao and Rajiv Gandhi
4. R. Venkataraman had played a significant role in the industrialisation of Tamil Nadu. An outstanding administrator, he was also known as the father of industrialisation
a. Only 3
b. 2 & 3
c. 3 & 4
d. Only 1
Answer: (d)
2. Which ministry in its meeting on 17 April 2012, decided to set up three new committees to accelerate procurements and border infrastructure projects?
a. Defence Ministry
b. Railways Ministry
c. Commerce Ministry
d. Home Ministry
Answer: (a)
3. Veteran litterateur, freedom fighter and former Minister Nityananda Mohapatra died on 17 April 2012. Which of the following facts about him are not true?
1. Post independence was elected thrice as MLA from Bhadrak, twice as Congress candidate and once on Janata Dal ticket.
2. He rose to literary prominence as editor of Odia magazine Dagara
3. Mohapatra was the recipient of Kendriya Sahitya Academy and Odisha Sahitya Academy awards
4. He wrote the famous flag-song for the Orissa unit of the CPI Ei lal patakara tale.
5. His famous books include Bhangahada, Gharadiha, Nahonm Tistami Baikunthe, Kalagara Dharagara and Priya O Priyatama
a. Only 4
b. Only 2
c. Only 1
d. Only 3
Answer: (c)
4. Name the Italian tourist who was released by the Maoists in Orissa on 12 April 2012 ?
a. Bosusco Paolo
b. Joel Melchiori
c. Giacomo Sanfelice
d. None of the above
Answer: (a)
5. Identify the person, with whom the following statements are attached.
1. He was born on February 7, 1948 in Letpadan, Burma
2. He was re-elected general secretary of the CPI(M) at the 20th party congress
3. He was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI (M) in 1985
4. He became a member of the Politburo in 1992
a. Sitaram Yechury
b. AB Bardhan
c. Prakash Karat
d. D Raja
Answer: (c)
Important DaysSignificances of Days
January
01 – New Year Day
11 – APSRTC Establishment Day
12 – National Youth Day
13 – World Laughter Day
15 – Army Day
21 – Manipur Day, Meghalaya Day, Tripura Day
23 – Desh Prem Divas
25 – Himachal Pradesh Day
26 – Indian Republic Day, Jammu & Kashmir Day, International Customs Day
30 – Martyr’s Day, Sarvodaya Day
February
14 – Valentines Day
24 – Central Excise Day
28 – National Science Day
March
08 – Mothers Day
13 – No Smoking Day
15 – World Disabled Day
17 – St. Patricks Day
21 – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
22 – World Water Day
23 – World Meteorological Day
27 – World Stage ArtistsDay
31 – Financial Year Ending
April
01 – Fools Day
05 – National Maritime Day
07 – World Health Day
18 – World Heritage Day
22 – World Earth Day
23 – Easter Day
24 – World Lab Animals Day
25 – National Administrative Professionals Day
May
01 – Gujarat Statehood Day, International Labour Day, Maharastra Statehood Day
03 – International Sun Day, World Asthma Day, World Press Freedom Day
04 – Coal Miner’s Day
05 – World Athletics Day
07 – National Institute of Sports Founder’s Day
08 – World Red Cross Day
11 – National Resurgence Day, Technology Day
12 – International Nurses Day, Mothers Day
13 – International Criminal Court Day, National Solidarity Day
15 – International Day of Families
16 – Sikkim Day
17 – World Telecommunications Day
20 – World Metrology Day
21 – Anti Terrorism Day
22 – International Day for Biological Diversity
24 – Commonwealth Day
28 – Official Language Day, Telugu People’s Self-respect Day
30 – Goa Statehood Day
31 – World No-Tobacco Day
June
01 – International Children’s Day
03 – World Naturist Day
04 – International Day for Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
05 – World Environment Day
16 – Father’s Day
21 – Hugging Day, World Music Day
23 – International Olympic Day, Rath Yatra
26 – International Anti – Drugs Day, International Day against Drug Abuse and illicit Trafficking
27 – World Diabetes Day
July
01 – Architecture Day, Doctor’s Day, International Jokes Day
02 – World Sports Journalists Day
04 – Free 4th of July
06 – World Zonnosis Day
07 – International day of Co-Operatives
11 – World Population Day
20 – Man Walks on the Moon
26 – Kargil Vijay Divas
August
01 – World Breast-feeding Week
03 – Liberation Day
05 – Friendship Day
06 – Hiroshima Day
09 – August Kranti Divas
10 – Dengue Prevention Day
12 – International Youth Day
13 – Left Hander’s Day
15 – Indian Independence Day, West Bengal Day
19 – World Photography Day
20 – World Mosquito Day
24 – Kolkata’s Birth Day, Sanskrit Day
26 – Women’s Equality Day
29 – National Sports Day, Telugu Language Day
September
01 – Nutrition Week 1-7
04 – Minority Welfare Day
05 – Teachers Day
08 – World Literacy Day
10 – Haryana Statehood Day, Punjab Statehood Day
14 – Hindi Day
15 – Engineers Day
16 – International Day of the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
18 – International Day of Peace
21 – Biosphere Day, World Alzheimer’s Day
22 – Girl Child Week 22-26
24 – Girl Child Day, World Heart Day
26 – CSIR Foundation Day
27 – World Tourism Day
28 – Gunners Day
October
01 – International Music Day, International Day for Older Persons, National Voluntary Blood Donation Day, World Habitat Day(1st Monday)
02 – Gandhi Jayanthi, Human Rights Protection Day, Prisoner’s Day, World Ostony Day, World Wide Life Week (2-8)
03 – World Animal Day
04 – International Mental Health Health Week (4-10)
08 – Air Force Day
09 – National Postal Week(9-14), World Postal Day
10 – World Disaster Reduction Day (2nd Wednes Day), World Mental Health Day
12 – World Sight Day
13 – World Arthritis Day
14 – World Standards Day
15 – World White Cane Day
16 – World Anaesthesiologists Day, World Food Day
17 – International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
21 – Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders Day
24 – Disarmament Week(24-30), United Nations Day
27 – Infantry Day
30 – World Thrift Day
31 – Halloween Day, National Integration Day
November
01 – Andhra Pradesh Formation Day, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab States Formation Day
05 – International Week of Science & Peace (5-11)
09 – Legal Services Day, Uttaranchal State Formation Day
10 – Forest Martyrs Day
11 – Armistice Day, Education Day
12 – National Broadcasting Day
14 – Cooperative, Universal Children’s Day, World Diabetes Day
15 – Jharkhand State Formation Day
16 – International Day for Tolerance, National Press Day
17 – National Day for the Deaf
18 – Territorial Army Day
19 – National Integration Day
20 – Africa Industrialization Day
21 – World Fisheries Day, World Television Day
25 – Flag Day, International Day against Violence against Women
26 – National Law Day
December
01 – Border Security Force (BSF) Raising Day, Nagaland Day, World AIDS Day
02 -International Day for Abolition of Slavery (UNO)
03 – International Day of Disabled Persons, World Conservation Day
04 – Chemical Disaster Prevention Day, Navy Day
05 – International Volunteers Day
06 – Armed Forces Day, Civil Defence Day
07 – International Civil Aviation Day
08 – Handicrafts week (8-15)
09 – National Immunization Day
10 – Human Rights Day, International Childrens Day of Broadcasting
11 – UNICEF Day
12 – Assam Rifles Raising Day
14 – National Energy Conservation Day
16 – Vijay Divas
17 – Pensioner’s Day
18 – International Migrants Day, Minorities Rights Day
22 – Mathematics Day
23 – Kisan Day
24 – National Consumer Day
25 – X-Mas Day
26 – Boxing Day
28 – Central Reserve Police Force Anniversary
29 – International Day for Biological Diversity
Authors of Famous Books
Famous Books and Authors
• Ramayana - Valmiki
• Mahabharatha - Vedavyasa
• Bhagavath Geetha - Vedavyasa
• Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippatu – Thunjathu Ezhuthachan
• Krishnagatha – Cherussery
• Uthararamacharitham – Bhavabhoothi
• Harshacharitha – Banabhatta
• Neethisathakam – Bharthruhari
• Meghdoot – Kalidasa
• Swapnavasavadatta - Bhasan
• Kumarasambhava – Kalidasa
• Abhijanana Sakundalam – Kalidasa
• Malavikagnimithra – Kalidasa
• Panchathantra – Vishnu Sharma
• Ramacharithamans – Tulasidas
• Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore
• Anandamath – Bankim Chandra chatterji
• The Story of My experiments with truth – Mahatma Gandhi
• The discovery of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Durgesha Nandini - Bankim Chandra chatterji
• Godaan – Munshi Premchand
• Coolie – Mulk Raj Anand
• Odyssey – Homer
• Lliad – Homer
• Das Capital – Karl Marx
• Communist Manifesto – Marx and Engels
• Crime and punishment – Dostoevsky
• War and Peace - Tolstoy
• Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
• Mother – Maxim Gorky
• Nana – Emile Zola
• Rubaiyat – Omar Khayyam
• Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
• Oliver twist – Charles Dickens
• Asian Drama – Gunnar Myrdal
• Hamlet – Shakespeare
• Othello – Shakespeare
• Macbeth – Shakespeare
• King Lear – Shakespeare
• The adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Don Quixote – Niguel de Cervantes
• The Old man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
• The good earth – Pearl S. Buck
• Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
• Ivanhoe – Walter Scott
• The apple Cart – Bernard Shaw
• Man and Superman - Bernard Shaw
• Treasure Island – R.L Stevenson
• Chithirappaavai – P.V Akhilandam
• The Time Machine – H.G Wells
• Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
• Divine Comedy – Dante
• Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
• Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Laureus award
1.Laureus Award is giving in the field of ?
Ans: Sports
2.2012 Laureus Award winners Who won Sports man of the year award ?
Ans: Novak Djokovic
3.Who won Sports women of the year award ?
Ans: Viviya Cheruiot
4.Which Football team won Team of the Year award ?
Ans: FC Barcelona
5.What is the nationality of Viviya Cheruiot?
Ans: Kenya
Some more questions
1.World's biggest CO2 Emitter as per IEA report(2012)?
Ans: china
2.What is the full form of IEA ?
Ans: International energy agency
3.Where is the Headquarters of IEA ?
Ans: Paris
4.Tipaimukh hydel power project is situated at which Indian state ?
Ans: Mani poor
5.World chess Champion 2012 ?
Ans: viswanathan anand
6.2012 IPL Winners ?
Ans: Kolkata Knight riders [Runner up - Chennai Super kings ]
7.2012 world snooker championship winner ?
Ans: Ronnie O'sullivan
8.US National Humanities Medal 2012 ?
Ans: Amartya Sen
9.2012 Golden Bear award winning Documentary in Berlin film Festival ?
Ans: Ceasar Must Die
10.2012 European tour title winner- ?
Ans:Jbe Kruger (South Africa)
11. European tour title is related to which sports item?
Ans: sports
12. 2012 Jindal Prize Winner ?
Ans: A P J Abdul Kalam and Santhosh Hegde
13.2012 Africa Cup of nations winner ?
Ans: zambia
14.Who is the writer of the book "My life in action" ?
Ans: jackie chan
15.Who is the writer of the book "Pakistan a personal History"?
Ans: Imran khan (Former Pakistan cricketer)
16.Who wrote the book "Controversially yours " , which was published in 2011 ?
Ans: shoaib akhtar (Former Pakistan cricketer)
17."An appeal from death row" is a book by ?
Ans: Perarivelal (rajiv gandhi murder convict )
18.Who wrote the book "No Higher Owner" ?
Ans: condalisa rice
19.Who is the writer of "Room of many colors" ?
Ans:Ruskin Bond (Well known Novelist)
20."A shot at History" is the autobiography of?
Ans: Abhinav Bindra (shooting champion)
21.Current IOC Chairman ?
Ans: R S Butola
22.Current Sail Chaiman ?
Ans: C S Verma
23.Prime minister's Economic Advisory council chairman ?
Ans: C Rangarajan
24.Current IPL Chairman ?
Ans: Rajiv Shukla
25.Present BJP President ?
Ans: Nitin Gadkari
Quizzes on the India Current Affairs section are designed to cover the wide range of national issues and other informations related to India from different segments which are of general human interest. Taking the India Current Affairs Quiz for January 2012 will update you on the latest incidents that occured in India. The quizzes on India Current Affairs will equip you to take all competitive examinations as well.
1. He was conferred with the first S K Singh Award for excellence in the Indian Foreign Service on 6 January 2012. Identify the diplomat.
a. Ranjan Mathai
b. Shivshankar Menon
c. D Bala Venkatesh Verma
d. K. Raghunath
Answer: (c)
2. Which Ministry prepared draft policy seeking to increase private participation and opens the doors for foreign direct investors for expanding its network?
a. Railways Ministry
b. Ministry of Rural Development
c. Ministry of Commerce and Industry
d. Defence Ministry
Answer: (a)
3. Six researchers from five science streams were honoured with this prize by the former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in Bangalore on 9 January 2012. Name the prize in question.
a. Infosys Prize
b. India Science Prize
c. Rolls-Royce Science Prize
d. Young Scientist Award
Answer: (a)
4. Which one of the following state governments launched Panch Parmeshwar scheme?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Bihar
c) UP
d) Kerala
Answer: (a) Madhya Pradesh
5. The Cabinet Committee on Security approved the setting up of NCTC. What is the full form of NCTC?
a) National Counter Terrorism Centre
b) National Trade Cooperation
c) National Central Terrorism Centre
d) National Council for Trade Cooperation
Answer: (a) National Counter Terrorism Centre
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