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Junior National Archery Championship held at Kokrajhar,
Assam.

India has been awarded the hosting of 2018 men's Hockey
World Cup.

MAGNUS CARLSEN: the 23 year old chess prodigy from
Norway was crowned as World Champion at the World
Chess Championship match at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, as he
defeated the five-time title-holder Viswanathan Anand.

SEBASTIAN VETTEL: Red Bull's German Driver has
matched Michael Schumacher's record of 13 victories in a
year and equalled the nine consecutive wins of Alberto
Ascari. Vettel achieved the remarkable feat by winning the
Formula One's season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix.

Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Jamaican
sprint duo have been named as the IAAF’s male and female
World Athletes of the Year for 2013. The 27-year-old Bolt
also won the award in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012.

Jason Day of Australia lifted the ISPS HANDA World Cup of
Golf held in Melbourne, Australia.

Nepal and UAE have qualified for the first time to take part
in the ICC T20 championship 2014 to be held in Bangladesh.

Romania claimed top position in medal tally at the
Ashihara Sabaki World Karate Championship held at
Bucharest, Romania.

Serbia's Novak Djokovic won the Paris Masters Tennis
tournament beating David Ferrer of Spain
Novak Djokovic won the ATP World Tour Finals in London
beating Rafael Nadal.

Serena Williams won the WTA Tour Championship title
beating Li Na of China at Istanbul, Turkey. WTA – Womens
Tennis Association

Serena Williams declared ‘Player of the Year’ for 2013 by
the WTA

Veteran athlete Ajmer Singh won gold medal in hammer
throw (+75 years category) in the 20th World Master
Athletics Championship held at Porto Alegre, Brazil, from
October 15-28.

Peter Gilchrist from Singapore defeated Dave Causier to
win the World Billiards Championship at Leeds, England.
Asian Archery Championship held in Taipei, China won
by South Korea.

Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship held at
Penang, Malaysia.

The Hockey World Cup- 2014 will be held from May 31
to June 15, 2014 at The Hague, Netherlands

OCTOBER 2013
Sachin Tendulkar reached the coveted landmark of
50,000 runs across all formats of cricket. He achieved the
feat at Feroze Shah Kotla stadium, New Delhi playing for
Mumbai Indians against Trinidad & Tobago in Champions
League Twenty20.
He has announced his final
retirement from first class cricket.
Mumbai Indians created history by becoming the first
team to win the Champions League (cricket) twice, beating
Rajasthan Royals in the finals played at Feroz Shah Kotla
stadium in Delhi.

Bhavina Hashmukhbhai Patel became the first Indian to
win a silver medal at the 2013 ITTF Asian Table Tennis
championship held in Beijing, China.

Virat Kohli scored the fastest ever century by an Indian
batsman in ODI, off 52 balls, playing against Australia at
Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur.

Sanjeev Rajput: won the gold in men’s 50-metre free rifle
prone event in the Asian Air Gun shooting championship in
Tehran, Iran.

Mohit Mayur and Prerna Bhambri win the men’s and
women’s title, respectively, in Fenesta National tennis
championship held at New Delhi.

Rohan Bopanna along with French partner Edouard
Roger-Vasselin, won the men’s doubles title at the Japan
Open Tennis held at Tokyo, Japan.

Indian Open Snooker Tournament: Ding Junhui of
China won the title beating Aditya Mehta in the finals held at
New Delhi.

Duleep trophy (cricket): South zone and North zone
were declared joint winners of the in the final played at
Kochi, Kerala.

Terry Walsh: Ace hockey player from Australia appointed
as the chief coach of Indian men's hockey team

CHINA OPEN TENNIS CUP
Novak Djokovic of Serbia beat Rafael Nadal of Spain to
win the China Open Tennis Cup held at Beijing, China.
Women’s singles title was won by Serena Williams,
defeating Jelena Jankovic. Sania Mirza alongwith Cara
Black won the women’s doubles title.

Afghanistan has qualified for the 11
th
ICC Cricket World
Cup for the first time. Total 14 teams will compete for the
cup to be hosted jointly by Australia and New Zealand.

Sebastian Vettel: The Red Bull driver from Germany won
the fourth successive Formula one championship of this
season at the Buddh International Circuit, Noida, UP.

Vladimir Klitschko of Ukraine won the world
heavyweight boxing title beating Russian Alexander
Povetkin at the final bout held at Moscow, Russia.

Sohag Gazi: Allrounder from Bangladesh became the first
cricketer in 136 year old history of cricket to score a century
and claim a hat-trick in the same Test. He achieved the feat
while playing against New Zealand at Chitagong,
Bangladesh. He scored unbeaten 101 and claimed six
wickets for 77 runs.

The World Boxing Championships held in Almaty,
Kazakhstan

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ABBREVIATIONS

LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
DGMO: Director General of Military Opeations
NSSO: National Sample Survey Organization
A K 47: Automatic (rifle by) Kalashnikov, 1947
BMD: Ballistic Missile Defence
CCEA: Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
CCI: Competition Commission of India
CCS: Cabinet Committee on Security
CERN: European Council for Nuclear Research (French-
Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire)
CPSU: Central Public Sector Undertaking
CTT: Commodity Transaction Tax
LED: Light Emitting Diode
LCD: Liquid Crystal Display
MMTC: Minerals and Metals Trading Corporation
MNC: Multi National Cooperation
MPCE: Monthly Per Capita Expenditure
NCTC: National Counter Terrorism Center
NFSM: National Food Security Mission
NIA: National Investigation Agency
NMDC: National Mineral Development Corporation
NOFHC: Non-Operative Financial Holding Company (for
opening new bank)
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OECD: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development
OFS: Offer For Sale (a company selling its shares)
PISA: Programme for International Student Assessment
RCEP: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
SARDP: Special Accelerated Road Development Programme
SFIO: Serious Fraud Investigation Office
TFT: Thin Film Transistor
USSD: Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
WIFS: Weekly Iron and Folic acid Supplement
WIFS: Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplement
WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization

DAYS & DATES

JANUARY

National Youth Day 12
th
January
World Laughter Day 13
th
January
Army Day 15
th
January
Desh Prem Divas 23
rd
January
Indian Republic Day 26
th
January
Martyr’s Day 30
th
January
DECEMBER

World AIDS Day 01
st
December
International Day for abolition of Slavery 02
nd
December
International Day of Disabled Persons
World Conservation Day
03
rd
December
Navy Day 04
th
December
Armed Forces Day 06
th
December
National Immunization Day 09
th
December
Human Rights Day 10
th
December
Vijay Divas 16
th
December
Kisan Day 23
rd
December
National Consumer Day 24
th
December
X-Max Day 25
th
December
NOVEMBER
Formation Day for Andhra Pradesh
Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya
Pradesh, Punjab States
01
st
November
Legal Services Day 09
th
November
National Education Day 11
th
November
UN’s International Day for Tolerance 16
th
November
National Day for the Deaf 17
th
November
Territorial Army Day 18
th
November
National Integration Day 19
th
November
World Fisheries Day 21
st
November
Flag Day 25
th
November
National Law Day 26
th
November

Ajab Gazab Duniya

EAGLE VIDEO RECORDS ITS JOURNEY
A young sea eagle stole a video camera that was surveying
crocodiles in Western Australia and inadvertently recorded
its 110-km-long eventful journey in high definition. The
footage revealed by wildlife rangers shows the juvenile
eagle scooping up the video recorder and taking to the sky.

FOUR TRILLION RUPEES FLY OUT OF INDIA
A new report by the international watchdog Global Financial
Integrity (GFI) has revealed that in 2011, over Rs 4 lakh
crore worth of black money was illegally taken out of India,.
This was 24 percent more than the previous year.

MAKING CAR – A CHILDS PLAY - REALLY
An Australian man and a Romanian teenager have built a
real car with 500,000 Lego bricks. The life-sized two-seater
car has a top speed of 30 km per hour (20 mph) and is
powered by four orbital engines with 256 pistons - all made
of Lego - that run on compressed air.

PRESERVING SON’S ASHES AS DIOMOND
An Italian father had his dead son eternally preserved by
getting the 20-year-old's ashes transformed into a diamond.
The father had his son's body exhumed and cremated
before sending the ashes to Switzerland so they could be
compressed into the gemstone.

ALL THE NEWS ITEMS IN THIS MAGAZINE HAVE BEEN SOURCED FROM
VARIOUS NEWS PAPERS AND GOVT. PRESS RELEASES

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2014 22

(July – September 2013)
For details please visit our website: www.gyanm.in

NATIONAL NEWS

SEPTEMBER 2013
¾ Prime Minister visited U.S.A. to address the 66
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session
of UN General Assembly.
¾ India and USA have agreed to undertake joint
development and production of military hardware,
involving transfer of high-end technology from America.
¾ Supreme Court has ruled that the voter has the right to
negative voting by rejecting all the candidates in fray
by exercising the option of None of the Above (NOTA).
¾ As per the annual Global Competitiveness Report 2013-
14, India has slipped to 60th position in terms of its
competitiveness globally.
¾ A new global corruption risk index ranked India as the
69th most graft-prone nation out of 197 countries
¾ The National Green Tribunal has banned digging of
earth without prior environment clearance across the
country for making bricks and roads
¾ Government has notified the landmark National Food
Security Act 2013, giving a legal right on
highly subsidised foodgrains to 67 per cent of the
country's population.
¾ The third edition of the Sustainable Mountain
Development Summit, SMDS-III was held at Kohima,
Nagaland.
¾ A commemorative stamp has been released in the
memory of freedom fighter and veteran journalist,
founder of news paper ‘Punjab Kesari’ - Lala Jagat
Narain.
¾ The Rajya Sabha passed a Bill to create a Judicial
Appointments Commission (JAC) which will replace the
collegium system of appointing judges to higher
courts.
¾ World's largest solar power plant to generate 4,000 mw
from sunlight is being set up near the Sambhar lake in
Rajasthan.
¾ Raghuram Rajan panel has developed a 'Multi
Dimensional Index (MDI)' for identifying backwardness
of states and devolving funds for their development.
¾ The MDI ranks Odisha as India’s most backward state,
followed by Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.

¾ Government has approved three highway projects in
Assam under Special Accelerated Road Development
programme.
¾ The first North East Festival was held at the Indira
Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi
¾ 'THE GOOD ROAD': Gyan Correa's National award-
winning Gujarati film nominated for 2014 Oscar Awards
in USA.
¾ India's population estimated at 123 crore as of March 1,
2012, which includes 27 crore BPL people
¾ India signed the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
(DTAA) with the Baltic country Latvia
¾ Asian Development Bank to provide $400 million to
improve water and sanitation system in Kolkata.

AUGUST 2013
¾
Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi Prime Minister visited India. ¾ The World Bank and ADB to provide $ 400 million for
reconstruction and rehabilitation of disaster-hit
Uttarakhand.
¾ Filing of RTI applications for all central government
ministries and departments has been made online with
launch of website www.rtionline.gov.in
¾ India has bypassed Japan to become the world’s third
largest Internet user after China and the United States
¾ The government has decided to extend Tourist Visa on
Arrival facility at four more airports of the country -
Trivandrum, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kochi.

JULY 2013
¾ The Supreme Court ruled that a person, who is in jail or
in police custody, cannot contest election to legislative
bodies as he/she ceases the right to cast vote.
¾ Supreme Court has ruled that MPs, MLAs and MLCs
would automatically lose their membership if sentenced
to jail for more than 2 years by the trial court.
¾ Joe Biden, US Vice President came to India for a four
day visit to discuss matters on trade, energy, climate,
defence and regional cooperation.
¾ The Nalanda University in Bihar and its academic staff
will get privileges and immunities required for efficient
functioning and recruit talent from across the world.

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2014 23
¾ Outdoor air pollution alone in urban areas claims 1.09
lakh lives of adults, costing about Rs 3.75 lakh crores
annually.
¾ India is slated to achieve 80% literacy rate in the next
two years against 74 per cent as per the 2011 Census.
¾ India has ranked 66th in innovation capacity and
efficiency in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2013.
¾ The first direct flight service between India and
Vietnam will begin by November this year.
¾ The President of India revoked President’s rule
proclamation in the state of Jharkhand on July13, under
Article 356 of the Constitution.
¾ Asia’s first engineering college for the blind is proposed
to be set up near Hyderabad.
¾ In yet another first, the country's largest prison Tihar
Jail, Delhi has now got its very own FM radio station.
¾ India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives have entered into a
tripartite agreement on maritime cooperation to ‘secure’
sea routes in the Indian Ocean region.
¾ India and Tanzania have signed agreements on bilateral
cooperation in several sectors including agriculture,
health and education, mines and minerals.

NEWS FROM STATES

SEPTEMBER 2013
¾ Bihar govt has asked Gram Sabhas to observe ‘Bitiya
Janmotsav’ (celebration of birth of girl children) to
spread awareness about gender issues.
¾ Tripura has emerged as most literate state in India with
94.65 per cent literacy against Kerala’s 93.91 per cent.

AUGUST 2013
¾ The Assam govt. has decided to provide free cycles to
girl students of class 9 and 10 in all govt. schools.

JULY 2013
¾
Andhra Pradesh continues to be the most popular
destination among domestic tourists, followed by
Maharashtra. ¾ Karnataka govt. to supply rice to nearly one crore poor
families across the state at Re 1 a kg.
¾ Himachal Pradesh declared the first “smoke-free” State
in the country

GOVT INITIATIVES
SEPTEMBER 2013
¾ Parliament passed the Pension Fund Regulatory and
Development Authority (PFRDA) Bill, 2011, to create a
regulator for the sector and allow 26 per cent FDI.
¾ Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
(IRDA) became the first regulator in the world to start
an insurance repository system.
¾ Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan
States (HMNEH) and National Bamboo Mission (NBM)
have been merged with National Horticultural Mission
(NHM).
¾ Govt has notified that the controversial General Anti
Avoidance Rules will come into effect from April 1,
2016.
¾ Govt has set up the Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation,
engage with corporates for help to counter Naxal
influence.
¾ The Lok Sabha passed the Land Acquisition,
Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011, which seeks
to replace the colonial-era Land Acquisition Act, 1894.

AUGUST 2013
¾ Parliament has passed the new Companies Act 2013
with following highlights:
• A single person can now start a company, to be
called One Person Company (OPC)
• Maximum number of persons permitted to form a
private limited company raised to 200, from 50 at
present.
• The limit of the maximum number of companies in
which a person may be appointed as auditor fixed
at 20.
• Companies with market capitalisation of more
than Rs. 500 crore to spend 2 per cent of their
annual net profits on corporate social responsibility
(CSR), such as social work or charity.
¾ National Skill Certification and Monetary Reward
Scheme to provide skill training to at least one person
from each rural household that completes 100 days of
work under NREGP
¾ The government has set up a Tax Administration
Reform Commission under Parthasarathy Shome, to
review the application of tax policies and tax laws
¾ National Monsoon Mission launched for an improved
prediction of monsoon rainfall.

JULY 2013
¾ Parthasarathi Shome committee to interact with
industry groups on tax-related issues or disputes.
¾ Govt. has released the National Cyber Security Policy
2013 to safeguard both physical and business assets of
the country.
¾ Telecom Commission has approved raising of foreign
direct investment limit in the telecom sector from 74%
to 100%
¾ Govt. to cover 339 of around 620 districts by March
next year by a system under which govt. services can
be accessed through instruments like mobile phones.
¾ Family income ceiling under SC/ST scholarship scheme
raised from Rs two lakh to Rs 4.50 lakh per annum
from this fiscal.
¾ Govt has approved setting up of the first-ever National
Aviation University of the country at Rae Bareli (UP)

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¾ Country's first ‘only for women’ university to set up at
Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, named ‘Indira Gandhi
National University for Women’.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

SEPTEMBER 2013
¾ According to the Central Statistical Office (CSO),
India's economy grew at 4.4% in the first quarter of the
current fiscal, its slowest pace in over four years
¾ Fitch Ratings cut India's growth forecast for the current
financial year to 4.8 per cent, saying weak demand is a
large drag on the economy.
¾ Share of agriculture and allied sectors in India's GDP has
declined to 13.7 per cent in 2012-13
¾ J P Morgan has cut the country's GDP growth forecast
to 4.1 per cent for the fiscal year ending March 2014.
¾ Global financial giant Goldman Sachs has cut India's
GDP growth rate forecast to 4% from 6% earlier for the
current financial year.

AUGUST 2013

¾ The share of exports in GDP has dipped marginally to
17.3 per cent in 2012-13 as against 17.6% in 2011-12

JULY 2013
¾ Japanese brokerage firm Nomura has reduced the
country's GDP forecast for this fiscal to 5% from 5.6
earlier

ECONOMY

SEPTEMBER 2013
¾ Sikkim has recorded steepest fall - 22% in poverty
level in the country, reaching to 8.19% between 2004-
05 and 2011-12, on account of increase in per capita
consumption
¾ Govt. has finalised the timeline for implementation of
the mega Amritsar-Delhi-Kolkata Industrial Corridor
(ADKIC) to push the infrastructure development.
¾ As per recent RBI data, Odisha emerged as the hottest
investment destination for new projects attracting 27%
share of all-India investments.
¾ ADB to grant Rs. 2,100 crore to Karnataka to develop
and upgrade eight city clusters around Bangalore
¾ India to invest USD 4.3 billion in World Bank bonds to
help the country secure additional funding from the
multilateral agency for infrastructure projects.
¾ The Finance Ministry has taken over commodity futures
markets regulator Forward Markets Commission (FMC)
from the Consumers Affairs Ministry.
AUGUST 2013
AREA NORMS REVISED FOR SEZ’s

Type of SEZ Earlier area
in hectares
Revised
area in
hectares
Multi-product SEZ's 1000 500
Single product SEZ's 100 50
Multi-services SEZ’s 100 50
SEZ only for electronics hardware, agro
based food processing, biotechnology,
handicrafts

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¾ RBI has increased the ceiling for FDI in Asset
Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) from 49% to 74%
¾ The government has approved setting up of 12
mega food parks in the 12th Plan to boost the food
processing sector.
¾ Production target for food grains set at 259 million
tonnes for the year 2013-14. The state of Uttar Pradesh
has highest production target of nearly 490 MT
¾ Nagpur orange, tribal Warli art of Maharashtra,
Dharmavaram saris of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala’s
Kaipad rice have been grante Geographical Indications
¾ The Union Cabinet has cleared the proposal for sale of
10 percent government stake in Indian Oil Corporation
¾ The textiles exports target for 2013-14 has been raised
to $ 43 billion, from $ 32 billion in the last year.

JULY 2013
¾ As per Planning Commission data, poverty ratio in the
country has declined to 21.9 per cent in 2011-12 from
37.2 per cent in 2004-05 on account of increase in per
capita consumption.
¾ Revised poverty line says that the persons whose per
day consumption of goods and services is less than Rs
33.33 in cities and Rs 27.20 in villages are in BPL
category.
¾ National Stock Exchange (NSE), Mumbai, has been
ranked as the world's largest bourse in terms of
volumes in equity trades, in June, registering 11.2 crore
trades.
¾ South Korea's steel giant Posco has decided to shelve
its plan to build a Rs 32,000-crore steel plant in Gadag,
Karnataka due to unavailability of a captive mine.
¾ Steelmaker Arcelor Mittal has scrapped its $12-billion
(Rs. 72000crore) steel plant in Keonjhar district of
Odisha over inordinate delays.
¾ FDI limits raised: Telecom - 100%, Insurance,
Multibrand retail- 49%,
¾ Filing of income tax returns made mandatory for those
earning up to Rs.5 lakh in salary.
¾ Export-Import Bank of India (Exim) has extended credit
of $ 19.50 million to the Vietnam government
¾ Supreme Court has ruled that ownership of minerals
vests with owner of land and not with the Govt as there
is no law in the country which declares state as owner.

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BANKING

SEPTEMBER 2013
¾ Dr. Raghuram Govind Rajan took over as the 23rd
Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on
September 04.
¾ RBI has directed banks to stop zero per cent or
discounted interest rate schemes as they tend to befool
the consumers into believing that bank funding comes
for free.
¾ RBI had notified eKYC as an 'officially valid document'
under anti-money laundering laws.
¾ RBI has allowed banks to open branches, including in
Tier 1 centres (cities with population of one lakh and
above), without its prior permission.
¾ Reserve Bank has directed that gold jewellery accepted
as security will have to be valued at the average of the
closing price of 22 carat gold for the preceding 30 days
¾ RBI has asked banks to close accounts of those
customers who use their credit or debit card for online
forex trading transactions as such these are prohibited.
¾ Reserve Bank has allowed to carry Indian currency up
to Rs. 10,000 per person, outside India or to bring into
India (other than to Nepal and Bhutan)
¾ The Reserve Bank has allowed cash withdrawals of up
to Rs 1,000 a day from point of sale terminals, through
prepaid cards, including gift cards issued by banks.
¾ The Reserve Bank has decided to subsidise the hedging
costs of foreign currency swaps for banks offering
deposits to overseas non-resident Indians (NRIs)
¾ Bimal Jalan Committee set up by RBI to screen the 26
applications received for new bank licenses.
¾ Urjit Patel Committee formed to strengthen the
framework of monetary policy to avoid friction between
the RBI and the Finance Ministry.

AUGUST 2013
¾ RBI has extended the deadline for clearing non CTS
cheques till 31st December, 2013.
¾ The Reserve Bank has asked banks to not to scribble or
write on any part of the banknotes.
¾ Govt has confirmed that Aadhaar card is a valid and
complete proof for complying with know your customer
(KYC) norms for opening a bank account.
¾ RBI increased the interest subvention on pre and post
shipment export credit to 3% from August 1, 2013.
¾ RBI imposed penalties of Rs. 50 lakhs to two crore on
Allahabad Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, Corporation
Bank, Dena Bank, IDBI Bank and Indian Bank for
violating KYC norms.
¾ State Bank of India plans to deploy over 1.25 lakh
point-of-sale (PoS) terminals in the next 18 months at
various merchant outlets and counters at branches
¾ Reserve Bank transferred over Rs 33,000 crore to the
Govt as its surplus profit for the year 2012-13.

JULY 2013
¾ RBI imposed a total fine of Rs.49.5 crore on 22 banks
for violating anti-money laundering and KYC rules.
¾ Tata Sons, IDFC, Reliance Capital, Aditya Birla Group
and India Post are among the 26 entities seeking
licence for new bank.
¾ Tata Communications Payment Solutions launched
country's first network of White Label ATMs called
'Indicash'
¾ SBI has launched a co-branded pre-paid card with UAE
Exchange, called the 'State Bank Xpress Money Card',
that provides banking services to inward remittance
receivers.
¾ The Supreme Court has ruled that in case of issuance
of cheque from joint accounts, only the person who
signs the cheque can be prosecuted in a cheque
bouncing case
¾ RBI has advised banks that they should not accept
fresh PDCs for EMIs at locations where Electronic
Clearance Service (ECS) is available.
¾ RBI has notified that banks should engage only those
telemarketers who are registered in terms of the
guidelines issued by TRAI. , from time to time, for
all their promotional/
¾ Public sector banks have been asked to set up ATMs in
all branches by March, 2014 to enable customers in
rural pockets to do banking round-the-clock.
¾ RBI has advised that it will compensate banks 25 per
cent of the losses if they report counterfeit bank notes
of Rs 100 and above to RBI or police authorities.

DEFENCE, SCIENCE &
TECHNOLOGY

SEPTEMBER 2013
¾ India and Nepal began Joint military exercises "Exercise
Surya Kiran-V" in general combat and mountain warfare
in Pithoragarh, Uttrakhand.
¾ India tested Agni-V nuclear- capable surface to surface
long-range ballistic missile with a strike range of more
than 5000 kms.
¾ India’s advanced multi-band communication satellite
GSAT-7, launched from Kourou, French Guiana to be
used exclusively for defence forces.
¾ India has been granted 'Authorising Nation' status
under the international Common Criteria Recognition
Arrangement

¾ Samudra Ratnakar-the Rs.600-crore research vessel
acquired by the Geological Survey of India (GSI)
¾ Google Inc has launched its latest algorithm
"Hummingbird” to match the queries in long sentences
with that of documents on the Internet.
¾ NASA has launched an unmanned spacecraft The Lunar
Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer or Ladee
that aims at unlocking the mysteries of Moon's

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atmosphere.
Voyager 1 spacecraft of US space agency NASA,
launched some 36years ago, has become the first man-
made object to venture into interstellar space.
¾ Global IT giant Microsoft of USA has taken over the
mobile phone business of Nokia Corporation of Finland
in a deal of about $ 7.17 billion.

AUGUST 2013
¾ India has activated the atomic reactor on its first
indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant, making it
operational.
¾ India test-fired its nuclear-weapon capable Prithvi-II
missile with a strike range of 350 kms.
¾ INS Vikrant, India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier
launched in waters at Cochin Shipyard Limited.
¾ The US has accepted India’s request to supply 145
state-of-the-art 155mm towed Howitzers guns
¾ INS Sindhurakshak, Indian submarine that sank due to
two massive explosions, killing all the 18 mariners.

JULY 2013
¾ Government to create a ‘Mountain Strike Crops’ along
the China border at a cost of around Rs. 65,000 crore.
¾ The Indian Navy takes delivery of the INS Trikand, last
of the three Krivak class stealth frigates built by Russia
¾ India’s first dedicated navigation satellite, the IRNSS-
1A, Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System,
launched successfully.
¾ India successfully launched its advanced meteorological
spacecraft INSAT-3D by a European rocket from the
spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana.
¾ Iris - Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph: a
satellite launched by NASA to study a region of the sun
that will improve space weather prediction.
¾ World’s largest telescope - Square Kilometre Array
(SKA) starts in Australia.
¾ China launched three satellites - Chuangxin-3, Shiyan-7
and Shijian-15 for scientific experiments on space
maintenance technologies.

INTERNATIONAL

SEPTEMBER 2013

¾ The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa) group has decided to create a $100-billion
Currency Reserve Fund (CRF).
¾ Afghanistan has decided to reserve a special seat for
Sikh / Hindu Afghan nationals in the Lower House of
Parliament - Wolesi Jirga, in the next 2015 elections.
¾ Japan started switching off its last operating nuclear
reactor for an inspection, with no date scheduled for a
restart amid strong public hostility towards atomic
power.
¾ A joint meeting of ministers of finance and ministers of
labour from G20 member states was held in St.
Petersburg, Russia.

AUGUST 2013
¾ Over 1300 men, women and children were killed in
Syria in the world's most lethal chemical weapons
attack since the 1980s.
¾ The Washington Post, the 80 year old iconic newspaper
of USA has been sold for $250 million to Jeffrey P.
Bezos, founder of Amazon.com
JULY 2013
¾ US govt. celebrated 100 years of Sikhs’ achievements in
America as they first arrived in July 1913.
¾ Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi was ousted on July
4 and put under detention by the army.
¾ The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to
Published Works for Persons who are Blind,
Visually Impaired, or otherwise Print
Disabled adopted by 150 countries at the World
Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Diplomatic
Conference hosted by Morocco in Marrakesh
¾ Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation
Economic and Business Conference held at Mauritius
¾ Britain suffered its first prolonged heat wave in seven
years after experiencing its hottest day of the year on
July 17 at 32.2°Celsius in southwest London.
¾ Meeting of Finance Ministers and central bank
Governors from the G-20 group of advanced and
emerging nations held at Moscow, Russia on July 20.
¾ Afghanistan and India have signed MoUs for
implementing 60 projects in ten Afghan provinces
under the Small Development Projects scheme.

PERSONS IN NEWS

SEPTEMBER 2013
BO XILAI: A former powerful member of China’s Politburo
was in news as he was awarded life imprisonment by the
court of a northeastern Chinese province as he was found
guilty on all charges of bribery, graft and abuse of power.

NINA DAVULURI: Twenty-four-year-old Indian-origin
beauty, winner of Miss New York title, became the first non
American origin contestant to win the prestigious Miss
America pageant, after wooing the judges with a Bollywood
fusion dance.

JHUMPA LAHIRI : Indian-American author from New York
was in news as she made it to this year's Man Booker Prize
shortlist for her new novel 'The Lowland', an intimate
portrayal of two brothers set in the Kolkata of 1960s. The
novel has also been nominated for US National Book Award 2013.

ZUBIN MEHTA: World renowned music maestro conducted
the Bavarian State Orchestra during the Ehasas-e-Kashmir
concert at Shalimar Garden, Srinagar (J&K).

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AUGUST 2013
BASHAR AL ASSAD : President of Syria was in news as he
was alleged to have used chemical weapons against civilians
near capital city of Damascus, killing over 1300 persons,
mostly children in their sleep. The incident invited strong
protests from the UNO and several other countries of world.

JULY 2013
GEORGE ALEXANDER LOUIS: Name of the Britain’s new
prince, son of Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton.
The third-in-line to the British throne will be known as “His
Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge.”

APPOINTMENTS

SEPTEMBER 2013
MS. DEEPAK SANDHU: Chief Information Commissioner
(First women to head Central Information Commission)

JUSTICE SHIVA KIRTI SINGH: Judge, Supreme Court
of India

JUSTICE C. NAGAPPAN: Judge, Supreme Court of India

DINESH K. SARRAF: Chairman and Managing Director,
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).

RAJEEV RISHI: Chairman and Managing Director of
Central Bank of India.

ANGELA MERKEL: Chancellor (Prime Minister) of Germany
(third time), from Christian Democratic Union Party

ERNA SOLBERG: Prime Minister of Norway

TONY ABBOTT: Prime Minister of Australia (from
Conservative party)

AUGUST 2013
RAGHURAM G RAJAN: Governor, Reserve Bank of India

DILIP TRIVEDI: Director General, Central Reserve Police
Force

IBRAHIM BOUBACAR KEITA: President of Mali

HASSAN ROUHANI: President of Iran

JULY 2013
SHARAD KUMAR: Director General, National Investigation
Agency (NIA)

RANA KAPOOR: President of Assocham; he is CEO of Yes
Bank.

R. CHANDRASHEKHAR : President, National Association
of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom)

HEMANT SOREN: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader sworn-
in as ninth Chief Minister of Jharkhand
ABDUL RAHIM RATHER: Jammu & Kashmir Finance
Minister has been elected as the new Chairman of the
Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on GST.

M. S. RAGHAVAN: Chairman and Managing Director, IDBI
Bank

SUDHIR KUMAR JAIN: Chairman and Managing Director,
Syndicate Bank

Dr K K PAUL: Governor of Meghalaya

VIRENDRA KATARIA: Lt. Governor of Puducherry

NAJEEB JUNG: Lt Governor of Delhi

LT GEN AK SINGH (RETD): Lt Governor of Andaman and
Nicobar

SHRINIWAS D PATIL: Governor of Sikkim

SUJATHA SINGH: Union Foreign Secretary

ANIL GOSWAMI: Union Home Secretary

JUSTICE P. SATHASIVAM: Chief Justice of
India (40
th
)

MAMNOON HUSSAIN: 12th President of Pakistan

HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: Prime Minister of Egypt

AWARDS & HONOURS

SEPTEMBER 2013
Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and
Development-2012: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of
Liberia. She is the first democratically elected women Head
of State of any African country. She was honoured for
serving as an example and an inspiration for ensuring the
return of peace, democracy, development, security and
order in Liberia and for her strong interest in the
consolidation and improvement of ties between both the
nations.

MOORTIDEVI AWARD-2012: Haraprasad Das, eminent
Oriya writer, for 'Vamsha, a poetic recreation of the
Mahabharata in contemporary idiom.

GERMAN BANK PRIZE FOR RBI GUV
Raghuram G Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India has
been awarded the Fifth Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial
Economics 2013, in recognition of his ground-breaking
research work which influenced financial and macro-
economic policies around the world.

CLINTON GLOBAL CITIZENS AWARDS: Bunker Roy
and Malala Yousafzai. Roy is the founder of the Barefoot
College, which has been providing solutions to problems in
rural communities for more than 40years.

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MEGAN YOUNG: Miss World 2013, of Philippines, at
Bali, Indonesia.

PUNJABI FILM 'QISSA' directed by Anup Singh has won
Best Asian Film Award at the 38th Toronto International
Film Festival in Canada.

ABHINAV TIWARI'S "OASS", a movie on human
trafficking, was named the best film at the Ladakh
International Film Festival.

BOOKER PRIZE GOES GLOBAL
The Man Booker Prize, described as the “the most important
and influential award for literary fiction in the English
speaking world” will now be open from 2014 to writers in
English from any part of the world provided their books
have been published in the United Kingdom. Thus far the
Booker Prize was for literary fiction by authors only from the
Commonwealth, the Republic of Ireland and Zimbabwe.

AUGUST 2013

RAJIV GANDHI KHEL RATNA AWARD: Ronjan Sodhi,
two-time world champion in double trap shooting.

Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna Award: Sarod
maestro Amjad Ali Khan
Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship: Shailendra Kumar Mandal

JULY 2013
TAGORE AWARD FOR CULTURAL HARMONY, 2013:
Zubin Mehta, internationally noted master of western
classical music, known for his Philharmonic Orchestra.

‘BARFI’ SWEEPS IIFA AWARDS: The film directed by
Anurag Basu bagged IIFA awards for best film, best
director, best actor, best story and music awards at a grand
ceremony held at Macau.

LOKMANYA TILAK AWARD-2013: E. Sreedharan (Metro
Man) for his outstanding contribution to society.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARD: Habiba Sarobi, first and
only woman Governor of the Afghan province of Bamyan,
was recognised for promoting education, women’s rights.

RAMNATH GOENKA Excellence in Journalism Award:
Vidya Subrahmaniam, Associate Editor of The Hindu, for the
Best Commentary and Interpretative Writing for 2010.

PREM BHATIA AWARD FOR 2013: (for excellence in
journalism) Shalini Singh and Jaideep Hardikar

OBITUARY

SEPTEMBER 2013
ROMESH BHANDARI: Former UP Governor and ex-
Foreign Secretary of India

SUSHMITA BANERJEE: Noted Bengali author who was
killed in Afghanistan by militants. She had come into the
limelight for her books narrating her experiences in Kabul
(read ‘with Taliban’) after marrying an Afghan money
lender.

RAY DOLBY: An inventor and audio pioneer from USA
who founded Dolby Laboratories, known for Dolby Stereo
Sound systems and 50 other patents in his name.

DAVID FROST: Veteran British journalist and broadcaster,
who won fame around the world for his TV interviews with
the former U.S. President, Richard Nixon and several other
statesmen of the world.

KEN NORTON: Former world heavyweight boxing
champion, considered one of the greatest fighter of his era,
was best known for beating Muhammad Ali in 1973.

AUGUST 2013
DESH PREM AZAD: First cricket coach to receive
prestigious Dronacharya award. Known for producing
cricket stars like Kapil Dev, Ashok Malhotra, Yograj Singh
and Chetan Sharma.

JULY 2013
PRAN: Legendary actor, loved and feared in equal
measure by moviegoers for his roles in Bollywood hits like
'Milan', 'Madhumati' and 'Zanjeer'. Full name Pran Krishan
Sikand, he was recently decorated with ‘Dada Saheb Phalke
Award’.

ARUN NEHRU: Former Union Minister

KHURSHED ALAM KHAN: Veteran Congress leader and
former Union Foreign Minister

AMAR G. BOSE: The Indo-American visionary
entrepreneur and acoustics pioneer, famous for making
high-quality Bose audio systems and speakers.

DOUGLAS C. ENGELBART: Inventor of the computer
mouse and a computer visionary

OTTAVIO QUATTROCCHI: Controversial Italian
businessman, a key figure in the Bofors payoffs scandal.

PLACES IN NEWS

SEPTEMBER 2013
KAESONG: North and South Korea have agreed to reopen
their joint industrial park at Kaesong, five months after it
was shut during soaring military tensions. Located 10
kilometers inside North Korea, it was established in 2004 as
a rare symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.

AWARAN: A district in Balochistan province of Pakistan was
the epicentre of a severe earthquake of 7.7 magnitude that
caused widespread devastation, claiming hundreds of lives.

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ST. PETERSBURG: The second biggest city in Russia was
the venue for meeting of Heads of nations of G-20 group of
countries.

DAOCHENG YADING AIRPORT: World's highest-altitude
civilian airport, located 4,411 meters above sea level in
Daocheng county in Sichuan province neighbouring Tibet,
has started its operations.

SUPER TYPHOON USAGI : the most powerful storm of
the year brought torrential rain and strong winds to the
Philippines and Taiwan on Sep. 21, causing widespread
devastation before moving towards Hong Kong.

AUGUST 2013
NIYAMGIRI HILLS: Area in district Rayagada in Odisha
was in news as all the 12 gram sabhas there unanimously
decided to not to allow bauxite mining for Vedanta
Aluminum, a multi crore FDI project.

KHIRSARA: A village, 85 km from Bhuj town, Gujarat was
in news as a large numbers of artifacts belonging to
Harrappan era were discovered from there.

JULY 2013
PARADIP PORT: in Odisha has been conferred the ‘Major
Port of the Year’ award in recognition of its excellent
performance in 2012-13.

CHUMAR: Place in Laddakh area of Jammu & Kashmir on
China Border was in news as Chinese troops intruded in
Indian Territory in this area

KUDANKULAM: Nuclear Power Plant in Tirunelveli district
of Tamil Nadu attained first criticality (trial production) on
July 13, setting the stage for its commissioning

TAHRIR SQUARE: Place in Cairo, capital of Egypt was in
news as thousands of people massed at the iconic Tahrir
Square - the epicentre of pro-democracy protests in 2011.

SPORTS WORLD

SEPTEMBER 2013
India wins Under-21 Sultan of Johor Cup Hockey
tournament held at Johar Bahru, Malaysia, beating Malaysia
National Junior Athletics Championship held at Kochi,
Kerala.

India lost Asia Cup Hockey final at Ipoh, Malaysia, just
by one goal to South Korea, scoring 3 goals against 4 by
South Korea. However, India has qualified for the 2014
Hockey World Cup to be held at The Hague, Netherlands.

Amit Kumar, ace wrestler from India, won silver medal
and Bajrang won the bronze at the World Wrestling
Championships at Budapest, Hungary.

Sandeep Tulsi Yadav: The Indian Grappler created
history by winning India’s first-ever wrestling medal in the
Greco-Roman category of the senior World Wrestling
Championships held at Budapest, Hungary.

Swaran Singh (Punjab) wins gold medal in Asian Rowing
Championship held at Luan, China
Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi won the bronze medal in the
World Junior Chess Championship held in Kocaeli, Turkey.

Durand Cup Football Tournament: Kolkata giants
Mohammedan Sporting created history by winning the
prestigious cup after a gap of 73 years, defeating ONGC 2-1
in the final played at Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi.

S. Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan have been banned for
life from playing official cricket by the Disciplinary
Committee of the BCCI for their involvement in spot-fixing
during certain matches of the Indian Premier League this
summer.

WRESTLING BACK IN OLYMPICS: After a seven-month
exile, wrestling has been welcomed back into the Olympic
programme defeating baseball/softball and squash for a
spot in the 2020 Summer Games to be held in Tokyo.

THOMAS BACH: Elected President of International
Olympic Committee (IOC), from Germany. He is an ex
Olympic champion of fencing.

2020 Olympic Games to be held at Tokyo, Japan. 1964
Olympics were also held at Tokyo. 2016 Olympics are to be
held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Japan beats Korea to win the Eighth Women’s Hockey
Asia Cup held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. India won bronze
in this championship.

Wilson Kipsang of Kenya set a new world record of 2
hours 3 minutes 23 seconds at the Berlin Marathon, slashing
earlier world record by 15 seconds

Rafael Nadal (Spain) defeated world number one Novak
Djokovic (Serbia) to win the US Open men's singles title at
Arthur Ashe Stadium, New York, USA.

Serena Williams (USA) beats Victoria Azarenka, of
Belarus, to win the women's singles final of the 2013 U.S.
Open tennis tournament, in New York, USA.

Leander Paes. alongwith his Czech partner Radek
Stepanek, won the US Open 2013 men’s doubles crown.

Afghanistan beats India to win SAFF ( South Asian
Football Federation) Football Championship held at
Kathmandu, Nepal.

Gareth Bale, the ace footballer from UK created a new
record by becoming the expensive most player in the history
of football. He has been contracted by the Spanish club
Real Madrid for an exorbitant sum of 100 million Euros
(Rs.872.6 crore).

Diana Nyad, the 64 year old US lady swimmer created a
world record of longest distance swimming by completing a

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2014 30
historic 110-mile (177 kms) swim between Havana, Cuba
and Key West, Florida, in 52 hr. 54 min. 18.6 sec, without
the protection of a shark cage.

The BWF Japan Open Super Series Badminton
tournament held in Tokyo.

Sebastiaan Bowier: 23-year-old Dutch cyclist has
pedalled his way to a world record, hitting a speed of more
than 133.78 kph in a desert track in USA.

AUGUST 2013
Indian women's recurve team (archery) won the gold
medal in the World Cup Archery (Stage IV) at Wroclaw,
Poland, beating the South Korean team.

Indian girls created history by winning country's first
ever bronze medal in the junior women hockey World Cup
as they pipped England at Monchengladbach, Germany.

P V Sindhu, India's rising shuttler made history by
becoming the first Indian woman singles player to win a
medal at the World Badminton Championships by winning
the bronze medal after beating Shixian Wang of China at
Guangzhou, China

Aditya Mehta became the first Indian to win the
quadrennial World Games Snooker Gold Medal at Cali,
Columbia, defeating China’s Liang Wenbo.

Venkat Rahul Ragala: India's weightlifter clinched a gold
medal in the 77 kg category in Asian Youth Games held at
Nanjing, China.

Lt Col. Sudhakar Jayant of Indian Army won gold medal
at the IWF World Masters wightlifting championships, held
in Turin, Italy.

Indian cricket team continues to top in ODI format since
February this year.
India beat Nepal to lift the South Asian Football
Federation Under-16 Championship title at Kathmandu.

The International Sepak Takraw Super Series 2013
held at New Delhi.

The Lusofonia Games held in Goa in Oct - Nov 2013.
These are the Portuguese Commonwealth Games

Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul and Spiti district has set a
national record by organizing Half Marathon of 21
kilometers at the height of 10050 feet at Keylong.
The race was won by Baljinder Singh from Punjab.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been appointed the brand
ambassador to promote world’s largest football league
Barclays English Premier League football in India.

40th National Women's Premier Chess Championship
held at Kolkata.

Sardara Singh selected as Captain of Indian Hockey team

International Association of Athletics Federations

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2013, MOSCOW, RUSSIA.

¾ Usain Bolt, the iconic sprinter from Jamaica, equaled
the world record of winning eight gold medals at
international level, as he secured three golds the World
Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia. The only
three other athletes to achieve this fete are track stars
from USA - Allyson Felix, Carl Lewis and Michael
Johnson.
¾ Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce: First women sprinter (from
Jamaica) to win both individual 100 meter / 200 meter
and 4 x 100 m relay
¾ Mo Farah(UK): He won the gold in 500 meter and
10,000 meter race
¾ Yelena Isinbayeva: The Russian pole vaulter won
fthe world championship for the third time.

Lin Dan (China) won the men’s singles title at the World
Badminton Championship held at Guangzhou, China.
Women’s singles title was won by Ratchanok Intanon of
Thailand.
JULY 2013
Parvez Rasool: First player from Jammu and Kashmir to
be named in the Indian cricket team
India won the Tri-nation ODI cricket series after
defeating Sri Lanka in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

World Youth (Under-16) Chess Olympiad: India won
the title beating Iran in finals held at Chongqing, China

Grand Master Parimarjan Negi won the Continental
Chess Association Open title, defeating Bindi Cheng in
Washington, USA.

Vikas Gowda: Ace discus thrower clinched the first gold
for India in the 20th Asian Athletics Championships in Pune.

Shiva Thapa became the youngest pugilist (boxer) to
clinch a gold medal in the 56 kg category at the Asian
Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan.

Lajja Goswami won the silver medal in women's 50-metre
Rifle 3 Position event at the ISSF World Cup in Granada,
Spain.

Devendra Jhajharia created history by becoming the first
differently-abled Indian to win gold in javelin throw at the
IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France. (IPC -
International Paralympics Committee).

Francisco Garcia of Spain has been appointed head coach
of the Indian senior women's basketball team.

5th National Fencing Federation Cup held at Patiala,
Punjab. Men’s trophy lifted by Services team and women’s
by Punjab.

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Powered by Deepika Kumari's gold and bronze medal
performances on the concluding day, India finished fourth in
the Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Medellin, Colombia.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced
that India will host the World T20 Cup competition in 2016
and World Test Championship 2021, both for the first time,
and the 50-over World Cup for the fourth time in 2023.

Andy Murray of UK defeated top seed Novak Djokovic of
Serbia to lift men’s Wimbledon trophy

Marion Bartoli of France beats Sabine Lisicki of Germany
to lift women’s Wimbledon trophy

Inbee Park of South Korea wins the Women’s US Open
Golf Cup at New York.

Christopher Froom: UK Cyclist UK won the famous ‘Tour
de France’, the cross country cycle race held in France.

FIFA Confederations Cup: Brazil beats Spain at Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.

ICC Cricket World Cup - 2015 to be jointly hosted by
Australia and New Zealand from 14th Feb to 29th Mar,
2015.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

BOOK AUTHOR
Never Go Back Lee Child
The Husband’s Secret Liane Moriarty
The Racketeer John Grisham
Harvest Jim Crace
Backlash Lynda La Plante
The Communist Cookbook Sharmishta Roy Chowdhury
Punjab: A History from
Aurangzeb to Mountbatten
Rajmohan Gandhi
Indian Tax Administration: A
Dialogue
Parthasarthi Shome
Fantastic Beasts and Where
to Find Them
J. K. Rowling. Famous film
company Warner Brothers
are making a film on this
book.
Making Peace with the Earth Vandana Shiva
Cuckoo’s Calling JK Rowling (under the
pseudonym Robert
Galbraith)
The Kashmir Dispute:
1947-2012
AG Noorani
You’re Hired Sandeep Goyal
Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen
The New Digital Age Eric Schmidt and Jared
Cohen
May We Be Forgiven A M Homes
Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman
Cobalt Blue Sachin Kundalkar
Our Moon Has Blood Clots Rahul Pandita
The Childhood of Jesus J.M. Coetzee
Faith & Freedom: Gandhi in
History
Mushirul Hasan
The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson
The Girl With No Name Marina Chapman. It is an
incredible true story of a
child raised by monkeys
The Path To Power Margaret Thatcher
Cell Phone Nation Robin Jeffrey & Assa Doron
Legacy Sudha Menon
What Young India Wants Chetan Bhagat
Aziz’s Notebook Chowra Makaremi
Walking with Lions: Tales
from a Diplomatic Past
Natwar Singh
Wild Cheryl Strayed
Oath of the Vayuputras Amish Tripathi
Difficult Pleasures Anjum Hasan
Bitter Wormwood Easterine Kire
Em and The Big Hoom Jerry Pinto
The Extras Kiran
The Sanjay Story Vinod Mehta
Uprising 2011 Kiran Bedi
Fallen Angel Sandipan Deb
An Uncertain Glory Amartya Sen
The World Until Yesterday Jared Diamond
How to get filthy rich in rising
Asia
Mohsin Hamid
11/22/63 Stephen King
Joyland Stephen King
For The Grains K V Thomas
Return of the King William Dalrymple
The City of Devi Manil Suri
Matters of Discretion:
An Autobiography
I K Gujral
Best Kept Secret Jeffrey Archer
A Better India, A Better
World
N.R. Narayana Murthy
A Shot at History - My
Obsessive Journey to Olympic
Gold: Autobiography
Abhinav Bindra
Ad katha: The story of Indian
Advertising
Anand Halve and Anita
Sarkar
Dirty Wars Jeremy Scahill
A Delicate Truth John le Carre
Revolution from Above Dipankar Gupta

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a) 91 b) 68
c) 56 d) 104

22) x goes 15 metres North, then turns right and
walks 20 metres, then again turns right and walks
10 metres then again turns right and walks 20
metres. How many metres is he from his original
position?
a) 5 m b) 10 m
c) 15 m d) 20 m

23) A watch reads 7.30. If the minute hand points
West, then in which direction will the hour hand
point?
a) North b) North East
c) North West d) South East

Directions (24-26): In the following questions, from
the given alternative words, select the word which
cannot be formed using the letters of the given
word:

24) PENULTIMATE
a) PEANUT b) MINUTE
c) ELIMINATE d) LIME-TEA

25) PROCRASTINATE
a) PATTERN b) TRACTOR
c) PRINTED d) PAINTER

26) ADOLESCENT
a) ENCLOSE b) DONATE
c) SECRET d) LEAST

27) If SPANK is coded as PSNAK, then THROW is
coded as
a) HTWOR b) HTWRO
c) HTROW d) HTORW

28) If ANCIENT is coded as 2516859 and NATURE is
coded as 529048, the TRAIN will be coded as
a) 94285 b) 92456
c) 94265 d) 94168

29) If BLUE is written as EUBL, then BULB is written
as
a) BLUB b) BBUL
c) BBLU d) BLBU

30) 40% of 1620 + 30% of 960 = ? % of 5200
a) 12 b) 24
c) 16 d) 18

31) Which of the following interchange of signs
would make the given equation correct?
2 x 3 + 6 – 12 ÷ 4 = 17
a) x and + b) + and –
c) + and ÷ d) – and ÷

32) ‘B’ stands for addition, ‘G’ stands for subtraction,
‘E’ stands for multiplication, ‘C’ stands for division,
‘D’ stands for equal to, ‘A’ stands for greater than, ‘F’
stands for less than. In each of the four alternatives,
only one expression is correct according to the letter
symbol. Identify that expression.
a) 15 C 3 B 2 A 6 E 2 b) 15 B 2 G 5 A 4 G 4
c) 15 C 3 B 2 A 6 B 1 d) 15 B 3 D 4 E 6

33) Identify the symbols to be inserted to make the
expression correct.
24 ∆ 4 ∆ 5 ∆ 4
a) x + x b) = x +
c) x + = d) + = x

34) 6 boys A, B, C, D, E, F are sitting in a row facing
West. D is between A and C. B is just right of C but
left of F. E is not at the right end. Who is at the right
end?
a) C b) F
c) D d) B

35) Y is in the East of X which is in the North of Z. If
P is in the South of Z, then in which direction of Y is
P?
a) North b) East
c) South-East d) South-West

36) Kate walks 4 km towards South. She then turns
towards her left and walks 8 km more. After that she
turns left again and walks another 8 km. Here, she
meets her friend coming from the opposite direction
and they both stop here. Which direction would she
be facing?
a) North b) South
c) East d) West

Directions (37-38): In the following questions, two
statements are given followed by two / four
conclusions I, II, III and IV. You have to consider
the two statements to be true even if they seem to
be at variance from commonly known facts. You
have to decide which of the given conclusions, if any,
follow from the given statements.

37) Statements:
I. Some birds are clouds. II. Horse is a bird.
Conclusions:
I. Some clouds are birds.
II. Horse is not a cloud.
a) Conclusion I follows. b) Conclusion II follows.
c) Either conclusion I or II follows.
d) Neither conclusion I nor II follows.

38) Statements:
a) Ravi has five pens.
b) No one else in the class has five pens.
Conclusions:
I. All students in the class have pens.
II. All students in the class have five pens each.

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2014 34
III. Some of the students have more than five pens.
IV. Only one student in the class has exactly five pens.
a) Only conclusion I follows.
b) Only conclusion III follows.
c) Only conclusion II follows.
d) Only conclusion IV follows.

39) Three positions of a dice are given. Find out
which number is found opposite the number 2 in the
given cube.

a) 6 b) 5
c) 3 d) 1
40) In the following figure
Ο represents
hardworking.
∆ represents sincere and
represents intelligent. Find out the hardworking who
are intelligent but not sincere.

a) 1 b) 2
c) 3 d) 4

41)

The above diagram shows the survey on a sample of
1000 persons with reference to their knowledge of
English, Hindi and Marathi. How many knew only
Hindi?
a) 85 b) 175
c) 78 d) 200

42)

In the above figure, the circle stands for employed,
the square stands for social worker, the triangle
stands for illiterate and the rectangle stands for
truthful. Study the figure and answer the questions
which region represents literate, employed people
who are neither truthful nor social worker.
a) 11 b) 4
c) 9 d) 10

43) Identify the answer figures from which the
pieces given in question figure have been cut.

Directions (44-45): In the following questions, which
answer figure will complete the pattern in the
question figure?

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46) From the given answer figures, select the one in
which the question figure is hidden / embedded.

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2014 35

47) A piece of paper is folded and cut as shown
below in the question figures. From the given answer
figures, indicate how it will appear when opened.

48) From the answer figures, find out the figure
which is the exact mirror image of the question
figure, when the mirror is place on the line ‘MN’?

49) How many triangles are there in the given
figure?

a) 7 b) 10
c) 8 d) 9

50) A word is represented by only one set of
numbers as given in any one of the alternatives. The
sets of numbers given in the alternatives are
represented by two classes of alphabets as in two
matrices given below. The columns and rows of
Matrix I are numbered from 0 to 4 and that of Matrix
II are numbered from 5 to 9. A letter from these
matrices can be represented first by its row and next
by its column, e.g., ‘A’ can be represented by 00, 12
etc. and ‘P’ can be represented by 56, 76 etc.
Similarly, you have to identify the set for the word
‘PARROT’.

MATRIX I
012 34
0ABC DE
1ECA BD
2AEB DC
3BAD CE
4ADC BE

MATRIX II
567 89
5OPQ R T
6PO T Q R
7OP R Q T
8POQ R T
9 OQP R T

a) 56, 00, 77, 88, 86, 99 b) 85, 20, 58, 77, 87, 79
c) 65, 30, 77, 98, 90, 99 d) 66, 40, 76, 77, 86, 99

GENERAL AWARENESS

51) The principle of maximum social advantage is
the basic principal of
a) Micro Economics b) Macro Economics
c) Fiscal Economics d) Environmental Economics

52) Which Five Year Plan is not correct among the
following?
a) First 1951 – 56 b) Second 1956 – 61
c) Third 1961 – 66 d) Fourth 1966 – 71

53) The ordinary and maximum tolerance limit of
sound by human being is
a) 50 db to 70 db (decibel) b) 60 db to 80 db (decibel)
c) 65 db to 75 db (decibel) d) 70 db to 85 db (decibel)

54) An economic, theory is a / an
a) Axion b) Proposition

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2014 36
c) Hypothesis d) Tested hypothesis

55) Indian Special Economic Rules amendment came
in the year
a) 2000 b) 2002
c) 2004 d) 2006

56) Provisions of the citizenship in Indian
Constitution, became applicable in
a) 1950 b) 1949
c) 1951 d) 1952

57) Who gave the title of “Sardar” to Ballabh Bhai
Patel?
a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Vinoba Bhave
c) Women of Bardoli d) Peasants of Gujarat

58) According to Marx, the source of value is
a) Capital b) Land
c) Labour d) None of the above

59) The national Emergency in India declared by the
President of India due to the external aggression or
armed revolt through
a) Article – 352 b) Article – 356
c) Article – 360 d) Article – 368
60) The Community Development Programme was
launched in the year
a) 1950 b) 1952
c) 1951 d) 1953

61) What Satyagraha was held at Nagpur in 1923?
a) Salt Satyagraha b) Individual Satyagraha
c) Ryots Satyagraha d) Flag Satyagraha

62) Which one of the following is not a sect of
Buddhism?
a) Mahayana b) Hinayana
c) Digambar d) Theravad

63) Who was the viceroy when Delhi became the
capital of British India?
a) Lord Curzon b) Lord Minto
c) Lord Hardinge d) Lord Waveli

64) Who established the Indian Civil Liberties Union
in 1936?
a) Subhash Chandra Bose b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
c) Jawahar Lal Nehru d) Rajendra Prasad

65) Which of the following was established first?
a) Banaras Hindu University b) University of Bombay
c) Aligarh Muslim University d) University of Allahabad

66) “Yosemite” is a
a) River b) Peak
c) Waterfall d) Dam

67) The first Indian Satellite Aryabhatta was
launched in
a) 1972 b) 1975
c) 1977 d) 1979

68) Where is the shore based steel plant located?
a) Tuticorin b) Salem
c) Vishakhapatnam d) Mangalore

69) Which two of the following are connected by the
North South corridor?
a) Srinagar and Kanyakumari
b) Mumbai and Chennai
c) Amritsar and Kolkata
d) Hyderabad and Bhopal

70) The pollutants which move downward with
percolating ground water are called
a) Leachates b) Pollutates
c) Earthites d) Percolates

71) Lungs are located in the
a) abdominal cavity b) pericardial cavity
c) peritoneal cavity d) pleural cavity

72) Which one of the following is the ideal food for
newborn babies?
a) Water b) Sugar
c) Honey d) Milk

73) Transcription means the synthesis of
a) Lipids b) Protein
c) DNA d) RNA

74) Hydrochloric acid is secreted by the cells lining
the
a) Oral cavity b) Stomach
c) Ileum d) Colon

75) Emulsification is
a) breaking fats into small globules
b) digestion of fats c) absorption of fats
d) storage of fats

76) Taxonomy is a science that deals with
a) Morphology b) Anatomy
c) Classification d) Economic uses

77) Which one of the following is responsible for the
working of Newton’s colour disc experiment?
a) Formation of pure spectra
b) Formation of impure spectra
c) Persistence of vision
d) Principle of complementary colour

78) The dimension MLT
-2
corresponds to
a) force b) work done
c) acceleration d) velocity

79) Who is the founder of quantum theory of
radiation?
a) Einstein b) Bohr
c) Plank d) S. N. Bose

80) Fiber optics cable used in communication, works
on the principle of

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2014 37
a) regular reflection of light b) diffuse reflection of light
c) refraction of light d) total internal reflection of light

81) Which was the first electronic computer
constructed at the Moore School of Engineering?
a) EOVAC b) ONIVAC
c) ENIAC d) EDSAC

82) Which among the following standard protocols is
the most widely used by the internet?
a) HTTP b) TCP / IP
c) SMTP d) SLIP
83) The outer skin most of the crustaceans are made
up of a carbohydrate. This carbohydrate is
a) cellulose b) galactose
c) chitin d) starch

84) Rutherford’s scattering experiment proved the
presence of
a) atoms in all matter b) electrons in atoms
c) neutrons in atoms d) nucleus in atoms

85) When a metal is heated in a flame, the electrons
absorb energy and jump to higher energy state. On
coming back to the lower energy state, they emit
light, which we can observe in
a) Raman spectra b) Absorption spectra
c) Emission spectra d) Fluorescence

86) Blood pressure may be increased by the
excessive secretion of
a) Thyroxine b) Testosterone
c) Estradiol d) Estrol

87) Trie concept of “Green House Gases” was
postulated by
a) Joseph Furier b) Abdul Kalam
c) M.S. Swaminathan d) Richael Carlson

88) “Bhopal gas tragedy” 1984 is related to
a) Aluminium Phosphide b) Methyl bromide
c) Methyl isocyanate d) Carbon dioxide

89) The Particulate Matter (PM-10) exhaled from the
polluted atmosphere is often filtered out during the
process of
a) Coughing b) Sneezing
c) A and B d) Urination

90) Sarus crane is the state bird of
a) Rajasthan b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Madhya Pradesh d) West Bengal

91) The Tongario volcano erupted on November 21,
2012 is in
a) Australia b) Indonesia
c) Papua New Guinea d) New Zealand

92) The Daocheng Yading Airport is located in
a) Thailand b) Philippines
c) China d) Tibet

93) BCCI named the “Indian Cricketer of the year
2011-12” to honour
a) Sunil Gavaskar b) VVS Laxman
c) Virat Kohli d) Yuvraj

94) “Martyr’s Day” is marked on
a) January 1 b) January 15
c) January 30 d) January 9

95) Who won the World Carrom Championship
2012?
a) Rashmi Kumari b) Mirabai Chanu
c) Nishantha Fernando d) Nuthaki Priyanka

96) The animal who can consume more salt among
the following is
a) Sheep b) Camel
c) Donkey d) Dog

97) Which of the following is only domestic Airport?
a) Dabolin Airport, Goa b) Srinagar Airport
c) Devi Ahilayabai Holkar Airport
d) None of the above

98) Tick the correct option with regards to the
contribution towards GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
form Agriculture
a) During 1950-51 (GDP 51-88%) and 2011-12 (GDP 14-
01%)
b) During 1950-51 (GDP 11-00%) and 2011-12 (GDP 25%)
c) During 1990-91 (GDP 29-53%) and 2011-12 (GDP 66-
77%)
d) During 1980- 81 (GDP 35-69%) and 2011-12 (GDP 20-
69%)

99) Second India-Africa Forum Summit – 2011 was
held in
a) Eretrea b) Ethiopia
c) Sudan d) Nigeria

100) Where did Aurangzeb die?
a) Pune b) Aurangabad
c) Ahmad Nagar d) Mumbai

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE
101) The difference of a number consisting of two
digits from the number formed by interchanging the
digits is always divisible by
a) 10 b) 9
c) 11 d) 6

102) The number 323 has
a) three prime factors b) five prime factors
c) two prime factors d) no prime factor

103) A tyre has 2 punctures. The first puncture alone
would have made the tyre flat in 9 minutes and the
second alone would have done it in 6 minutes. If air
leaks out at a constant rate, how long does it take
both the punctures together to make it flat?

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2014 38
a)
2
1
1
minutes b)
2
1
3
minutes
c)
5
3
3
minutes d)
4
1
4
minutes

104) If 8 men or 12 boys can do a piece of work in
16 days, the number of days required to complete
the work by 20 men and 6 boys is
a)
3
1
5

b)
3
1
6

c)
3
1
8

d)
3
1
7

105) A and B together can do a piece of work in 12
days which B and C together can do in 16 days. After
A has been working at it for 5 days and B for 7 days,
C finishes it in 13 days. In how many days B could
finish the work?
a) 48 days b) 24 days
c) 16 days d) 12 days

106) Three circles of radius a, b, c touch each other
externally. The area of the triangle formed by joining
their centres is
a)
abc)cba( ++

b) cabcab)cba( ++++
c) ab + bc + ca d) None of the above

107) If a metallic cone of radius 30 cm and height 45
cm is melted and recast into metallic spheres of
radius 5 cm, find the number of spheres.
a) 81 b) 41
c) 80 d) 40

108) Chords AB and CD of a circle intersect at E and
are perpendicular to each other. Segments AE, EB
and ED are of lengths 2 cm, 6 cm and 3 cm
respectively. Then the length of the diameter of the
circle in cm is
a)
65

b) 65
2
1
c) 65 d)
2
65

109) For every set of 19 kites sold, a vendor gives 1
kite extra, free of cost. In order to give a discount of
10%, the number of extra kites he should give in a
sale of 27 kites to the nearest integer is
a) 3 b) 6
c) 7 d) 8

110) A ruby stone was bought for Rs. 1600 at Jaipur.
A sum of Rs. 2400 was spent on making a ring with
the ruby stone. It was advertised for sale at Bombay
for Rs. 7800. If a discount of 10% was given, then
the % profit made was
a) 55% b) 68.5%
c) 75.5% d) 80%

111) A shopkeeper buys an article for Rs. 450. He
marks it at 20% above the cost price. Find the
percentage discount given by him if he sells the
article for Rs. 496.80.
a) 8% b) 9%
c) 10% d) 12%

112) The area of a circle is proportional to the square
of its radius. A small circle of radius 3 cm is drawn
within a larger circle of radius 5 cm. find the ratio of
the area of the annular zone to the area of the larger
circle. (Area of the annular zone is the difference
between the area of the larger circle and that of the
smaller circle).
a) 9 : 16 b) 9 : 25
c) 16 : 25 d) 16 : 27

113) A man invested
3
1
of his capital at 7%,
4
1
at 8%
and the remainder at 10%. If his annual income is
Rs. 561, the capital is
a) Rs. 5400 b) Rs. 6000
c) Rs. 6600 d) Rs. 7200

114) The average age of Ram and his two children is
17 years and the average age of Ram’s wife and the
same children is 16 years. If the age of Ram is 33
years, the age of his wife is (in years):
a) 31 b) 32
c) 35 d) 30

115) A man’s pension on retirement from service is
equal to half the average salary during last 3 years
of his service. His salary from 1-1-1983 is Rs. 380
per month with increment of Rs. 40 due on 1-10-83,
1-10-84 and 1-10-85, if he retires on 1-1-86, what
pension does he draw?
a) Rs. 205 b) Rs. 215
c) Rs. 225 d) Rs. 230

116) A person bought 76 cows and sold 20 cows at
15% profit, 40 cows at 19% profit and remaining 16
cows at 25% profit and got a profit of Rs. 6570 as a
whole. The cost price of each cow is
a) Rs. 450 b) Rs. 425
c) Rs. 420 d) Rs. 400

117) One side of the square is increased by 30%. To
maintain the same area, the other side will have to
be decreased by
a)
%
13
1
23 b) %
13
12
76
c) 30% d) 15%

118) Ram travelled 1200 km by air which formed
2/5 of his trip. He travelled one-third of the trip by
car and the rest by train. The distance (in km)
travelled by train was
a) 480 b) 800
c) 1600 d) 1800

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2014 39

119) A policeman goes after a thief who has 100
metres start, if the policeman runs a kilometer in 8
min, and the thief a km in 10 min, the distance
covered by thief before he is over-powered is
a) 350 m b) 400 m
c) 320 m d) 420 m

120) A man borrows Rs. 21000 at 10% compound
interest. How much he has to pay equally at the end
of each year, to settle his loan in two years?
a) Rs. 12000 b) Rs. 12100
c) Rs. 12200 d) Rs. 12300

121) If
BA
347
334
+=
+
+, then B – A is
a) –13 b)
132
c) 13 d) 733−

122) If the expression x
2
+ x + 1 is written in the
form
2
2
q
2
1
x +⎟
⎠
⎞
⎜
⎝
⎛
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a)
3
1
±

b)
2
3
±

c)
3
2
±

d)
2
1
±

123) If a
2
– 4a – 1 = 0, then value of a
3
a3
a
1
a
2
2
−++is
a) 25 b) 30
c) 35 d) 40

124) If x =
3 323 32
baabaa +−+++, then x
3

+ 3bx is equal to
a) 0 b) a
c) 2a d) 1

125) If x
2
– y
2
= 80 and x – y = 8, then the average
of x and y is
a) 2 b) 3
c) 4 d) 5

126) If
c2b4a
124
1
33
33
++=
++and a, b, c are
rational numbers, then a + b + c is equal to
a) 0 b) 1
c) 2 d) 3

127)
abba
21
1
21
1
−−
+
+
+
is
a) a – b b) b – a
c) 1 d) 0

128) If a/b = 4/5 and b/c = 15/16, then
22
22
a20c45
a7c18
+
−
is equal to
a)
3
1
b)
5
2

c)
4
3
d)
4
1

129) Two circles with centres P and Q intersect at B
and C. A, D are points on the circles with centres P
and Q respectively such that A, C, D are collinear. If
∠APB = 130°, and ∠BQD = x°, then the value of x is
a) 65 b) 130
c) 195 d) 135

130) C
1 and C
2 are two concentric circles with
centres at O. Their radii are 12 cm and 3 cm.
respectively. B and C are the points of contact of two
tangents drawn to C
2 from a point A lying on the
circle C
1. Then the area of the quadrilateral ABOC is
a)
2
159
sq. cm. b)
1512sq. cm.
c) 159 sq. cm. d) 156sq. cm.

131) I and O are respectively the in-centre and
circumcentre of a triangle ABC. The line AI produced
intersects the circumcricle of ∆ ABC at the point D. If
∠ABC = x°, ∠BID=y° and ∠BOD = z°, then
=
+
y
xz
a) 3 b) 1
c) 2 d) 4

132) Rana drove 8 miles due west, then 6 miles due
north, then 3 miles due east and then 6 more miles
due north. The distance between his initial and final
position is
a) 13 miles b) 17 miles
c) 19 miles d) 21 miles

133) ABCD is a parallelogram, BC is produced to Q
such that BC = CQ. Then
a) area (∆ BCP) = area (∆ DPQ)
b) area (∆ BCP) > area (∆ DPQ)
c) area (∆ BCP) < area (∆ DPQ)
d) area (∆ BCP) + area (∆ DPQ) = (area (∆BCD)

134) In ∆ ABC and ∆ DEF, AB = DE and BC = EF. Then
one can infer that
∆ ABC
≅∆DEF, when
a) ∠BAC = ∠EDF b) ∠ACB = ∠EDF
c) ∠ACB = ∠DFE d) ∠ABC = ∠DEF

135) The length of the common chord of two circles
of radii 30 cm and 40 cm whose centres are 50 cm
apart, is (in cm)
a) 12 b) 24
c) 36 d) 48

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2014 40

136) Two chords AB, CD of a circle with centre O
intersect each other at P. ∠ADP = 23° and ∠APC =
70°, then the ∠BCD is
a) 45° b) 47 °
c) 57° d) 67 °

137) If the interior angles of a five sided polygon
are in the ratio of 2 : 3 : 3 : 5 : 5, then the measure of
the smallest angle is
a) 20° b) 30 °
c) 60° d) 90 °

138) If secθ + tanθ =
3(0° ≤ θ ≤ 90°), then tan 3θ is
a) undefined b)
3
1

c) considered as infinity d)
3

139) If sin (60° - θ) = cos (Ψ - 30°), then the value of
tan (Ψ - θ) is (assume that θ and Ψ are both positive
acute angles with θ < 60° and Ψ > 30°).
a)
3
1

b) 0
c)
3 d) 1

140) The value of
(1+cot θ - cosec θ) (1 + tan θ + sec θ) is equal to
a) 1 b) 2
c) 0 d) –1

141) If tan θ + cot θ = 2, then the value of tan
n
θ
+cot
n
θ (0° < θ < 90°, n is an integer) is
a) 2 b) 2
n

c) 2n d) 2
n+1

142) A pole stands vertically, inside a scalene
triangular park ABC. If the angle of elevation of the
top of the pole from each corner of the park is same,
then in ∆ ABC, the foot of the pole is at the
a) centroid b) circumcentre
c) incentre d) orthocentre

143) If
,
y
cos
x
sin θ
=
θthen sin θ - cos θ is equal to
a) x – y b) x + y
c)
22
yx
yx+
−
d)
22
yx
xy+
−

144)

The above bar graph show the marks obtained by a
student in an examination. What is the average
marks obtained by the student?
a) 55 b) 56
c) 57 d) 58

145)

Study the bar graph carefully and answer the
following question.
Which type of family is the most common?
a) 2 members b) 3 members
c) 4 members d) 5 members

Directions (146-148): The Pie Chart shows the
expenditure of a country on various sports during a
particular year. Study the graph and answer the
questions.

146) If the total amount spent on cricket and hockey
together is Rs. 80,000, the total amount spent on
sports is
a) Rs. 100000 b) Rs. 200000
c) Rs. 250000 d) Rs. 300000

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2014 41

147) How much per cent more is spent on Hockey
than that on Golf?
a) 27% b) 35%
c) 37.5% d) 75%

148) How much per cent less is spent on football
than that on cricket?
a)
%
9
2
22

b) 27%
c) %
3
1
33

c) %
2
1
37

Directions (149-150): Study the following graph and
answer the questions.

149) Find the percentage decrease in income from
2001 to 2002.
a) 50 b) 33
c)
2
1
37
d) Data inadequate
150) If the income shows positive growth in every
year throughout the period (2000 – 2005), then in
how many years the expenditure shows a positive
growth?
a) 5 b) 3
c) 4 d) 2

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Directions (151-155): In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. If there is no error, you answer is (d) i.e., No error. 151) In India (a) / working woman lead a life of dual
responsibilities (b) / if they are married and have a family.
(c) No error (d)

152) Greatly to our surprise (a) / we find the ringleader (b)
/ was lame. (c) No error (d)

153) They have (a) / played a game (b) last week. (c) No
error (d)

154) The teacher made the boys (a) / to do the sum (b) /
all over again. (c) / No error (d)

155) Many overseas students (a) / attend colleges (b) / in
the Great Britain. (c)/ No error (d)

Directions (156-160): In the following questions,
each sentence is given with blank to be filled in with
an appropriate and suitable word(s). Four
alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose
the correct alternative out of the four alternatives.

156) Student-parking should be ________; students
should not be charged to buy parking stickers.
a) fined b) free
c) costly d) cheap

157) If you have roses growing in your garden, you
can make a lovely _____ of flowers at home.
a) bouqutte b) bucquete
c) bouquete d) bouquet

158) The _______ of the middle school is a woman
of ________.
a) Principles, Principal b) Principals, Principal
c) Principal, Principle d) Principle, Principals

159) With the changing times, most of the students
have become business – like they are _______ and
want to take only those courses which they find
rewarding.
a) idealistic b) pragmatic
c) enthusiastic d) partial

160) 1. John’s at _______ institute studying French.
2. They’re building ______ school at the end of our
street.
3. Do they live in _______ United Kingdom or
somewhere else?
a) a, the, an b) the, a, an
c) an, a, the d) the, an, a

Directions (161-163): In the following questions, out
of the four alternatives, choose the one which best
expresses the meaning of the given word.

161) Parsimony
a) expenditure b) bankruptcy
c) bribery d) miserliness

162) Tribulation
a) palpitation b) suffering
c) weakness d) stimulation

163) The Prime Minister goes on the ramparts of the Red
Fort to hoist the National flag.
a) rompway b) staircase
c) parapet d) scaffold

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2014 42
Directions (164-166): In the following questions,
choose the word opposite in meaning to the given
word.

164) Lunacy
a) sanity b) stupidity
c) sensibility d) insanity

165) Obtuse
a) sharp-witted b) transparent
c) timid d) blunt

166) Inadvertently
a) secretly b) accidentally
c) completely d) deliberately

Directions (167-171): In the following questions,
four alternatives are given for the Idiom/ Phrase
printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the
alternative which best expresses the meaning of the
Idiom / Phrase.

167) What egged you on to become a social worker?
a) urged b) dampened
c) hindered d) discouraged

168) Many politicians in India are not fit to hold a candle
to Mahatma Gandhi.
a) superior b) equal
c) inferior d) indifferent

169) She must be paying through the nose for the face
lift.
a) paying less than necessary
b) paying too much c) paying the right amount
d) paying reluctantly

170) He is putting the cart before the horse by
purchasing furniture before buying a house.
a) doing a thing in the wrong way
b) doing a thing in the right way
c) committing a great crime
d) doing things meticulously

171) Casting pearls before swine.
a) speaking nice words and convincing them
b) offering good things to undeserving people
c) uplifting the needy for their welfare
d) doing worthwhile things to unknown people

Directions (172-181): In the following questions, a
sentence / part of the sentence is printed in bold.
Below are given alternatives to the bold sentence /
part of the sentence at (a), (b) and (c) which may
improve the sentence. Choose the correct
alternative. In case no improvement is needed, your
answer is (d).

172) It became clear that the strangers were heading into
a serious disaster.
a) along b) towards
c) on d) No improvement

173) Twenty kms are not a great distance in these days
of fast moving vehicles.
a) is not a great distance b) are not too great a distance
c) aren’t proving a great distance
d) No improvement

174) I adapted a new method to solve the problem.
a) I have been adopted b) I adopted
c) I was adapted d) No improvement

175) Hoping not to be disturbed, I sat down in my easy
chair to read the book, I won as a prize.
a) I had won as a prize b) I have won as prize
c) I had to win as a prize d) No improvement
176) If you are living near a market place you should be
ready to bear the disturbance caused by traffic.
a) to bear upon b) to bear with
c) to bear away d) No improvement

177) The more they earn, more they spend on luxury
items.
a) more they should spend
b) the more they spend c) the more they ought to spend
d) No improvement

178) You have come here with a view to insult me.
a) to insulting me b) of insulting me
c) for insulting me d) No improvement

179) A little rail-road engine was employed by a station
yard for doing small pieces of work.
a) was made by a station yard
b) was used at the station yard
c) was employed at the station yard
d) No improvement

180) From an aesthetic point of view, the painting
did not appeal to me.
a) From the viewpoint of aesthetics, the painting did not
appeal to me
b) The painting had no aesthetic appeal to me
c) From an aesthetic point of view, the painting had a little
appeal to me
d) No improvement

181) The child tossed in bed burning with fever.
a) The child in bed, burning with fever tossed
b) The child burning with fever, tossed in bed
c) The child burning in bed tossed with fever
d) No improvement

Directions (182-188): In the following question, out
of the four alternative, choose the one which can be
substituted for the given words/ sentence.

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is owned separately by the people living in it, but
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HOW TO PREPARE FOR INTERVIEW

1. Know what you have to offer: -
i) Knowledge ii) Ability iii) Communication skills

2. Know the employer: -
i) Know about the organization
ii) Be familiar with the products
iii) Values and culture of the organization
iv) How do you meet all these

3. Know what to expect:- You should be well prepared
for the kind of questions being asked in the interview.

4. Prepare and Practice: - Put yourself in the real
time situation and practice each aspect of interview
giving equal attention to Body Language,
Communication and rehearsed replies. Rehearse with
mock interviews. Take the help of an experienced
person to improve your interview skills. In case any
experienced person is not available take the help of
any senior in the family. The key to selection is
WELL DONE REHEARSALS .

5. Practice in front of a Mirror: The best way to
prepare is to practice before mirror. You can observe
yourself and find out the areas where you need to
improve, particularly about your posture and body
language.

6. Record your voice: These days cell phones have the
facility to record voice and videos as well. Record the
mock interview and check your performance in the
interview for the desired voice qualities, tone,
repetition of words etc.

SOME Qs WHICH RANKLE YOU

1. HOW TO TACKLE VENUE PHOBIA?

One must reach the venue at least half an hour in advance
and should make arrangements to make up for any
accidental delay in reaching the venue.
The first time job seekers are generally scared of the place
of interview. For one, they are not exposed to the corporate
culture and are overawed by the big rooms and the office
culture etc. This causes a lot of nervousness among them
and must be overcome.

Visit the venue at least a day before the interview or even
earlier to overcome the complex. If you cannot make to the
venue, visit any bank branch and ask for help from any
employee.

2. HOW TO DRESS FOR INTERVIEW?
You should be very careful about your dress. It must reflect
your personality and be appropriate to your physique.
Generally the boys / men should wear light colored shirt
with dark trousers. The hair should be properly trimmed or
beard properly tied ( for Sikhs) or shaved. The turban
should be properly matched and should gel with the dress
color.
For ladies, they should not be dressed flashily. They may
wear suit or even a Sari, if they are comfortable with it. But
the dress should not be new and should be comfortable to
wear. It should not be low neck as well. One can wear a
shirt and trouser as well, but it should be buttoned properly.
The blouse should neither be short nor the trouser be low.

3. WHAT DOCUMENTS ARE REQUIRED?
Carry all original certificates with you when you go for an
interview from 10
th
standard onwards. Also carry one set of
attested copies. You should also carry other certificate/s,
pertaining to your extra-curricular activities. All the
documents / Certificates should be neatly filed in
chronological order, so that you do not fumble during
interview.

4. HOW TO SIT IN THE INTERVIEW?
You must not slouch in the chair. Your back should be
straight and firmly touch back of the chair. Your legs
should not be wide open or crossed abnormally. Take
control of your hand movements. You may clasp the hands
or keep them on your thighs. If you are carrying a file with
you, you should keep it in your lap. Never lean over the
table.
Generally there is a table between the interviewers & the
interviewee. But you should also be prepared for a situation
where there may not be any table.

5. HOW TO HANDLE CONTROVERSIAL Qs?
Sometimes questions about controversial issues are asked
not only to know the views of the candidate but also to find
out whether the candidate has a balanced approach. You
should be very careful while answering questions about
which you may have very strong views. You should give
balanced and mature answer not allowing your preferences
to prejudice your reply.

6. WHAT TO DO WHEN ANSWER IS NOT KNOWN?
If you do not know the answer to a question, instead of
giving a wrong reply, the best way to tell the interviewer is,
“Sorry Sir, I do not know the answer to this question”.
However, if you have a vague idea, then instead of telling
the interviewer that you do not know the answer, you can
say, “Sir, I am not sure but I think the answer is _____”.
By giving a wrong reply you are under estimating the
interviewer.
7. HOW TO HANDLE INTERRUPTIONS?
If the interviewer feels that you know the answer, he may
interrupt you and move on to a new question. Similarly the
interviewer may feel that you are on a wrong track he may
not like to continue with the question and may like to check
your knowledge or information in some other areas.
8. HOW MUCH TIME SHOULD I TAKE?
There should not be a long pause between the question and
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properly before answering it. As long as you do not maintain
silence for a long time the interviewer is not going to mind.
In case you do not know the answer, you should be
straight forward and reply as already mentioned above.
9. HOW LONG SHOULD BE THE REPLY?
Your replies must not be in monosyllables like ‘Yes’ or ‘No’,
etc. But your replies should not be very lengthy as
well. Though the length of the reply is determined by the
question, your reply should be short and simple. Normally,
any reply should not stretch beyond two minutes and should
not be less than 20 seconds. But you can always find out if
the interviewer is asking for more information or if you are
not convinced by the details given by you, ask “Do you want
me to expand more on this?
10. WHAT SIGNALS THE END OF THE INTERVIEW
When the interviewer says “Thank you Mr.”or “Wish you all
the best”, it is a signal that the interview is over. Sometimes
the interviewer may ask you whether you want to ask any
question. This also is indication of the end of the interview.
If you have any question to ask and you have been
specifically asked as above, you can always put forward
your question. But you should be very sure that your
questions are sensible, and are above the organization you
are to join. The question should not expose your ignorance
but should express your inquisitiveness. So make sure that
you have gone through the website of the organization and
have already searched for the information you intend to
seek.
Never ask a question like, “What are my chances of
selection?” or “How many marks did I score in the interview
or in the written examination”. These kind of questions can
go against you.
REMEMBER! EACH QUESTION IS AN OPPORTUNITY
Every person has unique knowledge and interests.
Each question, gives you an opportunity to lead the
interviewer to an area of your knowledge and interest. The
idea is to talk about your strength and lead the interview to
issues and areas of your interest. But do not try to ‘Gate
crash and mould your answers so as to steer the
interviewer’. (Steer the interview not the interviewer). If you
are not comfortable with any question, you may frankly tell
the interviewer about your inability. But do not keep doing
the same for every other question.
BE HONEST IN ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS?
The question of being honest or dishonest comes into
picture only when you are talking about, answering opinion-
based questions or personality-related questions. If you
sincerely have an opinion about some issue and believe in
that, there is nothing wrong in expressing it frankly. If you
have an opinion about some issue and think that it may
not be appreciated by the interviewer, first ask yourself as
to why you opine so. Think over that objectively. If you still
want to stick to that opinion, go ahead and express it
freely. If you can change your mind and opine differently,
express that changed version.

SOME TYPICAL INTERVIEW Qs
Here are a few questions that are normally asked during
interview. You should rehearse the answers to these
questions.

1. QUESTIONS ABOUT YOURSELF
Though it seems very easy but infect very deceptively. The
interviewer may want to know how much you really know
about yourself. He has accessed your bio-data and can ask
relevant questions about your background. Your answer
should cover your educational background briefly and your
interest / hobbies. You may also talk about your
achievements in academics and / or extra curricular
activities. You need not go into your family history but
restrict yourself to the areas which should be of interest to
the organisation / interviewer Keep in mind that interviewer
may frame his questions based on your response to this
question.
The response to the question ‘about yourself’ will depend on
the response of the interviewer. If the interviewer is
interested to know more about the family, you may be
required to dwell on the issue.

2. MEANING OF YOUR NAME
You must know the meaning of your name. In case it is
related to some mythological character, try to understand
the background of the word including the meaning of the
words that form your name. Generally an uncommon name
attracts the attention of the interviewer.

3. PERSONALITY RELATED QUESTIONS
Sometimes the interviewee is asked to mention his/her
“Strength & Weaknesses”. You should be very careful and
be well prepared to answer this question. Keep a note of
your achievements and the details thereof. Identify the
qualities that helped you achieve the goal. You should
mention these qualities without mentioning those moments.
If the interviewer asks you more about it, then you can
mention the moment when you achieved the goal with the
help of these qualities. Normally the strength mentioned
are:-
i) Discipline ii) Punctuality
iii) Goal oriented approach
iv) Hardworking nature
v) Team player
vi) Ability to convince
Regarding weaknesses, never give a reply like, “I do not
have any weakness”. Again recollect the moments when you

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failed in any venture and look for the reasons within your
self. You should also mention what extra efforts you have
made to overcome this weakness.
The key to answering this question is the same as the last:
Turn a negative into a positive. Don't try to come up with a
character flaw or personal weakness. Instead, rephrase the
question for yourself: "How do I want to improve to become
better in my career?" Identify areas in which you want more
training or guidance.

4. QUESTIONS ABOUT SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE
You must be well prepared to answer the questions about
your educational background and the subjects of your
study. If you are a student of History you should know
about Indian Ancient, Medieval, and Modern History. If you
are a student of Engineering or Science you should know
the basic concept you have learned during the course.

5. QUESTIONS ON HOBBIES
Generally you are required to fill bio-data form where in
complete information regarding your educational
background, your extracurricular activities and
hobbies is provided by you. So, this information
about your hobbies / Extra Curricular Activities is already
available with the interviewer. You should be very
particular about giving information in the bio-data form,
because you cannot know make any contradictory
statement.
Remember that whenever you express any activity that you
say is your hobby then either you should be
personally participating in it or may be interested in it.
If neither is the case, then you should not mention
it as your hobby. If you say chess is your hobby,
then either you should be playing it or should have a keen
interest in the game, know about the present and the past
players, theoretical aspects of the game, etc.
If you mention reading as your hobby the probable question
will be, name of the authors or the name of the books, you
have read in the recent past, the main characters of the
book and analysis of the character etc.
For the newspaper that you read daily, you should know the
place from where it is published and its editor, etc.
You can also be asked, how a particular hobby has helped
you in achieving your goals.
In case you do not have any particular interest or extra-
curricular activity, do not give the answer like, “I do not do
anything.” Or “I just while away my time, watching
television.” Instead you may list out areas of your interest
like listening to music, making friends etc.

6. QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR ATTITUDE
Apart from your personality and your subject knowledge,
the interviewer is more interested to know more about
attitude to the job you are about to join. So he may ask you
inconvenient questions like, why do you want to join the
bank. This question assumes more importance, if you have
back ground other than commerce. You should be ready
with the answer and should not be found wanting for the
suitable reply.
7. WHY DO YOU WANT TO JOIN THE BANK?
You should be well prepared to answer such a question
specially if you are not from commerce or economics
background. Never give a answer like, “It’s a government
job”, or “Being a Government Job, it ensures job security” or
“It pays is well”, or “My parents want me to join the Bank”.
You should be very clear about your professional goal and
convince him how your study is going to be relevant to
Banking. If you are making a Midcourse change you must
backup with solid reasons. It is not uncommon to change a
line from science to commerce, engineering to banking. You
should be ready with examples where persons from diverse
background have made it to the top in the Banking.

8. WHY HAVE YOU CHOSEN CAREER IN BANKING?
You should have clear idea of your scope for future
promotion and career in the Bank you plan to join. You
must know the hierarchy in the Banking and where do you
see you self 5 years down the line.
Normally, a person joins the Bank at Clerical Level or as a
Probationary Officer. Clerical Level constitute the front desk
officials and Probationary Officers are in the next hierarchy.

9. WHY DO YOU WANT TO JOIN THIS INSTITUTE?
This is a common question asked in the most of the
interviews. This is a very delegate question and to answer it
you should study the other institutes other organizations
working in the same field. Gather information about their
activities and results and compare them with the
results of this organization. This information will be very
helpful in answering such a question.

SOME COMMON INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
Introduction
• Introduce yourself in one minute?
• Define yourself in one word?
• Describe yourself?
• Meaning of your name, who named you and why?
• Do you have any namesake?
• What is your father & his job profile?

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• Your family background?
• Where do you come from?
• Tell me about your native place/city/state?
• For what is it famous for?
• What are your hobbies and interest?
• If you do not succeed this time, what will you do?
• What is your educational background?
• Tell me something about your achievements?
• Any extra curricular activity?
• Why do you want to join Banking sector?
• What qualities should one possess to be a Bank P.O.?
Do you think you have these qualities?
• Who is the founder of this bank?
• When was this bank nationalized?
• What is the Current financial position of bank?
• Name the person who inspired you the most?
• How is your subject helpful in banking sector?
• Why is there a Gap in your studies?
• What are your strong and weak points?
• As a student of Science/Art/Commerce, why didn’t you
go for higher studies?
• Newspapers and magazine which you prefer to read?
Name the Editor of Newspaper?
• Why should we select you?
• Why do you want to be a P.O.?
• What is your Idea of life?
• What is the importance of hobby in our life?
• Have you cleared any exam earlier ?
• What will you do, if you don’t get finally selected,?
• What does your mother do or whether she is a house
wife or in job?
• Where did you spend you childhood?
• Why don’t you join your family business?

Educational Background
• You passed B.Sc./B.Com/B.A. in the year 2007, what
were you doing till now?
• There is a huge gap in between graduation and PG.
why?
• Why is there a great variation in marks between class
10
th
, 12
th
& graduation?
• What is the use of your subject in this sector?
• What is the use of your subject in life?
• How you correlate your subjects with Banking?
• Why didn’t you continue your studies?
• Your subjects are related with IAS, PCS. Then why
here?
• From which college/University you have completed your
graduation?
• What are the specialties of the schools/colleges from
where you have acquired education?
• Why have you switched over to Art stream from
Science stream?
• These days the use of computer is increasing in the
banking industry since you don’t’ have the knowledge
of computers, how will you perform your jobs
satisfactorily?
• You have done MCA then why don’t you go for
Technical Post?
• What is the motto of your university?
• You had written in your Bio Data “N.A” What is this?

10 STEPS TO A SUCCESSFUL INTERVIEW

• Always arrive on time.
• Introduce yourself in a courteous manner.
• Collect information about the bank / company
• Listen carefully before answering.
• Use body language to show interest.
• Maintain Good posture
• Maintain good eye contact
• Smile, nod, give nonverbal feedback to the interviewer.
• Show energy and enthusiasm.
• Thank the interviewer.

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187) A political leader appealing to popular desires
and prejudices.
a) dictator b) tyrant
c) popularist d) demagogue

188) Enclosed in a small closed space.
a) closophobia b) clusterophobia
c) claustrophobia d) liftophobia

Directions (189-190): In the following questions,
four words are given in each question, out of which
only one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly
spelt word as your answer.

189) a) conviance b) connivanse
c) connivance d) conivence

190) a) maintennance b) manteinance
c) maintenance d) mentenance

Directions (191-200): In the following questions,
you have a passage with 10 questions. Read the
passage carefully and choose the best answer to
each question out of the four alternatives.

PASSAGE
CYBER BOGEYS

The cyber – world is ultimately ungovernable. This is
alarming as well as convenient; sometimes, convenient
because alarming. Some Indian politicians use this to great
advantage. When there is an obvious failure in governance
during a crisis they deflect attention from their own
incompetence towards the ungovernable. So, having failed
to prevent nervous citizens from fleeing their cities of work
by assuring them of proper protection, some national
leaders are now busy trying to prove to one another, and to
panic-prone Indians, that a mischievous neighbour has been
using the internet and social networking sites to spread
dangerous rumours. And the Centre’s automatic reaction is
to start blocking these sites and begin elaborate and
potentially endless negotiations with Google, Twitter and
Facebook about access to information. If this is the official
idea of prompt action at a time of crisis among
communities, then Indians have more reason to fear their
protectors than the nebulous mischief-makers of the cyber-
world. Wasting time gathering proof, blocking vaguely
suspicious websites, hurling accusations across the border
and worrying about bilateral relations are ways of keeping
busy with inessentials because one does not quite know
what to do about the essentials of a difficult situation.
Besides, only a fifth of the 245 websites blocked by the
Centre mention the people of the Northeast or the violence
in Assam. And if a few morphed images and spurious texts
can unsettle an entire nation, then there is something
deeply wrong with the nation and with how it is being
governed. This is what its leaders should be addressing
immediately, rather than making a wrongheaded display of
their powers of censorship.
It is just as absurd, and part of the same syndrome to try to
ban Twitter accounts that parody despatches from the
Prime Minister’s Office. To describe such forms of humour
and dissent as “misrepresenting” the PMO – as if Twitterers
would take these parodies for genuine despatches from the
PMO – makes the PMO look more ridiculous than its
parodists manage to. With the precedent for such action set
recently by the chief minister of West Bengal, this is yet
another proof that what Bengal thinks today India will think
tomorrow. Using the cyber-world for flexing the wrong
muscles is essentially not funny. It might even prove to be
quite dangerously distracting.

191) According to the passage cyber-world is
a) beyond the imagination of people
b) outside the purview of common people
c) not to be governed
d) ungovernable

192) The author is of the opinion that
a) the centre should start negotiations with Google, Twitter
and Facebook
b) the centre should help the citizens evacuate their city
c) the centre should not block the sites
d) the centre should arrest the guilty

193) Which of the following is closest to the
meaning of ‘nebulous’?
a) confused b) vague
c) iridescent d) glowing

194) The author’s seriousness regarding the
situation can best be described in the following
sentences. Pick the odd one out.
a) Our leaders should display their powers of censorship
when needed
b) If this is the official idea of prompt action at a time of
crisis among communities, then Indians have more reason
to fear their protectors than the nebulous mischief-maker of
the cyber-world
c) The politicians deflect attention from their own
incompetence
d) If a few morphed images and spurious texts can unsettle
an entire nation, then there is something deeply wrong with
the nation

195) The word ‘spurious’ means
a) genuine b) authentic
c) substantial d) fake

196) The author warns as against
a) not playing false with the citizens
b) dangers inherent in the cyber-world
c) not using the cyber-world judiciously
d) not protecting the citizens from dangerous politicians

197) ‘Parody’ means
a) twist b) jeopardize
c) ridicule d) imitate

198) What is the opposite of ‘wrong headed’?
a) silly b) sane
c) insane d) insensible

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199) The passage suggest different ways of keeping
the public busy with ‘inessentials’. Pick the odd one
out.
a) By blocking websites which are vaguely suspicious
b) By blaming neighbouring countries across the border
c) By turning the attention of the people to violence in
Assam
d) By getting involved in a discourse on bilateral relations

200) The following is a list of statements made by
the author of the above passage. Pick the odd one
out.
a) It is absurd to ban Twitter accounts that parody
despatches from the Prime Minister’s Office
b) ‘Twitterers’ take these parodies for genuine despatches
from the PMO
c) To describe such forms of humour as ‘misrepresenting’
the PMO makes the PMO look more ridiculous
d) The precedent for such action was set recently by the
chief minister of West Bengal

ANSWER KEY

Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A.
1 B 2 B 3 B 4 A 5 A
6 B 7 B 8 C 9 D 10 D
11 C 12 D 13 C 14 C 15 A
16 B 17 C 18 A 19 B 20 D
21 A 22 A 23 C 24 C 25 C
26 C 27 D 28 C 29 D 30 D
31 A 32 B 33 B 34 B 35 D
36 A 37 A 38 D 39 A 40 B
41 D 42 C 43 B 44 D 45 A
46 A 47 A 48 C 49 B 50 A
51 C 52 D 53 B 54 B 55 D
56 A 57 A 58 C 59 A 60 B
61 D 62 C 63 C 64 C 65 B
66 C 67 B 68 C 69 A 70 A
71 D 72 D 73 D 74 B 75 A
76 C 77 C 78 A 79 C 80 D
81 C 82 B 83 C 84 D 85 C
86 A 87 A 88 C 89 B 90 B
91 D 92 D 93 C 94 C 95 C
96 B 97 D 98 A 99 B 100C
101B 102C 103 C 104A 105A
106A 107A 108 A 109A 110C
111A 112C 113 C 114D 115B
116A 117A 118 B 119B 120B
121C 122B 123 B 124C 125D
126A 127C 128 D 129B 130C
131A 132A 133 A 134D 135D
136B 137C 138 B 139C 140A
141A 142B 143 C 144B 145B
146B 147D 148 C 149D 150D
151B 152A 153 A 154B 155C
156B 157D 158 C 159B 160C
161D 162B 163 C 164A 165A
166D 167A 168 C 169B 170A
171B 172B 173 A 174B 175A
176B 177C 178 A 179C 180D
181B 182A 183 D 184A 185B
186B 187D 188 C 189C 190C
191D 192C 193 B 194A 195D
196A 197D 198 B 199C 200B

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c) 347 d) 407

25) G is fatter than H but not as fat as M. Q is also
not as fat as M. Who is the most lean person in the
group?
a) Q b) H
c) G d) Can’t be determined

26) A man walks 15 metres south. Then turning to
his right he walks 15 metres. Then turning to his left,
he walks 10 metres. Again turns to his left and walks
15 metres. How far is he from his initial position?
a) 10 m b) 25 m
c) 15 m d) 60 m

27) There are five buses M, N, O, P, Q in a row on a
road. Bus M is standing at the front and Q is standing
at the back end. Bus N stands between M and O. Bus
P stands between O and Q. Which bus is in the
middle of the five?
a) M b) P
c) N d) O

Directions: In question nos. 28 to 30, from the given
alternative words, select the word which cannot be
formed using the letters of the given word.

28) DISTANCE
a) DANCE b) STAND
c) SANE d) TEASE

29) RESURRECTIONIST
a) TOURIST b) NOISE
c) SORCERER d) TENDER

30) COMMERCIALISM
a) CROME b) LANCER
c) MISER d) OSCAR

31) If DIVINE is coded as AFSFKB, then POWERFUL
is coded as
a) XLHOJVIM b) MLTBOCRI
c) MLWBOCRI d) HLTBNCRI

32) If NOTE is written as PQVG, then TIME is written
as
a) VQOG b) VKOG
c) VOKG d) VGKO

33) If SMART is coded as UKCPV, then WONDER is
coded as
a) YMPPRT b) YMPBGP
c) YMPBFP d) YMBPPG

34) If ‘+’ stands for ‘multiplication’, ‘<’ stands for
‘division’, ÷’ stands for ‘subtraction’, ‘–’ stands for
‘addition’ and ‘x’ stands for ‘greater than’. Identify
which expression is correct.
a) 20 – 4 ÷ 4 + 8 < 2 x 26
b) 20 x 8 + 15 < 5 ÷ 9 – 8
c) 20 < 2 + 10 ÷ 4 – 6 x 100
d) 20 < 5 + 25 ÷ 10 – 2 x 96

35) One day, Nita left home and cycled 10 km
southwards, turned right and cycled 5 km and turned
right and cycled 10 km and turned left and cycled 10
km. How many kilometres will she have to cycle to
reach her home straight?
a) 10 km b) 15 km
c) 20 km d) 25 km

36) Rajat moves from his office to the canteen
straight at a distance of 12 metres. Then he turned
left and walked for 2 metres. Then he turns left
again and walks straight for 12 metres. How far is he
from his office?
a) 10 metres b) 12 metres
c) 8 metres d) 2 metres

Directions: In question nos. 37 and 38, two / four
statements are given followed by two / four
conclusions I, II, III and IV. You have to consider
the statements to be true even if they seem to be at
variance from commonly known facts. You have to
decide which of the given conclusions, if any, follow
from the given statements.

37) Statements: I. All apples are bananas.
II. All bananas are sweet.
Conclusions: I. Some apples are sweet.
II. Some bananas are apples.
a) Conclusion I follows.
b) Conclusion II follows.
c) Either conclusion I or II follows.
d) Both conclusions I and II follow.

38) Statements: 1. All metals are silver.
2. All silver are diamond.
3. Some diamonds are gold.

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4. Some gold are marbles.
Conclusions: I. Some gold are metals.
II. All metals are diamond.
III. Some silver are marble.
IV. Some gold are silver.
a) Only conclusion I follows.
b) Only conclusion II follows.
c) Only conclusion III follows.
d) Only conclusion IV follows.

39) Which of the following cubes can be created by
folding the given figure?

40) Two positions of a dice are given. Which number
would be at the top when bottom is 2?

a) 4 b) 1
c) 5 d) 6

41) Identify the response figure from which the
question figure’s pieces have been cut.

42)

In the above figure, the circle stands for employed,
the square stands for social worker, the triangle
stands for illiterate and the rectangle stands for
truthful. Employed, truthful and illiterate social
workers are indicated by which region?
a) 5 b) 4
c) 2 d) 1

43) Find the missing number:

a) 37 b) 45
c) 47 d) 57

44)

In the above diagram, parallelogram represents
women, triangle represents the sub-inspectors of
police and circle represents the graduates. Which
numbered area represents women graduate sub-
inspectors of police?
a) 5 b) 3
c) 8 d) 13

Directions: In question nos. 45 and 46, which answer
figure will complete the pattern in the question
figure.

45)

46)

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47) From the given answer figures, select the one in
which the question figure is hidden / embedded.

48) A piece of paper is folded and punched as shown
below in the question figures. From the given answer
figures, indicate how it will appear when opened.

49) Which of the answer figures is exactly the mirror
image of the given pattern of numbers when the
mirror is held at MN?

50) A word is represented by only one set of
numbers as given in any one of the alternatives. The
sets of numbers given in the alternatives are
represented by two classes of alphabets as in two
matrices given below. The columns and rows of
Matrix I are numbered from 0 to 4 and that of Matrix
II are numbered from 5 to 9. A letter from these
matrices can be represented first by its row and next
by its column, e.g., ‘B’ can be represented by 01, 31
etc. and ‘P’ can be represented by 67, 75 etc.
Similarly, you have to identify the set for the word
‘CARD’.
MATRIX I
0 1 2 3 4
0A B C D E
1D C B A E
2B A D C E
3D B C A E
4C D A E B

MATRIX II
567 89
5P Q R S T
6Q S P R T
7P T R SQ
8Q S P R T
9 T PS QR

a) 32, 00, 56, 10 b) 40, 21, 68, 44
c) 11, 33, 57, 22 d) 02, 42, 77, 20

GENERAL AWARENESS
51) Solids which conduct electricity at higher temperature but not at lower temperature are called a) super-conductor b) metallic-conductor c) semi-conductor d) insulator 52) Which one of the following has greatest mass? a) electron b) proton c) neutron d) hydrogen nucleus 53) A television channel is characterized by a) frequency of transmitted signal b) velocity of transmitted signal c) physical dimension of television screen d) size of picture tube 54) The first computer mouse was built by a) Douglas Engelbart b) William English c) Oaniel Coogher d) Robert Zawacki

55) An organization’s profitability depends on
a) Quality of data processed
b) Quantity of data processed
c) Speed of processing the data
d) Both (a) and (c)

56) The density of water is 1 g/cc. This is strictly
valid at
a) 0°C b) 4 °C
c) 25°C d) 100 °C

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57) The process of photosynthesis involves
conversion of
a) chemical energy into radiant energy
b) chemical energy into mechanical energy
c) solar energy into chemical energy
d) mechanical energy into solar energy

58) A colloidal system in which a liquid is dispersed
in a liquid is called
a) gel b) emulsion
c) sol d) precipitate

59) The antiseptic compound present in dettol is
a) Iodine b) Enloroxylenol
c) Biothional d) Cresol
60) As per the TRIPS Agreement – 1994, a good
originating from a region with specific character /
quality / reputation is covered / to be protected
under the IPR as
a) Patent b) Trademark
c) Trade secret d) GI (Geographical Indicator)

61) Which of the following crop cultivation is banned
by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India?
a) Lathyrus (Khesari) b) Genetically modified brinjal
c) Bt cotton for export d) Bt cotton for local use

62) Ice glacier’s melting is a common phenomenon
linked to the rise in sea water level. The glaciers are
predominantly present in
a) Greenland b) Antarctica
c) Himalayas d) Arctic

63) Who is known for establishing the “Anand Van”?
a) Jubliant Buddha b) H. N. Bahuguna
c) Baba Amte d) Motilal Nehru

64) The civilian Airport at highest altitude is in
a) Tibet b) Nepal
c) India d) China

65) Genomic (DNA) studies in camel have been
completed recently by the scientists of
a) South Africa b) India
c) China d) Pakistan

66) International Simon Bolivar Prize was recently
awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi by the government of
a) Mauritius b) China
c) Venezuela d) Cuba

67) BCCI conferred “Col. C. K. Naydu Lifetime
Achievement Award” during 2012 to
a) Sachin Tendulkar b) M.S. Dhoni
c) VVS Laxman d) Sunil Gavaskar

68) Air quality depicting PM 2.5 is more hazardous to
a) Archaeological Monuments
b) National Parks c) Botanical Gardens
d)Old Men and Women

69) Which of the following is not a fundamental right
as per the Indian Constitution?
a) Right to Education b) Right to Information
c) Right to Speech d) Right to Life

70) Who is custodian of the Indian Constitution?
a) President of India b) Chief Justice of India
c) Prime Minister of India d) Chairman of Rajya Sabha

71) Piped Natural Gas (PNG) is used for
a) Mining b) Welding
c) Anaesthesia d) Cooking

72) Greenpark Stadium is in
a) Bengaluru b) Dehradun
c) Chandigarh d) Kanpur

73) Rowlatt Act 1919 was enacted during the period
of
a) Lord Chelmsford b) Lord William
c) Lord Minto d) Lord Bentinck

74) Panchayati Raj System was implemented first in
the pair of states
a) Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan
b) Assam and Bihar
c) Arunachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh
d) Punjab and Chandigarh

75) Human Environment Conference – 1972 was
held at
a) Stockholm b) Paris
c) Geneva d) Australia

76) ‘Gold’ is mainly related to
a) Local market b) National market
c) International market d) Regional market

77) Bilateral monopoly refers to the market situation
of
a) two sellers, two buyers
b) one seller and two buyers
c) two sellers and one buyer
d) one seller and one buyer

78) The economist who believed that unemployment
is impossible and that market mechanism has a built
in regulatory system to meet any ups and downs
a) J. M. Keynes b) Ohlin
c) J. B. Say d) Galbraith

79) Constituent Assembly of India was formulated
on the recommendation of
a) Wavel Plan b) Cripps Mission
c) August Offer d) Cabinet Mission

80) Which of the following is an essential element of
the state?
a) Sovereignty b) Government
c) Territory d) All these

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81) Which has become a legal right under 44
th

Amendment?
a) Right to Education b) Right to Property
c) Right to Judicial Remedies
d) Right to Work

82) By which Constitution Amendment Act, Right to
Property ceased to remain a fundamental right?
a) 44
th
b) 42
nd

c) 43
rd
d) 45
th

83) Who said “Truth is the ultimate reality and it is
God”?
a) Swamy Vivekananda b) Rabindra Nath Tagore
c) M. K. Gandhi d) Radhakrishnan

84) Which of the following tribes is associated with
the “Tana Bhagat” movement?
a) Uraon b) Munda
c) Santhal d) Konda dora

85) Who founded the Naujawan Bharat Sabha?
a) B. C. Pal b) G. Subramania Iyer
c) Sardar Bagat Singh d) Rukmani Lakshmipath

86) The Narendra Mandal or Chamber of Princes was
inaugurated in 1921 by
a) Lord Curzon b) Lord Wellesley
c) Duke of Connaught d) Duke of Wellingdon

87) Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha together are
known as
a) Triratna b) Trivarga
c) Trisarga d) Trimurti

88) Who was called Lichchavi Dauhitra?
a) Chandragupta I b) Skandagupta
c) Kumaragupta d) Samudragupta

89) Which hill station is called as the ‘Queen of the
Satpuras’
a) Pachmarhi b) Nilgiri
c) Mahenderagiri d) Cardamom

90) Which national highway connects Delhi and
Kolkata via Mathura and Varanasi?
a) NH4 b) NH2
c) NH10 d) NH6

91) The country where drip irrigation is more
efficiently used is
a) India b) Israel
c) Sri Lanka d) England

92) Which of the following is an endangered
species?
a) Black buck b) Blue sheep
c) Gangetic dolphin d) Mithun

93) Of the following man-made disasters, which is
socially induced?
a) Debris Avalanche b) Salt Water Intrusion
c) Arson d) Ozone depletion

94) Which one of the following endocrine gland is
situated in the neck?
a) Pancreas b) Thyroid
c) Pituitary d) Adrenals

95) The seat of intelligence is situated in the
a) Cerebrum b) Cerebellum
c) Medulla d) Thalamus

96) What is the Normal Blood Volume in human
adult?
a) One litre b) Three litres
c) Five litres d) Seven litres

97) The fasting blood glucose level in adults in mg /
100 ml is
a) 200 b) 160
c) 100 d) 60

98) Entomology is the study of
a) Birds b) Insects
c) Fossils d) Fungi

99) Exobiology is a science that deals with
a) extinct forms b) life in other planets
c) life in the outer space d) life in marine habitat

100) In radio – communication, the signals emitted
by transmitting antenna are reflected on
a) stratosphere b) ozonosphere
c) ionosphere d) troposphere

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE
101) ABCD is a cyclic trapezium with AB || DC and AB diameter of the circle. If ∠CAB = 30° then ∠ADC
is
a) 60° b) 120 °
c) 150° d) 30 °

102) ABC is a triangle. The bisectors of the internal
angle ∠B and external angle ∠C intersect at D. If
∠BDC = 50°, then ∠A is
a) 100° b) 90 °
c) 40° d) 60 °

103) AB is the chord of a circle with centre O and
DOC is a line segment originating from a point D on
the circle and intersecting AB produced at C such
that BC = OD. If ∠BCD = 20°, then ∠AOD = ?
a) 20° b) 30 °
c) 40° d) 60 °

104) In a circle of radius 17 cm, two parallel chords
of lengths 30 cm and 16 cm are drawn. If both the
chords are on the same side of the centre, then the
distance between the chords is
a) 9 cm b) 7 cm
c) 23 cm d) 11 cm

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105) If sin (A – B) = ½ and cos (A + B) = ½ where A
> B > 0 and A + B is an acute angle, then the value B
is
a) π / 6 b) π / 12
c) π / 4 d) π / 2

106) The fifth term of the sequence for which t
1 = 1,
t
2 = 2 and t
n+2 = t
n + t
n+1, is
a) 5 b) 10
c) 6 d) 8

107) If (x + 7954 x 7956) be a square number, then
the value of ‘x’ is
a) 1 b) 16
c) 9 d) 4
108) A can do a piece of work in 12 days while B
alone can do it in 15 days. With the help of C they
can finish it in 5 days. If they are paid Rs. 960 for the
whole work how much money A gets?
a) Rs. 480 b) Rs. 240
c) Rs. 320 d) Rs. 400

109) Ronald and Elan are working on an Assignment.
Ronals takes 6 hours to type 32 pages on a
computer, while Elan takes 5 hours to type 40 pages.
How much time will they take, working together on
two different computers to type an assignment of
110 pages?
a) 7 hrs. 30 min. b) 8 hrs.
c) 8 hrs. 15 min. d) 8 hrs. 25 min.

110) One man, 3 women and 4 boys can do a piece
of work in 96 hours, 2 men and 8 boys can do it in 80
hours, 2 men and 3 women can do it in 120 hours. 5
men and 12 boys can do it in
a)
11
1
39
hours b)
11
7
42
hours
c)
11
7
43
hours d) 44 hours

111) ABC is a right angled triangle, B being the right
angle. Mid-points of BC and AC are respectively B’
and A’. The ratio of the area of the quadrilateral
AA’B’B to the area of the triangle ABC is
a) 1 : 2 b) 2 : 3
c) 3 : 4 d) None of the above

112) A square ABCD is inscribed in a circle of unit
radius. Semicircles are described on each side as a
diameter. The area of the region bounded by the four
semicircles and the circle is
a) 1 sq. unit b) 2 sq. unit
c) 1.5 sq. unit d) 2.5 sq. unit

113) If the perimeter of a rectangle and a square are
equal and the ratio of two adjacent sides of the
rectangle is 1 : 2 then the ratio of area of the
rectangle and that of the square is
a) 1 : 1 b) 1 : 2
c) 2 : 3 d) 8 : 9

114) The interest on a certain sum of money is Rs.
22 and the true discount on the same sum for the
same time and at the same rate is Rs. 20, find the
sum.
a) Rs. 220 b) Rs. 200
c) Rs. 210 d) Rs. 212

115) A retailer purchased radiosets at the rate of Rs.
400 each from a wholesaler. He raised the price by
30% and then allowed a discount of 8% on each set.
His profit will be
a) 19% b) 78.4%
c) 22% d) 19.6%

116) A reduction in the price of apples enables a
person to purchase 3 apples for Rs. 1 instead of Rs.
1.25. What is the % of reduction in price
(approximately)
a) 20 b) 25
c) 30 d)
%
3
1
33
117) Rs. 700 is divided among A, B, C in such a way
that the ratio of the amounts of A and B is 2 : 3 and
that of B and C is 4 : 5. Find the amounts in Rs. Each
received, in the order A, B, C.
a) 150, 250, 300 b) 160, 240, 300
c) 150, 250, 290 d) 150, 240, 310

118) The ratio of monthly incomes of A, B is 6 : 5 and
their monthly expenditures are in the ratio 4 : 3. If
each of them saves Rs. 400 per month, find the sum
of their monthly income.
a) 2300 b) 2400
c) 2200 d) 2500

119) A and B have together three times what B and C
have, while A, B, C together have thirty rupees more
than that of A. If B has 5 times that of C, then A has
a) Rs. 60 b) Rs. 65
c) Rs. 75 d) Rs. 45

120) A cricket player after playing 10 tests scored
100 runs in the 11
th
test. As a result, the average of
his runs is increased by 5. The present average of
runs is
a) 45 b) 40
c) 50 d) 55

121) A fruit seller buys some oranges at the rate of 4
for Rs. 10 and an equal number more at 5 for Rs. 10.
He sells the whole lot at 9 for Rs. 20. What is his loss
or gain per cent?
a) Loss per cent
81
19
1
% b) Gain per cent
81
19
1
%
c) No loss or no profit d) Loss per cent 2%

122) 15 litres of a mixture contains alcohol and
water in the ratio 1 : 4. If 3 litres of water is mixed in
it, the percentage of alcohol in the new mixture will
be

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a) 15 b)
3
2
16

b) 17 c)
2
1
18

123) A man rides at the rate of 18 km / hr, but stops
for 6 mins. To change horses at the end of every 7
th

km. The time that he will take to cover a distance of
90 km is
a) 6 hrs. b) 6 hrs. 12 min.
c) 6 hrs. 18 min. d) 6 hrs. 24 min.

124) A man rows down a river 15 km in 3 hrs. with
the stream and returns in
2
1
7
hrs. The rate at which
he rows in still water is
a) 2.5 km/hr b) 1.5 km/hr
c) 3.5 km/hr d) 4.5 km/hr

125) There is 100% increase to an amount in 8
years, at simple interest. Find the compound interest
of Rs. 8000 after 2 years at the same rate of interest.
a) Rs. 2500 b) Rs. 2000
c) Rs. 2250 d) Rs. 2125

126) If the number p is 5 more than q and the sum
of the squares of p and q is 55, then the product of p
and q is
a) 10 b) –10
c) 15 d) –15

127) If
4
2a
1
a=
−
+, then the value of
2
2
2a
1
)2a(
⎟
⎠
⎞
⎜
⎝
⎛
−
+−is
a) 0 b) 2
c) –2 d) 4

128) If a + b + c = 2s, then
222
2222
cba
s)cs()bs()as(
++
+−+−+−
is equal to
a) a
2
+ b
2
+ c
2
b) 0
c) 1 d) 2

129) If xy (x + y) = 1 then the value of
33
33
yx
yx
1
−−is
a) 3 b) –3
c) 1 d) –1

130) If a
3
– b
3
– c
3
= 0 then the value of
a
9
– b
9
–c
9
– 3a
3
b
3
c
3
is
a) 1 b) 2
c) 0 d) –1

131) The minimum value of (x – 2) (x – 9) is
a)
4
11
−
b)
4
49

c) 0 d)
4
49
−

132) If x + y + z = 6 and x
2
+ y
2
+ z
2
= 20 then the
value of x
3
+ y
3
+ z
3
– 3xyz is
a) 64 b) 70
c) 72 d) 76

133) The third proportional to
⎟
⎟
⎠
⎞
⎜
⎜
⎝
⎛
+
z
y
y
x
and
22
yx+
a) xy b) xy
c)
3
xy

d)
4
xy

134) In a triangle ABC, the side BC is extended up to
D. Such that CD = AC, if ∠BAD = 109° and ∠ACB =
72° then the value of ∠ABC is
a) 35° b) 60 °
c) 40° d) 45 °

135) Two circles touch each other internally. Their
radii are 2 cm and 3 cm. the biggest chord of the
greater circle which is outside the inner circle is of
length
a) 22cm b) 23cm
c) 32cm d) 24cm

136) ABCD is a cyclic quadrilateral. AB and DC are
produced to meet at P. If ∠ADC = 70° and ∠DAB =
60°, then the ∠PBC + ∠PCB is
a) 130° b) 150 °
c) 155° d) 180 °

137) From a point P which is at a distance of 13 cm
from centre O of a circle of radius 5 cm, in the same
plane, a pair of tangents PQ and PR are drawn to the
circle. Area of quadrilateral PQOR is
a) 65 cm
2
b) 60 cm
2

c) 30 cm
2
d) 90 cm
2

138) A horse is tied to a post by a rope. If the horse
moves along a circular path always keeping the rope
stretched and describes 88 metres when it has
traced out 72° at the centre, the length of the rope is
(Take π =
7
22
)
a) 70 m b) 75 m
c) 80 m d) 65 m

139) Maximum value of (2 sinθ + 3cosθ) is
a) 2 b)
13
c) 15

d) 1

140) The value of
152 (sin 30° + 2 cos
2
45° + 3sin 30° + 4cos
2
45° + ….
+ 17sin 30° + 18 cos
2
45°) is
a) an integer but not a perfect square
b) a rational number but not an integer

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c) a perfect square of an integer
d) irrational

141) If (1+sinα) (1+sinβ) (1+sinγ) = (1 – sinα) (1–
sinβ) (1–sinγ), then each side is equal to
a) ±cosαcosβcosγ b) ±sinαsinβsinγ
c) ±sinαcosβcosγ d) ±sinαsinβcosγ

142) One of the four angles of a rhombus is 60°. If
the length of each side of the rhombus is, 8 cm, then
the length of the longer diagonal is
a)
38cm b) 8 cm
c) 34cm d)
3
8
cm

143) If the arcs of square length in two circles
subtend angles of 60° and 75° at their centres the
ratio of their radii is
a) 3 : 4 b) 4 : 5
c) 5 : 4 d) 3 : 5

144)

Study the above bar graph showing the production
of food grains (in million tons).
What is the ratio between the maximum production
and the minimum production during the given
period?
a) 1 : 2 b) 2 : 3
c) 3 : 4 d) 5 : 2

Study the following Histogram and answer following
question nos. 145 to 149.

145) The total number of students involved in the
data is
a) 33 b) 32
c) 43 d) 42

146) The maximum number of students got the
marks in the in the interval of
a) 10 – 20 b) 20 – 30
c) 30 – 40 d) 40 – 50

147) The least number of students got the marks in
the interval
a) 40 – 50 b) 20 – 30
c) 10 – 20 d) 0 – 10

148) The ratio of the students obtaining marks in the
first and the last interval is
a) 5 : 4 b) 6 : 5
c) 4 : 5 d) 3 : 4

149) The difference in the amount estimated by the
family on interior decoration and architect’s fees is
a) Rs. 10000 b) Rs. 9500
c) Rs. 7200 d) Rs. 9600

150)

(above values in degree)
In a certain country, allocations to various sectors of
the yearly budget per Rs. 1000 crores are
represented by this pie-diagram. The expenditure (in
Rs.) on Agriculture is
a) 250 crores b) 150 crores
c) 300 crores d) 200 crores

ENGLISH COMPREHENSION

Directions (151 – 152): There are four different
words out of which one is correctly spelt. Find the
correctly spelt word and indicate it by blackening the
appropriate oval [•] in the Answer Sheet.
151) a) humorous b) humourous
c) humorus d) humourus

152) a) narcisism b) narcissism
c) narcisim d) narsisism

Directions (153-162): You have two brief passages
with 5 questions in each passage. Read the passages
carefully and choose the best answer to each
question out of the four alternatives and mark it by
blackening the appropriate oval [•] in the Answer
Sheet.

Agriculture
, 72
Industry
, 18
Education,
90
Defence, 7
2
Technolog
y , 54
Miscellane
ous , 54

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2014 58
PASSAGE I
(QUESTION NOS. 153 – 157)

Pidgins are languages that are not acquired as mother
tongues and that are used for a restricted set of
communicative functions. They are formed from a mixture
of languages and have a limited vocabulary and a simplified
grammar. Pidgins serve as a means of communication
between speakers of mutually unintelligible languages and
may become essential, in multilingual areas. A creole
develops from a pidgin when the pidgin becomes the
mother tongue of the community. To cope with the
consequent expansion of communication functions the
vocabulary is increased and the grammar becomes more
complex. Where a creole and the standard variety of English
coexist, as in the Caribbean, there is a continuum from the
most extreme form of creole to the form that is closest to
the standard language. Linguists mark off the relative
positions on the creole continuum as the ‘basilect’ (the
furthest from the standard language), the ‘mesolect’, and
the ‘acrolet’. In such situations, most creole speakers can
vary their speech along the continuum and many are also
competent in the standard English of their country.

153) A pidgin develops in a situation when
a) Different and mutually unintelligible languages exist side
by side
b) A creole becomes the mother tongue of a linguistic
community
c) A language with restricted vocabulary undergoes an
expansion in grammar and vocabulary
d) Two similar languages are mixed to create a new
language

154) According to the given passage a pidgin
becomes a creole when
a) It ceases to be a means of communication
b) It becomes the mother tongue for a new generation of
speakers
c) Its vocabulary undergoes some kind of change
d) Two or more languages are mixed with an existing pidgin

155) According to the passage, a creole continuum is
a) A linguistic term for the mixture of more than two
languages
b) A scale which measures the linguistic competence of the
speaker
c) A scale in which the proximity of the creole to the
standard language is measured
d) A record of the continuous history of a creole

156) According to the passage ‘basilect’ means
a) An impure form of a creole
b) A form of creole which is furthest from the standard
language
c) A form of creole which has an extended vocabulary
d) A form of creole which is very close to the standard
language

157) Find out a word in the passage which is
opposite in meaning to the word – ‘Simplified’
a) Complex b) Expansion
c) Restricted d) Consequent

PASSAGE II
(QS. NO. 158 – 162)
There were four of us – George, and William Samuel Harris,
and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room,
smoking and talking about how bad we were – bad from a
medical point of view I mean, of course.
We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite
nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits
of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew
what he was doing; and then George said that he had fits of
giddiness too, and hardly knew what he was doing. With
me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my
liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading
a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various
symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out
of order. I had them all.
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent
medicine advertisement without being impelled to the
conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease
therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis
seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the
sensations that I have ever felt.

158) The four felt down and out because
a) the room was too smoky
b) they could never read a patent medicine advertisement
c) they thought they were ill
d) they had experienced a most extraordinary thing

159) Whenever the speaker read a liver pill circular
a) he suffered from an extraordinary surge of giddiness
b) he felt sure that he had a liver disorder
c) he felt the urge to smoke
d) All of the above

160) The author of the above passage seems to be
suffering from
a) fits of morbid depression without real cause
b) an abnormal anxiety about his health
c) melancholia
d) an unnecessarily dark, gloomy and pessimistic attitude to
life

161) Harris was troubled by
a) a symptom of vertigo b) garrulity
c) tribulation d) frailty

162) The word which is closest in meaning to
‘virulent’ is
a) fantastic b) vital
c) viral d) hostile

Directions (163 – 167): Some parts of the sentences
have errors and some have none. Find out which part
of the sentence has an error and blacken the oval [•]
corresponding to the appropriate letter (A, B, C). If a
sentence is free from error, blacken the oval
corresponding to (D) in the Answer Sheet.

163) I whistled thrice (a)/ with full might and raise my
arms (b) / towards the sky. (c) / No error (d)

164) Science and religion (a) / are both necessary for man
and for their (b) / outer and inner self respectively. (c) / No
error (d)

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165) At certain seasons, (a) / some areas on Mars (b)/ is
subject to strong winds. (c)/ No error (d)

166) As an artist (a) / Raju is as good, (b)/ if not better
than Ramesh. (c)/ No error (d)

167) The scientists (a) / could not hardly (b) /complete all
the experiments. (c)/ No error (d)

Directions (168-172): Sentences are given with
blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word(s).
Four alternatives are suggested for each question.
Choose the correct alternative out of the four and
indicate it by blackening the appropriate oval [•] in
the Answer Sheet.

168) Google is one of the most popular search
engines, it is _______ by the internet users.
a) utilized b) effected
c) examined d) flabbergasted

169) Raj was tired of Puja’s _______ approach, so
he asked her to make her final decision by that
evening.
a) silly-wily b) dilly-dally
c) wasting d) dilly-nally

170) Ria is __________ at speaking languages. It is
difficult to ___________ only one puppy for animal
shelter.
a) adept, adapt b) adapt, adapt
c) adept, adopt d) adapt, adopt

171) School days are considered to be the best years
of your life. When my __________ year in school
began, I began to think of those past enjoyable days
and of my future also.
a) penultimate b) absolute
c) integral d) termination

172) Being _______, the judge gave a favourable
verdict.
a) sagacious b) pugnacious
c) malicious d) tenacious

Directions (173 – 175): Out of the four alternatives,
choose the one which best expresses the meaning of
the given word and mark it in the Answer Sheet.

173) Garrulous
a) talkative b) sedative
c) vocative d) positive

174) Tinsel
a) tinkle b) decoration
c) tin d) colourful

175) Labyrinth
a) meandering b) rotating
c) pacing d) wriggling

Directions (176 – 178): Choose the word opposite in
meaning to the given word and mark it in the
Answer Sheet.

176) Cordial
a) fast b) heartfelt
c) friendly d) hostile

177) Instinctive
a) innate b) rational
c) inherent d) inborn

178) Venial
a) minor b) pardonable
c) unpardonable d) clean

Directions (179 – 183): Four alternatives are given
for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence.
Choose the alternative which best expresses the
meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and mark it in the
Answer Sheet.

179) Hard work pays in the long run
.
a) always b) over a period of time
c) indefinitely d) never

180) I felt a fish out of water among the lawyers.
a) special b) happy
c) uncomfortable d) proud

181) The Cauvery water issue led to apple of discord
between the two Governments.
a) cause of anger b) cause of hatred
c) cause of quarrel d) cause of animosity

182) The construction remains unfinished and the
workers have let the grass grow under their feet.

a) grown grass all over the lawn
b) gone on a luxury tour
c) delayed doing the work
d) demanded more benefits

183) The police smelt the rat
behind the death of the
girl.
a) got very much confused
b) identified the cause of death
c) suspected that something is fishy
d) jumped to the conclusion

Directions (184 – 193): A sentence/ part of the
sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives
to the underlined sentence/part of the sentence at
(A), (B) and (C) which may improve the sentence.
Choose the correct alternative. In case no
improvement is needed, your answer is (D).

184) The disparity of the GDP between the rich and
poor has broadened in the last some decades.

a) have widened in the last some decades
b) has widened in the last few decades
c) have broadened in the last few decades
d) No improvement

185) How, is beyond my understanding, the boy
could fall into the ditch.
a) How the boy could fall into the ditch is beyond my
understanding
b) Beyond my understanding is how the boy could fall into
the ditch
c) How could the boy fall into the ditch is beyond my
understanding
d) No improvement

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186) The pioneer spacecraft went beyond Pluto.
a) made its way past b) went across
c) went after d) No improvement

187) The firm buys frozen seafood in bulk, packs it
into smaller pouches and then they sell them
to the
local grocery stores.
a) it sells them b) sell them
c) they sell the pouches d) No improvement

188) The learners are intended
to read the sources
at home.
a) are meant b) are suggested
c) are expected d) No improvement

189) Fuji’s invention of supercomputer will be
enable to make Japan supersede America in
computer technology.
a) will make Japan b) will enable Japan
c) can make Japan d) No improvement

190) I could never repay the debt I owe to my place
of study.
a) Alma Mater b) Motherland
c) Place of worship d) No improvement

191) She cries all the time.
a) mostly everytime b) day in and day out
c) pretty frequently d) No improvement

192) For a week last month, the team’s 20 players
were stranded because the Government-issued
passport is not up to international standards.
a) Government-issued passports were not up to
international standards
b) Government-issued passports are not up to international
standards
c) The passports issued by the government were not up to
international standards
d) No improvement

193) Since July 2008, our customers will be able to use the ATM network of BBY Bank, the bank that was
acquired by us during that year.
a) have been able to use
b) were using
c) will have been able to use
d) No improvement

Directions (194 – 200): Out of the four alternatives,
choose the one which can be substituted for the
given words/sentence and indicate it by blackening
the appropriate oval [•] in the Answer Sheet.

194) One who is unaffected or indifferent to joy,
pain, pleasure or grief
a) Tolerant b) Resigned
c) Passive d) Stoic
195) A person who is greatly respected because of
wisdom
a) veracious b) vulnerable
c) venerable d) verger

196) An excessively morbid desire to steal
a) stealomania b) kleptomania
c) cleftomania d) keptomania

197) Prohibited by law or treaty from being imported
or exported
a) contraband b) smuggled
c) counterfeit d) forged

198) Intentional destruction of racial groups
a) regicide b) genocide
c) homicide d) fratricide

199) A person in a vehicle or on horseback escorting
another vehicle
a) Navigator b) Escort
c) Outrider d) Security

200) A person specially interested in the study of
coins and medals.
a) medallist b) coinist
c) numismatist d) numerist

ANSWER KEY

Q.A.Q.A.Q. A. Q. A.Q.A.
1 C 2 D 3 C 4 A 5 B
6 D 7 D 8 B 9 D 10 D
11 B12 C13 D 14 B15 D
16 D 17 A18 D 19 A20 A
21 A22 B23 D 24 D 25 D
26 B27 D 28 D 29 D 30 B
31 B32 B33 B 34 C35 B
36 D 37 D 38 B 39 B40 D
41 D 42 D 43 C 44 B45 C
46 B47 C48 D 49 C50 C
51 C52 D 53 A 54 A55 C
56 B57 C58 B 59 B60 D
61 A62 B63 C 64 D 65 D
66 C67 D 68 D 69 B70 B
71 D 72 D 73 A 74 A75 A

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76 C 77 D 78 C79 D 80 D
81 B 82 A 83 C84 A 85 C
86 C 87 A 88 A89 A 90 B
91 B 92 C 93 C94 B 95 B
96 C 97 C 98 B99 C 100C
101 B 102 A 103 C104 B 105B
106 D 107 A 108 D 109 C 110C
111 C 112 B 113 D 114 A 115D
116 A 117 B 118 C119 B 120C
121 A 122 B 123 B124 C 125D
126 C 127 B 128 C129 A 130C
131 D 132 C 133 A134 A 135D
136 A 137 B 138 A139 B 140C
141 A 142 A 143 C144 D 145A
146 B 147 D 148 C149 * 150D
151 A 152 B 153 A154 B 155C
156 B 157 A 158 C159 B 160D
161 A 162 D 163 B164 B 165C
166 B 167 B 168 A169 B 170C
171 D 172 A 173 A174 B 175A
176 D 177 B 178 C179 B 180C
181 D 182 C 183 C184 B 185A
186 A 187 A 188 C189 B 190A
191 D 192 A 193 A194 D 195C
196 B 197 A 198 B199 B 200C

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DECEMBER – 2013
1) As per the figures released by CSO, in GDP
growth in 2
nd
quarter was ______ per cent: 4.8
2) Core sector is a part of index of industrial
production. Its weightage in IIP is _____ per
cent in IIP: 37.90
3) Gaganjeet Bhullar is top rank player of which
sports: Golf
4) Name the Emperor and Empress of Japan who
recently visited India: Akihito and Michiko
5) Shinzo Abe is the Prime Minister of which
country: Japan
6) What is the name of the currency of Japan: Yen
7) Name the capital of Japan: Tokyo
8) India’s cricket team captain MS Dhoni has
recently been honoured with which international
award: ICC LG People’s Choice Award -
2013
9) Tour de India championship is organized in
which sports: Cycling
10) Tour de India championship was won by Mohd.
Nor Umradi. He is from which country: Malaysia
11) India has agreed to train naval officers of which
country: Sri Lanka
12) Name the international event recently won by
ace shuttler of India – P V Sindhu: Macau Open
Grand Prix
13) 29th Junior National Athletics Championships
was held in which place: Bangalore
14) Name the state which won 29
th
Junior National
Athletics Championship: Kerala
15) Who has been named at Chief Executive of
Indian Banks Association: Mohan V Tanksale
16) Are foreign banks allowed to become member of
Indian Bank Association: Yes
17) Who has been named as the new Chief
Information Commissioner: Sushma Singh
18) As per Right to Information Act, any person
seeking information has to be provided the
required information within ____ days: 30
19) In corruption ranking of countries by the
international watchdog Transparency
International, India has been ranked at which
place: 94
th

20) Nelson Mandela, the iconic statesman from
South Africa passed away recently. He was
called _________ out of love and affection:
Madiba
21) Mandela was known for his anti-apartheid
struggle. What is the meaning of apartheid:
Observing racial discrimination
22) Why Mr. Mandela was honoured with India’s
highest civilian award – Bharat Ratna: Because
he followed Gandhian philosophy and
values in his fight against apartheid
23) India has been ranked at ______ place in terms
of doing business, by a survey done by Forbes
magazine: 98
th

24) 57
th
National Shooting championship was held at
which place: New Delhi
25) The Sankirtana, a ritual form of singing,
drumming and dancing has been included in
UNESCO’s list of “intangible heritage”. It belongs
to which state of India: Manipur
26) US dollar is the largest used currency in the
world, having 81.08% share in international
transactions. Which is the currency at the second
place: Yuan-8.66% (China)
27) Yuan, the currency of China is also called
______: Renminbi
28) Name the country that has recently been elected
as a non permanent member of the UN security
council: Jordan
29) Name the country that has recently refused to
join Security Council, despite being elected as a
non permanent member: Saudi Arabia
30) Why Saudi Arabia did not accept the
membership of UN Security Council: To protest
the world body’s failure to end the Syrian
and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts
31) Alyz Henrich has been crowned as Miss
_______2013: Earth
32) Miss Earth 2013 – Alyz Henrich is from which
country: Venezuela

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2014 64
33) Tarundeep Rai and Atanu Das recently won silver
and bronze medal respectively at which
international sports event: Indoor Archery
World Cup
34) Indoor Archery World Cup was held at which
place: Singapore
35) Which country has been named as host for the
FIFA World Cup-2017 (Under-17): India
36) Name the light combat air craft (LCA) that has
been inducted in Indian Air Force: Tejas
37) Name the aircraft that has recently been retired
from the Indian Air Force: Mig-21
38) Mr. Sumit Bose has been appointed to which
important central government position: Finance
Secretary
39) Who has been named as the “Person of the
Year” by the international magazine Time: Pope
Francis
40) Who is Pope Francis: Supreme Head of
Roman Catholics
41) Gen. Bikram Singh was recently honoured with
Legion of Merit by which country: USA
42) Trade deficit of India came down to less than
$10 billion in Nov. 2013. What was the single
most important factor for this: Reduction in
import of gold
43) Asian lending agency ADB has projected India’s
growth at ______ percent for the year 2013-14:
4.7%
44) In which area scientists have recently discovered
the coldest place on earth: East Antarctica
45) The prestigious international Sundance Film
Festival is held in which country: USA
46) Name the bank from Qatar which has become
the first bank from that country to open a branch
in India: Doha Bank
47) In a recent international survey on ranking of
economies on the basis of their efficiency in
utilization of energy, India has been placed at
_____ rank: 69
th

48) What is the full of the abbreviation NSSO:
National Sample Survey Office
49) The Reserve Bank has estimated that India's
economy would grow about ______ per cent in
FY 2013-14: Five
50) As per latest census 2011 data, ______ percent
Indian population has been categorized as
homeless: 8.8
51) Govt. has decided to provide a monetary support
of Rs. _______ to every NREGA job cardholder
who plans to build a toilet in his house: 10,000
52) In what manner govt. has decided to link up two
major welfare schemes – NREGA and Indira
Awaas Yojana: Labour constructing their
own house under IAY will get NREGA
wages
53) Under Indira Awaas Yojana, a sum of Rs.
___________ is provided to BPL families in plain
areas for constructing their house: 70,000
54) Under Indira Awaas Yojana, a sum of Rs.
___________ is provided to BPL families in hilly
areas for constructing their house: 75,000
55) In which North-Eastern state cultivation of
popular spice cardamom is picking up:
Arunachal Pradesh
56) As per the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill
approved by the cabinet, the reservation for
Persons with Disabilities (PWD) has been raised
to ___ per cent from three at present: Five
57) C. V. R. Rajendran has been appointed Chairman
and Managing Director of which bank: Andhra
Bank
58) Name the country that succeeded in landing a
lunar probe on moon recently, becoming first
country to do so since 1976: China
59) Sis Ram Ola, who passed away recently, was a
prominent ________: Politician, Union
Labour and Employment Minister
60) Who has been elected as the new Chief Minister
of Rajasthan: Vasundhara Raje
61) Pu Lalthanhawla has been elected as Chief
Minister for the fourth time in which state:
Mizoram
62) Name the person who has been elected as
Banker of the Year 2013 by the financial daily
Business Standard: Aditya Puri
63) Aditya Puri is the chief of which bank: HDFC
Bank
64) 4
th
edition of Kabaddi World Cup was won by
which country in Men’s category: India
(beating Pakistan)
65) 4
th
edition of Kabaddi World Cup was won by
which country in Women’s category: India
(beating New Zealand)
66) The finals of 4
th
edition of Kabaddi World Cup
were played at which place: Ludhiana
(Punjab)
67) Mahesh Mangaonkar has become the first Indian
player to win an International Title in which
game: Squash
68) Name the shooter who won the ‘Champion of
Champions’ title in pistol event in the final round
in the 57th National Shooting Championships at
New Delhi: Samresh Jung

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69) Name the international beauty title won by Bea
Rose Santiago of Philippines: Miss
International 2013
70) Report from UNO has lowered India’s economic
growth forecast for 2013 to ______per cent from
6.1 per cent projected earlier: 4.8
71) Parliament has finally passed the Lokpal Bill.
What is the objective of setting up of a Lokpal:
Establishment of an anti-corruption
watchdog that will have in its purview
even the office of the Prime Minister
72) Recently India displayed its strong displeasure
against the rough treatment met to one of its
diplomat posted at US consulate. Name that
diplomat: Devyani Khobragade
73) Name the international convention which
guarantees diplomatic immunity to persons
posted in various embassies / consulates:
Vienna Convention
74) Name the veteran cricket player selected for the
Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award for
the year 2013 by BCCI: Kapil Dev
75) Name the international financial institution that
has agreed to lend $176 million to extend the
first metro train line in Jaipur: Asian
Development Bank
76) V. K. Duggal has been appointed as the new
governor of which state: Manipur
77) Name the diplomat appointed as Pakistan’s new
High Commissioner to India: Abdul Basit
78) Who has been appointed as the India’s new
Ambassador to USA: S. Jaishankar
79) Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS) is
located at which place in India:
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
80) India and Pakistan had a dispute on the sharing
of waters of which river that was settled in
favour of India by the International Court of
Arbitration : Kishan Ganga
81) Kishenganga Hydro Electric Project is located in
which state: Jammu & Kashmir
82) India and San Marino, a tiny country within Italy,
signed the TIEA between them at Rome. Write
the full form of TIEA:
Tax Information Exchange Agreement
83) With which country government has approved
the enhancement of the bilateral currency swap
arrangement to $ 50 billion, up from $ 15 billion
at present: Japan
84) Govt. has cleared a services and investment deal
with 10-member ASEAN group as part of CECA.
What is the full form of CECA: Comprehensive
Economic Cooperation Agreement
85) India has signed DTAA with Macedonia, a small
country north of Greece, to prevent income tax
evasion by entities in both the countries. What is
the full form of DTAA: Double Taxation
Avoidance Agreement
86) What is the range of Agni-III missile recently test
fired by India: 3000 kms
87) The missile testing site of India – Integrated
Test Range is located at which place: Wheeler
Island, Near Chandipur, Distt Balasore,
Odisha
88) Name the organization which is responsible for
developing and testing various missiles for
Indian Army: DRDO – Defence Research &
Development Organization
89) Who is the Head of DRDO: Shri Avinash
Chander
90) Deepika Kumari and Tarundeep Rai are the
current national champions in women and men
category respectively in which sport: Archery
91) 34th Senior National Archery championship were
held at which place: Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
92) PV Sindhu and K Srikanth clinched the women's
and men's National titles respectively in which
sport: Badminton
93) 78th Senior National Badminton Championships
was held at which place: New Delhi
94) In the 9th Ministerial Conference of WTO held in
Bali, Indonesia, what was the major achievement
for India: India will continue to support its
farmers with MSP-Minimum Support Price
95) Recently govt. has launched a four day anti-
Naxal operation involving close to 40,000
security personnel in which states:
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra
96) Govt has agreed to grant constitutional status to
the proposed JAC for appointment and transfer
of judges. What is full form of JAC:
Judicial Appointments Commission
97) India’s first National Cancer Institute is to be
established in which state: Haryana
98) Name the South-African all rounder cricketer
who has announced is retirement from Test and
First Class cricket: Jacques Kallis
99) As per recent data the maternal mortality ratio
(MMR) — number of women who die of
pregnancy-related causes per 1,00,000 live
births — has come down to _______ in 2010-12,
from 212 in 2007-09: 178
100) In India which state has the lowest MMR of 66
per lac: Kerala
101) In India which state has the Highest MMR of 328
per lac: Assam

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102) India plans to launch its Geo-synchronous
Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D5) at 4.18 p.m.
on January 5, 2014. The letter D5 signifies what:
Fifth Developmental Flight
103) India plans to put into orbit its satellite GSAT-14
for what purpose: Communications
104) J N Chaudhury has been appointed Chief of
which paramilitary force: National Security
Guard
105) Who has been appointed as new Director
General of Central Industrial Security Force:
Arvind Ranjan
106) Who has been honoured with Polly Umrigar
Award from the BCCI for being India’s best
international cricketer of the year 2012-13:
Ravichandran Ashwin
107) What is the official growth rate fixed by the
planning commission for the 12
th
five year plan:
8%
108) In the first half (April-September) of the current
fiscal FY2013-14, the economy grew by
_______per cent: 4.6
109) India has signed a mega contract of $1.01 billion
with which country for six additional C-130J
"Super Hercules" jumbo military cargo aircrafts:
USA
110) Farooq Sheikh who passed away recently was a
prominent ___________: Film Actor
NOVEMBER – 2013
111) Rajendra Yadav who passed away recently was
from which field: Literature
112) Rajendra Yadav was a eminent short story writer
and novelist of which language: Hindi
113) As per a recent study, India has been ranked
______ in terms of ‘Ease of Doing Business’:
134
th

114) In terms of Ease of Doing Business _______ is
no. 1 in the world: Singapore
115) The WTA Tour Championship title for 2013 was
lifted by which player: Serena Williams
116) The full form of WTA in WTA Tour Championship
is: Women’s Tennis Association
117) The WTA Tour Championship was held at which
place: Istanbul, Turkey
118) As per Forbes magazine’s latest India Rich List,
________ has been named as India’s wealthiest
person for the sixth year in a row: Mukesh
Ambani
119) Mukesh Ambani is the corporate head of which
industries: Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL)
120) Recently we read in the newspaper that an ATM
has been launched for ‘Bitcoins’. What is the
Bitcoins: It is a digital currency, popular
worldwide
121) Ashok Amritraj, producer of 109 Hollywood films,
for his outstanding achievements in the film
industry has been honourd with which award:
Soul of India Award
122) Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award for 2013 has
been given to film celebrity: Amitabh
Bachchan
123) Name the new tactical surface-to-surface missile
based on the Prahaar missile, with a range
between 60-170 kms: Pragati Missile
124) In a recent global study of tourism, which Indian
State has been named as best region to visit in
2014: Sikkim
125) The World Billiards Championship was held at
______, England: Leeds
126) Name the winner of World Billiards
Championship 2013: Peter Gilchrist
127) Peter Gilchrist the world Champion of Billiards is
from which country: Singapore
128) Sachin played his last match in domestic cricket
at which place: Lahli, Haryana
129) In which tournament, Sachin played his last
domestic test match: Ranji Trophy
130) The govt has recently approved an education
promotion programme by the name RUSA. What
is the full form RUSA: Rashtriya Uchchatar
Siksha Abhiyan
131) What is the objective of starting the educational
project RUSA: Improving quality and
number of universities / colleges in
country
132) With which country India has agreed to export
motorcycles through the land route:
Bangladesh
133) As per recent RBI guidelines banks have been
allowed to pay interest on their deposit accounts
at _______ intervals: Monthly / Fortnightly
134) Most of the banks recover a fixed fee from their
customers for sending them SMS alerts for their
transactions. What are the recent RBI guidelines
in this regard: Charge to be recovered actual
usage basis
135) As per Forbes ranking of The world’s most
powerful people, _________ has been ranked as
No. 1: Vladimir Putin
136) What position is held by Mr. Vladimir Putin:
President, Russia
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the two continents – Asia and Europe in which
country: Turkey
138) In a list of most powerful persons of the world
compiled by Forbes Magazine, ____ ____ has
been named as most powerful women: Angela
Markel (5
th
)
139) K P Saxena who passed away recently was a
noted________: Hindi Satirist
140) Name the international beauty title won by Ms.
Srishti Rana: Miss Asia Pacific 2013
141) In the 'Prosperity Index' ranking of 142 countries
compiled by London-based Legatum Institute,
India stood at ______ position: 106
th

142) Name the legendry Pakistani female folk singer
who passed away recently: Reshma
143) The Hockey World Cup- 2014 will be held at
which place: The Hague, Netherlands
144) The first joint retreat ceremony of the Border
Security Force (BSF) and the Border Guard
Bangladesh (BGB) was held which place:
Petropole border in district North 24
Parganas, West Bengal
145) Name the Indian batsman who created history
by scoring world’s highest ever sixes – 16 in an
ODI: Rohit Sharma
146) With which country India has signed an
agreement to facilitate transfer of sentenced
prisoners languishing in jails in the two
countries: Vietnam
147) The 13th meeting of the Council of Ministers of
the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional
Cooperation (IOR-ARC) was held in: Perth,
Australia
148) Sebastian Vettel, the reigning Formula One world
champion from Germany created history by
winning _______ formula races in one year: 9
149) Name the film that won the Golden Gateway of
India award for the best film at the 15
th
Mumbai
Film Festival: La Jaula De Oro (of Mexico)
150) Geeta Chandran who has been honourd with
Guru Debaprasad Award is from which filed:
Bharatnatyam
151) Name the UN agency which has taken up a
nationwide social media campaign against open
defecation in India: UNICEF
152) Name the social media campaign launched by
UNICEF against open defecation in India: Take
the Poo to Loo
153) As regard to service conditions of civil servants,
what was the recent ruling of Supreme Court:
They should not be transferred frequently
154) Which country won the Ashihara Sabaki World
Karate Championship: Romania
155) the Ashihara Sabaki World Karate Championship
was held at which place: Bucharest, Romania
156) The Paris Masters Tennis tournament was won
by ______ Djokovic: Novak
157) Tennis star Novak Djokovic is from which
country: Serbia
158) To which country India has provided Rs. 100
crores as a grant for their Economic
Stimulus Plan: Bhutan
159) World Agriculture Forum Congress 2013 and
Agri-Tech Trade Fair was held at which place:
Hyderabad (AP)
160) FIDE world chess championship, was held at
which place: Chennai
161) What is the full form of chess championship
FIDE: World Chess Federation ( Federation
Internationale des Echecs)
162) What is the full form of Agricultural mission
NFSM: National Food Security Mission
163) What is the name of joint naval exercise recently
held by navies of Indian and USA: Malabar
164) The naval exercise Malabar by Indian and US
Navy was held at which place: Off the coast of
Tamil Nadu in Bay of Bengal
165) Pakistan successfully tested its ______, Hatf IX
(Nasr) having a range of 60 kms: Missile
166) The maneuvering and tracking of Mangalyaan is
being done by ISTRAC. Write its full form: ISRO
Telemetry, Tracking and Command
Network
167) The satellite tracking centre ISTRAC is located at
which place: Bangalore
168) India’s first interplanetary space craft –
Mangalyaan was launched from which centre:
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota
(AP)
169) Who is the Chief of the ISRO: Dr. K
Radhakrishnan
170) Name the satellite launching vehicle that was
used to launch Mangalyaan: PSLV-C25
171) The book “Gandhi A Spiritual Biography” has
been written by: Arivnd Sharma
172) In which North Eastern states govt. has extended
AFSPA for a further period of six months:
Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh.
173) What is the full form of AFSPA: Armed Forces
(Special Powers) Act
174) Tarla Dalal who passed away recently, was a
noted ______ expert: Cookery
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at which place: Goa
176) ______ was the ‘country in focus for’ for the44th
International Film Festival of India: Japan
177) India’s second international standard multi-use
Integrated Check Post (ICP) and the first along
the Bangladesh border was opened at which
place: Akhaurah, Tripura
178) India’s second international standard multi-use
Integrated Check Post (ICP) has been opened at
Akhaurah in Tripura. The first ICP is located at
which place: Attari, Punjab
179) India successfully test-fired its nuclear weapons-
capable, surface-to-surface Agni-1 missile
recently. What is its range: 700 kms
180) India’s first Bird Ringing Station has been setup
at Salropa in the prestigious Great Himalayan
National Park in Kullu. What is its purpose: To
identify and establish species of various
birds
181) Imomali Rakhmon has been elected as President
of which country: Tajikistan
182) Name the lady who has been named as the most
powerful businesswoman in India for the third
consecutive year in the list of 50 most powerful
businesswomen ranking for 2013 by Fortune
magazine: Chanda Kochhar
183) What is the official position of the prominent
corporate figure Ms. Chanda Kochhar: MD &
CEO of ICICI Bank
184) Name the country that will host 2018 men’s
Hockey World Cup: India
185) Name the super strong typhoon that caused wide
spread devastation in Philippines, claiming over
12000 lives: Haiyan
186) The World Economic Forum has joined hands
with ________ to jointly organise the India
Economic Summit: Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII)
187) RBI has signed cooperation agreement with
central banks of which two countries: Australia
and New Zealand
188) Recently RBI issued what guidelines for foreign
banks in the context of domestic private sector
banks: Allowed them to take over private
banks
189) As per recent RBI guidelines foreign banks will
not be allowed to hold more than ________ per
cent equity in the private banks they may
acquire: 74
190) Name the Olympian shooter who created history
by becoming first Indian women to win air pistol
gold in the ISSF World Cup: Heena Sidhu
191) The ISSF World Cup Shooting Championship was
held at which place: Munich, Germany
192) Name the TV channel that Prasar Bharti plans to
launch specially for Aruanchal Pradesh and
Sikkim: Prabha
193) The Regional Pravasi Bhartiya Divas was
organized at which place by the High
Commission of India: Sydney, Australia
194) National Education Day is celebrated on which
date: 11
th
November
195) The birthday of first Education Minister of
Independent India, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad is
celebrated as what day: National Educational
Day
196) India has declared itself free from _______as
there has been no occurrence of the disease in
the last three months: H5N1 Avian Influenza
(bird flu)
197) ________won the ATP World Tour Finals in
London beating Rafael Nadal: Novak Djokovic
198) South Asian Junior Athletics Championships were
held at which place: Ranchi, Jharkhand
199) Name the country that secured top position in
the South Asian Junior Athletics Championships:
India
200) Hurun India Philanthropy List 2013 published by
the China’s leading magazine mougal ‘Huran
Report Inc has ranked IT tycoon ___________as
the most generous Indian with a donation of Rs
8,000 crore in the year ending March 31, 2013:
Azim Hashim Premji
201) Malia and Malala have been named among the
16 most influential teens of 2013 by the Time
magazine. Who is Malia: Elder daughter of
Barack Obama
202) Prof. C.N.R. Rao has been decorated with Bharat
Ratna. He is from which field: Solid state and
materials chemistry
203) What is the amount of cash reward that is given
to the recipient of a Bharat Ratna: Nil
204) Recommendation for Bharat Ratna are made by
which authority: Prime Minister
205) Who approves awardees for Bharat Ratna:
President of India
206) Can Bharat Ratna be awarded to a non Indian
also: Yes
207) What is the name of the second air craft carrier
of India: INS Vikramaditya
208) The abbreviation INS stands for: Indian Naval
Ship
209) What is the name of the original ship that has
been transformed into INS Vikramaditya:
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210) INS Vikramaditya has been procured by India
from which country: Russia
211) INS Vikramaditya is the second aircraft of the
Indian Navy. What is the name of the first
(existing) aircraft carrier of India: INS Viraat
212) Name the aircraft carrier being built indigenously
in India: INS Vikrant
213) Name the first aircraft carrier acquired by Indian
Navy which was decommissioned on 31
st
Jan,
1997: INS Vikrant
214) The INS Vikramaditya will be based at which
naval base: INS Kadamba at Karwar,
Karnataka
215) UN’s International Day for Tolerance celebrated
on which date: Nov 16
216) National think tank NCAER has lowered country's
growth rate to 4.8-5.3 per cent range in the
current fiscal. Write the full form of NCAER:
National Council of Applied Economic
Research
217) Name the Prime Minister of UK who visited India
recently for a short trip: David Cameron
218) Prime Minister of UK recently visited India only
for a short time as he was on his way to _____:
Colombo, Sri Lanka
219) Central govt. has increased man-days under
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to 150 from
existing norm of 100 days in which state:
Odisha
220) Why govt. has increased man-days under
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to 150 from
existing norm of 100 days in Odisha: To provide
relief from devastation caused by Phailin
cyclone
221) World Bank and the Asian Development Bank
have assured a financial assistance of $ 313 mn
to Odisha government for what purpose: For
restoration and rehabilitation activities in
cyclone Phailin hit areas
222) Which country has promised to provide support
of Rs. 1129 crore for campus development at IIT
Hyderabad: Japan
223) Govt. has decided to establish National Institute
of Disaster Response (NIDR) at which place:
Kamptee, near Nagpur, Maharashtra
224) Telecom major Vodafone India and ICICI Bank
have launched mobile money transfer and
payment service _________in Assam and other
North Eastern states: 'M-Pesa'
225) Name the new President of island country
Maldives: Abdulla Yameen
226) Who has been named as World Athlete of the
Year for 2013 in Men’s category: Usain Bolt
227) World athlete of the year Usain Bolt is from
which field of athletics: 100 and 200 m sprint
228) World athlete of the year Usain Bolt is from
which country: Jamaica
229) Who has been named as World Athlete of the
Year for 2013 in women’s category: Shelly-Ann
Fraser-Pryce
230) World athlete of the year Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
is from which field of athletics: 100 and 200 m
sprint
231) World athlete of the year Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
is from which country: Jamaica
232) What was the theme of the 22
nd
Commonwealth
Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013
held at Colombo, Sri Lanka: Growth with
Equity; Inclusive Development
233) In the recently held CHOGM, India was
represented by which statesman: Salman
Khurshid, Minister of External Affairs
234) At which place the Indian Army tested an
advanced version of BrahMos supersonic cruise
missile system (block III variant) successfully:
Pokhran, Rajasthan
235) BrahMos is a supersonic cruise missile system.
What is the meaning of supersonic: Objects
flying with speed higher than speed of
sound
236) Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and
Development for 2013 has been awarded to
which person: Angela Merkel, German
Chancellor
237) NASA has launched its latest orbiter to Mars –
‘MAVEN’ to hunt for clues about why the Red
Planet lost much of its atmosphere. What is the
full form of MAVEN: Mars Atmosphere and
Volatile Evolution
238) Centre has directed the state governments to
implement the new National Crop Insurance
Programme (NCIP) for compulsory coverage of
which category of beneficiaries: Borrower
Farmers
239) BRICS International Competition Conference was
recently held at which place: New Delhi
240) Name the remote-sensing satellite recently
launched by China: ‘YAOGAN XIX’
241) Election commission has ask the government to
enact a law demanding what from the
government in the context of election related
opinion polls: Banning the release of results
of election related opinion polls, once the
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242) The Reserve Bank has directed public sector
banks to provide credit to women self help
groups at a rate of ________ percent per
annum: seven
243) What is the name of the first all women bank
started in India: Bhartiya Mahlia Bank
244) In which place Bhartiya Mahila Bank has opened
its first branch: Mumbai
245) Is the Bhartiya Mahila Bank allowed to recruit
male staff members: Yes, on selected basis
246) Is the Bhartiya Mahila Bank allowed to cater to
male customers: Yes, on selected basis
247) Bhartiya Mahila Bank has been ask to devote
special attention to which category of women
customers: Self Help Groups
248) Why 19
th
November was selected as the day to
inaugurate the Bhartiya Mahila Bank: It is birth
anniversary of late Indira Gandhi
249) Name the first chairperson of the Bhartiya Mahila
Bank: Usha Ananthasubramaniam
250) To which country India has extended a 100
million dollar line of credit for defence purchases:
Vietnam
251) The Golden Elephant Award is given for what
purpose: Best Children Film
252) The Golden Elephant Award is given on what
occasion: at International Children's Film
Festival
253) The 18
th
International Children's Film Festival
was held at which place: Hyderabad
254) Name the film that won the Golden Elephant
Award: Dutch Film Kauwboy
255) What is the recent ruling of Supreme Court with
regard to contesting of elections by the persons
in jail: They are eligible to contest elections
256) Name the fifteen year old cricket star who
created history by scoring a record 546 runs
playing in Mumbai: Prithvi Shaw
257) Frederick Sanger who passed away recently was
the only person to win the noble prize for
________ two times, in 1958 and in 1980:
Chemistry
258) India’s only Equatorial Rocket Launching station
is located at which place: Thumba, Kerala
259) What is the name of the India’s only Equatorial
Rocket Launching station: Vikram Sarabhai
Space Centre
260) Why Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thumba was
in news recently: It celebrated its golden
jubilee
261) Name the India's batting star who became the
fastest batsman in world to score 5000 runs in
one-day internationals (ODI): Virat Kohli
262) The National Book Award 2013 of USA has been
given to the book _______ by James Mc Bride:
The Good Lord Bird
263) Who is the author of the book, ‘Book of
Destruction’: Anand
264) The famous book Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer
has been authored by ________: Cyrus Mistry
265) What is the common factor in the mini territories
of Liechtenstein, Isle of Man, British Virgin
Islands and Cayman Islands: All four are tax
havens
266) Name the 23 year old chess prodigy from
Norway who was crowned as World Champion at
the World Chess Championship at Chennai:
Magnus Carlsen
267) Name the West Indies cricketer who marked an
end to the glorious career of Master Blaster
Sachin: Darren Sammy
268) The last ball to be faced by Sachin marking end
of his 24 years of cricketing career was bowled
by ______ of West Indies: Narsingh
Deonarine
269) A survey of 1,600 senior executives across more
than 70 countries by global professional services
firm Ernst & Young (EY) placed ______ as the
first choice of global investors: India
270) Who has been appointed as Chairman of the
20th Law Commission of India: Ajit Prakash
Shah
271) The Warsaw Climate Change Conference 2013
was held at which place: Warsaw, Poland
272) The Climate Change Conferences are organized
by UNFCCC. The abbreviation UNFCCC stands
for: United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change
273) ___________won the Asian Archery
Championship held in Taipei, China: South
Korea
274) Which country recently agreed to curb its nuclear
programme in lieu of lifting of economic
sanctions against it: Iran
275) Which country has offered to renovate and
preserve a total of 116 heritage buildings,
constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries,
located on the banks of the river Hooghly in
West Bengal: Denmark
276) A high power group of six super powers
negotiated a deal with Iran for what purpose: To
restrict the nuclear programme of Iran
277) Mount Sina Bung, a volcano that erupted very
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people, is in which country: Indonesia
278) Which country has decided to award
International Prize for Equality and Non-
Discrimination 2013 to Malala Yousafzai: Mexico
279) Global Islamic Economic Summit held at which
place: Dubai, UAE
280) Which country hosted the 20th World Master
Athletics Championship: Brazil
281) Which corporate brand has been ranked No. 1 in
the 'World's Most Valuable Brand List' compiled
by 'Forbes' magazine: Apple
282) 4
th
World Cup Kabaddi will be held in which
state: Punjab
283) Name the country where Commonwealth
Weightlifting Championship was held recently:
Malaysia
284) Who has been elected as President, Federation
of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry
(Ficci): Sidharth Birla
285) Name the new Chief of Pakistan Army: Lt. Gen.
Raheel Sharif
286) Junior National Archery Championship was held
at _________Assam: Kokrajhar
287) Mahendra Dev Committee has been appointed
for what purpose: To review the scale of
NREGA wages
288) RBI has allowed which category of
manufacturing units to be covered under priority
sector lending: Medium
289) On what basis business units are classified into
Micro, Small and Medium categories: On the
basis of investment made in plant &
machinery / equipment
290) Name the Act that lays down various rules and
regulations for classification of business units
into micro small and medium enterprises :
MSMED Act 2006
291) What is the full form of MSMED: Micro Small &
Medium Enterprises Development Act
292) Sachin Tendulkar has been selected by UNICEF
as the brand ambassador for Asian region for
what purpose: To promote its Total
Sanitation Campaign
293) As Brand Ambassador of UNICEF for Total
Sanitation Campaign, Sachin Tendulkar will
campaign in which countries: India, Pakistan,
Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal
294) The coveted title of Miss Universe 2013 has been
won by Gabriela Isler. She is from which country:
Venezuela
295) The Reserve Bank has directed all regional rural
banks to follow the minimum _______capital
adequacy rule from this year itself: 9%
296) With which country India has agreed to
strengthen, promote and develop renewable
energy cooperation: Belgium
297) Jason Day lifted the ISPS HANDA World Cup of
Golf held in Melbourne, Australia. He is from
which country: Australia
298) The Hornbill Festival to promote tribal culture is
held in which state: Nagaland
299) The ICC T20 championship 2014 will be held
which country: Bangladesh
300) Which Indian IT giant agreed to pay a record
$34 million fine to settle a visa row in the USA:
Infosys
OCTOBER – 2013
301) In which country thousands of government
servants were asked to go on leave without pay
temporarily as the government had no funds to
pay their salary: USA
302) One of the main factors behind the recent ‘Shut
Down’ crisis in USA was the popular health care
programmes of the government. What is the
popular name for this programme: Obamacare
303) Name the diplomat who has been appointed
High Commissioner of India in United Kingdom:
Ranjan Mathai
304) The International Day of “Older Person” is
celebrated on which day: October 1
305) In the recently compiled “Global Human Capital
Index”, what is India’s rank: 78
th

306) India’s minister of external affairs visited ______
to impress upon early implementation of 13
th

amendment to constitution: Sri Lanka
307) In the neighbouring country Sri Lanka, what is
the context of 13
th
amendment to their
constitution: Devolution of powers to the
provinces
308) The 2013 meet of CHOGM is to be held at which
place: Colombo, Sri Lanka
309) What is the full form of CHOGM:
Commonwealth Heads of Government
Meeting
310) The summit of CHOGM is held every _____
years: Two
311) How many countries are the member of The
Commonwealth: 53
312) Headquarter of The Commonwealth is located at:
London, UK
313) _________ is designated as head of the
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314) Name the middle Asian country visited by Indian
President recently: Turkey
315) Name the capital of Turkey: Ankara
316) Which Turkish University honoured Indian
President with honorary ‘doctorate’ in Political
Science: Istanbul University
317) Currency of Turkey is ________: Turkish Lira
318) In a recent survey of top 400 universities in
world, _________ has been ranked as No. 1
university in India: Panjab University
319) Election commission has given the option to the
voters not to vote for any candidate, if they
decide so. This option has been named as:
None of the above (NOTA)
320) Two day international Rhino conference was held
at: Bandar Lampung, Indonesia
321) Lampedusa an island near ______ was in news
as over 300 persons drowned there after a boat,
with up to 500 African asylum seekers, caught
fire and sank: Italy
322) Rohan Bopanna along with French partner
Edouard Roger-Vasselin, won the men’s doubles
title at_____________ held at Tokyo, Japan:
Japan Open Tennis
323) Name the team that won the Champions League
Cricket recently: Mumbai Indians
324) The final match of the Champions League,
Cricket was held at _________ stadium in Delhi:
Feroz Shah Kotla
325) Name the veteran Indian film director who has
been nominated to head the accomplished jury
for the Seventh Asia Pacific Screen Awards
(APSA): Shyam Benegal
326) The Seventh Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA)
to be held in_______: Brisbane, Australia
327) “The Busan International Film Festival” is held in
which country: South Korea
328) Name the acclaimed Cambodian director who
received the Asian Filmmaker of the Year award
at the Busan International Film Festival in South
Korea: Rithy Panh
329) Which international IT giant has joined hands
with Archaeological Survey of India to provide
360- degree online panoramic imagery of 100
nationally-important monuments: Google
330) Name the Sri Lanka’s first elected Tamil Chief
Minister of the Northern Province in the first ever
provincial elections held after clearance of LTTE
from North Sri Lanka: C. V. WIGNESWARAN
331) The China Open Tennis Cup Men’s Singles has
been lifted by _______: Novak Djokovic
332) The tennis star Novak Djokovic hails from which
country: Serbia
333) Women’s singles title in the China Open Tennis
Cup was won by: Serena Williams
334) Name the Indian tennis star who alongwith Cara
Black won the women’s doubles title of China
Open: Sania Mirza
335) As per the estimates of the Finance Ministry and
that of RBI, growth rate of India’s economy
during current fiscal is expected to be around
______ per cent: 5.5%
336) Name the international financial agency that has
pulled down projection for India’s growth rate to
3.8 percent for the year 2013-14: IMF
337) Vladimir Klitschko who won the world
heavyweight boxing title at Moscow, Russia is
from which country: Ukraine
338) Name the allrounder from Bangladesh who
became the first cricketer in 136 year old history
of cricket to score a century and claim a hat-trick
in the same Test: Sohag Gazi
339) Name the first MP whose Parliamentary seat was
declared vacant following his conviction for more
than two years, as a result of recent ruling of
Supreme Court to this effect: Rashid Masood
340) Name the space craft launched by NASA on a
mission to Jupiter: Juno
341) RBI has increase the borrowing period under
MSF from one day at present to _______ days:
7 to 14 days
342) Indian Prime Minister visited Brunei recently for
attending which International summit: ASEAN
and East Asia Summit
343) The recent meeting of ASEAN and East Asia
Summit was held at _________, Brunei:
Darussalam
344) Out of ASEAN and East Asia Summit, India is
member of which organization: East Asia
Summit
345) The 9th WTO Ministerial Conference will be held
at __________, Indonesia: Bali
346) What is the full form of ASEAN: Association of
South East Asian Nations
347) Name the Director General of World Trade
Organisation – WTO who visited India recently:
Roberto Azevedo
348) Asian Development Bank has provided $100 mn
loan to which State to improve education and
skills: Meghalaya
349) With which country India finalised $512-million
joint venture deal for the construction of two
coal fired power projects of 250 megawatts
each: Sri Lanka

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350) The annual meeting of IMF and the World Bank
was recently held at: Washington, USA
351) Name the first women chairperson of the Federal
Reserve System of USA: Janet Yellen
352) Name the Central Bank in United Kingdom:
Bank of England
353) Name the Bank that facilitates and promotes
research for improvement in banking services all
over the world. Bank for International
Settlements
354) The Headquarter of Bank for International
Settlement is located at ________, Switzerland:
Basel
355) What is the purpose of the proposed Rs. 43,000
crore Green Energy Corridor Project: Setting up
of wind and solar power plants
356) Prime Minister of which country was in news due
to his sudden abduction and subsequent release
also: Libya
357) What is the officially name of the ISRO’s project
for sending a satellite to planet Mars: Mars
Orbiter Mission (MOM)
358) Tom Clancy, one of the most widely read and
influential military novelist of his time, passed
away recently. He was from which country: USA
359) World Toilet Summit was recently held in which
country: Indonesia
360) Name the new High Commissioner of Pakistan to
India: Ibne Abbas
361) Name the campaign launched by China aimed at
enforcing standards for waste imports to avoid
unusable or unsafe/dangerous consignments:
Green Fence
362) Which country has qualified for the first time to
play in the 11
th
ICC Cricket World Cup:
Afghanistan
363) The 11
th
ICC Cricket World Cup is to be hosted
jointly by which two countries: Australia &
New Zealand
364) What is the full form of ICC: International
Cricket Council
365) What is the range of Nuclear weapons capable
surface-to-surface missile Prithvi-II: 300 kms
366) The missile testing range of India is named as:
Integrated Test Range
367) The missile testing range of India is located at
which place: Wheeler Island, Near
Chandipur, Odisha
368) Recently Supreme Court ordered ___ per cent
reservation in govt. jobs for disables person:
Three
369) Ilham Aliyev has been elected as President of
which country: Azerbaijan
370) What is the popular full form of the scientific
research organization CERN: European Council
for European Research
371) Mulatu Teshome has been elected president of
which country: Ethiopia
372) Sachin Tendulkar reached the coveted landmark
of 50,000 runs across all formats of cricket at
which stadium: Feroze Shah Kotla stadium,
New Delhi
373) India has signed agreements with ______
countries, who pledged their commitment to the
ambitious Nalanda University project: Seven
374) The prestigious International Nalanda University
is located is which place: Rajgir, Distt
Nalanda, Bihar
375) Name the Nobel laureate who has been
designated to head the Nalanda University as its
Chancellor: Prof. Amartya Sen
376) In the Global Hunger Index India has been
ranked at ________ place: 63
rd

377) Which district of Odisha was hardest hit by the
recent cyclone Phailin: Ganjam
378) Authorities worldover have appreciated the
excellent preparations done by the NDRF and
IMD for minimizing the possible damage from
the cyclone Phailin: What is the full form of
NDRF and IMD: National Disaster Response
Force (NDRF), Indian Metrological
Department (IMD)
379) Govt. has decided to bring all post offices across
the country on CBS platform to cover larger
number of people, particularly in rural areas for
banking services. What is CBS: Core Banking
Solution
380) Name the place in distt. Datia of Madhya
Pradesh which witnessed a gruesome stampede
killing over 120 persons: Rattangarh
381) The World Boxing Championships was held in
which place: Almaty, Kazakhstan
382) Name the freedom fighter, ex Minister and
Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission
who passed away recently: Dr. Mohan Dharia
383) M.S. Swaminathan, Eminent agriculture scientist
has been honoured with which prestigious prize
for his work for national integration: Indira
Gandhi Award for National Integration
384) Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist for girl’s
education has been honoured with Sakharov
Human Rights Prize. The prize is given by which
organization: European Parliament
385) Name the renowned scientist who has written

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the book My Brief History: A Memoir : Stephen
Hawking
386) Under which loan scheme the receipt of annuity
amount has been exempted from income tax:
Reverse Mortgage Scheme
387) Who are the likely beneficiaries under the
reverse mortgage loan scheme: Property
Owning Senior Citizens
388) Government has increased MSP of wheat by Rs.
50 to Rs. ______ per quintal: 1400
389) Name the CEO of ICICI bank who has been
ranked as top women business leader of India:
Ms. Chanda Kochhar
390) Name the remittance system for which RBI has
issued new revised guidelines: RTGS
391) Government has decided to include skilled labour
in sericulture under the MNREGA Scheme. What
is sericulture: Rearing of silk worms
392) NPCI has launched Aadhaar-based remittances
for bank account holders. What is the full form of
NPCI: National Payments Corporation of
India
393) What is the main objective of NPCI: To
promote various forms of electronic
banking in India
394) Which city has been voted as countries top
business destination in terms of infrastructure,
human capital, city culture and basic quality of
living: Bangalore
395) Indian Prime Minister recently visited Russia and
met their President. What is the name of Russian
President: Vladimer Putin
396) South zone and North zone were declared joint
winners of the in the final of Duleep trophy
played at Kochi, Kerala. It is from which sports:
Cricket
397) Which big hydel project of India is celebrated its
Golden Jubilee: Bhakra Dam, Punjab
398) 5
th
South Asian Conference on Sanitation held at
which place: Kathmandu, Nepal
399) Name the first Indian to win a silver medal at the
2013 ITTF Asian Table Tennis championship held
in Beijing, China: Bhavina Hashmukhbhai
Patel
400) Name the player who scored the fastest ever
century by an Indian batsman in ODI, off 52
balls, playing against Australia at Sawai Man
Singh Stadium, Jaipur: Virat Kohli
401) Man Booker Prize 2013 has been awarded to
________for her novel, The Luminaries .
Eleanor Catton
402) Name the eminent Telugu novelist, short story
writer, poet critic and 2012 Jnanpith award
winner who passed away recently: Ravuri
Bharadhwaja
403) The Indian Open Snooker Tournament – 2013
title was won by _________ of China: Ding
Junhui
404) The Indian Open Snooker Tournament – 2013
was held at which place: New Delhi
405) Name the first ever India-Russia joint military
exercise that began on October 19 at the
Mahajan field firing range in Rajasthan near the
Indo-Pak border: Indra 2013
406) What is the objective of recently conducted
Indo-Russian joint military exercise: for
improving anti-terrorist operations
407) Name the latest National Tennis champions in
men’s & women’s category: Mohit Mayur and
Prerna Bhambri
408) With which country India recently signed a
border defence pact: China
409) What is the officially name of the border defence
pact signed between India and China: Border
Defence Co-operation Agreement
410) What is the official designation of the Prime
Minister of China: Premier
411) What is the name of the Premier of China: Li
Keqiang
412) Which mega steel company has been asked by a
UN Human Rights panel to stop the work at its
Odisha plant as it may lead to displacement of
thousands of people and disruption in their
livelihoods: Posco
413) The Union Cabinet has approved the biggest
ever foreign investment in India's aviation sector
- Jet Airways' proposed sale of its 24 per cent
equity to ___________airline: Etihad Airways
414) The Etihad Airways is the national airline of
which country: United Arab Emirates
415) To which country India has agreed to start a
power transmission line to export 500 million
megawatt of electricity: Bangladesh
416) Name the Indian power cooperate which has
joined hands with Bangladesh power
development board to form Bangladesh – India
Friendship Power Company to promote 1,320-
MW Maitri thermal power project in Bangladesh:
National Thermal Power Corporation
(NTPC)
417) UNO recently passed a regulation to destroy
huge amounts of chemical in which country:
Syria
418) Which railway station near Kolkata has been
renamed as Komagata Maru station to salute the
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there by the ship of the same name: Budge
Budge
419) __________has become the first company in the
country to achieve sales of more than Rs
1,00,000 crore in a quarter: Reliance
Industries Ltd.
420) INS Sunayna, the indigenously built warship is
which type of ship: Naval offshore Patrol
Vessel (NOVP)
421) Terry Walsh has been appointed chief coach of
which national men’s sports team: Hockey
422) The new chief coach of men’s national hockey
team – Terry Walsh is from which country:
Australia
423) India and China will hold joint military exercises
from November 4 in _______ region in South
west China: Chengdu
424) What is the objective of the proposed Indo-China
joint military exercise: To practice counter
insurgency and counter terrorism
manoeuvres
425) Which corporate has been allowed by
government to start a new domestic airline
jointly with Singapore Airlines: Tata Group
426) What is the name of proposed new domestic
airline started jointly by Tata and Singapore
airlines: 'Tata SIA Airlines Limited'
427) Government has decided to contribute a sum of
Rs. ______ crore towards capital infusion in
public sector banks: 14,000
428) For what purpose government is contributing Rs.
14,000 crore in capital of public sector banks: To
enable banks to meet Basel III capital
requirements
429) Name the two Latin American Countries visited
by the Vice President Hamid Ansari: Peru &
Cuba
430) Sanjeev Rajput won the gold in which event in
the Asian Air Gun shooting championship in
Tehran, Iran: Men’s 50-metre free rifle
event
431) Bru community which has settled in large
number of refugee camps in Tripura and Assam,
belongs to which state: Mizoram
432) Air Costa is the new regional airline started in
which part of the country: Andhra Pradesh
433) Name the Indian scientist in whose name the
‘God Particle’ has been named as Higgs Boson:
Satyendra Nath Bose
434) The Nobel prize – 2013 for physics has been
given to François Englert, Belgium and Peter
W. Higgs, UK for which achievement: for the
outstanding research for discovery of ‘God
Particle’
435) The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2013 has been
awarded to how many scientists: Three
436) The three scientists – Martin Karplus, Michael
Levitt and Arieh Warshel have been given Nobel
prize in Chemistry for 2013 for research in which
field: for developing computer models that
predict complex chemical reactions that
can be used for tasks like creating new
drugs
437) Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine has been
awarded for which achievement: For
breakthroughs in understanding how key
substances are moved around within a cell
438) The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2013 has been
awarded to author Alice Munro for which field of
literature: Contemporary short stories
439) Nobel Laureate for 2013 literature Nobel Prize –
Alice Munro is from which country: Canada
440) What is the formal official name for the
Economics Nobel Prize: The Sveriges
Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
441) The Nobel Prize for economics for 2013 has been
awarded for what purpose: For research in
empirical analysis of asset prices
442) The Nobel Peace Prize – 2013 has been awarded
to which organization: Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
443) Currently, OPCW is in news for handling which
international assignment: Destruction of
dumps of chemical weapons in Syria as per
UN mandate
444) The headquarters of Nobel Peace prize winning
organization – OPCW is located at which place:
The Hague, Netherland
445) Why the Nobel prizes are delivered on a fix day –
December 10 every year: It is the death
anniversary of Alfred Nobel
446) All Nobel Prizes except the peace prize are
presented at _____, Sweden: Stockholm
447) The Nobel Prize for Peace is presented at
_______, Norway: Oslo
448) The Nobel Prize for Peace is not decided in
Sweden, instead, it is decided by an expert
committee of _________: Parliament of
Norway
449) India has been ranked __________ out of 136
countries on a Global Gender Gap Index
compiled by Geneva-based World Economic
Forum: 101
st

450) According to a recent survey by Global Initiative
for Restructuring Environment and Management
(GIREM) and DTZ, _______ is the best business
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451) Name the Formula One champion who has won
four successive titles in the current season:
Sebastian Vettal
452) Sebastian Vettal, the formula one world
champion is from which country: Germany
453) India’s only Formula One Racing Track Buddha
International Circuit is located at which place:
Noida, UP
454) World’s largest airport Al-Maktoum International
is located at which place: Dubai, UAE
455) Which financial institution proposes to launch a
special loan scheme for creation of storage
infrastructure like construction of Warehouses,
Silos, cold storages and cold chain
infrastructure: NABARD
456) Govt. plans to start National Financial Reporting
Authority (NFRA) for what purpose: As a
watchdog for the accounting and auditing
policies and standards for adoption by
companies.
457) With which bank Australian Trade Commission
has signed a MoU to raise the productivity and
exports of India’s food and agricultural sector:
Yes Bank
458) To which state World Bank has provided $360
million loan for modernisation of irrigation and
drainage systems: Uttar Pradesh
459) India is planning a cross country highway with
which two other countries: Myanmar and
Thailand
460) The trilateral highway with Myanmar and
Thailand will start from ________ in Manipur,
India : Moreh
461) The trilateral highway with Myanmar and
Thailand will end at ______ in Thailand: Mae
Sot
462) Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project
will link Kolkata port with Sittwe port in which
country: Myanmar
463) In the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport
Project, Kaladan is the name of a _______ in
Mizoram: River
464) The World Agricultural Congress and Trade Fair
to be held at ______: Hyderabad
465) Supreme Court ruled that MPs/MLAs will lose
their seats immediately if they are convicted of
offences that carry a prison term of more than
______years: Two
466) The 2013 Norton Report by Symantec says that
India is among the world’s top ______ countries
with the highest number of incidences of cyber
crime: Five
467) Indian Navy has recently inducted Hawk MK 132
aircraft. It is what type of aircraft: Advanced
Jet Trainer
SEPTEMBER– 2013
468) The book Communist Cookbook has written by:
Sharmishta Roy Chowdhury
469) Who is the author of the book ‘Punjab: A History
from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten: Rajmohan
Gandhi
470) The GDP growth rate for the quarter ending June
30
th
was pegged at _______: 4.4%
471) The Asia Cup Hockey was held at which place:
Ipoh, Malaysia
472) 2014 Hockey World Cup will be held at which
place: The Hague, Netherlands
473) Name the country who won the Asia Cup Hockey
by defeating India: South Korea
474) As per the Land Acquisition Bill passed by Lok
Sabha, govt. has to pay compensation upto
______ times of market value for acquiring land
in rural areas: four
475) As per the Land Acquisition Bill passed by Lok
Sabha, govt. has to pay compensation upto
______ times of market value for acquiring land
in urban areas: two
476) G-20 group of countries held a meeting of their
Heads at which place: St. Petersburg, Russia
477) Name the ace footballer from UK who created a
new record by becoming the expensive most
player in the history of football: Gareth Bale
478) Noted footballer Gareth Bale has been
contracted by which Club for a sum of 100
million Euros: Real Madrid, Spain
479) Diana Nyad, the 64 year old lady swimmer from
USA created a world record for what: for
longest distance swimming – 110 mile
(177 kms)
480) Haraprasad Das, eminent Oriya writer, has been
honoured with which prestigious award for his
book ‘Vamsha’: Moortidevi Award - 2012
481) Name the country who won SAFF football
championship by beating India: Afghanistan
482) What is the full form of SAFF: South Asia
Football Federation)
483) The SAFF football championship was recently
held at which place: Kathmandu, Nepal
484) As per new companies law, the corporates are
required to spend _______ % of their profits
towards CSR activities: Two
485) Write the full form of CSR: Corporate Social
Responsibility
486) India recently launched multi band
communication satellite - GSAT-7 for what
purpose: Data gathering for defence forces
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place: Kourou, French Guiana (An overseas
territory of France, at joining Brazil)
488) The GSAT-7 satellite was launched in a _____
Orbit, about 36000 kms above Earth’s surface:
Geosynchronous
489) Name the book on tax administration written by
noted economist Parthasarthi Shome, Advisor to
the Finance Minister: Indian Tax
Administration: A Dialogue
490) Dr. Raghuram Rajan, the new governor of RBI
was holding which position before this: Chief
Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance
491) As per the PFRDA bill, 2011, government has
permitted FDI upto _____% in the pension
sector: 26
492) Write the full form PFRDA: Pension Fund
Regulatory and Development Authority
493) Name the tennis star who won US Open men’s
singles title: Rafael Nadal
494) Noted tennis star Rafael Nadal is from which
country: Spain
495) Famous sports person Novak Djokovic is from
which game: Tennis
496) Tennis star Novak Djokovic hails from which
country: Serbia
497) Name the tennis star who won US Open
women’s singles title: Serena Williams
498) Noted tennis star Serena Williams from which
country: USA
499) Name the prestigious sports event recently won
by tennis star Leander Paes: US Open 2013
men’s doubles crown
500) Name the world renowned music maestro who
conducted the Bavarian State Orchestra in J & K:
Zubin Mehta
501) The musical concert conducted by Jubin Mehta
at Shalimar Garden, Srinagar (J&K) was named
as____________: Ehasas-e-Kashmir
502) Tony Abbott has been elected as new Prime
Minister of which country: Australia
503) With which country India has enlarged its
currency swap arrangement from $15 billion at
present to $ 50 billion: Japan
504) India has been ranked at _____ place in terms of
its global competitiveness in 2013: 60
th

505) _________has emerged as most literate state in
India with 94.65 per cent literacy, compared with
Kerala’s 93.91 per cent: Tripura
506) Share of agriculture in India’s GDP is about
____%: 13.7
507) Control of Forward Markets Commission has
recently been taken over by _________ Ministry:
Finance
508) Govt. has approved setting up of the Bharat
Rural Livelihood Foundation, a partnership
between government, corporate India,
academics and civil society, with a contribution
of Rs 500 crore for what purpose: To engage
corporates for help to counter Naxal
influence
509) RBI has setup Bimal Jalan Committee for what
purpose: To scrutinize the applications for
new bank licences
510) Name the head of the committee formed to
strengthen the framework of monetary policy to
avoid friction between the RBI and the Finance
Ministry: Urjit Patel Committee
511) Who has been elected as President of
International Olympics Committee: Thomas
Bach
512) India’s trade deficit narrowed to $10.9 billion in
August from $12.26 billion in July. What does it
represents: The amount by which exports
are short of imports
513) Which is the single largest item contributing to
the import bill of India: Petroleum
514) As per the RBI guidelines, cash withdrawals of
up to Rs. _________ a day from point of sale
terminals are allowed: 1,000
515) Which type of banking transactions can be
carried out using plastic money: Debit / Credit
card transactions
516) What is the popular name for the total money
supply – M3 in the country: Broad Money
517) What is the priority sector lending target fixed by
the government for foreign banks in India:
40%; if the branches are less than 20,
then 32%
518) If an Indian bank in private sector fails to
achieve priority sector lending targets, what will
be the penal action: It will have to deposit
the short fall amount in Rural
Infrastructure Development Fund
519) The government has approved a proposal to
invest USD 4.3 billion in which international
financial institution: World Bank
520) Eighth Women’s Hockey Asia Cup was recently
held at which place: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
521) Which big industrial country has decided to say
‘good bye’ to nuclear power: Japan
522) Name the spacecraft that has become the first
man-made object to venture into interstellar
space: Voyager-1
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World Wrestling Championship: Amit Kumar
524) Name the wrestler who won bronze medal in
free style wrestling in the World Wrestling
Championship: Bajrang
525) World Wrestling Championship were held at
which place: Budapest, Hungary
526) Name the hockey player who will captain the
Indian Women’s Hockey team in Asia Cup: Ritu
Rani
527) Name the Indian origin girl who was crown as
Miss America recently: Nina Davuluri
528) Jhumpa Lahri, a Noted Novelist of Indian origin
is settled in which country: USA (New York)
529) Which city has been named to host 2020
Olympic Games: Tokyo
530) The 2016 Olympics are to be held at which
place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
531) Name the recently tested nuclear capable
surface to surface long-range ballistic missile
which has a strike range of more than 5000 kms:
Agni-V
532) From which place India conducts its missile
tests: Wheeler Island off Odisha coast
533) NASA has launched an unmanned spacecraft
Ladee for what purpose: To explore the
surface of moon
534) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia has
recently been honured with which prestigious
Indian Award: Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace,
Disarmament and Development-2012
535) The first ever North East Festival to showcase
eight states of North East India, their customs,
heritage, traditions, music, dances, tourism will
be held at which place: New Delhi
536) Reserve Bank has directed that gold jewellery
accepted as security will have to be valued at the
average of the closing price of 22 carat gold for
the preceding _______ days: 30
537) Durand Cup is associated with which sports:
Football
538) Durand Cup for 2013 was won by _____
________ after a gap of 73 years:
Mohammedan Sporting, Kolkata
539) Durand Cup Football tournament was held at
which place: New Delhi
540) Dinesh K. Sarraf has been appointed head of
which Maharatna company: Oil and Natural
Gas Corporation
541) With a view to boost exports, government has
raised interest subvention on export loans to
_______ percent: Three
542) 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup will be hosted jointly
by which two countries: Australia and New
Zealand
543) Govt. has recently relaxed certain pre conditions
in case of FDI in which field: Multi Brand
Retail
544) With which country India has an arrangement to
pay in Indian rupees for its import of crude oil:
Iran
545) Name the veteran British journalist and
broadcaster, famous for his TV interviews of
various Heads of States, who passed away
recently: David Frost
546) How many industries are there in the core sector
within Index of Industrial Production (IIP): Eight
547) Which country has agreed to contribute 41%
share in the creation of a $100-billion Currency
Reserve Fund (CRF) by BRICS: China
548) Name the new Chief Information Commissioner
of India: Ms. Deepak Sandhu
549) Which state has decided to observe Bitia
Janamostava to promote awareness for
protection of girl child: Bihar
550) Name the noted Bengali author who was killed in
Afghanistan by Taliban: Sushmita Banerjee
551) The mobile phone business of Nokia Corporation
of Finland has been taken over by which
multinational company: Microsoft
552) A robot astronaut called ________developed by
Toyota Company of Japan, has made history by
becoming the first robot ever to speak in space:
Kirobo
553) As per recent RBI guidelines, Indians travelling
abroad can carry Indian currency of up to
Rs.__________ per person: 10,000
554) Which organization of USA has announced that it
will not cut down its USD 85 billion a month
stimulus programme, spreading cheers among
the financial markets around the world: Federal
Reserve System (popular name Fed)
555) Which state in India has recorded the lowest
proportion of 3.66 % of poor living below
poverty line in urban areas: Sikkim
556) Which state in India has the lowest proportion –
5.09%, of the poor living below poverty line:
Goa
557) India has recorded the largest increase in its
UHNI club among the BRICS nations in the last
one year, with a total of 7,850 super rich people
in the country. What is the full form of UHNI:
Ultra-High Networth Individual
558) Recent RBI guidelines have asked banks to close
accounts of those customers who use their credit
or debit cards for ________ transactions:

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Online Forex
559) As per the food security Act notified recently,
________ % of country’s population will be
covered under food guarantee: 67
560) Which state in India emerged as the hottest
investment destination for new projects: Odisha
561) World largest solar power plant is being setup in
India at which place: Sambar Lake, Rajasthan
562) Govt has finalised the timeline for
implementation of the mega ADKIC project to
promote industrial activity in north India. What is
the full form of ADKIC: Amritsar-Delhi-
Kolkata Industrial Corridor
563) For which part of India govt. has approved Rs.
2,130 crore expenditure under Special
Accelerated Road Development
Programme (SARDP): North East Region
564) RBI has allowed banks to open branches,
including in Tier 1 centres without its prior
permission. Which city come under tier 1:
Centres cities with population of one lakh
and above
565) The Reserve Bank has advised banks to allot a
different product code in their core banking
solution to which type of accounts: Accounts
which are dormant or inoperative for over
two years
566) Which film will represent India in the Best
Foreign Film category at 2014 Oscar Awards in
USA: The Good Road
567) Govt. has submitted in Supreme Court that it
intends to go ahead with Sethusamudram
Project. It is located in which area of India:
Rocky terrain between India and Sri Lanka
in the Gulf of Mannar
568) What is the geographical name for the
Sethusamudram: Adam’s Bridge
569) At which place is the World's highest-altitude
civilian airport, located 4,411 meters above sea
level: Daocheng, Near Tibet, China
570) Super Typhoon Usagi has caused widespread
damage in which part of the world: Philippines
and Taiwan
571) Who has been elected as the 12
th
President of
Pakistan: Mamnoon Hussain
572) Recently India post released a commemorative
stamp in the memory of freedom fighter and
veteran journalist Lala Jagat Narain. Name the
news paper founded by him: Punjab Kesari
573) Kaesong industrial park was the matter of
dispute between which two countries: North
and South Korea
574) Govt. has started a Rs. 1000 crore Nirbhaya
Corpus Fund for what purpose: For
empowerment and protection of women
575) Name the first programme started from Nirbhaya
Fund, aimed at helping the women who need
special protection measures, such as women in
prostitution or widowed women: Shubh
576) Ray Dolby, an inventor and audio pioneer from
USA, founder of Dolby Laboratories, passed
away recently. He is known for which product:
Dolby Stereo Sound System
577) Insurance Regulatory and Development
Authority (IRDA) has become the first regulator
in the world to start an ___________system:
Insurance Repository
578) With which country recently signed the DTAA
agreement: Latvia
579) Name the international literary prize that has
now been made open to English authors from all
over the world: The Man Booker Prize
580) President of which country recently cancelled its
official visit to USA to protest against the spying
excesses of National Security Agency of USA:
Dilma Rousseff of Brazil
581) Which country has recently started Direct
Banking, offering banking services not through
branches but through various other means like
internet, mobiles and ATMs: China
582) Name the former world heavyweight boxing
champion, considered one of the greatest fighter
of his era, who passed away recently: Ken
Norton
583) The Union Ministry of Minority Affairs is planning
to rope in celebrities as brand ambassadors for
the five minority communities. Name these five
communities: Muslims, Sikhs, Christians,
Buddhist and Parsis
584) Name the organization that has acquired the Rs.
600 crore research vessel named Samudra
Ratnakar: Geological Survey of India
585) Who has been elected as Chancellor of Germany
for the third time in a row: Angela Markel
(Ms)
586) India has been granted ‘authorizing nation’
status for certifying which type of products:
Electronics and IT Products
587) Sandeep Tulsi Yadav created history by winning
India’s first ever wrestling medal in
_________category at World Wrestling
Championships: Greco-Roman
588) Name the Indian who has been honoured with
Clinton Global Citizen Award: Bunker Roy
589) RBI has directed banks to stop ________loans
schemes as they tend to befool the consumers
into believing that bank funding come for free:

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zero per cent
590) With which country India conducted a joint
military exercise in general combat and mountain
warfare: Nepal
591) Indo-nepal joint military exercise was recently
held at which place: Pithoragarh, Uttrakhand
592) Erna Solberg has been elected as Prime Minister
of which country: Norway
593) Sultan of Johor Cup Hockey tournament was
held at Johar Bahru in which country: Malaysia
594) National Junior Athletics Championship held
at_________, Kerala: Kochi
595) In which country a legislative decree has been
passed for reserving one seat in their parliament
for persons of Sikh/Hindu religion: Afghanistan
596) Wolesi Jirga is the equivalent of Indian Lok
Sabha in which country: Afghanistan
597) A severe earthquake of 7.7 magnitude that
caused widespread devastation in _______
district of Balochistan, Pakistan: Awaran
598) Name the author of the book “Never Go Back”:
Lee Child
599) The sustainable mountain development summit
was held at which place: Kohima, Nagaland
600) The picture, The Good Road, that has been
nominated from India to Oscars, has been made
in which language: Gujarati
601) Name the film that won the Best Asian Film
Award at the 38
th
Toronto International Film
Festival in Canada: Qissa, A Punjabi Film
602) Govt has notified ________ as the new date for
implementing GAAR: April 1, 2016
603) What is the full form of GAAR: General Anti
Avoidance Rules
604) GAAR form an internal part of which law:
Income Tax Act
605) Grand Master Vidit Gujrathi who won the bronze
medal at an international event, is from which
game: Chess
606) The 18th International Children's Film Festival
(ICFFI)will be held at which place: Hyderabad
607) The Golden Elephant award for best film is given
at which film festival: International Children's
Film Festival
608) Name the movie that won the best film award at
the Ladakh International Film Festival: “OASS”
609) Horticulture Mission for North East and
Himalayan States (HMNEH) and National
Bamboo Mission (NBM) have been merged with
which other major national mission: National
Horticultural Mission (NHM).
610) RBI Governor Dr. Raghuram G Rajan has
recently been honoured for his ground breaking
research work by which German Bank:
Deutsche Bank
611) A panel headed by Raghuram Rajan has
recommended a new methodology based on a
________for devolving funds for development of
states: 'Multi Dimensional Index (MDI)'.
612) As per Raghuram Rajan report on allocation of
funds for development of states, which are the
three development categories of the states:
Least, Relatively and Less developed
613) A panel headed by Raghuram Rajan has
identified which state of India as least
developed: Odisha, followed by Bihar
614) A panel headed by Raghuram Rajan has
identified which state of India as most
developed: Goa, followed by Kerala
615) Supreme Court has ruled that for a vibrant
democracy the voter has the right to negative
voting by rejecting all the candidates in fray by
exercising the option of _________in EVMs and
ballot papers: None of the Above (NOTA)
616) For which metro city ADB has offered a $ 400
million loan to improve water and sanitation
system: Kolkata
617) NASA’s unmanned rover – Curiosity has recently
discovered traces of water in the soil cover of
which planet: Mars
618) Miss Philippines _______ has been selected as
Miss World 2013: Megan Young
619) What is the name of latest search algorithm
launched by google: Hummingbird
620) In a recent ruling of National Green Tribunal,
digging of ________ has been banned across
the country: Soil (Earth)
621) India has been ranked at ______ place in terms
of corruption risk: 69
th

622) ‘Patan Patola’ which recently got the GI tag from
the Geographical Indication (GI) Registry,
Chennai, is a popular type of _____ from
Gujarat: Double-sided saree
623) Which state in India has offered highest price for
sugarcane procurement at Rs. 301 per quintal:
Haryana
AUGUST – 2013
624) Govt. has announced to continue a subvention of
_________on crop loans upto Rs. 3 lacs, if they
are paid in time: 3%
625) In which public sector oil company, government
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Indian Oil Corporation
626) The South Asian Football Federation under 16
championship held at Kathmandu was won by
which country: India
627) Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan has recently been
decorated with which prestigious award: Rajiv
Gandhi National Sadhbhavna Award
628) The oranges grown in Nagpur area have been
granted GI Tag. What is the full form of GI:
Geographical Indication
629) What is the government target for disinvestment
during the year 2013-14: Rs. 40,000 crore
630) Name the women pole vaulter who has won the
World Athletics Championship thrice: Yelena
Isinbayeva
631) The World Athletics Championships 2013 was
held at: Moscow, Russia
632) Hassan Rouhani has been elected as ______ of
Iran: President
633) Which country recently temporarily closed 19 of
its diplomatic missions in the Middle East and
North Africa as a precaution against terrorist
attack: USA
634) In which sports did Indian girls recently create
history by winning country’s first ever bronze
medal in that sport: Hockey
635) India recently launched National Monsoon
Mission. What is its objective: Improved
prediction of monsoon rainfall
636) In which format of cricket India has been ranked
as no. 1 in the world: ODI (One Day
International)
637) Name the sports man who became first Indian to
win World Games snooker gold medal: Aditya
Mehta
638) Raghuram G Rajan has been appointed to which
important position: Governor, RBI
639) Name the institution that recently imposed a ban
on the mining of sand throughout the country:
National Green Tribunal
640) Village Khirsara in Kutch, Gujarat was in news
recently for what reason: Large number of
Harrappan era artifacts were found there
641) Name the Indian IT company against which a
human rights violation case has been filed in
USA: Infosys
642) Name the iconic 80 years old newspaper of USA
that was sold of recently: The Washington
Post
643) The World Bank and the Asian Development
Bank (ADB) have agreed to provide $ 400 million
to India for what purpose: for reconstruction
and rehabilitation in the disaster-hit areas
in Uttarakhand
644) Which country has agreed to supply 145 state-
of-the art 155 mm towed Howitzer guns to
India: USA
645) Name the Indian shuttler who became the first
Indian woman singles player to win a medal
(bronze) at the World Badminton Championship:
PV Sindhu
646) World Badminton Championships were held at
which place: Guangzhou, China
647) Men’s singles title at World Badminton
Championship was won by: Lin Dan, China
648) Women’s singles title at World Badminton
Championship was won by: Ratchanok
Intanon, Thailand
649) Lt. Col. Sudhakar Jayant of Indian Army won
gold medal in which sport at the international
level: Weight lifting
650) Where in India was a half marathon of 21 kms
was organized, for the first time at an height of
10,050 feet: Keylong, Himachal Pradesh
651) Name the India’s first nuclear submarine whose
atomic reactor was activated recently: INS
Arihant
652) The shortfall of total inflow of foreign currency
compared to total out flow of foreign currency in
a country is known as _________: Current
Account Deficit
653) If our total exports are less than our total
imports, the balance of trade in this situation is
_________: Negative
654) Who is the first women sprinter to win both
individual 100 m / 200 m and 4 x 100 m relay in
World Athletics Championships: Shelly-Ann
Fraser Pryce (Jamaica)
655) India’s fiscal deficit stood at 2.63 trillion rupees
($43.57 billion) in the first quarter of the current
fiscal year. What is its link with the govt.
borrowing: It represents the amount of
govt. borrowing
656) Why government has hiked import duty on
refined gold bars for a third time in eight months
to 10 percent from the earlier 8 percent: To
control the outflow of foreign currency
657) Latest RBI data shows that gross NPA of public
sector banks have increased to 1.76 lakhs crore
as on 30
th
June. What is the name of first stage
of NPA Account: Substandard
658) The govt. has setup production target for food
grains at ______ million tonnes for the year
2013-14: 259
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in Indian Airforce to train its pilots: Pilatus PC-
7
660) Which two countries are having a border dispute
over Gibraltar area in Mediterranean sea: Spain
and UK
661) IAAF World Championship 2013 were held in
which City: Moscow, Russia
662) Write the full form of abbreviation IAAF:
International Association of Athletics
Federations
663) Name the athlete who won largest number of
gold medals (3) at IAAF World Championship
2013 at Moscow: Usain Bolt, Jamaica
664) Name the nuclear weapon capable missile
recently test fired by India: Prithvi – II
665) What is the strike range of Prithvi – II missile:
350 kms
666) Name the India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier,
that was launched at Cochin Shipyard Limited on
August 12: INS Vikrant
667) Name the India’s second aircraft career which is
due to join navy by the end of this year: INS
Vikramaditya
668) Name the only operational aircraft career with
the Indian navy: INS Viraat
669) Dilip Trivedi has been appointed as Director
General of which paramilitary force: Central
Reserve Police Force
670) Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been elected as
President of which country: Mali
671) Name the Indian Navy’s kilo-class submarine
that sank at the naval dockyard in Mumbai due
to two massive explosions inside the submarine,
killing all the 18 mariners: INS Sindhurakshak
672) Desh Prem Azad who passed away recently was
a prominent coach of which sports: Cricket
673) At which place in Ladakh, J&K, Indian airforce
landed its heavy lift transport plane–C-130 Super
Hercules on the world’s highest air strip: Daulat
Beg Oldie
674) The filing of RTI (Right to Information Act)
applications for all central government ministries
and departments has been made online with
launch of website www.rtionline.gov.in. The
prescribed fees can be paid through internet
banking of which bank: SBI and its associate
banks
675) Which state has decided to provide free cycles to
girl students of class 9 and 10 in all govt and
provincial schools: Assam
676) Which area in district Rayagada in Odisha was in
news as all the 12 gram sabhas there
unanimously decided to not to allow bauxite
mining for Vedanta Aluminum, a multi crore FDI
project: Niyamgiri Hills
677) Asian Youth Games were held at which place:
Nanjing, China
678) Name the Indian weightlifter who clinched a gold
medal in the 77 kg category in Asian Youth
Games held at Nanjing, China: Venkat Rahul
Ragala
679) Which bank plans to deploy over 1.25 lakh point-
of-sale (PoS) terminals in the next 18 months to
promote cashless transactions at merchant
outlets: State Bank of India
680) Name the ratio which shows the proportion
between total deposits and total loans of a bank
or area: Credit Deposit Ratio
681) The Insurance Regulatory & Development
Authority has permitted which type of institutions
to act as insurance brokers with the objective of
increasing insurance penetration in the country:
Banks
682) If a bank becomes a insurance broker instead of
a corporate agent, what difference it will make in
the insurance selling options of the bank: as a
broker they can sell insurance products of
more than one company
683) As per revised areas norms for multiproduct
SEZ’s, the minimum area requirement has now
been fixed at______: 500 hectares
684) SEZ’s only for electronics hardware, agro-based
food processing, biotechnology, handicrafts can
now be setup in an area of ________ hectares
only: 10
685) Name the element based on which physicists
have developed most precise clock of the world:
Ytterbium
686) The Reserve Bank has imposed monetary
penalties ranging from 50 lakhs to two crore on
Allahabad Bank, Bank of Maharashtra,
Corporation Bank, Dena Bank, IDBI Bank and
Indian Bank for which offence: Violation of
KYC Norms
687) With a view to ensure free and fair elections, the
Voter Verifiable Paper Trail (VVPAT) system will
be used on trial basis for the first time in which
state: Nagaland
688) Name the scheme wherein one youth from each
rural household that completes 100 days of work
under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Programme will be
eligible for skill training and job placement under
the National Skill Development Scheme:
National Skill Certification and Monetary
Reward Scheme
689) The Union Cabinet cleared a proposal to scrap
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Supreme Court and High Courts. What is the
alternative suggested for this system: Judicial
Appointments Commission
690) RBI has increased the ceiling for FDI in asset
reconstruction companies (ARCs) from 49%
to__%: 74%
691) What is the function of a asset reconstruction
company: Recovery of banks bad loans
692) The government has approved setting up of 12
mega food parks during the 12th Plan period
(2012-17) with an allocation of Rs 1,714 crore.
What is the purpose of setting up of a mega
food park: Boosting the food processing
industry
693) The MPCE, which reflects purchasing power
stands at Rs. 1287.17 for rural areas in 2011-12.
What is the full form of MPCE: Monthly Per
Capita Expenditure
694) What is the MPCE for urban areas for the period
2011-12: Rs. 2477.02
695) Name the two global credit rating agencies
which have decided to maintain the ‘BBB’ rating
for India: Fitch; Standard & Poor’s
696) As per RBI directives and recent government
guidelines, the Adhaar Card is complete and
valid proof for satisfying KYC norms for opening
bank account subject to one condition. What is
that condition: The current address of the
person should be same as mentioned in the
Adhaar Card
697) The Lusofonia Games will be held in which place
in India: Goa
698) In Lusofonia games, sports persons and athletes
from only ________ speaking countries take
part: Portuguese
699) Which Indian sports person has been appointed
the brand ambassador to promote world’s largest
football league Barclays English Premier League
football in India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
700) Name the Iraqi Prime Minister who visited India
recently: Nouri al-Maliki
701) Shailendra Kumar Mandal, Assistant Professor in
the Department of Architecture at National
Institute of Technology, Patna has been awarded
the prestigious Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship.
Name the sponsoring country for this fellowship:
USA
702) As per a recent study India ranks _____ in terms
of number of internet users: 3
rd

703) Indian women's recurve team (archery) won the
gold medal in which international event: The
World Cup Archery (Stage IV)
704) The World Cup Archery championship was held
at which place: Wroclaw, Poland
705) 40th National Women's Premier Chess
Championship was held at which place:
Kolkata
706) The government has set up a Tax Administration
Reform Commission under___________, advisor
to the Finance Minister: Parthasarathy Shome
707) What is the objective of setting up of the Tax
Administration Reform Commission: to review
the application of tax policies and tax laws
in the country
708) Name the sports person who has been selected
as the captain of Indian hockey team: Sardara
Singh
709) Mr. Ronjan Sodhi has been honoured with which
big award recently: Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Award
710) Name the highest recognition given by govt. in
the field of sports: Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Award
711) What is the amount of cash reward given by
under Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award: Rs. 7.50
lakh
712) Arjuna Awards are given in which field: Sports
713) Name the cricketer who has been given Arjuna
Award 2013: Virat Kohli
714) Mr. Gagan Jeet Bhullar has been given Arjuna
Award for which sports: Golf
715) Name the women’s badminton champion
recently honoured with Arjuna Award: Ms. P.V.
Sindhu
716) Dronacharya Awards in sports are given for what
purpose: Excellence in Coaching
717) Name the sports award given for life time
achievement of a sports person: Dyanchand
Award
718) What is the amount of cash reward given to
Arjuna, Daronacharya and Dhyanchand
awardees: Rs. 5 lakh
719) Rajya Sabha passed an amendment to which act
for allowing persons in jail or in police custody to
contest elections: Representation of the
People Act
720) Name one main reason for recent sharp slump in
the value of Rupee against Dollar: Higher
demand of dollars for higher value of
imports and shortage of dollars in
international market
721) A number of artifacts belonging to Harrappan era
were discovered from a place near Bhuj in
Gujarat. What is the name of that place:
Khirsara
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cut off point for identifying BPL families: per
capita consumption expenditure
723) The latest poverty line declared by planning
commission classifies a person in rural area
below poverty line if his MPCE is below Rupees
816. What is the full form of MPCE: Monthly
Per capita Consumption Expenditure
724) Persons having MPCE below Rupees _____ in
urban areas are classified as living below poverty
line: 1000
725) What is the approximate share of exports in the
India’s GDP: 17%
726) Recently RBI increase the interest subvention on
export loans to 3% from existing 2%. For what
purpose it has been done: To promote exports
and to earn more dollars
727) RBI has extended non – CTS cheques
acceptance dead line to _______: 31
st

December, 2013
728) Abbreviation CTS stands for: Cheque
Truncation System
729) CTS pertains to which activity of banking:
Clearance of local / outstation cheques
730) In the cheque truncation system – 2010
guidelines, what has been truncated (cut short):
Physical movement of cheques
731) What is the name of the proposed new all
women bank: Bhartiya Mahila Bank
732) Recently government has allowed _____ more
airports of the country to start tourist visa on
arrival facility: Four
733) The international Sepak Takraw Super Series
2013 was held at which place in India: New
Delhi
734) What is the popular name for Sepak Takraw
Sports: Kick Volleyball
JULY– 2013
735) FIFA Confederations Cup is associated with
which sport: Football
736) The last FIFA Confederations Cup was held in
which country: Brazil
737) Name the team that was beaten by Brazil to win
the FIFA Confederation Cup: Spain
738) Name the university that has been granted
exemption from various taxes and restrictions on
import / export of items: Nalanda University
739) Nalanda University is situated in which state:
Bihar
740) _________, the Nobel laureate is the Project
Director of Nalanda University: Dr. Amartya
Sen
741) The International Cricket Council (ICC) has
announced that India will host the World T20
Cup competition in _______ year: 2016
742) India has been granted permission to hold World
Test Cricket Championship, for the first time in
which year: 2021
743) K.K. Paul has been appointed governor of which
state: Meghalaya
744) Government has set up an investment target of
1.15 lakh crore rupees for PPP projects in
infrastructure sector in the next six months.
What is the full form of PPP: Public Private
Partnership
745) Virendra Kataria has been appointed Lt.
Governor of which Union Territory: Puducherry
746) Name the Academician who has been appointed
as Lt. Governor of Delhi: Najeeb Jung
747) Justice ______ has been appointed as 40
th
Chief
Justice of India: P. Sathasivam
748) Douglas C. Engelbart who passed away recently
was a renowned scientists in which field:
Computers, Inventor of Mouse
749) Indian Navy recently took delivery of INS Trikand
from which country: Russia
750) INS Trikand is what type of war ship: Stealth
Frigate
751) Sriniwas D Patil has what linkage with the Sikkim
State: He is the governor of Sikkim
752) Name the IAS officer who has been appointed as
the new Union Foreign Secretary: Sujatha
Singh
753) Anil Goswami has been appointed as the new
________ of India: Home Secretary
754) Lt. General A.K. Singh retired has been
appointed as _______ of Andaman Nicobar
Island: Lt. Governor
755) As per a recent ruling of the Supreme Court in
the contest of cheque dishonor, Court has held
that only ________ who has signed the cheque
can be held liable for the dishonor: Drawer
756) Cheque bouncing due to insufficiency of funds in
the account is a offence under section _____ of
Negotiable Instruments Act: 138
757) India recently launched IRNSS-1A satellite from
Sriharikota. What is the full form of IRNSS:
Indian Regional Navigation Satellite
System
758) What is the purpose of launching IRNSS: To
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proposed IRNSS project: Seven
760) What is a number of industries covered in the
core sector as part of index of industrial
production: Eight
761) Write the full form of GSLV: Geosynchronous
Satellite Launch Vehicle
762) Name the place in Egypt which has been the epi-
centre of large scale prodemocracy protest:
Tahrir Square
763) In which sector government raise the FDI limit
from 74% to 100%: Telecom
764) 5
th
National Fencing Federation Cup competition
was recently held at ___________, Punjab:
Patiala
765) Marrakesh Treaty has recently been adopted by
more than 150 countries for what purpose: To
facilitate access of published work to blind
/ visually impaired persons
766) The city of Marrakesh where the recent
conference of World Intellectual Property
Organisation (WIPO) was held is in which
country: Morocco
767) Government has released National Cyber
Security Policy – 2013 with what objective: To
counter threats from various cyber
incidents
768) Grand Master Parimarjan Negi is a noted sports
person from which field: Chess
769) 20
th
Asian Athletics Championship were held at
_______, Maharashtra: Pune
770) Arvind Mayaram Committee was setup for what
purpose: To review foreign direct
investment policy
771) As per the proposed Food Security Bill, what
percentage of population has to be covered in
rural areas: 75%
772) As per the proposed Food Security Bill, what
percentage of population has to be covered in
urban areas: 50%
773) The benefit of subsidized food grains under the
proposed food security bill shall be available to
which category of people: To be decided by
each State, individually
774) The Indian Ocean Rim Association for regional
cooperation economic and business conference
was recently held at which place: Mauritius
775) Name the President of Egypt who was removed
from office by the army due to widespread public
protest against him: Mohammed Morsi
776) Vikas Gowda won the first gold medal for India
in the 20
th
Asian Athletics Championship held at
Pune. Name the game for which he won the
gold: Discus Throw
777) Name the first cricket player from Jammu &
Kashmir to join Indian Cricket Team: Parvej
Rasool
778) Francisco Garcia has been appointed head coach
of India’s senior women’s __________ team:
Basketball
779) Inbee Park of South Korea is a famous sports
person from which field: Golf
780) ________ has been declared as the first smoke
free state of India: Himachal Pradesh
781) India has ranked _______ in the Global
Innovation Index (GII) 2013: 66
th

782) Yarnell Hill in Arizona, suffered wide spread wild
fire spreading over 30 square miles. It is in
which country: USA
783) Legendary actor and villain Pran passed away
recently. Write his full name: Pran Krishan
Sikand
784) Name the prestigious award that was conferred
recently on veteran actor Pran: Dada Saheb
Phalke Award
785) R. Chandrashekhar has been elected as
President of NASSCOM. What is the full form of
NASSCOM: National Association of Software
and Services Companies
786) Hemant Soren has been sworn-in as 9
th
Chief
Minister of _____ State: Jharkhand
787) M.S. Raghavan has been appointed Chairman
and Managing Director of _______ bank: IDBI
Bank
788) Marion Bartoli of __________ won the women’s
Wimbledon Trophy: France
789) The Wimbledon championship of tennis is held at
which place: London (UK)
790) Name the winner of men’s singles Wimbledon
Cup: Andy Murray
791) Andy Murray, the noted tennis player is from
which country: UK (United Kingdom)
792) Name the film that won IIFA awards for best
film, best director, best actor, best story and
music: Barfi
793) World Population day is celebrated on which
day: 11
th
July
794) What is the name of the first all women bank to
be started by November 1: Bhartiya Mahila
Bank
795) State Bank of India has launched a prepaid card,
State Bank Xpress Money Card for what purpose:
To facilitate inward remittances from UAE
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gold medal in boxing at Asian Championship held
at Amman, Jordan: Shiva Thapa
797) Name the internationally renowned Buddhist
temple town in Bihar that was in news as it was
rocked by a series of terrorist bomb attacks:
Bodhgaya
798) RBI has advised banks that it will refund _____
percent of losses suffered by banks on account
of receiving counterfeit notes of Rs. 100 and
above if they report the matter to police: 25%
799) Name the company which has started first white
label ATMs in India: Tata Communications
Payment Solutions
800) What is the name of white label ATMs launched
by house of Tata’s: Indicash
801) A white label ATM is one which is licenced to
and maintained by a ________: Non Banking
Entity
802) Which three countries have entered into a
tripartite agreement on maritime cooperation to
secure sea routes in the Indian Ocean region:
India, Sri Lanka and Maldives
803) As per a recent verdict of Supreme Court, MPs,
MLAs and MLCs would automatically lose their
membership if sentenced to jail for not less than
________years by the trial court: two
804) In a pathbreaking verdict, Supreme Court has
debarred persons in jail or police custody from
which activity: Contesting Elections
805) The prestigious Tagore award for Cultural
Harmony for 2013 has been given to _____:
Zubin Mehta
806) Zubin Mehta, winner of 2013 Tagore award is an
internationally renowned person from which
field: Music
807) Name the satellite launched by NASA to study
the effects of sun on weather: IRIS
808) What is the full form of IRIS, the satellite launch
by NASA to study sun: Interface Region
Imaging Spectrograph
809) World’s largest telescope – Square Kilometer
Array (SKA) has started its test run in which
country: Australia
810) To strengthen their recovery efforts, banks have
started ‘naming and shaming’ the guarantors
too, besides the borrowers. What does it means:
Banks will publish the photograph of
defaulter borrower and their guarantor in
the notice published in news paper
811) The bad loans or the loans where recovery is not
proper are called ________ in banking parlance:
Non Performing Assets (NPA)
812) Govt. has approved of the first-ever National
Aviation University of the country at _______ in
Uttar Pradesh: Rae Bareli
813) India’s first only for women university will be
setup at Rae Bareli, UP. What is its name:
Indira Gandhi National University for
Women
814) Name the country that recently passed, for the
first time in its history, law that allows abortion
in limited cases: Ireland
815) To help ST students avail professional education,
the govt. has decided to increase the total family
income ceiling under its scholarship scheme from
Rs two lakh to Rs. _________lakh per annum
from this fiscal: Rs 4.50
816) What do we call the amount that represents the
short falls in earnings from exports and spending
on imports: Trade Deficit
817) In the context of banking, which two items are
represented in CD ratio: Credits (Loans) and
Deposits
818) The Reserve Bank of India has advised banks to
complete account opening process in all the
districts which have started DBT scheme. What
is the full form of DBT: Direct Benefit
Transfer
819) In which state President rules has been revoked
recently: Jharkhand
820) The RBI imposed a total fine of Rs. 49.5 crore on
22 banks for what offence: Violation of anti-
money laundering and know-your-
customer Norms
821) Supreme Court recently quashed the notification
for National Eligibility Entrance Test. This is the
common entrance test for which course:
Medical Courses
822) Govt. has decided to raise a special Mountain
Strike Corps for deployment at which place: Line
of Actual Control (LAC) with China
823) What is the average national literacy rate in
India as per 2011 census: 74%
824) Name the country which is celebrating 100 years
of arrival of Sikhs in that country: USA
825) Which country has recently launched 3 satellites
for scientific experiment on space maintenance
technologies: China
826) Amar G. Bose the Indo-American visionary
entrepreneur and acoustics pioneer passed away
recently. He was famous for which products:
High-Quality Bose Audio Systems and
Speakers
827) Prem Bhatia award are given in which field:
Journalism
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which area: Gadag, Karnataka
829) Corporate giant Arcelor Mittal announced
cancelation of its Rs. 72000 crore steel plant in
India. The plant was planned to be setup in
which area: Keonjhar, Odisha
830) Name the US Vice President who visited India
recently: Joe Biden
831) Which Indian state received largest number of
domestic tourists in 2012: Andhra Pradesh
832) Devendra Jhajharia created history by
becoming the first differently-abled Indian to win
gold in javelin throw at which international
games: The IPC Athletics World
Championships in Lyon, France. (IPC -
International Paralympics Committee)
833) RBI decided to provide support of Rs. 25000
crore to the banks for meeting liquidity
requirements of which financial segment:
Mutual Fund
834) Which European country suffered its first heat
wave after almost a gap of 7 years: Britain
835) Name the famous city of USA that has filed for
bankruptcy: Detroit
836) The Detroit city of USA that filed for bankruptcy
is famous for which product: Automobiles
837) Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has
advised that those earning up to Rs. _____lakh
in salary a year will have to file IT returns this
year: Five
838) Name the new Chairman of the Empowered
Committee of State Finance Ministers on GST:
Abdul Rahim Rather
839) Name the latest advanced meteorological
spacecraft launched by India: INSAT-3D
840) The INSAT-3D satellite was launched from the
rocket of which country: France
841) The book ‘The New Bihar’ has been written by:
N.K. Singh and Lord Nicholas Stern
842) Which Indian port has been given the ‘Major Port
of the Year’ award: Paradip, Odisha
843) Vidya Subrahmaniam, Associate Editor of The
Hindu, has been given which award for the Best
Commentary and Interpretative Writing for 2010:
Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism
Award
844) Ramon Magsaysay Award are given for what
purpose and in which country: for excellence
in community services; Philippines
845) As per the latest Planning Commission figures
percentage of people living below poverty line in
India in 2011-12 has come down to ______
percent: 21.9%
846) As per recent Planning Commission figures,
person spending less then Rs. _______ per day
in rural areas are to be classified as below
poverty line: Rs. 27.20
847) As per recent Planning Commission figures,
person spending less then Rs. _______ per day
in urban areas are to be classified as below
poverty line: Rs. 33.33
848) Govt. has appointed a committee under
chairmanship of _________ to devise the new
methodology for fixing the poverty line: Dr. C.
Rangarajan
849) Fixation of poverty line at present is done as per
the methodology suggested by _______: Late
Suresh Tendulkar
850) The Finance Ministry has constituted
a forum headed by___________, adviser to the
finance minister to interact with industry groups
on a regular basis on tax-related issues or
disputes: Parthasarathi Shome
851) Name the country that planes to hold 7
th

Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas convention in
November 2013: Australia
852) Name the cycling champion who won the famous
Tour de France, the cross country cycle race held
in France: Christopher Froom, UK
853) Which Indian stock exchange has been ranked
no. 1 in the world in terms of volumes in equity
trades: National Stock Exchange
854) Last meeting of Finance Ministers and central
bank Governors from the G20 group of advanced
and emerging nations was held at which place:
Moscow, Russia
855) What is the latest directive from the finance
minister to public sector banks in the context of
ATMs: Install ATMs in all branches by
March, 2014
856) Name the India’s multi barrel rocket launcher
system which has been tested successfully
recently: Pinaka
857) The global tiger day is celebrated on which date:
July, 29
858) Who has been elected as the new President of
Pakistan: Mamnoon Hussain
859) Manmoon Hussain is going to be the ______
President of Pakistan: 12
th

860) In its first quarter review of Monetary Policy
review RBI has lowered the growth projection for
the current fiscal from _________ to _______:
5.7 to 5.5
861) The new Director General of National
Investigation Agency is: Sharad Kumar
862) The bank rate has been aligned with which other
financial benchmark: MSF
863) Full form of MSF is: Marginal Standing
Facility
864) Which jail of India has now got its own FM
Radio: Tihar Jail, Delhi
865) ICC Cricket World Cup will be hosted by which
two countries: Australia & New Zealand

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