1) Who is the new captain of west Indies cricket team replacing Chris Gayle?
A) Daren Sammy.
2) Sundaram Mutual to launch captial protection fund, Sundaram Mutual wholly owned by sundaram finance,has a bouquet of equity and fixed income funds.
3) Fifty percent of the Central Government's Rs.40,000 crore divestment target for 2010-11 would be met within this calendar year.
4) Who is the Disinvestment Secretary?
A) Sumit Bose.
5) Which two nations signed the BIPA and when does it comes to effect?
A) The Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPA) between India and Sudan came into effect from Monday (18th Oct 2010) with theexchange of Instuments of ratification (IoR) between two countries. BIPA seeks to promote and protect investments from one country in the other country and it gives thestatus as most favoured nation. So far, India inked BIPA with 79 countries of which 68 are already in force. Sudan is the 69th nations with which the porvisions of the
agreement have now come into effect.
6) New telecom licence renewal policy soon.
7) Which biopharmaceutical company to market Biocon insulin product?
A) Bangalore-based Bicon and pfizer a global biopharmaceutical company to market Biocon's insulin and insulin analog products:recombinant human insulin,
Glargine ,Aspart and Lispro.
Books:
8) Who were the authors of India,Pakistan and the Bomb" Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia
A) Sumit Ganguly and S.Paul Kapur.
9) Who is the author of "Bridge" about the life and rise of Barack Obama?
A) David Remnick.
10) Which court rejected the plea to make Property a fundamental right?
A) Supreme court of india, ( The " right to property was deleted by the 44th constitution Amendment in 1978).
11) Which are the two countries to work closely for reforms in United nations?
A) India and Germany, ( both countries were recently elected as non-permanent members to the security council).
12) Which panel Split on Posco Clearences?
A) An Environmental ministry panel was split in a 3:1 opinion for the environment and forest clearence for the posco project in orissa.
13) Which department wants to get the clearence for the neutrino project?
A) Department of Atomic Energy to located the Indian based Neutrino project and which was approved at Bodi west hills in theni district by the Union ministry of environment and forest.
( The proposed massive neutrino detector will be built in cavern set in massive charnockite rock).
14) Which typhoon hit the philippines in 18th Oct 2010? Name the typhoon which hit in 2006 ?
A) Super typhoon Megi hit the northern philippines. typhoon Durian hit in the year 2006.
15) In which nation the covention on biological diversity meeting taken place?
A) Nagoya, Japan under the United nation's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
16) Which vice-president of the country was moved to vice-chairman of the central millirary commission?
A) China's vice-president Xi Jinping has been appointed as vice-chairman of the country's central millirary commission.
17) Which Biotech launches its indigenously developed cell culture H1N1 influenza vaccine under the band name "HNVAC"?
A) bharat Biotech.
18) Who will inagurate the 21st General meeting of TWAS ( Academy of sciences for the Developing world)?
A) Prime Minster Manmohan Singh to be inagurate the TWAS on 19th Oct 2010 in Hyderabad.
Objective of TWAS: The main objectives of TWAS was to promote science and technology int the least developed countries.
20/10/2010:
1) Which team won the Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy?
A) Tamil Nadu team.
2) Who will coach India for Snooker ?
A) Dereck Hill from England will coach India's Asian games Snooker.
3) Three More tested positive during Commonwealth games.
4) Dr. Rddy's to launch lansoprazole capsules in U.S.
5)Who is the new director on NLC Board?
A) CA.V. Murali, the central Council Member of the Institute of Charted Accounts of Indial has been nominated as a
Director on the board of Neyveli Lignite Corporation(NLC) for three years.
6) Aegis, a global outsourcing servicws company and part of the Essar Group acquires Actionline in Argentina.
7) Indian Oil Corporation(IOC) said it would commission Paradip refinery in Orissa by march 2012.
8) which court directed the Reserve Bank of India to decide on TMB (Tamilnad Mercantile Bank) share transfer?
A) Bombay High Court.
9)Who chairs the sub-committe on MFIs( Micro finance institutions) and who set up the sub-panel?
A) Y.H.Malegam to chair the sub-committe on MFIs and Reserve Bank of India set up the sub-panel.
Imp point: It will study the issues and concerns of the sector and RBI regulates MFIs that are registered with it.
10) Kalanithi Maran and his firm KAL Airways have bought additional 2.28% equity from Spice jet.
11) Whos book was withdrawn by Mumbai University after Shiv Sena's protest?
A) Rohinton Mistry's book Such a Long Journey.
12) Who received India Science Prize ?
A) India's eminent statistician Prof.C.R.Rao.
13) Who received the Ernesto Illy Trieste Science prize and who presented the award?
A) Brazil's energy expert Jose Goldemberg and presented to him by the Prime minster of India Dr. Manmohan Singh.
14) Who was the founder of the TWAS(Academy of science for the Developing world)?
A)Pakistani Noble Laureate Prof. Abdus Salam.
15) China to cut exports of rare earth misnerals up to 30%.
16)which site to bring Dead sea Scrolls online?
A) Google to bring Dead sea Scrolls online with the tie up of Israel's Antiquities, which is consider one of the greatest
archaeological finds of the 2000 year old text.
17) Who wins the Danish literaure award?
A) J.K Rowling has won the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize. Andersen was a Danish writer.
18) Who was appointed as director of U.S high level Nationsl science foundation by Obama administration?
A) Dr. Subra suresh, school of Dean of Engineering at the massachusetts Institute of Technology.
19) which European country is under the protest by the workers and students regarding the pension refors and retirement age?
A) France.
20) Which parliament comes under terrorist attack?
A) Chechen Parliament.
21) who is the chairperson for National Green tribunal?
A)Former supreme court judge, Lokeshwar singh Panta.India launched the National Green tribunal, becoming the third nation to have a special court for environment.
It has four regional benches.
21/10/2010
1) Union cabinet approved New Enemy Property(Amendment and validation) Bill.
2) Bihar goes for first phase of polling today.
a) Total Assembly Seats:243
b) seats polling in Phase 1: 47
3) Which minister was expelled from Shiromani Akali Dal party?
A) punjab finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal
4) who is the chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes?
A) P.L. Punia
5) What is the abbrevation of COWE and who is the its President?
A) COWE stands for Confederation of Women Entrepreneurs and its President is Uma Gurkha
6)Which saudi prince has jailed for life by a British court?
A) Saudi prince Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin nasir al-saud and he is the grandson of Saudi king Abdullah.
7)Who is the eight president of pakistan died recently?
A) Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari.
8) Who received the CSIRs( Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) award for S&T Innovations for Raral Development for 2009?
A) Indian Oil Corporation's Research and Development Cnetre at Faridabad for its ' Servo Agro Spray Oil' for pest control in crops.
9) On who's behalf prestigious lasker award is presented?
A) Laskers award named after the philanthropic couple Albert and mary Woodward Lasker of US and have been given for the
past 60 years.
10) Micromax Informatics,mobile handset manufracturer tied up with Israel's Modus Ltd to co-brand and customised
modu T 3.5G touch phone in India.
11) Rediff.com has launched 'Rediff mail NG', the next generation email service that works across all mobile phone.
12) Who is the new chairman of Ashok Leyland?
A) Dheeraj G. Hinduja has become the chairman of Ashok Leyland.
13) Who is the new Deputy managing Director of Sundaram Mutual?
A) Harsha Viji.
14) Former Indian Test cricketer Parthasarthi Sharma passed away.
15) Who was named the captain of Austrialian Davis Cup teams?
A)Pat Rafter.
16) India won the 2nd ODI cricket match with austraila, Kohli scored century.
17) Union Cabinet declared NIMHANS (National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences) in Bangalore as the institute of national importance.
22/10/2010
1) Food Inflation dips to 15353 percent.
2) The probe has confirmed that the derailment of the jnaneswari Express and its collision with a goods train were caused
by sabotage.
3) What is the scheme announced by the cabinet committee on economic affairs for improving maternal and cild health?
A) Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY0 a monetary scheme for pregnant women and lactating mothers on a pilot bais in 52 districts in this five year plan.
4) The world Series of Boxing has replaced the Delhi franchise with korean ourfit Incheon Redwings.
5) Who is the Director General of WTO ?
A) Pascal Lamy.
6) Vodafone Essar to launch 3G by early 2011.
7) who were the interlocutors appointed by the Indian governement for Jammu and kashmir issue?
A) The interlocutors are eminent journalist Dillep Padgaonkar, noted academician Radha Kumar and Information Commissioner M.M.Ansari
8) Who were the three senior Bristish parliament members from the House of Lords has been suspenede?
A) Lord Swraj Paul, Baroness Manzila Pola Uddin and independent Lord Amir Bhatia.
9) Who is the new Mayor of Moscow?
A) Deputy Prime minister Sergei Sobyanin is the new Mayor of Moscow replacing Yuri Luzhkov.
10) Santosh G. Honavar, head , ophthalmic and facial plastic surgery, has received shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize
23/10/2010
1) Who received the best actor for the year 2009?
A) Actor Amitabh Bachchan for the filim 'Paa'.
2) Who received the best actress,best director and best feature film award and for which filim and who received the Dadasaheb Palke Award?
A) Best actess-Ananya Chatterjee for the filim Abohoman
Best Director- Rituparno Ghosh for the filim Abohoman.
Best feature filim - Kutty Srank ( Malayalam)
D. Rama Naidu received the the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
3)Who is the new Director of Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Plice Academy?
A) Rajiv Mathur
4) What is the new Nuclear powered submarine launched by British Royal Navy?
A)HMS Astute.
5)United States has approved $2.29 billion as a millitary aid to pakistan.
6) Who is new police cheif in Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero, in mexico?
A) Tewnty year old Ms. Marisol Valles Garcia.
7) Which U.K based broadcast firm comes under the CWG scam scanner?
A) SIS live.
8) Union government will introduce the amended seeds bill,2004 in parliament in the winter session to crub the sale of spurious seeds, to regulate the quality of seeds and plant material.
9) Population stabilisation target date pushed back to 2070 from 2045 as stipulated in the national population policy 2000.
10) Who inked the social security pact with seoul?
A) India
11) Who chairs the working group on consumer Affairs set up by the prime minister Manmohan singh?
A) Gujarat Chief minister chairs the group and the members are:
Chief minister of Maharastra- Ashok Chavan
Deputy chief minister of Tamil Nadu- M.K.Stalin.
Andhra pradesh minister for Civil supplies-K.Krishna Rao.
Important in Draft Action Plan: Recommeds for the setting up of specal courts undet the Essential Commodities Act to try offences and to constitute a"price stabilisation fund".
Government intervention when prices becomes unreasonably high.
It suggest delisting essential commodities like rice,pulses and edible oils from the future markets.
12)Indias Foreign direct investment(FDI) dips to $1.33 billion (i.e almost 60%) in August this year
13) Who is re-elected as the President of World Squash Federation?
A) N.Ramachandran
Vice-presidents: Chris Stahl( England)
Heather Deayton( Hong Kong)
Ohd Al Menshawy ( Egypt)
Secretary-General: George Mieras
CEO: Andrew Shelly
14)Anand outplays Topalov of Bulgaria.
15)Which state win the women's 21st Federation Cup throwball championship title?
A) Karnataka beats Tamil Nadu.
16) Who set the Guinness record in chess?
A) Israeli Grand Master Alik Gershon set the Guinness record beating Iranian GM Morteza Mahjoob for simultaneous matches
after a marathon 19-hour chess encounter against 523 players.
24/10/2010
1) NAC consensus on food security, 75% of polpulation to get 35 Kg of foodgrains; 20 Kg for rest.
Sonia Gandhi led National Advisory Council have got a consensus on a universal food security system with legal gaurantees.
2)Who is the RSS leader's name figured in Ajmer blast charge sheet case?
A) Indresh Kumar
3)Which country has just concluded the Joint Military exercise with India?
A) Russia.
4) Which website in US has leaked the civilian killing and torture in Iraq?
A) Wikileaks
5) Foodgrains production in Andhra Pradesh during Kharif and rabi in 2010-2011 is expected to go up to
an unprecedented level of 220 lakh tonnes exceeding earlier estimates by 11 lakh tonnes.
6) K.E. Eapen a pioneer in Journalism and communication education in India passed away on 23rd Oct.
The book written by Eapen " Critical Issues in Communication:Looking Inward for Answers".
7) Which city is ready for Asian Games?
A) Guangzhou in china.
8) Which nations has signed $1billion line of credit agreenment?
A) India and Bangladesh.Both nations have also agreed to establish 'Border Haats' along the Meghalaya-Bangladesh boarder.
9) Who is the National Football coach for India?
A)Bob Houghton.
10)Which state won the men's throwball national championship?
A) Delhi beating Karnatak , Tamil Nadu finished third.
25/10/2010.
1) Gujjars, Bakerwals demand separate region pir Panjal inn Jammu and Kashmir.
2) India and Japan will sign a document that concludes negotiations on the Comprehensive Econonic Partnership Agreenment(CEPA)
3)Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata shortlisted for Fortune award for the'Business Person of the Year'.
4) Who were the others business leaders shortlisted for the Fortune award?
A) Chairman of the Befkshire Hathhaway, Warren Buffett.
Apple chief, Steve Jobs.
Ford Motor CEO, Alan Mulally
Google CEO, Eric Schmidt.
DuPont CEO, Ellen Kullman
McDonald's CEO, James A.Skinner
Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings.
5) Which region in Maharastra has a high rate of malnutrition and child deaths?
A) Melghat region.
6) Which auto gaint is the joint venture partner with Nissan?
A) Askok Leyland.
7) Who won the Stockholm Open tennis tournament?
A) Swiss's Roger Federer beating Germany's Florian Mayer and equal's pete Sampras's haul of 64 ATP titles.
8)Who won the Men and Women Kremil Cup?
A) Men: Viktor Troicki beat Marcos Baghdatis
Women: Viktoria Azarenka beat Maria Kirilenko .
9) Which Srilankan Boxer was tested positive for banned steroid?
A) Boxer Manju Wanniarachchi, lone gold medalist at Commonwealth Games for Boxing.
10) Who won the Korean Grand Prix?
A) Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton finishes second.
11)Who is the Indian archery coach died in road mishap?
AA) Cherukuri Lenin.
12) India won the ODI series aganist Australians.
13) Which state requested for technical team to study subansiri dam safety?
A) Assam, for Subansiri lower Hydroelectric Project.
26/10/2010
1) Which panel will look into the corruption scam in Commonwealth Games?
A) V.K.Shunglu , he was the former head of Comptroller and Auditor-General of India.
2) Who was the only indian cricketer named in ESPN-cricifo's alltime test world XI?
A) Sachin Tendulkar.
3) Which British Olympic rowing champion has died?
A) Andy Holmes
4)'A Time To Jump' is the auto-biography of which former Olympic,Commonwealth,European and World champion?
A) Jonathan Edwards.
5)Which countries stock exchanges announced an merger that will create world's largest and most diversified financial trading hubs?
A)Singapore and Austrialian stock exchanges.
6) India's Export is at 2-Year high registering a jump of 23.2 percent at $18.02 billion. a 27.6 per cnet increase compared to last year.
7)Bharathi Airtel to launch 3G services by year-end.
8) Who has been elected as the chairman of Indo-American Chamber of Commerce(Tamil Nadu branch)?
A) N.V.Srinivasan.
9)Which industry gets best exporter award?
A) Sterlite industries.
10) Who won the Hindu and Mahindra & Mahindra contest held during the FIFA world Cup in South Africa?
A) Ved Prakash Kamboj.
11) Who were the winners of Infosys Prize 2010 and in which branches they received the prize?
A) Chandrashekar Khare for excellence in Mathematical Science.
Sandip Trivedi for the prize in Physical Science.
Ashutosh Sharma won the prize in Engineering and computer category.
Chetan E.Chitnis won the prize for Life Sciences category.
Amita Baviskar and Nandini Sundar, were declared joint winners of the prize for excellence in social sciences.
12) Indonesia hit by a Huge earth quake near the southwest of the pagai selatan in mentawai Island.
13) Where is the Mount Merapi the most active volcano is situated?
A)Indonesia.
27/10/2010
1) Which invertebrate was most famous during FIFA worldcup for the correct predictions of the outcoming of the match result has died?
A) Paul the 'Psychic' octopus.
2) Supreme court of India has concelled the bails of the accused in the multi-core Satyam fraud case, who were they are?
A) Ramalinga Raju,B.Rama Raju, V.Srinivas,G.Ramakrishna,Venkatapathi Raju and Ch.Srisailam.
3) Decks Cleard for trial court verdict in Gujarat riots cases.
4)Centre not for filing charges against Arundhati Roy and Geelani in sedition charges.
5) In which city spiritual leader sri sri Ravishankar has inagurated the art of living ashram?
A)Beijing.
6)Union communication ministry announced a number portability from November 1st, what is it mean?
A) The mobile number portability, which allows subscribers to retain numbers even after changing operators.
7)Who won the 8th Construction world annaul awards?
A) Lanco Infratech was given the fastest growing constrution company.
8) Who sentenced to death in Iraq by its High tribunal for committing crimes against humanity?
A)Tariq Aziz, a former Deputy prime minister who was also an aide to saddam hussein.
9) Which country has sounded the tsunami threat?
A) Indonesia, Island Mentawai which is closest to the epicentre.
10) Which country in the world is most prone to the earthquake and volcanic and why?
A) Indonesia the world's largest archipelago, si most prone to to the earthquake and volcanic activity due to ists location on the
pacific Ring of Fire- a series of fault lines stretching from the western Henisphere through Japan and Southeast Asia.
11) Which country unveils world's fastest train and will connect which two cities?
A) China, will connect between Shanghai and Hangzhou.
12) New ULIP from ING Life.ING Life India has announced the launch of its new unit linked insurance product, ING Prospering Life.
13)Tata Steels forms venture with NML(New Millennium Capital Corp) of canada.
14) Tata Housing to develop residential projects in chennai.
28/10/2010
1) Who is the new Chief Electror officer of Andhra pradesh?
A) Bhanwarlal.
2) Which consortium has received a 30-day termination notice from BCCI?
A)Kochi consortium of the Indian Premier League.
3) Which nation signed the nuclear liability treaty?
A)India singned the Convention on Supplementry Comensation for NUclear Damage(CSC).
4) Which states host the Jatinga festival to showcase mysterious bird phenomenon?
A) Assam, Jatinga is located at the foothill of the Borail range and the only hill station in the state.
5) Who is the former president of Argentine had died?
A)Nestor Kirchner.
6)Who is the senior advocate inducted into the law commission?
A)Narsingha Mishra a senior advocate in orissa high court has appointed as 19th Law Commission additional member.
7) Which nation is planning to set up the world's largest solar power plant?
A) South Africa.
8)Six new Isotopes of the superheavy elements discovered by the U.S Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory?
A) Six isotopes, never seen befor of the superheavy elements 104 through 114Ahave been detected.
1) Isotopes of copernicium(element 112)
2) Isotopes of darmstadtium(element 110)
3)Isotopes of hassium(element 108)
4)Isotopes of seaborgium( element 106)
5)Isotopes of rutherfordium (element 104)
and new isotope of 114 yet to be named.
9) What is Shale gas?
A) It is an uncoventional gas trapped in sedimentry rocks.(Shale gas is trapped in geological shale formation).
10) SEBI has allowed domestic bourses to introduce European style stock options, How do it operate?
A)Wherein positions can be settled only on the day of expiry. ( American format, where contracts can be squared off prior to the expiry date).
29/10/2010
1) Which Indian premier Institutes to partner with Yale University for academic leadership development programmes?
A) IIM-Kozhikode and IIT-Kanpur.
2) Food inaflation fell sharply to 13.75%.
3) UDF emerges on top in Kerala local body elections.
4) Which two nations will be the new members of the East Asia Summit?
A) United Sates and Russia.
5)Who is the first women in pakistan to elect as the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association?
A) Asma Jehangir, she also a veteran human rights activist.
6)Which nation has emerged as the second biggest producer and exporter of un-manufactured tobacco?
A)India.
7) Who were received Jamnalal Bajaj award 2010 for outstanding contributions in social development?
A)Chewang Norphel, applications of science and technology for rural development. He is from Ladakh
Chunibhai Vaidya, a nonagenarian from ahmedabad for his outstanding contribution in the field of constructive work.
Ms.Shakuntala Choudhary, award for development and welfare of women and children from assam
Ms.Lia Diskin from Brazil,was award for promoting Gandhian values outside India.
8) Which Former Kerala IGP gets life term for killing a naxalite Leader Varghese?
A)K.Lakshmana
9) What was the Superbug bacteria named by the Indian scientists?
A)Pseudomonas delhiensis
10) Tata Global Beverages and Pepsico to hold equal stake in joint venture.
11)Which is the most expensive car launched in India?
A)Volkswagen Group company Bugatti has launched its super premium sports car 'Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport'.
12)No joint ventures proposal with Arcelor mittal and SAIL.
13) Who has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Overseas Bank?
A) M.Narendra
14) Who was named as the new captain of the US davis Cup team?
A) Jim Courier was named as the new captain replacing Patrick McEnroe.
15) South Africa clinches Twenty20 series with Pakistan.
30/10/2010
1) The Karnataka High Court justice V.G.Sabhahit upheld the October 10th disqualification fo the 11 rebel BJP MLA from assembly membership.
2) Who carried out the first BASE jump in the country?
A)Lt.Col.Satyendra Verma. He is the captain of the Army Adventure Skydiving team. He jumped from the 236-meter Pitampura TV tower in New Delhi.
3)Which bacteria associated with the superbug?
A)New Delhi metallo-B-lactamese(NDM-1)
4)Which nation has overtaken the U.S. as home of the world's fastest supercomputer?
A) China's Tianhe-1A,named in honour of the Milky Way.It capable of sustained computing of 2.507 petaflops, which
equivalent to 2.507 trillion calculations each seconds.
5)Who introduced India's Ace badminton Saina Nehwal to this field and had died recently?
A) P.S.S.N.Prasad.
6)Recently we are hearing from news papers about Adarsh Housing Society scam, what is it about?
A) Adarsh Housing Society which originally meant to be a six-storey bulding to house kargil war heores and widows, was allotted 40% falt to civilians.
7)West Bengal government issued an order sactioning Rs.1.59 crore as compensatin for the Nandigram incident.
8) Check below for the list of fiction books and their authors?
A) The Thing About Thugs- Tabish Khair
Eunuch Park - Palash Krishna Mehrotra
Way to Go - Upamanyu Chatterjee
If I Could Tell You - Soumya Bhattacharya
The Pleasure Seekers - Tishani Doshi
Neti,Neti - Anjum Hasan
The To-Let House - Daisy Hasan
Venus Crossing - Kalpana Swaminathan
Come,Befor Evening Falls- Manjul Bajaj
Serious Men - Manu Joseph
Saraswati Park - Anjali Joseph
9)Who will head the Kishanganga arbitration court?
A)Judge Stephen M.Schwebel,former president of the Internation Court of Justice, to resolve the Kishanganga (a tributary of the Jhelum in Jammu and kashmir) hydroelectric project dispute between India and Pakistan.
10) Which was another tributary to Jhelum river apart from Kishanganga?
A)Bonar Madmati Nallah.
11) RBI to examine recovery mechanism of MFIs
12)The Power Finance Corporation (PFC) and the Nuclear Corporation of India Ltd.(NPCIL) haven entered into a memorandum of understanding to setup nuclear power projects.
13)Who is the new chairman of Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals?
A)K.Raghavendra Rao
14) Who was the former Australian fast bowler removed from its national selection panel?
A)Merv Hughes
15) Who are the winners of the boys' and girls' National Junior squash championships Under-19?
A)Tamil Nadu's Ramit Tandon( Boy's) and Anaka Alankamony (Girls's).
16) Which Olympic champion has unexpectedly announced her retirement in Tennis?
A)Russia's Elena Dementieva.
31/10/2010
1) Explosives in air parcels set off U.S. terror alert sent from Yemen.
2)What it is called the shifting from the summer capital to the winter capital in Jammu and kashmir?
A)Darbar move , Srinagar( Summer capital) to Jammu (Winter Capital)
3)Who won the Miss World 2010 tiltle?
A)Alexandria Mills from the United States.
4)Who defeated the defending champion Pankaj Advani from the world professional billards championships quaterfinals?
A)Dhruv Sitwala.
5) Who won the BILT Opend golf tilte in Bangalore?
A) Anirban Lahiri
1/11/2010
1)Where is two million year old Borra caves located in Andhra pradesh?
A)Vizag district.
2) Supreme court of India said that dowry killing deserve death penalty.
3) Under which section in Indian penal code related to dowry death?
A) Section 304-B
4)Which is the biggest world's fair in history?
A)Shanghai Expo.
5) Number Portability from November 25
6) India' Forex reserves falls down from $1.034 billion to $295.40 billion.
7) Which state won the girls' title in the 61st IMG Reliance National Junior basketball championship?
A) Kerala defeated host Maharastra.
8)Who won the WTA championships final at Doha?
A)Kim Clijsters of Belgium beating World No.1 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark.
9)Who is yamaha's newly crowned world champion of Portuguese MotoGP?
A) Spain's jorge Lorenzo
10) Who won the men's and women's titles in the South zone inter-university badminton tournment held in Vijayawada?
A) Calicut and M.G. University, Kottayam
11) ICC dismisses pakistan cricketers' appeal regarding suspension for spot-fixing allegation, who were they?
A)Salman Butt and Mohammad Amir.
2/11/2010
1) High voter turnout in Naxal belt of Bihar, FIRs aganist Lalu,Rabri for code violation.
2) Who won The Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010?
A) Manu Joseph for his debt novel Serious Men.
3)Union government has ruled out dual pricing for diesel.
4) China census focus on Migrants, china began its sixth population censusand first in a decade.
5) Saudi clerics challenged the saudi government's policy to employ jobs for women as a cashier in supermarkets.
6)Who won the Brazil's presidential election?
A)Ms.Dilma Rousseff the first ever woman president of Brazil
7)Microsoft to open research centre near Moscow.
8)Reserve Bank hints at monetary action to contain inflation.
9) Exports up 23% in September recording two year high of $18.02 billion
10) SBI Cards, India's only independent credit card issuer launches platinum card.
11)OVL(ONGC Videsh Ltd) eyeing U.S. energy major EXXON Mobils stake in Angola.
12)Which country sets deadline for ONGC-Hinduja consortum to deside on gas field in Persian Gulf?
A)Iran.
13)Who won the 10th World professional billiards title?
A) Mike Russell (Britian) beats India's Dhruv Sitwala.
14) First Indian Scientific expedition to south pole takes off, An eight member team led by the Director of National Centre for
Antarctic and Ocean Research ,Rasik Ravindra is to leave 'Maitri' , the Indian station.
3/11/2010
1)Reserve Bank tightens norms for home loans.
Important points:
a)Increasing the policy short-term indicative rates by 25 basis points
b)It hiked for housing loan above Rs.75 lakhs to 125 percent.
c)RBI has proposed that the LTV (loan to value) ration for housing loans hereafter should not exceed 80 percent. Earlier there is no regulatory ceiling on the loan to value(LTV) ration in respect bank's housing loan.
d)The repo rate has been raised to 6.25 precent and the reverse repo rate to 5.25 percent, cash reserve ration was at 6 percent.
e)The RBI has increased the threshold limit for real time gross settlement system(RTGS) transaction from the present limit of Rs.1 lakh to Rs.2 lakh.
f)RBI to open its sub-office at six states of Nortease,namely,Arunachal Pradedh,Nagaland, Manipur,Mizoram,Tripura and Meghalaya.
2) Kashmir interlocutors submit report to Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram .
3)Which court overturned the decision to extradite a self-confessed parachuted weapon into India?
A) Danish court, the the convict is Niels Holcks
4)Which Labour MP has resigned as Deputy speaker from the House of Lords over his expense claims?
A)Lord Swarj Paul.
5)Who won the Guinness Book of World Records in three consecutive years by performing 55 concerts in 24 hours?
A) Ghazal Srinivas.
6)India to flight test its Indigenous AWACS by 2011.
7)Where is Jakhu Hills situated?
A)Himachal Pradesh.
8)No stay against minimum wages for MNREGS workers
9) Which mine in the world is famous for frequently yielded white diamonds?
a)Letseng mines( Kingdom of Lesotho) .
10)Who received the Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize ?
A)Irom Chanu Sharmila from Imphal
11) Biotechnology as subject in pre-medical entrance examination approved.
12) U.K., France sign historic 50-year nuclear deal.
13)South African fast bowler Makhaya Ntini has formally retired form international cricket.
14)Tamil Nadu made a clean sweep of the boys' and girls'(Under-19) titles in the national junior inter sate squash tournment held in chennai.
15) Who will carry the natiohal flag during the opening ceremony of the Asian Games in Guangzhou on November 12?
A)Rifle shooter Gagan Narang.
