Current Affairs Questions and Answers Dated on 20-10-10

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 the exchange 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 the
status 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.


Current Affairs of 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.