Current Affairs Questions and Answers Dated on 21-10-10

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 is 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 customized 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.