Current Affairs Questions and Answers dated on 23/10/2010

1) Who received the best actor for the year 2009?
A) Actor Amitabh Bachchan for the film 'Paa'.

2) Who received the best actress,best director and best feature film award and for which film and who received the Dadasaheb Palke Award?
A) Best actress-Ananya Chatterjee for the film Abohoman
Best Director- Rituparno Ghosh for the film Abohoman.
Best feature film - Kutty Srank ( Malayalam)
D. Rama Naidu received the the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

3)Who is the new Director of Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police 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 military aid to Pakistan.

6) Who is new police chief in Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero, in Mexico?
A) Twenty 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 curb the sale of spurious seeds, to regulate the quality of seeds and plant material.

9) Population stabilization target date pushed back to 2070 from 2045 as stipulated in the national population policy 2000.

10) Which country 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:
1)Recommends for the setting up of special courts under the Essential Commodities Act to try offenses and to constitute a"price stabilization fund".
2)Government intervention when prices becomes unreasonably high.
3) suggest de-listing essential commodities like rice,pulses and edible oils from the future markets.

12)India's 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)
Mohd Al Menshawy ( Egypt)

Secretary-General: George Mieras
CEO: Andrew Shelly

14)Anand outplays Topalov of Bulgaria.

15)Which state won 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.