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Q1. The UN has declared 2008 as the International Year of .......... .
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Q2. Who is the new Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) of India?
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Q3. Name the realty major which has become India's second most-valued private sector company after RIL?
Correct answer : 4
Q4. Which of the following is associated with the issue of the debt burden of farmers?
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Q5. What numbers of targets have been proposed in the Eleventh Plan at the national and state levels respectively for poverty eradication, education, health status of women and children, infrastructure and environment?
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Q6. The Gross Budgetary Support (GBS) in the Eleventh Plan has been fixed nearly I 1.5 per cent higher at .......... .
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Q7. The Eleventh Plan envisages an average nine per cent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the first four years. For the terminal year 2011-12 the GDP growth rate has been targeted at .......... .
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Q8. The overall investment in the Eleventh Plan is of ........... .
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Q9. Name the country's highest policy making body which has endorsed Eleventh Five Year Plan document.
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Q10. 34. Which of the following statements are true about the study on municipal finance conducted by the RBI's Development Research Group (DRG)? A. '1,000 cr is needed every year for urban infrastructure in next ten years. B. Out of 18 functions to be performed by Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), less than half have a financing source; each function should be backed by a financing source C. Municipal bond market norms should be liberalised D. ULBs have considerable scope for debt financing E. Revenues and expenditure have to be matched by reforming property tax.
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Q11. Which of the following statements are true about the agreement signed between India and China? A. India and China agreed to continue high-level exchange. Beijing invited President Pratibha Patil while India invited Chairman of the Chinese National People's Congress to visit India in 2008. B. Foreign ministers of both countries will visit this year-Pranab Mukherjee in the first half of 2008 while Yang Jiechi in the second half. C. India is to host joint military exercises this year. Defense dialogue is also to be held at the level of Defense Secretary this year. D. Bilateral trade target has been revised to $60 billion by 2010. Earlier target was $40 billion, but both countries have already touched $38 billion. E. MoU between Planning Commission and the Chinese National Development Reforms Commission, along with nine other pacts, has been signed.
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Q12. Bernard Kouchner, who visited India recently, is the foreign minister of ........... .
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Q13. Name the largest telecom service provider in the country which has introduced a personal accidental insurance coverage policy, free of cost, for its 34 million customers having landline, WLL and post-paid mobile.
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Q14. After a threat by UNESCO to drop the Bharatpur bird sanctuary from its World Heritage List, ........... government is scrambling to bring 300 million cubic feet of water from Goverdhan drain to Keoladeo National Park in the hope that it will bring back the days of feathered glory.
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Q15. Which bank is set to raise the country's largest ever issue by the end of the current financial year in Mar 2008? The bank will raise ' 16,736 crore through a rights issue. This will dwarf the ' 11, 500 crore issue that Reliance Power plans to raise through the largest ever public issue, which closed on January 18?
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Q16. Which of the following is not correct about the Golden Globe Awards?
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Q17. Prern Kumar Dhumal is the chief minister of .......... .
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Q18. Who among the following has said that compulsory military service could solve the human resources crisis in the Indian Army?
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Q19. India has won the third Test match in Perth, defeating Australia by ..........
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Q20. Viren Rasquinha, an international player, has announced his retirement from ........... .
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Q21. Alvaro Colorn was sworn in as the first leftist president of ........... in more than 50 years, promising to tight poverty in a nation where half the people live on less than $1 a day.
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Q22. Which country has banned the import and exhibition of The Kite Runner, a film about the troubled friendship of two Afghan boys. on the grounds that it could incite violence? The Kite Runner is based on the 2003 best selling novel by US-based Afghan author Khaled Hosseini.
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Q23. Name the J&K education minister and Pradesh Congress Committee chief who has resigned over corruption charges involving a member of his staff after the issue rocked the state assembly.
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Q24. With an eye on the polls later this year, the Raman Singh government in Chattisgarh launched a scheme to provide rice at ............. per kg to everyone below the poverty line.
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Q25. Which state was recently in news for the breaking out of bird flu?
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Q26. India and China on Jan 14 raised the target for two-way trade between the two Asian giants by 50%, pegging it at $60 billion for ........... .
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Q27. Which of the following statements are true about the recommendations of the Rangarajan Committee? A. In its final report given to finance minister P. Chidambaram, the committee on financial inclusion, headed by the chairman of Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, C Rangarajan, suggested that each branch of PSU banks should open 250 new accounts every year. B. Chidambaram said it meant that 12.5 million accounts would be opened each year, given the current strength of 50,000 branches in the country C. The committee also recommended that individuals should be appointed as banking correspondents D. Currently, only non-government organisations and micro-finance institutions could be appointed as banking correspondents as per RBI norms.
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Q28. Which magazine has named Pakistan ‘the world's most dangerous place', saying it deserved the title, especially after Benazir's killing?
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Q29. Former chiefminister of Meghalaya and Congress leader who has resigned from the the State Assembly and the Congress party.
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Q30. The United States capitalised on Jelena Jancovic's injury misfortune to beat ........... 2-1 in the final and win its fourth Hopman Cup in six years in Perth.
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Q31. The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has asked the Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) to invest their surplus money only in mutual funds where the collective holdings of government and its institutions exceed ................ .
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Q32. Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said the government would increase the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) allocation for health to ........... from the present 1 per cent in the XI Five-Year Plan.
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Q33. The Union Cabinet has given its nod for the continuation of the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) in the XI Plan with the promise of providing electricity to all rural households by the end of this Five-Year Plan in .............. .
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Q34. Name the President who, emboldened by his success in a hostage release, took the side of leftist rebels in neighbouring Colombia's decades-old civil conflict, calling the guerrillas "true armies" and asking the international community to stop classifying them as terrorists.
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Q35. The government has ordered a CBI inquiry into the charges of fraud and corruption in five health projects in the country supported by the World Bank. Which of the following are the projects covered by the World Bank report? A. $114-m Malaria Control Project B. $82.1-m Orissa Health Project C. $54- m Food and Drug Capacity Building Project D. $193.7-m Second National HIV/AIDSControl Project E. $124.8 m Tuberculosis Control Project
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Q36. Bangaladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has been chosen for the prestigious .............. award in recognition of her writing on women's rights.
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Q37. Name the South African police chief who has resigned as President of Interpol to fight corruption allegation.
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Q38. India's first international potato convention was held in ........... .
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Q39. The former British prime minister ........... is to join Wall Street bank JP Morgan as a part-time advisor. He became international envoy to the Middle East after standing down following a decade as premier in June last year. He will advise the financial services giant on political and strategic issues.
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Q40. Which state govt has declared 2008 as the "Year of Education" in the state?
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Q41. Which of the following has chosen to withdraw from the One Laptop Per Child education computer organisation?
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Q42. Power Grid Corporation of lndia has received an in-principle approval for maintenance and expansion of power grids in ........... .
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Q43. Name the two India-born British entrepreneurs who have been named among the 100 most powerful people in the UK business in a list compiled by the Times in London.
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Q44. With reference to the Indian satellites and their lauanchers, consider the following statements: (1) All the INSAT series of satellites were launched abroad. (2) PSLVs were used to launch IRS series of satellites. (3) India used the indigenously built cryogenic engines for the first time for powering the third stage of GSLV. (4) GSAT, launched in the year 2001, has payloads to demonstrative digital broadcasts and internet services. Which of the above given statements are correct?
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Q45. Assertion (A): Artificial satellites are always launched from the earth in the eastward direction. Reason {R}: The earth rotates from west to east and so the satellite attains the escape velocity.
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Q46. In the year 2001, NASA launched a spacecraft to Mars named .....
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Q47. Among the following, which one has the largest number of speakers in the world?
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Q48. Which among the following countries was the earliest to give women the right to vote?
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Q49. Sandeep Pandey won the Ramon Magsasay Award in 2002 for his field of work in
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Q50. Consider the following statements: (1) Crocodile (2) Elephant. Which of these is/are endangered species?