General awareness february 2015 issue

GENERAL AWARENESS – FEBRUARY 2015 1

GENERAL AWARENESS

FEBRUARY 2015 Vol. 3, Issue 08

A PUBLICATION OF GYANM EDUCATION & TRAINING INSTITUTE PVT. LTD.

SCO 13-14-15, 2ND FLOOR, SEC 34-A, CHANDIGARH

CONTENTS

CURRENT AFFAIRS OCT TO DEC 2014 1-27

BULLET NEWS JULY TO SEP 2014 29-40

444 – IT MCQs 41-58

IBPS SO–IT MOCK TEST 60-75

LATEST GK BULLETS 76-99

FIGURES TO REMEMBER

REPO RATE 8.00%

REVERSE REPO RATE 7.00%

MARGINAL STANDING FACILITY RATE

9.00%

STATUTORY LIQUIDITY RATIO 22%

CASH RESERVE RATIO 4.00% BANK RATE 9.00%

BASE RATE(s) (of various banks)

9.80% – 10.25 %

INDIA’S RANK IN

Travel and Tourism Index 65th

Corruption Perceptions Index 85th

The Web Index 2014 48th

Global Terrorism Index 2014 6th

Global Slavery Index 2014 1st

Gender Gap Index 114th

Ease of Doing Business (World Bank) 142nd

Global Hunger Index 2013 55th

Global Competitiveness 71st

Human Development Index 135th

Global Innovation Index 76th

Economic Confidence Index 01st

Choice for FDI 143rd

Press Freedom Index 2014 78th Social Progress Index 102nd

World Press Freedom Index 140th

Environment Performance Index 155th

NATIONAL NEWS

DECEMBER 2014

Bharat Ratna for Vajpayee and Malviya Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Late Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya will be honoured with Bharat Ratna-country's highest civilian award. The announcement was made in a press communique issued by the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Dec 24 on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian statesman who was the first Prime Minister from outside Congress to serve a full five-year term from 1998 to 2004. A parliamentarian for over four decades, Mr. Vajpayee was elected to the Lok Sabha nine times, and twice to the Rajya Sabha. He completed 90 years on 25th December. He is the seventh Prime Minister to receive the award. Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya was an Indian educationist and politician well known for his role in Indian freedom struggle. He was the President of the Indian National Congress in 1909 and 1918. He is most remembered as the founder of Banaras Hindu University, the largest residential university in Asia. 25 Dec marks his 153rd birthday. He is the 12th person to be named posthumously for Bharat Ratna. PUTIN OPENS ECONOMIC DOORS FOR INDIA

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi to attend the 15th India-Russia annual summit on Dec 11. He addressed the World Diamond Congress held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. Russian diamond mining giant ALROSA

agreed to supply diamonds worth $2.1 billion in the next three years to 12 Indian companies.

Russia's atomic firm Rosatom agreed to supply 12 nuclear energy reactors to India over next 20 years,

Russian oil major Rosneft signed a 10-year crude supply deal with India’s Essar Oil.

The two countries agreed to enhance the bilateral trade from current $10 billion to $30 billion by 2025.

The two leaders unveiled the ‘Druzhba (friendship in Russian)-Dosti' vision to strengthen the bilateral partnership over the next decade

GANDHINAGAR TO HOST 13TH PBD 13th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas will be held from 7th to 9th January at Gandhinagar in Gujarat. It will celebrate 100 years of Mahatama Gandhi's return from South Africa to India on 9th January, 1914. This year’s theme is ‘Apna Bharat, Apna Gaurav’


INDIA 65TH IN WORLD IN TOURISM World Economic Forum (WEF) released the 2013 Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index. The index assesses 140 nations for their efforts made to develop the travel and tourism sector. India has been placed at 65th position in the index topped by Switzerland. INDIA PLACED 85TH IN CORRUPTION INDEX As per the Corruption Perceptions Index – 2014 released by the Transparency International, India stands at 85th position among 175 countries, (scoring 38 marks) as against 94th last year. India shares its position with Sri Lanka. Denmark retained its position as the least corrupt country with a score of 92 while North Korea and Somalia shared the last place, scoring just eight. JUNE 21 IS INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY On Dec 17, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution to declare June 21 as International Yoga Day, recognising the ancient Indian science's "holistic approach to health and well-being." Indian Prime Miniser Mr. Modi had made the proposal during his address to the UNGA on 27th of September this year. Why June 21? It marks the beginning of summer solstice in Northern Hemisphere and is the longest day of the year receiving highest amount of solar energy. 28000 CRORE SUPPORT FOR NORTH EAST Focusing on improving connectivity to the north-east, Central govt plans to provide Rs 28,000 crore for laying new railway lines in the region and develop the "untapped" tourism potential of the area. Besides, Rs 5000 crore each will be provided for extending 2G mobile coverage and for improvement of power system in northeastern region. INDIA TOPS IN OUTFLOW OF BLACK MONEY As per the Global Financial Integrity, India figures among the top three countries that witnessed highest outflow of black money in 2012 with about 94.76 billion US dollars or nearly 6 lakh crore rupees going out of the Country. INDIA FARES 48TH ON INTERNET UTILISATION The Web Index 2014 released by World Wide Web Foundation to measure the internet's contribution to social, economic and political progress in the world has placed Denmark on top followed by Finland and Norway. India stands at 48th rank. The birthday of the former Prime Minister Atal Behari

Vajpayee on the 25th of December will be observed as National Good Governance Day.

Mahaparinirwan Diwas observed on 6 December 2014, death anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar.

The Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings 2015 of UK has placed Bangalore-based IISc at No. 25 in the overall 100, topped by China's Peking University.

India’s most prestigious Indian classical music function – The Tansen Sangeet Samaroh held at Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.

The first Arabic translation of the Indian Constitution launched by the Arab League in Cairo, Egypt.

Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid arrived in Kolkata on a two-day visit to West Bengal.

NOVEMBER 2014 PM VISITS MYANMAR, AUSTRALIA AND FIJI On Nov 11, Prime Minister Narendra Modi left India for a ten day foreign visit, starting from Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar where he attended the ASEAN-India Summit on 12th Nov. He attended the 7th East Asian Summit there on Nov 13.

On the sidelines of the summits, he met Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Malaysian PM Najib Razak, Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev, Thai PM Gen Prayut Chan-o-Cha. He also met Myanmar’s opposition leader and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

ASEAN is a group of 10 countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Brunei with headquarters at Jakarta, Indonesia. Next ASEAN summit is to be held in Cambodia, March, 2015. East Asia Summit is an extended version of ASEAN in which eight more countries are members – India, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, USA and South Korea.

NOV 14: Modi reached Brisbane, Australia to attend Heads of Nations meet of G-20 nations on 15th-16th Nov.

NOV 17: Modi addressed Indian diaspora at Allphones Arena, Sydney. Mr. Modi assured life time visa to PIO and OCI card holders. PIO–Persons of Indian Origin OCI–Overseas Citizens of India

NOV 18: Modi addressed the Australian Parliament at Canberra, first Indian Prime Minister to do so. Later in day he visited Melbourne where Australian PM hosted a dinner for him at the 116 year old Melbourne Cricket Ground.

India and Australia signed five pacts on social security, transfer of sentenced prisoners, combating narcotics trade, tourism, and arts and culture. Prime Minister: Tony Abbott Capital: Canberra Monarch: Queen Elizabeth Nick name: Aussie, Oz

NOV 19: Modi arrives in Fiji. He addressed their Parliament, becoming first foreign dignitary to do so. He announced a $75 million line of credit for a power plant and upgrading the sugar industry.

Fiji Prime Minister: Frank Bainimarama Capital: Suva

NOV 20: Mr. Modi flied back to India.


MODI WOOS SAARC NATIONS The two-day 18th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit was held at Kathmandu from 26th Nov to 27th Nov, with an agenda to improve connectivity among member states for boosting trade, collectively fighting the poverty and illiteracy. The eight members signed the SAARC Framework on Energy (Electricity) Cooperation to facilitate inter country trading of electricity.

Theme: 'Deeper Regional Integration for Peace and Prosperity'

New Chairman of SAARC: Mr. Sushil Koirala, Prime Minister of Nepal

FIVE PROPOSALS BY INDIA AT SAARC: 1. SAARC Business traveller card for all member countries 2. Easy visa for medical treatment visits 3. Online courses and e library for South Asian students 4. To provide five – in – one vaccine for children and support for polio free all countries 5. To provide funds for TB-HIV laboratory

The SAARC has eight members: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with permanent headquarters at Kathmandu, Nepal. The 19th SAARC summit will be held in 2016 in Islamabad, Pakistan.

RUSSIAN DEPUTY PM VISITS INDIA Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia visited India to attend 20th session of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation at New Delhi. SAINTHOOD FOR TWO NATIVE INDIANS In a canonisation ceremony presided over by Pope Francis II in the Vatican on Nov 23, Sainthood was granted to two Indians - Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara, popularly known as Chavara Achen, and Sister Euphrasia, popularly known as Evuprasiamma. Both of them hail from the Syro Malabar Catholic Church, Kerala. The only other native Indian to get sainthood - Sister Alphonsa (2008) is also from this church. NGOs TO WORK AGAINST OPEN DEFECATION Three global organisations on 24 November 2014 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to end open defecation in India. The agreement is for three years. These three organisations are the World Toilet Organisation (WTO), WASTE and the Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health (FINISH). INDIA 6TH WORST HIT BY TERRORISM Institute for Economics and Peace, Sydney released Global Terrorism Index 2014. The Index provides ranks for 162 countries in terms of impact of terrorism. Iraq continues to be worst affected where 6362 lives were lost in 2013 due to terrorism. India is 6th worst affected nation.

INDIA TOPS IN HUMAN SLAVERY NUMBERS With over 14.2 million in India being involved in forced labour and being victims of trafficking-for sexual exploitation and forced marriage, the country is home to the largest number – about 40 per cent of the people trapped in modern slavery. As per the Global Slavery Index 2014, published by the Walk Free Foundation in Perth, Australia, around 35.8 million people are enslaved across the world. President Pranab Mukherjee visited Bhutan on a

two-day visit - 7-8 Nov. He is the first Indian head of state to visit to the country in 26 years.

6th World Ayurveda Congress held in New Delhi from 6 to 9 November 2014. This year’s theme was “Health Challenges and Ayurveda”.

A latest UN report says that, India has the world’s largest youth population with 356 million 10-24-year-olds, followed by China.

Public Service Broadcasting Day observed on 12th Nov to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi's first and only visit to All India Radio.

Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd (IREDA) and US Export-Import (Exim) Bank signed an MoU for cooperation on clean energy investment.

The 45th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) began in Goa on November 20. China is the focus country of this festival.

Children's Film Society of India organised the first edition of the National Children's Film Festival from 14 to 16 Nov at New Delhi.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) hosted the India Economic Summit in New Delhi from Nov 4 to 6.

Prasar Bharti announced to re-launch DD National with new tagline Doordarshan National – Desh Ka Apna Channel.

India and Bhutan signed an MoU on 7th Nov. for the establishment of Nalanda University in Bihar to develop the institution as an international centre of excellence.

Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs Minister visits Dubai on Nov. 10.

India and Republic of Korea signed a Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate technical cooperation in Railway sector between the two countries.

First Commonwealth Science Congress was held in Bengaluru on 25th November.

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OCTOBER 2014 PRESIDENT VISITS NORWAY, FINLAND President Pranab Mukherjee became the first ever Indian head of state to visit Norway. Over a dozen pacts were signed with Norway to step up cooperation in defence, science and technology, education and other sectors. President visited the village of Santa Claus and crossed the Arctic Circle. India has a station ‘Himadri’, located in the middle of North Pole and Norway. In Finland, the two countries signed an agreement for nuclear cooperation.

VIETNAM PM VISITS INDIA Nguyen Tan Dung, Vietnam Prime Minister came on a two-day visit to India. The two countries agreed to have sister city ties between Ho Chi Minh City and Mumbai. Agreement was also signed for extending India’s role in oil exploration in South China Sea.

INDIA MOVES UP ON HUNGER INDEX

Although still behind neighbouring Nepal and Sri Lanka, India made some progress in reducing poverty level though its status remains classified as "serious" on the Global Hunger Index 2014. India ranks 55th on GHI, (up from 63rd

in 2013) better than Pakistan and Bangladesh (ranked 57), but trails behind Nepal (44) and Sri Lanka (39). Compiled by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the GHI ranks 120 countries on three equally weighted indicators the proportion of people who are under-nourished, the proportion of children under five who are underweight, and the mortality rate of children under five. 100 YEARS OF ‘KOMAGATA MARU’ INCIDENT commemoration of the historic Komagata Maru incident on 29th September. A set of commemorative coins of denominations of Rs 100 and Rs 5 was released to mark the occasion. ‘Komagata Maru’ was the name of the steamer that carried 376 passengers, mostly immigrants from Punjab, from Southeast Asia to Canada. The ship was denied docking in Vancouver owing to discriminatory immigration laws of Canada. The steamer returned to India and docked at Budge Budge, Kolkata on September 27, 1914. Local British guards denied the entry to immigrants led by Baba Gurdit Singh, following which a riot took place in which 19 Indians were killed.

WORK BEGINS ON 'STATUE OF UNITY' The work order for 'Statue of Unity' — the world's tallest statue (182 mts) of India's first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel has been issued by the Gujarat Govt to leading engineering company Larsen and Toubro (L&T).

INDIA SIGNS MINAMATA CONVENTION India has signed the Minamata Convention on Mercury to control and reduce emissions from the power plants. The convention is named after the Japanese city Minamata that has become synonymous with deadly mercury contamination since 1950. BIRTH CENTENARY OF BEGUM AKHTAR Union Ministry of Culture launched a year – long birth centenary celebrations of Ghazal and Thumri singer Begum Akhtar (07-10-1914). Her original name was Akhtar Bai Faizabadi. A set of commemorative coins of 100 rupees and 5 rupees was released on the occasion.

US TO PROMOTE SMART CITIES IN INDIA In a boost to India's 100 smart city programme, the US govt has assured its support for developing three such cities - Allahabad, Ajmer and Visakhapatnam. Govt has allocated a sum of Rs 7,060 crore for this purpose in the Union Budget. AUSTRALIA TO SUPPORT INDIAN PROJECTS Australia announced 13 innovative projects with India that would support new cutting-edge collaborative research partnerships between universities, professional bodies and private sector organisations of the two countries. HUDHUD LASHES OUT VISAKHAPATNAM Areas around Visakhapatnam on Andhra coast were severely lashed by the super cyclone Hudhud, causing widespread destruction. The Cyclone developed due to a deep depression over north Andaman Sea and moved towards Andhra Pradesh, striking the coast around Visakhapatnam with strong winds blowing at speed of around 200 kmph. Prime Minister announced a relief package of Rs. 1,000 crore for the cyclone hit area. Hudhud is the Arabic name of Hoopoe bird, which is the national bird of Israel. The name was suggested by Oman. INDIA FARES WORST IN PENSION INDEX The Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index – 2014 has ranked India’s retirement system lowest among the 25 countries surveyed, as less than 6% of the working population in the country is covered under private pension plans. The list is topped by Denmark. INDIA RANKS LOW ON GENDER GAP INDEX India has performed poorly in removing gender-based disparities, ranking 114 out of 142 countries in World Economic Forum's 2014 Gender Gap Index, scoring low on parameters like economic participation, education, health and survival. Iceland tops the list with the most equitable sharing of resources among men and women, followed by Finland, Norway. ‘DOING BUSINESS’ STILL NOT EASY IN INDIA India has been placed at 142nd rank among 189 countries in the latest World Bank’s “Ease of Doing Business” report. The latest ranking, however, does not take into account the latest slew of measures taken by Modi Government to make India a business friendly destination. Singapore tops the list 88.27 points, followed by New Zealand, Hong Kong.


NO INDIAN UNIVERSITY IN TOP 200 None of India’s 600 plus universities finds a place in the global top 200 Times Higher Education Rankings powered by Thomson Reuters. Panjab University, Chandigarh, retains its position as the highest ranked Indian university at 226 place. In the institutions, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, stands at 276-300 bracket.

Cyclone Nilofar, a very severe cyclonic storm hit Gujarat coast. The name Nilofar was given by Pakistan.

John Baird, Canada's Foreign Minister has said that Canada has agreed to sign commercial contracts for supply of uranium for Indian nuclear reactors.

India signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Culture Cooperation with UK for next five years.

A commemorative postage stamp on Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist and writer Anagarika Dharmapala was released by the President.

Government decides to commemorate Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s birth anniversary (October 31) as “National Integration Day”- Rashtriya Ekta Diwas.

India and Mexico signed a MoU for cooperation in space and working together in the areas of remote sensing

and satellite communication. India and Nepal have signed a Power Trade Agreement

to promote cooperation in the field of production and transmission of electricity.

India Heritage Research Foundation, Rishikesh has released the ‘Encyclopedia of Hinduism’ consisting of 11 volumes and approximately 7000 entries.

India will contribute $4 million in the $5.4 billion aid pool formed by the global donors for rebuilding the Gaza Strip destroyed in the conflict with Israel.

Prime Minister addressed the nation on Oct 3 for the first time over radio in the programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ to reach out to maximum audience.

NEWS FROM STATES DECEMBER 2014

WORLD’s LARGEST HUMAN FLAG India set a new world record on Dec 7 for forming the largest human flag, when over fifty thousand volunteers formed the Indian Tricolour, at YMCA Grounds in Chennai, beating the previous record held by the Sports Club of Lahore where 28,957 people formed the flag of Pakistan.

DIAL 161 FOR 4000 SERVICES IN KARNATAKA On Dec 8, Karnataka launched “Mobile one” e-governance initiative to enable public to access 4000 government and a few private services on their mobile phones just by dialing 161. They can pay electricity, water and BSNL telephone bills through their phones. Farmers can know about monsoon, market rates and subsidies. The young aspirants can know about job offers in private sector.

The Jaipur Literature Festival, scheduled from January 21 to 25, to be held at Jaipur, Rajashtan.

On Nov 29, Meghalaya got its first rail link when PM Modi flagged off a train from Maligaon, Guwahati to Mendipathar in Meghalaya, a distance of 131 kms.

Andhra govt signed a MoU with Singapore for the development of its new capital that is set to come up near Vijawayada region.

The New Year festival of Tibetans known as Losar festival is celebrated mainly in Lahaul Distt. It denotes the start of winter session in the valley.

Maharashtra to observe the year 2015 as “Year of Digitised and Time-Bound Services” to standardise, simplify and deliver the services electronically.

Arunachal Pradesh won the Krishi Karman Award for the year 2013-14 for showing exemplary agri-performance in 14 different categories.

Manipur to set up a Cultural University to promote its rich cultural heritage, like Russia’s Moscow State Art and Cultural University.

Militants of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbijit) gunned down over 80 persons on Dec 23 in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts of Assam.

NOVEMBER 2014 FIR KIOSKS SET UP AT BENGALURU The Bengaluru City Police has set up a kiosk that lets anyone file an FIR at any time, irrespective of where an incident such as theft or accident may have occurred. The kiosk, equipped with HD audio-video and a touch screen, will enable citizens to speak to a police officer and also sign, print and scan documents.

LUCKNOW - AGRA EXPRESSWAY The proposed 302 km long Lucknow - Agra Expressway in UP would be the country’s longest access controlled six lane expressway. It would be 110 meters wide and would cut down travel time from Lucknow to Agra from existing eight hours to less than four hours.

Madhya Pradesh has been chosen for union government’s Best State Award for Empowerment of Disabled for year 2014.

The Karnataka Government aims at construction of 10 lakh toilets by 2018 and make the state completely free from open defecation.

Assam State Zoo in Guwahati has become the first zoo in the world to house the critically endangered pig Pygmy Hog.

Kerala has decided to cull about 2,00,000 poultry birds as a precautionary measure against the H5NI avian influenza virus.

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OCTOBER 2014 ANDHRA TO WAIVE FARMERS LOANS Andhra Pradesh government has launched the Rythu Saadhikara Samstha (Farmers Empowerment Corporation) to provide agricultural debt redemption to farmers and also to act as a 'one-stop-shop' for farmer development, welfare and empowerment activities. All farmers who availed crop loans of up to Rs 1.5 lakh would be benefitted.

KERALA TO PROTECT OLD TREES To protect grand old trees in public places, Kerala Forest Research Institute plans to mark them with a "health-card" that will show its strength condition, risk factors and details of damage etc. Union government plans to set up a mega handicraft

cluster in Kachch, Gujarat to promote handcraft items and craft based textiles.

Madhya Pradesh tops iin the field of organic farming producing about five lakh metric ton of farm products,

about 40% of the country’s total organic produce. The Kerala Government will provide free treatment to

every cancer patient in the state under the project ‘Sukrutham’ at major government hospitals.

Kerala would become the first state in India to have high-speed internet connecting all the panchayats in

the state by March next year. Union Govt launches Jammu Kashmir Arogya Gram

Yojna to promote cultivation of scientifically tested and commercially beneficial aromatic and medicinal plants.

GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES

DECEMBER 2014 NATIONAL MISSION FOR TEACHERS Prime Minister launched a Rs 900-crore scheme "Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching" at Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi on Dec 25 aimed at creating an environment for producing high quality teachers. MISSION INDRADHANUSH FOR VACCINATION Government has launched Mission Indradhanush to cover all those children by 2020 who are either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated against seven vaccine preventable diseases - Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Tetanus, Polio, Tuberculosis, Measles and Hepatitis B. GRAHAK SUVIDHA KENDRAS FOR CONSUMERS Government has decided to set-up Grahak Suvidha Kendras (Consumer care centres) to provide counseling to consumers in redressal of their grievances and assist them in registering their complaints in the appropriate consumer forums. The Centres will also be authorized to take up complaints with private companies and service providers on behalf of the government.

ORDINANCE FOR 49% FDI IN INSURANCE On Dec 24, Union Cabinet approved promulgation of the ordinance on Insurance Bill to raise foreign investment cap in the insurance sector from 26 to 49 per cent. It re-promulgated the ordinance to allow resumption of coal block allocation. It also opened the medical devices sector to foreign investment by allowing 100 per cent FDI in these.

GST - ONE NATION, ONE TAX, ONE MARKET After many hiccups, a nationwide goods and service tax (GST) seems to be inching towards becoming a reality

WHAT HAPPENED? The Union Cabinet on Dec 17 cleared the Constitution Amendment (122nd) Bill on Goods and Services Tax (GST), and presented the bill in Lok sabha on Dec. 19.

WHAT NEXT? Parliament will have to pass it by a two-third majority

and at least half of state Assemblies It will likely take up the Bill in the Budget session that

begins in February 2015. Govt plans to roll out GST by April 1, 2016

WHAT WILL GST DO? It will offer a single-shot solution by subsuming a group

of local levies into one system State impose different taxes with varying rates on the

same products For instance, a car’s price will vary among states

because of different rates of taxes such as VAT, octroi and road tax

GST will remove all these, virtually making India a single market

Alcohol and tobacco will remain outside GST GST will empower states to collect service taxes States and the Centre will collect identical rates of taxes If 16% is the GST on a good across the country, the

states and the Centre will get 8% each by the name CGST and SGST rates

TAX RATES The GST rates on goods have not been specified in the

Bill A GST council headed by the union finance minister and

represented by state FMs will decide on the rates

WHAT ABOUT ENTRY TAX? States will be allowed to collect an inter-state tax, for

upto 2 years, an additional tax of 1%

COMPENSATION? States feared that GST’s implementation will rob them of fiscal powers and erode revenues The Constitution Amendment Bill offers a compensation

package for 5 years In the first three years, the Centre will reimburse 100%

of the revenue loss, 75% in the 4th year and 50% in the fifth year

PETRO PRODUCTS Petro products will be within GST, but “zero-rated” to

begin with States and the Centre will continue to collect sales tax /

VAT as is the case now


COMMITTING SUICIDE IS NO MORE A CRIME The government has decided to repeal Section 309 from the Indian Penal Code, claiming support of 18 states and 4 Union Territories for decriminalizing attempt to commit suicide. The step was taken on the recommendation of the Law Commission of India. Section 309 of IPC makes the act of suicide punishable with jail term of up to one year and fine.

‘SUSHASAN EXPRESS’ TO HONOUR VAJPAYEE To honour former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a new train - The Sushaasan (good governance) Express launched on Dec 25, from Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh), the birth place of Mr. Vajpayee, to Gonda in Uttar Pradesh. Govt has decided to pay 8.75 per cent interest on

provident fund deposits of Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) for the year 2014-15.

Justice G P Mathur committee set up to examine the possibility of forming a Special Investigation Team for re investigation of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases.

NOVEMBER 2014 NEW SCHEMES ON NATIONAL EDUCATION DAY National Education Day was observed on Nov 11 on the 125th birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, independent India’s first Education Minister. The HRD Ministry launched new initiatives to promote the education system of the country.

Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan launched to enable higher educational institutions like IITs and NITs to work with the people of rural India by evolving appropriate solutions for accelerating sustainable growth.

‘Know Your College’ portal launched to enable students view details of courses, labs, faculty, library, hostels available etc. of all the colleges, for selecting the right college for their higher education.

Skill Assessment Matrix for Vocational Advancement of Youth (SAMVAY) launched to facilitate students to switch between education and jobs. It will help such students to resume studies who left formal education for a job.

Two scholarship schemes launched for technical education, Saksham for specially-abled needy and meritorious students and Pragati for girls pursuing technical education at college level.

GOVT TO SET UP 'SWACHH BHARAT KOSH' The government has launched a fund that will be utilised to build toilets in schools, rural and urban areas to achieve the objective of cleanliness across the country. The Kosh will be set up by the Ministry of Finance and will be managed by a Governing Council headed by Expenditure Secretary.

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‘MANAS’ LAUNCHED FOR SKILL DEVELOPMENT Union Ministry of Minorities Affairs launched the Maulana Azad National Academy for Skills (MANAS) on 125th birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to impart training to youths in health and security sector. NEW CITIZENSHIP NORMS FOR REFUGEES Govt has relaxed Indian citizenship norms for Hindu and Sikh refugees from Pakistan and Afghanistan. Refugees, who have entered India prior to 31 December 2009, can now apply for the Indian citizenship. BSNL LAUNCHES MOBILE SECURITY SERVICES The BSNL has launched mobile security value added service that will allow its customers to track location of their lost mobile phones. Through this application, the user will also be able to remotely lock device, erase data in the lost mobile.

Govt. launched National Bal Swachhta Mission as part of ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ in New Delhi on Nov 15 to improve over all cleanliness amongst school children.

Udaan programme launched to assist girl students in preparing them for the IIT-JEE while studying in classes XI and XII.

Govt approves "Integrated Power Development Scheme" for strengthening of sub-transmission and distribution network of electricity in the urban areas.

India has launched the tourist visa on arrival facility enabled by electronic travel authorization for 43 countries for boosting the tourist inflow.

Govt has decided to lay an exclusive submarine cable network for Andaman & Nicobar Islands from Chennai to facilitate high speed internet/browsing in the islands.

The Central Government has allocated five thousand crore rupees under AYUSH Mission for promoting traditional methods of treatment in the country.

The Delhi Transport Corporation has started a Delhi-Kathmandu bus service from Nov. 26.

OCTOBER 2014 ‘SHRAMEV JAYATE’ KARYAKRAM LAUNCHED Prime Minister launched Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate Karyakram organised by the labour ministry on October 16. The project aims at creating a conducive environment for industrial development and doing business with ease. The programme has five focus areas as under:

Every one of the six to seven lakh industrial units in the country will get a unique Labour Identification

Number - LIN (Shram Pehchan Sankhya) for simplifying business regulations and securing transparency and accountability in labour inspections

Revamped smart card based Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, the government has introduced a smart card for the workers in the unorganised sector.


“Shram Suvidha" – a Unified Labour Portal launched to facilitate "Labour Inspection Scheme," which aims at ending arbitrariness in the inspection mechanism. Labour inspectors will now get auto-generated lists telling them where to go for inspection. It will also replace current 16 forms with one online form

Universal Account Number (UAN) for Employees' Provident Fund members that will be portable throughout the working careers of members and can be used anywhere in India.

Under Apprentice Protsahan Yojana govt will reimburse 50 per cent of the stipend paid to apprentices during first two years of their training.

SWACHH BHARAT MISSION LAUNCHED On October 2, Prime Minister launched the country’s biggest-ever cleanliness drive from New Delhi by actually sweeping the pavements in Valmikli Basti near Mandir Marg. The urban component of the Mission is proposed to be implemented over 5 years starting from October 2, 2014 in all 4,041 statutory towns. The total expected cost of the programme is Rs. 62,009 crore, out of which the proposed central assistance will be of Rs. 14,623 crore. Govt has decided to merge the ‘Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan’, a campaign for rural sanitation with Swachh Bharat Mission. SANSAD ADARSH GRAM YOJANA Prime Minister launched Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana on 11th October, on the occasion of birth anniversary of Jai Prakash Narayan. Every one of about 800 MPs, including Prime Minister, is expected to take the responsibility of developing physical and institutional infrastructure in one village by 2016 and two more by 2019.

Adarsh Gram aims to ensure 100 per cent access to health, education, sanitation, schools, toilets, libraries and smart schools. The selected village should have a population of 3000-5000 in plain areas and 1000-3000 in hilly, tribal and difficult areas. SWACHHTA UDYAMI YOJANA National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation has launched “Swachhta Udyami Yojana - Swachhta Se Sampannta Ki Aur” to provide financial assistance to Safai Karamcharis and identified manual scavengers for construction, operation and maintenance of community toilets in public private partnership (PPP) mode and for purchase of sanitation related vehicles. VARISHTHA PENSION BIMA YOJANA Govt has reintroduced the Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana- a single premium pension policy for senior citizens, for a limited period of one year, from 15-08-2014 to 14-08-2015. The beneficiaries can avail pension ranging from Rs 500 to Rs 5,000 per month by depositing a lumpsum amount of Rs. 66,665 to Rs. 6,66,665 respectively.

ONLINE ATTENDANCE FOR GOVT EMPLOYEES Government has launched an Adhaar based Biometric Attendance System (BAS) for government employees. Named attendance.gov.in, it will keep a track on the attendance records of employees.

UNIVERSAL HEALTH ASSURANCE MISSION The government plans to roll out its ambitious Universal Health Assurance Mission (UHAM) by the end of this year, aimed at bringing all Indians under health insurance cover. The UHAM will provide 50 essential drugs with a package of diagnostics and about 30 AYUSH drugs to all citizens at govt. hospitals and health centres across the country.

NATIONAL AIR QUALITY INDEX The government has launched a new methodology — National Air Quality Index (AQI) — to create awareness about the quality of air and its likely health impact. Using the “One Number-One Colour-One Description”, the AQI proposes six categories — good, satisfactory, moderately polluted, poor, very poor and severe, beginning from green and ending in dark red, respectively.

DIESEL PRICES DECONTROLLED Union Cabinet has decided to completely deregulate the diesel prices and henceforth the price will be linked to the market. Petrol and diesel are now market linked and the government does not have to pay subsidy. LPG prices will be revised on half yearly basis, on April 1 and October 1, every year.

85% WARNING SPACE ON CIGARETTES PACKS The government has made it mandatory for tobacco companies to carry health warnings covering at least 85% of the surface of cigarette packets, making India the world leader in implementing plain packaging of tobacco products as advocated by the World Health Organisation.

SUBRAMANIAN COMMITTEE ON GREEN LAWS The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest has constituted a four-member committee under chairmanship of former cabinet secretary T S R Subramanian to review the laws related to protection of environment including the Indian Forest Act, 1927 and suggest amendments that could make them more effective.

FIRST MENTAL HEALTH POLICY LAUNCHED The Union Health Ministry launched the country’s first ever Mental Health Policy to provide access to good quality treatment to mentally ill people with the focus on those living in poverty.

INDIA’S 1ST OFFSHORE WIND POWER PROJECT Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 1st

October 2014 for setting up a Joint Venture Company to undertake the first-ever Offshore Wind Power Project in India along Gujarat coast.


Govt plans to start “Sardar Patel Urban Housing Mission” to ensure housing for all by 2022 and a ‘slum free India’.

Union Government has decided to sell LED bulbs to households at 10 rupees against the market price of 400 rupees.

From November, 2014 all replies given under RTI by ministries will be posted online, available for access to all and not just to persons seeking the information.

Central govt has advised all states, union territories and Central Armed Police Forces to recruit 33 per cent women in their ranks.

T.K. Vishwanathan Committee setup to review Bankruptcy laws.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS DECEMBER 2014

GDP GROWTH LIKELY TO BE 5.5 % According to the Mid-year economic analysis tabled in Parliament by the Finance Ministry, the GDP growth in the current fiscal is expected to be around 5.5 per cent as against 4.7 per cent last year on back of improving macro-economic situation. The review said that speedier environmental clearances, reforming land and labour laws will also be critical for the growth of the economy. GDP GROWTH SLIPS TO 5.3 PER CENT Data released by the Central Statistics Office on Nov 28 showed that the economy slowed in the quarter ending Sep 30, growing at 5.3 per cent as against 5.7 per cent in the April-June quarter. Poor manufacturing performance which nearly came to a grinding halt, growing just 0.1 per cent, was the main factor for slow growth. UN REPORT PUTS INDIA’S GROWTH AT 5.4 % The UN World Economic Situation and Prospects 2015 report says that India is likely to make progress in implementing economic policy reforms and help in providing support to business and consumer confidence. India is estimated to record a 5.4 percent economic growth this year and may improve to 5.9 per cent next year and to 6.3 per cent in 2016. TRADE DEFICIT JUMPS TO $16.8 BILLIN India's trade deficit widened to an 18-month record in November to $16.8 billion, after a spike in gold purchases pushed the imports higher. Imports were up by 26.8 per cent to $42.8 billion while exports were pegged at $26 billion.

MOODY’S PROJECTS INDIA’S GROWTH @6% Global rating agency Moody’s has projected that Indian economy is expected to pick up pace in 2015 and grow in the range of 5 to 6 per cent, helped by strong domestic demand. The country, it said, has benefited from a strong domestic demand base and diversified export markets that give protection from the effects of a slowing Chinese economy and muted growth in the Euro zone and Japan. Industrial growth contracted by 4.2% in October, the

sharpest decline in at least two years, on poor show by manufacturing sector

Growth in the country's eight core industries rose to a four-month high of 6.3 per cent in October, due to better output in coal, refinery products, and electricity.

Foreign exchange reserves in the week to December 19, 2014, surged by a $3.16 billion to $ 319.99 billion due to massive jump in foreign currency assets.

The ADB says that India is on track to achieve 5.5% growth rate in 2014-15 as declining oil prices present a golden opportunity for many beneficial reforms.

NOVEMBER 2014 NCAER LOWERS GDP GROWTH RATE TO 5 % Country’s economic think-tank-The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) has lowered India's GDP growth forecast to 5 per cent in 2014-15 on weak economical fundamentals and uncertainties in growth prospects. In its earlier projection it had suggested a growth rate of 5.7 per cent in 2014-15. OECD PUTS GROWTH RATE @ 5.4% Paris-based think tank Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD has projected 5.4 percent growth for the Indian economy this year as global recovery continues at a moderate pace. INDIA MAY GROW BY 5.6% - FITCH According to international rating agency Fitch, India's economic growth is expected to pick up to 5.6 per cent in the current fiscal on account of structural reforms being rolled-out by the government.

OCTOBER 2014 INDIA MAY GROW BY 5.6 % - WORLD BANK A World Bank report says that India’s GDP is likely to expand by 5.6 per cent this fiscal as reforms gain momentum. It says that the growth is expected to accelerate as proposed measures such as GST are likely to give a boost to manufacturing sector.

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ECONOMY DECEMBER 2014

RURAL HOMES – LOW ASSETS, HIGH DEBTS Findings of the 70th round of National Sample Survey's All India Debt and Investment Survey show that households in rural areas hold assets worth over Rs 10 lakh on average, less than half the holdings by those in cities. Further, about 31 per cent of the rural households and 22 per cent of the urban households reported debt (cash loan) outstanding as on June 30, 2012. The average amount of debt (AOD) for a rural household was Rs 32,522 and that for an urban household was Rs 84,625. FINANCE COMMISSION SUBMITS REPORT The 14th Finance Commission, headed by former Reserve Bank of India, RBI governor Y V Reddy, submitted its report to the President's office on Dec 11. The panel has given its views on the devolution of tax receipts from the Centre to the states from 1st April 2015 to 31st March 2020. WORLD BANK LOAN FOR EDFC India has inked a US $1100 million IBRD Direct Lending pact with the World Bank for phase two of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC). EDFC is a 1849 kms long broad gauge railway freight corridor, starting from Ludhaina in Punjab to Dankuni near Kolkata in West Bengal. IFRS TO BE APPLICABLE FROM APRIL 1, 2015 The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has advised that the new International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) shall be applicable for large companies that can voluntarily start adopting them in the next fiscal year starting April 1, 2015, after which the rules will become compulsory. GOVT GETS 1715 CRORE FROM SAIL Union government mopped up around 1715 crore rupees with the sale of 5 percent stake in SAIL at a floor price of 83 rupees per share, increasing the public share to 25 per cent. As per the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules of SEBI, minimum public shareholding in listed state-owned firms should be 25 percent and this must be achieved by 21 August 2017. CREDIT GUARANTEE FUND FOR FACTORING The Union Cabinet has cleared a proposal for setting up of a 500 crore rupees Credit Guarantee Fund for Factoring for MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises).

Factoring is a financing arrangement for suppliers by making pre-payments against invoices. It facilitates collection of receivables and provides liquidity to MSMEs

Government has asked PSUs to ensure that they procure 20% of their requirements from the products manufactured by MSMEs,, wef April 01, 2015.

Snapdeal.com has announced the launch of ‘Agri Store’, offering online products like seeds, fertilizer and irrigation tools, among others, to farmers.

World Bank will lend Rs 475 crore ($75 million) to the Andhra Pradesh Government for implementing a rural growth project.

Government has fixed an export target of $340 billion for the current fiscal. Actual exports last year were $312.6 billion.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will extend $200 million loan to Punjab to improve the state's fiscal situation.

India Germany sign loan pact for euro 625 million for the Green Energy Corridors project under the Indo-German bilateral development cooperation.

The World Bank has approved $130 million credit for the Nepal Grid Solar and Energy Efficiency Project to minimize energy shortages in Nepal.

NOVEMBER 2014 KISAN VIKAS PATRA RE-LAUNCHED The Government re-launched Kisan Vikas Patra scheme on Nov 18 to encourage the habit of small savings among the citizens. The KVPs will be available in denominations of Rs. 1000, 5000, 10,000 and 50,000 with no upper limit for investment and the invested amount will become double in 100 months. KVP investors are exempted from KYC norms.

MSP FOR RABI CROPS FOR 2014-15 SEASON CROP Rs./Qtl CROP Rs./Qtl Wheat 1450 Gram 3175 Barley 1150 Rapeseed/ Musturd 3100 Masur dal 3075 Safflower 3050

FDI NORMS RELAXED FOR CONSTRUCTION SECTOR The Union Government has decided on 29th October, to relax FDI norms in the construction sector, allowing 100 per cent of foreign funds in building projects. The minimum floor area requirement has been reduced

to 20,000 sq mts from the earlier 50,000 sq mts. The minimum capital requirement has been cut down

to $5 million from earlier $10 million.

BSE MARKET CAP HITS 100 TRILLION MARK The market capitaliastion of all listed companies on the Bombay Stock Exchange, Asia's oldest stock exchange, hit a record Rs 100 trillion (lakh crore) mark on Nov 28.

This is good news for investors because the doubling of market cap in five years has also led to doubling of investors' wealth during the period.

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NEW SEBI NORMS ON ‘INSIDER TRAINING’ SEBI has approved new insider trading rules to replace the two-decade old law seen as inadequate to curb trading violations. The term “insider” will now include persons connected on the basis of being in any contractual, fiduciary or employment relationship that allows such people access to unpublished price sensitive information (UPSI). SHELL INDIA WINS 18,000 CRORE TAX CASE The Bombay High Court quashed the IT department’s Rs 18,000-crore rupees tax order against oil major Shell India. Shell India had issued 870 million shares to its parent company Shell Gas BV, Netherlands in March 2009 at Rs 10 per share. However, the Income Tax department contended that the shares were grossly undervalued and it valued them at Rs 180 per share. The difference was added to the income of the company. BIS MARK FOR 15 ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS To curb the inflow of sub-standard items in the country, the government has come out with a notification which lays down the mandatory standards (BIS marks) for 15 electronic products, including mobile phones, power banks and LED lamps.

TIEA SIGNED WITH St. KITTS & NEVIS To help in its efforts to crack down on suspected black money stashed abroad, India signed Tax Information Exchange Agreement – TIEA with Saint Kitts & Nevis, a two-island Carribean country, perceived as a safe haven for offshore funds.

Exporters and SEZ units asked to realise and repatriate overseas sales proceeds in nine months, as against 12-month earlier, from the date of shipment.

Suzlon Energy installed the world’s tallest 120 meters high hybrid wind generator turbine in Asia’s biggest wind energy park in Kutch, Gujarat.

India signs a USD 200 million loan agreement with the World Bank to finance the setting up of technology centres to help MSMEs enhance their productivity.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $350-million loan assistance for upgradation of district roads in Madhya Pradesh.

OCTOBER 2014 INDIA TO BECOME $2 TRILLION ECONOMY According to IMF's latest World Economic Outlook report, India is poised to become a USD two trillion economy this year and may cross $ three trillion by 2019. United States would remain the world's largest economy with a size of USD 17.42 trillion, followed by China at USD 10.35 trillion. BIG OIL FIND NEAR AHMADABAD A significant crude oil discovery has been made in the Kharenti-A well near Ahmadabad in the Cambay basin by a private oil company, making it the biggest find this year. Cambay basin extends from Surat in the south to Sanchor in the north, covering an area of about 59,000 sq km with a hydrocarbon resource of more than 15 billion barrels.

INDIA ZOOMS ON E-COMMERCE According to research firm Gartner, India is emerging as the fastest-growing e-commerce market in the world with the revenue expected to reach $6 billion in 2015, a 70% increase over 2014 revenue of $3.5 billion.

REAL ESTATE GIANT DLF BARRED FOR 3 YEARS Stock market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has barred India's largest real estate company DLF and

its top officials, including chairman KP Singh, from accessing or dealing in stock markets for three years. The company and six of its top officials were found guilty of suppressing material information in its offer document at the time of its public issue in 2007.

FUTURE GROUP JOINS HANDS WITH AMAZON World's largest online retailer Amazon.com and India's largest listed retailer Future Group, promoters of ‘Big Bazaar’ retail chain, have signed a deal to jointly sell goods over the Internet amid growing friction between online and offline retailers over heavy discounting. Amazon plans to invest $ 2 billion in India.

Delhi Metro has been ranked second among 18 international Metro systems in terms of overall customer satisfaction in an online customer survey.

Maruti Suzuki launched ‘Ciaz’ - its first sedan car in past 7 years, to meet competition from Honda City and Hyundai Verna.

Government has decided to import potatoes for the first time to augment domestic availability and to check its rising prices.

Country’s first olive oil refinery has been started in Lunkaransar area of Bikaner, Rajasthan. The project was started by taking assistance from Israel.

IndiGo, India’s largest domestic airline by market share, has signed a deal to buy 250 latest Airbus A-320 neo aircrafts worth $26 billion or Rs 1.55 lakh crore.

India has imposed anti-dumping duty on Phenol imported from the U.S. and China’s Taipei to safeguard the interest of domestic manufacturers.

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DECEMBER 2014 CHARTER OF CUSTOMER RIGHTS The Reserve Bank released a charter of customer rights on Dec.3 that lays down five basic rights that bank customers enjoy. This will also simplify the process for common man as now he can simply flash this charter and demand that the rights be met. Here are the rights of customers as notified by the RBI. Right to Fair Treatment: No discrimination on basis

of gender, age, religion, caste and physical ability Right to Transparency, Fair and Honest

Dealing: Contracts or agreements between financial service provider and customer should be transparent and easy to understand

Right to Suitability: Products offered should be appropriate to the needs of the customer

Right to Privacy: Customers' personal information to be kept confidential. No unwarranted communication, electronic or otherwise, to be sent

Right to Grievance Redressal and Compen-sation: Banks accountable for products offered (including third party products like insurance, mutual funds) and to facilitate easy grievance redressal.

RBI DEFINES ‘NON COOPERATIVE BORROWER’ The Reserve Bank of India on Dec 22 issued a new set of norms defining non-cooperative borrowers (NCB). A NCB is one “ who does not engage constructively with his lender by defaulting in timely repayment of dues while having ability to pay, thwarting lenders' efforts for recovery of their dues by not providing necessary information sought, denying access to assets financed or collateral securities, obstructing sale of securities". RRB AUTHORISED CAPITAL HIKED TO 2000 CR A bill to raise the authorised capital of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) to Rs 2,000 crore (from Rs 5 crore at present) and enable them to mop up funds from the capital market was passed by the Lok Sabha on Dec 22. However, government participation combined with sponsoring bank’s share will not be allowed to come below 51 per cent. PMJDY ACCOUNTS ARE FOR ALL Government has clarified that persons already having bank account need not open a fresh one to avail benefits of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY). They will have to apply for a RuPay card in the existing account to get benefit of accidental insurance and other benefits. BANKS ALLOWED TO HAVE PUBLIC ISSUE The Union Cabinet allowed state-run banks to raise equity capital from the market subject to the condition that government stake should not fall below 52%. The proposal is part of the government plan to cut banks' dependence on the budget for capital.

INTEREST SUBVENTION ON FARM LOANS

Government has approved the continuation of interest subvention for short-term crop loans up to Rs 3 lakh to farmers. This means that banks will charge only 7 per cent per annum. Further, additional interest subvention of 3 per cent per annum will be given to those farmers who repay on time that is within one year of disbursement of their short-term crop loans.

RTGS TIMINGS INCREASED To promote electronic payments, the Reserve Bank of India has increased the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) business hours to 12 hours from 8 am to 8 pm on weekdays and from 8 am to 3.30 pm on Saturday. The new timings will come into effect from 29 December, 2014.

SBI LAUNCHES TWO NEW INDICES The State Bank of India has launched two indices namely the SBI Monthly Composite Index and the SBI Yearly Composite Index that will primarily track manufacturing activity and offer forward-looking economic trends. The index will help policy makers and market participants to identify turning points in the manufacturing cycles in advance and adjust their investment plans or strategy.

NORMS RELAXED FOR PPIs RBI has doubled the limit for pre-paid payment instruments (PPI) to Rs 1 lakh from Rs 50,000 at present. Further, the maximum validity of gift cards has been enhanced from one year to three years. The move would help in achieving the objective of limiting cash transactions in the system.

RBI STARTS BHARAT BILL PAYMENT SYSTEM The Reserve Bank has released the final guidelines for the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS), which will help consumers pay multiple bills like electricity, telephone and school fees at a single point of transaction. The National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) has been appointed as the nodal body for the system.

HDFC BANK LAUNCHES MOBILE BANKING HDFC Bank launched in Varanasi, UP, its mobile banking initiative - 'Bank Aap Ki Muththi Mein' that works on both smartphones as well as the basic phones that support Internet browsing, to offer round-the-clock banking facility.

INDIANS NOT KEEN TO OPERATE ACCOUNTS According to a nation-wide survey on financial behaviour, India has the highest account dormancy rate even more than countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Only 48 per cent of Indian adults have bank accounts and nearly half of them lie dormant, says a report.


The deadline for exchanging pre-2005 currency notes, including 500 and 1,000 rupees, has been extended by six months till June 30, 2015.

Yes Bank has raised $200 million loan from Asian Development Bank for onward lending to small farm households and rural women self help groups (SHGs).

RBI has imposed penalty of Rs. 5 million and 2.5 million, respectively, on ICICI bank and Bank of Baroda for violation of KYC norms.

Money supply rose by Rs 31,400 crore to Rs 101,950 crore ($1.61 trillion) in the fortnight to December 12, growing by 10.2 per cent on year on year basis.

NOVEMBER 2014 GUIDELINES FOR PAYMENT/ SMALL BANKS The Reserve Bank on Nov 27 released the guidelines for ‘payment banks’ and ‘small banks’. Payments banks can receive deposits and remittances, but cannot lend; focusing on migrant labour and low income households. Small banks will lend to “unserved and under-served sections”, including small business units, small and marginal farmers, and micro and small industries.

PAYMENTS BANKS SMALL FINANCE BANKS OBJECTIVE

Provide small savings accounts and payments / remittance services to migrant labour workforce and low-income households

Financial inclusion and supply of credit to small business units and farmers through high-technology and low-cost operations

ELIGIBLE PROMOTERS Individuals or professionals with necessary experience and eligibility, existing NBFCs, corporate banking correspondents, mobile companies, supermarket chains, real estate co-ops and corporate entities

Resident individuals or professionals with 10 years of experience in banking and finance, companies and societies owned and controlled by residents, existing NBFSc, microfinance institutions and local area banks owned and controlled by residents

SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES Accept deposits but customer balance should not exceed Rs. 1 lakh

Basic services of accepting deposits and lending

Cannot give loans, Can issue debit card, not credit cards

No restriction on the area of operations

Can distribute non-risk simple financial products such as mutual funds and insurance products

At least 50% of its loan portfolio should constitute loans and advances of up to Rs. 25 lakh

NRIs will not be allowed to open accounts

Capital Requirement and Promoter’s contribution Minimum paid-up equity capital of Rs. 100 crore / initially 40%; to be gradually brought down to 26% within 12 years from date of commencement

10 CR ACCOUNTS UNDER PMJDY BY 26-01-15 Govt has revised the target for opening of accounts under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, PMJDY, to 10 crore accounts by 26th January, 2015. The earlier target was pegged at 7.5 crore accounts. NEW RULES FOR MINIMUM BALANCE The Reserve Bank of India has asked banks to inform their customers about fall in the minimum balance well in advance, and said that penal charges should be levied only to the extent of shortfall in such balances by way of a percentage of the shortfall. The guidelines will come into effect from April 1st, 2015. ING VYSYA MERGES WITH KOTAK MAHINDRA In an all stock amalgamation, ING Vysya Bank decided to merge itself with Kotak Mahindra Bank, creating the fourth largest private sector bank in the country. After the merger, all Vysya Bank branches and employees will become Kotak branches and employees. NEW NOF NORMS FOR NBFCs RBI has notified new norms for NBFCs that manage funds worth Rs 500 crore and accept public deposits. The net own funds – NOF requirements for NBFCs has been raised from Rs.25 lakh at present to Rs.1 crore by March, 2016, and to further to Rs.2 crore by 2017. KERALA & GOA ACHIEVE PMJDY TARGETS Kerala and Goa have become the first states in the country to have bank accounts for all households in the state under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna (PMJDY). Further, the Union Territories of Chandigarh, Puducherry and Lakshadweep have also aceived the target. SMS ALERTS FOR CHEQUE TRANSACTIONS

RBI has made it mandatory for banks to send SMS alerts to both payer and drawer in cheque transactions as soon as the cheque is received for clearing. This has been done to curb the cheque-related fraud cases. SEBI ALLOWS SHARIA FUNDS The SEBI has allowed the State Bank of India and three mutual funds to launch Sharia funds. Sharia-compliant funds invest in companies that follow Islamic rules.

Charging and receiving interest is considered usury and is not allowed under Islamic law known as Sharia. India's stock exchanges have between 600 and 700 companies that are Sharia-compliant.


RBI BANS FOREIGN FUNDING Reserve Bank has banned domestic firms from raising foreign funds above the permitted levels and from extending guarantees for them to meet domestic funding needs. Violators will face penal action under the Foreign Exchange Management Act -FEMA.

BANKS ASKED TO FINANCE JLGs RBI has asked banks to give liberal loans to landless farmers to meet the govt’s target of financing five lakh Joint Liability Groups- JLGs in 2014-15. The banks would also have to provide regular progress reports to NABARD in this regard.

The foreign investment promotion board (FIPB) has allowed HDFC Bank to increase foreign investment in the bank to 74 per cent.

Country's oldest and largest foreign bank, Standard Chartered Bank, opened its 100th branch in Nakatia, Bareily (UP)

OCTOBER 2014 KYC COMPLIANCE ‘MUST’ FOR ALL ACCOUNTS The RBI has made it mandatory for all bank customers, including low risk ones, to be KYC-compliant. The accounts which are not KYC compliant, credits

would be allowed but debits won't be allowed However, the account-holder will have the option to

close the account and withdraw the money. To facilitate compliance of KYC norms, banks have been

asked to allow self-certification of documents and accept a certified copy of the document

KYC norms were introduced in 2001, after the 9/11 attacks in New York, America.

TWO MORE TRANSACTIONS FOR METRO ATMs The Reserve Bank has said that the number of free transactions in a month at non-home ATMs would remain three in six identified metros but customers of these centres can use their card without cost two more times in non-metro centres.

SBI LAUNCHES ONLINE PASSBOOK APP State Bank of India has launched a facility called ‘mPassBook’ on its ‘State Bank Anywhere’ mobile application, for its retail banking users. It is an electronic application of a physical passbook for savings bank and current accounts. The facility empowers users to view their transaction history on their smart phone and maintain an entire year’s historical data on it.

INSTANT BANK PAYMENTS FOR FB USERS Kotak Mahindra Bank has launched an instant bank payment product – KayPay for Facebook users to send money to each other in an instant. The system will enable over 25 crore Indian bank account holders to transfer funds to each other instantly by just choosing recipients from their Facebook friends list. Federal Bank has won the IDRBT Banking Technology

Excellence award for 2013-14 in four out of total five Categories in the mid-sized lenders segment. RBI signs a pact with Central Bank of Kenya for

exchange of information and supervisory cooperation.

DEFENCE, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

DECEMBER 2014

DRDO has successfully tested Panchi, wheeled version of the unmanned aerial vehicle Nishant. It can take off from and land on small airstrips.

India tested successfully its nuclear-capable strategic ballistic missile Agni-IV, with a strike range of 4,000 km, from a test range off the Odisha coast.

For the first time, India exported a war ship to a foreign country. The ship is CGS Barracuda offshore patrol vessel, purchased by Mauritius.

India has tested a 1,000 kg indigenously-developed glide bomb, which successfully hit a target 100 kms away, off the Odisha coast.

The indigenous nuclear-powered submarine, INS Arihant, for the first time sailed out for sea-trials on Dec 16, from its base at Visakhapatnam.

INS Circars, the oldest naval establishment on the Eastern seaboard in Visakhapatnam celebrated its Platinum Jubilee on Dec 12.

Sikorsky of the United States has been selected for supply of 16 multirole helicopters for the Indian Navy in a contract worth Rs. 6,000 crore.

Russia successfully test fired its Angara-A5 rocket from Plesetsk in northern Russia on 23 December.

NATO forces formally ended their role in Afghanistan, after 13 years of conflict that left the country in the grip of worsening insurgent violence.

GSLV MARK III LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY On Dec 18, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched from Sriharikota its heaviest rocket till date - the 630-tonne three-stage rocket GSLV Mark III which is capable of carrying satellites weighing up to four tonne. It carried CARE (Crew module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment) as its payload which is an Indian-made unmanned crew module. This marks the beginning of what could be India's initiation into the ambitious human space flight programme. ISRO LAUNCHES GSAT 16 India’s communication satellite GSAT 16 was launched successfully from Kourou in French Guiana on Dec. 7. The satellite was placed in the geostationary orbit of about 36000 kms. It has 48 transponders that will be used for television, telephone and internet applications.

INDIA PARTY TO WORLDs LARGEST TELESCOPE India has joined the elite group of countries including United States, China and Japan to build the largest telescope in the world. The next-generation 30-meter telescope, which is being built at Mount Mauna Kea on an island in Hawaii at a height of 4,050 meter, is expected to give a major boost to the field of astrophysics and understanding different facets of the Universe.


STEEP RISE IN CARBON EMISSIONS Global carbon-dioxide emissions from burning of fossil fuels and production of cement reached a high of 35.3 billion tonnes in 2013. China, the United States and the European Union remain the top three emitters of carbon dioxide, accounting for 29, 15 and 11 per cent, respectively, of the world’s total. KEPLER DISCOVERS ‘SUPER EARTH’ NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft – Kepler has discovered a ‘super-Earth’ located 180 light-years from Earth - HIP 116454b, which is 2.5 times the diameter of Earth and follows a close, nine-day orbit around a star that is smaller and cooler than our Sun, making the planet too hot for life as we know it. CURIOSITY DISCOVERS METHANE ON MARS Nasa's Curiosity rover has detected methane on Mars, a gas that could hint at past or present life on the planet. Presence of Methane on the Red Planet is bit strange because here on Earth, 95 per cent of the gas comes from microbial organisms. JAPAN LAUNCHES ASTEROID EXPLORER On Dec 03, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched its second-generation asteroid explorer Hayabusa 2 from Tanegashima Space Center. It will explore one of the C-type asteroids called 1999 JU3 in space, retrieve materials and bring them to Earth. NASA LAUNCHES RETURNABLE SPACECRAFT On December 5, NASA launched Orion spacecraft atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral for a four-hour test flight, after which it safely splashed down in to Pacific Ocean. Orion will serve as the exploration vehicle that will carry the crew to space, may be as far as Mars, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during the space travel, and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities. WORLD’s MOST ABUNDANT MINERAL FOUND American geologists have named the earth’s most abundant mineral as ‘Bridgmanite’. It makes up about 70 percent of the earth’s lower mantle and 38 percent of the total volume of the earth. It is made up of high-density magnesium iron silicate. The lower mantle, which starts at 670 km under the crust, is difficult to access for samples.

The International Ocean Discovery Program has analysed life in the deepest ever marine drilling expedition- microbes living 2,400 meters beneath the seabed off Japan.

International journal Science has declared the European space mission spacecraft Rosetta as the most important scientific Breakthrough of the Year 2014.

NOVEMBER 2014 PRITHVI-II/DHANUSH TESTED SUCCESSFULLY The Strategic Forces Command of the Army test-fired the Prithvi-II missile on 14th Nov from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Odisha. Naval version of this missile – Dhanush was also tested. Having a range of 350 kms, this was the first missile developed by the DRDO, inducted in Indian army in 2003.

ISRAEL TESTS LR-SAM FOR INDIA The long-range surface-to-air missile (LR-SAM) system with a range of 70 kms, being developed jointly by DRDO and Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI), was tested successfully for the first time in Israel on 10th Nov. It is capable of tracking and destroying incoming hostile aircrafts, drones and missiles. ARMY WINS ‘CAMBRIAN PATROL’ IN UK

The Indian Army’s team of eight Garhwalis won the rigorous endurance competition – Cambrain Patrol held in Wales, UK. It was forty-eight hours without rest patrol across marshy lands, swamps and rivers in biting cold, conducted from October 23-25 where 119 international teams participated.

DRDO successfully test-fired on Nov 9 its nuclear capable ballistic missile – Agni-II having a strike range of 2,000 km and beyond.

Tejas (PV-6): India’s first indigenous Light Combat Aircraft’s two-seater trainer jet version made its maiden flight on Nov 8.

Indian Air force tested its medium range surface-to-air anti-aircraft missile Akash with a strike range of 25 km.

In a freak accident, a Torpedo Recovery Vessel of Indian Navy sunk off the Visakhapatnam coast during a naval exercise due to a probable split in its base.

Mithra Shakthi: Three week Joint military exercise between Indian and Sri Lankan military forces in Sri Lanka in Nov 2014

Hand in Hand 2014: 4th Joint anti terrorism military exercise by Indian and Chinese forces held in Pune at Aundh Military Station from Nov – 17.

FIRST EVER MAN MADE LANDING ON COMET Rosetta – the spacecraft of European Space Agency secured a place in history on 12th Nov when it succeeded in landing its mechanical device called the Philae probe on a comet named- 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, some 500 million kms away from Earth.

Comets hold vital clues about the original materials that went into building the solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago. If the mission is successful, it will provide an opportunity to sample and study a comet directly.


ALTERNATIVE TO ANTIBIOTIC DEVELOPED Scientists for the first time have developed antibiotic-free drug named Staphefekt as an alternative to antibiotics to fight against the antibiotics-resistant superbugs such as MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). India’s Mars mission Mangalyaan, developed by ISRO,

has been listed among the 25 best innovations of 2014 by the Time magazine.

A study by the Internet & Mobile Association of India shows that Mumbai has the largest number -(16.4 million, of internet users in India, followed by Delhi.

OCTOBER 2014 ‘NIRBHAY’ TEST FIRED SUCCESSFULLY India successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable cruise missile 'Nirbhay' from the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha. Developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Nirbhay (fearless in Hindi) is very manoeuvrable and can fly at tree-top level, making it difficult to detect on radar, and can strike targets more than 700 km away.

Unlike other ballistic missiles like the Agni, Nirbhay has a wing and pronounced tail fins. It launches like a missile and in early flight the small wings get deployed. It then flies like an aircraft and can even hover near the target, striking at will from any direction.

GOVT CLEARS 80,000 CRORE FOR DEFENCE The Defence Acquisition Council has cleared military equipment purchase proposals worth Rs 80,000 crore that include purchase of over 8,000 Israeli anti-tank missiles, 362 infantry carrying vehicles, 12 upgraded Dornier surveillance aircraft and two midget subs for special operations. The Council also gave green signal for construction of six submarines indigenously. India and China to set up hotlines between their army

headquarters and establish new border meeting posts to amicably address incidents of incursions on border.

China has test fired a new variant of its 10,000 km range missile - Dongfeng-31B, capable of targeting Europe and the West Coast of the United States.

IRNSS 1C LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY Scripting another success in India's space programme, ISRO launched its third navigation satellite IRNSS 1C on board its PSLV-C26 rocket from Sriharikota on October 16. IRNSS 1C is a part of the series of seven satellites that ISRO plans to launch to put in place the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System- IRNSS – our own navigation system on par with the GPS of the US.

URANUS LIKE PLANET DISCOVERED Astronomers have spotted a turbulent planet, 25,000 lightyears away, that is four times as massive as Uranus. The exo-planet is part of a double-star (binary) system OGLE-2008-BLG-092L, near the constellation Sagittarius.

INTERNATIONAL

DECEMBER 2014 US SIGNS ARMS TRADE TREATY A treaty laying down international rules for the $85 billion global arms trade came into force from Dec 24, after being signed by the USA - world's largest arms producer and exporter. The treaty aims at cutting off weapons supplies to human rights violators worldwide.

USA BREAKS ICE WITH CUBA In a historic decision, USA has announced a series of steps aimed at normalising relations with communist-ruled Cuba with which it had severed diplomatic ties decades ago. The steps being taken include instructions to re-establish the US Embassy in Cuba’s capital Havana, relaxing of trade & travel restrictions; review of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.

TALIBAN COMMIT MOST GRUESOME MASSACRE At least 132 students and nine staff members were killed on Dec 16 after Tehrik-e-Taliban gunmen broke into a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and opened fire in the bloodiest massacre the country has seen for years.

END OF ‘OCCUPY CENTRAL’ DEMONSTRATIONS Hong Kong police forcefully ended the more than two month old street demonstration - Occupy Central. For over two months, thousands of protesters had been demanding open nominations in the next election for chief executive in 2017.

RUSSIA SUFFERS ECONOMIC SET BACK Russia's economy is in deep trouble. Crippled by sanctions and stung by slumping oil prices, the nation's currency has lost half its value against the US dollar since June. Because of the volatility of the rouble, many foreign businesses are finding it impossible to operate in Russia.

WEB INDEX PUTS INDIA BEHIND CHINA

India ranks behind China and other BRICS nations in a comprehensive index aimed at measuring the Internet’s contribution to social, economic and political progress. Though China is notorious for its great Internet firewall, the nation is far ahead of India when it comes to translating the power of the Internet into economic potential, says the Web Index released by the World Wide Web Foundation

WORLD ECONOMY SET TO GROW BY 3.1% According to the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2015 report by UNO, the global economy will grow by more than 3 percent in 2015 and 2016. However the growth will be uneven in some regions. The UN is forecasting 3.1 percent economic growth in 2015 and 3.3% growth in 2016.


TIME ‘PERSON OF THE YEAR’–EBOLA FIGHTERS The countless doctors, nurses and caregivers at the forefront of battling one of the worst ever outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus, have been collectively named as Time magazine's 2014 'Person of the Year'. World Health Organisation has said that of over 18000 reported cases of Ebola since December, 2013, nearly 6,400 people have died by Dec 10 with Siera Leone being worst hit country. 2014 WORST YEAR FOR CHILDREN The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that 2014 has been “devastating” for some 15 million children caught up in violent conflicts around the world in places like the Central African Republic, Iraq, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and occupied Palestine. UNFCCC MEET HELD AT LIMA The world’s nations gathered in Lima, capital of Peru on Dec 1 for the 12-day ‘ Lima Climate Change Conference’ under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to push for a deal to roll back carbon emissions threatening future generations. On Dec 14, negotiators adopted a compromise draft for national pledges to cut global carbon emissions, to be adopted at December 2015 convention in Paris. The deal — dubbed the Lima Call for Climate Action — paves the way for what is envisioned as the historic agreement in environmental history. This is the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties and the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol World AIDS Day observed on December 01. The theme for this year is, 'Focus, Partner, Achieve: An AIDS-free Generation'.

HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection

AIDS: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; (advanced stage of HIV infection)

Singapore launched a new National Day song in Tamil to celebrate its 50 years of independence. Tamil is 4th official language of Singapore.

United Nations General Assembly on 5 December 2014 declared 2015 as the International Year of Soils

Bhutan became 181st member of Multilateral Invest-ment Guarantee Agency– a branch of the World Bank Group.

An Airbus A320-200 of Air Asia flight QZ8501 with 162 persons aboard disappeared on Dec 28 on way from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore.

Ukraine has decided to join North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), signaling its movement away from Russia, towards western powers.

Latvia will hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2015. The Presidency changes every six months.

An Italian Ship - Norman Atlantic, carrying 478 passengers caught fire in mid sea, near Italian port Ancona. Rescue teams could save 471passengers.

Malaysia’s worst flooding in decades forced some 1,18,000 people to flee to safer places. Kelantan, in north east Malaysia, was worst-affected area.

A 444.5-kg British man, believed to be the fattest in the world, has died from pneumonia following a lengthy battle with his weight.

NOVEMBER 2014

WTO APPROVES TFA AND INDIA’s STAND Ending months-long deadlock, the WTO has approved a trade facilitation agreement (TFA) while agreeing to India's demand for continuing the peace clause till a permanent solution is found to the food stockpiling issue, crucial for continuing food security scheme. The decision was taken at Geneva meet of WTO's General Council on Nov 27. WTO also accepted India's demand for extending the peace clause till a permanent solution is found for its food stockpiling issue. Under the peace clause, a WTO member gets immunity against penalty for breaching the food subsidy cap. As per the WTO norms, a developing nation can provide food subsidy of upto 10 percent of the total farm output.

WORLD BANK REPORT ON GLOBAL WARMING The World Bank on 23 November 2014 released a report on the impact of global warming titled “Turn Down the Heat: Confronting the New Climate Normal.” The report focuses on the specific regional impacts of warming.

WORLD LONGEST TRAIN JOURNEY An 82-wagon cargo train started on Nov 25 from the Chinese city of Yiwu for Madrid, Spain on the world’s longest rail journey, covering 10,000 kms, following the ancient Silk Route. It will cover five other countries — Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany and France — before completing its mammoth 21-day journey in the Spanish capital.

UN RESOLUTION ON CHILD MARRIAGES The United Nations has adopted the first-ever resolution calling on governments to stop child marriages. About 15 million girls worldwide become child brides each year and more than 700 mn women are married before the age–18. IMMIGRATION REFORMS IN USA In a landmark decision that could benefit around 2.5 lakh Indians seeking the Green Card, US President has announced sweeping immigration reforms that will save almost five million illegal immigrants from deportation, particularly those who hold H-1B visa.

OVER $9 BN PLEDGED FOR CLIMATE FUND Thirty nations meet on 20th Nov in Berlin has pledged $9.3 billion for a fund to help developing countries cut emissions and prepare for climate change to avoid global warming. The South Korea-based Green Climate Fund (GCF) aims to help developing nations invest in clean energy and green technology and build up defences against rising seas and worsening storms, floods and droughts.


UN WORLD TOILET DAY – NOV 19 The United Nations has dedicated November 19th for promoting World Toilet Day to bring into limelight the plight of all those people who do not have access to a toilet - despite this being their basic right. The theme for this year's UN World Toilet Day is "Equality, Dignity and the Link Between Gender-Based Violence and Sanitation".

G20 TO ACT ON TAX THEFT /CLIMATE CHANGE

Leaders from the G20 group of nations resolved to boost flagging global growth, tackle climate change and crack down on tax avoidance. The group leaders promised to modernise global tax rules and begin automatic exchange of tax information by 2018-end. USA committed $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund. Japan also pledged $1.5 Billion for the same. Turkey will host 2015 G20 summit and the 2016 summit will be hosted by China. US AGREES TO INDIAN FOOD STOCKING India has reached an agreement with the United States on public stockpiling of food in terms of Bali Package, paving the way for the implementation of a global Trade Facilitation Agreement that has been stalled for months.

India had asked WTO to amend the norms for calculating agri subsidies so that the country could continue to procure foodgrains from farmers at minimum support price and sell them to poor at cheaper rates without violating the WTO norms. CHINA USA AGREE TO CUT EMISSIONS China and the United States have agreed on a timetable to limit emission of greenhouse gases — ending a 20-year discord between them on how to combat climate change. The U.S. agreed to reduce by 2025 its emission of greenhouse gases by 26 per cent to 28 per cent below its 2005 level. China agreed to raise the share of non-fossil fuels to 20 per cent by 2030. The two countries are the largest producers of CO2 gasses in the world.

IMF DECLARES CHINA AS NO 1 ECONOMY As per recent reports from IMF, in October 2014, China overtook the US to become the world’s largest economy in terms of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). China’s GDP stood at $ 17.6 trillion, 16.48 percent of the World GDP, followed by USA at $ 17.4 trillion. India stood at the third place with $ 7.3 trillion size. ‘VAPE’ IS THE WORD OF 2014 'Vape' - the act of smoking from an electronic cigarette - has been chosen by Oxford Dictionaries as its international word of the year for 2014 after use of the term more than doubled over the last year.

Thousands of Greeks took to the streets of Athens to hold a nationwide strike to protest against the government’s austerity drive involving job cuts.

Japan's economy shrank for the second consecutive quarter, marking a technical recession in the world's third largest economy.

Sweden has become the first European Union (EU) country to officially recognise the State of Palestine.

WHO released first ever ‘Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality - Household Fuel Combustion’ to promote use of clean fuels at household level.

22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit was held in Beijing, China from 9th November 2014 to 11th November 2014.

Czech Republic celebrated the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Velvet Revolution that toppled communism and led to dawn of democracy in 1989.

General council meeting of WTO held at GENEVA on 27th November, 2014

International Buddhist Conference held in Lumbini, Nepal, Nov 15-16.

OCTOBER 2014 PRO-DEMOCRACY PROTESTS IN HONG KONG Hong Kong, an otherwise peaceful territory, witnessed widespread clashes between pro-democracy activists and counter-protesters (pro-Beijing) who have violently tried to drive the mainly young, student-led demonstrators from the occupied streets. The movement has been named as “occupy central” and also given the name ‘umbrella revolution’ due to extensive use of umbrellas by the demonstrators. The protesters are seeking guarantees that Hong Kong citizens can freely vote for their leaders in 2017 from an unrestricted list of candidates, as Beijing promised when Britain handed over the territory in 1997. EBOLA CLAIMS OVER 5,000 LIVES The World Health Organization has advised that by October 25, the number of Ebola cases has exceeded the 10,000 mark, holding with about a 50 percent mortality rate. The number could be higher since a lack of beds in Ebola treatment centers means some victims are forced to stay at home - and those deaths could remain unreported.

NIGERIA CONQUERS ‘EBOLA’ Nigeria was declared free of the deadly Ebola virus on October 20 by WHO after a determined doctor and thousands of officials and volunteers helped end an outbreak still ravaging other parts of West Africa and threatening the United States and Spain. UNO TO WORK FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION UNO observed the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17th October. The theme for the day for 2014 was “Leave no one behind: think, decide and act together against extreme poverty”. UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon said that more than 1.2 billion people are living on less than $1.25 a day and 2.4 billion are living on less than $2 a day.


BRITAIN EXITS FROM AFGHANISTAN The United Kingdom finally called it a day to its presence in Afghanistan when it handed over its last base there in Helmand province to the Afghan forces, marking an official end to the 13-year-long combat operations that claimed over 450 British lives in the war-torn country.

SECURITY COUNCIL GETS 5 NEW MEMBERS Five countries - Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Venezuela and Spain were elected by the UN General Assembly as the new non-permanent members of the Security Council for a two years term beginning from Jan 1, 2015. These five countries will replace retiring members Argentina, Australia, Luxembourg, South Korea and Rwanda.

4 INDIANS IN FORTUNE TOP 40 UNDER 40 Four Indians have been named by Fortune in its 2014 list of the 40 most powerful, influential and important people in business under the age of 40. The list has been topped by ridesharing service company Uber’s 38-year-old co- founder Travis Kalanick and community-driven hospitality company Airbnb’s 33-year-old CEO Brian Chesky. The Indians on the list are Economics professor at Harvard Raj Chetty-16, Micromax co-founder and CEO Rahul Sharma-21, Snapdeal Co-Founder and CEO Kunal Bahl-25 and Twitter’s General Counsel and the only woman on the company’s executive team Vijaya Gadde-28. JAFFNA – COLOMBO RAIL LINK OPENED

A nearly 400-km long Jaffna-Colombo railway line, reconstructed with Indian assistance in Sri Lanka's former war zone, was inaugurated on 13th October, 24 years after it was shut down during the civil war.

CHINA PLANS INTERNATIONAL DEV BANK China and 20 other countries plan to set up an Asian infrastructure Bank seen as a counterweight to West backed international development banks. The group agreed to establish the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Beijing with an expected initial capital of 50 billion US dollars.

25th ASEAN Summit to be held on Nov 12-13 at Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.

Google closed the social networking site Orkut on 30 September 2014. The site was started in 2004 by Orkut Buyukkokten, a Google employee.

Severe typhoon – Vongfong slammed into Japan on 13th Oct. at Makurazaki on Kyushu Island with winds of up to 180 kmph, causing widespread destruction.

Strong typhoon Phanfone slammed into Japan on 5th

Oct. with winds of up to 180 kmph lashing the shore, bringing heavy rain and chaos in areas around Tokyo.

PERSONS IN NEWS DECEMBER 2014

DR. K. RADHAKRISHNAN: Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has been selected as one of the top ten scientists in 2014 chosen by the prestigious science journal of UK-Nature. PRIME MINISTER MODI: has been rated as the world’s top policy maker, according to a new report of Harvard’s prestigious Kennedy School of Government. PAWAN CHAMLING: Sikkim Chief Minister, on 12 December 2014 became longest serving Chief Minister of India as he completed his 20 years in the office. The record for longest tenure as Chief Minister is held by Jyoti Basu, CM of West Bengal for 23 years, 4 months. TASHI MALIK AND NUNGSHI MALIK: The twin sisters from Dehradun scaled Mount Vinson, Antarctica’s highest mountain at 4,892 metres to become the world’s first twins and siblings to climb the highest peaks on the seven continents. SARITA DEVI: The International Boxing Association (AIBA) banned Indian boxer for one year for refusing to accept the Asian Games bronze medal. VIVEK MURTHY: The 37 year old Indian origin doctor has been confirmed as the youngest ever Surgeon General of the United States MAHINDA RAJAPAKSA: Sri Lanka President visited India to offer prayers at the famous hill temple of Lord Venkateswara in Andhra Pradesh

NOVEMBER 2014 NARENDRA MODI: joined the Forbes list of the world's most powerful people at 15th rank. The list is topped by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, followed by Barack Obama. Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani scored 36th rank. ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA: The Chairperson of country's largest bank- SBI, was named as the most-powerful business woman in India by Fortune Magazine. She was followed by ICICI Bank's Chanda Kochhar and Shikha Sharma of Axis Bank. E. SREEDHARAN: Ministry of Railways has appointed Father of Delhi Metro – ‘Metroman’ head of the committee to suggest a "proper system and procedure to ensure proper accountability and transparency" at General Manager level and other functionaries level for taking all commercial decisions.

GEN. DALBIR SINGH SUHAG: Indian Army Chief was

conferred the title of honorary rank of General of Nepal Army by the Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav.


FARHAN AKHTAR: Bollywood actor-director became the first man in the history of “UN Women” to be appointed as its Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia. He will advocate for gender equality and women's empowerment.

REUBEN PAUL: An eight-year old Indian-origin child prodigy was in news as he delivered the keynote address at the Ground Zero Summit on cyber security held in New Delhi.

NIKKI HALEY: Governor of South Caorlina state, USA, the youngest of current US Governors (42) was in news as she visited Punjab and promised South Carolina’s support to Punjab in setting up aerospace, pharma, tourism and agro-processing industries. MALALA YOUSAFZAI: Pakistani teenage rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner was in news for donating $50,000 to help rebuild UN schools in Gaza that have been damaged during the recent fight with Israel. CHUCK HAGEL: U.S. Defense Secretary was in news as he resigned from his post. BARACK OBAMA: US President will be the Chief Guest at India's 2015 Republic Day celebrations. This will be the first time a US President will attend the function. VLADIMIR PUTIN: Russian President was in news as he walked out of the G20 summit in Australia, after he faced scorn and scepticism from Western leaders over Russia’s interference in Ukraine. ROBERT O’NEILL: An ex-Navy SEAL was in news as he has been unmasked as the man who pumped three shots to the head of elusive Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden during a top-secret raid on May 2, 2011 at his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan. SAIRA BLAIR: Eighteen-year-old girl from West Virginia University was in news as she secured a landslide victory by securing 63 percent votes for a seat in the state legislature house of West Virginia, USA, becoming the youngest person ever to achieve this feat.

OCTOBER 2014 RAGHURAM RAJAN: Reserve Bank of India Governor has received the Euromoney’s “Central Bank Governor of the Year Award 2014” in Washington on October 10 for his excellent performance. Euromoney is a reputed international financial magazine of UK.

SARITA DEVI: Indian boxer was in news as the International Boxing Association provisionally suspended her for protesting against a controversial verdict, at 2014 Incheon Asian Games. She declined to accept the bronze medal awarded to her as she expected to win the silver.

SHAKTI DEVI: An Indian police inspector has been named recipient of the prestigious International Female Police Peacekeeper Award 2014 by the UN's police division for her "exceptional achievements" in her duty with the UN mission in Afghanistan, including her efforts towards helping victims of sexual and gender-based violence.

HARSHIT SAUMITRA: A five-year-old Indian boy has become the youngest person to reach the Everest Base Camp (EBC). A class 1 student from New Delhi, Harshit took 10 days to cover the distance of 62km trek. He also climbed the nearby Kalapathar (5550 m) peak

LEELA SAMSON: Eminent Bharatnatyam dancer and Chairperson of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) was in news as she resigned from the post of Chairperson of Sangeet Natak Akademi.

THOMAS KAILATH: Indian-American professor from USA is one of the nine scientists selected for the prestigious National Medal of Science, the highest honour for achievement in the fields of science and engineering in USA.

JOSHUA WONG: He has just completed 18 years but he is one of the fieriest political activists in Hong Kong. He is the founder of students organisation “Scholarism” which is leading the pro democracy youth movement in Hong Kong.

JEFFREY P. BEZOS: The Chief Executive of the world’s largest e-tailer –Amazon.com, called on Modi and committed $2 billion investment in the country.

MARK ZUCKERBERG: Founder and CEO of Facebook, called on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.

ALAN EUSTACE: A senior Google vice-president (57) created a new world record for highest free-fall parachute jump. He went up hanging with a Helium balloon and jumped in a specially designed space suit from an altitude of 135908 foot (41.4kms) reaching a max speed of 1300 kmph

APPOINTMENTS DECEMBER 2014

RAGHUBAR DAS (BJP): New Chief Minister of Jharkhand

JYOTSNA SURI: President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI).

RAJINDER KHANNA: Chief of Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW),

PRAKASH MISHRA: Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

DINESHWAR SHARMA: Director, Intelligence Bureau

ANIL Kr. SINHA: Director, Central Bureau of Investigation

KLAUS IOHANNIS: President of Romania

BEJI CAID ESSEBSI: President of Tunisia

ANEROOD JUGNAUTH: Prime Minister of Mauritius

TABARE VAZQUEZ: President of Uruguay

SHINZO ABE: Re elected as Prime Minister of Japan

ASHTON CARTER: US Defence Secretary


NOVEMBER 2014

LIST OF CABINET MINISTERS AS ON 30.11.2014 Person Name Position 1 NARENDRA MODI

Head of the Government

Prime Minister, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; all important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister

2 Rajnath Singh Home Affairs 3 Sushma Swaraj External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs 4 Arun Jaitley Finance, Corporate Affairs, Information &

Broadcasting 5 Manohar Parrikar Defence 6 Radha Mohan

Singh Agriculture

7 J.P. Nadda Health and Family Welfare 8 M. Venkaiah Naidu Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty

Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs 9 Nitin Jairam

Gadkari Road Transport and Highways, Shipping

10 Suresh Prabhu Railways 11 Uma Bharati Water Resources, River Development and Ganga

Rejuvenation 12 Dr. Najma A.

Heptulla Minority Affairs

13 Chaudhary Birender Singh

Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation

14 Ramvilas Paswan Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution 15 Kalraj Mishra Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises 16 Maneka Sanjay

Gandhi Women and Child Development

17 Ananthkumar Chemicals and Fertilizers 18 Ravi Shankar

Prasad Communications and Information Technology

19 AG Raju Pusapati Civil Aviation 20 Anant Geete Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises 21 Harsimrat Kaur

Badal Food Processing Industries

22 Narendra Singh Tomar

Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment

23 Jual Oram Tribal Affairs 24 Sadananda Gowda Law and Justice 25 Thaawar Chand

Gehlot Social Justice and Empowerment

26 Smriti Zubin Irani Human Resource Development 27 Dr. Harsh Vardhan Science & Technology / Earth Science

DEEPAK GUPTA: Chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)

JUSTICE C K PRASAD: Chairman, Press Council of India

HASMUKH ADHIA: Union Financial Services Secretary

G S SANDHU: Chairman of National Chemical Weapon Convention.

LAXMIKANT PARSEKAR: Chief Minister, Goa

ANITA KAPUR:Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes.

KLAUS WARREN LOHANNIS: President of Romania, first non Romanian (German) to become President

OCTOBER 2014 MANOHAR LAL KHATTAR: New Chief Minister of Haryana

DEVENDRA FADNAVIS: New Chief Minister of Maharashtra

ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN: Chief Economic Adviser to the Union Government. He is the former IMF economist

RAJIV MEHRISHI: Union Finance Secretary

Dr. A SURYA PRAKASH: Chairman, Prasaar Bharati Board

HEMANT CONTRACTOR: Chairman of Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA)

DILMA ROUSSEFF: Re-elected as the President of Brazil, second term leading her Workers Party

KHALED BAHAH: Prime Minister of Yemen

JENS STOLTENBERG: Secretary-General of NATO

India has been re-elected as member of the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the period of 2015-17

AWARDS & HONOURS

DECEMBER 2014 THE GOLDEN PEACOCK: Award for the best film at the 45th International Film Festival of India, Goa won by the Russian film ‘Leviathan’ directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. The award carries a cash prize of 40 lakh rupees.

Wong Kar Wai: The Chinese filmmaker was conferred the lifetime achievement award at IFFI.

Swiss Ambassador's Award: Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro for inspirational and socially responsible leadership.

Niryat Shree and Niryat Bandhu Awards for 2010-11 given at Delhi for outstanding performance in exports. Canara Bank won the Niryat Bandhu Silver Trophy, Banks

Yash Chopra Memorial Award: Amitabh Bachchan

Miss Universal Peace & Humanity 2014: Ruhi Singh of India at Beirut, Lebanon.

Miss Intercontinental 2014: Wang Patraporn, from Thailand at Magdeburg, Germany.

Miss World 2014: Rolene Strauss, from South Africa at London

Olof Palme Human Rights Prize: Xu Youyu, Chinese pro-democracy activist. It is an annual prize worth USD 75,000 granted by the Swedish labour movement.

Confucius Peace Prize: Fidel Castro, Former Cuban leader. It is known as China's version of the Nobel Prize.

Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2014: Noted Pakistan-born poetess Imtiaz Dharker for her poetry collection ‘Over the Moon’. This award is given by British Queen.

Turner Prize: Duncan Campbell, film artist from UK for a video that reflects on African art. It is a popular UK prize for art work.


NOVEMBER 2014 INDIRA GANDHI PRIZE for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2014: Indian Space Research Organisation – ISRO for its contribution in strengthening international cooperation in peaceful use of outer space.

GANDHIAN PHILOSOPHY and Public Service Broadcasting Award 2014: Won by Radio Kashmir, Jammu for its programme Jeevan Rekha.

CENTENARY AWARD for Indian Film Personality of the Year: Rajinikanth, super star of south cinema was conferred this honour at the 45th International Film Festival of India, in Goa.

Sumitra Charat Ram Award 2014: Pandit Jasraj, veteran classical vocalist for Lifetime Achievement.

INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S PEACE PRIZE: Neha Gupta (18), an Indian-American from Philadelphia, won the prestigious prize for her work to help orphans in India and other vulnerable children. She became the first ever American to be awarded the prize in The Hague, Netherlands.

IIM- JRD TATA AWARD for Excellence in Corporate leadership: C S Verma, Chairman, SAIL

THE IPI INDIA AWARD for Excellence in Journalism, 2014, awarded jointly to Hindustan Times and The Week for “outstanding journalistic work” during 2013.

IPI – International Press Institute, Vienna (Austria)

WORLD’S CHILDREN PRIZE: Malala Yousafzai in Sweden

THE GRAND CORDON of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers: One of Japan’s top national awards, conferred on Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his contribution to Indo-Japan ties. He is first Indian to receive this honour.

SYDNEY PEACE PRIZE 2014: Julian Burnside, Human rights advocate and barrister from Australia.

SAKHAROV PRIZE for Human Rights: Denis Mukwege from Congo for treating victims of gang rape

OCTOBER 2014 NATIONAL RAIL AWARD: Harish Kanwar, Deputy Director in Railway Board for his contribution in completion of the Pirpanjal rail tunnel in J&K.

NATIONAL KISHORE KUMAR AWARD: Noted Bollywood lyricist Sameer

LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI NATIONAL AWARD – 2014 for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management: Dr. A. Sivathanu Pillai, CEO and MD of BrahMos Aerospace.

WORLD MEDIA SUMMIT Global Awards for Excellence, 2014: P. Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor at The Hindu got the Public Welfare Award. He is one of the five other media entities honoured with these awards. WILDSCREEN PANDA AWARD: The coveted wildlife photography award in best newcomer category was won by Ashwika Kapur for her film, Sirocco - how a dud became a stud at the annual Wildscreen Film Festival held at Bristol, UK.

CULTURAL MEDALLION 2014 (Singapore): KTM Iqbal, an Indian-origin Singaporean poet and writer was named for this highest cultural award of Singapore.

WORLD FOOD PRIZE 2014: Dr Sanjaya Rajaram for his scientific research that led to a bumper growth in world wheat production.

MAN BOOKER PRIZE: The Australian novelist Richard Flanagan for book “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.” The book tells the harrowing story of an Australian surgeon who is held in a Japanese P.O.W. camp and is forced to work on the Thailand-Burma Railway.

WAISLITZ GLOBAL CITIZEN AWARD: Anoop Jain for his work in founding Humanure Power in Bihar in 2011 that builds community sanitation facilities in rural India.

GLOBAL DIVERSITY AWARD 2014: Shah Rukh Khan has been honoured with this award by British Parliament for his contribution to cinema.

2014 Nobel Prizes Declared

PRIZE FIELD PRIZE DECIDED BY WINNER OF 2014 SELECTED WORK

Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm

John O’Keefe of the USA, May-Britt & Edward Moser of Norway

For discovering brain’s internal positioning system, helping humans find their ways and giving clues to how strokes and Alzheimer affect the brain.

Physics The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano from Japan and U.S. citizen Shuji Nakamura

For inventing blue light-emitting diodes, a breakthrough that has spurred the development of LED technology to light up homes, computer screens and smartphones worldwide.

Chemistry The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Eric Betzig and William Moerner from the USA; Stefan Hell from Germany

For finding ways to make microscopes more powerful than previously thought possible, allowing scientists to see how diseases develop inside the tiniest cells.

Literature The Swedish Academy Patrick Modiano, France For his moody, terse and occasionally dreamlike novels, often set during the Nazi occupation of France

Peace The Norwegian Nobel Committee

Indian child right activist Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousafzai (See details below)

For their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of education for all children.

Economics The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Jean Tirole, France

For research on market power and regulation that has helped policy-makers understand how to deal with industries dominated by a few dominant companies


BOOKS & AUTHORS

DECEMBER 2014 Vande Bharatam by Pandit Prabodh Kumar Mishra.

How Modi Won It by Harish Khare

The Last Illusion by Porochista Khakpour

Adultery by Paulo Coelho

Life is What You Make it by Preeti Shenoy

In God’s Hands by Desmond Tutu Templeton prize winner

Family Life by Akhil Sharma. The book has been selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten Best Books of 2014.

Born Again on the Mountain by Arunima Sinha, the first Indian female amputee to climb Mount Everest.

2014: The Election That Changed India by Rajdeep Sardesai

Next China-India War - World's First Water War – 2029 by Gen. Sundarajan Padmanabhan, former Indian Army Chief

NOVEMBER 2014 Your Dreams are Mine Now by Ravinder Singh

7 Secretes of the Goddess by Dev Dutt Pattnaik

The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years by Pranab Mukherjee, President of India

The Scatter Here is Too Great by Bilal Tanweer of Lahore won the 2014 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize.

Truth Always Prevails by Sadruddin Hashwani

The Rich by John Kampfner

OCTOBER 2014 Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar by Dilip D’Souza

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

A Man and A Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power by Bette Dam

Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace by Leon Panetta, and Jim Newton

Sons of Brahama by Dhruba Hazarika

The divided Island by Samanth Subramanian

OBITUARY

DECEMBER 2014 K. BALACHANDER: Eminent South Indian filmmaker and Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner from Chennai. He wrote, directed and produced more than 100 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He was the man behind the success of superstars Rajnikanth and Kamal Hassan.

V.R. KRISHNA IYER: Legendary jurist, a Supreme Court judge, and post-retirement, a human rights activist, known for his landmark judgments and for the environmental struggles.

DEVEN VERMA: Bollywood comedy actor, winner of Filmfare Best Comedian Award for his roles in films Chori Mera Kaam, Chor Ke Ghar Chor and Angoor.

A R ANTULAY: Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and former Union Minister, veteran Congress leader

CHUNIBHAI VAIDYA: A veteran Gandhian and freedom fighter from Ahmadabad, Gujarat.

JARBOM GAMLIN: Former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh

JOE COCKER: Legendary rock singer from Colorado, USA

DAVID JOHN RYALL: Veteran British actor

NOVEMBER 2014 RAVI CHOPRA: Veteran film director from Bollywood,

famous for his tele serial – Mahabharat and movie – Baghban.

SADASHIV AMRAPURKAR: Mumbai Cinema actor, winner of two Filmfare awards.

MURLI DEORA: Eminent Congress leader from Maharashtra and former Union Petroleum Minister

SITARA DEVI: Eminent Kathak danseuse, Padma sri awardee. Kathak is a prominent classical dance form of Uttar Pradesh.

P D JAMES: Noted English crime thriller novelist from UK. Popular as “Queen of Crime” and known for the fictitious character of poet-cum-detective - Adam Dalgliesh created by her.

PHILLIP HUGHES: Australian star batsman was in news as he suffered a fatal hit on his neck by a short-pitched bouncer thrown by Sean Abbott, in a domestic match in Sydney, leading to his death after three days, on Nov 27.

KEN TAKAKURA: Noted Japanese film actor

WARREN ANDERSON: Former Union Carbide chief, wanted in India in connection with the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, died at 92 in New York – Sep 29.


OCTOBER 2014 M.V. KAMATH: Veteran journalist and former Prasar Bharati Chairman, Padmasri awardee from Karnataka.

JAGDISH SHARAN PANDE: Noted freedom fighter from Almora, Uttarakhand.

MARTIN PERL: Nobel Prize-winning physicist from USA, known for discovery of a subatomic particle known as the Tau Lepton.

PLACES IN NEWS DECEMBER 2014

CHINTAGUFA, SUKMA: Place was in news as Naxalites killed 14 CRPF personnel, including two officers, and injured an equal number in the second attack on the force in 10 days in the same area in the Naxal hotbed of Sukma district in Chhattisgarh. TYPHOON HAGUPIT: hit the eastern Philippines creating misery for millions following a barrage of deadly disasters.

NOVEMBER 2014

JAYAPUR: A village near Varanasi was in news as it was adopted for development by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi under ‘Sansad Gram Yojna’. HAMPI: Place in Karnataka was in news as some 20 drawings of the Harappan (Sindhu) era in Gondi dialect were discovered there at a nearby hilltop. PENDARI: A village on the outskirts of Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh was in news as over 14 women died due to faulty sterlisation operations performed on them at a government medical camp organised there. LIPULEKH PASS: The mountain pass in Dharchula, Uttrakhand was in news as border trade worth over Rs 3 crore took place between India and China this year through this pass. WAGAH: The small town on Indo-Pak border, famous for its ceremonial beating retreat, was in news as a horrific suicide attack took place there on Nov 2, killing over 61 persons and injuring another around 100 persons, who had come there for attending the flag lowering ceremony. FERGUSON: A small town in Missouri State of USA was in news as it suffered violent racial riots. The riots sparked after a grand jury cleared a white police officer in the fatal August 9 shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Protests were also staged in New York, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, Oakland, California, and Washington DC. BERLIN WALL: Massive public celebrations were held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop people fleeing the communist East. Its fall in 1989 became a powerful symbol of the end of the Cold War.

CATALONIA: A small but prosperous region in north eastern Spain was in news as it voted in a symbolic ballot on Nov 9 on the issue – “whether to break away from Spain or not” to emerge as an independent state. WORLD TRADE CENTER, NY: The 104-story, $3.9 billion skyscraper at Manhattan, New York, the tallest in America, was inaugurated on Nov 03, almost thirteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attack that destroyed the original towers. US publishing giant Conde Nast became the first commercial tenant.

OCTOBER 2014 VISAKHAPATNAM: A major coastal city of Andhra Pradesh suffered wide spread destruction under the impact of severe super cyclone ‘Hudhud’

NALIYA: Small town on coast of Kutchh, Gujarat was in news as it was struck by super cyclone Nilofer.

SPORTS WORLD

DECEMBER 2014 Blind Cricket World Cup: India lifted the Cup on Dec 7 after defeating Pakistan in Cape Town, South Africa.

P V Sindhu: Won the Macau Grand Prix Gold trophy at Macau, China, beating Kim Hyo Min of Korea

Viswanathan Anand won his maiden London Classic title after defeating British Grandmaster Michael Adams

Ankita Raina won ITF singles tennis title defeating British Katy Dunne in Pune, Mahrashtra. She is the first Indian to win this title in past 14 years.

M S Dhoni broke the world record for most number of stumpings in international cricket after he claimed his 134th victim – Mitchell Johnson of Australia at Melbourne, Australia.

Baichung Bhutia: Former Indian football captain conferred with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Hall of Fame Award in Manila, Philippines.

Sachin Tendulkar has been named as the brand ambassador for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

Arjun Atwal has won the Inaugural edition of Dubai Open Golf Championship.

Pragyan Ojha, The left-arm spinner has been banned by BCCI from bowling in competitive matches as his bowling action was found illegal, flexing elbow beyond 15 degrees.

India beats Turkey to win the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad at Gyor in Hungary.

17th Asian Luge Championships: Shiva Keshavan won Silver Medal at the Spiral Olympic Sliding Centre in Nagano, Japan.

Indian Super League football tournament: Atletico de Kolkata won the championship beating Kerala Blasters.


Champions Trophy: Germany beats Pakistan to win the hockey trophy at Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Deodhar Trophy: East zone beats West zone to lift cricket trophy in Mumbai.

58th National Shooting Championships held in Pune, Maharashtra

‘VINICIUS’ & ‘TOM’ – MASCOTS FOR RIO OLYMPICS Brazil has declared ‘Vinicius’ as the mascot for the Rio 2016 Olympics to be held at Rio de Janeiro. Vinicius is a yellow feline animal similar to cat and represents Brazil’s rich fauna and wildlife. The mascot for 2016 Paralympics Games is Tom, a blue and green figure with leaves that cover its head and presents country’s diverse and rich flora.

International Tennis Federation (ITF) has declared following as the “Player of the Year 2014” Men’s: Novak Djokovic from Serbia Women’s: Serena Williams from USA

Opening ceremony for the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup 2015 shall be held at Melbourne, Australia on Feb 14, 2015. Hillel Oscar: An international umpire and former captain of Israel's national cricket team died on Nov 30 after being hit in the jaw by a ball at Ashdod, Israel.

NOVEMBER 2014

ROHIT SHARMA made history by scoring the highest individual score of 264 runs (173b, 33x4, 9x6) in the world history of ODIs, playing against Sri Lanka in Kolkata’s Eden Garden Stadium on Nov 13. He became the only batsman in world to score two

double centuries in ODI format. His previous best of 209 was against Australia in 2013

in Bengaluru. He also created a world record for most fours-33 in a

single innings. M S Dhoni was named as the captain of ICC ODI Team of

the Year 2014.

C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for 2014: Former Indian captain Dilip Vengsarkar. The Award is given by BCCI.

Polly Umrigar Award 2013-14: Pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar for being India’s best international cricketer of the year, given by BCCI.

ICC’s LG People's Choice Award 2014: Indian fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar

VIRAT KOHLI: Star batsman became the quickest cricketer to reach 6,000 runs in ODIs, beating legendary West Indian Vivian Richards’ record. He scored this feat during India’s third ODI against Sri Lanka in Hyderabad. ABHINAV BINDRA: India’s ace shooter became the first Indian to be elected as Chairman of International Shooting Sport Federation's (ISSF) Athletes Committee.

Sachin Tendulkar was inducted into the Bradman Hall of Fame on 5th October at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Australia.

Ms Deborah, a tribal girl from Andaman and Nicobar Islands has created history in National Level by winning four Gold Medals in the Track Asia Cup Cycling Championship 2014 held at New Delhi.

54th National Open Athletics Championships held at New Delhi. Tintu Luka was adjudged the best female athlete and Ankit Sharma was named the best male athlete.

South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women's Championship: India wins beating Nepal in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Indian cricket team won 5-match ODI series in a whitewash against Sri Lanka, winning all the five matches.

Saina Nehwal and K Srikanth clinched the women's and men's singles title (Badminton) of the China Open Super Series Premier in Fuzhou, China, on 15th Nov.

Duleep Trophy: Central Zone lifts the cricket cup after beating South Zone at New Delhi.

43rd Handball National Championship (women’s): Punjab beats Haryana to win the tournament at Mastuana Sahib, Punjab.

127th Durand Cup: Salgaocar FC won the prestigious Football championship in Goa, defeating Pune FC. World Kabaddi League: United Singhs won the finals beating Khalsa Warriors at Mohali, Punjab.

68th Sr. National Aquatic Championship held at Kolkata. Terry Walsh quits as the Head Coach of the National Hockey team.

Mitchell Johnson: Australia’s fast bowler won the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Sir Garfield Sobers trophy for the Cricketer of the Year award for 2014.

AB de Villiers: South Africa’s batsman was voted the ODI player of 2014.

Sarah Taylor: England’s wicketkeeper was named women’s player of 2014.

Lionel Messi: FC Barcelona superstar became the all-time highest scorer in La Liga history by scoring 253 goals, playing against Sevilla in Spain.

Lewis Hamilton of UK won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as well as the Formula 1 racing championship title of the year becoming the first British double world champion since Jackie Stewart in 1971.

Magnus Carlsen of Norway has retained his World Chess Championship title defeating five-time champion Viswanathan Anand in the 11th game at Sochi, Russia on Nov 23.

Novak Djokovic (Serbia) won the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals on Nov 16 at London.


Switzerland won their first ever Davis Cup Tennis title at Lille, France, beating France.

World Women's Boxing Championships held in Jiju, South Korea. S Sarjubala and Saweety won the silver medals for India.

World Tour Golf Championship held at Jumeirah Golf states in Dubai is won by Henrik Stenson from Sweden.

2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships to be hosted by Doha, Qatar. 2015 and 2017 games will be hosted by Beijing and London, respectively.

Africa Cup of Nations 2015 - The 16 nation Football tournament will be hosted by Equatorial Guinea.

Seaways IBSF World Snooker Championship held at Bengaluru.

Lee Chong Wei: World number one in Badminton has been suspended by The Badminton World Federation due to an apparent anti-doping regulation violation.

OCTOBER 2014 CURTAINS DOWN FOR 17TH ASIAN GAMES The 17th Asian Games came to an end at Incheon on 4th

October. The 16-day sporting extravaganza saw intense action among 45 countries with 9,500 sports persons. As many as 14 world records were registered and more than 28 Games records were broken in this duration.

China topped with 342 medals (151 gold, 108 silver and 83 bronze) followed by South Korea (234) and Japan (200). India was placed at 8th rank, securing 57 medals - 11 Gold, 10 Silver and 36 Bronze. In the last Asian Games at Guangzhou, India stood sixth.

Kosuke Hagino, the Japanese swimmer, was named as the “Most Valuable Player” of the 17th Asian Games.

MC Mary Kom, gold medal winner boxer was chosen as the ‘Most Valuable Player of India’ at the recent Incheon Asian Games. The 18th Asian Games will be held in 2018 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

INDIAN HIGHLIGHTS

Yogeshwar Dutt ended a 28-year gold drought for India in wrestling after winning Gold by beating Zalimkhan Yusupov of Tajikistan in men’s 65kg freestyle category.

Jitu Rai, shooter won India's 1st gold in the 50m event.

MC Mary Kom became the first Indian woman boxer to clinch a gold medal at the Asian Games after beating Kazakhstan's Zhaina Shekerbekova in the flyweight (48-51kg) category.

India won the Hockey gold medal beating Pakistan

Indian Kabaddi Teams, both men and women, beat Iran’s teams to win the Gold.

Varsha Gautam and Aishwarya Nedunchezhiyan made history by becoming the first Indian women to win a sailing medal – Bronze in Dinghy event at the Asian Games.

Khushbir Kaur won the country’s first-ever silver in the women’s 20 kms race walk in Asiad.

GOLD MEDALS FOR INDIA – 11 NAMES SPORT CATEGORY 1 Jitu Rai Shooting Men's 50 metre

pistol 2 Rajat Chauhan, Sandeep Kumar,

Abhishek Verma Archery Men's team

compound 3 Saurav Ghosal, Mahesh

Mangaonkar, Harinder Pal Sandhu, Kush Kumar

Squash Men’s team

4 Yogeshwar Dutt Wrestling Men's freestyle 65 kg

5 Seema Punia Athletics Women's discus throw

6 Sania Mirza, Saketh Myneni Tennis Mixed doubles 7 Mary Kom Boxing Women's 51 kg 8 Men’s hockey team Hockey Men 9 Women's kabaddi team Kabaddi Women 10 Men's kabaddi team Kabaddi Men 11 Priyanka Pawar, Tintu Luka,

Mandeep Kaur, M R Poovamma Athletics Women's 4x400

metres relay

SILVER MEDALS – 10

NAMES SPORTS CATEGORY 1 Saurav Ghosal Squash Men’s 2 Pemba Tamang, Vijay Kumar

and Gurpreet Singh Shooting 25 cm Center

Pistol Fire 3 Abishek Verma Archery Men’s 4 Dipika Pallikal, Anaka

Alankamony and Joshana Chinappa

Squash Women’s

5 Khushbir Kaur 20km walk Women’s 6 Bajrang Wrestling Free style 61

kg 7 Sanam Singh and Saketh

Myneni Tennis Men’s Doubles

8 Vikas Gowda Discus throw

Men’s

9 Tintu Luka Athletics Women’s 800 ms

10 Manju Bala Athletics Hammer throw TARGET OLYMPIC PODIUM SCHEME - TOPS With an aim to increase India`s medal tally in 2016 and 2020 Olympics, the Sports Ministry has decided to start a "Target Olympic Podium Scheme" (TOPS)and an elite athletes identification committee, which will include sporting greats like Rahul Dravid and Abhinav Bindra, among others.

INDIAN SUPER LEAGUE BEGINS AT KOLKATA The Indian Super League (ISL) heralded a new dawn for football in India on 12 October, at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata. For the first time in India, football matches will be played on commercial lines including international players. The inaugural match was played between Atletico de Kolkata and Mumbai City FC. Final match will be played on December 20. Sharath Gayakwad, the para-swimmer made history at the Asian Para-Games in Incheon, South Korea, by winning six medals to go past sprint legend PT Usha's record of most medals by an Indian in a multi-discipline event.


Anirban Lahiri won the Venetian Macau Open Golf Cup.

Pankaj Advani: Indian cueist won World Billiards Point Format Championship at Leeds, United Kingdom, beating Peter Gilchrist of Singapore. He also won the World title in time format beating Robin Wilson of UK.

World junior Chess title 2014: Lu Shanglei of China defeated Aleksander Indjic of Serbia to win the title in Pune, Maharashtra.

35th Senior National Archery Championship held in New Delhi, won by Punjab.

Champions League Twenty 20: Chennai Super Kings won the trophy by defeating Kolkata Knight Riders at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.

The multi-sport Paralympic Games 2015 will be held in India in February 2015.

4th Sultan of Johor Cup (hockey) for under 21 won by India beating Great Britain at Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

James Tull: A club cricketer in Australia created history by scoring a triple ton – 341 runs - for Mater Hill in a Queensland Warehouse Cricket Association competition. Tull’s innings was studded with 25 sixes and 34 fours in a match that was reduced to 44 overs for each side.

Shanghai Rolex Masters (Tennis) – 2014 won by Roger Federer (Switzerland) beating Gilles Simon (France) in Shanghai, China.

KOHEI UCHIMURA: Japan’s gymnast won his fifth straight all-around world title at the Gymnastics World Championships in Nanning, China. He is the only gymnast to win more than three World all-around titles.

ATP CHINA OPEN Tennis Cup 2014, Beijing

Novak Djokovic (Serbia) beats Tomas Berdych (Czech) to win men’s singles title.

Maria Sharapova (Russia) beats Petra Kvitova(Czech) to win women’s singles title

Serena Williams (USA) beat Simona Halep (Romania) to lift the WTA Finals cup at Singapore.

Sania Mirza and Cara Black (Zimbabwe) won the WTA finals women's doubles tennis title at Singapore.

DAYS AND DATES

World Cancer Day FEBRUARY 04 World Radio Day FEBRUARY 13 Valentine’s Day FEBRUARY 14 Arunachal Pradesh Foundation Day FEBRUARY 20 Central Excise Day FEBRUARY 24 National Science Day FEBRUARY 28 National Youth Day ( B’day of Swami Vivekanand) JANUARY 12 Army Day JANUARY 15 Desh Prem Divas (B’day of Neta ji Subash Chandra Bose)

JANUARY 23

National Girl Child Day ( Day Indira Gandhi became PM of India )

JANUARY 24

National Voters Day ( Establishment of Election Commission)

JANUARY 25

International Customs Day JANUARY 26 Martyrs' Day ( Death of Mahatma Gandhi) JANUARY 30 BSF Raising Day, World AIDS Day DECEMBER 01 International Day for Abolition of Slavery (UNO) DECEMBER 02 International Day of Disabled Persons, World Conservation Day DECEMBER 03

Armed Forces Day DECEMBER 06 International Civil Aviation Day DECEMBER 07 National Immunization Day DECEMBER 09 Human Rights Day DECEMBER 10 UNICEF Day DECEMBER 11 National Energy Conservation Day DECEMBER 14 Vijay Divas DECEMBER 16 Mathematics Day DECEMBER 22 Kisan Day (Birthday of Ch. Charan Singh) DECEMBER 23 National Consumer Day DECEMBER 24 X-Mas Day DECEMBER 25 International Day for Biological Diversity DECEMBER 29


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SEPTEMBER 2014

PM Modi addressed a historical public gathering at the USA’s most prestigious venue – Madison Square Garden in New York on 28th September.

Recognising the importance of Modi’s visit to USA, the US Senate announced September 30 as 'US-India Partnership Day'.

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited India and signed 12 pacts to commit investment of $20 billion in India

in the next five years China to help in setting up of a Railway University and

high speed Chennai-Bangalore-Mysore train corridor, of up to 160kmph

China agreed to open a new route to Kailash Mansarovar via Nathu La in Sikkim.

Prime Minister Modi visited Japan and sought support to introduce the Shinkansen, or bullet train, along the Ahmedabad-Mumbai route.

India and Japan have signed a partner city affiliation agreement between Varanasi (Kashi) and Kyoto - ‘city of

thousand shrines.’ Supreme Court has directed that all under-trial

prisoners who have completed more than half of the jail term prescribed for their offences, should be released on bail

President Pranab Mukherjee made a four-day state visit to Vietnam and met his counterpart Truong Tan Sang.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott came to India and signed a landmark civil nuclear cooperation agreement

President released a set of eight commemorative postage stamps on great Indian musicians

India slipped to 71st position (from 60th in 2013) in an annual global competitiveness list released by the World

Economic Forum. Country's first 'Coral garden' will be set up at Mithapur

coastal region of Devbhoomi-Dwarka district in Gujarat.

The ancient Nalanda University (NU), started functioning once again after almost 800 years at its newly established campus at Rajgir, Bihar.

National Nutrition Week observed from 1st to 7th Sep. The theme for this year is ‘Poshak Ahaar, Desh Ka Adhaar’.

India has signed an agreement with Germany for cooperation in the field of skill development, solid waste management and cleaning of rivers.

Liar’s Dice, a Hindi film directed by Geetu Mohandas has been selected as India’s entry for the Oscar Awards in the foreign film category.

India and Bangladesh have reached a decision on ratification of the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) and to ensure zero border killings.

India and Bangladesh signed a MoU on cooperation in the field of traditional systems of medicine and homeopathy.

Sushma Swaraj, External Affairs Minister visits Afghanistan to meet President & to review key projects.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 64 on 17th

September.

AUGUST 2014 Prime Minister Mr. Modi visited Kathmandu, Nepal and

addressed the Constituent Assembly. India to provide Nepal $ 1 billion concessional line of

credit for various development purposes. A report by ICDS says that about 2.3 crore children in

India, up to 6 years of age, are suffering from malnourishment and are under-weight.

Indian domain names will now make their debut with the extension .Bharat which will be in Devanagari script.

Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister of UK visited India. Northeast Frontier Railway to construct a bridge with

highest pillars in the world, in Manipur, with height of pillars upto 141 metres.

Prime Minister announced Central assistance of Rs. 8,000 crore for four major road projects connecting J&K with rest of the country.

“Pinkathon Delhi 2014” - a run for cause was organised in Delhi with the slogan "Each One Kheench One"


Sushma Swaraj, the External Affairs Minister visited Vietnam on August 24

India's first Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) inaugurated at Shibpur, Howrah in

West Bengal 47th Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN)

Foreign Ministers meeting held in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.

India to construct a pipeline for supply of petroleum products from Raxual, Bihar to Amlekhganj, Nepal

JULY 2014 As per India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2013 the

total forest and tree cover of the country is 78.92 million hectare, 24.01 percent of the geographical area of India.

Madhya Pradesh has the largest forest cover of 77522 sq kms, followed by Arunachal Pradesh, 67321 sq kms.

In terms of percentage, Mizoram has highest cover at 90.38 percent, followed by Lakshadweep-84.56 percent.

Punjab has the lowest area under Forest cover - 3.52%, followed by Haryana - 3.59%.

India and China have jointly released the first encyclopedia on their age-old cultural contacts, tracing back their history to over 2,000 years

India has become the first country to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty to facilitate access to published works for persons who are visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled.

India has slipped ten places in the Global Innovation Index 2014 to the 76th rank. Switzerland topped the 142-nation list.

A recent UN study has ranked Tokyo as the world’s most populous city with 38 million inhabitants, followed by Delhi with 25 million inhabitants.

India’s ranking in the Human Development Index (HDI) remained unchanged at 135 in 2013, reflecting little improvement in the living standard of its people.

Legendary actor Dilip Kumar’s ancestral home at Mohalla Khudadad in Peshawar, Pakistan has been declared as a national heritage monument by Pakistan.

World Bank Group President, Jim Yong Kim visits India.

NEWS FROM STATES

SEPTEMBER 2014 Major rivers of J&K, particularly Jhelum, heavily

overflowed, causing widespread devastating floods in the state.

Indian Army launched rescue operation “Operation Megh Rahat” to provide relief to the flood victims.

Madhya Pradesh outpaced all the major states to top the economic growth charts with a scorching 11 per cent growth in 2013-14

‘Swavalamban Abhiyan' - A set of 11 new pro poor initiatives of the Gujarat government aimed at promoting dignity and self-sufficiency of the poor,

Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh has announced that Vijayawada will be the new capital of Andhra Pradesh.

Uttarakhand Government has declared 9 September as Himalaya Diwas to spread the message of conservation of the Himalayan ecosystems.

Lucknow joins the elite club of metro cities to have Metro rail service as the work started on the project on 27th September.

Railway starts conversion of the 201 km long Silchar- Lumding meter-gauge rail route in Barack valley in Assam into broad-gauge.

3rd Ladakh Marathon at Leh in J&K was held on 16th

September. This is world’s highest/toughest marathon held at 3,524 meter (11,562 feet) altitude.

Kerala will host a Global Agro meet and an exhibition on hi-tech agriculture and food processing at Kochi on 6th and 7th of November.

AUGUST 2014 FOUR NEW GOVERNORS APPOINTED

Kalyan Singh Rajasthan Vajubhai Vala Karanatka C Vidyasagar Rao Maharashtra Mridula Sinha Goa Sheila Dikshit Resigned as Governor of Kerala K Sankaranarayanan quits as Governor (Maharashtra) Kamala Beniwal sacked as Mizoram Governor V K Duggal resigned as Manipur Governor The 20-day Nanda Devi Raj Jat yatra, also called the

‘Himalayan Kumbh,’ began from Nauti village in Chamoli district in Uttarakhand on 18th August.

Sikkim has become the first choice of foreign tourists in the north-eastern states of the country,

JULY 2014 Amitabh Bachchan appointed Brand Ambassador of

Maharashtra for promoting horticulture sector of the state.

SANIA MIRZA: International tennis star was appointed Brand Ambassador of the Telangana State

GOVT INITIATIVES

SEPTEMBER 2014 “Make in India” campaign launched to make India a

global manufacturing destination focussing on 25 thrust sectors.

www.makeinindia.com launched to provide one point solutions to all the persons interested in ‘make in India’ mission.

Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana launched for empowering the population through enhancement of livelihood opportunities.


Sep 25, birth anniversary of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya to be observed as Antyodaya Diwas every year

The Aajeevika Skills Dev Prog renamed as “Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana” reducing the min entry age to 15 years from 18 years.

The new Road Safety and Transport Bill, 2014 proposes a steep hike in penalties for traffic violations:

Fine up to Rs 3 lakh along with minimum 7 –years jail for death of a child in certain circumstances.

Fine of Rs 5 lakh per vehicle as well as imprisonment for faulty manufacturing design, Cancellation of licences for rash and negligent driving.

Country’s first 'Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve' (CDBR) to come up in the Spiti region of the tribal Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh.

Govt has launched the Reefer Vehicle Call-in-Centre (RVC) for smooth transportation of perishable goods.

The first anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Survey of India was launched on September 6 supported by WHO.

All India Radio has started free SMS service to provide news in Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Dogri and Nepali.

A National Sports University will be set up in Manipur to promote excellence in sports studies.

Textiles Ministry has approved setting up of 13 textile parks

India Newborn Action Plan launched in New Delhi to achieve the single digit neonatal mortality and stillbirth rate by 2030.

The Supreme Court has directed Central Government to ensure 3 percent quota for disabled persons in all government jobs, including IAS and promotions.

AUGUST 2014 Lok Sabha passed the National Judicial Appointments

Commission Bill, 2014 to scrap the collegium system of appointing Supreme Court and High Court judges.

The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal for raising FDI limit in Defence from 26 per cent to 49 per cent.

Govt allows up to 100 per cent FDI in infrastructure projects such as high-speed train systems

Union Textiles Ministry has signed a MoU with Flipkart to provide online marketing platform to handloom weavers all over India

Union Cabinet has approved the Digital India Programme to transform the Indian economy into a digitally empowered knowledge economy.

Govt has launched Rashtriya Gokul Mission to promote conservation and development of indigenous breeds of cows

Govt has set up the Expenditure Management Commission headed by former RBI Governor Bimal Jalan.

Govt. has set up R. Ramanujam committee to identify obsolete laws which hamper governance by creating avoidable confusion.

JULY 2014 A website mygov.nic.in has been launched to help

people contribute in governance of the country by giving their views on important issues.

Union Cabinet has hiked FDI cap in insurance sector from 26 to 49 per cent,

Four new vaccines will be introduced in India as part of the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) to reduce child mortality by two-thirds by next year.

The 4 vaccines are against rotavirus, rubella, polio (injectable) and an adult vaccine against Japanese encephalitis

Govt plans to allocate Rs 7,060 crore in this financial year for developing 100 ‘smart cities' in the country

Govt plans to provide 'Soil Health Card' to all farmers for optimum utilization of resources and right selection of crops.

Government to launch ‘Kisan TV' dedicated to the interests of agriculturists and allied sectors

Government has set a target to develop skills of 50 crore people by 2022 under the National Policy on Skill Development (NPSD).

‘Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana’ launched to provide assured irrigation water to farmers

The Government has extended the validity period of an industrial license to three years from present two years.

Govt to set up 660 rape crisis centres named as Nirbhaya centres, as a tribute to the victim of December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape case.

To protect investors, the Cabinet has cleared the SEBI Bill, to empower SEBI to initiate action against ponzi schemes and investment frauds.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

SEPTEMBER 2014 Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has raised the outlook on

India’s sovereign rating from negative to stable Asian Development Bank has revised India's GDP

growth upwards by 0.3 per cent to 6.3 per cent for 2015,

Prof. B N Goldar committee set up to develop a new inflation index - the Producer Price Index which may replace the Wholesale Price Index.

AUGUST 2014 Data from CSO shows that India’s Gross Domestic

Product (GDP) grew at 5.7 per cent during April-June, the highest in past 10 quarters.

RBI puts GDP growth rate at 5.5%, has projected that gdp growth in the current fiscal may rise up to 5.5% from 4.7% in the last financial year.

UN report puts India’s growth at 5.5%, a report from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) says


that India’s economy is expected to record stronger growth momentum of 5.5 per cent in the current fiscal.

Global rating agency Moody’s has projected a better growth outlook for India saying that the country’s GDP would grow by 5% this year.

JULY 2014 NOMURA PREDICTS 6% GROWTH FOR

INDIA: According to the Japanese brokerage firm Nomura, India is set to be Asia's biggest turnaround story and the country's GDP growth is expected to rise to over 6 per cent in FY 2015 and over 7 per cent in FY 2016. The Indian economy is starting to turn around as inflation is abating, the current account deficit is narrowing, forex reserves are accumulating and growth is just starting to rise.

FITCH PROJECTS 5.5 % GROWTH FOR INDIA: International rating agency Fitch has improved India's economic growth forecast to 5.5 per cent this financial year and 6.5 per cent in FY16 due to the clear mandate received by the pro-reform Narendra Modi government. The agency said there will be significant risks to growth if the monsoon turns out to be much weaker than expected.

ECONOMY

SEPTEMBER 2014 Supreme Court on 24th Sep cancelled 214 coal block

allocations made since 1993, except 4 blocks, one each of NTPC and SAIL and 2 of Sasan UMPH.

Govt has directed that 50 per cent of all the works taken up at the district level under MNREGA scheme should only be for water conservation.

The Netherlands is working with India to set up 10 centres of excellence across the country with an aim to raise agriculture output

Reliance Industries Chairman, Mukesh Ambani has topped the Forbes list of billionaires in India for the eighth consecutive year with a net worth of $23.6 billion,

The ADB to give $63.3 million loan to improve urban municipal services in Karnataka and $150 million for development of renewable energy in Rajasthan.

Union government has decided to close down India’s sole and oldest (1961) public sector watch company - HMT Watches in a phased manner.

India has signed the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in services and investments with 10 ASEAN countries.

ADB to give $150 million loan to help build transmission lines for renewable energy development in Rajasthan.

AUGUST 2014 SEBI has asked listed companies to intimate decisions

on dividends, bonus, buyback etc. within 15 minutes of closure of the board meetings to curb insider trading.

Retirement fund body EPFO’s trustees have decided to retain interest payment on provident fund deposits for 2014-15 at 8.75 per cent.

‘Vistara’: Brand name of the new joint venture airline of the Tata Sons-Singapore Airlines.

Country’s first seaplane service was launched on Mumbai-Lonavla short route from the Juhu aerodrome on 25th August.

The number of telephone subscribers in India increased by 0.49 per cent over May 2014 to 942.95 million at the end of June, 2014.

JULY 2014 As per Rangarajan report, a person spending less than

Rs 1,407 a month (Rs 47/day) in urban areas and Rs 972 a month (Rs32/day) in rural areas would be considered Below Poverty Line.

MSP FOR KHARIF CROPS 2014-15 CROP MSP PER QUINTAL PADDY 1360 JOWAR 1530 BAJRA 1250 MAIZE 1310

GROUNDNUT 4000 TUAR AND URAD DAL 4350

MOONG 4600 SUNFLOWER 3750

A government panel led by M S Sahoo has proposed a new class of securities, 'Bharat Depository Receipts (BhDRs)', for foreign firms to raise money in India.

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in defence manufacturing has been hiked from 26 per cent to 49 per cent.

World Bank has sanctioned $500 million loan for India’s National Highways Inter-connectivity Improvement Project

India and the US have agreed to implement Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), a US law that targets tax non-compliance by US taxpayers

India and China have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that allows Chinese companies to invest in industrial parks and zones in India.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has become first Indian company to achieve a market capitalization of Rs. 5 lakh crore rupees.

World Bank to provide $153 million (Rs 920 crore) loan for the Odisha Disaster Recovery Project to restore and improve housing and public services in Odisha.

The ADB has approved a multi-tranche loan facility of $300 million to help Assam continue its drive to eliminate power sector inefficiencies.

Britain has granted one billion pound ($1.68 billion) credit line for investment in Indian infrastructure projects.

The government has granted Navratna status to Container Corporation of India Limited (CONCOR).


BANKING

SEPTEMBER 2014 United Bank of India has slapped wilful defaulter notice

on Kingfisher Airline, its promoter Vijay Mallya and its directors.

Government has decided that benefits under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) would be extended to existing bank account holders provided they apply for it.

RBI has said that the S B accounts in which even if dividend cheque has been credited in it in the previous two years, may not be treated as inoperative.

State Bank of India accounted for half of the total number of banking transactions done through mobile phone in June, 2014,

ICICI Bank became the first bank to surpass the Rs 1,000-crore mark in terms of amount of transactions done through mobile phones in June 2014.

Indian Highways Management Company has inked a pact with Axis Bank and ICICI Bank for services related to electronic toll collection.

G Gopalakrishna Committee formed to give recommendations on capacity building in banks and NBFCs

SBI introduced new S B accounts 'Pehli Udaan' for minors and 'Pehla Kadam’ for minors accounts operated jointly with parent or guardian.

ICICI Bank has introduced a Cardless Cash Withdrawal facility to allow customers to transfer money to anyone in India with a mobile number.

H R Khan committee set up to take stock of unclaimed PPF and post office saving accounts and suggest how these funds can be utilised for the benefit of senior citizens

A total of 201 state and district level Central Cooperative Banks have joined the 'NABARD initiated Project on Core Banking Solutions in Co-operative Banks.

RBI has advised that if a company fails to repay its bank dues, its other group units may also be termed wilful defaulters.

RBI has fixed 70 years as the upper age limit for Managing Directors and Chief Executive Officers and other whole-time director of banks in the private sector.

Export-Import Bank of China and China Development Bank Corp.signed MoU with SBI, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank to facilitate trade between the two countries.

AUGUST 2014 Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna announced to provide a

bank account to every family in the country The government has set a target of 15 crore new accounts by 2018, ensuring at least two bank accounts per family.

The scheme will be launched in two phases – first from 15.8.14 to 15.8.15 and second from 16.8.15 to 15.8.18,

Each phase targeting opening of 7.5 crore bank accounts.

The accounts will be opened with zero balance with no minimum balance condition.

Every account holder will get a accidental insurance cover of Rs. One lac.

Persons opening account upto 26th January, 2015 will also get a health insurance cover of Rs. 30,000.

All account holders will be issued Rupay debit card to facilitate ATM withdrawals.

All account holders will get mobile banking facility for easy money transfer.

Accounts runs satisfactorily for 6 months will be allowed to have over draft facility of Rs. 5000.

A Rs 1,000-crore credit guarantee fund will be set up by NABARD for this purpose.

RBI has reduced the SLR by 50 basis points from 22.5 per cent to 22.0 per cent with effect from the fortnight beginning 9th August, 2014

Banks have been advised to provide their savings bank account holders with at least five free transactions per month at their own ATMs.

Banks may decide to levy transaction charges (not exceeding Rs 20) beyond 5 free ATM transactions

The number of free transactions on ATMs set up by other banks in Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Hyderabad, reduced to three per month.

Reserve Bank proposes to set up an "anytime anywhere" bill payment system by the name ‘Bharat Bill Payment System’.

The Reserve Bank has approved the transfer of surplus (profit) amounting to Rs 526.79 billion for the year ended June 30, 2014 to the Government of India.

India Post announced the launch of over 1000 ATMs in the near feature.

JULY 2014 The Reserve Bank has issued guidelines for setting up

of Payment Bank and Small Banks with a minimum paid-up capital of Rs.100 core Payment Banks will accept only demand deposits and payments and remittances and will not be allowed to undertake lending activities Small Banks will do only basic banking activities on a small scale in a restricted local area, the way RRBs do in rural areas.

As per revised KYC norms only the Aadhaar card, voter card, PAN card, driving licence, passport, NREGA card are valid for KYC. The Ration Card has been dropped.

The Reserve Bank has said that Banks having size equal to or more than 2 per cent of GDP will be designated as domestic systemically important banks (D-SIBs)

Govt has urged public sector banks to issue RuPay cards to all existing customers who do not have debit cards as well as to new clients.

The government has asked IDBI Bank and Kolkata based United Bank of India to prepare a consolidation plan in view of poor performance of UBI.


To expedite the process to recover bad bank loans, govt proposes to set up six new Debt Recovery Tribunals making total number of tribunals 39.

The Madras High Court has ruled that banks cannot fix 60% cut off of minimum marks in Plus Two as condition for extending education loan to students

RBI plans to swap some of the old gold lying in its Nagpur vault whose quality is not exactly top grade—with purer gold.

The gold acquired by RBI would be placed at its overseas custodian, Bank of England.

RBI has advised that the lending rate ceiling for micro finance companies will continue at their present level - at 27.75% for the July to September quarter.

The RBI has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Monetary Authority of Hong Kong for exchange of supervisory information of banking.

The Reserve Bank will soon put to circulation Rs 10 denominated coins on the occasion of diamond jubilee of Coir Board.

RBI has allowed Non Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) to accept e-KYC service to verify identity and address proof of customers to reduce risk of fraud.

DEFENCE, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

SEPTEMBER 2014 A joint 14 days military exercise between the armed

forces of America and India was held at Ranikhet in Almora District of Uttrakhand.

The Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel (NOPV), INS Sumitra, built by Goa Shipyard Ltd joins Indian Navy

Pakistan conducted a successful test of its surface to surface missile Hatf IX (NASR), having a range of 60 kilometers

Iran unveiled a new surface-to-air missile - Talash- 3 (“Endeavor-3”), to shoot down hostile target at high altitude.

India scripted history on Sep 24, becoming the first country to place its Mars Orbiter Spacecraft (MOS) in the orbit in very first attempt.

Scientists have warned that millions of lives could be at risk because of the threat to food crops posed by conflict in the Middle East.

Researchers at Drexel University in the US have claimed to have discovered in Argentina remains of an enormous Dinosaur weighing nearly 60 tons.

China launched two satellites - Yaogan-21 and Tiantuo- 1 to relay information on natural resources, disaster management and smart satellite experiments.

DRDO successfully test-fired Agni-I - nuclear-capable surface-to-surface missile with a striking range of 700 to 1250 km.

AUGUST 2014 India and Russia conducted their first-ever joint Air

Force exercise “Avia Indra-2014” in Astrakhan region located north of the Caspian Sea.

China unveiled next generation Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Dongfeng – 41 (DF-41) with a range of 12 -15000 kms.

Country’s first multi-sensor moored observatory IndARC was successfully deployed in Kongsfjorden Fjord of the Arctic region, near the North Pole

Rosetta- space vehicle by European Space Agency made history on August 6 after travelling 6.4 billion kilometers to reach the comet — 67P/Churyumov – Gerasimenko

NASA scientists have developed Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite that can predict the severity of droughts to help farmers maximize the crop yield.

JULY 2014 The Indian Navy‘s largest ever destroyer, indigenously

built INS Kolkata was inducted in to service on 10th July.

An advanced version of the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully tested off the coast of Odisha

India successfully launched five foreign satellites from four countries on board PSLV-C23 rocket on June 30.

The five satellites, launched included two from Germany, and one each from France, Canada and Singapore.

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered two new objects beyond Pluto.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft launched in 2006 is to become the first probe to visit Pluto in July 2015, some 4.7 billion miles from Earth.

Carbon Aerogel, with a density of just 0.16 mg per cubic centimetre, a sixth of air's density, is the lightest material in world, developed by Chinese scientists.

NASA has successfully launched a satellite -Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), designed to track atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

India, US and Japan participated in the trilateral Malabar naval exercise from 24th July in North Western Pacific Ocean.

I N T E R N A T I O N A L

SEPTEMBER 2014 Mr Narendra Modi addressed the 69th session of United

Nations General Assembly, in New York. SAARC Culture Ministers Conference at New Delhi

named Bamiyan to be the SAARC cultural capital for 2015-16 and Dhaka for 2016-17.

UN Climate Change Summit 2014 held at UN headquarters in New York on 23 September 2014.


Scotland has rejected independence and decided to stay with United Kingdom as 55 % population voted in favour of staying with U K.

Ukraine's Parliament has ratified a landmark European Union pact that decisively steers the former Soviet state towards Europe and away from Russian influence.

The NATO summit held in Wales, UK. The resolutions adopted in the summit were named ‘Wales Resolution’.

Over two million affected in massive floods in Pakistan, mainly in Punjab province and in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).

6th meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation for Home Ministers held on September 19 at Kathmandu, attended by Rajnath Singh.

West Asia’s largest consumer IT and electronics retail show- GITEX Shopper held at World Trade Center in Dubai

London will host its first-ever Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (RPBD) next month from October 16 to 18.

The seventh round of nuclear talks between Iran and six major world powers- US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany were held in New York.

AUGUST 2014 Three West Africa nations - Liberia, Guinea and Sierra

Leone, are struggling to control an outbreak of Ebola viral

fever that has claimed thousands of lives The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources

and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to enter into force from12th October 2014

Bangladesh has decided to join the newly formed BRICS Bank, an initiative of the world's five emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Britain observed Lights Out Project on 4 August 2014 to commemorate 100 years of First World War (WW-1

The "Ice Bucket Challenge" encourages participants to dump bucket of freezing water on their head to raise awareness for the ‘amyotrophic lateral sclerosis’ (ALS)

The World Health Organization has asked for a ban on the use of e-cigarettes indoors and its sale to children.

JULY 2014 Prime Minister Mr. Modi visited Fortaleza, Brazil to

attend the 6th BRICS Summit. The five countries decided to establish the New

Development Bank with an initial authorised capital of USD 50 billion

BRICS to form a Contingency Reserve Arrangement fund of USD 100 billion to support member-nations during balance of payments problems.

The 7th BRICS Summit will be held in the Russian city of Ufa.

Israel Defence Forces launched “Operation Protective Edge” against Hamas militants in Gaza strip for their alleged kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers

A Malaysian aircraft, flight MH 17 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down by terrorist using a Russian BUK missile over eastern Ukraine on July 17

Ukraine signed the Association Agreement with the European Union to boost Ukraine’s exports to the European Union

India will host the 7th IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa) summit in 2015.

PERSONS IN NEWS

SEPTEMBER 2014 R A MASHELKAR: Eminent scientist has been named to head an expert panel to recommend best technologies for the "Swachh Bharat" national sanitation campaign with an emphasis on areas like potable water and sanitation. AKKINENI NAGESWARA RAO (ANR): Legendary Telugu actor, who passed away in January 2014, became the first Indian actor to be honoured with a postage stamp by the U.S. Post Service (USPS). CHITRESH TATHA: 12-year-old, a sailor of ‘Optimist’ dinghy category is the youngest sailor to represent India at the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon, South Korea. TN SURESH KUMAR: A senior ISRO scientist has become the first Indian to visit the stratosphere, the second layer of the Earth’s atmosphere. J. JAYALALITHAA: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister was in news as she and three others were sentenced to four years in jail by a special court in Bangalore in a 66.65 crore rupees Disproportionate Assets case on 27th September. She was also fined Rs. 100 crore. ALOK SHETTY: The 28 year old Indian architect has been named ‘Young Leader of Tomorrow’ by Time magazine for his pioneering work in designing affordable flood-proof houses for slum dwellers. JACK MA: Chinese founder and promoter of world’s largest online shopping portal – Alibaba was in news as the firm successfully launched world’s largest IPO, amassing around $25 billion from the investors.

AUGUST 2014 IROM SHARMILA CHANU: The human rights activist was in news as an Imphal Sessions Court ordered her release, accepting her plea that she did not attempt suicide by fasting unto death.

SHAH RUKH KHAN: Indian superstar has been roped in as an ambassador for Inter-pol’s “Turn Back Crime” campaign to promote awareness of how everyone can play a role in preventing crime.

KAMLA BENIWAL: Governor of Mizoram was sacked by a Presidential order for certain irregularities committed by her during her Gujarat tenure.


NIKHIL CHANDWANI: First Indian to win the prestigious Author of the Year award from the American Literary Forum Society for his novel 'Coded Conspiracy’. JOHN KERRY: US Secretary of State (Foreign Minister) visited in India to hold 5th Indo-US Strategic Dialogue CHUCK HAGEL: U.S. Defence Secretary (Defence Minister) visited India to lay the groundwork for the revival of Indo- U.S. defence ties. GENERAL PRAYUTH CHAN-OCHA: Thailand's coup leader was in news as he was appointed Prime Minister by a legislature that was formed by him only.

JULY 2014 ARSENIY YATSENYUK: Ukraine’s Prime Minister was in news as he resigned in a shock move to protest the disbanding of the ruling parliamentary coalition, plunging the strife-torn nation into political uncertainty. AKHOURI SINHA: In a rare honour, the USA has named a mountain in Antarctica after this eminent Indian-American scientist whose pioneering biological research expedition to Antarctica has provided vital data about animal populations in that area. NEYMAR: Ace striker of Brazil’s football team was in news as he suffered a back bone fracture after being hit by the Colombian defender Juan Zuniga. Brazil’s bid to win a sixth World Cup suffered a devastating blow as Neymar was ruled out of the rest of the tournament.

A P P O I N T M E N T S

SEPTEMBER 2014 R A MASHELKAR: Technology Head of the "Swachh Bharat Mission".

LALITHA KUMARAMANGALAM: Chairperson of the National Commission for Women.

P. SATHASIVAM: Governor of Kerala, he is former Chief Justice of India

HARDEEP SINGH PURI: Secretary General of Independent Commission on Multilateralism

O PANNEERSELVAM: Elected as new Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, in place of Jayalalitha

ADIL ZAINULBHAI: Former McKinsey India Chief has been appointed Chairman, Quality Council of India.

JUSTICE H.L. DATTU: 42nd Chief Justice of India.

ASHRAF GHANI: President of Afghanistan

VOREQE BAINIMARAMA: Fiji's new Prime Minister

JOHN KEY: Prime Minister of New Zealand

LE YUCHENG: China's new Ambassador to India.

RICHARD RAHUL VERMA: Next US ambassador to India.

AUGUST 2014 FOUR NEW GOVERNORS APPOINTED Kalyan Singh Rajasthan Vajubhai Vala Karanatka C Vidyasagar Rao Maharashtra Mridula Sinha Goa

K.V. THOMAS: Congress MP appointed Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament.

S S MUNDRA: Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India for three year term. He is ex CMD of Bank of Baroda.

T M BHASIN: Chairman of the Indian Banks Association – IBA for 2014-15. He is CMD of Indian Bank. M. THAMBIDURAI: Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha

K. V. Chowdary: Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)

AHMET DAVUTOGLU: New Prime Minister of Turkey

HAIDAR AL-ABADI: Prime Minister of Iraq

GEN. PRAYUTH CHAN-OCHA: Prime Minister of Thailand

JULY 2014 SIX NEW GOVERNORS APPOINTED

Ram Naik Uttar Pradesh. Kesri Nath Tripathi West Bengal Om Prakash Kohli Gujarat Balramji Dass Tandon Chhattisgarh. Padmanabha Acharya Nagaland. Kaptan Singh Solanki Haryana

PINKY ANAND: Additional Solicitor-General

FUAD MASUM: President of Iraq

JOKO WIDODO (JOKOWI): President of Indonesia

JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER: President of the European Commission

AWARDS & HONOURS

SEPTEMBER 2014 SARASWATI SAMMAN: Noted Hindi novelist Govind Mishra for his novel ‘Dhool Paudhon Par’. The prize carries a cash award of Rs. Ten lakh. SHANTI SWARUP BHATNAGAR AWARD: 10 scientists selected for the annual award conferred for their outstanding works in the field of science and technology.

SAAKSHAR BHARAT AWARDS are given on International Literacy Day – Sep 8 by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development for the best performance in the field of adult education.

BHARTENDU HARISHCHANDRA AWARDS: Given by Union Ministry for Information & Broadcasting for original writing in Hindi by Indian authors on subjects like Journalism and Mass Communication, National Integration, Women’s Issues and Children’s Literature.


MIDORI PRIZE IN BIODIVERSITY – 2014: Kamal Bawa, Indian scientist and ecologist for his research on climate change in the Himalayas. The prize given by a Japanese foundation, honours three individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. GOLDEN LION: Award for best film at the Venice Film Festival was bagged by the Swedish film, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch While Reflecting on Existence directed by Roy Anderson. LION OF THE FUTURE: Award for best debut feature film at the Venice Film Festival won by the film Court by Indian writer-director Chaitanya Tamhane.

AUGUST 2014

OUTSTANDING PARLIAMENTARIAN AWARDS BJP leader Arun Jaitley for 2010 Congress leader Karan Singh for 2011 JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav for 2012 ASHOK CHAKRA: Major Mukund Vardarajan named for highest peace time gallantry award for showing exemplary bravery in killing two terrorists in Kashmir before he was shot dead in April this year. 22ND RAJIV GANDHI SADBHAVNA AWARD: Noted film maker Muzaffar Ali, for his outstanding contribution towards the promotion of communal harmony, peace and goodwill. The award carries a citation and cash award of Rs. 5 lakh. CORE BANKING SYSTEM INITIATIVE AWARD-2014: won by Bharatiya Mahila Bank Ltd at the Asian Banking and Finance - Retail Banking Awards, Singapore. FIELDS MEDAL: Known as the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics” won by Manjul Bhargava. Four such prizes are awarded by the International Mathematical Union. MARYAM MIRZAKHANI: Iranian-born mathematician has become the first woman to win this prize (Fields Medal). PARDO D’ORO (GOLDEN LEOPARD): Award for best film at the 67th Locarno International Film Festival in Locarno, Switzerland won by “Mula sa kung ano ang noon” by Lav Diaz, Philippines

JULY 2014

PREM BHATIA AWARD for Journalism:

SMITA GUPTA, Associate Editor with The Hindu, for political reporting. NITIN SETHI, Associate Editor, Business Standard, for excellence in environmental and development reporting

OBITUARY

SEPTEMBER 2014 BIPAN CHANDRA: Padma Bhushan awardee historian, authority on economic and political history of India.

BAPU (Sathiraju Lakshminarayana): Veteran Telugu film director, artist and cartoonist, Padma Sri awardee

G.E. VAHANVATI: The former Attorney-General of India BALRAJ PURI: Veteran journalist, Padma Bhushan awardee, author of over 40 books

MANDOLIN U. SHRINIVAS: Eminent Carnatic music exponent from Andhra Pradesh, Padmasri awardee, known for his expert use of mandolin KIREET JOSHI: Eminent educationist and former education adviser to the Union government

FIROZA BEGUM: Prominent Bangladeshi Nazrul Sangeet singer

JOAN RIVERS: 81-year-old noted lady comedian and TV host from USA NORMAN GORDON: South African fast bowler, oldest surviving Test cricketer passed away at 103 years.

AUGUST 2014

B K S IYENGAR: 96 years old Padma Vibhushan awardee Yogacharya, known for his vast contribution in spreading Indian Yoga all over the world. U.R. ANANTHAMURTHY: Jnanpith awardee and renowned Kannada novelist and story writer MADHUKAR SINGH: Eminent Hindi litterateur and novelist from Bihar PRAN KUMAR SHARMA: Eminent cartoonist, popularly known as Pran, who gave life to lovable comic characters Chacha Chaudhary and his friend Sabu. RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH: Oscar-winning British filmmaker and actor, renowned for his critically-acclaimed biopic ‘Gandhi’ on Mahatma Gandhi that won eight Oscars, died at the age of 90. ROBIN WILLIAMS: Oscar winning famous US comedy actor dies of suspected suicide.

JULY 2014 ZOHRA SEHGAL: Legendary actress from Hindi theatre and cinema, aged over 102 years. NADINE GORDIMER: South African Nobel Prize-winning author, one of the most powerful voices against the injustice of apartheid.


P L A C E S I N N E W S

SEPTEMBER 2014 GOA: The city was declared as the permanent venue for the International Film Festival of India (IFFI). The 45th IFFI will be held here from 20 to 30 November, 2014. VIJAYAWADA: City of Andhra Pradesh was in news as it was declared to be the new capital of Andhra Pradesh. CHABAD HOUSE: The Jewish centre, also called Nariman House, in Mumbai was reopened on 26 August 2014, nearly six years after the 26/11 terror attack in November 2008. The Centre is a sacred synagogue of Jews.

AUGUST 2014

MALIN VILLAGE: A small village in district Pune, Maharashtra was in news as it was hit by a massive mud slide, washing out almost entire village. SINDHUPALCHOK: in Nepal was in news as a massive land slide blocked the Sunkoshi River causing massive damage to local settlements, claiming at least 156 lives. MOUNT SINJAR: place in Nineveh province of northern Iraq was in news as thousands of Yezidis stranded there as they flee from nearby areas persecuted by ISIS militants. LONGTOUSHAN: A town in Ludian county of Yunnan province of China was in news as it was struck by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, killing over 400 persons

JULY 2014

NEOGURI: Name of powerful typhoon that lashed Japan's southern Okinawa islands on 8th July, forcing over half a million people to seek shelter, as the typhoon damaged buildings, downed trees and brought air/sea traffic to a halt.

S P O R T S W O R L D

SEPTEMBER 2014 The Asian Games begin in Incheon, South Korea on 19th

September. Sardara Singh, Captain of Indian Hockey team was the flag bearer of the Indian contingent. Viswanathan Anand won the Bilbao Chess Masters Finals at Bilbao, Spain, defeating Levon Aronian of Armenia. Indonesian Masters Grand Prix Gold: H S Prannoy won the badminton championship at Palembang, Indonesia. 51st Shooting World Championship: Indian shooter Pradeep bagged a bronze medal at Granada, Spain.

Sania Mirza and her Zimbabwean partner Cara Black won the women’s doubles title at the WTA Toray Pacific Open at Tokyo, Japan.

Davis Cup Commitment Award: Ace Tennis player Rohan Bopanna. It is given to players who have competed in at least 20 ties.

Pankaj Advani, noted snooker and billiards champion has announced his retirement from the professional snooker. However, he will continue to participate in Billiards.

MANOJ KUMAR: A 2010 CWG boxing gold-medalist was in news as he was selected for Arjuna Award after a directive from the Delhi High Court where he had filed a case challenging his non selection for the award.

DHONI SCORES RECORD 91 ODI WINS India thrashed England in the ODI played at Edgbaston, UK making Dhoni the most successful Indian ODI captain with 91 wins.

60th National School Games in six sporting disciplines will be held in November in Punjab.

20th Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships held at Mumbai. India’s first National Academy of Athletics established at Kariavattom near Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has allowed players to wear religious head coverings, such as hijabs or turbans by Sikhs, on a trial basis.

U S OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP, NEW YORK

Marin Cilic (Croatia) beats Japan's Kei Nishikori to win men’s singles title

Serena Williams of USA beats Caroline Wozniazki of Denmark to win Women’s singles title

Sania Mirza with Brazil's Bruno Soares won the mixed doubles title

ICC World Cricket League Division 3 will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 23 to 30 October, 2014.

Summer Youth Olympic Games 2014 held at Nanjing, China.

BWF WORLD BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIP COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

Chen Long of China won the men’s singles beating world no. one Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia Carolina Marin of Spain become Spain's first-ever World champion in badminton history, beating world no 1 Li Xuerui of China. P V Sindhu won the bronze medal in women’s singles.

FIBA Basketball World Cup: USA lifts the cup by defeating Serbia at Madrid, Spain.

FILA Senior World Wrestling Championship held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Li Na, China's ace tennis star and only Grand Slam winner announced her retirement at the age of 32.


Marvan Atapattu appointed as the head coach of the Sri Lankan cricket team. He is the former captain of their

AUGUST 2014

20th Commonwealth games came to an end on August 3 at Hampden Park, Scotland’s National Stadium, Scotland.

England topped the medal tally with 174 medals, including 58 golds.

India won 64 medals – 15 gold, 30 silver and 19 bronze and stood at 5th rank.

The 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast, Australia

NATIONAL SPORTS AWARDS 2014 These awards are announced every year on 29th August on the birthday of legendary hockey wizard Sh. Dhyan Chand, which is observed as National Sports Day. DHYAN CHAND AWARDS (For Lifetime Achievement)

Sl. No. Name Discipline

1. Shri Gurmail Singh Hockey

2. Shri K.P. Thakkar Swimming (Diving)

3. Shri Zeeshan Ali Tennis

DRONACHARYA AWARDS (For Coaches) Sl. No. Name Discipline

1. Shri Mahabir Prasad Wrestling

2. Shri N. Lingappa Athletics – Lifetime

3. Shri G. Manoharan Boxing – Lifetime

4. Shri Gurcharan

Singh Gogi

Judo – Lifetime

5. Shri Jose Jacob Rowing – Lifetime

TENZING NORGAY AWARDS 2013 Sr. No. Name Discipline 1 Subedar Jagat Singh Land Adventure 2 Shri Passang

Tenzing Sherpa

Land Adventure

3 MWO Surender Singh

Air Adventure

4 Wing Commander (Retd) Amit Chowdhury

Life Time Achievement

ARJUNA AWARDS

S. No. NAME DISCIPLINE 1. Mr. Abhishek Verma Archery 2. Ms. Tintu Luka Athletics 3. Mr. H.N. Girisha Para-Athletics 4. Mr. V. Diju Badminton 5. Ms. Geetu Anna Jose Basketball 6. Mr. Jai Bhagwan Boxing 7. Mr. R. Ashwin* Cricket 8. Mr. Anirban Lahiri Golf 9. Ms. Mamta Pujari Kabaddi 10. Mr. Saji Thomas Rowing 11. Ms. Heena Sidhu Shooting 12. Ms. Anaka Alankamony Squash 13. Mr. Tom Joseph Volleyball 14. Ms. Renu Bala Chanu Weightlifting 15. Mr. Sunil Kumar Rana Wrestling

ARCHERY WORLD CUP, Wroclaw, Poland: Indian women’s team, led by Deepika Kumari, clinched the recurve team gold.

THE WORLD KABADDI LEAGUE started in London on August 9. The league to be played across 16 international cities, will end on November 30, 2014 in India.

SABINE LISICKI of Germany created a world record of fastest serve in the women’s tennis by serving at 131 miles per hour at a match played in Stanford, USA.

FRANKIE JONES: Canadian gymnast was awarded the David Dixon Award for the best athlete of the Games. She won six medals, including one gold.

RORY MCLLROY: of Ireland became number one in Golf by winning the elite World Golf Championships held at Akron, USA.

USAIN BOLT: Jamaican sprint superstar set a new best time record of 9.98 second for the rarely run 100 meter indoors at Warsaw’s national football stadium in Poland.

DANIEL RICCIARDO of Australia won the Belgian Grand Prix F1 car race for team Red Bull. BWF WORLD BADMINTON Championship held in Copenhagen, Denmark

JULY 2014 20TH C’WEALTH GAMES START IN GLASGOW The 2014 Commonwealth Games (officially the 20th Commonwealth Games) will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, from 23 July to 3 August 2014. Mascot for the games has been named ‘Clyde’ after the famous Clyde river of Scotland. It is in the shape of a thistle plant, not an animal. Shooter Vijay Kumar led Indian Contingent as flag bearer.

SAINA NEHWAL: Indian shuttler lifted her first Super Series title in two years, clinching the $ 750,000 Star


Australian Open after outplaying Spain's Carolina Marin at Sydney, Australia.

PANKAJ ADVANI won his 9th world title beating Poland’s Kacper Flilpiak in the IBSF World 6-Red snooker championship at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Ritu Rani to captain India’s women hockey team for the Commonwealth Games, Glasgow.

GERMANY LIFTS FIFA WORLD CUP 2014 Mario Gotze scored the winning goal for Germany in the 22nd minute of extra time as Germany became the football world champions when they beat Argentina 1-0 in the final at Rio-de Janeiro. Germany, who had made the final for the fourth time in a row, won their first title after 1990.

AWARDS FOR FIFA WORLD CUP 2014

GOLDEN BALL Player of the Tournament- Lionel Messi, Argentina

GOLDEN BOOT Highest Goal Scorer (6) –: James Rodriguez, Colombia

GOLDEN GLOVE Best Goalkeeper: Manuel Neuer, Germany

The Indian men's football team has been ranked 151th in the FIFA world rankings, which is topped by recently-crowned world champions Germany. Wimbledon Tennis Open, London: Novak Djokovic of Serbia won the Men’s title defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland.

Women’s title was won by Petra Kvitova of Czechslovakia by defeating Eugenie Bouchard of Canada

VINCENZO NIBALI of Italy won the world famous three week cycling marathon - Tour de France.

SIM BHULLAR has become the first player of Indian origin to be a part of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in USA after joining the Sacramento Kings team. India clinched their first Test win against England at the historic Lord's ground in London in nearly three decades.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

BOOK AUTHOR

And then One Day: A Memoir

Autobiography of noted film artist Naseeruddin Shah

The Highlights Frank Keating

Odyssey of My Life Autobiography of former Union Home Minister

Shivraj Patil Playing It My Way –My Autobiography

cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar

Gods of Antarctica Yashwardhan Shukla, a 13 year old school boy from

Delhi The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee, Kolkata-born British author.

The book has been shortlisted for the

prestigious Booker Prize 2014

Heaven is for Real Todd Burpo & Lynn Vincent

The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown

Orange is the New Black Piper Kerman

The Book of Life Deborah Harkness

The Goldfinch Donna Tartt

Half Girlfriend Chetan Bhagat

Simian Vikram Balagopal

One Life is Not Enough Natwar Singh

Not Just an Accountant Vinod Rai

Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: An Inside Job

Faraz Ahmad

Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan

Ms Daman Singh

The Lives of Others Neel Mukherjee

Finding Neema Juliet Reynolds

Half a Rupee Stories Gulzar

The Substance and The Shadow

Udaya Tara Nayar, a biography of veteran actor

Dilip Kumar

Innovation in India Shyama V. Ramani

Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. The Obamas

Edward Klein

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah

Hannah Kent Burial Rites

Audrey Magee The Undertaking

Eimear McBride A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

Donna Tartt The Goldfinch

Post Haste: Quintessential India

B.G. Verghese

Hard Choices Hillary Clinton

India Junction – A Window to the Nation brought out

Public Relations Directorate, Railway Board

A Stamp is Born C. R. Pakrashi

Arctic Summer Damon Galgut

Capital in The Twenty First Century

Thomas Piketty

My Years with Rajiv and Sonia

R.D.Pradhan


444–MCQs FOR IBPS SO - IT

1. Network of networks is known as _________ A. intranet. B. internet. C. Local Area Network D. WAN. 2. A computer networks can provide a powerful _________ among employees. A. communication medium. B. community development. C. relationship development. D. relationship medium. 3. When a packet with the code is transmitted, it is received and processed by every machine on the network. This mode of operation is called A. broadcasting. B. multi casting. C. unicasting. D. point-to-point. 4. “point-to-point” transmission with one sender and one receiver is sometimes called ________ A. multicasting. B. unicasting. C. personal area network D. LAN. 5. The entities comprising the corresponding layers on different machine are called ________ A. protocol. B. peers. C. interface. D. flow control. 6. When the packets are small and all the same size, they are often called ________ A. packet switched. B. cells. C. circuit switched. D. virtual circuit. 7. A collection of interconnected networks is called as __________ A. internet. B. intranet. C. topology. D. interface. 8. Starting around 1988, the more advanced ______ twisted pairs were introduced. A. category3. B. category5. C. category 8. D. category10. 9. Each ray is said to have a different mode, so a fiber having this property is called ________ A. unimode. B. singlemode. C. multimode. D. triplemode. 10. The number of oscillations per second of a wave is called its ______ A. wavelength. B. frequency. C. spectrum. D. sequence. 11. Most governments have set aside some frequency bands called the _______ bands for unlicensed usage. A. IFS B. ISM C. IRS D. IVS

12. The downward beams of a satellite can be broad, covering a substantial fraction of the earth's surface or narrow, covering an area only hundreds of kilometers in diameter. This mode of operation is known as a ____ A. bent pipe. B. foot print. C. uplink. D. downlink. 13. The first geostationary satellite had a single spatial beam that illuminated about 1/3 of the earth's surface called its _______ A. bent pipe. B. downlink. C. foot print. D. uplink. 14. Each end office has a number of outgoing lines to one or more nearby switching centers called ______ A. toll connecting trunks. B. toll office. C. local loop. D. end office. 15. __________ is the loss of energy as the signal propagates outward. A. Attenuation. B. Distortion. C. Noise. D. Baud. 16. Sending packets to a group of stations is known as ______ A. broadcasting. B. multicasting. C. unicasting. D. point-to-point. 17. Each area has a _________ agent which keeps track of all mobile hosts visiting the area. A. mobile. B. home. C. visitor. D. foreign. 18. Ad-hoc networks are also called as ____________ A. MAN. B. MANET. C. LAN. D. LANET. 19. An example for dynamic routing algorithm is _______. A. Shortest path. B. Flooding. C. Dijkstra. D. Distance vector. 20. ISO stands for _____________ A. International Standard Organization. B. International Student Organization. C. Integrated Services Organization. D. Integrated standard organization. 21. If a computer on the network shares resources for others to use, it is called _____ A. server. B. client. C. mainframe. D. microcomputer. 22. For large networks _____ topology is used. A. bus. B. ring. C. star. D. irregular.


23. X.25 is an example of __________ network. A. packet switched. B. circuit switched. C. frame relay. D. ring based. 24. What is the maximum length of STP? A. 100 ft. B. 200ft. C. 100m. D. 200m. 25. ISDN is an example of _______ network. A. packet switched. B. circuit switched. C. frame relay. D. ring based. 26. What is the maximum data capacity of STP? A. 10 mbps. B. 100 mbps. C. 1000 mbps. D. 10000 mbps. 27. In ______ topology if the computer cable is broken, networks get down A. bus. B. ring. C. star. D. irregular. 28. Terminators are used in ________ topology. A. bus B. ring. C. star. D. irregular. 29. ________ layer decides which physical path the data should take. A. Network. B. Transport. C. Physical. D. Data Link. 30. Print server uses spool which is a ______ that holds data before it is send to the printer. A. queue. B. buffer. C. node. D. ring. 31. The ______ portion of LAN management software restricts access, records user activities and audit data etc. A. Configuration management. B. Security management. C. Performance management. D. Resource management. 32. FDDI is a _______ network. A. ring. B. star. C. mesh. D. bus. 33. A distributed network configuration in which all data/information pass through a central computer is _______ network. A. ring. B. star. C. mesh. D. bus. 34. The most flexibility in how devices are wired together is provided by ______ A. ring. B. star. C. mesh. D. bus. 35. A central computer surrounded by one or more satellite computers is _______ A. ring. B. star. C. mesh. D. bus. 36. The internet is divided into over 200 top level __________ A. domain. B. websites. C. webpages. D. crawlers. 37. Every domain can have a set of ______ records associated with it. A. DNS. B. mail. C. resource. D. websites. 38. GIF stands for _______ A. Group Interchange Format. B. Graphical Interchange Format. C. Group Information Format.

D. Graphical Information Format. 39. The error introduced by the finite number of bits per sample is called the _______ noise. A. error. B. quality. C. quantization. D. stream. 40. ________ bursting allows a sender tot transmit a concatenated sequence of multiple frames in a single transmission. A. Frame. B. Packet. C. Quantum. D. Stream. 41. Protocols in which the sender sends one frame and then waits for an acknowledgement before proceeding are called __________ A. sliding window. B. stop and wait. C. frame buffer. D. analog. 42. The data link layer takes the packet it gets from the network layer and encapsulates them into ___________ A. cells. B. frames. C. packet. D. trailer. 43. The number of bit positions in which the code words differ is called _______ A. code distance. B. hamming distance C. flow control. D. error pulse. 44. Polynomial code is also known as __________ A. ARC. B. BRC. C. CRC. D. DRC. 45. Protocols in which the sender waits for a positive acknowledgement before advancing to the next data item are often called ___________ A. ARQ. B. PPR. C. ARS. D. PRP. 46. The commonly used protocol for webpage transfer is ________ A. HTML. B. HTTP. C. WML. D. WTTP. 47. The frames which are intimated for receiving are called ________ A. sending window. B. receiving window. C. sender. D. receiver. 48. The analysis which helps in checking whether the protocol is correct is _________ A. reachability. B. correctness. C. reliability. D. redundancy. 49. The IP address of a system can be known using the DOS command _______ A. ipconfir. B. ipconfig. C. ipconf. D. ipnum. 50. Datagrams using header extension are called __________ A. payload. B. trailer. C. datagram packets. D. jumbograms. 51. The application layer of a network ________ A. establishes, maintains and terminates virtual circuits. B. consists of software being run on the computer connected to the network C. defines the users port into the network. D. allows communication channel to be shared.


52. Devices on one network can communicate with devices on another network via __________ A. file server. B. printer server. C. utility server. D. gateway. 53. A network that requires human intervention of route signals is called a ______ A. bus network. B. ring network. C. star network. D. T- switched network. 54. A _________ network configuration in which all data/information pass through a central computer is star network. A. central. B. ordered. C. distributed. D. T - switched 55. The most flexibility in how devices are __________ together is provided by bus topology. A. wired. B. ring. C. star. D. switched. 56. _______ is a ring network. A. ADI. B. ADDI. C. FDI. D. FDDI. 57. How many pairs of stations can simultaneously communicate on Ethernet LAN? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. Multiple 58. A modem that is attached to the telephone system by jamming the phones, handset into two flexible receptacles in the coupler A. gateway. B. time - division multiplexer. C. acoustic coupler. D. bridge. 59. Gateway allows devices on one network to ________ with devices on another network? A. Decode. B. Communicate. C. Convert. D. Seperate. 60. A station in a network forwards incoming packet,s by placing them on its shortest output queue. What routing algorithm is being used? A. Flooding. B. Hot potato routing. C. Static routing. D. Delta routing. 61. Modulation is the process of ________ A. sending a file from one computer to another computer. B. converts digital signals to analog signals. C. converting analog signals to digital signals. D. echoing every character that is received. 62. The signal to noise ratio for a voice grade line 30.1 dB (decibles) or a power ratio of 1023:1. The maximum achievable data rate on this line whose spectrum ranges from 300 Hz to 4300 Hz is ________ A. 6200 bps. B. 34000 bps. C. 9600 bps. D. 31000 bps. 63. Which of the following is used for modulation and demodulation? A. Modem. B. Protocols. C. Gateway. D. Multiplexer. 64. A software that allows a personal computer to pretend it as a terminal is _______

A. auto dialing. B. bulletin board. C. modem. D. terminal emulation. 65. The probability that a single bit will be in error on a typical public telephone line using 4800 bps modem is 10 to the power -3. If no error detection mechanism is used, the residual error rate for a communication line using 9- bit frames is approximately equal to __________ A. 0.003 B. 0.009 C. 0.991 D. 0.999 66. Which layer of OSI model is responsible for creating and recognizing frame boundaries? A. Physical layer. B. Data link layer. C. Transport layer. D. Network layer. 67. If digital data rate of 9600 bps is encoded using 8 - level phase shift keying (PSK) method, the modulation rate is ______ A. 1200 bands. B. 3200 bands. C. 4800 bands. D. 9600 bands. 68. Four bits are used for packet sequence numbering in a sliding window protocol. What is the maximum window size? A. 4 B. 8 C. 15 D. 16 69. A 6 MHZ channel is used by a digital signaling system utilizing 4-level signals. What is the maximum possible transmission rate? A. 1.5 Mband/sec. B. 6 Mband/sec. C. 12 Mband/sec. D. 24 Mband/sec. 70. The ________ model shows how the network functions of a computer ought to be organized. A. CCITT. B. OSI. C. ISO. D. ANSI. 71. The OSI model consists of ______ layers. A. 3 B. 5 C. 7 D. 8 72. The physical layer is concerned with the transmission of ______ over the physical medium. A. programs. B. dialogs. C. protocols. D. bits. 73. As a data packet moves from the lower to the upper layers, headers are _____ A. added. B. subtracted. C. rearranged. D. modified. 74. Which layer functions as a liaison between user support layers and network support layers? A. Physical. B. Network. C. Transport. D. Session. 75. When data is transmitted from device A to device B, the header from A's layer 5 is read by B's ____________ layer. A. physical. B. network. C. transport. D. session. 76. Demodulation is the process of _________ A. sending a file from one computer to another computer. B. converting digital signals to analog signals. C. converting analog signals to digital signals.


D. echoing every character that is received. 77. Many low -speed channels are interwoven into one high- speed transmission by a __________ A. time division multiplexer. B. frequency division multiplexer. C. code division multiplexer. D. repeaters. 78. Bulletin board system ____________ A. is a public access message system. B. converts digital signals to analog signals. C. is a modem capable of accepting commands. D. converts analog signals to digital signals. 79. To connect a computer with a device in the same room user will likely to use ___________ A. coaxial cable. B. ground station. C. dedicated line. D. fibre optic cable. 80. The slowest transmission speeds are those of ________ A. twisted pair. B. coaxial cable. C. microwaves. D. fibre optic cables. 81. Which of the following divides the high speed signal into frequency bands? A. T switch. B. Time division multiplexer. C. Frequency Division Multiplexer. D. Code Division Multiplexer. 82. Sending a file from users personal computers, primary memory or disk to another computer is called ___________ A. uploading. B. hang on. C. logging on. D. downloading. 83. In OSI network architecture the dialogue control and token management are responsibilities of ________ A. session layer. B. network layer. C. transport layer. D. data link layer. 84. What is the number of separate protocol layers at the serial interface gateway specified by the X.25 standard? A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 3 85. The interactive transmission of data within a time sharing system may be best suited to __________ A. half duplex lines B. simplex lines. C. biflex lines. D. full duplex lines. 86. How many OSI layers are covered in the X.25 standard? A. 3 B. 2 C. 7 D. 6 87. The third layer of OSI model is _____ A. physical layer. B. data link layer. C. network layer. D. transport layer. 88. The X.25 standard specifies a _________ A. technique for start stop data. B. technique for dial access. C. DTE/DCE interface. D. data bit rate. 89. Which of the following signals is not standard RS-232-C signal?

A. VDR. B. CTS. C. RTS. D. DSR. 90. What is the minimum number of wires needed to send data over a serial communication link layer? A. 1 B. 2 C. 4 D. 6 91. How much power a light emitting diode can couple into an optical fiber? A. 100 microwatts. B. 440 microwatts. C. 10 milliwatts. D. 100 picowatts. 92. The transmission signal coding method of TI carrier is called _________ A. bipolar. B. machester. C. nrz. D. binary. 93. Which data communication method is used to transmit the data over a serial communication link? A. Simplex. B. Full duplex. C. Half duplex. D. Bi flex. 94. The receive equalizer reduces delay distortions using ________ A. tapped delay lines. B. gearshift. C. descrambler. D. difference edging. 95. In communication satellite, multiple repeaters are known as A. detector. B. modulator. C. stations. D. transponders. 96. In a synchronous modem, the receive equalizer is known as ___________ analyzer. A. adaptive. B. statistical. C. impairment. D. compromise. 97. Which of the following systems provides the highest data rate to an individual device? A. Computer bus. B. Telephone lines. C. Leased lines. D. Voice band modem. 98. While transmitting odd -parity coded symbols, the number of zero in each symbol is _______ A. odd. B. one. C. even. D. unknown. 99. A protocol is a set of rules governing a time sequence of events that must take place _________ A. between peers. B. between an interface. C. between modems. D. across an interface. 100. Number of bits per symbol used in Baudot code is _______ A. 7 B. 8 C. 5 D. 9 101. What is the main function of the transport layer? A. Node-To-Node Delivery. B. Process-To-Process Message Delivery. C. Synchronization. D. Updating And Maintenance Of Routing Tables. 102. Session layer checkpoints _____ A. allow just a portion of a file to be resent. B. control the addition of the headers. C. detect and recover errors. D. are involved in dialog control


103. To deliver a message to the correct application program running on a host , the _______ address must be consulted. A. port. B. IP. C. physical. D. tunnel. 104. When a host on network A sends a message to a host on network B, which address does the router look at? A. Port. B. Physical. C. IP. D. Tunnel. 105. Which of the following is possible in a taken passing bus network? A. In-service expansion. B. Unlimited number of stations. C. Unlimited distance. D. Limited distance. 106. One important characteristics of the hub architecture of ARC-net is A. directionalized transmission. B. access control and addressing. C. multiple virtual networks. D. alternative routing. 107. What is the main purpose of a data link content mirror? A. To detect problems in protocol. B. To determine the type of switching used in a data link. C. To determine the type of transmission used in a data link. D. To determine the flow of data. 108. Which of the following is not a standard synchronous communication protocol? A. SDLC. B. SLIP. C. SMTP. D. PAS. 109. IPV6 has _____ bit addresses. A. 32 B. 4 C. 128 D. variable 110. In fiber optics,the signal source is ______ waves. A. light. B. infrared. C. radio. D. very low frequency. 111. Transmission media are usually categorized as __________ A. fixed or unfixed. B. determinate or indeterminate. C. guided or unguided. D. metallic or nonmetallic. 112. ___________ cable consists of an inner copper core and a second conducting outer sheath. A. Twisted pair. B. Fiber-optic. C. Radio. D. Shielded twisted pair. 113. Which of the following is not a guided medium? A. Twisted - pair. B. Coaxial cable. C. Fiber-optic. D. Atmosphere. 114. Which of the following primarily uses guided media? A. Cellular telephone system. B. Local telephone system. C. Satellite Communications. D. Radio broadcasting.

115. The amount of uncertainty in a system of symbol is called ______ A. bandwidth. B. entrophy. C. loss. D. Quantum 116. Coaxial cable has conductors with ________ A. equal resistance. B. the same diameter. C. a common axis. D. above the common axis. 117. A device that converts digital signals into analog signals is __________ A. a packet. B. gateway. C. modem. D. repeater. 118. All of the parts in a computer talk to each other by sending _________ A. digital signals. B. smoothly varying signal waves. C. analog signals. D. light. 119. If user get both local and remote echoes, every character type will appear on the screen _______ A. once B. twice C. three times D. never 120. What protects the coaxial cable from noise? A. Inner conductor. B. Outer conductor. C. Diameter of cable. D. Insulating material. 121. In an optical fiber the inner core is ______ the cladding. A. more dense than. B. the same density as. C. less than dense. D. another name for. 122. The inner core of an optical fiber is _____ in composition. A. glass or plastic. B. bimetallic. C. copper. D. liquid. 123. Radio communication frequencies range from ____________ A. 3 KHz to 300 KHz. B. 3 KHz to 300 GHz. C. 300 KHz to 3 GHz. D. 3 KHz to 3000 GHz. 124. The radio communication spectrum is divided into bands based on ___________ A. amplitude. B. cost and hardware. C. frequency. D. transmission media. 125. When a beam of light travels through media of two different densities, if the angle of incidence is greater than the critical angle, ______ occurs. A. reflection. B. refraction. C. incidence. D. criticism. 126. In a noisy environment, the best transmission medium would be _________ A. twisted pair. B. optical fiber. C. coaxial cable. D. the atmosphere. 127. What is the frequency range used for FM radio transmission? A. Low frequency: 30 KHz to 300 MHz. B. Very Low Frequency : 0 Hz to 30 Hz. C. High frequency : 3 MHz to 30 MHz. D. Very High Frequency : 30 MHz to 300 MHz. 128. End-to-end connectivity is provided from host- to-host in _________ A. session layer. B. presentation layer. C. transport layer. D. network layer.


129. Packet switched stream (PSS) was introduced in _________ A. US. B. UK. C. Australia. D. Japan. 130. PSS was introduced in the year ________ A. 1961. B. 1971. C. 1981. D. 1991. 131. The _______ houses the switches in token ring. A. NIC. B. 9-pin connector. C. MAU. D. transceiver. 132. 10 base 2 and 10 base 5 have different _________ A. signal band types. B. maximum signal lengths. C. fields on the frame. D. maximum data rates. 133. _____________ specifies a star topology featuring a central hub and unshielded twisted-pair wire as the medium. A. 10 Base 2. B. 10 Base 5. C. 10 Base T. D. 10 Base 8. 134. How many digits of the DNIC (Data Network Identification Code) identifies a country? A. First Three. B. First Four. C. First Five. D. First Two. 135. The most efficient medium for ATM is _____________ A. twisted pair. B. optical fiber. C. coaxial cable. D. the atmosphere. 136. Which of the following is a wrong example of network layer? A. IP - ARPANET. B. X.25 PLP-ISO. C. Usenet. D. X.25 level2 ISO. 137. When a light beam moves to a less dense medium, the angle of refraction is _______ the angle of incidence. A. greater than. B. equal to. C. less than. D. less than equal to. 138. 10 Base 2 uses ______ cable. A. thick coaxial. B. thin coaxial. C. twisted pair. D. fiber optic. 139. 10 Base 5 uses the _______ cable. A. thick coaxial. B. thin coaxial. C. twisted pair. D. fiber optic. 140. When talking about unguided media, usually it is referred to A. metallic wires. B. metals. C. the atmosphere. D. nonmetallic wires. 141. The CCITT Recommendation X.25 specifies ______ three layers of communications. A. Application, presentation and session. B. Session, transport and network. C. Physical, data link and network. D. Data link, network and transport. 142. Which of the following digits are known as the area code of the Network user address? A. 5-7 B. 1-4 C. 8-12 D. 13-14 143. Which type of switching uses the entire capacity of a dedicated link? A. Circuit switching. B. Datagram. C. Virtual Circuit. D. Message switching.

144. In OSI reference model, which of the following layer provides error-free delivery of data? A. Session layer. B. Presentation layer. C. Transport layer. D. Network layer. 145. Which of the following layer protocols are responsible for user and the application programme support such as passwords, resource sharing etc? A. Layer 4 protocols. B. Layer 5 protocols. C. Layer 6 protocols. D. Layer 7 protocols. 146. In OSI model, which of the following layer transforms information from machine format into that understandable by user? A. Application. B. Session. C. Presentation. D. Physical. 147. A decrease in magnitude of current, voltage, a power signal in transmission between points is known as _________ A. attenuation. B. aloha. C. amplitude. D. carrier. 148. A medium access control technique for multiple access transmission media is ______ A. attenuation. B. aloha. C. amplitude. D. carrier. 149. The size or magnitude of a voltage or current waveform is ___________ A. attenuation. B. aloha. C. amplitude. D. carrier. 150. A device that links two homogenous packet- broadcast local networks is __________ A. hub. B. gateway. C. repeater. D. bridge. 151. A form of modulation in which the amplitude of a carrier wave is varied in accordance with some characteristics of the modulating signal, is known as ___________ A. angle modulation. B. aloha. C. amplitude modulation. D. modem. 152. Modulation in which two binary values are represented by two different amplitudes of the carrier frequency is known as ___________ A. amplitude shift keying. B. amplitude. C. amplitude modulation. D. aloha. 153. The simultaneous transmission of data to a number of stations is known as ____________ A. broadcast. B. bandwidth. C. analog transmission. D. aloha. 154. Which layer of OSI determines the interface of the system with the user? A. Network. B. Application. C. Data link. D. Physical. 155. Which of the following condition is used to transmit two packets over a medium at the same time? A. Synchronous. B. Collision. C. Contention. D. Asynchronous. 156. Which of the following summation operation is performed on the bits to check an error- detecting code? A. Codec. B. Coder-decoder.


C. Checksum. D. Attenuation. 157. Frame relay operates in the _________ A. application, presentation. B. session, transport. C. physical, data link D. data link, network. 158. Repeaters function in the ________ layers A. application, presentation. B. session, transport. C. physical, data link. D. data link, network. 159. Which of the following is not a connecting device? A. Bridge. B. Gateway. C. Transceiver. D. Hub. 160. Gateways function in which layer? A. Lower 3. B. Upper 4. C. All 7. D. All but the physical layer. 161. Which ATM layer has 53 bytes cell as an end product? A. Physical. B. ATM. C. Application adaptation. D. Cell transformation. 162. Which of the following method is used for dedicated communications packet between two devices through one or more intermediate switching nodes? A. Switch network. B. Circuit switching. C. Packet switching. D. Message switching. 163. Which of the following technique is used for allocating capacity on a satellite channel using fixed assignment FDM? A. Amplitude modulation. B. Frequency division multiple access. C. Frequency shift keying. D. Frequency modulation. 164. Which of the following device is used to connect two systems, especially if the systems use different protocols? A. Hub. B. Bridge. C. Gateway. D. Repeater. 165. A bridge functions in a _______ layer. A. application, presentation. B. session, transport. C. physical, data link. D. data link, network. 166. Which of the following medium access control technique is used for bus/tree? A. Token ring. B. Token bus. C. CSMA D. MAC. 167. Which of the following network access standard is used for connecting stations to a packet- switched network? A. X.3 B. X.21 C. X.25 D. X.75 168. A repeater takes a weakened or corrupted signal and _______ it. A. amplifies. B. regenerates. C. reroutes. D. resamples. 169. Routers functions in the _________ layers. A. application, presentation and session. B. session, transport and network. C. physical, data link and network. D. data link, network and transport.

170. Identify the following IP address: 192.5.0.0 _______ A. host ip address. B. limited broadcast address. C. direct broadcast address. D. network address. 171. What is the host IP of a system having the IP address 192.0.0.10? A. 192 B. 0.10 C. 0.0.10 D. 192.0 172. Which of the following TCP/IP protocol is used for remote terminal connection service? A. TELNET. B. RARP. C. FTP. D. UDP. 173. The protocol used for transferring files from one system to another is _________ A. TELNET. B. RARP. C. FTP. D. UDP. 174. A band is always equivalent to __________ A. a byte. B. a bit. C. 100 bits. D. 1000 bits. 175. The TCP/IP protocol used for file transfer with minimal capability and minimal overhead _______ A. RARP. B. FTP. C. TFTP. D. TELNET. 176. What destination address can be used to send a packet from a host with IP address 188.1.1.1 to all hosts on the network __________? A. 188.0.0.0. B. 255.255.255.255. C. 0.0.0.0. D. 1.2.3. 177. A packet sent from a node at 198.123.46.20 to a node at 198.123.46.21 requires a _______ destination address. A. Unicast. B. Broadcast. C. Multicast. D. Synchronous. 178. Which of the following program is used to copy files to or from another UNIX timesharing system over a single link? A. VMTP. B. TFTP. C. UUCP. D. UART. 179. Which transmission mode is used for data communication along telephone lines? A. Parallel. B. Serial. C. Synchronous. D. Asynchronous. 180. Which of the following device copies electrical signals from one Ethernet to another? A. Bridge. B. Repeater. C. Hub. D. Passive hub. 181. A machine that connects to two or more electronic mail systems and transfers mail messages among them is known as _________ A. gateways. B. mail gateway. C. bridges. D. user agent. 182. What is the usual number of bits transmitted in parallel data transmission used by micro computers? A. 16 B. 8 C. 9 D. 4


183. What are the most commonly used transmission speeds in BPS used in data communication? A. 300. B. 2400. C. 1200. D. 9600. 184. Many large organization with their offices in different countries of the world connect their computers through telecommunication satellites and telephone lines. Such communication network is called _________ A. LAN. B. WAN. C. ECONET. D. ETHERNET. 185. What is the minimum number of wires required for sending data over a serial communications links? A. 2 B. 1 C. 4 D. 3 186. Working of the WAN generally does not involve ________ A. telephone lines. B. microwaves. C. satellites. D. all of the above. 187. A private network with 300 computers wants to use a netid reserved by the internet authorities. What is a good net id choice? A. 10.0.0. B. 192.68.0. C. 172.16. D. 0.0.0. 188. In ________ delivery, both the deliverer of the IP packet and the destination are on the same network. A. a connectionless. B. a direct. C. a connection oriented. D. an indirect. 189. In ________ delivery, packets of a message are logically connected to one another. A. a connectionless. B. a direct. C. a connection oriented. D. an indirect. 190. In _______ delivery, a packet is not connected to any other packet. A. a connectionless. B. a direct. C. a connection oriented. D. an indirect. 191. When a direct delivery is made, both the deliverer and receiver have the same _______ A. routing table. B. host id. C. IP address. D. netid. 192. When was Modem invented and in which country? A. 1963, USA. B. 1965,Germany. C. 1950, USA. D. 1950, Japan. 193. Different computers are connected to a LAN by a cable and a/an _______ A. special wires. B. interface card. C. modem. D. telephone lines. 194. A modem is connected in between a telephone line and a ________ A. network. B. computer. C. communication adapter. D. serial port. 195. The word telematics is a combination of _________ A. computer. B. telecommunication. C. informatics. D. (b) and (c).

196. Which of the following data transmission media has the largest terrestrial range without the use of repeaters or other devices? A. Hardwiring. B. Satellite. C. Microwave. D. Laser. 197. An ROP would be attached to a _________ A. simplex channel. B. duplex channel. C. half duplex channel. D. full duplex channel. 198. A batch processing terminal would not include a ________ A. CPU. B. card punch. C. card reader. D. line printer. 199. A hard copy would be prepared on a ________ A. line printer. B. typewriter terminal. C. plotter. D. All of the above. 200. Transmission of computerized data from one location to another is called __________ A. data flow. B. data transfer. C. data communication. D. data management. 201. Communication circuits that transmit data in both directions but not at the same time are operating in ______ A. simplex mode. B. half duplex mode. C. full duplex mode. D. asynchronous mode. 202. The term remote job entry relates to __________ A. batch processing. B. real time processing. C. transaction processing. D. distribute processing. 203. A required characteristics of an online real- time system is A. offline batch processing. B. more than one CPU. C. no delay in processing. D. good time slice. 204. An example of digital, rather than analog communication is _______ A. DDD. B. WATS. C. DDS. D. DDT. 205. Which of the following communications lines is best suited to interactive processing applications? A. Narrowband channels. B. Simplex lines. C. Full duplex channel. D. Mixed band channels. 206. Data communications monitors available on the software market include__________ A. ENVIRON/1. B. BPL. C. TOTAL. D. Telnet. 207. When an indirect delivery is made, the deliverer and the receiver have __________ A. the same IP address. B. the same netid. C. different IP address. D. different netid. 208. In ________ routing, the mask and the destination address are both 0.0.0.0 in the routing table. A. next-hop. B. host-specific C. network-specific. D. default. 209. The change in specific rotation due to inter conversion of a form into b form or vice versa is known as __________ A. mutarotation. B. epimerisation. C. isomerisation. D. cyclization.


210. In ______ routing, the routing tables hold the address of just the next hop instead of complete route information. A. next-hop. B. host-specific. C. network-specific. D. default. 211. In ______ routing, the destination address is a network address in the routing tables. A. next-hop. B. host-specific. C. network-specific. D. default. 212. The ________ flag indicates the availability of a router. A. up. B. host specific. C. gateway. D. added by redirection. 213. For a direct delivery, the ________ flag is on. A. Up. B. host specific. C. Gateway. D. added by redirection. 214. The process of converting analog signals into digital signals so they can be processed by a receiving computer is referred to as __________ A. synchronizing. B. demodulation. C. modulation. D. default. 215. Most data communications involving telegraph line use A. simplex lines. B. dialed service. C. narrowband channel. D. wideband channel. 216. Which of the following does not allow multiple users or devices to share one communication line? A. Doubleplexer. B. Concentrator. C. Multiplexer. D. Controller. 217. After coding a document into a digital signal, it can be sent by telephone, telex or satellite to the receiver where the signal is decoded and an exact copy of the original document is made. What is it called? A. Telex. B. Electronic mail. C. Facsimile. D. Word processor. 218. Videotex is a combination of _______ A. computer technology. B. television. C. computers. D. all of the above. 219. Usually it takes 10 bits to represent one character. How many characters can be transmitted at a speed of 1200 bps? A. 10 B. 12 C. 20 D. 1200 220. Who invented the modem? A. Wang Laboratories. B. AT & T. C. Apple computers. D. Satyam conferencing. 221. Business talks can be efficiently handled by ___________ A. Telemeeting. B. Telemailing. C. Teleconferencing. D. Teletalking. 222. Which of the following is not used in Local Area Networks (LAN)? A. Computer. B. Printer. C. Modem. D. Cable. 223. Communication between computers is almost always ________ A. serial. B. series parallel.

C. parallel. D. direct. 224. The_____ flag indicates that the entry of the destination column is a host-specific address. A. gateway. B. host-specific. C. modified by redirection. D. added by redirection 225. The IP address is assigned ________ A. randomly. B. alternatively. C. area wise. D. hierarchically. 226. Most of the internet users are on a class ________ network A. A B. B C. C D. D 227. Port number 21 is for __________ A. http. B. email. C. TELNET. D. FTP. 228. TCP/IP reserve _______ ports for protocols. A. 21 B. 24 C. 1024 D. 2042 229. IPV4 uses ______ bit value to represent address. A. 128 B. 64 C. 32 D. 16 230. The _______ flag indicates that a redirection message has added a new entry to the routing table. A. gateway. B. host-specific C. modified by redirection. D. added by redirection. 231. In the domain name chal.atc.fhda.edu _______ is the most specific label. A. chal. B. atc. C. edu. D. fhda. 232. In the domain name chal.atc.fhda.edu ________ is the least specific label. A. chal. B. atc. C. edu. D. fhda 233. Identify the Odd term among the following group. A. Optical Fiber. B. Twisted Pair. C. Coaxial Cable. D. Microwaves. 234. An example for analog communication method is __________ A. microwave. B. laser beam. C. voice grade telephone line. D. all of the above. 235. In ______ resolution the client could directly contact with at most one server. A. a recursive. B. a cache. C. an iterative. D. all of the above. 236. Which among the following is not a guided transmission media? A. Optical Fiber. B. Twisted Pair. C. Coaxial Cable. D. Microwaves 237. A sub division of main storage created by operational software is referred to as ________ A. compartment. B. time-shared program. C. divided core. D. partition. 238. An example of a medium- speed, switched communications service is _________ A. Series 1000. B. Dataphone 50. C. DDD. D. Default.


239. In address-to-name resolution the _______ domain is used. A. inverse. B. generic. C. country. D. reverse. 240. Which of the following is an advantage to using fiber optics data transmission? A. Resistance to data theft. B. Fast data transmission rate C. Low noise level. D. Few transmission errors. 241. In ______ resolution the client is in direct contact more than one server. A. a recursive. B. a cache. C. an interactive. D. default. 242. Hypertext documents are linked through _______ A. DNS. B. TELNET. C. pointers. D. hyperlinks. 243. Which of the following is not a programming language? A. HHTP. B. HTML. C. CGI. D. Java. 244. Which of the following is not a retrieval method? A. Gopher. B. Archie. C. HTML. D. HTTP. 245. Which of the following types of channels moves data relatively slowly? A. Voiceband channel. B. Wideband channel. C. Narrowband channel D. Broadband channel. 246. Which of the following server can host servlets? A. Apache server. B. IIS. C. Windows 2000 Server. D. Tomcat Server. 247. A distributed data processing configuration in which all activities must pass through a centrally located computer is called a _________ A. hierarchical network B. spider network. C. ring network. D. data control network. 248. Network cable lies on ______ layer. A. physical. B. data link C. network D. transport. 249. Printer server uses a _____ which is a buffer that holds data before it is send to the printer. A. queue. B. spool. C. terminal. D. buffer. 250. _________ are used in bus topology. A. Terminators. B. Star. C. Ring. D. Mesh. 251. In the relational modes, cardinality is termed as: (A) Number of tuples. (B) Number of attributes. (C) Number of tables. (D) Number of constraints. 252. Relational calculus is a (A) Procedural language.

(B) Non- Procedural language. (C) Data definition language. (D) High level language. 253. The view of total database content is (A) Conceptual view. (B) Internal view. (C) External view. (D) Physical View. 254. Cartesian product in relational algebra is (A) a Unary operator. (B) a Binary operator. (C) a Ternary operator. (D) not defined. 255. DML is provided for (A) Description of logical structure of database. (B) Addition of new structures in the database system. (C) Manipulation & processing of database. 256. ‘AS’ clause is used in SQL for (A) Selection operation. (B) Rename operation. (C) Join operation. (D) Projection operation. 257. ODBC stands for (A) Object Database Connectivity. (B) Oral Database Connectivity. (C) Oracle Database Connectivity. (D) Open Database Connectivity. 258. Architecture of the database can be viewed as (A) two levels. (B) four levels. (C) three levels. (D) one level. 259. In a relational model, relations are termed as (A) Tuples. (B) Attributes (C) Tables. (D) Rows. 260. The database schema is written in (A) HLL (B) DML (C) DDL (D) DCL 261. In the architecture of a database system external level is the (A) physical level. (B) logical level. (C) conceptual level (D) view level. 262. An entity set that does not have sufficient attributes to form a primary key is a (A) strong entity set. (B) weak entity set. (C) simple entity set. (D) primary entity set. 263. In a Hierarchical model records are organized as (A) Graph. (B) List. (C) Links. (D) Tree. 264. In an E-R diagram attributes are represented by (A) rectangle. (B) square. (C) ellipse. (D) triangle. 265. In case of entity integrity, the primary key may be (A) not Null (B) Null (C) both Null & not Null. (D) any value. 266. In tuple relational calculus P1 ®P2 is equivalent to (A) ¬P1 Ú P2 (B) P1 Ú P2 (C) P1 Ù P2 (D) P1 Ù¬P2 267. The language used in application programs to request data from the DBMS is referred to as the (A) DML (B) DDL (C) VDL (D) SDL


268. A logical schema (A) is the entire database. (B) is a standard way of organizing information into accessible parts. (C) describes how data is actually stored on disk. (D) both (A) and (C) 269. Related fields in a database are grouped to form a (A) data file. (B) data record. (C) menu. (D) bank. 270. The database environment has all of the following components except: (A) users. (B) separate files. (C) database. (D) database administrator. 271. The language which has recently become the standard for interfacing application programs with relational database system is (A) Oracle. (B) SQL. (C) DBase. (D) 4GL. 272. The way a particular application views the data from the database that the application uses is a (A) module. (B) relational model. (C) schema. (D) sub schema. 273. In an E-R diagram an entity set is represent by a (A) rectangle. (B) ellipse. (C) diamond box. (D) circle. 274. A report generator is used to (A) update files. (B) print files on paper. (C) data entry. (D) delete files. 275. The property / properties of a database is / are : (A) It is an integrated collection of logically related records. (B) It consolidates separate files into a common pool of data records. (C) Data stored in a database is independent of the application programs using it. (D) All of the above. 276. The DBMS language component which can be embedded in a program is (A) The data definition language (DDL). (B) The data manipulation language (DML). (C) The database administrator (DBA). (D) A query language. 277. A relational database developer refers to a record as (A) a criteria. (B) a relation. (C) a tuple. (D) an attribute. 278. The relational model feature is that there (A) is no need for primary key data. (B) is much more data independence than some other database models. (C) are explicit relationships among records. (D) are tables with many dimensions. 279. Conceptual design (A) is a documentation technique. (B) needs data volume and processing frequencies to determine the size of the database. (C) involves modelling independent of the DBMS.

(D) is designing the relational model. 280. The method in which records are physically stored in a specified order according to a key field in each record is (A) hash. (B) direct. (C) sequential. (D) all of the above. 281. A subschema expresses (A) the logical view. (B) the physical view. (C) the external view. (D) all of the above. 282. Count function in SQL returns the number of (A) values. (B) distinct values. (C) groups. (D) columns. 283. Which one of the following statements is false? (A) The data dictionary is normally maintained by the database administrator. (B) Data elements in the database can be modified by changing the data dictionary. (C) The data dictionary contains the name and description of each data element. (D) The data dictionary is a tool used exclusively by the database administrator. 284. An advantage of the database management approach is (A) data is dependent on programs. (B) data redundancy increases. (C) data is integrated and can be accessed by multiple programs. (D) none of the above. 285. A DBMS query language is designed to (A) support end users who use English-like commands. (B) support in the development of complex applications software. (C) specify the structure of a database. (D) all of the above. 286. Transaction processing is associated with everything below except (A) producing detail, summary, or exception reports. (B) recording a business activity. (C) confirming an action or triggering a response. (D) maintaining data. 287. It is possible to define a schema completely using (A) VDL and DDL. (B) DDL and DML. (C) SDL and DDL. (D) VDL and DML. 288. The method of access which uses key transformation is known as (A) direct. (B) hash. (C) random. (D) sequential. 289. Data independence means (A) data is defined separately and not included in programs. (B) programs are not dependent on the physical attributes of data. (C) programs are not dependent on the logical attributes of data. (D) both (B) and (C). 289. The statement in SQL which allows to change the definition of a table is (A) Alter. (B) Update. (C) Create. (D) select.


291. E-R model uses this symbol to represent weak entity set ? (A) Dotted rectangle. (B) Diamond (C) Doubly outlined rectangle (D) None of these 292. SET concept is used in : (A) Network Model (B) Hierarchical Model (C) Relational Model (D) None of these 293. Relational Algebra is (A) Data Definition Language . (B) Meta Language (C) Procedural query Language (D) None of the above 294. Key to represent relationship between tables is called (A) Primary key (B) Secondary Key (C) Foreign Key (D) None of these 295. _______ produces the relation that has attributes of R1 and R2 (A) Cartesian product (B) Difference (C) Intersection (D) Product 296. The file organization that provides very fast access to any arbitrary record of a file is (A) Ordered file (B) Unordered file (C) Hashed file (D) B-tree 297. DBMS helps achieve (A) Data independence (B) Centralized control of data (C) Neither (A) nor (B) (D) both (A) and (B) 298. Which of the following are the properties of entities? (A) Groups (B) Table (C) Attributes (D) Switchboards 299. In a relation (A) Ordering of rows is immaterial (B) No two rows are identical (C) (A) and (B) both are true (D) None of these. 300. Which of the following is correct: (A) a SQL query automatically eliminates duplicates. (B) SQL permits attribute names to be repeated in the same relation. (C) a SQL query will not work if there are no indexes on the relations (D) None of these 301. It is better to use files than a DBMS when there are (A) Stringent real-time requirements. (B) Multiple users wish to access the data. (C) Complex relationships among data. (D) All of the above. 302. The conceptual model is (A) dependent on hardware. (B) dependent on software. (C) dependent on both hardware and software . (D) independent of both hardware and software. 303. What is a relationship called when it is maintained between two entities? (A) Unary (B) Binary (C) Ternary (D) Quaternary

304. Which of the following operation is used if we are interested in only certain columns of a table? (A) PROJECTION (B) SELECTION (C) UNION (D) JOIN 305. Which of the following is a valid SQL type? (A) CHARACTER (B) NUMERIC (C) FLOAT (D) All of the above 306. The RDBMS terminology for a row is (A) tuple. (B) relation. (C) attribute. (D) degree. 307. Which of the following operations need the participating relations to be union compatible? (A) UNION (B) INTERSECTION (C) DIFFERENCE (D) All of the above 308. The full form of DDL is (A Dynamic Data Language (B) Detailed Data Language (C) Data Definition Language (D) Data Derivation Language 309. Which of the following is an advantage of view? (A) Data security (B) Derived columns (C) Hiding of complex queries (D) All of the above 310. Which of the following is a legal expression in SQL? (A) SELECT NULL FROM EMPLOYEE; (B) SELECT NAME FROM EMPLOYEE; (C) SELECT NAME FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE SALARY = NULL; (D) None of the above 311. The users who use easy-to-use menu are called (A) Sophisticated end users. (B) Naïve users. (C) Stand-alone users. (D) Casual end users. 312. Which database level is closest to the users? (A) External (B) Internal (C) Physical (D) Conceptual 313. Which are the two ways in which entities can participate in a relationship? (A) Passive and active (B) Total and partial (C) Simple and Complex (D) All of the above 314. The result of the UNION operation between R1 and R2 is a relation that includes (A) all the tuples of R1 (B) all the tuples of R2 (C) all the tuples of R1 and R2 (D) all the tuples of R1 and R2 which have common columns 315. Which of the following is a comparison operator in SQL? (A) = (B) LIKE (C) BETWEEN (D) All of the above 316. A set of possible data values is called (A) attribute. (B) degree. (C) tuple. (D) domain. 317. Which of the operations constitute a basic set of operations for manipulating relational data? (A) Predicate calculus (B) Relational calculus (C) Relational algebra (D) None of the above


318. Which of the following is another name for weak entity? (A) Child (B) Owner (C) Dominant (D) All of the above 319. Which of the following database object does not physically exist? (A) base table (B) index (C) view (D) none of the above 320. NULL is (A) the same as 0 for integer (B) the same as blank for character (C) the same as 0 for integer and blank for character (D) not a value 321. Which of the following is record based logical model? (A) Network Model (B) Object oriented model (C) E-R Model (D) None of these 322. A data dictionary is a special file that contains: (A) The name of all fields in all files. (B) The width of all fields in all files. (C) The data type of all fields in all files. (D) All of the above. 323. A file manipulation command that extracts some of the records from a file is called (A) SELECT (B) PROJECT (C) JOIN (D) PRODUCT 324. The physical location of a record is determined by a mathematical formula that transforms a file key into a record location is: (A) B-Tree File (B) Hashed File (C) Indexed File (D) Sequential file. 325. Using Relational Algebra the query that finds customers, who have a balance of over 1000 is (A) PCustomer_name(s balance >1000(Deposit)) (B) s Customer_name(Pbalance >1000(Deposit)) (C) PCustomer_name(s balance >1000(Borrow)) (D) s Customer_name(Pbalance >1000(Borrow)) 326. A primary key is combined with a foreign key creates (A) Parent-Child relationship between the tables that connect them. (B) Many to many relationship between the tables that connect them. (C) Network model between the tables that connect them. (D) None of the above. 327. In E-R Diagram derived attribute are represented by (A) Ellipse (B) Dashed ellipse (C) Rectangle (D) Triangle 328. Cross Product is a: (A) Unary Operator (B) Ternary Operator (C) Binary Operator (D) Not an operator 329. An instance of relational schema R (A, B, C) has distinct values of A including NULL values. Which one of the following is true? (A) A is a candidate key (B) A is not a candidate key (C) A is a primary Key (D) Both (A) and (C)

330. Consider the join of a relation R with relation S. If R has m tuples and S has n tuples, then the maximum size of join is: (A) mn (B) m+n (C) (m+n)/2 (D) 2(m+n) 331. The natural join is equal to : (A) Cartesian Product (B) Combination of Union and Cartesian product (C) Combination of selection and Cartesian product (D) Combination of projection and Cartesian product 332. Which one of the following is not true for a view: (A) View is derived from other tables. (B) View is a virtual table. (C) A view definition is permanently stored as part of the database. (D) View never contains derived columns. 333. A DUAL Table has : (A) One row and One column. (B) Many columns and one row. (C) one column and many rows (D) None of the above. 334. In E-R Diagram relationship type is represented by (A) Ellipse (B) Dashed ellipse (C) Rectangle (D) Diamond 335. Hierarchical model is also called (A) Tree structure (B) Plex Structure (C) Normalize Structure (D) Table Structure 336. To delete a particular column in a relation the command used is: (A) UPDATE (B) DROP (C) ALTER (D) DELETE 337. The ______ operator is used to compare a value to a list of literals values that have been specified. (A) BETWEEN (B) ANY (C) IN (D) ALL 338. GUI means A) grey useful interface B) ground user interface C) graph use in India D) graphical user interface 339. A B-tree of order m has maximum of _____________ children (A) m (B) m+1 (C) m-1 (D) m/2 340. _____________ function divides one numeric expression by another and returns the remainder. (A) POWER (B) MOD (C) ROUND (D) REMAINDER 341. A data manipulation command that combines the records from one or more tables is called (A) SELECT (B) PROJECT (C) JOIN (D) PRODUCT 342. In E-R diagram generalization is represented by (A) Ellipse (B) Dashed ellipse (C) Rectangle (D) Triangle


343. _________ is a virtual table that draws its data from the result of an SQL SELECT statement. (A) View (B) Synonym (C) Sequence (D) Transaction 344. The method of access which uses key transformation is known as (A) Direct (B) Hash (C) Random (D) Sequential 345. A table joined with itself is called (A) Join (B) Self Join (C) Outer Join (D) Equi Join 346. _________ data type can store unstructured data (A) RAW (B) CHAR (C) NUMERIC (D) VARCHAR 347. Which two files are used during operation of the DBMS (A) Query languages and utilities (B) DML and query language (C) Data dictionary and transaction log (D) Data dictionary and query language 348. Translator for low level programming language were termed as (A) Assembler (B) Compiler (C) Linker (D) Loader 349. Analysis which determines the meaning of a statement once its grammatical structure becomes known is termed as (A) Semantic analysis (B) Syntax analysis (C) Regular analysis (D) General analysis 350. Load address for the first word of the program is called (A) Linker address origin (B) load address origin (C) Phase library (D) absolute library 351. Symbolic names can be associated with (A) Information (B) data or instruction (C) operand (D) mnemonic operation 352. The translator which perform macro expansion is called a (A) Macro processor (B) Macro pre-processor (C) Micro pre-processor (D) assembler 353. Shell is the exclusive feature of (A) UNIX (B) DOS (C) System software (D) Application software 354. A program in execution is called (A) Process (B) Instruction (C) Procedure (D) Function 355. Interval between the time of submission and completion of the job is called (A) Waiting time (B) Turnaround time (C) Throughput (D) Response time 356. A scheduler which selects processes from secondary storage device is called (A) Short term scheduler. (B) Long term scheduler. (C) Medium term scheduler. (D) Process scheduler. 357. The scheduling in which CPU is allocated to the process with least CPU-burst time is called (A) Priority Scheduling (B) Shortest job first Scheduling

(C) Round Robin Scheduling (D) Multilevel Queue Scheduling 358. The term ‘page traffic’ describes (A) number of pages in memory at a given instant. (B) number of papers required to be brought in at a given page request. (C) the movement of pages in and out of memory. (D) number of pages of executing programs loaded in memory. 359. The “turn-around” time of a user job is the (A) time since its submission to the time its results become available. (B) time duration for which the CPU is allotted to the job. (C) total time taken to execute the job. (D) time taken for the job to move from assembly phase to completion phase. 360. Which of the following can be used as a criterion for classification of data structures used in language processing. (A) nature of a data structure (B) purpose of a data structure (C) lifetime of a data structure (D) all of the above. 361. Memory utilization factor shall be computed as follows (A) memory in use/allocated memory. (B) memory in use/total memory connected. (C) memory allocated/free existing memory. (D) memory committed/total memory available. 362. Program ‘preemption’ is (A) forced de allocation of the CPU from a program which is executing on the CPU. (B) release of CPU by the program after completing its task. (C) forced allotment of CPU by a program to itself. (D) a program terminating itself due to detection of an error. 363. An assembler is (A) programming language dependent. (B) syntax dependant. (C) machine dependant. (D) data dependant. 364. Which of the following is not a fundamental process state (A) ready (B) terminated (C) executing (D) blocked 365. ‘LRU’ page replacement policy is (A) Last Replaced Unit. (B) Last Restored Unit. (C) Least Recently Used. (D) Least Required Unit. 366. Which of the following is true? (A) Block cipher technique is an encryption technique. (B) Steam cipher technique is an encryption technique. (C) Both (A) and (B). (D) Neither of (A) and (B). 367. Which of the following approaches do not require knowledge of the system state? (A) deadlock detection. (B) deadlock prevention. (C) deadlock avoidance. (D) none of the above.


368. Program generation activity aims at (A) Automatic generation of program (B) Organize execution of a program written in PL (C) Skips generation of program (D) Speedens generation of program 369. Which amongst the following is not an advantage of Distributed systems? (A) Reliability (B) Incremental growth (C) Resource sharing (D) None of the above 370. An imperative statement (A) Reserves areas of memory and associates names with them (B) Indicates an action to be performed during execution of assembled program (C) Indicates an action to be performed during optimization (D) None of the above 371. Which of the following loader is executed when a system is first turned on or restarted (A) Boot loader (B) Compile and Go loader (C) Bootstrap loader (D) Relating loader 372. Poor response time is usually caused by (A) Process busy (B) High I/O rates (C) High paging rates (D) Any of the above 373. “Throughput” of a system is (A) Number of programs processed by it per unit time (B) Number of times the program is invoked by the system (C) Number of requests made to a program by the system (D) None of the above 374. The “blocking factor” of a file is (A) The number of blocks accessible to a file (B) The number of blocks allocated to a file (C) The number of logical records in one physical record (D) None of the above 375. Which of these is a component of a process precedence sequence? (A) Process name (B) Sequence operator ‘;’ (C) Concurrency operator ‘,’ (D) All of the above 376. Which amongst the following is valid syntax of the Fork and Join Primitive? (A) Fork <label> (B) Fork <label> Join <var> Join <label> (C) For <var> (D) Fork <var> Join <var> join <var> 377. Nested Macro calls are expanded using the (A) FIFO rule (First in first out) (B) LIFO (Last in First out) (C) FILO rule (First in last out) (D) None of the above 378. A parser which is a variant of top-down parsing without backtracking is (A) Recursive Descend. (B) Operator Precedence. (C) LL(1) parser. (D) LALR Parser. 379. The expansion of nested macro calls follows

(A) FIFO rule. (B) LIFO rule. (C) LILO rule. (D) priority rule. 380. In a two-pass assembler, the task of the Pass II is to (A) separate the symbol, mnemonic opcode and operand fields. (B) build the symbol table. (C) construct intermediate code. (D) synthesize the target program. 381. A linker program (A) places the program in the memory for the purpose of execution. (B) relocates the program to execute from the specific memory area allocated to it. (C) links the program with other programs needed for its execution. (D) interfaces the program with the entities generating its input data. 382. Which scheduling policy is most suitable for a time-shared operating system (A) Shortest-job First. (B) Elevator. (C) Round-Robin. (D) First-Come-First-Serve. 383. A critical section is a program segment (A) which should run in a certain specified amount of time. (B) which avoids deadlocks. (C) where shared resources are accessed. (D) which must be enclosed by a pair of semaphore operations, P and V. 384. An operating system contains 3 user processes each requiring 2 units of resource R .The minimum number of units of R such that no deadlocks will ever arise is (A) 4. (B) 3. (C) 5. (D) 6. 385. Locality of reference implies that the page reference being made by a process (A) will always be to the page used in the previous page reference. (B) is likely to be the one of the pages used in the last few page references. (C) will always be to one of the pages existing in memory. (D)will always lead to a page fault. 386. Which of these is not a part of Synthesis phase (A) Obtain machine code corresponding to the mnemonic from the Mnemonics table (B) Obtain address of a memory operand from the symbol table (C) Perform LC processing (D) Synthesize a machine instruction or the machine form of a constant 387. The syntax of the assembler directive EQU is (A) EQU <address space> (B) <symbol>EQU<address space> (C) <symbol>EQU (D) None of the above 388. The following features are needed to implement top down parsing (A) Source string marker


(B) Prediction making mechanism (C) Matching and Backtracking mechanism (D) All of the above 389. A macro definition consists of (A) A macro prototype statement (B) One or more model statements (C) Macro pre-processor statements (D) All of the above 390. The main reason to encrypt a file is to ______________. (A) Reduce its size (B) Secure it for transmission (C) Prepare it for backup (D) Include it in the start-up sequence 391. Which of the following is not a key piece of information, stored in single page table entry, assuming pure paging and virtual memory (A) Frame number (B) A bit indicating whether the page is in physical memory or on the disk (C) A reference for the disk block that stores the page (D) None of the above 392. A UNIX device driver is (A) Structured into two halves called top half and bottom half (B) Three equal partitions (C) Unstructured (D) None of the above 393. The following is not a layer of IO management module (A) PIOCS (Physical Input Output Control System) (B) LIOCS (Logical Input Output Control System) (C) FS (File System) (D) MCS (Management Control System) 394. Which amongst the following is not a valid page replacement policy? (A) LRU policy (Least Recently Used) (B) FIFO policy (First in first out) (C) RU policy (Recurrently used) (D) Optimal page replacement policy 395. Consider a program with a linked origin of 5000. Let the memory area allocated to it have the start address of 70000. Which amongst the following will be the value to be loaded in relocation register? (A) 20000 (B) 50000 (C) 70000 (D) None of the above 396. An assembly language is a (A) low level programming language (B) Middle level programming language (C) High level programming language (D) Internet based programming language 397. TII stands for (A) Table of incomplete instructions (B) table of information instructions (C) translation of instructions information (D) translation of information instruction 398. An analysis, which determines the syntactic structure of the source statement, is called (A) Sementic analysis (B) process analysis

(C) Syntax analysis (D) function analysis 399. Action implementing instruction’s meaning are actually carried out by (A) Instruction fetch (B) Instruction decode (C) instruction execution (D) Instruction program 400. The field that contains a segment index or an internal index is called (A) target datum (B) target offset (C) segment field (D) fix dat 401. A program in execution is called (A) process (B) function (C) CPU (D) Memory 402. Jobs which are admitted to the system for processing is called (A) long-term scheduling (B) short-term scheduling (C) medium-term scheduling (D) queuing 403. A set of techniques that allow to execute a program which is not entirely in memory is called (A) demand paging (B) virtual memory (C) auxiliary memory (D) secondary memory 404. SSTF stands for (A) Shortest-Seek-time-first scheduling (B) small – small-time-first (C) simple-seek-time-first (D) small-simple-time-first scheduling 405. Before proceeding with its execution, each process must acquire all the resources it needs is called (A) hold and wait (B) No pre-emption (C) circular wait (D) starvation 406. Virtual memory is (A) simple to implement (B) used in all major commercial operating systems (C) less efficient in utilization of memory (D) useful when fast I/O devices are not available 407. Relocation bits used by relocating loader are specified by (A) Relocating loader itself (B) Assembler or Translator (C) Macro processor (D) Both (A) and (B) 408. Resolution of externally defined symbols is performed by (A) Linker (B) Loader (C) Compiler (D) Editor 409. Relocatable programs (A) cannot be used with fixed partitions (B) can be loaded almost anywhere in memory (C) do not need a linker (D) can be loaded only at one specific location 410. Page stealing (A) is a sign of efficient system (B) is taking page frames other working sets (C) should be the tuning goal (D) is taking larger disk spaces for pages paged out 411. The total time to prepare a disk drive mechanism for a block of data to be read from is its (A) latency (B) latency plus transmission time


(C) latency plus seek time (D) latency plus seek time plus transmission time 412. To avoid race condition, the maximum number of processes that may be simultaneously inside the critical section is (A) zero (B) one (C) two (D) more than two 413. The memory allocation scheme subject to “external” fragmentation is (A) segmentation (B) swapping (C) pure demand paging (D) multiple fixed contiguous partitions 414. Page fault frequency in an operating system is reduced when the (A) processes tend to the I/O-bound (B) size of pages is reduced (C) processes tend to be CPU-bound (D) locality of reference is applicable to the process 415. In which of the following page replacement policies Balady’s anomaly occurs? (A) FIFO (B) LRU (C) LFU (D) NRU 416. Which of the following are language processors? (A) Assembler (B) Compiler (C) Interpreter (D) All of the above 417. Virtual memory can be implemented with (A) Segmentation (B) Paging (C) None (D) all of the above 418. Recognition of basic syntactic constructs through reductions, this task is performed by (A) Lexical analysis (B) Syntax analysis (C) Semantic analysis (D) Structure analysis 419. A grammar for a programming language is a formal description of (A) Syntax (B) Semantics (C) Structure (D) Code 420. ___________ is a technique of temporarily removing inactive programs from the memory of computer system (A) Swapping (B) Spooling (C) Semaphore (D) Scheduler 421. ___________ is a technique of improving the priority of process waiting in Queue for CPU allocation (A) Starvation (B) Ageing (C) Revocation (D) Relocation 422. ________ is the time required by a sector to reach below read/write head. (A) Seek Time (B) Latency Time (C) Access time (D) None 423. Which of the following is most general phase structured grammar? (A) Context – Sensitive (B) Regular (C) Context – Free (D) None of the above 424. File record length (A) Should always be fixed (B) Should always be variable (C) Depends upon the size of file (D) Should be chosen to match the data characteristics. 425. A public key encryption system

(A) Allows only the correct receiver to decode the data (B) Allows only one to decode the transmission. (C) Allows only the correct sender to decode the data. (D) Does not encode the data before transmitting it. 426. Software engineering primarily aims on a) reliable software b) cost effective software c) reliable and cost effective software d) None of the above 427. Information hiding is to hide from user, details that a) are relevant to him b) are not relevant to him c) may be maliciously handled by him d) are confidential 428. Which of the following software engineering concepts does Ada language support? a) Abstraction b) Generic c) Information hiding d) All of these 429. Retesting the entire application after a change has been made is called as? a) Full regression testing b) unite regression c) Regional regression d) Retesting 430. Which is not a product metric? a) Size b) Reliability c) Productivity d) Functionality 431. UML stands for a) Uniform Modeling Language b) Unified Modeling Language c) Unit Modeling Language d) Universal Modeling Language 432. Prototyping is used to a) test the software as an end product b) expand design details c) refine and establish requirements gathering d) None of the above 433. Which one of these are not software maintenance activity? a) Error correction b) Adaptation c) Implementation of enhancement d) Establishing scope 434. Regression testing is primarily related to a) functional testing b) data flow testing c) development testing d) maintenance testing 435. Boundary value analysis belongs to which testing method? a) Black box testing b) White box testing c) Both (a) and (b) d) None of these 436. In measuring the quality of a product, _______ is a specific part of the QA procedure, it is a corrective process, it applied for particular product and deals with the product. a) validation b) Verification c) Quality assurance d) Quality control 437. Cyclomatic complexity is developed by a) BW Doehm b) TJ Mccabe c) BW Littlewood d) Victor Basili 438. A COCOMO model is a) Common Cost Model b) Constructive Cost Model


c) Complete Cost Model d) Comprehensive Cost Model 439. CASE tool is a) Computer Aided Software Engineering b) Component Aided Software Engineering c) Constructive Aided Software Engineering d) Computer Analysis Software Engineering 440. Build and fix model has a) 3 phases b) 1 phase c) 2 phases d) 4 phases 441. top-down design does not require a) step-wise refinement b) loop invariants c) flow charting d) modularity 442. Which model is simplest model in software development? a) Waterfall model b) Prototyping model c) Iterative model d) None of these 443. Design phase will usually be a) top-down b) bottom-up c) random d) centre fringing 444. SRS stands for a) Software Requirements Specification b) Software Requirements Solutions c) System Requirements Solutions d) None of these above

ANSWER KEY Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. 1 B 2 A 3 A 4 B 5 B 6 B 7 A 8 B 9 C 10 B 11 B 12 A 13 C 14 B 15 A 16 D 17 B 18 B 19 D 20 A 21 A 22 C 23 A 24 D 25 B 26 B 27 A 28 A 29 C 30 B 31 C 32 A 33 B 34 A 35 B 36 A 37 C 38 B 39 C 40 A 41 B 42 B 43 B 44 C 45 A 46 B 47 B 48 A 49 B 50 D 51 B 52 D 53 D 54 C 55 A 56 D 57 A 58 C 59 B 60 B 61 D 62 D 63 A 64 A 65 B 66 B 67 C 68 C 69 C 70 B 71 C 72 D 73 B 74 C 75 D 76 C 77 A 78 B 79 A 80 A 81 C 82 A 83 A 84 D 85 A 86 A 87 C 88 C 89 A 90 B 91 A 92 A 93 B 94 B 95 D 96 A 97 A 98 D 99 A 100 C 101 B 102 A 103 A 104 C 105 A 106 A 107 A 108 D 109 C 110 A 111 C 112 C 113 D 114 B 115 B 116 C 117 C 118 A 119 B 120 B 121 A 122 A 123 C 124 C 125 A 126 B 127 D 128 C 129 B 130 C 131 C 132 B 133 C 134 B 135 B 136 D 137 A 138 B 139 A 140 C 141 C 142 A 143 A 144 C 145 D

146 C 147 A 148 B 149 C 150 D 151 C 152 A 153 A 154 B 155 B 156 C 157 C 158 C 159 C 160 C 161 B 162 B 163 B 164 C 165 C 166 B 167 C 168 B 169 C 170 A 171 C 172 A 173 C 174 C 175 C 176 B 177 A 178 A 179 B 180 B 181 B 182 C 183 D 184 B 185 A 186 D 187 C 188 C 189 C 190 D 191 D 192 C 193 B 194 C 195 D 196 B 197 A 198 A 199 D 200 C 201 C 202 A 203 C 204 C 205 C 206 A 207 D 208 D 209 B 210 D 211 C 212 D 213 C 214 B 215 C 216 A 217 C 218 D 219 B 220 B 221 C 222 C 223 A 224 D 225 D 226 C 227 D 228 C 229 C 230 D 231 A 232 C 233 D 234 D 235 A 236 D 237 D 238 B 239 A 240 C 241 C 242 D 243 A 244 C 245 C 246 D 247 B 248 A 249 B 250 A 251 A 252 B 253 A 254 B 255 C 256 B 257 D 258 C 259 C 260 C 261 D 262 B 263 D 264 C 265 A 266 A 267 A 268 A 269 B 270 A 271 B 272 D 273 A 274 B 275 D 276 B 277 C 278 B 279 C 280 A 281 C 282 A 283 B 284 C 285 D 286 C 287 B 288 B 289 D 290 A 291 C 292 A 293 C 294 C 295 A 296 C 297 D 298 C 299 C 300 D 301 B 302 D 303 B 304 A 305 D 306 A 307 D 308 C 309 D 310 B 311 B 312 A 313 B 314 D 315 D 316 D 317 C 318 A 319 C 320 D 321 A 322 D 323 A 324 B 325 A 326 A 327 B 328 C 329 B 330 A 331 D 332 C 333 A 334 D 335 A 336 C 337 A 338 D 339 A 340 B 341 C 342 D 343 A 344 B 345 B 346 A 347 C 348 A 349 A 350 B 351 B 352 B 353 A 354 A 355 B 356 C 357 B 358 C 359 C 360 D 361 B 362 A 363 C 364 D 365 C 366 C 367 D 368 A 369 A 370 B 371 C 372 D 373 A 374 C 375 D 376 A 377 B 378 A 379 B 380 D 381 C 382 C 383 C 384 A 385 B 386 C 387 B 388 D 389 D 390 B 391 C 392 A 393 D 394 C 395 D 396 A 397 A 398 C 399 C 400 A 401 A 402 A 403 B 404 A 405 A 406 B 407 B 408 A 409 B 410 B 411 C 412 B 413 A 414 D 415 A 416 D 417 D 418 B 419 C 420 A 421 B 422 B 423 A 424 D 425 A 426 C 427 C 428 D 429 A 430 C 431 B 432 C 433 D 434 D 435 A 436 D 437 B 438 B 439 A 440 C 441 B 442 A 443 A 444 A GYANM

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MODEL TEST PAPER SO (IT)

REASONING ABILITY Directions (Q. 1-5): Study the following information to answer the given questions.

A word and number arrangement machine when given an input line of words and numbers rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of input and rearrangement. All the numbers are two-digit numbers. Input: 43 May June July 85 65 August April 24 68 28

March February 12 Step I: May 43 June July 65 August April 24 68 28 March

February 12 85 Step II: March May 43 June July August April 24 68 28

February 12 85 65 Step III: June March May July August April 24 68 28

February 12 85 65 43 Step IV: July June March May August April 24 68 28

February 85 65 43 12 Step V: February July June March May August April 68 28

85 65 43 12 24 Step VI: August February July June March May April 68 85

65 43 12 24 28 Step VII: April August February July June March May 85 65

43 12 24 28 68 Step VII is the last step. As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out in each of the following questions the appropriate step for the input given below. Input: Sunday Thursday 99 78 Tuesday Wednesday 85

19 Friday 98 56 Monday 22 Saturday 1) Which of the following will be step IV of the

rearrangement ? 1) Saturday Sunday Tuesday Thursday Wednesday 78

Friday 98 Monday 99 85 19 22 56 2) Sunday Saturday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 78

Friday 98 Monday 99 85 19 22 56 3) Sunday Saturday Tuesday Thursday Wednesday 78

Friday 98 Monday 99 85 19 22 56 4) Sunday Saturday Tuesday Thursday Wednesday 78

Friday 98 Monday 85 19 99 22 56 5) None of these 2) Which of the following is third to the right of the

one that is eighth from the right end in step VI? 1) 85 2) Friday 3) Sunday 4) 19 5) None of these 3) What will be the position of ‘Wednesday’ in step

V? 1) Fifth from the left 2) Eighth from the right 3) Sixth from the right 4) Eighth from the left

5) None of these 4) Which of the following will be the last step of

the rearrangement? 1) Monday Sunday Saturday Tuesday Thursday Wednesday Friday 98 99 85 19 22 56 78

2) Friday Monday Sunday Saturday Tuesday Thursday Wednesday 98 85 99 19 22 56 78

3) Friday Monday Sunday Saturday Thursday Tuesday Wednesday 99 85 19 22 56 98

4) Friday Monday Sunday Saturday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 98 85 99 56 22 78

5) None of these 5) How many elements (words or numbers) are

there between ‘Tuesday’ and ‘98’ as they appear in the third step of the output? 1) One 2) Two 3) Four 4) Five 5) Six

Directions (Q 6-10): In each of the following questions, a question is followed by information given in three statements. You have to study the question along with the statements and decide the information given in which statement(s) is sufficient to answer the question. 6) Among L, M, P, R, S and T who is heavier than

only the lightest? I. M is lighter than L and S. II. T is heavier than P and R but lighter than M. III. S is heavier than P, who is not the lightest.

1) Only I and II 2) Only I and III 3) Only I and III 4) All I, II, and III are necessary to answer the

question 5) None of these 7) How is N related to Y?

I. M, Y and S are siblings. II. M is the only maternal uncle of T, who is the only son of S. III. S’s mother is married to N’s husband, who has three children.

1) Only I and II 2) Only II and III 3) Only I and III 4) All I, II and III are necessary to answer the question. 5) None of these

8) In a certain code language, ‘what you think’ is written as ‘mo ki su’. How is ’think’ written in that code language? I. ‘time to think seriously’ is written as ‘ga ra su phi’. II. ‘I think of me’ is written as ‘chi su tic ba’. III. ‘speak less think more’ is written as, ‘nic la ne su’.


1) Only I 2) Only II 3) Only III 4) Only I and II 5) Any of I, II and III is sufficient

9) How many students are there between Anil and Jimmy in a row of 40 students? I. Jimmy is eleventh from the right and Anil is

twelfth from the left. II. Anil is two places away towards right from Ricky,

who is sixth from the left, and Jimmy is second from the right.

III. Jimmy is six places away from Tony, who is sixth from the right.

1) Only I 2) Only II 3) Only III 4) Both I and II 5) Either I or II 10) Jimmy, Nicky, Tinku, Sunny and Vicky are sitting

around a circular table. Who is sitting on the immediate left of Sunny? I. Only Nicky is sitting between Tinku and Vicky. II. Only Sunny is sitting between Tinku and Jimmy. III. Neither Vicky nor Tinku can sit on the left of

Sunny. 1) Only I and II 2) Only II and III 3) Only I and II 4) All I, II and III together 5) None of these Directions (Q.11-15): Study the following information carefully to answer these questions. P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting around a circle facing the centre. P is the neighbour of Q, but not V. S is the neighbour of T and is sitting on the immediate right of R. W is not the neighbour of Q, T or R. P is third to the right of U. 11) Which of the following pairs has the second

person sitting on the immediate left of the first? 1) TR 2) UV 3) WP 4) PR 5) None of these 12) If V and R interchange their positions, which of

the following statements will be definitely true? 1) U is on the immediate right of R. 2) S is the neighbour of V. 3) W is 3rd to the right of R. 4) V and W are immediate neighbours of each other. 5) None of these 13) How many people are there between U and P,

when counted anticlockwise from U? 1) Three 2) Two 3) One 4) Either 2 or 3 5) None of these 14) If Q faces opposite the centre, which of the

following will be third to the left of Q? 1) V 2) T 3) S 4) W 5) None of these 15) What would be the position of P, if U, V and W

interchange their positions with Q, R and S respectively?

1) On the immediate right of U 2) On the immediate right of W 3) Second to the right of R 4) Third to the right of Q 5) None of these

Directions (Q. 16-20): In each question below are given two/three statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts. Give answer i) if only conclusion I follows. ii) if only conclusion II follows. iii) if either conclusion I or II follows. iv) if neither conclusion I nor II follows. v) if both conclusions I and II follows. 16) Statements: All erasers are pens. All pens are boxes. No eraser is a pencil. Conclusions: I. No box is a pencil.

II. Some pens being pencils is a possibility.

17) Statements: Some tests are unpleasant. All unpleasant things need to be

avoided. Conclusions: I. Some tests need to be

avoided. II. All tests being unpleasant is a

possibility. 18) Statements: Some forests are dark and

horrible. Dark and horrible places are filled with Freudian imagery.

Conclusions: I. At least some horrible places are forests.

II. All horrible forests being dark is a possibility.

19) Statements: Some firefighters are fit. All firefighters are courageous. All courageous people are

armymen. Conclusions: I. All firefighters are armymen.

II. All courageous people can never be fit.

20) Statements: No lawyers are enthusiastic. All enthusiastic people are

positive. No positive people are honest. Conclusions: I. No honest people are

enthusiastic. II. All positive people being

lawyers is a possibility. Directions (Q. 21-23): Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group? 21) 1) Adjacent 2) Under 3) Near 4) Opposite 5) Where 22) 1) Honest 2) Cuteness 3) Intelligence 4) Character 5) Stupidity 23) 1) Singapore 2) Japan 3) Korea 4) Greece 5) Thailand


Directions (Q. 24- 25): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.

‘A + B’ means ‘A is son of B’. ‘A X B’ means ‘A is daughter of B’ ‘A B’ means ‘A is wife of B’ ‘A – B’ means ‘A is father of B’

24) If ‘A B + C – D X E’, which of the following is true? 1) B is sister of D 2) B is son of E 3) C is brother of A 4) D is mother of A 5) None of these

25) What will come in place of question mark to establish the relation that ‘B’ is grandson of E’?

A + B ? C X D E 1) – 2) + 3) X 4) 5) None of these

Directions (Q. 26 – 30): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.

Eight persons from different companies, viz. Accenture, Del, Tech Mahindra, IBM, Infosys, Quark, TCS and Wipro, are sitting in two parallel rows containing four persons each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1, J, K, L and M are sitting and all of them are facing north.

In row 2, A, B, C and D are sitting and all of them are facing south. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member sitting in a row faces another member of the other row. (All the information given above does not necessarily represent the order of seating as in the final arrangement). The person from Infosys faces the one who is on the

immediate left of L. L is neither from Del nor from Tech Mahindra.

An immediate neighbour of A faces the persons from Accenture. The person from Quark faces the person who is on the left of the person from Del.

There is only one person sitting between the person from Del and TCS but that person is not J. The persons from Del and Tech Mahindra are not sitting at the extreme ends.

B sits on the immediate left of the person from Infosys. Persons from IBM and Quark are immediate neighbours. C and K are not sitting at any of the ends.

M faces the one who is sitting on the immediate right of the person from Quark. A is not from Quark or IBM.

26) Who amongst the following is from Wipro? 1) A 2) L 3) B 4) M 5) Can’t be determined 27) Which of the following statements is false

regarding M? 1) M is from TCS. 2) M is sitting at one of the extreme ends.

3) M is on the immediate left of the person who is from Tech Mahindra. 4) M is sitting opposite the person from Quark. 5) All are true

28) Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given seating arrangement and thus form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

1) C 2) J 3) A

4) K 5) M 29) L is from which of the following organisations? 1) TCS 2) Accenture 3) IBM 4) Quark 5) None of these 30) Who is sitting between D and the person from

Infosys? 1) The person who is from Tech Mahindra 2) B 3) M

4) The person who faces the one who is from Tech Mahindra 5) None of these

Directions (Q. 31-35) : In the questions given below, the relationship between different elements is shown in the statements. These statements are followed by two conclusions. Mark answer 1) If only conclusion I follows. 2) If only conclusion II follows. 3) If either conclusion I or II follows. 4) If neither conclusion I nor II follows. 5) If both conclusion I and II follow. 31) Statements: P>S<N>O=T≥Q Conclusions: I. N>Q II. S<Q 32) Statements: A≤C=E≤D, D<B≤H Conclusions: I. A>D II. E<H 33) Statements: J=K>U=Y, Y≥ZX = W Conclusions: I. J>X II. U>W 34) Statements: S≥R=T>A, A<D=C<F Conclusions: I. S>A II. R≥D 35) Statements: K=P<T, T<R≥Q<S Conclusions: I. T<Q II. K≤R 36) A technical snag in the signal disrupted the

services of Delhi Metro for six hours. Which of the following can be a possible effect of the above cause? 1) The Delhi Metro is running short of technical

experts. 2) People keep on complaining about the technical

snag occasionally. 3) Any technical irregularity is not expected by the

people. 4) There were lot of people who could not reach their

work place at the stipulated time. 5) None of these

37) “Attend a free seminar on how to crack CAT examination.” – An advertisement by an institute. Which of the following can be an assumption of the advertiser? 1) There are other institutes which are also organizing

such seminars. 2) These seminars are just a gimmick by the

advertiser to attract students. 3) There will be people who will respond to this kind

of advertisement. 4) The advertisements many a time turn out to be

exaggerated. 5) None of these

Directions (Q.38-40): Study the following information carefully and answer the question given below:


RBI may begin rate cuts with WPI hitting 26-month low and December industrial growth crashing to 1.8%. (A) WPI in the preceding 25 months were on all-time high. (B) RBI has the authority to make changes in the prevailing

rates. (C) Industrial growth in a particular month is not a potent

parameter to measure the overall growth. (D) Previous rate cuts by RBI have turned out to be futile. (E) RBI takes decision in accordance with the Ministry of

Finance. (F) Adjustments in the rate could prove to be a breather

for the economy. 38) Which of the following statements could be a possible

assumption for the statement given above? 1) Only A 2) Only D 3) Both A and E 4) Both B and C 5) Only B

39) Which of the following if true would weaken the above statement? 1) Only E 2) Both B and E 3) Only A 4) Only C 5) Both C and B

40) Which of the following could be a possible conclusion of the above statement? 1) Only A 2) Only D 3) Only F 4) Only E 5) Both B and D

Directions: (Q. 41–45): Study the following information and answer the questions following it. Five friends Neha, Naveen, Aashish, Ragni, and Nisha are from five different cities viz Ahmadabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Delhi and Ernakulam. They are experts in five different fields i.e. teaching, music, medical, software engineering and fashion designing but not is same order. 1. Naveen is not from Bangalore 2. Doctor is either from Delhi or Ahmadabad 3. Nisha is from Ernakulum 4. Ragni is in musical activity 5. Aashish and Nisha are doctor and fashion designer but not necessary in same order 6. From Ahmedabad there is a music 7. Teacher is a not from Bangalore 41) Who is doctor among them? 1) Neha 2) Nisha 3) Aashish 4) Naveen 5) Can’t be determined 42) Which activity belong to Ahmadabad? 1) Teaching 2) Music 3) Software Engineering 4) Medical 5) Fashion Designing 43) From which city do Aashish and Naveen belong to respectively? 1) Delhi – Calcutta 2) Calcutta – Bangalore 3) Delhi – Bangalore 4) Calcutta – Delhi 5) Delhi – Ahmadabad 44) The software engineer is from – 1) Delhi 2) Calcutta 3) Bangalore 4) Ernakulum 5) Ahmadabad 45) Which one among the following is the correct group of combination? 1) Naveen – Delhi – Teacher 2) Aashish – Ernakulum – Doctor

3) Nisha – Ernakulum – Fashion – designer 4) Neha – Bangalore – Musician 5) Ragni – Delhi – Musician Directions (Q. 46–50): Study the following information to answer the given questions. In a certain code language, ‘no lo pe to’ means ‘we love our country’, ‘le pe no ze’ means ‘India is our country’, ‘ko pe ge co’ means ‘proud to be country’, ‘le ko’ means ‘proud India’, ‘ge lo so’ means ‘love to all’ and ‘fo le gm’ means ‘India independence day’. 46) What is the code for ‘independence’? 1) fo 2) gm 3) le 4) co 5) Can’t be determined 47) Which of the following is the code for ‘proud to be India’? 1) ge pe ko co 2) ge le no ze 3) le ge lo pe 4) ge le ko co 5) None of these 48) Which of the following may be the code for ‘I love our country’? 1) pe no lo ge 2) lo no pe to 3) me no pe lo 4) lo no le pe 5) None of these 49) What is the code for ‘day’? 1) gm 2) fo 3) lo 4) Either ‘gm’ or ‘fo’ 5) None of these 50) If ‘love’ is related to ‘lo’, ‘proud’ is related to ‘ko’ in the same way ‘our’ is related to which of the following? 1) no 2) to 3) le 4) ge 5) None of these

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Directions (Q. 51-55): Study the following table carefully and answer the questions that follow: Investment (in Rs crores) by six units of XYZ Company from 1996-2001

unityear ‘1996 ‘1997 ‘1998 ‘1999 ‘2000 ‘2001 Total

A 85 132 125 116 142 138 738 B 105 140 145 148 142 144 824 C 114 137 138 136 150 152 827 D 98 125 132 145 158 152 810 E 82 128 141 152 149 165 817 F 108 150 145 156 154 162 875

Total 592 812 826 853 895 913 4891 51) In which of the following years the investment of unit ‘C’ was minimum per cent of the investment of all the

companies taken together in the same year? 1) 1997 2) 1998 3) 1999 4) 2001 5) None

52) In the year 1997 the investment of which of the following units is the maximum percent of the investment during the given year? 1) A 2) F 3) C 4) B 5) None

53) What is the increase per cent in the investment of unit ‘D’ from 1996 to 1999? 1) 26.75 2) 21.55 3) 21.60 4) 47.95 5) None

54) How much more/less is the investment by units A, B and C in the year 1998 than the investment by the same three units in the year 1999? 1) Rs 10 crores less 2) Rs 8 crores more 3) Rs 8 crores less 4) Rs 10 crores more 5) None

55) What is the ratio between the total investment of unit A, B and C in the year 1998 and the total investment of units D, E and F in the year 1999? 1) 36 : 51 2) 51 : 36 3) 26 : 43 4) 136 : 151 5) None

Directions (56-60): Study the following graph carefully and answer the questions given below it. The following graphs represent percentage of five types of employees in an organisation for two consecutive years.

56) In terms of number the variation of which of the following types of employees was minimum between 1998

and 1999? 1) P 2) Q 3) R 4) S 5) None 57) What was the difference between S type of workers in 1998 and Q type of workers in 1999? 1) 550 2) 500 3) 630 4) 600 5) None 58) If a total of 400 workers joined P type of workers in 1999, how many R type of workers joined the company

in the same year? 1) 350 2) 260 3) 400 4) Data inadequate 5) None 59) If a total no. of 240 T type of workers left the company at the end of 1998, how many T type of workers

joined the company in 1999? 1) 1020 2) 960 3) 920 4) 1040 5) None


60) If a total no. of 600 P type of workers joined the company in 1999, how many P type of workers left the company in 1998?

1) 1320 2) 1560 3) 1630 4) Can’t be determined 5) None Directions (61-65): Study the following table carefully to answer the given questions.

Ratio of Male and Female candidates for each discipline

Discipline Male Female 1. Economics 1 2 2. Computers 3 4 3. Commerce 4 3 4. Arts 2 1 5. Science 1 3 6. Engineering 1 2 7. Management 3 2

61) How many male students are studying science in all the universities? 1) 41000 2) 42000 3) 43000 4) None of these 5) 44000 62) What is the difference between the male and female students studying commerce in the universities A, D and

E? 1) 252000 2) 100800 3) 75600 4) 25200 5) None of these 63) What is the ratio of the number of male students studying Engineering to those studying Management

respectively in university B? 1) 6 : 5 2) 5 : 6 3) 54 : 25 4) 25 : 24 5) None of these 64) If male students studying Arts in university A, female students studying science in university B, male

students studying Engineering in university C, female students studying Management in university D and male students studying Economics in University E are the members of a non-governmental-organisation X, then what is the total strength of X?

1) 44500 2) 45000 3) 45500 4) 4550 5) None of these 65) In which of the following universities was the number of female students the lowest? 1) B 2) C 3) D 4) E 5) None of these


Directions (66-70): Studying the following graph and table and answer accordingly. The following graph shows the circulation of five leading magazines from 1998 to 2000 (in thousands)

The following table shows the advertisement tariff per page (In Rs thousand).

1998 1999 2000 M 25 27.5 30 N 32.5 30 35 P 20 25 30 Q 40 48 60 R 45 40 60

66) Which magazine shows the maximum percentage increase in the circulation over the years? 1) M 2) N 3) P 4) Q 5) None of these 67) If magazines N and R in the year 1998 and 2000 have eight and six pages advertisement respectively in one

issue, then advertisement cost charged by magazine N in 1998 is what per cent less than that by magazine R in 2000?

1) 38.46% 2) 32.27% 3) 27.77% 4) 20.43% 5) None of these 68) If 1999, the magazine P charges the same tariff as in 1998 and the ratio between the advertisement pages to

non-advertisement pages is 2:5, how much money was charged by magazine P? (It is assumed that total pages in the magazine is equal to the total no. of circulation.)

1) Rs. 25 cr 2) Rs. 30 cr 3) Rs. 22.50 4) Rs. 20 cr 5) None of these 69) What is the ratio between the percentage increase in the tariff per page of magazine M and Q over the years? 1) 2:5 2) 5:2 3) 3:4 4) 5:7 5) None of these 70) The circulation of magazine M in 1998 is what per cent less than the circulation of magazine R in 1999? 1) 60% 2) 45% 3) 37.50% 4) 30% 5) None of these

Directions (71-75): Study the following graph carefully and answer accordingly. The following graph shows the percentage of different types of cars produced by the company during five years. Total no. of cars

produced by the company in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 are 20000, 18000, 25000, 22000 and 28000 respectively.

15 22 1027 25

2025

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25 824 10

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10 15 20 25 10

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A B C D E


71) What was the difference between the production of A type cars in 1999 and that of C type in 1998? 1) 2050 2) 2940 3) 2190 4) None of these 5) 2070 72) No. of D type cars produced in 1996 is equal to that of which type of cars produced in 1998?

1) C 2) A 3) B 4) E 5) None 73) In the case of which of the following types of cars was the percentage increase from 1999 to 2000 the

maximum? 1) D 2) E 3) A 4) B 5) None 74) If the number of B type cars manufactured in 1999 were the same as that in 1998, what would be the

approximate percentage share of B types in the total production of 1999? 1) 30% 2) 25% 3) 35% 4) 40% 5) 37% 75) If 90% of B type cars produced in all the given years are being sold by the company, then how many B

type cars are left unsold by the company? 1) 3010 2) 2890 3) 3270 4) 2990 5) None Directions for question number (76 to 80): study the following data and the table to answer the questions that follow:

A survey was conducted among 100 students in a class who read detective novels written by Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie or both. Due to some recording error in the computer most of the figures were missing. The following table shows the remaining data.

Doyle Christie both total Male Female 40 Total 70 100

Further it is known that 1) 37% of the student read both Doyle and Christie.

2) The ratio of males to females is 1:1. 3) 50% of the females read books of both the authors.

76) How many males read books by both the authors? 1) 10 2) 12 3) 37 4) 45 5) None

77) How many student read books by only Christie? 1) 70 2) 10 3) 33 4) 23 5) None

78) How many female read books by only doyle? 1) 25 2) 40 3) 35 4) 15 5) None 79) How many students do not read books by both the authors?

1) 12 2) 27 3) 37 4) 63 5) None 80) How many males read books by Doyle?

1) 27 2) 67 3) 12 4) 15 5) None

Directions for questions number (81 – 85): Read the following data and then answer the questions that follow: In a class, these are 60 students. For every 8 students learning judo there are 4 students who learn karate. For every 14 students learning judo there are 7 students who learn both judo and karate and 7 students learning none. 81) How many students learn only karate?

1) 20 2) 30 3) 0 4) 40 5) None 82) How many students learn only judo?

1) 20 2) 40 3) 0 4) 44 5) None 83) How many students learn both karate and judo?

1) 0 2) 10 3) 60 4) 20 5) None 84) If the student who learn both judo and karate stop learning judo, then what percentage of the total

number of students learn judo?

1)50% 2) %3

133

3) 40% 4) 55% 5) None

85) If 50% of those learning only karate stop learning karate and start learning judo, then what is the ratio of the number of student learning judo to those learning karate?

1) 3:1 2) 2:1 3) 4:1 4) Cannot be determined 5) None 86) How many numbers of five digits can be formed with digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8?

1) 2160 2) 360 3) 630 4) None 5) 650 87) What is the chance that an ordinary year selected at random has 53 Sundays?

1) 2/7 2) 3/7 3) 1/7 4) 4/7 5) None of these


88) In how many ways committee of 5 members be selected from 5 boys and 7 girls, if committee consists of 2 boys and 3 girls?

1) 310 2) 350 3) 320 4) None 5) 330 89) In how many ways can 4 boys & 2 girls can sit at round table so that no two girls are together?

1) 32 2) 34 3) 36 4) 38 5) None of these

90) Find the no. of straight lines that can be formed from 11 non collinear points 1) 50 2) 55 3) 54 4) None 5) 56

Directions (91-100): Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Read both the statements and give answer.

1) If the data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question. 2) If the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question. 3) If the data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question. 4) If the data even in both statements I and II together are not sufficient to answer the question. 5) If the data in both statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question.

91) How many marks did Arun get in History? I. Average marks obtained by Arun in History, Maths and English is equal to the average marks in Maths and English. II. Arun got a total of 120 in Maths and English together. 92) The weights of A, B and C are in the ratio of 8 : 7 : 5. A’s weight is 60% more than C’s. Find the weight of

B. I. Total weight of A, B and C is 100 kg. II. Difference between A’s and C’s weights is 15 kg. 93) What amount of profit did Gazadhar make by selling a necklace? I. He sold it with 20 per cent profit on the labelled price. II. He bought the necklace with 50 per cent discount on labelled price. 94) How much water does a man mix in one litre of milk? I. He mixes some water and sells the mixture at the cost price. II. He makes a profit of 10%.

95) What is the rate of simple interest per annum? I. The sum triples in 20 years at simple interest. II. The difference between the sum and the simple interest earned after 10 years is Rs 1000.

96) The CI on a certain sum is Rs 43.20 more than the SI on the same sum at the end of 2 years. Find the rate per cent.

I. The compound interest on the same sum at the same rate of interest at the end of 2 years is Rs 1463.20 II. The simple interest on the same sum at the end of five years is Rs 3600.

97) What is the time taken by Urvashi in reaching his office? I. Her grandfather starts his car at 9 am and drives with an average speed of 40 kmph. II. After dropping Urvashi in her school, her returns home following the same path which he used while going with the

same average speed, ie. 40 kmph, and reaches home at 10 am.

98) A train running crosses another train running in the opposite direction in x seconds. What is the speed of the train?

I. Length of the train is 132 m. II. The train crosses a man who is on the platform in 11 seconds.

99) 15 men and 18 women together can complete a work in 10 days. How many days will it take 9 men and 14 women together to complete to complete the same work?

I. 30 men can complete the work in 13 days. II. The amount of work done by a man is three-fourth of the work done by a woman in one day.

100) What is the area of a rectangle? I. The perimeter of the rectangle is 80 m. II. The sum of the two adjacent sides of rectangle is 40 m.


ENGLSIH LANGUAGE Directions (101-110): In each of the following sentence, find out which part of the sentence has an error. The error may be idiomatic or grammatical. If there is no mistake, the answer is ‘No error’. 101) These kind (1) / of shirts (2) / are rather expensive (3) / for him to buy (4). No error (5) 102)Inspite of the (1) / doctor’s stern warning(2) /, he continued taking (3) /sugar in his tea (4). No error (5) 103) The doctor (1) / attended to (2) / the patient (3) / very quietly (4). No error (5) 104) The teacher (1) / taught to the (2) / students like (3) / his own children (4). No error (5) 105) The teacher (1) /ordered the (2) / students to (3) / open page 10 (4). No error (5) 106) I gave (1) / him a (2) / gun to (3) / shoot (4). No error (5) 107) We are (1) / not sure if he is (2) / coming to (3) / the party (4). No error (5) 108) He won’t return (1) / the money (2) / that he borrowed,(3) / will he (4)? No error (5) 109) I am vexed (1) / at him (2) / about what (3) / he has done (4). No error (5) 110) Both optimists and pessimists (1) / contribute to society ; (2) / the optimist invents the aeroplane, (3) / the pessimist parachute (4). No error (5)

Directions (111-115): The following questions consist of a single sentence with one blank only. You are given five or six words as answer choices you have to pick up correct pair in option, which will make the sentence meaningfully complete. 111) Timely delivery is a given ----------------------- in

a courier company. i) Vice ii) Specialty iii) System iv) Faith v) Virtue vi) Feature 1) 2 & 1 2) 2 & 5 3) 1 & 5 4) 6 & 1 5) 3 & 5

112) Experts said Indian debt yields were ---------------- high and could attract investors in developed Western markets, many of whom could borrow funds at low single digit rates. i) Unprecedently ii) Illogically iii) Irrationally iv) Alluringly v) Fearfully vi) Falsely 1) 2 & 1 2) 1 & 4 3) 3 & 5 4) 6 & 1 5) 1 & 5

113) As Finance Minister steps in, will the Economy------- i) Step in ii) Step up iii) Step ahead iv) Step down v) Step off vi) Step on 1) 2 & 1 2) 1 & 4 3) 1 & 5 4) 2 & 3 5) 3 & 5

114) ------------------------ of competition in product markets would enable India reap both static efficiency gains and dynamic efficiency gains. i) Promotion ii) Enhancement iii) Increment iv) Stimulation v) Simulation vi) Prevention 1) 2 & 1 2) 1 & 4 3) 1 & 4 4) 6 & 1 5) 3 & 5

115) Most of this increase has come due to ----------------- in corporate and public savings. i) Change ii) Improvement iii) Amalgamation iv) Turnaround v) Circumspection vi) Speculation 1) 2 & 4 2) 6 & 4 3) 3 & 5 4) 4 & 1 5) 3 & 6

Directions (116-120): In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete the coherent. 116) After the East Asia crisis, the World Bank conducted a

study on the underlying reasons for the crisis. It was found that at least a major part of the fundamental responsibility was on banks, which had understood their non performing accounts by as much as 47%. Since this was a study and not an investigation ------------ Nevertheless, the Basel committee on supervision did take cognizance, and issued circulars and directives not only on supervision, but also on Internal Functional Management. It will be remembered by those interested that Basel committee had also acted expeditiously after the Barring Bank’s failure, to separate treasury and lending operations from the decision making processes. Bank failures are nothing new in the world, although we in India have been insulated from such traumas for more than two decades. 1) The findings were not taken note of 2) The findings were not taken seriously 3) The findings were not legally binding on any one 4) The fallout from this revelation was only taken note of 5) The fallout from this revelation was seriously taken

117) -------------- Enterprises worldwide are therefore, now putting in place an integrated framework for risk management, which is proactive, systematic and covers the entire organization. Banks in India are also moving from the individual silo system to an enterprise-wide risk management system. This is placing greater demands on the risk management skills in banks and has brought to the fore the need for capacity building. While the first mile-stone would be risk integration across the entity, banks would do well to aggregate risk across the group both in the specific risk areas as also across the risks. 1) Banks are most risk prone of all the financial institutions.


2) Banks were managing each risk independently in isolation, which is no longer inadequate. 3) It is about risk level at which an enterprise is operating to have or not have risk management system. 4) Risk management in India is lagging for banks in comparison with other parts of the world. 5) What, if risk becomes unmanageable and looks right in your face?

118) The Japanese economy is one of the third largest in the world --------------------- The Japanese currency is the Yen. Japan’s main export goods are cars, electronic devices and computers. Most important trade partners are China and the USA, followed by South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Germany. Imports: Japan has a surplus in its export/import balance. The most important import goods are raw materials such as oil, foodstuffs and wood. Major supplier is China, followed by the USA, Australia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates. Industries: Manufacturing, construction, distribution, real estate, services, and communication are Japan’s major industries today. Agriculture makes up only about two percent of the GNP. Most important agricultural product is rice. Resources of raw materials are very limited and the mining industry rather small. 1) And it is going to achieve number one status

sooner. 2) It is eying for number one spot in world economy riding on its recent technological developments. 3) Japanese Economy is going through recession and is bound to slip to lower stands in world economy. 4) Only USA and China have a higher GNP. 5) It is only in terms of growth rate not in terms of GDP.

119) A no budget film is a produced film made with very little, or no money. Young directors starting out in filmmaking commonly use this method because there are few other options available to them at that point. All the actors and technicians are employed without remuneration, and the films are largely non-profit, ------------- or uses a very minimum “crew” of volunteers to assist him/her on such projects where no money or financing is available, not including the cost of film. No-budget films are made every day with video tapes and consumer cameras. 1) Usually the director works alone on such films. 2) These films are huge employers in entertainment industry. 3) A team of experts two or three in number starts without any significant infrastructure. 4) Director is the camera-man, light-man, script writer, screen player and sometimes even act himself in the film. 5) It is a difficult task to find suitable people with desired skills, hence director works alone on such films.

120) The art of medicine is the art of healing, not just treating, and not even just curing. Yet it is only when the art and science join hands that healing is best accomplished. The author then adds --------------,

remember that the practice of medicine is an art, not a trade, a calling, not a business, a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. This book is rare work of the art of medicine, from a very rare practitioner of the science of medicine. 1) “mankind depends on science as equally on the

art”. 2) “for the mercy’s sake let us have little less science and a little more art”. 3) “let us consider science at par with art”. 4) “ let us forget what is art and what is science”. 5) “do not blame medicine for it”.

Directions (121-125): Rearrange the following five sentences A), B), C), D) and E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below. (A) Which would also hold shares of other financial

services businesses of the group. (B) This would be done partially through a compulsory

listing, within three years of launch. (C) The guidelines for new bank licences require the

shares of a new bank to be held by a non operative financial holding company.

(D) To ensure that banks are not controlled by corporate houses.

(E) RBI has insisted that promoters bring down their holding in banks to below 40% within three years from the date of commencement.

121)Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement? 1) A 2) B 3) C 4) D 5) E

122) Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement? 1) B 2) C 3) E 4) A 5) D

123) Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement? 1) E 2) D 3) C 4) A 5) B

124) Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement? 1) D 2) A 3) B 4) C 5) E

125) Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement? 1) B 2) A 3) E 4) D 5) C

Directions (126-135): In the following passage there are blanks each of which are numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each four options are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find the appropriate word in each case.

The Rangarajan Committee has (126) a formula to fix market rates for domestically produced natural gas that (127) be linked with international benchmarks such as US’ Henry Hub and the average wellhead price at which (128) imports gas, government officials said.


“The formula (129) interests of gas consumers and producers. Producers should have enough (130) to produce but they should not be allowed to (131) consumers because gas is a scarce commodity,” said an official with direct knowledge (132) the matter.

The government had (133) the Rangarajan Committee to look (134) the pricing matter after Reliance Industries and its partner BP wrote to the Prime Minister earlier this year, demanding market price of KG-D6 gas. RIL is selling gas at government – determined rate of $4.20 per unit, which is (135) one-fourth of imported gas price.

126) 1) suggested 2) told 3) said 4) asked 5) None of these 127) 1) must 2) would 3) can 4) will 5) None of these 128) 1) Indian’s 2) India 3) Indian 4) India’s 5) None of these 129) 1) keeps 2) prevents 3) balances 4) balanced 5) None of these 130) 1) wages 2) incentive 3) salaries 4) amount

5) None of these 131) 1) loot 2) steal 3) exploit 4) rob

5) None of these 132) 1) on 2) about 3) of 4) regarding 5) None of these 133) 1) asked 2) asks 3) said 4) says 5) None of these 134) 1) after 2) into 3) at 4) for 5) None of these 135) 1) at 2) atleast 3) of 4) about 5) None of these Directions (136-150): Read the following passage and answer the questions given in the context of the passage. Certain words in the passage are bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

Now the question arises, what is the secret of the longevity and imperishability of Indian culture? Why is it that such great empires and nations is Babylion, Assyria, Greece, Rome and Persia, could not last more than the footprints of a camel on the shifting sands of the desert, while India which faced the same ups and downs, the same mighty and cruel hand of time, is still alive and with the same halo of glory and splendour? The answer is given by Prof. J. B. Pratt of America. According to him Hindu religion is the only religion in the world which is 'self-perpetuating and self-renewing.' Unlike other religions 'not death, but development' has been the fate of Hinduism. Not only Hindu religion but the whole culture of the Hindus has been growing changing and developing in accordance with the needs of time and circumstance without losing its essential

and imperishable spirit. The culture of the vedic ages, of the ages of the Upanishads, the philosophical systems, the Mahabharata, the Smirities, the Puranas, the commentators, the medieval saints and of the age of the modern reformers is the same in Spirit and yet very different in form. Its basic principles are so broad based that they can be adapted to almost any environment of development.

136) The author has compared India with all the

following except- 1) Greece 2) Rome 3) Babylon 4) Assyria 5) Egypt

137) In what respect is India implied to be superior to all other nations and empires? 1) Material development 2) Cultural advancement 3) Military strength 4) Territorial expansion 5) Empire building

138) What, according to J. B. Pratt, is the secret of the longevity and imperishability of Indian culture? 1) It has its origin in the remote past 2) It issues from the minds and hearts of its sages 3) It is self-perpetuating and self-renewing 4) It is founded on religion 5) It is founded on morality

139) Which of the following has not been mentioned as a particular period of Indian culture? 1) The Vedic age 2) The age of Upanishads 3) The age of the Mahabharata 4) The British period 5) The age of the Puranas

140) What changes has the spirit of Indian culture undergone during its long history right from the vedic age down to the present times? 1) The precedence of moral values was eclipsed at certain periods of time 2) Materialism was the hall-mark of Indian culture during certain periods of time 3) During certain periods military development was the be-all and end-all of Indian culture 4) There is no such thing as any spirit of Indian culture 5) The spirit of Indian culture has practically been the same from the ancient times down to the present

141) What according to the author has always characterised the Hindu religion? 1) Development 2) Stagnation 3) Sometimes development and sometimes stagnation 4) Lack of moral values 5) Precedence of material over moral values

142) Which other religion has been mentioned in the passage as self-developing and self-renewing as Hindu religion? 1) Christianity 2) Islam 3) Buddhism 4) Jainism 5) None of these

143) "Could not last more than the footprints of a camel on the shifting sands of the desert." What does it mean? 1) It lost itself in deserts 2) It was transient


3) It lacked solidity 4) It was limited only to desert areas 5) It lacked cohesion

144) What is the characteristic quality of the basic principles of Indian culture? 1) They are static 2) They derive their strength from the genius people 3) They can be adapted almost to any environment of development 4) They believe in the purity of Indian culture 5) Nothing of these

Directions (145-147): Pick out the most appropriate equivalent (synonym) of the following words taken from the above passage: 145) Longevity 1) Living long 2) Diseased life 3) Depressed spirit 4) The period of living 5) Misery 146) Splendour 1) Reticence 2) Delight 3) Jubilation 4) Immortalize 5) Grandeur 147) Perpetuate 1) Tyrannize 2) Delight 3) Deride 4) immortalize 5) Confirm Directions (148-150): Pick out the most appropriate word exactly opposite in meaning of the following words taken from the above passage003A 148) Mighty 1) Forcible 2) Forceful 3) Weak 4) Tough 5) Haughty 149) Glory: 1) Splendour 2) Notoriety 3) Fame 4) Reputation 5) Debasement 150) Development 1) Retardation 2) Retrogression 3) Transgression 4) Progress 5) Impecunity

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151) X.25 is an example of __________ network.

1) packet switched 2) circuit switched 3) frame relay. 4) ring based 152) In ______ topology if the computer cable

is broken, networks get down 1) bus. 2) ring. 3) star. 4) irregular. 153) The analysis which helps in checking

whether the protocol is correct is _________

1) reachability. 2) correctness. 3) reliability. 4) redundancy. 154) Devices on one network can communicate

with devices on another network via __________

1) file server. 2) printer server. 3) utility server. 4) gateway. 155) How many pairs of stations can

simultaneously communicate on Ethernet LAN?

1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) Multiple 156) To connect a computer with a device in the

same room user will likely to use ___________

1) coaxial cable. 2) ground station. 3) dedicated line. 4) fibre optic cable. 157) Session layer checkpoints _____ 1) allow just a portion of a file to be resent. 2) control the addition of the headers. 3) detect and recover errors. 4) are involved in dialog control 158) Which of the following is not a standard

synchronous communication protocol? 1) SDLC 2) SLIP. 3) SMTP. 4) PAS. 159) 10 base 2 and 10 base 5 have different

_________ 1) signal band types. 2) maximum signal lengths. 3) fields on the frame. 4) maximum data rates. 160) Modulation in which two binary values are

represented by two different amplitudes of the carrier frequency is known as ___________

1) amplitude shift keying. 2) amplitude. 3) amplitude modulation. 4) aloha


161) Which ATM layer has 53 bytes cell as an end product?

1) Physical. 2) ATM. 3) Application adaptation. 4) Cell transformation. 162) A machine that connects to two or more

electronic mail systems and transfers mail messages among them is known as _________

1) gateways. 2) mail gateway. 3) bridges. 4) user agent. 163) A private network with 300 computers

wants to use a netid reserved by the internet authorities. What is a good net id choice?

1) 10.0.0. 2) 192.68.0. 3) 172.16. 4) 0.0.0. 164) A modem is connected in between a

telephone line and a ________ 1) network. 2) computer. 3) communication adapter. 4) serial port. 165) The _______ flag indicates that a

redirection message has added a new entry to the routing table.

1) gateway. 2) host-specific 3) modified by redirection. 4) added by redirection. 166) Business talks can be efficiently handled by

___________ 1) Telemeeting. 2) Telemailing. 3) Teleconferencing. 4) Teletalking. 167) ‘AS’ clause is used in SQL for 1) Selection operation. 2) Rename operation. 3) Join operation. 4) Projection operation. 168) Which of the following types of channels

moves data relatively slowly? 1) Voiceband channel. 2) Wideband channel. 3) Narrowband channel 4) Broadband channel. 169) Network cable lies on ______ layer. 1) physical. 2) data link 3) network 4) transport. 170) In a Hierarchical model records are

organized as 1) Graph. 2) List. 3) Links. 4) Tree. 171) In tuple relational calculus P1 ®P2 is

equivalent to 1) ¬P1 Ú P2 2) P1 Ú P2 3) P1 Ù P2 4) P1 Ù¬P2 172) Related fields in a database are grouped to

form a

1) data file. 2) data record 3) menu. 4) bank. 173) Count function in SQL returns the number

of 1) values. 2) distinct values. 3) groups. 4) columns. 174) An advantage of the database management

approach is 1) data is dependent on programs. 2) data redundancy increases. 3) data is integrated and can be accessed by

multiple programs. 4) none of the above. 175) Data independence means 1) data is defined separately and not included in

programs. 2) programs are not dependent on the physical

attributes of data 3) programs are not dependent on the logical

attributes of data 4) both 2) and 3). 176) Relational Algebra is 1) Data Definition Language. 2) Meta Language 3) Procedural query Language 4) None of the above 177) In a relation 1) Ordering of rows is immaterial 2) No two rows are identical 3) 1) and 2) both are true 4) None of these. 178) Which of the following is a legal expression

in SQL? 1) SELECT NULL FROM EMPLOYEE; 2) SELECT NAME FROM EMPLOYEE; 3) SELECT NAME FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE

SALARY = NULL; 4) None of the above 179) Which of the following is a comparison

operator in SQL? 1) = 2) LIKE 3) BETWEEN 4) All of the above 180) Which of the following database object

does not physically exist? 1) base table 2) index 3) view 4) none of the above 181) A data dictionary is a special file that

contains: 1) The name of all fields in all files. 2) The width of all fields in all files. 3) The data type of all fields in all files. 4) All of the above. 182) In E-R Diagram relationship type is

represented by 1) Ellipse 2) Dashed ellipse


3) Rectangle 4) Diamond 183) GUI means A) grey useful interface B) ground user interface C) graph use in India D) graphical user interface 184) _________ is a virtual table that draws its

data from the result of an SQL SELECT statement.

1) View 2) Synonym 3) Sequence 4) Transaction 185) Translator for low level programming

language were termed as 1) Assembler 2) Compiler 3) Linker 4) Loader 186) An assembler is 1) programming language dependent. 2) syntax dependant. 3) machine dependant. 4) data dependant. 187) Which amongst the following is not an

advantage of Distributed systems? 1) Reliability 2) Incremental growth 3) Resource sharing 4) None of the above 188) “Throughput” of a system is 1) Number of programs processed by it per unit

time 2) Number of times the program is invoked by

the system 3) Number of requests made to a program by the

system 4) None of the above 189) Which scheduling policy is most suitable

for a time-shared operating system 1) Shortest-job First. 2) Elevator. 3) Round-Robin. 4) First-Come-First-Serve. 190) Nested Macro calls are expanded using the 1) FIFO rule (First in first out) 2) LIFO (Last in First out) 3) FILO rule (First in last out) 4) None of the above 191) Jobs which are admitted to the system for

processing is called 1) long-term scheduling 2) short-term scheduling 3) medium-term scheduling 4) queuing 192) Consider a program with a linked origin of

5000. Let the memory area allocated to it have the start address of 70000. Which amongst the following will be the value to be loaded in relocation register?

1) 20000 2) 50000 3) 70000 4) None of the above 193) Page stealing 1) is a sign of efficient system 2) is taking page frames other working sets

3) should be the tuning goal 4) is taking larger disk spaces for pages paged

out 194) The memory allocation scheme subject to

“external” fragmentation is 1) segmentation 2) swapping 3) pure demand paging 4) multiple fixed contiguous partitions 195) Which of the following are language

processors? 1) Assembler 2) Compiler 3) Interpreter 4) All of the above 196) ___________ is a technique of temporarily

removing inactive programs from the memory of computer system

1) Swapping 2) Spooling 3) Semaphore 4) Scheduler 197) Which of the following is most general

phase structured grammar? 1) Context – Sensitive 2) Regular 3) Context – Free 4) None of the above 198) Before proceeding with its execution, each

process must acquire all the resources it needs is called

1) hold and wait 2) No pre-emption 3) circular wait 4) starvation 199) Which of these is not a part of Synthesis

phase 1) Obtain machine code corresponding to the

mnemonic from the Mnemonics table 2) Obtain address of a memory operand from the

symbol table 3) Perform LC processing 4) Synthesize a machine instruction or the

machine form of a constant 200) Shell is the exclusive feature of 1) UNIX 2) DOS 3) System software 4) Application software

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DECEMBER – 2014 1) Name the Russian film that won the Golden Peacock

for the best film at the International Film Festival of India: Leviathan

2) The Golden Peacock Award for the best film carries a cash award of __________ rupees: 40 lac

3) Noted film maker Wong Kar Wai was conferred the lifetime achievement award at IFFI. He is from which country: China

4) Worlds Aids Day is observed on which date: December 1st

5) What is the full form of HIV infection: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

6) In the abbreviation of AIDS, the letter S stands for what: Syndrome

7) Which Southeast Asian country has launched a Tamil version of National Day Song: Singapore

8) Name the Indian footballer who has been given Hall of Fame Award in Manila: Baichung Bhutia

9) Name the Indian woman badminton player who won the Macau Grand Prix Gold trophy at Macau, China: PV Sindhu

10) Jarbom Gamlin who passed away recently was a formal Chief Minister of which State: Arunachal Pradesh

11) Govt. has deiced to observe 25th December as which day: National Good Governance Day

12) National Good Governance Day is observed in the honour of which national leader: Atal Behari Vajpayee

13) Name the noted Bollywood comedy actor who passed away recently: Deven Verma

14) A R Antulay, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra passed away recently. He was from which political party: Congress

15) In a gruesome attack naxalites killed 14 CRPF personnel in Sukma district of _________ state: Chhattisgarh

16) Tabare Vazquez has been elected as President of which South American country: Uruguay

17) Who has been appointed as the new Director of Central Bureau of Investigation: Anil Kumar Sinha

18) The international prize for art – Turner Prize is given in which country: UK

19) Niryat Shree and Niryat Bandhu Awards are given in which field: For excellence in exports

20) Which bank won the Niryat Bandhu Silver Trophy for excellence in exports: Canara Bank

21) As per data released by the Central Statistics Office on Nov 28, the economy slowed in the quarter

ending Sep 30, growing at _____per cent only: 5.3 22) American geologists have named the earth’s most

abundant ________as ‘Bridgmanite’: Mineral 23) The world climate change conference was held at

which place: Lima, Peru 24) The recent world climate change conference was

organized by UNFCCC. What is the full form of UNFCCC: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

25) As per the Corruption Perceptions Index–2014 released by the Transparency International, India stands at ___ position among 175 countries: 85th

26) As per the Corruption Perceptions Index–2014, which country is least corrupt in world: Denmark

27) Name the India’s recently tested nuclear – capable strategic ballistic missile having a range of about 4000 kms: Agni IV

28) Name the system launched by RBI to help consumers pay multiple bills like electricity, telephone and school fees at a single point of transaction: Bharat Bill Payment System

29) Which organization has been appointed as the nodal body for implementing Bharat Bill Payment System: National Payment Corporation of India

30) Government has fixed an export target of $______ billion for the current fiscal: 340

31) India recently launched GSAT-16 satellite for what purpose: Communications

32) The communication satellite GSAT-16 was launched at which place: Kourou in French Guiana

33) United Nations has declared which day as International Yoga Day: June 21

34) Why June 21 has been selected as World Yoga Day: This is the longest day thus having maximum energy

35) Which state recently launched “Mobile one” e-governance initiative to enable public to access 4000 govt/ private services on their mobile phones just by dialing 161: Karnataka

36) Blind Cricket World Cup was recently held at which place: Cape Town, South Africa

37) Name the country that won the Blind Cricket World Cup 2014: India

38) RBI has hiked the limit for pre-paid payment instruments (PPI) to Rs. _________ from Rs. 50,000 at present: One Lac

39) Name the legendary jurist, a Supreme Court judge, and post-retirement, a human rights activist who passed away recently: V.R. Krishna Iyer

40) Deodhar trophy is related to which place: Cricket 41) Deodhar trophy 2014 was lifted by which team:

East Zone


42) Which US firm has been selected for supply of 16 multirole helicopters for the Indian Navy: Sikorsky

43) Government has asked PSUs to ensure that they procure 20 percent of their requirements from the products manufactured by MSME Units. What is meant by MSME: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

44) Who has been appointed as the new US Defence Secretary: Ashton Carter

45) On December 5, NASA launched Orion spacecraft atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket. It is what type of spacecraft: Returnable Spacecraft

46) Name the author of the book “2014: The Election That Changed India”: Rajdeep Sardesai

47) Which Indian state got its first rail link on Nov. 29, 2014: Meghalaya

48) As per the 2013 Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index, India has been placed at which position: 65th

49) Death anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar – 6 December is observed as what day: Mahaparinirwan Divas

50) United Nations General Assembly has declared 2015 as the International Year of _______: Soils

51) Japan recently launched explorer Hayabusa 2 for what purpose: For exploring asteroids

52) With which country Andhra Pradesh signed a MoU for development of new capital: Singapore

53) The UNICEF has said that 2014 has been “devastating” for some 15 million ______caught up in violent conflicts around the world: Children

54) Ms. Wang Patraporn has been selected as Miss Intercontinental 2014. She is from which country: Thailand

55) In which country typhoon Hagupit caused wide spread devastation on December 7: Philippines

56) The government has decided to decriminalise “attempt to suicide” by deleting which section of the Indian Penal Code: 309

57) The Union Cabinet has cleared a proposal for setting up of a 500 crore rupees Credit Guarantee Fund for Factoring for MSME units. What is factoring: Collection of receivables of business units

58) The first Arabic translation of the Indian Constitution has been launched recently in which country: Egypt

59) Name the entity that has been selected as the ‘Person of the Year 2014’ by Time magazine: Ebola Fighters

60) Name the Sri Lanka President who visited India to offer prayers at the Lord Venkateswara temple in Andhra Pradesh: Mahinda Rajapaksa

61) Which Indian bank has launched two indices to track manufacturing activity and offer forward looking economic trends: State Bank of India

62) Which country has become the 181st member of Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA): Bhutan

63) As per the Web Index 2014 India has been placed at which rank in terms of internet's contribution to social, economic and political progress: 48th

64) Union government mopped up around 1715 crore

rupees with the sale of 5 percent stake recently in which of its PSU: Steel Authority of India Ltd.

65) Noted corporate personality Azim Premji has been awarded Swiss Ambassador's Award. He is chairman of which company: Wipro Ltd.

66) The Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) links Ludhiana in Punjab to __________ near Kolkata: Dankuni

67) India’s most prestigious Indian classical music function – The Tansen Sangeet Samaroh was held at which place: Gwalior, MP

68) INS Circars, the oldest naval establishment on the Eastern seaboard celebrated its Platinum Jubilee. It is located at which place: Visakhapatnam

69) Russian President Vladimir Putin visited India to attend which important meeting: 15th India-Russia annual summit

70) Who is Arunima Sinha, writer of the book “Born Again on the Mountain”: First Indian female amputee to climb Mount Everest

71) The World Diamond Congress was held at which place in India: New Delhi

72) The Druzhba – Dosti concept relates to strengthening of the bilateral partnership of India with which country: Russia

73) Name the book by Akhil Sharma that has been selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten Best Books of 2014: Family Life

74) In which country police forcefully ended the more than two month old street demonstration - Occupy Central: Hong Kong

75) The 14th Finance Commission submitted its report on December 11 to which authority: President of India

76) Who is the head of the 14th Finance Commission: Y V Reddy

77) What is the purpose of setting the finance commission: To decide the devolution of tax receipts from the Centre to the states

78) The recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission shall be applicable from ______ to 31st March, 2020: 1st April, 2015

79) To promote electronic payments, the Reserve Bank of India has increased the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) business hours to 12 hours from ________ to _____ on weekdays: 8 am, 8 pm

80) Name the recent international chess title won by Viswanathan Anand: London Classic

81) Name the indigenous nuclear-powered submarine that for the first time sailed out for sea-trials on Dec 16: INS Arihant

82) Name the beauty queen that has been selected as Miss World 2014: Rolene Strauss

83) Miss World 2014, Rolene Strauss is from which country: South Africa

84) National Energy Conservation Day is observed on which date: Dec 14

85) Who is the author of the book ‘In God’s Hands’: Desmond Tutu

86) Who is Desmond Tutu, winner of Templeton Prize:


Archbishop from South Africa 87) Name the new chief of the Intelligence Bureau:

Dineshwar Sharma 88) Who has been re-elected as the Prime Minister of

Japan: Shinzo Abe 89) Champions Trophy is related to which sports:

Hockey 90) Champions Trophy 2014 was won by which country:

Germany 91) Champions Trophy 2014 was held at which city in

India: Bhubaneswar 92) Confucius Peace Prize, also known as China's

version of the Nobel Prize, has been given to which person for 2014: Fidel Castro, Former Cuban leader

93) Vivek Murthy, the 37 year old Indian origin doctor in USA was in news for what reasons: He has been appointed Surgeon General of USA

94) Olof Palme Human Rights Prize is given in which country: Sweden

95) Nasa's Curiosity rover has recently detected methane on which planet: Mars

96) Government has approved the continuation of interest subvention for short-term crop loans up to Rs _______ to farmers: 3 lakh

97) Which state has won the Krishi Karman Award for the year 2013-14 for showing exemplary agri-performance in 14 different categories: Arunachal Pradesh

98) Which bank has launched its mobile banking application by the name ‘Bank Aapki Muththi Mein’: HDFC Bank

99) Name the heaviest ever rocket, weighing 630 tonnes launched by ISRO on Dec 18: GSLV Mark III

100) GSLV Mark III carried CARE as its payload which is an Indian-made unmanned crew module. What is full form of CARE: Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment

101) USA has announced a series of steps aimed at normalising relations with which country: Cuba

102) Name the two banks that have been fined recently by the RBI for violation of KYC norms: ICICI Bank and Bank of Baroda

103) Union Cabinet recently approved a constitutional amendment bill on which important tax issue: Goods and Services Tax

104) Name the super power whose economy is in deep trouble due to economic sanctions imposed on it and huge loss on account of steep fall in oil prices: Russia

105) Opening ceremony for the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup 2015 shall be held at which place: Melbourne, Australia

106) Tashi Malik and Nungshi Malik, the twin sisters from Dehradun were in news for what reasons: They completed scaling highest peaks

107) Name the beauty queen selected as the Miss Universal Peace & Humanity 2014: Ruhi Singh

108) Miss Universal Peace & Humanity 2014 contest was held at which place: Beirut, Lebanon

109) What is the name of the new Prime Minister of Mauritius: Anerood Jugnauth

110) Among the chief ministers serving currently, who is the Chief Minister with longest tenure of 20 years: Pawan Chamling

111) Pawan Chamling, who completed 20 years as Chief Minister on Dec 12. He is from which State: Sikkim

112) In India the record for longest tenure as Chief Minister, 23 years, 4 months is held by which person: Jyoti Basu

113) Chunibhai Vaidya, a veteran Gandhian and freedom fighter passed away recently. He is from which state: Gujarat

114) Rajinder Khanna has been appointed head of which national intelligence agency: Research and Analysis Wing

115) Prakash Mishra has been appointed head of which paramilitary force: CRPF

116) The festival of Losar celebrated to mark the beginning of new year is observed at which place in India: Ladakh, J & K

117) Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas to be held from 7th to 9th January, 2015 will be which number in series: 13th

118) 13th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas will be held at which place: Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat

119) Which Indian cricketer has been named as the brand ambassador of ICC cricket world cup 2015: Sachin Tendulkar

120) Name the Indian golfer who won the Inaugural edition of Dubai Open Golf Championship title: Arjun Atwal

121) Name the winning team of the Indian Super League Football Championship: Atletico De Kolkata

122) Beji Caid Essebsi has been elected as President of which African Country: Tunisia

123) Which Indian State has decided to set up a Cultural University to promote its rich cultural heritage: Manipur

124) Klaus Iohannis has been elected as __________ of Romania: President

125) Govt. has decided to pay __ % interest on provident fund deposits of Employees Provident Fund Organisation: 8.75%

126) International Tennis Federation (ITF) has declared __________ as the men’s player of the year 2014: Novak Djokovic

127) _______ has been named as the women player of the year 2014 by International Tennis Federation: Serena Williams

128) The authorize capital of the Regional Rural Banks has been raised from Rs.5 crore at present to Rs. _______ crore: 2000

129) The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has advised that the new IFRS norms shall be applicable from April 1, 2015. What is the full form of IFRS: International Financial Reporting Standards

130) Recently RBI has released a new set of norms defining which type of borrowers: Non Cooperative Borrowers

131) Jyotsna Suri has recently been elected as President


of the prominent national trade body – FICCI. What is the full form of FICCI: Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry

132) Name the President of Bangla Desh who visited Kolkata recently: Abdul Hamid

133) Name the NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft which discovered a ‘super-Earth’ located 180 light-years from Earth: Kepler

134) As per a recent survey which are the two top culprits for highest global carbon-dioxide emissions from burning of fossil fuels: China and United States– 29 and 15 per cent

135) British Queen has honoured noted Pakistan-born poetess Imtiaz Dharker for her poetry collection ‘Over the Moon’ with which award: Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2014

136) Joe Cocker who died recently was a famous ________ from the Colorado, USA: Rock Singer

137) Name the Indian player who won silver medal at the 17th Asian Luge Championship: Shiva Keshavan

138) 58th National Shooting Championships was held in which place: Pune

139) Vinicius – the cat, has been declared as mascot for which international sports event: 2016 Rio Olympics

140) Name the European space mission spacecraft that has been declared as the most important scientific Breakthrough of the Year 2014: Rosetta

141) Bharat Ratna Award is given on recommendation of which authority: Prime Minister

142) The declaration for Bharat Ratna Award is made by which authority: President

143) Name the eminent South Indian filmmaker and Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner from Chennai who died recently: K. Balachander

144) The deadline for exchanging pre-2005 currency notes of various denominations, including 500 and 1,000 rupees, has been extended upto which date: June 30, 2015

145) The World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad at Gyor in Hungary was won by which country: India

146) For the first time, India exported an indigenously built war ship to which country: Mauritius

147) For the first time, India exported an indigenously built war ship to a foreign country. It was what type of ship: Offshore Patrol Vessel

148) Which online shopping portal has announced the launch of ‘Agri Store’, offering online products like seeds, fertilizer and irrigation tools etc.: Snapdeal.com

149) Name the new Chief Minister of Jharkhand: Raghubar Das

150) Govt. has launched which programme to cover all those children by 2020 who are either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated against seven vaccine preventable diseases: Mission Indradhnaush

151) Government has decided to set-up _______________to provide counseling to consumers in redressal of their grievances and assist them in registering their complaints in the

appropriate consumer forums: Grahak Suvidha Kendras (Consumer care centres)

152) Union Cabinet approved promulgation of the ordinance on Insurance Bill to raise foreign investment cap in the insurance sector from 26 to _________ per cent: 49

153) Union Cabinet opened the medical devices sector to foreign investment by allowing ______per cent FDI in these devices: 100

154) Which private sector bank has raised $200 million loan from Asian Development Bank for onward lending to small farm households and rural women self help groups (SHGs): Yes Bank

155) Name the head of the committee setup to examine the possibility of forming a Special Investigation Team for re investigation of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases: Justice G P Mathur

156) Who has been selected as one of the top ten scientists in 2014 chosen by the prestigious science journal of UK-Nature: Dr. K. Radhakrishnan

157) A new train - The Sushaasan (good governance) Express was launched on Dec 25, from which place to which place: Gwalior to Gonda

158) Ankita Raina won ITF singles tennis title becoming the first Indian to win this title in past 14 years. This match was played at which place: Pune

159) Name the cricketer who broke the world record for most number of stumpings in international cricket after he claimed his 134th victim: M S Dhoni

160) Which country has been assigned the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first half of 2015: Latvia

161) Which southeastern country suffered worst flooding in decades forcing some 1,18,000 people to flee to safer places: Malaysia

162) Name the wheeled version of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Nishant, recently tested by DRDO: Panchi

163) Name the mission that aims at creating an environment for producing high quality teachers: Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching

164) Which country recently successfully test fired its Angara-A5 rocket: Russia

165) Name the country that has decided to join North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Ukraine

166) Which Indian bowler has been banned by BCCI as his bowling action was found illegal: Pragyan Ojha

167) World Bank will lend Rs 475 crore ($75 million) to the ___________Government for implementing a rural growth project: Andhra Pradesh

168) The Reserve Bank released a charter of customer rights on Dec.3 that lays down ____________basic rights that bank customers enjoy: Five

169) Pragyan Ojha was banned as his bowling action was found illegal, flexing elbow beyond ___degrees: 15

170) Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching was launched on 25th December at which place: BHU, Varanasi


NOVEMBER – 2014 171) Julian Burnside, Human rights advocate and

barrister from Australia was honoured recently with which international prize: Sydney Peace Prize 2014

172) Sydney Peace Prize is awarded by which organization: Sydney University

173) Mithra Shakthi, the three weeks Joint military exercise was conducted between India and which other country: Sri Lanka

174) Mithra Shakthi military exercise was held at which place: Sri Lanka

175) What was the name of the 4th Joint anti terrorism military exercise held by Indian and Chinese forces: Hand in Hand 2014

176) The 4th Hand in Hand 2014 joint exercise of Indian and Chinese forces was held at which place: Pune

177) Which state aims at construction of 10 lakh toilets by 2018 to make the state completely free from open defecation: Karnataka

178) The Union Government has decided on 29th October, to relax FDI norms in the ____________sector, allowing 100 per cent of foreign funds in building projects: Constructions

179) Govt has fixed rupees _______ per quintal as the Minimum Support Price for wheat for 2014-15 season: 1450

180) Name the Indian cricketer who was inducted into the Bradman Hall of Fame on 5th October at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Australia: Sachin Tendulkar

181) Name the former Union Carbide chief, wanted in India in connection with the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, who passed away recently: Warren Anderson

182) Name the India’s ace shooter who became the first Indian to be elected as Chairman of International Shooting Sport Federation's (ISSF) Athletes Committee: Abhinav Bindra

183) Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani teenage rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner was in news for donating $50,000 for what purpose: To help rebuild UN schools in Gaza

184) Name the Mumbai Cinema actor, winner of two Filmfare awards who passed away in November: Sadashiv Amrapurkar

185) Duleep Trophy 2014 was won by which zone: Central Zone

186) Duleep Trophy is for which sports: Cricket 187) 43rd Handball National Championship (women’s) was

held at which place: Mastuana Sahib, Punjab 188) The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia

Flowers is the high level national civilian award of which country: Japan

189) Name the Indian dignitary who was honoured with The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers: Manmohan Singh

190) World Trade Center, New York was in news recently for what reasons: It has been re-constructed

and restarted 191) President Pranab Mukherjee recently visited which

neighbouring country of India: Bhutan 192) Recently a warship of Indian Navy sunk off the

Visakhapatnam coast during a naval exercise. What type of ship it was: Torpedo Recovery Vessel

193) The Central Government has allocated five thousand crore rupees under AYUSH Mission for what purpose: For promoting traditional methods of treatment in the country

194) Children's Film Society of India organised the first edition of the National Children's Film Festival from 14 to 16 Nov at which place: New Delhi

195) Paris-based think tank, OECD has projected 5.4 percent growth for the Indian economy this year. What is the full form of OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

196) Who is Dmitry Rogozin, who visited India to attend 20th session of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission: Deputy Prime Minister of Russia

197) In the Forbes list of the world's most powerful people for 2014, Mr. Modi has been placed at which rank: 15th

198) As per the Forbes list of the world's most powerful people for 2014, who has been placed at the top of the list: Vladimir Putin

199) Who has been appointed as the new Chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes: Anita Kapur

200) 54th National Open Athletics Championships held at which place: New Delhi

201) Who was adjudged the best female athlete in the 54th National Open Athletics Championships: Tintu Luka

202) Who was adjudged the best male athlete in the 54th National Open Athletics Championships: Ankit Sharma

203) Tintu Luka, winner of the best national athlete (female) is from which sport: Racing

204) Ankit Sharma, winner of the best national athlete (male) is from which sports: Long Jump

205) Name the India’s fast bowler who has won this year's ICC’s LG People's Choice Award: Bhuvneshwar Kumar

206) Name the batsman who became the quickest cricketer to reach 6,000 runs in ODIs: Virat Kohli

207) Virat Kohli achieved the landmark of 6,000 runs in ODIs playing against which country: Sri Lanka

208) The Indian Army’s team of eight Garhwalis won the rigorous endurance competition Cambrain Patrol in which country: Wales, UK

209) Name the region of Spain which is agitating for its separation from Spain: Catalonia

210) Name the village near Varanasi that has been adopted for development by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi under ‘Sansad Gram Yojna’: Jayapur

211) Laxmikant Parsekar has been appointed as the new Chief Minister of which state: Goa

212) What is the strike range of recently test fired ballistic missile Agni – II: 2,000 kms


213) Name the India’s first indigenous Light Combat Aircraft’s two-seater trainer jet: Tejas

214) Recently Germany observed silver jubilee of demolition of which historical monument: Berlin Wall

215) With which country India signed a MoU for promoting the Nalanda University in Bihar: Bhutan

216) In collaboration with which country India has developed the long-range surface-to-air missile (LR-SAM) system with a range of 70 kms: Israel

217) Who has been named as the most-powerful business woman in India by Fortune Magazine: Arundhati Bhattacharya

218) RBI has made it mandatory for banks to send SMS alerts for which type of transactions: Cheque Transactions

219) Where in India country’s longest access controlled six lane expressway is being developed: Uttar Pradesh

220) Country’s longest access controlled six lane expressway shall be connecting which two cities: Lucknow–Agra

221) Lipulekh Pass through which border trade worth over Rs 3 crore took place between India and China this year lies in which state: Uttarakhand

222) India has inked a USD 200 million loan agreement with the World Bank to finance the setting up of technology centres to help MSMEs enhance their productivity. What is full form of MSMEs: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

223) The 45th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) was held at which place: Goa

224) Which was the focus country for this year’s International Film Festival of India: China

225) Which Cine Star was honoured with Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of the Year at the 45th IFFI: Rajnikanth

226) Which two States have opened the bank accounts for all households in the state under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna (PMJDY): Kerala and Goa

227) 6th World Ayurveda Congress was held in which place: New Delhi

228) Durand Cup is related with which sports: Football 229) The 127th Durand Cup Championship was held at

which place: Goa 230) National Education Day is observed on which date:

November 11 231) Name the India’s first Education Minister in whose

honour National Education Day is observed on November 11: Maulana Abul Kalam

232) Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan has been launched for what purpose: To promote role of IITs/NITs in rural development

233) Name the portal launched to enable students for selecting the right college for their higher education: Know Your College

234) Govt. has launched SAMVAY to facilitate students to switch between education and jobs. The acronym SAMVAY stands for: Skill Assessment Matrix for Vocational Advancement of Youth

235) Name the two scholarship schemes launched for girls pursuing technical education at college level: Saksham and Pragati

236) ________ has been appointed Chairman of National Chemical Weapon Convention: G.S. Sandhu

237) National Cancer Awareness Day observed on which date: 7 November

238) At which place in India Suzlon Energy company installed the world’s tallest 120 meters high hybrid wind generator turbines: Kutch, Gujarat

239) As per recent reports from IMF, in October 2014, which country became the world’s largest economy in terms of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP): China

240) Name the country who has become the first European Union (EU) country to officially recognise the State of Palestine: Sweden

241) Public Service Broadcasting Day is observed on 12th November to commemorate the first and only visit of which celebrity to All India Radio: Mahatma Gandhi

242) Gandhian Philosophy and Public Service Broadcasting Award 2014 has been won by which radio station: Radio Kashmir, Jammu

243) Name the world number one Badminton player who has been suspended due to an apparent anti-doping regulation violation: Lee Chong Wei

244) What was the name of the first ever manmade mechanical device landed on a comet: Philae Probe

245) In the 10 day foreign visit of Prime Minister Modi in November, which was the first place visited by him: Nay Pyi Taw

246) How many members are there in the ASEAN group of nations: 10

247) Summit of ASEAN group of nations in November was held at which place: Nay Pyi Taw

248) Apart from 10 ASEAN countries, how many more countries are member of East Asian Summit: 8

249) ASEAN summit 2015 will be held in which country: Cambodia

250) While visiting Australia in November, Prime Minister Modi visited which city first of all: Brisbane

251) While visiting Australia in November, which was the last city visited by the Prime Minister Modi: Melbourne

252) What was the name of the venue in Sydney where Mr. Modi addressed Indian diaspora: Allphones Arena

253) At which place in Australia, Mr. Modi addressed the Australian Parliament: Canberra

254) Mr. Modi assured of life time visa to PIO and OCI card holders of Australia. What is the full form of PIO and OCI: Persons of Indian Origin; Overseas Citizens of India

255) Who is the constitutional head of Australia: British Monarch

256) __________ is the Prime Minister of Australia: Tony Abbott

257) __________ is the President of Myanmar: Thein Sein


258) Name the Oceanic Island country visited by Mr. Modi in November: Fiji

259) ___________ is the capital of Fiji: Suva 260) Govt. has notified BIS mark for 15 electronic

products, including mobile phones, power banks and LED lamps. BIS stands for: Bureau of Indian Standards

261) Which two countries have agreed on a timetable to limit emission of greenhouse gases — ending a 20-year discord between them: China and USA

262) The net own funds – NOF requirements for NBFCs has been raised from Rs.25 lakh at present to Rs._____ by March, 2016: One crore

263) As per a recent study, which city in India has the largest number (16.4 million) internet users: Mumbai

264) Who has been named as the captain of ICC ODI Team of the Year 2014: MS Dhoni

265) Who has been appointed as the new Union Financial Services Secretary (FSS): Hasmukh Adhia

266) Name the winner of 2014 World’s Children Prize: Malala Yousafzai

267) Name the Governor of South Caorlina state, USA who visited India recently: Nikki Haley

268) Name the Bollywood actor-director who became the first man in the history of “UN Women” to be appointed as its Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia: Farhan Akhtar

269) Rohit Sharma made history by scoring the highest individual score of 264 runs. He achieved this feet at which ground: Eden Garden Stadium, Kolkata

270) Gen. Dalbir Singh Suhag, Indian Army Chief was conferred the title of honorary rank of General by which country: Nepal

271) Name the veteran film director from Bollywood, famous for his tele serial – Mahabharat and movie – Baghban, who passed away recently: Ravi Chopra

272) The IPI India Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2014, was awarded jointly to which two publications: Hindustan Times and The Week

273) The Indian army recently test-fired the Prithvi-II missile. What is the name of its naval version: Dhanush

274) Name the cricketer who won the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Sir Garfield Sobers trophy for the Cricketer of the Year award for 2014: Mitchell Johnson

275) Mitchell Johnson, winner of the Cricketer of the Year award for 2014 is from which country: Australia

276) Name the cricketer who was voted the ODI player of 2014: AB de Villiers

277) AB de Villiers is the batsman of which country: South Africa

278) 68th Senior National Aquatic Championship was held at which place: Kolkata

279) Name the tennis star who won the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals on Nov 16 at London: Novak Djokovic

280) Name the state that has been chosen for union government’s Best State Award for Empowerment of Disabled for year 2014: Madhya Pradesh

281) Which country will host the 16 nation Football tournament Africa Cup of Nations 2015: Equatorial Guinea

282) The India Economic Summit, sponsored by the World Economic Forum was held at which city in India: New Delhi

283) Govt of India has relaxed Indian citizenship norms for Hindu and Sikh refugees from which two countries: Pakistan and Afghanistan

284) Union Ministry of Minorities Affairs launched the Maulana Azad National Academy for Skills (MANAS) to impart training to youths in which sector: Health and Security Sector

285) Which UN organisation released first ever ‘Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality - Household Fuel Combustion’ to promote use of clean fuels at household level: World Health Organisation

286) 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit was held in which place: Beijing

287) The 2015 G 20 summit will be hosted by which country: Turkey

288) The 2016 G 20 summit will be hosted by which country: China

289) To help in its efforts to crack down on suspected black money stashed abroad, India signed which agreement with Saint Kitts & Nevis: Tax Information Exchange Agreement

290) With which country India has reached an agreement on public stockpiling of food in terms of Bali Package: USA

291) Which UN organisation is the coordinator for the Trade Facilitation Agreement: WTO

292) International Buddhist Conference was held in which place: Lumbini, Nepal

293) Men's singles title of the China Open Super Series Premier (Badminton) was won by: K Srikanth

294) Women’s singles title of the China Open Super Series Premier (Badminton) was won by: Saina Nehwal

295) China Open Super Series Premier (Badminton) was held in which city: Fuzhou, China

296) RBI has asked banks to give liberal loans to landless farmers to meet the govt’s target of financing five lakh JLGs in 2014-15. JLG stands for what: Joint Liability Group

297) Which city in India has set up a kiosk that lets anyone file an FIR at any time, irrespective of where an incident took place: Bengaluru

298) The foreign investment promotion board (FIPB) has allowed which bank to increase foreign investment in the bank to 74 per cent: HDFC Bank


299) Which senior global leader left the G 20 summit under protest, before its conclusion: Vladimir Putin

300) Which country celebrated the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Velvet Revolution that toppled communism in 1989: Czech Republic

301) What is the name of the small savings instrument recently re-launched by the govt: Kisan Vikas Patra

302) What is the highest denomination in which the Kisan Vikas Patra will be available: Rs 50,000

303) What is the maturity period for the Kisan Vikas Patra: 100 months

304) Which major economy of the world shrank for the second consecutive quarter, slipping it into a technical recession: Japan

305) Klaus Warren Lohannis has been elected as President of which country: Romania

306) IIM- JRD Tata Award For Excellence In Corporate Leadership for 2014 has been won by which person: C S Verma, Chairman, SAIL

307) Indian cricket team won 5-match ODI series against Sri Lanka, winning all the five matches. This achievement is termed as _____: Whitewash

308) What is the objective of the National Bal Swachhta Mission: To improve over all cleanliness amongst school children

309) Which programme has been launched to assist girl students in preparing them for the IIT-JEE while studying in classes XI and XII: Udaan

310) Prasar Bharti announced to re-launch DD National with which new tagline: Desh Ka Apna Channel

311) Which country is worst affected by the terrorism as per the Global Terrorism Index 2014: Iraq

312) As per the Global Terrorism Index 2014, India is the ______ worst affected nation: 6th

313) Indian Air force tested its medium range surface-to-air anti-aircraft missile ______ with a strike range of 25 km: Akash

314) International Children’s Peace Prize – 2014 has been won by Neha Gupta. She is from which country: USA

315) 2015 IAAF World Athletics Championships will be hosted by which country: China

316) ______ quit as the Head Coach of the National Hockey team: Terry Walsh

317) 'Vape' has been chosen by Oxford Dictionaries as its international word of the year for 2014. What is the meaning of this word: Smoking electronic cigarette

318) Name the winner of BCCI’s C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for 2014: Dilip Vengsarkar

319) Name the winner of BCCI’s Polly Umrigar Award 2013-14 for being India’s best international cricketer of the year: Bhuvneshwar Kumar

320) A latest UN report says that, India has the world’s largest youth population-356 million. What is their age group: 10-24 years

321) The book “Truth Always Prevails” has been written by Sadruddin Hashwani. He is from which country: Pakistan

322) Sumitra Charat Ram Award is given in which field: Art and culture

323) Name the noted Japanese film actor who passed away recently: Ken Takakura

324) Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd (IREDA) and US Export-Import (Exim) Bank signed a MoU for what purpose: For cooperation on clean energy investment

325) Name the winner of Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2014: Indian Space Research Organisation – ISRO

326) 18th SAARC Summit was held in _____ on the 26th and 27th Nov: Kathmandu

327) What is the full form of the acronym SAARC: South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

328) Which major oil company in India won a Rs 18, 000 crore income tax order against it: Shell India

329) World Tour Golf Championship was held in which city: Dubai

330) UN World Toilet Day is observed on which date: Nov 19

331) World Women's Boxing Championships was held in which place: Jiju, South Korea

332) The Union Cabinet has approved "Integrated Power Development Scheme" for strengthening of distribution network of electricity in which area: Urban India

333) Name the bank that has been merged with the Kotak Mahindra Bank: ING Vysya Bank

334) Name the foreign dignitary who will be the Chief Guest at India's 2015 Republic Day celebrations: Barack Obama

335) The third South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women's Championship was held at which place: Islamabad, Pakistan

336) Name winner of the third South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women's Championship: India

337) Which Indian invention has been listed among the 25 best innovations of 2014 by the Time magazine: Mangalyaan

338) Which Indian zoo has become the first zoo in the world to house the critically endangered pig Pygmy Hog: Guwahati

339) UN Climate Change Summit 2014 was held in which city: New York

340) The United Nations has adopted the first-ever resolution calling on governments to stop which undesirable social practice: Child Marriage


341) Name the eminent Kathak danseuse, Padma sri awardee, who passed away recently: Sitara Devi

342) Name the grand master who won the World Chess Championship title defeating five-time champion Viswanathan Anand: Magnus Carlsen

343) Magnus Carlsen, world chess champion is from which country: Norway

344) Recent world chess championship was held at which place: Sochi, Russia

345) Murli Deora, the former union petroleum minister who passed away recently, was from which field: Politics

346) Name the British F1 champion who won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as well as the Formula 1 racing championship title of the year, becoming the first British to do so since 1971: Lewis Hamilton

347) Which country won the prestigious Davis Cup Tennis Title – 2014 for the first time: Switzerland

348) Name the player who won four gold medals in the Track Asia Cup Cycling Championship 2014 held at New Delhi: Ms Deborah

349) To Indian Christian priests were decorated with Sainthood by the Pope Francis II. This process is known as_______________: Canonisation

350) Finals of the World Kabaddi League were played in which city: Mohali, Punjab

351) Name the football player who became the all-time highest scorer in La Liga history by scoring 253 goals in first class football: Lionel Messi

352) Name the new Defence Minister of India: Manohar Parrikar

353) Who has been appointed as the new Union Railway Minister: Suresh Prabhu

354) Who is the new Information and Broadcasting Minister of India: Arun Jaitely

355) Name the football superstar who became the all-time highest scorer in La Liga history by scoring 253 goals: Lionel Messi

356) Which organisation has started a Delhi-Kathmandu bus service from Nov. 26: Delhi Transport Corporation

357) World’s longest rail journey, covering 10,000 kms has been started between which two cities: Yiwu China and Madrid, Spain

358) Name the book that won the 2014 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize: The Scatter Here is Too Great

359) Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Press Council of India: Justice C. K. Prasad

360) Name the U.S. Defense Secretary who was in news as he resigned from his post: Chuck Hagel

361) The SAARC summit that started in Kathmandu on 26 Nov, was _____ in the series: 18th

362) Who has been named as the new chairman of SAARC: Sushil Koirala

363) SAARC is a group of how many countries: 8

364) What is the theme of this year’s SAARC summit: 'Deeper Regional Integration for Peace and Prosperity'

365) First Commonwealth Science Congress was held in November 2014 at which place: Bengaluru

366) Who is the author of the book titled “The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years”: Pranab Mukherjee

367) The three organisations - World Toilet Organisation (WTO), WASTE and the Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health (FINISH) have joined hands for what purpose: To end open defecation in India

368) World Fisheries Day is observed on which date: Nov 21

369) Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC): Deepak Gupta

370) Which UN organisation released a report on the impact of global warming titled “Turn Down the Heat: Confronting the New Climate Normal”: World Bank

371) Nov 25 is observed as International Day for what purpose: Elimination of Violence Against Women

372) Name the fund launched by the Central Govt to build toilets in schools, rural and urban areas: 'Swachh Bharat Kosh'

373) As per the Global Slavery Index 2014, India is home to about ___ per cent of the people trapped in modern slavery: 40

374) The H5NI avian influenza virus is spread by which bird: Poultry birds

375) Name the country's oldest and largest foreign bank that recently opened its 100th branch in India: Standard Chartered Bank

376) The recent meeting of General Council of WTO was held at which place: Geneva

377) World AIDS Day is observed on which date: December 1

378) India observes December 16 as Vijay Diwas to commemorate which event: Victory in 1971 Indo-Pak war

OCTOBER – 2014 379) Fitch has projected that India's growth is expected

to accelerate to 5.6 per cent in the year 2014-15. What type of organization is Fitch: Rating Agency

380) Core sector growth for the month of August stood at 5.8 percent. How many industries are there in core sector: Eight

381) The Union Ministry of Culture is observing the year-long centenary commemoration of the historic Komagata Maru incident. What / who was Komagata Maru: Steamer Ship

382) The Komagata Maru incidents took place at which place in India: Budge Budge Port, Kolkata

383) The US govt has assured its support for


developing_________ smart cities in India: Three 384) Name the three proposed smart cities to be

developed with US assistance: Allahabad, Ajmer and Visakhapatnam

385) Who has been appointed as new Chairman of Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA): Hemant Contractor

386) RBI has directed banks to disallow _________ in the accounts where customers have not fulfilled KYC norms: Debits

387) What is the formal name of the cleanliness drive launched by the PM across India, on Gandhi Jayanti: Swachh Bharat Mission

388) _______ has been named as new Secretary General of NATO: Jens Stoltenberg

389) In a recent global ranking of universities, ________ secured top position in Indian universities: Panjab University

390) Name the Chief Executive of the world’s largest e-tailer _________who visited India to meet our Prime Minister: Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon.com

391) India has imposed anti-dumping duty on _________imported from the U.S. and Chinese Taipei to safeguard the interest of domestic manufacturers: Phenol

392) ATP China open tennis cup 2014 was held at which place: Beijing

393) _________ won the Men’s singles trophy at ATP China open tennis cup 2014: Novak Djokovic

394) Novak Djokovic is from which country: Serbia 395) _________ won the Women’s singles trophy at ATP

China open tennis cup 2014: Maria Sharapova 396) Maria Sharapova is from which country: Russia 397) Martin Perl, Nobel Prize-winning physicist from USA

was in news for what reasons: He passed away 398) Which country has test fired a new variant of its

10,000 km range missile - Dongfeng-31B: China 399) At which place in the world, students are leading a

prodemocracy protest – “occupy central”: Hong Kong

400) In which part of the world a mass public protest is going on nick named as ‘umbrella revolution’: Hong Kong

401) Name the Indian-American professor from USA honoured with National Medal of Science: Thomas Kailath

402) Which country secured highest number of medals in 17th Asian Games: China, 342

403) India was placed at 8th rank in the 17th Asian Games, securing ________medals: 57

404) Indian sportspersons won _______ gold medals in the 17th Asian Games: 11

405) Indian sportspersons won _______ silver medals in the 17th Asian Games: 10

406) _________ , the Japanese swimmer, was named as the “Most Valuable Player” of the 17th Asian Games: Kosuke Hagino

407) The 18th Asian Games will be held in 2018 in_________, Indonesia: Jakarta

408) ___________became the first Indian woman boxer

to clinch a gold medal at the Asian Games: MC Mary Kom

409) Indian won the hockey gold medal at Asian Games by beating which country: Pakistan

410) In which sports India won gold medal in both Men’s and Women’s category: Kabaddi

411) Name the Indian film celebrity who was honoured with Global Diversity Award 2014: Shah Rukh Khan

412) The Global Diversity Award is given by which organization: British Parliament

413) Name the proposed central govt. programme that aims at bringing all Indians under health insurance cover: Universal Health Assurance Mission

414) Name the winner of Champions League Twenty 20, 2014: Chennai Super Kings

415) Country’s first olive oil refinery has been started in which State: Rajasthan

416) What was the name of the first address of the Prime Minister over radio broadcasted recently: Mann Ki Baat

417) Name the social networking site that was closed recently by Google: Orkut

418) Which metro service in India has been ranked second among 18 international Metro systems: Delhi Metro

419) What is the name of the recently launched sedan car by Maruti Suzuki: Ciaz

420) Strong typhoon Phanfone slammed into which country, with winds of up to 180 kmph: Japan

421) Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award is given for excellence in which field: Public Administration, Academics and Management

422) Dr A Sivathanu Pillai, winner of this year’s Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award is head of which national organisation: BrahMos Aerospace.

423) M.V. Kamath, former Prasar Bharati Chairman, Padmasri awardee from Karnataka, passed away recently. He was from which field: Journalism

424) _______ would become the first state in India to have high-speed internet connecting all the panchayats in the state by March next year: Kerala

425) John O’Keefe of USA, May-Britt & Edward Moser of Norway won the Nobel Prize 2014 for which field: Medicine

426) Nobel Prize 2014 for Physics has been won by three scientists from which country: Japan

427) Eric Betzig, William Moerner and Stefan Hell won the Nobel Prize 2014 in which field: Chemistry

428) Patrick Modiano, winner of Nobel Prize for literature, is from which country: France

429) Name the joint winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize: Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi

430) Name the economist who won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics: Jean Tirole, France

431) Union Government has decided to sell ______bulbs to households at 10 rupees against the market price of 400 rupees: LED

432) The first-ever Offshore Wind Power Project in India is to be setup at which place: Along the Gujarat


coast 433) What is the objective of the proposed “Sardar Patel

Urban Housing Mission”: Housing for all by 2022 and a ‘slum free India’

434) Name the Japan’s gymnast who won his fifth straight all-around world title to become the only gymnast to win more than three World all-around titles: Kohei Uchimura

435) Name the super cyclone that caused wide spread devastation in the coastal part of Andhra Pradesh: Hudhud

436) Name the city which suffered maximum damage from the super cyclone Hudhud: Visakhapatnam

437) The name Hudhud has been derived from which object: National bird of Israel

438) Waislitz Global Citizen Award 2014, won by ___________ for his work in founding Humanure Power in Bihar in 2011 that builds community sanitation facilities in rural India: Anoop Jain

439) In which athletics event Indian women’s team won gold in 17th Asian Games: 4x400 relay race

440) In which sports Seema Punia won the only gold medal in athletics for India in the 17th Asian Games: Discuss Throw

441) What is the objective of the recently launched “Swachhta Udyami Yojana - Swachhta Se Sampannta Ki Aur”: To provide financial assistance to Safai Karamcharis

442) Name the single premium pension policy for senior citizens launched for a limited period of one year, from 15-08-2014 to 14-08-2015: Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana

443) Leela Samson was in news as she resigned from the post of Chairperson of Sangeet Natak Akademi. She is from which field: Eminent Bharatnatyam dancer

444) Name the plan that has been launched to promote model villages by each and every MP: Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana

445) The village selected under Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana should have a population of ______in plain areas and _____in hilly, tribal and difficult areas. 3000-5000; 1000-3000

446) RBI has restricted free non-home ATM transactions to three in how many metro cities: Six

447) RBI has allowed how many free non-home ATM transactions to metro users in non-metro centres: Two

448) CEO of which international social networking site recently met Indian Prime Minister in New Delhi: Facebook

449) Shanghai Rolex Masters is related to which field of sports: Tennis

450) _________ won the Shanghai Rolex Master- 2014 championship: Roger Federer

451) Which Indian state has launched a health card scheme to protect grand old trees in public places: Kerala

452) Indian super league that was launched on 12th Oct. in Kolkata is for which sports: Football

453) Name the famous Ghazal and Thumri singer whose birth centenary is being celebrated in India: Begum Akhtar

454) President of India recently visited which two Scandinavian countries: Norway and Finland

455) Name the India’s research station located in the middle of North Pole and Norway: Himadri

456) With which country India recently signed an agreement for nuclear cooperation: Finland

457) In which country a 400 kms long railway line reconstructed with Indian assistance, was inaugurated recently: Sri Lanka

458) Khaled Bahah has been elected as ______ of Yemen: Prime Minister

459) Which state govt. has decided to provide free treatment to every cancer patient in the state: Kerala

460) As per the Global Hunger Index 2014, India has been ranked at ______ place: 55th

461) Name the India’s largest real estate company that was recently barred for three years by SEBI: DLF

462) World's largest online retailer Amazon.com has tied up with which Indian retailer giant to jointly sell goods over the Internet: Future Group

463) India’s largest listed retailer, Future Group is known for which brand name: Big Bazaar

464) The 4th Sultan Johor Cup is related to which sports: Hockey

465) The 4th Sultan Johor Cup was held in which country: Malaysia

466) Name the country which won the 4th Sultan Johor Cup: India

467) 35th Senior National Archery Championship held in New Delhi, was won by which state: Punjab

468) Shakti Devi, an Indian police inspector won international Female Police Peacekeeper Award 2014 for her work in which country: Afghanistan

469) 18 year old young boy from Hong Kong – Joshua Wong was in news for what reasons: He is the leader of the pro democracy youth movement in Hong Kong

470) 2014 Man Booker Prize for Literature has been won by which author: Richard Flanagan

471) Richard Flanagan, winner of Man Booker Prize is from which country: Australia

472) Name the book by Richard Flanagan that won him the Man Booker Prize: The Narrow Road to the Deep North

473) Which Indian Sports Person was chosen as the ‘Most Valuable Player’ of India at the recent Incheon Asian Games: MC Mary Com

474) Name the noted Bollywood lyricist who won the National Kishore Kumar Award: Sameer

475) Name the world famous fictitious character, very popular amongst children whom Indian President met recently in Norway: Santa Claus

476) ISRO launched its third navigation satellite named______on board its PSLV-C26 rocket from Sriharikota: IRNSS 1C

477) The government has made it mandatory for tobacco


companies to carry health warnings covering at least _______ of the surface of cigarette packets: 85%

478) Name the project launched by the central govt. that aims at creating a conducive environment for industrial development and doing business with ease: Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate Karyakram

479) Shramev Jayate Karyakram has been promoted by which Union Ministry: Labour Ministry

480) Govt. plans to allot Labour Identification Number - LIN to whom for simplifying business regulations and securing transparency and accountability in labour inspections: Industrial Units

481) Name the Unified Labour Portal launched to facilitate "Labour Inspection Scheme," which aims at ending arbitrariness in the inspection: Shram Suvidha

482) Under ________ Yojana govt will reimburse 50 per cent of the stipend paid to apprentices during first two years of their training: Apprentice Protsahan

483) Govt. plans to allot Universal Account Number to which category of workers: Members of Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO)

484) Name the India’s largest domestic airline by market share that has signed a deal to buy 250 latest Airbus A-320 neo aircrafts: IndiGo

485) Name the international financial magazine that awarded “Central Bank Governor of the Year Award 2014” to Mr. Raghuram Rajan: Euromoney, UK

486) Who has been appointed as the new Chief Economic Adviser to the Union Government: Arvind Subramanian

487) Rajiv Mehrishi has been appointed to which important position: Union Finance Secretary

488) Name the Australian cricketer who created history by scoring 341 runs in limited over match: James Tull

489) Name the Indian nuclear-capable cruise missile tested successfully recently: Nirbhay

490) How many new non permanent members were elected recently to the UN Security Council: Five

491) Union government plans to set up a mega handicraft cluster in_______, Gujarat to promote handicraft items and craft based textiles: Kachch

492) ____________ has become number one state in the field of organic farming producing about five lakh metric ton of farm products: Madhya Pradesh

493) Government has decided to import ______for the first time to augment domestic availability and to check its rising prices: Potatoes

494) Which bank has won the IDRBT Banking Technology Excellence award for 2013-14: Federal Bank

495) The Reserve Bank has signed a pact with Central Bank of _________ for exchange of information and supervisory cooperation: Kenya

496) Which country has agreed to sign commercial contracts for supply of uranium for Indian nuclear reactors: Canada

497) Which Bank has launched an instant bank payment

product – KayPay for Facebook users to send money to each other in an instant: Kotak Mahindra Bank

498) Cricket players of which country refused to play in India due to a pay dispute with their cricket board: West Indies

499) Union Cabinet has decided to completely deregulate the prices of which product to link its prices to the market forces: Diesel

500) The government has launched a new methodology —National Air Quality Index (AQI) for what purpose: To create awareness about the quality of air and its likely health impact

501) The recently launched National Air Quality Index will categorize air quality into how many categories: Six

502) World Junior Chess title 2014 was held at which place in India: Pune

503) Central govt has advised all states, union territories and Central Armed Police Forces to recruit ___ per cent women in their ranks: 33

504) A five year old Indian boy Harshit Saumitra was in news for what achievement: For climbing up the Everest Base Camp

505) India and _____ have agreed to set up hotlines between their army headquarters: China

506) Which African country has recently been successful in controlling the spread of deadly Ebola virus: Nigeria

507) Which state has launched the Farmers Empowerment Corporation to provide agricultural debt redemption to farmers: Andhra Pradesh

508) Who has been elected as the new Chief Minister of Haryana: Manohar Lal Khattar

509) Name the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis

510) India has been re-elected as member of which important UN organization: UN Human Rights Council

511) The Union Government has decided to commemorate October 31 - birth anniversary of which National Leader as “National Integration Day”- Rashtriya Ekta Diwas: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

512) India and ________ signed a MoU for cooperation in space and work together in the areas of remote sensing and satellite communication: Mexico

513) Jagdish Sharan Pande who passed away recently was a noted ________ from Uttarakhand: Freedom Fighter

514) Name the Indian boxer who was suspended by the International Boxing Association for protesting against a controversial verdict at 2014 Incheon Asian Games: Sarita Devi

515) Wildscreen Panda Award is given in which field: Wildlife Photography

516) Name the Indian cueist who won World Billiards Championships in both – point and time formats at Leeds, United Kingdom: Pankaj Advani

517) Union Government launched Jammu Kashmir Arogya Gram Yojna for what purpose: To promote cultivation of the aromatic and medicinal


plants 518) India and ______ have signed a Power Trade

Agreement to promote cooperation in the field of production and transmission of electricity: Nepal

519) India has signed the __________Convention on Mercury to control and reduce emissions from the power plants: Minamata

520) ___________ won the WTA Finals cup of tennis at Singapore: Serena Williams

521) Name the Indian golfer who won the Venetian Macau Open Golf Cup 2014: Anirban Lahiri

522) Which country withdrew its last forces from Afghanistan, after serving there for 13 years: Britain

523) Recently a big crude oil discovery was made in the Cambay basin by a private oil company. It is in which state: Gujarat

524) Name the Prime Minister of Vietnam who recently visited India: Nguyen Tan Dung

525) 25th ASEAN Summit will be held on Nov 12-13 at_____________ Myanmar: Nay Pyi Taw

526) Dilma Rousseff has been re-elected as the President of which country: Brazil

527) What is the name of the international infrastructure development bank that China and 20 other countries plan to establishes: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

528) Which bank has launched an electronic application ‘mPassBook’ for its savings and current accounts: State Bank of India

529) A World Bank report says that India’s GDP is likely to expand by ________per cent this fiscal as reforms gain momentum: 5.6

530) Name the world's tallest statue (182 mts) of India's first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel proposed in Gujarat: Statue of Unity

531) Sharath Gayakwad, who made history at the Asian Para-Games in Incheon by winning six medals, is from which sports: Swimming

532) What is the domain name of the Adhaar based Biometric Attendance system launched by central govt. for its employees: attendance.gov.in

533) Who has been appointed as the chairman of Prasaar Bharati Board: Dr. A Surya Prakash

534) In the Gender Gap Index 2014, India has been placed at ____rank in a list of 142 countries: 114th

535) World Bank’s “Ease of Doing Business” report places India at _______ rank among 189 countries surveyed by it: 142nd

536) ________tops the list for the most equitable sharing of resources among men and women as per Gender Gap Index 2014: Iceland

537) In terms of ‘Ease of Doing Business’, _________ stands at no. 1 in the world: Singapore

538) Which organization compiles the Gender Gap Index report annually: World Economic Form

539) In the recently released Global Innovation Index 2014, India has been placed at which rank: 76th

SEPTEMBER – 2014 540) Padma Bhushan awardee Bipan Chandra was a

authority on economic and political ______ of India: History

541) Sathiraju Lakshminarayana, Veteran Telugu film director, artist and cartoonist who passed away recently, was popularly known as ________: Bapu

542) Name the eminent jurist who has been appointed Governor of Kerala: P. Sathasivam

543) BWF World Badminton Championship was held at which place: Copenhagen, Denmark

544) Chen Long who won the men’s singles title at BWF World Badminton Championship, is from which country: China

545) Women’s singles title at BWF World Badminton Championship was won by_______: Carolina Marin

546) Name the badminton player of India who won the bronze medal in women’s single title at BWF World Badminton Championships: PV Sindhu

547) The famous international Nalanda University has been established at which place: Rajgir, Bihar

548) Who is the chairman of the governing body of the Nalanda University: Prof. Amartya Sen

549) Prof. Amartya Sen is an eminent scholar of which field: Economics

550) Nabard has initiated a project on Core Banking Solutions - CBS for which type of banks: Cooperative Banks

551) Name the legendary Telugu actor who passed away in January 2014: Akkineni Nageswara Rao

552) For what reasons Akkineni Nageswara Rao, legendary Telugu actor was in news recently: U.S. Post Service has issued a stamp in his honour

553) ‘Odyssey of My Life’ is the autobiography of which prominent political figure: Shivraj Patil

554) Japan has promised to provide all possible support to introduce the bullet train, along the Ahmedabad-Mumbai route. What is its Japanese name: Shinkansen

555) With which Japanese city India has signed a partnership agreement for development of Varanasi: Kyoto

556) What is the popular nick name for the Japanese city Kyoto: City of Thousand shrines

557) Prime minister of India recently visited Japan to meet _________, Prime Minister of Japan: Shinzo Abe

558) The parliament of Japan is named as ______: Diet 559) Name the world champion iconic sprinter who

recently visited India: Usain Bolt 560) Govt has setup Prof. B. N. Goldar committee for

what purpose: To develop the Producer Price Index

561) Which committee has been setup by the govt. to develop a new inflation index- Producer Price Index to replace Wholesale Price Index: B. N. Goldar


Committee 562) What is the purpose of Producer Price Index: To

measure inflation 563) The proposed Producer Price Index aims to replace

which existing index: Whole Sale Price Index 564) What is the most prominent feature of the proposed

Producer Price Index: To cover services sector also

565) Name the former Attorney-General of India who passed away recently: G. E. Vahanvati

566) Name the new generation Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel that has joined Indian Navy recently: INS Sumitra

567) Which country has unveiled a new surface-to-air missile - Talash-3: Iran

568) What is the name of the autobiography of the Sachin Tendulkar: Playing It My Way

569) In terms of global competitiveness, India ranks ________ in world: 71st

570) ____________ is the number one country in the world in terms of global competiveness: Switzerland

571) Name the South African fast bowler, oldest surviving Test cricketer who passed away recently at the age of 103 years: Norman Gordon

572) What is the special thing about Yashwardhan Shukla, author of the book ‘Gods of Antractica’: He is 13 year old school boy

573) The Chabad House in Mumbai that reopened nearly six years after the 26/11 terror attack in November 2008 is a sacred ___________ of the Jews: Synagogue

574) Justice H.L. Dattu is the _______Chief Justice of India: 42nd

575) The historical Omari Mosque that was destroyed in the recent Israel-Gaza conflict, was in which country: Gaza

576) With which country India has signed a Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) to ensure zero border killings: Bangladesh

577) Recently President released a set of eight commemorative postage stamps on great Indian_________: Musicians

578) National Nutrition Week is celebrated every year from ______September to the ______September: 1st, 7th

579) What is the theme of the National Nutrition Week 2014: Poshak Ahaar, Desh Ka Adhaar

580) Who is the head of the committee setup to examine the un-claimed amount in PPF, Post Office and Savings Schemes: HR Khan

581) Name the Australian Prime Minister who came to India on a two day visit: Tony Abbott

582) Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh has announced that _______ will be the new capital of Andhra Pradesh: Vijayawada

583) MS Dhoni has become the most successful Indian ODI captain with ________ wins to his career: 91

584) Joan Rivers, 81-year-old noted lady comedian and TV host who passed away recently was from which country: United State of America

585) India signed a landmark civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Australia on 5th September to ensure supply of ________ for peaceful purposes: Uranium

586) Prime Minister of which country recently returned two precious ancient idols of Hindu deities to India which were allegedly stolen from temples in Tamil Nadu: Australia

587) The Supreme Court has directed that all ________ prisoners who have been in the prison for a period more than half of the jail term prescribed for the offences they had been arrested, should be released on bail immediately: Under trial

588) According to recent data from CSO, ____________outpaced all the major states to top the economic growth charts with a scorching 11 per cent growth in 2013-14: Madhya Pradesh

589) In the recent rescue operations in J & K, hundreds of NDRF personnel worked round the clock to rescue thousands of marooned persons. What is the full form of NDRF: National Disaster Relief Force

590) Which major river of J & K caused heavy damage due to floods in the State: Jhelum

591) What is the name of the award for best film at the Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion

592) Name the Swedish film directed by Roy Anderson that won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch While Reflecting on Existence

593) Name the film directed by Indian writer-director Chaitanya Tamhane that won award for best debut feature film at the Venice Film Festival: Court

594) Name the tennis star who won men’s single titles at the US open tennis: Marin Cilic

595) Marin Cilic, winner of US open 2014 is from which country: Croatia

596) Name the first ever male Asian player to play in the finals of US Open Lawn Tennis Championship: Kei Nishnikori

597) Marin Cilic defeated Japan's ________to win men’s singles title at US open: Kei Nishikori

598) Women’s singles title at the US open tennis championship was won by_________: Serena Williams

599) Sania Mirza won which title at the US open tennis championship: Mixed doubles

600) Midori Prize in Biodiversity is given in which country: Japan

601) Midori Prize in Biodiversity is given for what purpose: For outstanding contributions to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity

602) Which Indian scientist and ecologist has won Midori Prize in Biodiversity for his research on climate change in the Himalayas: Kamal Bawa


603) Name the author of the book ‘The Lives of Others’: Neel Mukherjee

604) The book ‘The Lives of Others’ by Neel Mukherjee was in news for what reasons: it has been shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize 2014

605) Booker prize for literature are given in which country: England

606) RBI has fixed _______years as the upper age limit for managing directors (MDs) and chief executive officers (CEOs) and other whole-time director of banks in the private sector: 70

607) Which Union Minister recently visited Afghanistan to meet President and to review key projects there: Sushma Swaraj

608) India has signed the _________ (FTA) in services and investments with 10 ASEAN countries: Free Trade Agreement

609) Which country launched two satellites - Yaogan-21 and Tiantuo-1 to relay information on natural resources, disaster management: China

610) With which neighbouring country India signed a MoU on cooperation in the field of traditional systems of medicine and homeopathy: Bangladesh

611) China has assured cooperation for setting up a automobile manufacturing industrial park at which place in India: Pune

612) Under which Indian law, Govt. of India is the sole authority to print Rupee one currency note: Coinage Act, 2011

613) RBI is authorized to issue currency notes upto which highest denomination:10,000

614) Govt. of India is empowered to issue coins upto which highest denomination: Rs. 1,000

615) Who has been appointed as head of the Expenditure Management Commission: Bimal Jalan

616) What is the purpose of setting up of Expenditure Management Commission: for suggesting ways to improve fiscal discipline

617) ‘Pehli Udaan’ and ‘Pehal Kadam’ are the names for which item: Savings account for minors

618) Which bank has started savings account for minors by the name ‘Pehli Udaan’ and ‘Pehal Kadam’: State Bank of India

619) Which bank has started cardless cash withdrawal facility from its ATMs: ICICI Bank

620) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the sale of stakes in how many PSUs: Three – ONGC, NHPC and CIL

621) 60th National School Games in six sporting disciplines will be held in November in which State: Punjab

622) DRDO successfully test-fired indigenously developed Agni-I - nuclear-capable missile recently. It is what type of missile: Surface-To-Surface

623) India’s first coral garden is proposed to be developed in which State: Gujarat

624) Which public sector bank has declared the Kingfisher

Airlines as the ‘willful defaulter’: United Bank of India

625) Which State has launched the renovation and beautification work of the birthplace of famous author, journalist and critic George Orwell: Bihar

626) Bhartendu Harishchandra Awards are given by Union Ministry for Information & Broadcasting for what purpose: For original writing in Hindi Indian authors on subjects like Journalism and Mass Communication, National Integration, Women’s Issues and Children’s Literature

627) Govt has launched the Reefer Vehicle Call-in-Centre (RVC) for what purpose: For smooth transportation of perishable goods

628) Name the prominent Bangladeshi Nazrul Sangeet singer who passed away recently: Firoza Begum

629) Who is India’s noted snooker and billiards champion to announce his retirement from the professional snooker: Pankaj Advani

630) With which country India has signed an agreement for cooperation in the field of skill development, solid waste management and cleaning of rivers: Germany

631) Scientists have warned that millions of lives could be at risk because of the threat to food crops in ‘Fertile Crescent’. Where is this area: Middle East Asia

632) H. Devraj Committee has been setup for what purpose: To examine working of 'C' category deemed universities

633) Which State has declared 9 September as Himalaya Diwas to spread the message of conservation of the Himalayan ecosystems: Uttarakhand

634) Saakshar Bharat Awards are given on which date: Sep. 8 International Literacy Day

635) Saakshar Bharat Awards are given for what purpose: For the best performance in the field of adult education

636) Saakshar Bharat Awards are given by which Union Ministry: Human Resource Development

637) North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Summit 2014 was held in which place: Wales, U.K.

638) ‘Wales Resolution’ is the name given to the resolutions adopted at the recent summit of which international organization: NATO

639) Chitresh Tatha, a 12 year old boy is representing India at the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon, South Korea in which sports: Optimist Dinghy Race

640) General elections for electing Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) have been declared for how many states: Two (Haryana and Maharashtra)

641) Davis Cup Commitment Award is given for which category of Tennis player: Those who have competed in at least 20 ties

642) Name the winner of the Davis Cup Commitment award 2014: Rohan Bopanna

643) Country’s first 'Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve' (CDBR) is to be developed in which place: Spiti in


Himachal Pradesh 644) President Pranab Mukherjee made a four-day state

visit to Vietnam and met his counterpart __________: Truong Tan Sang

645) What is the currency of Vietnam: Dong 646) _______ is the capital of Vietnam: Hanoi 647) Which public sector organization is celebrating 55

years of its service: Doordarshan 648) First experimental centre of Doordarshan was

established at which place: Delhi 649) Indonesian Masters Grand Prix Gold championship is

for which sports: Badminton 650) The Indonesian Masters Grand Prix Gold

championship – 2014 was held at which place: Palembang, Indonesia

651) Name the winner of the Indonesian Masters Grand Prix Gold championship – 2014: S Prannoy, India

652) FILA Senior World Wrestling Championship held in_________, Uzbekistan: Tashkent

653) Name the eminent scientist who has been named to head an expert panel to recommend best technologies for the "Swachh Bharat Abhiyan”: R A Mashelkar

654) Which country is helping India to set up 10 centres of excellence to raise agriculture output and introduce modern farm technologies: Netherlands

655) Indian Highways Management Company Limited (IHMCL) has inked a pact with ___________ for services related to electronic toll collection: Axis Bank and ICICI Bank

656) Which committee recommended idea of universal bank accounts that is bank account for every individual: Nachiket Mor

657) Name the China’s President who recently visited India: Xi Jinping

658) On which railway corridor China has assured technological support for achieving speed of 160 kmph: Chennai – Bangalore – Mysore

659) Which Chinese city has signed a “sister city” agreement with Ahmedabad: Guangzhou

660) China has agreed to opening of a new route to Kailash Mansarovar via _________ in Sikkim: Nathu La

661) Which type of power projects are categorized as Ultra Megha Power Project: Which generate more than 4000 MW or above electricity

662) Guangdong province of China has agreed to become partner in cultural and social ties with which State of India: Gujarat

663) What is the name of currency of China: Renminbi (Yuan)

664) _______ is the capital of China: Beijing 665) The world’s highest and toughest marathon held at

3,524 meter (11,562 feet) altitude is held at which place: Leh, J & K

666) Who has been appointed as the new Chairperson of the National Commission for Women: Lalitha Kumaramangalam

667) Who has been appointed Chairman, Quality Council of India: Adil Zainulbhai

668) Manoj Kumar a 2010 CWG boxing gold-medalist was in news for what reasons: He has been given Arjun Award on Delhi High Court orders

669) 51st Shooting World Championship was held at which place: Granada, Spain

670) 20th Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships was held at_______ : Mumbai

671) A joint 14 days military exercise between the armed forces of America and India was held at which place: Ranikhet in Almora district of Uttrakhand

672) What is the name given to the Joint Army Exercise between armed forces of American and India being held at Ranikhet, Uttarakhand: Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2014

673) Govt. has launched India Newborn Action Plan for what purpose: To achieve the single digit neonatal mortality and stillbirth rate by 2030

674) The 45th IFFI will be held from 20 to 30 November, 20 14 at which place: Goa

675) IFFI stands for: International Film Festival of India

676) Which city has been declared as the permanent venue for the International Film Festival of India (IFFI): Goa

677) Who has been appointed as new ambassador of China in India: Le Yucheng

678) Name the Indo-American appointed by USA as its next ambassador to India: Richard Rahul Verma

679) And then One Day: A Memoir is the autobiography of which noted film artist: Naseeruddin Shah

680) The FIBA Basketball World Cup 2014 was won by which country: USA

681) The FIBA Basketball World Cup 2014 was held at which place: Madrid, Spain

682) The Supreme Court has directed Central Government to ensure ______ percent quota for disabled persons in all government jobs, including IAS and promotions: Three

683) Players of which sports have recently been allowed to wear religious head coverings, such as hijabs or turbans by Sikhs, on a trial basis: Basketball

684) Sportspersons of which game have now been allowed to participate in Asian Games under Indian flag: Boxing

685) The Asian games been held in Incheon, South Korea are which number in series: 17th

686) Name the sports person who was the flag bearer of the Indian contingent in the Asian Games: Sardara Singh

687) Who is Sardara Singh, the flag bearer of the Indian contingent in the Asian Games: Captain of Indian Hockey Team

688) Mandolin U. Shrinivas, eminent Carnatic music exponent from Andhra Pradesh who passed away recently was famous for what reasons: His expert use of mandolin, a western instrument, in


Carnatic music 689) Name the international NGO that has agreed to

promote user friendly toilets to improve sanitation system in India under Swachchh Bharat Mission: Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation

690) All India Radio has started free SMS service to provide news in how many languages: Five

691) Recognising the importance of Prime Minister Modi’s visit to USA, the US Senate has designated September 30 as ________ day: US-India Partnership Day

692) Which country voted in a referendum to continue with UK: Scotland

693) The United Kingdom is a union of how many countries: Four

694) Which are the four countries comprising the United Kingdom: England, Scotland, North Ireland and Wales

695) Alok Shetty the 28 year old has been named ‘Young Leader of Tomorrow’ by Time magazine for his pioneering work in designing affordable flood-proof houses for slum dwellers. He is from which field: Architecture

696) Name the India’s pistol-shooter who won India's first gold in the 50m event at Asian Games: Jitu Rai

697) Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim Bank) and China Development Bank Corporation have signed agreements with which Indian banks to facilitate trade between the two countries: SBI, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank

698) Name the bank which accounted for half of the total number of banking transactions done through mobile phone in June,2014: State Bank of India

699) Who is Jack Ma, whose company recently created the world record for largest IPO, amassing around $25 billion from the investors: Chinese founder and promoter of world’s largest online shopping portal – Alibaba

700) John Key has been elected as new Prime Minister of which country: New Zealand

701) Name the World Chess Championship recently won by Viswanathan Anand: Bilbao Chess Masters

702) Bilbao Chess Masters Finals were held at which place: Bilbao, Spain

703) Summer Youth Olympic Games 2014 were held at which place: Nanjing, China

704) Ashraf Ghani has been appointed new President of which country: Afghanistan

705) Sania Mirza recently won the women’s double title in which championship at Tokyo, Japan: WTA Toray Pacific Open

706) U N summit on climate change was held at which place: New York, USA

707) India’s first National Academy of Athletics has been established at which place: Kariavattom near Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

708) Apart from India, how many other international space agencies have been successful in sending a

spacecraft Mars: Three 709) Which Indian film has been selected as India’s entry

for the Oscar Awards in the foreign film category: Liar’s Dice

710) RBI has formed G Gopalakrishna Committee to give recommendations on which matter: Capacity building in banks and streamlining training intervention

711) __________ appointed as the head coach of the Sri Lankan cricket team: Marvan Atapattu

712) Which city shall be hosting ICC World Cricket League Division 3: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

713) Noted Hindi novelist Govind Mishra has been honoured with which prize: Saraswati Samman

714) What is the title of the book by Govind Mishra for which he has been awarded Sarswati Samman: Dhool Paudhon Par

715) Which international Chinese tennis star has announced her retirement from the sports: Li Na

716) Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana has been launched for what purpose: To impart skills to rural and urban poor

717) What is the new name for Aajeevika Skills Programme aimed at providing skill development to Rural Youth: Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gramin Kaushalya Yojana

718) Under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gramin Kaushalya Yojana the minimum entry age for imparting skill to rural youth has been reduced from 18 years to ______: 15 Years

719) What is the aim of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gramin Kaushalya Yojana: To train 10 lacs rural youth by the end of 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017)

720) What is the objective of recently launched “Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana”: For skill development of rural youth

721) India’s first National Sports University is going to be setup in which State: Manipur

722) Name the surface to surface missile recently tested by Pakistan: Hatf IX

723) _______ and _______ has been named as SAARC cultural capital for a year beginning April 2015 and 2016-17 respectively: Bamiyan and Dhaka

724) The year _________ has been declared as the SAARC Year of Cultural Heritage: 2016-17

725) Which country has decided to sell cigarettes in plain packets to discourage smoking: France

726) Name the industrialist who is the 2nd richest billionaire of India: Dilip Shanghvi

727) Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has raised the outlook on India’s sovereign rating from negative to _________: Stable

728) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards are given for excellence in which field: Science & Technology

729) Name the programme launched by Govt. of India for making India as future manufacturing hub: Make in India

730) How many thrust sectors have been identified under


the Make in India campaign: 25 731) The Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the

_____ session of United Nations General Assembly in New York: 69th

732) The six major world powers held the 7th round of nuclear talks with which countries: Iran

733) Which state capital has recently started the work on having a metro rail service: Lucknow

734) Name the State that has recently been put under presidents rule: Maharashtra

735) Mount Ontake that erupted suddenly, killing over 36 persons is located in which country: Japan

736) In which two events, Indian men’s team won the gold medal in Asiad 2014: Archery and Squash

737) Name the Indian wrestler who ended a 28-year drought for gold in wrestling by winning gold at Asiad 2014: Yogeshwar Dutt

738) _________ won the country’s first-ever silver in the women’s 20 kms race walk in Asiad: Khushbir Kaur

739) Saurav Ghoshal won silver in individual _______ event at Asiad 2014: Squash

740) Who has been named as the new Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu: O Panneerselvam

741) Name the American venue where Prime Minister Modi addressed a gathering of over 18,000 persons: Madison Square Garden, New York

742) _________ is the West Asia’s largest consumer IT and electronics retail show: GITEX Shopper, Dubai

743) The Prime Minister has assured merger of schemes for PIOs and OICs. What is the full form of PIOs and OICs: Persons of Indian Origin, Overseas Indian Citizens

744) Global Competiveness report is published by which organization: World Economic Forum (Switzerland)

745) Global Gender Gap Report is published by which organization: World Economic Forum (Switzerland)

746) Which committee has recommended Vijayawada as capital of Andhra Pradesh: The Sivaramakrishnan Committee

747) Name the programme launched by Indian Army to rescue thousands of maroon persons in floods of Jammu & Kashmir: Operation Megh Rahat

748) In which country the city of Bamiyan is located: Afghanistan

749) For what reasons is Bamiyan an important city: It had world’s tallest Buddha Statue which were destroyed by Taliban in 2001.

750) In which city is the Headquarter of United Nations situated: New York

751) Who is the President of United Nations General Assembly: John William Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda

752) Which day has been declared by US Senate to be designated as US-India partnership day:

September 30 753) Sarasawati Samman is promoted by which

foundation: K.K. Birla Foundation 754) What is the award amount for the winners of

Saraswati Samman: Rs. 10 lacs 755) What is the prize money for the winners of Shanti

Swarup Bhatnagar Award: Rs. 5 lakh, a citation and a plaque

AUGUST – 2014 756) John Kerry who visited India recently is the Foreign

Minister of which country: USA 757) Foreign Minister of USA is officially designated as

___________ in USA: Secretary of State 758) Name the village near Pune, Maharashtra that was

almost swept away in a massive mud slide: Malin Village

759) Name the famous Eminent Hindi litterateur and novelist from Bihar who passed away recently: Madhukar Singh

760) Name the exploration rover of NASA that created a record of travelling maximum distance on Mars: Opportunity

761) Govt has launched a nationwide scheme by the name _____________to promote conservation and development of indigenous breeds of cows in a focused and scientific manner: Rashtriya Gokul Mission

762) Name the German player who created a world record of fastest serve in the women’s tennis by serving at 131 miles per hour: Sabine Lisicki

763) Recently the Nagoya Protocol was ratified by 51 countries. What is the objective of this protocol: Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits of genetic resources

764) What is the total number of total medals won by the India in 20th Commonwealth Games: 64

765) India won 64 medals at the Commonwealth Games 2014. Of this how many were gold medals: 15

766) Name the country that won highest number of medals at the Commonwealth Games 2014: England

767) England top the Commonwealth Games by capturing __________ medals: 174

768) Parupalli Kashyap became the first Indian male player in 32 years to win a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games in which sports: Badminton

769) Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal won the doubles gold medal in Commonwealth Games in which game: Squash

770) Name the Canadian gymnast who was awarded the David Dixon Award for the best athlete of the Games: Frankie Jones

771) To whom David Dixon award is awarded: An outstanding Athlete of Common Wealth Game

772) In which year was this award instituted: 2002 Common Wealth Games in Manchester in honour of David Dixon Secretary of Common


Wealth Games for 17 years 773) K.V. Chowdary has been appointed chairman of

which important central govt. office: Central Board of Direct Taxes

774) Country’s first multi-sensor moored observatory IndARC was successfully deployed in Kongsfjorden Fjord in which region of the world: Arctic Region

775) 22nd Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavna Award has been awarded to which personality: Muzaffar Ali

776) Muzaffar Ali, winner of 22nd Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavna Award is a prominent person from which field: Cinema, Film maker

777) The deadly EBOLA virus has claimed hundreds of lives in Africa. What is the full form of EBOLA: No full form, it is the name of virus

778) Name African region where Liberia, Guinea and Siera Leone countries have been attacked by Ebola virus: West Africa

779) In which country, the Ebola virus was first discovered nearly four decades ago: Congo

780) The book “The Boys in the boat” has been written by which author: Daniel James Brown

781) What is the name of the Latest novel written by Chetan Bhagat: Half Girlfriend

782) Modi suggested “HIT” formula for Nepal’s development. Expand the acronym HIT: Highways, I-ways and Transways

783) India to construct a pipeline for supply of _______ from Raxual in Bihar to Amlekhganj in Nepal: Petroleum products

784) Name the recently appointed new Deputy Governor of the RBI: S S Mundra

785) S S Mundra, has been appointed Deputy Governor of RBI for _________ years: Three

786) Name the agreement that was objected to by India at the recent WTO meet: Trade Facilitation Agreement

787) In which State of India, world highest pillar railway bridge is being constructed: Manipur

788) “Pinkathon Delhi 2014” - a run for cause was organised in Delhi with the slogan "Each One, Kheench One" urging all men to encourage at least one special woman in their life to run for a good cause. What was this cause: Spreading awareness about breast cancer

789) RBI has reduced the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) of scheduled commercial banks by 50 basis points. What is the present rate of SLR: 22%

790) Reduction of SLR by 50 basis points is expected to release Rs. _________ crore of Banks funds: 40,000

791) Name the number one ranking golfer of the world who won the elite World Golf Championships held at Akron, USA: Rory Mcllroy

792) World’s No. 1 golfer Rory Mcllroy is from which country: Ireland

793) Longtoushan, a town in Ludian county of Yunnan province of China was in news for what reasons: It

was hit by a severe earthquake 794) Name the eminent Indian cartoonist famous for his

popular comic characters, who passed away: Pran Kumar Sharma

795) Name the popular comic characters created by late cartoonist Pran: Chacha Chaudury and Sabu

796) Which Indian bank won the Core Banking System Imitative Award 2014 at Singapore: Bharatiya Mahila Bank Ltd.

797) Governor of which Indian State was recently sacked by the President for her alleged irregularities: Mizoram

798) As per recent estimates from RBI, the projected GDP growth rate for year 2014-15, is around _________ per cent: 5.5

799) The Union Cabinet has cleared a historic, all new juvenile justice law under which _________year olds who commit heinous offences such as rapes and robberies can be tried as adults: 16 to 18

800) Govt. has allowed __________ per cent FDI in defence sector: 49%

801) Nikhil Chandwani who recently won the “Author of the year” award in USA is also known for his works in which other fields: Documentary Films

802) Name the US Defence Secretary who visited India recently: Chuck Hagel

803) What is the name of the recently released controversial book by Natwar Singh: One Life is not Enough

804) The World Kabaddi League started in _________ on August 9: London

805) What is the objective of the proposed Bharat Bill Payment System: Centralised payment of various types of bills

806) 47th Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers meeting held at which place: Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar

807) The Reserve Bank has approved the transfer of surplus (profit) amounting to Rs 526.79 billion for the year ended June 30, 2014 to__________. Government of India

808) Name the space ship that created a world record of travelling longest ever distance of 6.4 billion kms since its launch in March 2004: Rosetta

809) The space ship Rosetta that created world record for longest distance covered was launched by which space agency: European Space Agency

810) What is the brand name of the new joint venture airline of the Tata Sons-Singapore Airlines: Vistara

811) UAE has become the first gulf country to install reverse vending machines. What is the purpose of these machines: To collect domestic light bulbs and batteries for recycling

812) Haider Al-Abadi has been named as Prime Minister of which country: Iraq

813) Who has been elected as Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha: M. Thambidurai

814) The recent Archery World Cup was held at Wroclaw.


It is in which country: Poland 815) Indian women’s archery team led by ___________

won the gold medal in recurve category: Deepika Kumari `

816) Robin Williams who recently died of suspected suicide was a famous __________ of USA: Comedy Actor

817) For which State government announced Central assistance of Rs. 8,000 crore for four major road projects connecting it with rest of the country: Jammu & Kashmir

818) What is the name of the new bill passed by the Parliament to scrap the collegium system of appointing Supreme Court and high court judges: National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, 2014

819) To give national judicial appointments commission a constitutional status, __________ Constitution Amendment Bill was passed: 99th

820) Which award is popularly known as Nobel Prize of Mathematics: Fields Medal

821) Name the Indian Mathematician who won the recent Filed Medal: Manjul Bhargava

822) Name the first women to win the Fields Medal award in Mathematics: Maryam Mizakhani (Iran)

823) Govt has approved the constitution of the Expenditure Management Commission to be headed by which person: Bimal Jalan

824) What is the purpose of setting up Expenditure Management Commission: To suggest ways to reduce subsidies on food, fertilizer and oil

825) Name the army officer who was decorated with Ashok Chakra – the highest peace time gallantry award of the country: Major Mukund Vardarajan

826) What is the name of the award for the best film at the famous Locarno International Film Festival: PARDO d’ORO (Golden Leopard)

827) The famous Locarno International Film Festival is held in which country: Switzerland

828) Who is the new Chairperson Union Public Service Commission: Rajni Razdan

829) What is the formal name of the scheme launched to provide a bank account to every Indian: Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna

830) Under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna, every new bank account opener will also get Accidental life insurance cover of __________ lakh rupees: One

831) As per new RBI guidelines, banks are required to provide their savings bank account holders with at least ________free transactions per month at their own ATMs.: Five

832) The number of free transactions on ATMs set up by other banks had been reduced to_________, from five earlier, in Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Hyderabad: Three

833) Name the JD(U) leader who has been selected for Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2012: Sharad Yadav

834) Recently, a large number of countries around the world organized various functions to commemorate 100 years of which major international event: World War 1

835) World War I, also called The Great War, took place in and around Europe from July ______to November _________: 1914, 1918

836) Which place of Nepal was in news as a massive land slide near Mankha on 2 August 2014 blocked the Sunkoshi River and caused maasive damage to local settlements, claiming at least 156 lives: Sindhupalchok

837) Which country recently unveiled its next generation Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Dongfeng – 41 (DF-41): China

838) In which Indian State started the The 20-day Nanda Devi Raj Jat yatra also called the ‘Himalayan Kumbh,’: Uttarakhand

839) BKS Iyengar, 96 year old Padmavibhushan Awardee who passed away recently was a world famous Guru in which field: Yoga

840) A Hindu temple - Shree Swaminarayan Mandir, claimed to be the world's first 'eco-temple' featuring solar panels and a rainwater harvesting system, has been opened in which place: London, UK

841) Among Northeastern States, ________ has been the first choice of foreign tourist in 2013: Sikkim

842) Name the human rights activist and former journalist of Imphal who has been protesting against AFSPA since November 2000: Irom Sharmila Chanu

843) What is the full form of AFSPA: Armed Forces Special Powers Act

844) General Prayuth Chan-ocha has been proclaimed as Prime Minister of which country: Thailand

845) Which neighbouring country of India has decided to join the newly form BRICS bank: Bangladesh

846) Who has been appointed as the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament: K. V. Thomas

847) Name the CMD of Indian Bank who has been elected as Chairman of the Indian Banks Association for 2014-15: T M BHASIN

848) Youth Olympic games 2014 were held at which place: Nanjing, China

849) Name the Jnanpith awardee and renowned novelist and story writer, who passed away recently: U R Ananthamurthy

850) U R Ananthamurthy was renowned novelist and story writer of which language: Kannada

851) Sushma Swaraj, the External Affairs Minister recently visited which country to promote country’s Look East Policy: Vietnam

852) Governor of which State recently quite his office to protest his transfer to Mizoram: Maharashtra

853) Which sprint superstar set a new best time record of 9.98 second for the rarely run 100 meter indoors race: : Usain Bolt

854) The sprint superstar Usain Bolt is from which


country: Jamaica 855) Which online shopping portal has signed a MoU with

Union Textile Ministry to provide online marketing platform to handloom weavers all over India: Flipkart

856) Noted film maker and actor Richard Attenborough who passed away recently, hailed from which country: Britain

857) Name the super hit biopic, winner of 8 Oscars, directed by Richard Attenborough: Gandhi

858) Which animal has been selected as mascot for the forthcoming Asian Games: Harbor Seals

859) The forthcoming Asian Games are which number in series: 17th

860) Name the city that is hosting the 17th Asian Games: Incheon

861) Incheon city is located in which country: South Korea

862) BJP veteran Kalyan Singh has been appointed Governor of which State: Rajasthan

863) Who has been appointed as the new governor of Maharashtra: C Vidyasagar Rao

864) Vajubhai Vala, a senior BJP leader from Gujarat has been made Governor of which State: Karnataka

865) Deputy Prime Minister of which country recently visited India to promote mutual economic and social ties: United Kingdom

866) Name the Deputy Prime Minister of UK who recently visited India: Nick Clegg

867) Who is the Prime Minister of United Kingdom: David Cameron

868) What is the official name of the currency of United Kingdom: UK Pound

869) With which country India conducted its first ever joint Air Force exercise: Russia

870) What is the name of the joint Air Force exercise conducted with Russia: Avia Indra-2014

871) Avia Indra-2014 is being conducted in ________ region located North of the Caspian Sea: Astrakhan

872) Of the total 943 million telephone users of India, roughly _____ per cent are from urban area: 60%

873) On which route India’s first sea plane service has been launched: Mumbai-Lonavala

874) What is the title of the recent book launched by Vinod Rai, former CAG of India: Not Just An Accountant

875) Ahmet Davutoglu has been appointed Prime Minister of which country: Turkey

876) India’s first Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) has been established at which place: Shibpur, West Bengal

877) Which international organization has called for a ban on the use of e-cigarettes indoors and its sale to children: World Health Organization

878) BWF World Badminton Championship was held in which country: Denmark (Copenhagen)

879) Indian domain names now can make their names

with extension _______ in Devnagri Script: .Bharat 880) The 2018 Commonwealth Games will be hosted by

which country: Australia 881) V K Duggal recently resigned as Governor of which

State: Manipur 882) Which international organization has appointed Shah

Rukh Khan as its brand ambassador for it project “Turn Back Crime”: Interpol

883) Govt. has setup R. Ramanujam Committee for what purpose: To identify obsolete laws

884) The popular “Ice Bucket Challenge” is aimed at collected charity to fight which decease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

885) Under Pradhanmantri Jan Dhan Yojana, the account holders will also be provided Rs. _________ accidental cover insurance: One lac

886) Persons opening account under PM Jan Dhan Yojana by 26th January 2015 will get Rs. _________ life insurance cover: 30,000

887) If account under PM Jan Dhan Yojana is run satisfactorily for at least six months, the account holder will be allowed to have Rs. _________ as overdraft limit: 5,000

888) Accounts holder under PM Jan Dhan Yojana will be issued which type of debit cards: Rupay

889) Govt plans to open _________ crore bank accounts under PM Jan Dhan Yojana by 26th January, 2015: 7.5

890) Govt. targets to open __________ crore bank accounts under PM Jan Dhan Yojana by 15th August, 2018: 15

JULY – 2014 891) Which country recently signed an Association

Agreement with the European Union: Ukraine 892) Saina Nehwal lifted her first Super Series title in last

two years. Name this championship: Star Australian Open

893) Name the Indian player who won his 9th world title in snooker: Pankaj Adavani

894) Govt. has fixed Rs. ___________ per quintal as the minimum support price for the winter paddy crop: 1360

895) Who has been elected as President of the European Commission: Jean-Claude Juncker

896) Name the four countries whose satellites were recently launched by ISRO: Germany-2, France, Canada, Singapore

897) With which country India has jointly released the first encyclopedia on their age-old cultural contacts, tracing back their history to over 2,000 years: China

898) Who was the famous Chinese traveller who visited India in the seventh century to bring Buddhist scriptures to China: Huen Tsang

899) Who is Akhouri Sinha in whose honour the USA has named a mountain in Antarctica: Eminent Indian-American scientist


900) With which country India has signed and MoU to allow their companies to invest in industrial parks and zones in India: China

901) American space agency NASA has successfully launched a satellite -Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) for what purpose: To track atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

902) International rating agency Fitch has improved India's economic growth forecast to _______ per cent this financial year: 5.5

903) RBI plans to swap some of the old gold lying in its _________vault since pre-Independence times — and whose quality is not exactly top grade — with purer gold: Nagpur

904) RBI plans to swap some of the old gold lying with it and the gold acquired in lieu of this would be kept at which place: Bank of England, London

905) India and the US have agreed to implement FATCA, a US law that targets tax non-compliance by US taxpayers with foreign accounts. What is FATCA: Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act

906) The ADB has approved a multi-tranche loan facility of $300 million to Assam for what purpose: To improve power sector

907) The govt. plans to merge two insurance scheme and one pension scheme to enable senior citizens to avail benefit of these schemes through a single smart card. Name these three schemes: The Rashtriya Swastha Bima Yojana (RSBY), Aam Aadmi Bima Yojan (AABY) and Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS)

908) RBI has advised that the lending rate ceiling for MFIs will continue at their present level - at 27.75% for the July to September quarter. MFIs stands for: Micro Finance Companies

909) With which country The Reserve Bank of India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for exchange of supervisory information of banking: Hong Kong

910) Which new financial entities have been allowed by RBI to accept e-KYC service as a valid process to verify identity and address proof of customers to reduce risk of fraud and forgery: Non Banking Financial Companies

911) A government panel panel led by M S Sahoo has proposed a new class of securities for foreign firms to raise money in India. Name this security: Bharat Depository Receipts (BhDRs)

912) Bharat Depository Receipts are denominated in which currency: Rupee

913) Bharat Depository Receipts will be issued by which financial authority: Local Depositories

914) Which is the newly invented world’s lightest solid material created by Chinese scientists: Carbon Gel

915) Name the international body that has sanctioned $500 million loan for India’s National Highways Inter-connectivity Improvement Project (NHIIP): World Bank

916) India has become the first country to ratify the

Marrakesh Treaty. What is the purpose of this treaty: To facilitate access to published works for persons who are visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled

917) The city of Marrakesh located in which country: Morocco

918) The Government has extended the validity period of an industrial licence to _______ years from present two years, with a provision for further extension by two years: Three

919) Ritu Rani has been named captain India’s women _________ team for the Commonwealth Games, Glasgow: Hockey

920) Brazil’s bid to win a sixth World Cup suffered a devastating blow as their ace striker ________ suffered a back bone fracture after being hit by the Colombian defender Juan Zuniga: Neymar

921) Name the head of the panel that has recommended new norms for fixation of poverty line: Dr. C. Rangarajan

922) As per Rangarajan panel report a person spending less than Rs 1,407 a month (Rs ______day) in urban areas will be considered Below Poverty Line (BPL): 47

923) As per Rangarajan panel report a person spending less than Rs 972 a month (Rs ______day) in rural areas will be considered Below Poverty Line (BPL): 32

924) As per Rangarajan panel report the number of poor in India stood at 36.3 crore in 2011-12 which is roughly ____ per cent of India’s population. 30

925) Which ministry plans to setup 660 rape crisis centres across the country: Women and Child Development Ministry

926) What is the proposed name for one stop centre for women victims of molestation, rape, sexual assault, domestic violence: Nirbhaya Centre

927) The Madras High Court has ruled that banks cannot fix _____ cut off of minimum marks in Plus Two as condition for extending education loan to students joining engineering courses: 60%

928) Name the only supersonic cruise missile of India: Brahmos

929) Name the Indian who has become the first player of Indian origin to be a part of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in USA after joining the Sacramento Kings team: Sim Bhullar

930) Name of powerful typhoon that lashed Japan's southern Okinawa islands on 8th July, forcing over half a million people to seek shelter: Neoguri

931) As per India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2013 the total forest and tree cover of the country is 87.92 million hectare, which is _______ percent of the geographical area of India: 24.01

932) ___________ state has the largest forest cover of 77522 square kilometer, followed by Arunachal Pradesh, 67321 square kilometer: Madhya Pradesh

933) In terms of percentage, _______ state has highest


forest cover at 90.38 percent, followed by Lakshadweep-84.56 percent: Mizoram

934) Pinky Anand has been appointed to which important national post: Additional Solicitor General

935) What is the function of the Additional Solicitor General: Legal advisor to Central Govt.

936) Name the legendary actress from Hindi theatre and cinema who passed away recently at the age of 102 years: Zohra Sehgal

937) Name the Indian Navy‘s largest ever destroyer –_____________that was inducted in to service on 10th July: INS Kolkata

938) The INS Kolkata is equipped with stealth technology. What is the benefit of this technology: It avoids detection of the ship by the enemy radar

939) Name the India’s first indigenously built anti-submarine corvette commissioned into service by Indian Navy: INS Kamorta

940) In which sector Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been hiked from 26 per cent to 49 per cent: Defence manufacturing

941) FDI in insurance sector has been hiked to ______ per cent from 26 per cent: 49

942) A recent UN study “World Urbanization Prospects” by U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) has ranked Delhi as second most populous city in the world with 25 million inhabitants. Which is the most populous city: Tokyo, 38 million

943) Ancestral House of which Indian film celebrity has been declared as a National heritage monument by the Pakistan Govt.: Dilip Kumar

944) World Bank has agreed to provide $153 million (Rs 920 crore) loan to Odisha for what purpose: To restore cyclone hit housing and public services

945) Mr. Ram Naik has been appointed Governor of which State: Uttar Pradesh

946) Who has been appointed as New Governor of West Bengal: K.N. Tripathi

947) Sh. Om Prakash Kohli has been appointed Governor of which State: Gujarat

948) Name the New Governor of Chhattisgarh State: Balramji Das Tandon

949) Sh. Kaptan Singh Solanki has been appointed as new Governor of which State: Haryana

950) Name the new governor of Nagaland: Padmanabha Acharya

951) Name the football player who scored the winning goal for Germany in the FIFA World Cup 2014: Mario Gotze

952) Germany won FIFA World Cup 2014 by defeating which country: Argentina

953) Name the best player of the FIFA World Cup 2014 who won the Golden Ball: Lionel Messi, Argentina

954) Name the best goalkeeper of the FIFA World Cup 2014 who won the Golden Glove Award: Manuel Neuer, Germany

955) Name the best player who scored highest goals – 6, in the FIFA World Cup 2014 and won the Golden Boot award: James Rodriguez, Colombia

956) Final match of FIFA World Cup 2014 was played at which place: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

957) The Indian men's football team has been ranked __________ in the FIFA world rankings: 151th

958) In the FIFA world rankings, which country has been ranked as no. 1: Germany

959) Under which programme Government has set a target to develop skills of 50 crore people by 2022: The National Policy on Skill Development (NPSD)

960) The government has set a target of mopping Rs _______ from stake sale in PSU firms: 43425 crore

961) Govt. plans to raise Rs 15,000 crore from sale in financial entities such as SUUTI. What is the full form of SUUTI: Specified Undertaking of the Unit Trust of India

962) To expedite the process to recover bad bank loans, govt. proposes to set up six new DRTs. What is the full form of DRT: Debt Recovery Tribunal

963) How many judges are there in a Debt Recovery Tribunal: One

964) The judge in the debt recovery tribunal is named as: Presiding Officer

965) Bad Bank Loans cases of upto Rs. ____________ can be filed in DRT: No Limit

966) To promote financial inclusion, govt proposes to sanction an overdraft (OD) facility of Rs. _________by the bank to individuals who open an account with them: Rs 5,000

967) With what objective government plans to grant OD of Rs. 5000 to new bank account openers: To attract people to open bank account to promote financial inclusion

968) Name the comprehensive scheme for financial inclusion which will ensure that every earning citizen opens a bank account: 'Sampoorn Viteeyea Samveshan'

969) Which financial institution has been asked to create a Rs. 1,000-crore credit guarantee fund to finance govt’s proposed OD scheme: NABARD

970) Parliament has been advised that Banks had Rs 5,124 crore in unclaimed deposits as on December 31, 2013. What is a unclaimed deposit account: Accounts with no operations for 10 years

971) Out of the two–balance of trade and balance of payment, which item is larger: Balance of Payment

972) Government proposes an allocation of Rs 7,060 crore in this financial year for developing __________smart cities in the country as satellite towns of larger cities and for modernising the existing mid-sized cities 100

973) Which country has granted one billion pound ($1.68 billion) credit line for investment in Indian infrastructure projects: Britain


974) Name the proposed Rs. 1000 crore nationwide rural irrigation scheme to insulate farmers from excessive dependence on monsoon: Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana’

975) Name the proposed soil health card' that will be issued to all farmers for optimum utilization of resources and right selection of crops: Soil Health Card

976) Government plan to launch ___________TV dedicated to the interests of agriculturists and allied sectors and has allocated Rs 100 crore for this purpose: Kisan

977) Recently held BRICS summit was ___________ in series: 6th

978) The 6th BRICS summit was held at which place: Fortaleza, Brazil

979) Name the new development bank that the BRICS nations propose to form as an alternative to the World Bank: New Development Bank

980) What is the initial authorized capital of the New Development Bank: $50 billion

981) In what proportion the BRICS countries have agreed to share the capital of New Development Bank: 20% each

982) BRICS nations have agreed to establish a $100 billion fund to provide additional liquidity protection to member-nations during balance of payments problems. What is its name: Contingency Reserve Arrangement

983) Which country has agreed to contribute largest share of 41% to the Contingency Reserve Arrangement: China

984) What will be the India’s contribution to the proposed CRA by the BRICS Nations: 18%

985) The headquarters of the proposed BRICS New Development Bank will be located in which country: China

986) Which country has been allocated the presidency of the proposed BRICS New Development Bank: India

987) The 7th BRICS Summit will be held at which place: Russian city of Ufa

988) Under which programme government plans to launch four new vaccines to reduce child mortality by two-thirds by next year: Universal Immunization Programme (UIP)

989) As per the Global Innovation Index 2014 India has been placed at which rank: 76th

990) A Mexican software company has managed to transmit audio, video and Internet data across the spectrum of light emitted by LED lamps — at a data transfer rate of 10 gigabytes per second. What is this technology called: Li Fi

991) What is the full form of the new data transferee technology Li Fi: Light Fidelity

992) The 7th IBSA summit 2015 will be held in which country: India

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