January 2012 Current Affairs Bit Bank

(1) INTERNATIONAL (1) In which country the tallest communication tower named skruty is suituated ? Answer: Tokyo (Japan) (2) Who is the worlds shortest women who is still alive ? Answer: Jyothi Amge (3) Who is the new leader of North Korea who has been recently elected ? Answer: Kim Jong Un (4 ) How many years have been completed by African National Congress recently ? Answer: 100 yrs . ( 5) Who is the first Indian American person who had been elected as governor for Lousiana in states of U.K.? Answer: Bobby Jindal . ( 6) Which year is called as International Year Of Cooperative according to UNO ? Answer: 2012 year ( 7) Worlds oldest yoga teacher who had been entered in Guinnes Book of Records for yoga recently ? Answer: Bernice Bates . ( 8) After how many years America had totaly set back his millitary army from Irak ? Answer: 9yrs ( 9) Shoedar cruze missile was launched and tested by by which country ? Answer: Iran (10) Who is the American Ambassidor to India in 2011? Answer: Timothy J.Reomer. (11) For how many yrs the great leader of North Korea has headed the country ? Answer: 17 yrs

(12) Which is the Worlds first Hydrogen based three wheeler vehicle ? Answer: High Alpha ( 13) Who is the person who had won the election in US Republican in Florida Primary results recently ? Answer: Mitt Romney (14) According to the new census Jan 2012 , what is the % population of China ? Answer: 51.27 % (15) Whos name had been kept for the fly over bridge constructed in Islamabad recently? Answer: Yousaf Raja Gillani . (16) Who is the President who had signed on millitary spending bills twice recently ? Answer: Barack Obama (17) Which is the nation which joined UNO organisation recently ? Answer: Pakistan .(18) A credit Standard and Poors , due to which reasons it had reduced the rating of France , Italy and other 9 countries recently ? Answer: Debt crices. (19) According to the fortune magazine s annual ranking for 100 besr companies to work for 2012,which company stood first ? Answer: Google. (20) Who inagurated the new mission control centre the SHAR ? Answer: Prathiba Patil (21) Who is the Managing director for the International Monetary Fund ( I M F )? Answer: Christine Legaude . (22) Which was the protest movement that begain against financial greed & curruption in America recently ? Answer: Occupy wall street (2) INDIA & WORLD

(1) On 20 Jan 2012, Russia had leased which nuclear powered submarine to India recently ? Answer: K-152 Nerpa (2) Which country has got the deal of 126 fighters to India recently ? Answer: French (3) In American International affairs website which state of Indian borders have been wrongly mapped ? Answer: Jammu Kashmir (4) How many countries have signed the multilateral agreement to check tax evasion and avoidence recently ? Answer: three (5) Which two countries agreed to establish a working mechanism on consultation and coordination on border affairs ? Answer: India & China (6) In which feild India and Japan had made agreement to enhance their cooperation ? Answer: Infrastructure sector (7) What is the place of India in a global press freedom index in the past years ? Answer: 131 (8) On which issue India & USA signed recently ? Answer: Labuor & employment (9) How many agreements India had signed with Trinidad & Tobago ? Answer: 5 (10) Name the new pact which was signed by the countries recently ? Answer: shade (3) NATIONAL (1) The birthday of the great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujam was declared as ? Answer: National Mathematics Day (2) Where will be the first cooperative university will set up ?

Answer: Sibsagar (Assam ) (3) Which year is celebrated as National Mathematics day ? Answer: 2012 (4) What is the Total per capital income of all states in India ? Answer: Rs.54,835 /(5) Which ministry had been given to Mr. Ajit singh by the U P A government ? Answer: Civil Aviation minister (6) How many news paper companies have been registered under the Register of News papers for India according to the authority in 2010-2011? Answer: 4853 (7) What is the mascot name for national youth festival ? Answer: Yakhi (8) On which day our national anthem Janaganamana has completed its hundred years ? Answer: 27-12-2011 (9) Who is the first women who had been selected as Javan in Indian Army ? Answer: Santhi Tigga (10) Who is the 19th Director General of Indian coast guard ? Answer: M.P.Muralidharan (11) To whom was the Review commite on the Delhi School Education Act &Rules 1973 (DSEAR-79) report was submitted? Answer: Sheila Dikshit (12) According to the survey done by the Brand Trust Report who is the person who had won the confidence of peoplein the country ? Answer: Anna Hazare (13) In which five years plan the national slum development programme will be launched by the government ? Answer: 12th five years plan

(14) Who had launched the Interanet Prahari Project worth of 299 crore recently? Answer: P.Chidambaram (15) The ISRO chief Madhavan Nair and other three who were blacklisted in which deal, the government quit them away? Answer: Antrix Devas (16) From which year the implementation of common medical entrance test will be conducted according to the medical council of India ? Answer: 2013 (17) Which is the nodel agency for all anti -terror activities in the country, for which the government gave approval recently? Answer: National counter Terrorism Centre (18) Who is the chief guest for the Pravasi Bharathiya Devas conference held at Jaipur on Jan 7th 2012 ? Answer: Kamal PerseBissesor (19) Where was the United Nation Research center for the North-East set up recently ? Answer: Guwahati (20) From which year the implementation of common medical entrance test will be conducted according to the medical council of India ? Answer: 2013 (21) Name the project which was inagurated by Mr.Chidambaram recently worth of 299 crore ? Answer: Interanet Prahari projet (4) STATES (1) The Panch Parmeshwar scheme was launched by which state government ? Answer: Madhya Pradesh (2) In 2010-2011 ,what is the per capital income of Andhra pradesh ? Answer: Rs.60,458/(3) Name the chief minister who had won the award for great vaccine innovation ?

Answer: Nitish Kumar (4) According to the report presented by the central government our state debt in the year 2010-2011 is ? Answer: Rs.1,32,805 crore (5) Which Indian company is going launch a new diesel plant in Gurgoan recently ? Answer: Maruthi (6) The bullet train between which two states will announced in railway budget 2012? Answer: Ahmedabad-Mumbai (7) For the year 2012 in which place Andhra pradesh stood in urbunisation? Answer: 17th (8) For how many Assembly seats election have been held in Uttarakhand on 30th Jan 2012 recently? Answer: 70 (9) Which state governors period has been extended by one year by the government recently ? Answer: Andhra pradesh (10) Which state had agreed for the establishment of internal state board for pranahitachevella sujatha sravanti project ? Answer: Maharashtra 911) Who is the person replaced in the place of E.Sridharan for Delhi Metro Rail M D on 31st Dac 2011? Answer: Mangu singh (12) In which state the 10th Pravasi Bharathi Divas event inagurated from Jan 7th to 9th 2012 ? Answer: Jaipur (13) What is the total strentgh of Muncipalities in the state A .P ? Answer: 161 (14) Who is the governor of Tamilnadu who has been appointed recently ? Answer: K.Rosaiah

(15) Which are the two states where assembly elections had been held on 30 th Jan 2012 ? Answer: Punjab ,Uttarkhand (16) The assembly polling were held on 28th Jan 2012 for how many seats in Manipur ? Answer: 60 (17) In which place our state warangal NIT stands according to the survey done by the country ? Answer: 8th (18) According to the national election commision which state minister had been ordered to cover the status of elephants which are election symbol of the party recently ? Answer: Uttar Pradesh (19) For many seats the assembly election had been held in Punjab ? Answer: 117 (20) Which state University had given Dr. to the Bangladesh P.M Shaik Hassina recently ? Answer: Tripura (21) In which state the united nation research center for north -east set up ? Answer: Assam (22) Which is the first state to issue e-stamp papers in all denominations in India ? Answer: Delhi (23) According to the National child Right which state stood in top one position ? Answer: Kerala (24) Which state topped in the list in utilizing the fund for minorities according to the minority affairs ministry? Answer: Jammu & kashmir (25) How many new tourism projects have been sanctioned for Jammukashmir by the union government? Answer: 7 (5) CONFERENCES

(1) In which city the geospatail world forum 2012 conference was held recently ? Answer: Hyderabad (2) Which is the forum which had conference on the current & relavent issues on global problems recently? Answer: World Economic Forum (WEF) (3) On which issue the conference is being organized by International Advanced Research centre for powder metallurgy and new materials (ARCI) recently ? Answer: Nano science technology (4) On which issue President Pratibha Paatil constituted a committee recently ? Answer: Production of Agriculture sector (6) AWARDS AND HONOURS (1) Who had been awarded Sialedra Kumar singh award by the (UPA) chair person Sonia Gandhi? Answer: D.Balavenkatatesh verma (2) To whom the Guljarilal Nanda Bharat Sevak Samaj has been awardedby Kerala government? Answer: T.K.Nair (3) The prestegious International sports Association Fair play is awarded to which player? Answer: Mahendrasingh Dhoni (4) How many people have been awarded the prestegious Man Asia award from India ? Answer: 3 persons (5) The Mahatma Gandhi International Award for peace & Reconsilation award has been presented to whom ? Answer: Dalai Lama (6) Who had given the 2011 FIFA Best player award on 9th Jan 2012? Answer: Lionel Messi (7) Who has been shortlisted for UKs Biggest contemporary Art Prize , Artes mundi recently?

Answer: Sheela Gowda (8) Who is the person who had conferred the Ashoka Chakra on 63rd Republic Day by the president Pratibha Patil ? Answer: Lt.Navdeep singh (9) To which award the Indian American sciencetist Venkataram Ramakrishna has been selected by the Britan ? Answer: Knight hood (10) On which date the Infosis 2011 awards have been awarded recently at Banglore ? Answer: Jan 9th (11) Which university has honoured Dr to Bangladesh P.M Shaik Hassina recently ? Answer: Tripura university (12) For the yr2011 who had won the perstegious (CNR ) sahitya puraskaram recently? Answer: Ratna Markandapuram Srinivas 913) Who has been presented with pride of India award by the Indian -American community in Washinton? Answer: Mallikarjuna Kharge (14) Which university had got the honour Universities with potecial for excellence? Answer: Ossamania university (15) Who is the Bollywood actor who had received a green globe award from Arnold Schwaizenegger recently ? Answer: Abishek Bachan (16) How many researchers got Infosis prize for the year 2011, which was presented by the former president A.P.J Abdul Kalam? Answer: 6 (17) Who had won the best steel company of India for the year 2009-2010 ? Answer: Steel Authority of India (18) Where was the 69th golden globe awards been presented on 15 th Jan 2012 ? Answer: Los angeles

(19) Which award has been given to the famous music director A.R Rahamn for the muisc composing for the song If I Rise ? Answer: Critics choice movie (20) Name the person Who had run barefoot 150 km in 24 hours and made a new world record ? Answer: Abhijeet Buruah (7) SPORTS & GAMES (1) Who is the first Indian women to have received an International Grand Master tittle in the game of chess championship to get gold medal ? Answer: Koneru Humpy (2) Who has been selected for player of the year award given by all India football assocaition ? Answer: Sunil chhetri (3) Who had won the world super series batmintton tittle ? Answer: Wang-Yihan (china) (4) In which country the womens team chess championship tournament held ? Answer: Turkey (5) For the year 2011, who had been selected for International Tennis Federation Woeld champion award? Answer: Novak djikovic (6) Which country had won the Hopman cup tennis tittle which held on Jan 7th 2012? Answer: Czech republic (7) Where will the Assia criket cup matches 2012 will be conducted ? Answer: Bangladesh (8) For which game Abinav Bindra won gold medal ? Answer: Air rifle shooting (9) In which place the South Central Asian Gymnastics championships event held recently ? Answer: Dhaka

(10) Who is the person who had won the FIFA Ballondor award recently ? Answer: Lionel Messi (11) International player for batmiton Sina Nehal has ranked which place recently? Answer: 4th (12) Who are the two Indian shooters who got selected for the London olympic games ? Answer: Manavjeet singh sidhu & Imran Hassankhan (13) Who is the first Indian tennis player who won the carier mens doubles grand slam 2012? Answer: Leander paes (14) In the Archery championship from AP Jyothi surekha got which medal ? Answer: Gold medal (15) In which place India stood in the International test series ranking ? Answer: 3rd place (16) In which country the 2012 Olympic Hockey tournament is going to be held ? Answer: London (17) Who is the Indian criket player who stood in top ten positions according to ICCranking ? Answer: Sachin tendulkar (18) Which is the country who had invited the sand artist Sudharshan Pattnaik from Odisha to parcipate at the International Sand Championship recently? Answer: Japan (8) ECONOMY (1) What is the revised economic GDP growth rate for 2011-2012 financial year ? Answer: 8.4 % (2) Which are the two countries where female infant mortality is higher than male infant mortality? Answer: India & China (3) India had signed a TIEA agreement with which country ?

Answer: Guernsey (4) What is the national infant mortality rate reduced from ? Answer: 50 % to 47 % (5) What is industrial growth rate in Dec 2011 ? Answer: 3.1 % (6) How much can a customer transact per day by way of mobile banking ? Answer: Rs.50,000/(7) How much money is government going to spend on economic census for the year 2012? Answer: 800 crore (8) Name the bank which has been opened by SBI, which is exclusively for women customers ? Answer: Vasundhara Jubilee Senoritia (9) What is the minimum investment amount per client managed by portfolio manages decided by SEBI ? Answer: Rs.25,000 to 5,00,000 (10) How much of fund is spent on improving quality education by all states in 2009-2010 in a survey ? Answer: 1% (11) Which country had successfully launched an observation satillite into orbit above earth recently? Answer: Iran (12) Who will audit the performence of the schemes under the ministers of rural development ? Answer: Comptroller & Auditor General of India (13) Regarding to check tax evasion & avoidance India had signed a multilateral agreement with which countries recently ? Answer: France &German (14) What is the gross national income grew in the year 2010-2011 ?

Answer: 7.9 % (15) Which powered ATMs are going to be installed in the rural areas by the government ? Answer: Solar power (16) What is the GDP growth percentage for the year 2011-2012 according to the government estimation ? Answer: 6.9 % (9) SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (1) Scientists had produced a artificial human semen which will help in what? Answer: Infertile men (2) Which beverage can be treat tremors in humans recently ? Answer: Alcohol (3) High speed bullet train was launched by which country at Quingdao ? Answer: China (4) Which missile was successfully test fired by India recently ? Answer: Agni-1 (5) From which place the Interceptor missile was launched successfully? Answer: Orissa (6) The earth observation satellite from where it was launched recently ? Answer: Sriharikota (7) Which country has invented the worlds fastest K-computor recently ? Answer: Japan (8) Which is the earth -size planet orbiting in space discovered by the NASAs kepler? Answer: kepler- 20e & 20f (10) PERSONS IN NEWS (a) APPOINTMENTS (1) Who has been appointed as microfinance ombudsman for the SKS microfinance ?

Answer: Virghese Jacob (2) Who is the 19th Director general of Indian coast Guard ? Answer: M.P.Muralidharan (3) Who is the new 7th chief minister of Arunachal pradesh ? Answer: Naban tukisworn (4) Who is the new advocate general who was appointed by state government ? Answer: D.Sundharam reddy (5) Who is the independent Director of Infotec enterprises for the year 2012 ? Answer: Vikas sehgal (b) RESIGNS (1) Who is the person who is US ambassdor to India resigned in the year 2011 ? Answer: Timothy Roemer (2) Which state minister had resigned recently after indictment in illegal mining scan ? Answer: Karnataka (3) Who is the women general secretary for SAARC who resigned recently? Answer: Fathima Dhiyana Saeed (c) DEATHS (1) M.B.Hussan Farook who died recently was the governor of which state ? Answer: Kerala (2) The former deputy chief minister P.Jaganath rao who died recently worked in which year cabinet ? Answer: 1982 (3) Freedom fighter of Indian diplomacy who was an architect of Indo-soviet treaty passed away in New Delhi on 31st Jan 2012 ? Answer: A.K.Damodharam (d) VISITORS

(1) Who is the P.M of Thailand who visited India and has been the chief guest for the 63rd Republic Day ? Answer: Yingluck Shina Watra (2) Who is the president of Mali who visited India recently ? Answer: Amadou Toumani Toure (3) Kamla persad Bissesar is Prime minister for which country who visited India recently ? Answer: Trindad &Tobago (4) Which countries P.M is Sheik Hasina who visited India on 12th Jan 2012 ? Answer: Bangladesh (e) OTHERS (1) Who is the Myanmar oposition leader who is standing for parliment on 1st April by election in 2012? Answer: Aung San Suu Kyi (2) What did the pakistan supreme court said against its P.M Yousaf Raza Gilani recently ? Answer: Not an honest man (3) Who had been Jailed more than 20 years for charging against secretly filming T.V documentery ? Answer: Sarah Ferguson (11) PLACES IN NEWS (1) What is the magnitude of earth quake on rickter scale which took place in Japan recently ? Answer: 7 (12) ABBREVIATIONS -Nil(13) BOOKS IN NEWS (1) Who is the author of the book who wrote 20 great personalities of India ? Answer: Gopalkrishna Gandhi (2) Who wrote the book Pharaoh & the King ?

Viswanath Venkat Dasari (3) Which is the book writen by MarkTuly recently ? Answer: Non stop India (4) Who wrote the book The sence of an ending ? Answer: Julian Barnes (5) Who is the author who had recieved Business Book of the year award 2010 for his book Fault lines? Answer: Raghuraman rajan (14) COMMITTEES (1) Who had constituted a committee to increase the productivity of agriculture sector? Answer: Pratibha Patil (2) Where was the 19th ASEAN summit took place ? Answer: Bali ( Indonesia) (3) To whom the review committee on the Delhi Education Act & Rules 1973 submitted its report ? Answer: Sheila Dikshit

February 2012 Current Affairs Bit Bank

INTERNATIONAL 1. Who had won the US Republic Florida Primary election held recently ? Answer: Mitt Romney 2. By the end of which year the American military is going to end the combat operations in Afghanistan? Answer: 2013yr 3. What is the mechanism policy of EU to double their renewable energy? Answer: Rio+20 4. In which place the National Australia Bank was opened its Maiden Branch in India recently ?

Answer: Mumbai 5. Which country is going to grant India the MFN status by the end of 2012 ? Answer: Pakistan 6. Who is new US abbassador to India ? Answer: Nancy J.Powell

INDIA & WORLD 1. What is the bilateral trade target set up by India & China recently Answer: $100b 2. China wants to work with India in which issue recently ? Answer: piracy fight 3. Between which two countries the 12th defence policy group meeting was held in New delhi ? Answer: India & US

NATIONAL 1.Which disease had been included in lifestyle other than diabetes and hypertension ? Answer: cancer 2. Which are the three most happiest countries where people reside ? Answer: Indonesia,India &Mexico 3. From which place India is going to test its most ambitious missile Agni- V ? Answer: Odisha 4. According to researchers which country is losing its forests more rapidly ? Answer: India 5. Samsung had launched which type of note book into the market recently ? Answer: series 5 ultra

6. From which date the implementation of Matatma Gandhi Rural Employment, Guarantee Act will start ? Answer: 4/1/2012 7. Who inaugurated the 12th polio summit 2012 which was held in NewDelhi recently ? Answer: Manmohan singh

STATES 1. How many people died of malaria worldwide in 2010-2011 according to the world malaria report ? Answer: 46800 2. Name the maths social net work in face book called ? Answer: Teaching Tomorrow 3. Which city in A.P had decided to become cycle proud and introduced no Motor vehicle zones across 20km of roads ? Answer: Vishakapatnam 4. Which state Government had shortlisted for the two companies for setting up the E-waste dismantlity facilities ? Answer: West Bengal 5. Who had launched a major state wide de- warming campaign in Delhi recently ? Answer: Sheila Dikshit 6. Which state ranked top in investment proposal in the year 2011 ? Answer: Gujarat

CONFERENCES 1.Where was the National Conference on Governance meeting organised on Jan 29 2012 ? Answer: New Delhi 2. Where was the 58th annual meeting of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons held at ?

Answer: Kolkata 3. On which date the Indian -Asean summit was held for two days in NewDelhi recently ? Answer: 12 th Feb 4. Who inaugurated the 15th National conference on e-governance held for two days ? Answer: Mr.M.Naveen Patnaik

AWARDS & HONOURS 1. The P.M of Mauritius Navinchandra Ramloolam had been honoured with which Dr. recently ? Answer: Doctor of law 2. Who had been awarded as sports women of the year 2012 recently at Laureus sports awards ? Answer: Vivian Chruiyot 3. Who is the Indian to receive the pretigious honour, Manager of the Year 2011 award recently ? Answer: Siva ram krishna prasad 4. To which tennis player the serbian president Boris Tadic conffered the highest Serbain award Gold star of Karadjordge for 2012? Answer: Novack Djokovic 5. Who had been graced as chief guest for the 5th Ramnath Goenka Awards for the excellence in Journalism 2012, held at Taj palace in NewDelhi ? Answer: Hamid Ansari 6. Who had won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year Award for 2011 ? Answer: Rahul Batia

SPORTS & GAMES 1. Who had won the mens national grass court tennis championship from A.P ? Answer: Saketh Mineni

2. Which country had won the Africa nations cup title cup which held on 13 Feb 2012 ? Answer: Zambia 3. Who is the cricket player who had awarded with ESPN Cricin for best batting performance award in test matches ? Answer: Sachin tendulkar 4. W ho is the cricket batsman who had announced recently retirement from one day cricket ? Answer: Ricky Poting 5. Who is the person, who had won the Mens 85 plus 5km walk event held at Manipur from A.P on the opening day of 33rd National Masters Atheletics Championship ? Answer: G.Satyanarayana rao 6. Who won the SAIL SBI open Golf title on 25 Feb 2012 held in Delhi ? Answer: Anirban Lahiri

ECONOMY 1. The RBI of India is going to issue how much rupee note denomination with insert letter R in the Mahata Gandhi series ? Answer: Rs 1000 2. The RBI had made an announcement to bring Rs 5 coin was devoted to which person recently ? Answer: Bhagat singh 3. Who had directed the Unoin Government to issue Broad band license to Qual comm ? Answer: Telecom dispute settlement Appellate Tribunal 4. Who had issued a circular for development of white label automated teller machines from non-banks ? Answer: Reserve Bank of India

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1. What is name of home cleaning robot within the vaccum cleaner segment ?

Answer: Niche 2. Which country had launched the self guided bullet missile ? Answer: US (America ) 3. What is the name of orbit above, an observation satellite launched by Iran on 3 Feb 2012 ? Answer: Navid 4. Which is the new planet discovered by the researchers recently found water on it ? Answer: GJ1214b 5. Name the new US-based racing bike which was manufactured by the worlds largest two wheeler Hero Motocorp recently? Answer: Erik Buell Rcing 6. Name the new gene, which was discovered by the UK scientists recently ? Answer: Meg I 7. Name the Chinas global navigation and positioning network known as ? Answer: Beidou PERSONS IN NEWS a) Appointments 1. Who had been appointed as the Honarary secretary for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from Andhrapradesh ? Answer: Dr.P.Raghuram b) Resigns 1. Who is the president of Maldives who had resigned on 7 Feb 2012 ? Answer: Mohamed Nasheed 2. Who is the world bank president who resigned recently for completing his five yrs term ? Answer: Robert Zoelllick 3. Who is the German president who had resigned recently over a scandal recieved before becoming the head of the state ? Answer: Christian Wulff

c) Deaths 1. Who is the pop music singer ,six times Grammy award winner deid on 11 Feb 2012 Answer: Whitney Huoston 2. Who is the British Journalist who on 22 Feb was shot dead by the French photographers in Syria ? Answer: Marie Colvin 3. Who is the foriegn correspondent and a two time pulitzer prize winner died in Eastern Syria on 16 Feb 2012 ? Answer: Anthony Shadid d) Visitors 1. Mr.Navinchandra Ramgoolan is P.M of which country who visited India on 7Feb 2012 for six days ? Answer: Mauritius e) Miscellaneous 1. Name the Indian-American person who had made himself the cover of the prestigous Time magazine recently? Answer: Preet Bharara

BOOKS IN NEWS 1. Who is the author of the book Nirbasan whose opening ceremony of the book releasing was cancelled in India ? Answer: Taslima Nasreen 2. Who was the author of the book Time Guerrilla recently released of his own memoir ? Answer: Fidel Castro 3. Name the book which was released by the vice president of India Mr.Hamid Ansari in Newdelhi recently? Answer: Sufism & Indian Mysticism

March 2012 Current Affairs Bit Bank

INTERNATIONAL 1. How many EU states had signed the pact for budget discipline on 2 March 2012 ? Answer: 25 states 2. Who is the Asia s richest man according to the forbes list ? Answer: LI Ka Shing 3. Which are the most ethical firms of the world according to the report revealed by the Ethical Institutes ? Answer: Tata & Wipro 4. Which is worlds largest art, antiques market owing country ? Answer: China 5. Which country gave a call to boycott American products recently for voting against a resolution? Answer: Srilanka

INDIA & WORLD 1.Who is the Arab League head , who discussed on the issue of Syrian fate failed recently held in Cairo on 3 March2012? Answer: Nabil Elaraby 2. Who had inaugurated the trade show in Jakarta by India, to reach the target of $ 25 billion by 2015 ? Answer: Mr. Anand Sharma 3. Where was the Indo-Israel free trade agreement meeting was held recently? Answer: Hyderabad

NATIONAL

1.Which are the two new missiles developed by defense research & development laboratory handed over to Navy & IAF on 3 March 2012? Answer: Torpedo & Akash 2. Who is the next Army cheif for the Indian Army after the retirement of Gen.V.K.Singh on 31 May 2012? Answer: Lt,Gen.Bikram singh 3. Who is Asias richest woman with a net worth of $ 12billion in our country? Answer: Savitri Jindal 4. Who is the Foreign minister of Italy who has been camping in India relating with two Italian Marines recently? Answer: Staffan De Misture 5. How many new trains had been introduced by the railway minister in Railway budget 2012-13? Answer: 75 6. Which company had opened centre of excellence for oracle recently for IT services and business solutions ? Answer: Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS) 7. Name the project which had been sanctioned 423crore rupees loan assistance in Gujarat from NABARD Answer: Narmada link project

STATES 1. Which state recorded the highest voting percentage in the history of election, which were held in the month of Feb in five states recently? Answer: Goa 2. Who is the first independent woman loco driver in SCR? Answer: S. Satyavathi 3. What is the assets declared by Mayawati while her nomination for the Rajya Sabha recently?

Answer: 111.64 crore 4. Which is the plan , which was launched by the Chief minister of A.P Kiran Kumar recently? Answer: SHG Linkage credit plan 5. From which place in Andhra Pradesh the first International flight took off recently? Answer: Visakhapatnam

CONFERENCES 1. Who inaugurated the 50th golden jubilee celebration of Afro-Asian Rural Development Organisation held in New Delhi recently? Answer: Manmohan singh 2. In which place the Turkeys World Trade Bridge International Summit is going to be held ? Answer: Istanbul 3. In which place was the International Monitory Fund Summit was held recently ? Answer: New Delhi 4. Where was the second conference of nuclear security summit held recently? Answer: Seoul 5. Where will be the third Nuclear Security Summit is going to be held next year ? Answer: Netherland

AWARDS & HONOURS 1. Who is the Telugu novelist, who had been awarded Kurra Kotisuryamma Memorial Award for his outstanding contribution to Telugu literature? Answer: Bheemaraju Venkataramana 2. Who is the worlds tallest man, finally stopped growing after treated ? Answer: Sultan Kosen

3. Who had been awarded with Ugadi Puraskaram from the Andhra Pradesh Government recently? Answer: P.Surya Rao 4. Who is the women, awarded with Nirmal Gram Puraskar for the year 2012 from Andhra Pradesh from the President Pratibha Patil recently? Answer: Y.Chintamma 5.How many new World Records were set up in 12 hours by the former England cricketer Andrew Flintoff and Steve Harmison ? Answer: 14 6. Who is the Hungarian Mathematician who has been awarded with Abel Prize for the year 2012? Answer: Endre Szemerede

SPORTS & GAMES 1. To which place India dropped in ODI championship Table after losing their triangular series in Australia? Answer: 3rd place 2. Who is cricket player who made 100 centuries in his career recently? Answer: Sachin Tendulkar 3. Who is the sportswoman from Andhra Pradesh ,who is going to represent India at the World Cup for Archery which is going to held in China in April 2012? Answer: Jyothi Surekha 4. Who had won the BNP Paribas Womens single title for the year 2012? Answer: Victoria Azarenka 5. Who is the Worlds no-1 ranking Golf player , Who had won the US PGA Transitions Championship held at Florida recently? Answer: Luke Donald 6. Who had been the Player of the Tournament in the Asia Cup 2012 held at Dhaka recently ?

Answer: Shakib Ali Hasan

ECONOMY 1. What is the name of the new card product which was launched by ICICI bank for the super rich recently? Answer: Sapphiro 2. In which place is Indian railways in World ranking? Answer: Fourth place 3.What is the percentage of service tax , which had been raised in the budget 2012-13? Answer: 12% 4.What is the per capita income of India for the year 2012-13 ? Answer: Rs. 60972 5. Which country is the highest consumer of oil in per capita terms ? Answer: United states 6. Which country stood at the least place in service sector ? Answer: India 7.What is the per capita GDP of Qatar ? Answer: 44.45 lakh 8. How much financial aid was granted by the World Bank to India ? Answer: $4.3billion 9. Name the new equality saving scheme announced in the budget 2012-13 recently? Answer: The Rajiv Gandhi Equality saving scheme

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1. In how many planets in solar system life may exist according to the researchers ? Answer: 5 Planets

2. What is the name of the second largest Moon of Saturn? Answer: Rhea 3. What is the name of the submarine which had been taken as lease from Russia recently? Answer: INS Chakra 4. Which type of Asprin was invented by the scientist to fight against Cancer? Answer: Gas-filled

PERSONS IN NEWS a) Appointments 1. Who is the new M.D for Hyundai Motors India , who was appointed recently? Answer: Bo Shin Seo 2. Who is the New President of Germany , who has been elected recently? Answer: Joachin Gauck 3. Who is the new Railway minister for UPA Government ? Answer: Mukhul Roy b) Resigns 1. Who is the Railway minister , who had resigned recently from the cabinet for raising the railway fares ? Answer: Dinesh Trivedi c) Deaths 1.Who is the philanthropist who died recently, vice chairman of Sankar foundation? Answer: Sankar Rao d) Visitors 1.Who is the Egypt Ambassador, who visited India for the golden jubilee celebration of (AARDO)? Answer: Mr.Ahmed Abulkheir

2. Who is the Turkish Ambassador who visited Hyderabad recently? Answer: Dr.Burak Aklapar 3. Who is the managing director of International monitory fund ( IMF) , who visited India recently? Answer: Christine Lagarde 4. Who is the Prime ministe of Canada who had visited Thailand recently? Answer: Staphen Harper 5. Who is the US Secretary of commerce who visited India for bilateral trade meeting ? Answer: John Bryson e) Miscellaneous 1. Who is Bollywood Actress to become the sixth Bollywood celebrity to be honoured with a wax likeness? Answer: Madhuri Dixit

ABBREVIATIONS 1. AIMA stands for ___________All India Management Association

BOOKS IN NEWS 1. Who had written the book Didi: A Political biography of Mamata Benerjee recently? Answer: Monobina Gupta 2. Russian court dismissed the plea seeking ban on which Holly Literature book translation recently ? Answer: Bhagwad Gita

April 2012 Current Affairs Bit Bank

INTERNATIONAL 1. Aung San Suu Kyi who recently won in Myanmar parliament elections, belongs to which political party?

Answer : Nation League for Democracy (NLD) 2.The US Govenment announced an additional 12.2 million aid to which country recently? Answer : Syria 3. Who is the Chief of Laskhar e-Taiba, a reward money of $10 million has been announced on him by America? Answer : Hafiz Saeed

INDIA & WORLD 1. Indias which board was admitted as the 11th member of MDEP recently? Answer : Atomic Energy Regulatory 2.Which two countries signed an agreement on Contract Workers ? Answer : India & UAE 3. Which countries had signed six agreements in diverse areas recently including oil& gas? Answer : India & Qatar 4. In which country the Industrial Canton Fair is going to be held? Answer : China

NATIONAL 1. Where is the largest Tulip garden is situated in Asia? Answer: Srinagar 2. Which country had stated to expand the members in UN Security Council recently? Answer : India 3. Where was the oldest and largest bank of South Korea had set its branch recently in India ? Answer : Chennai 4.Commemorative Postage Stamp of which president was released to mark the birth centenary recently?

Answer : R.Venkataraman 5. Union Government decided to raise working capital ECB resources for which sector recently? Answer : Aviation sector

STATES 1. Where was the foundation stone for countrys first financial city laid up in ? Answer : Bangalore 2. In which state the 4G services were launched recently? Answer : Kolkata

CONFERENCES 1. In which place was the 20th ASEAN Summit held recently? Answer : Combodia 2.Where was the RIC trilateral conference held recently? Answers : Mascow 3. Where was the 6th summit of the Americas held recently? Answer : Colombia

AWARDS & HONOURS 1.Who is the Democratic leader of Myanmar awarded with Sukarno Prize for creation of Democracy in the country? Answer : Aung San Suu Kyi 2. Which award has been presented to Lt.Gen.Bikram Singh? Answer : Gallantry Award

SPORTS & GAMES 1. Novack Djikivic world no-1 defeated whom to claim the Miami masters title in the final held in Florida? Answer : Andy Murrey 2. Who is the first woman wrestler to be qualified for the Olympics afterwinning gold in Astana recently? Answer : Geeta Kumari 3. Who is the Tennis player captured her 40th career title in WTA tournament? Answer : Sarena Williams 4. Who had won the 11th Asian Billiards championship held in Goa recently? Answer : Pankaj Advani 5. Where was the Archery World Cup Stage-I games held recently? Answer : Shanghai 6. Who had won the Mens Single Asian Badminton Championship recently? Answer : Chen Jin

ECONOMY 1.With the cooperation of which country Multiskill development centre is going to start in Bangalore and Gulberg? Answer : Germany 2. According to the World Economic Outlook report what is the lowered economic growth of India in 2012? Answer : 6.9%

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1. What is name of the Worlds first flying car ? Answer : Terrafugia 2. Where was the new ISRO spy satellite centre was launched recently?

Answer : Sriharikota 3. In which place India has successfully carried out the AWACS test flight recently? Answer : Brazil 4. From which place the Agni-v long range ballistic missile was test fired recently? Answer : Odisha 5.What is the name of the ballistic missile which was test fired by Pakistan recently? Answer : Hatf-IV 6. What is the name of all weather radar imaging satellite launched recently by India ? Answer : RISAT-I 7. What is the name of the stealth frigate which was inducted into navy recently? Answer : INS Teg

PERSONS IN NEWS A)Appointments 1. Who is the new special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan? Answer : Amarendra Khatua 2. Who is the new king of Malaysia elected recently? Answer : Sultan Abdul Halim 3. Who had been appointed as UNHCR special envoy recently? Answer : Angelina Jolie 4. Who had been appointed as the President of World Heart Federation ? Answer : Dr.Srinath Reddy

B) Resigns 1.Lucas Papademos is president of which country resigned recently due to early elections in the country?

Answer : Greece 2.Who is the president of Mali resigned recently? Answer : Amadov Toumani Toure 3. What is the name of Jordan Prime minister who resigned recntly? Answer : Awn aL Khasawneh C)Deaths 1. Who is the legendary newsman popular CBS 60Minutes programmer died recently? Answer : Mike Wallace 2.Who is president of Malawi died of heart attack recently? Answer : Binju Wa Mutharika

D)Visitors 1.The Chancellor of Exchequer of UK, who visited India for the fifth economic financial ministerial meeting held in New Delhi? Answer : George Osborne 2. Who is the Pakistan president visited India recently? Answer : Asif Ali Zardari 3.Who is the Norwegian Minister of Trade & Industry visited India regarding Telenor issue recently? Answer : Trond Giske E)Miscellaneous 1. Which city is the worlds most impressive city according to the Wealth report? Answer : London 2. Which organisation has became the heritage of the sank Titanic ship 100 years ago? Answer : UNESCO

PLACES IN NEWS 1. Where is the name of the worlds highest tunnel bridge located in China? Answer : Aizhai

Books in news 1.Reflections of a Statesman book was written on whose life history ? Answer : R.Venkataraman

Committees in news 1. Under whom the two member Adarsh Judicial Commission was set up by the Maharashtra Government? Answer : N.N.Kumbahar

May 2012 Current Affairs Bit Bank

INTERNATIONAL 1.Who is the new president of Russia recently taken sworn? Answer : Vladimir Putin 2. The Hamburg harbour celebrates how many years recently? Answer: 823 years 3. Which company become number one mobile company in the world? Answer: Samsung 4. Which country had discovered petroleum recently? Answer: Bangladesh 5.Liberias president for his war crimes sentenced to jail for ? Answer: 50years INDIA & WORLD

1.What is the place where Pakistan lost nearly 140 soldiers after a masive avalannde entombed the Gayari army base recently? Answer: Siachen 2.Sahar signed an agreement to build and develop a new city in which country? Answer: Bangladesh 3. India made dozen agreements with which country recently? Answer: Myanmar NATIONAL 1. The country with the greatest numbers of preterm birth with 35,19,100 is ________? Answer: India 2. Where was the statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled recently? Answer: South Africa 3. What is the position of India in cyber crime according to report given by SDA? Answer: fifth place 4. Where will be the 46th Asian Development Bank Meeting of 2013 will be held? Answer: New Delhi 5. How many years were completed by our existing parliament after the first election held in 13 May 1952? Answer: 60 years 6. What is the name of the TAPI gas pipeline project (TGPP) which originate from the Turkmenistan reaches to India via Afghanistan and Pakistan? Answer: Peace pipeline 7. Whose death anniversary is observed as the Anti Terrorism Day? Answer: Rajiv Gandhi 8. Osmania University Ranked ______ in the top 121 Universities in the country according to Nielsen survey Answer: 6th

STATES 1.The Indian Institute of Chemical Technology Hopes to Establish Deflouridation Plants in which states? Answer : A.P & Rajasthan CONFERENCES 1. At which place the World Wildlife Fund summit is going to be held ? Answer: Brazil 2. Where was the NATO summit 2012 held for Three days recently ? Answer: Chicago AWARDS & HONOURS 1. Who had been awarded Kalpana Chawla Excellence Award? Answer : Miss Vinya Mishra & Sushma Seth 2. Who is the person from India got the prestigious International Jurists award? Answer : Mulayam Singh Yadav 3. Who has been conferred The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun title recently? Answer: Ratan Tata 4. Who has been awarded the first Tagore Award for cultural harmony ? Answer : Pt Ravi Shankar 5.who awarded in 65th cannes film festival as best actor ? Answer: Mads Mikkelsen 6. Rahul Battachary who is an Indian won British friction prize on ? Answer: Literature SPORTS & GAMES 1.Who had won the World Snooker Title for 2012 held at Sheffield? Answer: Ronnie OSullivan

2.What is the new national record set by Krishna Poonia atTrack crew Throwdown Meet recently in Hawaii? Answer : 64.76m 3. Who had won the World Cup Title recently held at Antalya, Turkey? Answer: Deepika Kumari 4. Who had won the Madrid Mens Open title held at Madrid , Spain recently? Answer: Roger Federar 5. Who had won the National Junior Boxing championship for 2012 Answer: Manjeet Singh 6. Sania-Mattek pair recently won which title? Answer: Brussel open Title 7. who won orange cap in IPL-5 ? Answer : Chris Gale (RCB) 8. The total 6s in th IPL is Answer: 728 9. Formulae one Manacco Grand pix won by ? Answer: Mark Weber 10.the winner of thomas cup in London olympics is ? Answer: Lin danled(china) 11. chattisgardh girls and boy clinch national tites on which game ? Answer : Basket ball 12. Grand master Anand belongs to which state in India? Answer: Chennai ECONOMY 1.Which state topped the list of highest per capita income in the country with 1,92,652 rupees?

Answer: Goa 2.The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided assistance of how many USD aid to India? Answer: $6.25 billion 3. What are the norms called for the implementation of the new global capital adequacy which was directed by the RBI to Indian Banks? Answer: Basel-III 4. Andhrapradesh high court invalidated which % sub-quato for Minority? Answer: 4.5% SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1. Which country had recently test fired a short range ballistic missile ? Answer: Pakistan 2. Which country has launched TMA-04M rocket recently? Answer: Russia 3.India test fired the which type of Akash Missile recently? Answer: Surface to air 4. pakistan test fired Nuclear capable _______ Missile ? Answer: Hatf9 PERSONS IN NEWS a)Appointments 1. Name the Vatican Envoy to India and Nepal, who inaugurated A.P Mission Congress? Answer : Sarvotore Pennacchio 2. Who has been appointed as the German ambassador to India recently? Answer: Michael steiner 3. who selected as a member of Borad Federation Against drugs from India? Answer : Kiran Bedi

b) Resigns 1. Who is Snooker champion announced his retirement recently? Answer : Stephen Hendry 2. Who is the Indian American scientist quits from top energy post recently? Answer : Apunava Majumdar 3. who is vice president and CCO of infosys Bpo reginesed recently? Answer: Ritesh Idnani c)Deaths 1.Who is the Afghan peace negotiator shot dead recently? Answer : Arsalan Rahmani Daulat 2. Who is the Mexican novelist played dominant role in Latin America died recently? Answer : Carlos Fuentes d)Visitors 1. Who is the EU Ambassador to India visited Nagaland to interact with chamber of commerce and industry recently? Answer: Joao Cravinho 2. who is the democracy Icon in Myanmar ,first visit to abroad in 24years is ? Answer: Aung san suu kyi e)Miscellaneous 1. Where is the worlds largest temple is going to be built by Mahavir Mandir trust? Answer : Bihar 2. At which place the Awan ka Cinema film festival is going to be organized? Answer : Kargil 3. Tallest residential building princess tower located at ? Answer : Dubai 4. Worlds richest lady according to business review weekly ? Answer : Gina Rinehart

5. who is the present president of myanmar ? Answer: Theinsein DAYS & DATES 1. The laughter day is celebrated on which day? Answer: First Sunday of May every month 2. Anti tobacco day is celebrated on which day? Answer : May 31st BOOKS IN NEWS 1. Who is the author of the book Harbinger of Social Justic ? Answer: Sarah Booth COMMITTEES 1.Where was the 47th IAC committee meeting of NDA held? Answer: Khadakwasla Places in News 1. In which region of Italy faced powerfull earth quake ? Answer: north eastern region

June 2012 Current Affairs Bit Bank

INTERNATIONAL
1.India joined recently in which council of nations in Geneva on June 1st? Answer: UNHRC 2. Who is the Ex-President of Egypt sentenced to life imprisonment ? Answer: Hosni Mubarak 3.What is the company that is recently bought by google Answer: Meebo

4. The defence secretary of which country visited India recently to discuss chinas growing assertiveness Answer: U.S 5.What is the prize money given for Noble prize? Answer: 10million crowns 6.What is the organization that conducts auction on Gandhis memorabilia? Answer: Sothebys London 7. Who is the new President of Egypt ? Answer: Mohammed Morsey 8. Who is newly appointed Saudi Arabian Prince ? Answer: Prince salmon Bin Abdul Aziz 9.The PM of Pakistan who was disqualified by court of Prime Minister-ship recently, is ? Answer: Yusuf Raza Gilani 10. Who is the new PM of Greece ? Answer: Antoni Samara 11.The Oracle CEO, who bought Hawaiis sixth largest island,Lanai , is ? Answer: Larry Ellison 12.Who was the Kenyas Internal security minister killed in helicopter crash on 10 June 2012? Answer: George Saitoti 13. Which Agency given the list of failed state Index ? Answer: Foreign policy agency 14. Which party Parvez Ashraf belongs to? Answer: Pakistan peoples party 15. Who is elected as the president of Egypt ? Answer: Islamic Mohamed Mursi

16. Who is composed the official song for London 2012 Olympics? Answer: Muse 17. Which countrys court held US health care Law of constitution ? Answer: U.S

INDIA & WORLD

1.India allowed which country in FDI? Answer: pakistan 2. who is indo- american elected as the 2nd highest court of US? Answer: srikanth srinivasan 3.Who is the richest sports person in India according to Forbes list of Worlds 100 richest sports person ? Answer: M.S.Dhoni 4. In the 7th G-20 summit ,how much contribution did India made to IMFs bailout Fund ? Answer: 10million US Dollars 5. Which company want to invest 1.5billion euros to set up 25 stores in the country under single brand retail FDI? Answer: IKEA

NATIONAL
1.who is the artist recently called off the Israel visit to disapprove Israeli policies? Answer: Zakir Hussain 2.Which country stood 1st for the strongest annual growth rate according to the global survey by knight frank ? Answer: Brazil 3. What is the name of only country where the worlds largest selling soap brand is being launches as deodorant ? Answer: India 4.Which computer educator creates Indias first 3D ad film ?

Answer: Aptech 5.Who is the president of NASSCOM? Answer: Som Mittal

STATES
1.Who won in the by-elections of A.P? Answer: Y.S.R Congress party 2.What is the sex ratio of urban girls out of 1000 boys according to 2011 census in A.P state ? Answer: 946 3.Indias first River-lake link project launched In ? Answer: Bundelkhand 4.Which state Government announced an un-employment scheme ? Answer: Rajasthan

CONFERENCES
1. Indian science congress held at ? Answer: Kolkatta 2.What is the name of the alternative International AIDS conference held by India ? Answer: Dubar Mahila Samanway samiti (DMSS) 3.Who inaugurated the 28th Annual conference of chief commissioners and Directors General of Income Tax in the capital? Answer: Pranab Mukharjee 4.Rio+20 earth summit took place at ? Answer: Rio de Janeiro

AWARDS & HONOURS

1.who is the first Indian to receive Wisden India outstanding achievement award? Answer: Sachin Tendulkar 2. Who awarded as the Best actor in IIFA awards?

Answer: Ranbir Kapoor 3. Which Organization got wins Effie award ? Answer: Ogilvy Mumbai 4) Who got Mexican Honour from India during G-20 summit ? Answer: R.K.Pachauri 5.Which organization received 2012 World Business & Development Award ? Answer: ITC 6. which organization awarded as G20 challenge award for Medicare? Answer: Apollo 7.Who bagged the Entrepreneur of the year award,2012 of Hyderabad Management Association? K.Ravi, M.D of NCL industries 7. Ratan Tata was recently honoured for his innovation in philanthropy by _______ Answer: Rockefeller foundation Life Time achievement award

SPORTS & GAMES

1.Who won ITF mens future title, which held in Mandya karanataka on June 2nd 2012 ? Answer: Saket Myneni 2.Who won on June 4 a golden Medal in prost pree elite womens discus throw event, where she belong s to Russia ? Answer: Darya Pischalnikova 3.who won the French open title 2012 in mixed doubles? Answer: Bhupati-sania 4. Euro cup is organized by Answer: UEFA 5. Who won the 2012 French Open title in Mens singles? Answer: Nadal 6.Who is the Indian Cricketer appointed as a brand ambassador of Nepal cricket Association?

Answer: M.S.Dhoni 7. Who is the First woman to win 3 tittles of Indonesia open super series in India badminton history? Answer: Saina Nehwal 8.Who is the Indian Hockey goal Keeper suspended recently for being positive in the doping test? Answer: Adrin Dsouza 9.Who won bronze in Junior womens meeting of shooting hopes Championship concluded at Plzen in Czench Republic on 10 June ? Answer: Tejaswini 10.Who won the 800m race in Diamond league meet with a time of one minute 41.74 seconds ? Answer: Rudisha 11. Who shared the title with humpy in the FIDE womens Grand Pix ? Answer: Anna Muzychuk 12.Who is organizes the Wimbledon Championship? Answer: All England Club 13.The country which is going to sent women athletes in the Olympics for the first time ever Answer: Saudi 14.Who is the first amputee runner to compete at the Olympic games ,2012? Answer: Oscar Pistorius

ECONOMY
1.Bihar topped in Gross State domestic product with which percent Growth in 2011-12? Answer: 13.1

2.Which Federation stated 10 point agenda for economic survival of India ? Answer: CII (The confederation of Indian Industry) 3. Which rating agency downgraded 15 of the worlds biggest banks on 21 June ?

Answer: Moody 4.Which organization set the norms for listing SEs? Answer: SEBI 5.What is the current limit of foreign investment in government bonds? Answer: 20 billion dollar

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1.which vegetables genome was sequenced completely in 2012? Answer: Tomato 2. what is the name of the missile test fired by the Pakistan recently. Answer: Haft VII(babur) 3.When did the largest solar flare occurred ? Answer: March 7.2012 4.Where the largest database of martian impact creates on Mars is ? Answer: At the university of Colorado 5.who is the first woman Astronaut of china sent into space ? Answer: Liu Yang 6.Fourth human spaceflight shenzhon-9 was launched into space by which country in 2012 ? Answer: China 7.What is the technology that is currently being used in India to detect cyclones and Tsunamis, implemented by NIO & ISRO Answer: Aerial Microwave Radar Gauge 8.What is the first country where German house was started for the first time ? Answer: U.S

PERSONS IN NEWS
a)Appointments

1.Who is appointed as the IAFs western Air command chief ? Answer: Arup Raha

2.Who is appointed as the new chairman of LIC ? Answer: Dinesh Kumar Mehrotra 3.Who is the cricketer taken oath as a Rajya sabha MP recently on June 4? Answer: Sanchin Tendulkar 4.Who is recently appointed as navy chief? Answer: D.K.Joshi 5.who retired as CEC recently? Answer: S.Y.Qureshi 6. who appointed as the head of DGH ? Answer: R.N.Chaubey 7.Present deputy governor who reappointed recently of RBI ? Answer: K.C.Chakrabarty 8. Who is the new CEO of Tata Global ? Answer: Harish Bhat 9.Who is the chairman of FAI- south ? Answer: K.Rahul raju 10 . who is new chief of ICC ? Answer: Alan Isaac 11. who is the new commissioner of Delhi Police after B.K.Gupta ? Answer: Neeraj Kumar 12. Who is appointed as the US ambassador to Myanmar ? Answer: Derek Mitchell
b) Resigns

1. who resigned as the commerce secretary of president Obama ? Answer: John E. Bryson

2.Who is the union minister for micro,small and medium enterprises resigned recently on fraud corruption charges Answer: Virbadra Singh
c)Deaths

1. Who is the first women to win Nobel Prize in Economics ? Answer: Elinor Ostrom 2.The first boxer to win the first olympic gold medal,who died recently? Answer: Teofila Stevenson 3. Mehdi Hassan, how died recently is a ______ by profession? Answer: Ghazal Singer

4.Who is national secretary of CITU died recently? Answer: Dipankar Mukherjee

d)Visitors

1.Which place visited by PM Manmohan after 2 summits ? Answer: Pretoria 2.Who is the US Defence secretary visited india recently ? Answer: Leon Pnetta
e)Miscellaneous

1. Britain Queen Elizabeth-II celebrated her diamond Jubilee at ? Answer: Thames ,London 2.Who is the Japanese mountaineer climbs the worlds 14 tallest mountains ? Answer: Hirotaka Takeuchi 3. Who won Indian Spell Bee by spelling word Belligerent conducted by Times of India ? Answer: Samvida Venkatesh

4.Who beat the R.J.Rolling book harry potter record of fastest selling in a week? Answer: Erika Mitchell

DAYS & DATES

1.The worlds environment day is celebrated on Answer: 5th June 2. Refusee Day is obeserved on ? Answer: 21st June

BOOKS IN NEWS
1. Abdul kalam Turning points is a sequel of ? Answer: Wings of fire 2.What is the book released about L.K.Advani? Answer: Those were the day and then -The Life & times of L.K.Advani

COMMITTEES
1.Who headed the (GTA) high power committee? Answer: Retire Justice Shyamal sen

Places in News
1.Which country faced earth quake of Magnitude of 5.9 rector scale on June 4. Answer: Indonesia Sumitra island 2.What is the happiest place on earth as announced the new Economics Foundations Happy Planet Index ? Answer: costa Rica

Abbrevations
1.IUCN stands for ? Answer: International Union for Conservation of Nature 2.ESI stands for ? Answer: Environmental Sustainable Index

July 2012 Current Affairs Bit Bank

INTERNATIONAL
1. Cypruss main Theme for its EU precidency is ?

Answer : Towards a Better Europe 2. The Mexican Government declared a national animal heath emergency on 2 July in the face of aggressive ____? Answer : Bird flu 3. U.S & China pledged to ease strains in their relationship renewed disputes over ? Answer : South China sea 4. Who passed the bill to protect leaders from contempt of court proceedings from Pakistan? Answer : Asif Ali zardari 5. Name the space craft in which sumitha willians took aoff for the International space station recently? Answer : Soyuz 6.U.S cut Military aid to ______? Answer : Pakistan

INDIA & WORLD

1.Foreign direct Investment flows into India in 2011 is ? Answer : $32 billion 2. Who is the foreign secretary of pakistan at present ? Answer : Abhas Jilani 3. What is the name of the Islands offered by Mauritius to India , preserve tax treaty ? Answer : North & South Agalega Islands 4.What is the name of the trade and Insdustry Minister ? Answer : Hanna Tettch 5. India had invoked a lowpermitting Nato pharma to manufracture Nexavar drug to cure ? Answer : Cancer 6.Which countries signed pact for funding two new units at the kundakulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamilnadu? Answer : India & Russia

7.Which country is in best place in Child development Index ? Answer : Japan 8.What is the British University which conferred an honorary degree of Doctorate of letters to the elected president Pranab Mukherjee? Answer : University of Wolverhampton

NATIONAL 1.Which place of india recognised recently under world heritage list ?
Answer : Western Ghats 2.Inda, south east Asia nations join hands to protech____? Answer : Wildlife 3.Which state has represented the highest no:of suicides According to accidental deaths & Suicides in India 2011? Answer : West Bengal 4. what is the second competitive city in our country according to International think tank report on 11 July 2012? Answer : Mumbai 5. How many central universities are there in India ? Answer : 41 6. which associationa was ban was extended by Government of india due to anti India posture ? Answer : LTTE 7.Who is the 13th President of India ? Answer : Pranab Mikharjee

STATES
1.Which type of license in Karnataka indicates donation of organs ? Answer : Driving License 2. Which scheme was implemented by Madhya Pradesh according to delivery Monitoring unit? Answer : MNREGA

3.According to Goa scheme Ladli Lakshmi the women can avail of Rs.1Lakh to meet ? Answer : Wedding expenses 4. Who is the new CM of Karanataka ? Answer : Jagadish shettar 5. Orissa chief Minister Naveen patnaik on 13 July 2012 announced increase in the representation of woment in Urban local bodies (ULBs) from 3 percent to ______? Answer : 50 % 6.What is the major festival in Rajastahan celebrated inviting rains by women____ Answer : Teej

CONFERENCES
1. who represented India in 1st East Asia Educational Ministers Meeting ? Answer : Purandhareswari 2. What is the conference held yo help wartorn Afghanistan ? Answer : Tokyo conference 3. The first World Hindi Conference will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from ? Answer : September 22 -24 4. What is the name of the conference held by NASA recently for which it has included two indian Innovators ? Answer : Conference on waste management

AWARDS & HONOURS

1.Who is the received Nayudamma award for the year 2012 ? Answer : V.Rahjanna 2.Who is the APCC secretary ? Answer : Ananda Babu 3. The winner Golden Peacock Environment Management Award 2012 is ? Answer : Manipal University

4. Lanco Infratech Jopurnal was adjudged best in which category ? Answer : cover design 5. Mining Engineer of the year Award for 2010-11 was presented to ___? Answer : Narendra Kumar Nanda , director od NMDC 6. What is the award recently won by sundarsham Patnaik ? Answer : Peoples choice medal Award 7.How many Indo- American scientists gotPresidential early career Awards2012 ? Answer : four

SPORTS & GAMES

1.Who won the AT & T golf Tournament on 1 July 2012 ? Answer : Tiger woods 2.who was the winner of UEFA Eurocup Foot ball championship? Answer : Spain 3.The rishcest domestic golf event in the country costs ? Answer : Rs.1.25 crores 4.M.R .Venkatesh became the grand master chess tournament event at ? Answer : USA 5.How many gold medals won by india in aAsian wrestlers cadet championship ay Bishket? Answer : 5 6. Who won British Grand prix in Formula 1? Answer : Webber 7. Who won Monsoon Regatta sailing championship held at hyderabad ? Answer : saravanan 8.Who is the swiss National won 7 WimbeldonTitles ? Answer : Roger Federer

9.Who is the south African wicket keepeer announced retirement aftera an eye injury? Answer : Mark Boucher 10. Highest number of doping tests were conducted in which games ? Answer : London Olympic Games 2012 11. Who sets another National record of 50 m breast stroke event in 35.42 seconds ? Answer : Jaya veena 12. Who is the fastest bowler from Australia retired recently from International cricket? Answer :Brett Lee 13. Who will be the Indias flag -bearer in London Olympics Answer : Sushil kumar 14. Who won Swedish open title in Mens Singles ? Answer : David Ferrer 15. Who Won Scottish Golf Open on 16 Juy 2012 ? Answer : Jeev Mailkha 16. West Classic Title won by ? Answer : Serena Williams 17.Who is the first saouth Africa but man to score a triple century? Answer : Hashima Amla 18. The Gagan Narang associated with which game ? Answer : Air Rifle

ECONOMY
1.Tata AIG wants to merge in ? Answer : Tata AIA Life 2.Which facility was launched by RBI for G-secs trading ? Answer : Web based system for online trading

3.To whom ICICI bank sold its debt in Kingfisher ? Answer : Srei arm 4.India stod on which position in the production of pharma products . Answer : 3rd largest producer 5.India falls in which place for the most preferred destination as reported by UNCTAD? Answer : 3rd 6. what are the 5 states to build 9,000 km of rural roads to connect through? Answer : Assam,Chattigarh, Madhya praedesh, orissa & West Bengal 7. How many crores Coal India LTD wants to Invest on Rail Infrastructure in 3 states ? Answer : 7,500 crores

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1.Which plants Reactor is going to restart in Japan after a huge Earth Quake ? Answer : Ohi Nuclear plant 2.The Zebrafish research facility is availabale at ? Answer : CCMB 3.What is the alternative source of stem cell ? Answer : Amniotic stem cell 4.What is the HIV test that rcently got FDA permission ? Answer : Ora Quick Test 5.What is God Particle? Answer : a sub-atomic Particle 6. Change-3 mission to moon by ? Answer : China 7. What is the anti-HIV drug, first approved by USFDA? Answer : Truvada

8. Brahmos Missile has been inducted in all the three wings of Indian armed forces but not in ? Answer : Russia

PERSONS IN NEWS
a)Appointments

1. Who is newly elected president of mexico? Answer : Enrique Nieto 2. Who is the newly appointed as controller General of accounts ? Answer : Jawahar Thakur 3. Who is appointed as additional secretary and financial advisor in the ministry of steel Answer : E.k.Bharat Bhushan 4. Who is the 1st woman MD in India of US food company Heinzs ? Answer : Seema Modi 5. who is the new CEO of yahoo! Answer : Marissa Mayer 6.Which countrys New envoy key Karzai Aid to India ? Answer : Afghanistan 7.Who has been appointed as the Standing committee members of Rajya sabha ? Answer : Sachin & Rekha 8. Who has been appointed as the firsts chancellor for Nalanda University? Answer : Amertya sen 9. Who is the new president of Ghana ? Answer : John Dramani Mahama, 10. Who is the new Secretary of President Pranab ? Answer : Omita Paul
b) Resigns

1.In which fraud the Barclays bank was involved? Answer : Fraud of manipulating global benchmark lending rates 2. Who resigned as karnataka CM ? Answer :Mr sadananda Gowda
c)Deaths

1. Who is the Tamil Language computing championship away recently ? Answer : Anto peter 2.Truvada , the first anti HIV drug approvedby USFDA was developed by _____? Answer : Antonin Holy 3.Veteran Socialist leader who died on 17 July 2012 ? Answer : Mrinal Gore 4.Who is the first US woman to travel into space? Answer : sally Ride 5.Who was the head of womens regiment of subhasg chandra Boses Indian National Army(INA)? Answer : Lakshmi sehgal
d)Visitors

1. which country S. M Krishna external affairs Minister of India visited recently om 1July? Answer : Tajikistan 2.Who is the Indian Envoy to visit Tibet after 10 years ? Answer : S.Jaishakar 3. The UN envoy who visited syria on 9 July 2012 is ? Answer : Kofi annan
e)Miscellaneous

1.The President of which country won 5times as a president ? Answer : Ice land

2.What is the nickname of the south Philippines Crocodile which enters in Guinness world Record as largest in Captivity in the world ? Answer : Lolong 3. Oldest Meteor Impact was found in ? Answer : Green Land 4.What is the name of the worlds smallest fly? Answer : Eury platea nanaknihali 5. What is the name of the Europes tallest builifing ? Answer : shard 6. How many days logged by Hillary clinton on the road , since 2009 ? Answer : 351 days 7. Who is the Anglo Indian to vote in Presidential election in 2012 ? Answer : Derek oBrian, a Trinamool congress M.P

DAYS & DATES

1. World Population Day is observed on ? Answer : July 11 2. Parents Day is Obeserved on ? Answer : July 2

BOOKS IN NEWS
1.Which

book was written by Journalist Khalid A-H Ansari?

Answer : Sachin:Born to Bat 2. Which book was released recently by D.Subba Rao RBI Governor in chennai on July 4 ? Answer : Indian Banking Expectations 3. what is the name of the Book released by Rahul Dravid is ? Answer : Timeless Steel 4.What is the title of the book released on hockey Olympics?

Answer : Profiles of Indian Hockey Olympics

COMMITTEES
1.Which committee was appointed by PM for the alternative route for sethu samudram ? Answer : R.K.Pachuri expet committee 2. Which committee was set up by the kapil sibal to analyze the cartoons in NCERT text books Answer : Thorat committee 3. Mr . Kris Gopala Krishna Executive co- chariman of ? Answer : Infosys 4. P.M Constituted an expert committee to prepare and finalize guidelines for ? Answer : GAAR norms 5. SSTCG Committee to Coordinate among _____? Answer : Security Agencies

Places in News
1. Which region in Russia faced floods on 7 July 2012 ? Answer : Russias southern Krasnodar 2. what is the main origin of the earth quake struck in Northern India on 11 July ? Answer : Hindhukush

August 2012 Current Affairs Bit Bank

INTERNATIONAL
1. What are the Ans: Japan and China 2. Which law was Ans: COCA 2012 two countries by Pakistans disputed Supreme on Court Senkaku to Islands? PM?

annulled

protect

3. The reason to suspend Ans: The regime to Kill its people

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INDIA & WORLD

1. Which country is signed on MoU with the Election Commission of India on 01 August 2012 strengthening the electoral processes and political culture? Ans : South Korean 2. Russia and India prepare for Ans: anti-terror military excercises Siberian Republic of Buryatia INDRA-2012 for?

3. Who is suspect in a shooting incident at a Gurudwara in Oak Creek,US? Ans : Wade Michael Page 4. Which country asked the India to to register its Oil Marketing Companies(OMCs) for supply of petroleum products such as petrol,diesel, furnace oil and petcoke? Ans :Pakistan 5. Which country got the second place in Search Queries for Education on Google? Ans : India 6. Who got the first place in Forbes magazine list? Ans : Angela Merkel 7. On which country India impose a ban on importing milk and milk products? Ans : China 8. Through which port the India, Iran & Afghanistan decide to expand their trade and economic ties? Ans : Chabahar

NATIONAL
1. Which seed to be stopped the parliamentary committee recently recommended? Ans : genetically modified 2. Why the government reduces the mobile base station radiation limit from 1st September 2012? Ans : Due to health problems 3. Which state got the first place in FDI proposals? Ans : Odisha 4. The Union Cabinet on 28th August 2012 approved a proposal for amending the Child Labour,Which age group people come under Child Labour? Ans : upto 14 years

5. Who awarded the death sentence in 26 November 2008 attack by supreme court on 29th August 2012? Ans : Ajmal Kasab 6. In which State two Mi-17 medium-lift utility helicopters collided in mid-air while on a live firing exercise ? Ans : Gujarat

STATES
1. Which state got Ans : Andhra Pradesh the 2nd place in Environmental well-being state?

2. How much amount is approved for Delhi by the Planning commission for the year 201213? Ans : Rs 15,862 crore 3. How many crores of rupees approved by Punjab state under milk production scheme? Ans : Rs.93 crores 4. What is the scheme launched by the rajasthan for NRIs Ans :Jaane Apna Rajasthan 5. How much financial aid given by the delhi government for poor? Ans :5Lakhs

CONFERENCES
1. Where the eleventh Energy Efficient Summit was conducted? Ans: Hyderabad

AWARDS & HONOURS

1. What is worth of Yuri Milner award?

Ans : Rs 16.7 crore 2. Which award was received by the founder of Jaipur Foot,D.R.Mehta ? Ans : Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana award 3. How many number of coaches received the Dronacharya Award for 2012?

Ans : 8 4. Who received the V.V.Giri Memorial award 2011? Ans : Utsa Patnaik 5. Who received the Pakistans Highest award Nisan-i-Imtiaz? Ans : Saadat Hasan Manto 6. Who is the Indian American entrepreneur has been selected among the 18 Presidential Innovation Fellows who will work on five high-impact projects in the US capital? Ans : Karl Mehta

SPORTS & GAMES

1. In which event Vijay Kumar got silver medal in London Olympics 2012 ? Ans : 25m rapid fire pistol 2. In which event Saina Nehwal got Bronze medal in London Olympics 2012 ? Ans : Womens Singles Badminton 3. Which Olympian beat the record of Soviet Union gymnastic Larisa Latynina? Ans : Michael Phelps 4. Who won continuous gold medals in 100m & 200m race since first Olympics to 2012 London Olympics ? Ans : Usain Bolt 5. Who defeated the Roger Federer in the mens single tennis final in London Olympics 2012? Ans : Andy Murray from great Britain 6. In Which event Mary Kom got the bronze medal in London Olympics 2012? Ans : Womens boxing flyweight 7. In which event Yogeshwar Dutt got bronze medal in London Olympics 2012? Ans : mens freestyle 60kg category 8. In which event Sushil Kumar got the Silver medal in London Olympics 2012? Ans : mens 66kgs freestyle wrestling

9. Which country got the highest number of gold medals in London Olympics 2012? Ans : America 10. In Which game Mary Kom got the gold medal in London Olympics 2012? Ans : Womens boxing flyweight 11. Who take the 3000 runs then became the fastest player in one-day international cricket? Ans : South Africas Hashim Amla 12. Who received the Castrol Indian cricketer of the year-2011? Ans : Mahendra Singh Dhoni 13. Who got the doctorate on D.Litt from Calicut University? Ans : Montek, M.S.Swaminathan , Fathima Beevi

ECONOMY
1. How much amount is fixed by the Union Cabinet for 2G spectrum auction? Ans : Rs14,000crore 2. What the CIBIL introduced to help the banks to take a decision in respect of credit cards and home loans? Ans : Risk Index 3. How many number of millionaires in Beijing? Ans : 1.79 lakhs 4. From Which countries the government of India investigates about the information of Black Money under (DTAA) Double Taxation avoidance Agreement is ? Ans: France & Germany 5. Which foundation funded money for e-toilets? Ans: Melinda Gates Foundation 6. Who is the head of the PMs economic advisory council? Ans: C.Ranga Rajan

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1. Which used to coat the solar panel that makes it easier to keep them clean? Ans : nanoparticle 2. When a full moon appears in the night sky for the second time in a calendar month , it is called Ans : blue moon 3. How many Miles Spanned by Curiosity during the voyage to the Mars ? Ans: 352 million milies 4. What is the Range of the Agni-II missile which was test fired on 9 August 2012 and held at wheeler Island, Odisha Coast? Ans :2000 Km 5. The Therapeutic approach to PTA using a type of stem cell called? Ans : Mesenchymal stem cell (MSCs) 6. What is the name of the ballistic missile test fired by china with a range of 14,000 km Ans :Dong fneg-41

PERSONS IN NEWS
a) Appointments 1. Who appointed as the New Election Commissioner? Ans : Nasim Ahmad Zaidi 2. Who is the wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister take oath on 8th August 2012? Ans : Dimple Yadav 3. Who is the first lady appointed as Chairperson of the Central Board of Excise and Customs(CBEC)? Ans : Praveen Mahajan 4. Who is elected as Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha? Ans : P.J.Kurien b)Resigns 1. Who is the Special Peace envoy to Syria who resigned recently ?

Ans : Kofi Annan 2. Who is the communication minister resigned his pist on 27 aug 2012 ? Ans :Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi c) Deaths 1. How many times Mr.Vilasao Deshmukh worked as CM of Maharashtra? Ans: 2 2. Who is first human land on the moon? Ans : Neil Alden Armstrong 3. Who is an American author died on 1 August 2012? Ans: Gore Vidal 4. Suresh Dalal is a literature from Ans : Gujarati d)Visitors 1. Cubas vice foreign minister Rogelio sierra Diaz visited India on 7 august 2012 to attend ____ meeting? Ans : First IndiaCELAC Foreign Ministers troika Meeting e)Miscellaneous 1. Which new comet was discovered by Prafull sharma by using data from NASA and European space craft -based observatory SOHO is ? Ans :SOHO 2333 2. Who was suspended Indo-American Zakaria because he copied an article from The New Yorker Magazine? Ans : CNN / Time Magazine 3. How many countries visited by former president Pratibha Patil during her tenure as a President? Ans :18 countries 4. Who awarded multimedia award, skin & beauty award in Miss World Competition?

Ans :Vanya Mishra

PLACES IN NEWS
1. Which country struck by two earthquakes on 11th August 2012? Ans : north-west Iran ABBREVIATIONS 1. What is the Abbrivation of OIC? Ans : Organisation Islamic Cooperation BOOKS IN NEWS 1. Who is the author of the bookMission that killed Osama Bin Laden ? Ans :Pseudonym Mark Owen COMMITTEES IN NEWS 1. A 3 member panel is formed by Pakistan president Zardari to reassure __ who wants to flee from Pakistan? Ans :Pakistan Hindus 2. Who is the head of the six member committee to review on RRBs? Ans :S.K.Mitra 3. Which association set up a 3 member committee to resolve Hockey affairs? Ans :The Indian Hockey Association 4. Which panel has set up a two member working group to study on universal health coverage(UHC) Ans :The National advisory council 5. Which committee pulled up the department of atomic energy rules are not in true ? Ans : The subordinate legislation committe