MARCH– 2013 402) Vijay Hazare trophy is associated with which sports? Cricket 403) Santosh Trophy is associated with which sports? Football 404) Who was the winner of Vijay Hazare trophy: Delhi 405) Name the winner of Mexican Open Tennis Championship: Rafael Nadal 406) The ATP Dubai Open Tennis Title was won by: Novak Djokovic 407) Recently a stamp was released to commemorate the bicentenary celebrations of which regiment of Army’s 3rd Battalion: Parachute Regiment (Special Forces) 408) Name the Famous President of Venezuela who passed away recently: Hugo Chavez 409) Hugo Chavez was known for his open defiance to policies of which country: USA 410) Name the Prime Minister of Pakistan who recently visited India: Raja Pervez Ashraf 411) Prime Minister of Pakistan recently visited which place in India: Ajmer Sharif, Rajasthan 412) Manik Sarkar has been re-elected as Chief Minister of which state: Tripura 413) Name the terminology which is used for fully computerized banking where all the branches of a bank are linked to a core computer (Central Server): Core Banking Solutions (CBS) 414) Name the Chief Minister of Meghalaya who has been re-elected for the second time: Mukul Sangma 415) Who has been elected as Chief Minister in Nagaland: Neiphu Rio 416) Who is the author of the book ‘Walking with Lions’, Tales from a Diplomatic Past: Natwar Singh 417) Stephen Harper who visited India recently is Prime Minister of which country: Canada 418) Which state in India offers highest wages of Rs. 214 per day under NREGA Scheme: Haryana 419) Wages under NREGA are linked to which Consumer Price Index: CPI for Agriculture Labour (CPI–AL) 420) Govt has announced that failure to pay service tax exceeding Rs. __ lakhs may attract imprisonment upto 7 years: 50 421) What is the name given to the ATMs which are licenced to non banking companies and managed by them: White Label ATMs 422) The Govt has fix a target of Rs. ______ crore for disinvestment for the year 2013-14: 54,000 (40,000 crore in public sector companies & 14,000 crore rupees in companies where govt. has minority stake) 423) What is the divestment target for the year 2013- 14 in public sector companies: Rs. 40,000 crores 424) As per RBI guidelines, bank’s fixed deposits cannot be made for maturity period less than ______ and for a period not more than ________: 7 days; 10 years 425) Govt has announced Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme to attract defaulters of which tax: Service Tax 426) To encourage prompt repayment of bank loans, the government has decided to continue with the additional _______ percent interest subvention available for timely repayment of farm loans upto Rs. 3 lakhs: Three 427) As per budget announcement, banks have been given a target of Rs. ________ crore for farm loans during the year 2013-14: Seven lakh 428) In the Banking parlance, deposits are known as ______ and loans are known as ________. Liabilities; Assets 429) Name the special luxury coaches to be introduced by the Indian Railways: Anubhuti GYANM’S GENERAL AWARENESS –AUGUST 2013 73 430) President of India recently visited which country: Bangladesh 431) Name the author of the book ‘Wild’: Cheryl Strayed 432) Ashwani Kumar has been appointed as Governor of which state: Nagaland 433) Who has been appointed as Governor of Tripura: Devanand Konwar 434) Name the country that lifted Sultan Azlan Shah Cup of hockey: Australia 435) The Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament was held at which place: Ipoh, Malaysia 436) Deodhar Trophy is linked with which sports: Cricket 437) University of Mauritius has conferred the prestigious honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law on which Indian Statesman: Pranab Mukherjee 438) Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has recently been appointed as: Pope of Christians 439) What is the new name adopted by the new Pope: Pope Francis I 440) What is the official UN theme for this year for the International Women’s day: A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women. 441) Who has been awarded Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony: Pandit Ravi Shankar (Late) 442) Name the famous poet and lyricist on whose first birth anniversary a commemorative postage stamp has been released: Sahir Ludhianvi 443) Uhuru Kenyatta has been elected as New President of which country: Kenya 444) Name the President of world bank who recently visited India: Jim Yong Kim 445) Name the Chief Justice of Nepal who has been sworn in as country’s interim Prime Minister: Khil Raj Regmi 446) World’s largest telescope name ALMA has been recently opened in which country: Chile 447) Three-day SAARC journalists convention was held at which place: Indore, Madhya Pradesh 448) Xi Jinping has been appointed as new ______ of Republic of China: President 449) Name the new Prime Minister of Republic of China: Li Keqiang 450) Apart from accepting deposits and making loans, banks have taken up a variety of other functions such as selling insurance products, mutual funds, credit cards, etc. Such activities are termed as: Para Banking 451) The government has fixed a target of ________ percent of GDP for the fiscal deficit for the year 2013-14: 4.8 452) Government has made it mandatory to file income tax return in electronic form the year 2013-14 for all persons having income of over Rs. ______ :5 lakhs 453) Takehiko Nakao has been appointed as President of which International organization: Asian Development Bank 454) With which country India has signed a swap agreement of $100 mn to boost economic cooperation between the two countries: Bhutan 455) Saraswati Samman, a prestigious honour is awarded in which field: Literature (across all languages) 456) Name the winner of Saraswati Samman 2012: Sugatha Kumari 457) Name the guidelines as per which RBI has directed all the banks to follow uniform size and format of the cheques, with effect from 1st August, 2013: CTS (Cheque Truncation System) guidelines, 2010 458) Sugatha Kumari is a famous poetees of which language: Malayalam 459) Name the feature film that won the National Award for ‘Best Feature Film’ across all languages: Pan Singh Tomar 460) Name the director of the film Pan Singh Tomar: Tigmanshu Dhulia 461) Name the film that won the national award for best popular film providing wholesome entertainment: Vicky Donor by Shoojit Sirkar 462) Which three states have recently got their own High Courts: Tripura, Meghalaya & Manipur 463) The book Oath of the Vayuputras has been written by: Amish Tripathi 464) Name the book written by Chetan Bhagat about the Indian youth: What Young India Wants 465) Name the oil field in Barmer, Rajasthan, where commercial production of crude oil started recently: Aishwarya Oil Field 466) Chameli Devi Jain Award is given in which field: Journalism 467) Name the 2012-winner of the Chameli Devi Jain Award: Alka Dhupkar 468) The Union Cabinet has cleared the National Food Security Bill that gives legal entitlement to _____ percent population for subsidies foodgrains: 67 469) Under the proposed National Food Security Bill, a beneficiary is entitled to ______ kilograms of rice, wheat or coarse cereals per month: 5 kg 470) What is the name of the programme to be launched under National Food Security Bill to provide 5 kg of foodgrains per beneficiary per GYANM’S GENERAL AWARENESS –AUGUST 2013 74 month: Targeted Public Distribution System 471) The prestigious Abel Prize is given for excellence in which field: Mathematics 472) The Abel Prize in Mathematics for 2012 has been won by _________ of Belgium: Pierre Deligne 473) What is the name of the commission formed for suggesting reforms in various financial laws: Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) 474) The FSLRC which submitted its report recently is headed by: Justice B.N. Sri Krishna 475) The FSLRC has suggested formation of a super regulator by the name ________ which would subsume the functions of key regulators such as SEBI, IRDA, PFRDA and FMC: The United Financial Agency 476) R. Murali Kumar of Indian Navy recently won which national title in the National Senior Body Building Championship: Mr. India 477) Name the F1 championship held in Malaysia recently: Malaysian Grand Prix 478) Name the winner of the Malaysian Gran Prix held at Sepang, Malaysia: Sebastian Vettel 479) Recently government reduced interest rates of small savings by ______ percent, effective from 1st April, 2013: 0.10 (10 Basis Points) 480) The latest lowering of interest rate of various small saving schemes has been done as per the recommendations of _________ committee: Shyamala Gopi Nath 481) Indian Cricket Team scored a historic 4-0 clean sweep against Australia in the 81 years history. This championship was named as: Border Gavaskar Trophy 482) The 24th Arab League summit was held at: Doha, Qatar 483) Tiger Woods has become Worlds No. 1 in which sports: Golf 484) Name the Veteran British horror novel writer who passed away recently: James Herbert 485) As per recent data released by Census 2011, _____ percentage of households in urban areas are living in slum areas: 17.4 486) As per a recent report from UNICEF, ______ accounts for largest share in children deaths due to water borne diseases: India (24%) 487) What is the full form of UNICEF: United Nations Children Fund 488) The Earth Hour is observed every year on which date: March 23, 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm 489) What is the objective of observing Earth Hour on March, 23: To raise awareness about climate change 490) What do we do to observe the Earth Hour: Switch off the lights between 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm 491) Which European country recently suffered almost bankruptcy of its banks due to extreme liquidity crunch: Cyprus 492) As per SEBI guidelines, all public limited companies must have at least _____ per cent of their shareholding in public: 25 493) To promote manufacturing in the country, government recently issued guidelines for setting up of NIMZs. What is NIMZs: National Investment & Manufacturing Zone 494) Name the rate of interest at which RBI is willing to give loan to the banks against re-discounting of bills: Bank Rate 495) As per national manufacturing policy the government proposes to raise the share of manufacturing to _______ percent in GDP of the country: 25 496) As per recently guidelines for NIMZs, the minimum area for a NIMZ should not be less than _________ square kilometers: 50 497) The India Post has recently launched ‘eIPO’ for what purpose: To facilitate online remittance of fee in Indian currency from anywhere in the world 498) What is the full form of eIPO recently launched by India Post: Electronic Indian Postal Order 499) The Forbes Magazine has declared ______ of Mexico as the wealthiest person in the world with a networth of $ 73 billion: Carlos Slim 500) As per latest Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), Mumbai has slipped to ______ position: 66th 501) Japan has agreed to provide $2.32 billion aid to India for what purpose: Infrastructure Building 502) BRICS Nations _________ meeting was held at Durban, South Africa: 5th 503) BRICS Nations have agreed to form a BRICS Development Bank, which is similar to ________ bank: World 504) BRICS Nations have agreed to formed a currency pool of $ 100 billion under the name: Contingency Reserve Arrangement 505) What is the purpose of 100 billion dollar Contingency Reserve Arrangement formed by BRICS: To tackle any financial crisis in the member countries 506) Which national financial institution has decided to launch a Credit Guarantee Fund For Factoring: SIDBI 507) Name the Indian state that has become first state to introduce e-GPF facilitating online access to all its GPF accounts: Arunachal Pradesh GYANM’S GENERAL AWARENESS –AUGUST 2013 75 508) The International Arms Trade Treaty was recently held at which place: Geneva, Switzerland 509) What is the purpose of recently held Arms Trade Treaty: To regulate the global trade of small Arms 510) Name the new anti sub marine war fare corvette recently inducted in Indian navy: Ins Kiltan 511) Name the winner of the Femina Miss India 2013 contest: Navneet Kaur Dhillon 512) Prof. U R Rao has been honoured with a place in prestigious “Satellite Hall of Fame” at Washington, USA. Who is he: Former chairman of ISRO 513) Which countries has won the ICC Test Championship trophy for the year 2013: South Africa 514) Which wing of Indian Defence forces recently conducted a massive exercise named “Live Wire” to test the battle efficiency of its various systems in a wartime scenario: Air Force 515) Malala Yousafzai the Pakistani activist singed a $ 3 million deal to publish her memoir in a book form. What is the name of this book: I am Malala 516) Malala Yousfafzai the Pakistani activist is known for her campaign for what purpose: Education for Girl Child 517) A recent news headline read, “CAD Sinks to record 6.7% of GDP”. What is the meant by CAD: Current Account Deficit 518) What situation signifies Current Account Deficit: When overseas spending is more than earnings or export receipts are less than import expenditure 519) India recently signed TIEA with Liechtenstein, a tiny country adjoining Switzerland. Write the full form of TIEA: Tax Information Exchange Agreement 520) The 4th clean energy ministerial meeting of 23 nations is to be held which place in India: New Delhi 521) General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) are part of which tax related law: Income Tax Act 522) Name the new captain of the Indian Women’s Cricket Team: Harmanpreet Kaur
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