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    Current Affairs Last Six months Bits for Ibps Bank exam

    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 statesof 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 ?

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    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 andother 9 countries recently ?

    Answer: Debt crices.

    19. According to the fortune magazine s annual ranking for 100 besr companies to work for2012,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 Americarecently ?

    Answer: Occupy wall street

    23. On 20 Jan 2012, Russia had leased which nuclear powered submarine to India recently ?

    Answer: K-152 Nerpa

    24. Which country has got the deal of 126 fighters to India recently ?

    Answer: French

    25. In American International affairs website which state of Indian borders have been wronglymapped ?

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    Answer: Jammu Kashmir

    26. How many countries have signed the multilateral agreement to check tax evasion and avoidencerecently ?

    Answer: three

    27. Which two countries agreed to establish a working mechanism on consultation and coordinationon border affairs ?

    Answer: India & China

    28. In which feild India and Japan had made agreement to enhance their cooperation ?

    Answer: Infrastructure sector

    29. What is the place of India in a global press freedom index in the past years ?

    Answer: 131

    30. On which issue India & USA signed recently ?

    Answer: Labuor & employment

    31. How many agreements India had signed with Trinidad & Tobago ?

    Answer: 5

    32. Name the new pact which was signed by the countries recently ?

    Answer: shade

    33. The birthday of the great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujam was declared as ?

    Answer: National Mathematics Day

    34. Where will be the first cooperative university will set up ?

    Answer: Sibsagar (Assam )

    35. Which year is celebrated as National Mathematics day ?

    Answer: 2012

    36. What is the Total per capital income of all states in India ?

    Answer: Rs.54,835 /-

    37. Which ministry had been given to Mr. Ajit singh by the U P A government ?

    Answer: Civil Aviation minister

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    38. How many news paper companies have been registered under the Register of News papers forIndia according to the authority in 2010-2011?

    Answer: 4853

    39. What is the mascot name for national youth festival ?

    Answer: Yakhi

    40. On which day our national anthem Janaganamana has completed its hundred years ?

    Answer: 27-12-2011

    41. Who is the first women who had been selected as Javan in Indian Army ?

    Answer: Santhi Tigga

    42. Who is the 19th Director General of Indian coast guard ?

    Answer: M.P.Muralidharan

    43. To whom was the Review commite on the Delhi School Education Act &Rules 1973 (DSEAR-79)report was submitted?

    Answer: Sheila Dikshit

    44. According to the survey done by the Brand Trust Report who is the person who had won theconfidence of peoplein the country ?

    Answer: Anna Hazare

    45. In which five years plan the national slum development programme will be launched by thegovernment ?

    Answer: 12th five years plan

    46. Who had launched the Interanet Prahari Project worth of 299 crore recently?

    Answer: P.Chidambaram

    47. The ISRO chief Madhavan Nair and other three who were blacklisted in which deal, thegovernment quit them away?

    Answer:Antrix Devas

    48. From which year the implementation of common medical entrance test will be conductedaccording to the medical council of India ?

    Answer: 2013

    49. Which is the nodel agency for all anti -terror activities in the country, for which the governmentgave approval recently?

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    Answer: National counter Terrorism Centre

    50. Who is the chief guest for the Pravasi Bharathiya Devas conference held at Jaipur on Jan 7th2012 ?

    Answer: Kamal PerseBissesor

    51. Where was the United Nation Research center for the North-East set up recently ?

    Answer: Guwahati

    52. From which year the implementation of common medical entrance test will be conductedaccording to the medical council of India ?

    Answer: 2013

    53. Name the project which was inagurated by Mr.Chidambaram recently worth of 299 crore ?

    Answer: Interanet Prahari projet

    54. The Panch Parmeshwar scheme was launched by which state government ?

    Answer: Madhya Pradesh

    55. In 2010-2011 ,what is the per capital income of Andhra pradesh ?

    Answer: Rs.60,458/-

    56. Name the chief minister who had won the award for great vaccine innovation ?

    Answer: Nitish Kumar

    57. According to the report presented by the central government our state debt in the year 2010-2011 is ?

    Answer: Rs.1,32,805 crore

    58. Which Indian company is going launch a new diesel plant in Gurgoan recently ?

    Answer: Maruthi

    59. The bullet train between which two states will announced in railway budget 2012?

    Answer: Ahmedabad-Mumbai

    60. For the year 2012 in which place Andhra pradesh stood in urbunisation?

    Answer: 17th

    61. For how many Assembly seats election have been held in Uttarakhand on 30th Jan 2012 recently?

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    Answer: 70

    62. Which state governors period has been extended by one year by the government recently ?

    Answer: Andhra pradesh

    63. Which state had agreed for the establishment of internal state board for pranahita- chevellasujatha sravanti project ?

    Answer: Maharashtra

    64. Who is the person replaced in the place of E.Sridharan for Delhi Metro Rail M D on 31st Dac 2011?

    Answer: Mangu singh

    65. In which state the 10th Pravasi Bharathi Divas event inagurated from Jan 7th to 9th 2012 ?

    Answer: Jaipur

    66. What is the total strentgh of Muncipalities in the state A .P ?

    Answer: 161

    67. Who is the governor of Tamilnadu who has been appointed recently ?

    Answer: K.Rosaiah

    68. Which are the two states where assembly elections had been held on 30 th Jan 2012 ?

    Answer: Punjab ,Uttarkhand

    69. The assembly polling were held on 28th Jan 2012 for how many seats in Manipur ?

    Answer: 60

    70. In which place our state warangal NIT stands according to the survey done by the country ?

    Answer: 8th

    71. According to the national election commision which state minister had been ordered to cover thestatus of elephants which are election symbol of the party recently ?

    Answer: Uttar Pradesh

    72. For many seats the assembly election had been held in Punjab ?

    Answer: 117

    73. Which state University had given Dr. to the Bangladesh P.M Shaik Hassina recently ?

    Answer: Tripura

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    74. In which state the united nation research center for north -east set up ?

    Answer: Assam

    75. Which is the first state to issue e-stamp papers in all denominations in India ?

    Answer: Delhi

    76. According to the National child Right which state stood in top one position ?

    Answer: Kerala

    77. Which state topped in the list in utilizing the fund for minorities according to the minority affairsministry?

    Answer: Jammu & kashmir

    78. How many new tourism projects have been sanctioned for Jammukashmir by the uniongovernment?

    Answer: 7

    79. In which city the geospatail world forum 2012 conference was held recently ?

    Answer: Hyderabad

    80. Which is the forum which had conference on the current & relavent issues on global problemsrecently?

    Answer: World Economic Forum (WEF)

    81. On which issue the conference is being organized by International Advanced Research centre forpowder metallurgy and new materials (ARCI) recently ?

    Answer: Nano science technology

    82. On which issue President Pratibha Paatil constituted a committee recently ?

    Answer: Production of Agriculture sector

    83. Who had been awarded Sialedra Kumar singh award by the (UPA) chair person Sonia Gandhi?

    Answer: D.Balavenkatatesh verma

    84. To whom the Guljarilal Nanda Bharat Sevak Samaj has been awardedby Kerala government?

    Answer: T.K.Nair

    85. The prestegious International sports Association Fair play is awarded to which player?

    Answer: Mahendrasingh Dhoni

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    86. How many people have been awarded the prestegious Man Asia award from India ?

    Answer: 3 persons

    87. The Mahatma Gandhi International Award for peace & Reconsilation award has been presented towhom ?

    Answer: Dalai Lama

    88. Who had given the 2011 FIFA Best player award on 9th Jan 2012?

    Answer: Lionel Messi

    89. Who has been shortlisted for UKs Biggest contemporary Art Prize , Artes mundi recently?

    Answer: Sheela Gowda

    90. Who is the person who had conferred the Ashoka Chakra on 63rd Republic Day by the presidentPratibha Patil ?

    Answer: Lt.Navdeep singh

    91. To which award the Indian American sciencetist Venkataram Ramakrishna has been selected bythe Britan ?

    Answer: Knight hood

    92. On which date the Infosis 2011 awards have been awarded recently at Banglore ?

    Answer: Jan 9th

    93. Which university has honoured Dr to Bangladesh P.M Shaik Hassina recently ?

    Answer: Tripura university

    94. For the yr2011 who had won the perstegious (CNR ) sahitya puraskaram recently?

    Answer: Ratna Markandapuram Srinivas

    95. Who has been presented with pride of India award by the Indian -American community inWashinton?

    Answer: Mallikarjuna Kharge

    96. Which university had got the honour Universities with potecial for excellence?

    Answer: Ossamania university

    97. Who is the Bollywood actor who had received a green globe award from Arnold Schwaizeneggerrecently ?

    Answer: Abishek Bachan

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    98. How many researchers got Infosis prize for the year 2011, which was presented by the formerpresident A.P.J Abdul Kalam?

    Answer: 6

    99. Who had won the best steel company of India for the year 2009-2010 ?

    Answer: Steel Authority of India

    100. Where was the 69th golden globe awards been presented on 15 th Jan 2012 ?

    Answer: Los angeles

    101. Which award has been given to the famous music director A.R Rahamn for the muisc composingfor the song If I Rise ?

    Answer: Critics choice movie

    102. Name the person Who had run barefoot 150 km in 24 hours and made a new world record ?

    Answer: Abhijeet Buruah

    103. Who is the first Indian women to have received an International Grand Master tittle in the gameof chess championship to get gold medal ?

    Answer: Koneru Humpy

    104. Who has been selected for player of the year award given by all India football assocaition ?

    Answer: Sunil chhetri

    105. Who had won the world super series batmintton tittle ?

    Answer: Wang-Yihan (china)

    106. In which country the womens team chess championship tournament held ?

    Answer: Turkey

    107. For the year 2011, who had been selected for International Tennis Federation Woeld championaward?

    Answer: Novak djikovic

    108. Which country had won the Hopman cup tennis tittle which held on Jan 7th 2012?

    Answer: Czech republic

    109. Where will the Assia criket cup matches 2012 will be conducted ?

    Answer: Bangladesh

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    110. For which game Abinav Bindra won gold medal ?

    Answer: Air rifle shooting

    111. In which place the South Central Asian Gymnastics championships event held recently ?

    Answer: Dhaka

    112. Who is the person who had won the FIFA Ballondor award recently ?

    Answer: Lionel Messi

    113. International player for batmiton Sina Nehal has ranked which place recently?

    Answer: 4th

    114. Who are the two Indian shooters who got selected for the London olympic games ?

    Answer:Manavjeet singh sidhu & Imran Hassankhan

    115. Who is the first Indian tennis player who won the carier mens doubles grand slam 2012?

    Answer: Leander paes

    116. In the Archery championship from AP Jyothi surekha got which medal ?

    Answer: Gold medal

    117. In which place India stood in the International test series ranking ?

    Answer: 3rd place

    118. In which country the 2012 Olympic Hockey tournament is going to be held ?

    Answer: London

    119. Who is the Indian criket player who stood in top ten positions according to ICCranking ?

    Answer: Sachin tendulkar

    120. Which is the country who had invited the sand artist Sudharshan Pattnaik from Odisha toparcipate at the International Sand Championship recently?

    Answer: Japan

    121. What is the revised economic GDP growth rate for 2011-2012 financial year ?

    Answer: 8.4 %

    122. Which are the two countries where female infant mortality is higher than male infant mortality?

    Answer: India & China

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    123. India had signed a TIEA agreement with which country ?

    Answer: Guernsey

    124. What is the national infant mortality rate reduced from ?

    Answer: 50 % to 47 %

    125. What is industrial growth rate in Dec 2011 ?

    Answer: 3.1 %

    126. How much can a customer transact per day by way of mobile banking ?

    Answer: Rs.50,000/-

    127. How much money is government going to spend on economic census for the year 2012?

    Answer:800 crore

    128. Name the bank which has been opened by SBI, which is exclusively for women customers ?

    Answer: Vasundhara Jubilee Senoritia

    129. What is the minimum investment amount per client managed by portfolio manages decided bySEBI ?

    Answer: Rs.25,000 to 5,00,000

    130. How much of fund is spent on improving quality education by all states in 2009-2010 in a survey?

    Answer: 1%

    131. Which country had successfully launched an observation satellite into orbit above earth recently?

    Answer: Iran

    132. Who will audit the performance of the schemes under the ministers of rural development ?

    Answer: Comptroller & Auditor General of India

    133. Regarding to check tax evasion & avoidance India had signed a multilateral agreement with

    which countries recently ?

    Answer: France &German

    134. What is the gross national income grew in the year 2010-2011 ?

    Answer: 7.9 %

    135. Which powered ATMs are going to be installed in the rural areas by the government ?

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    Answer: Solar power

    136. What is the GDP growth percentage for the year 2011-2012 according to the governmentestimation ?Answer: 6.9 %

    137. Scientists had produced a artificial human semen which will help in what?

    Answer: Infertile men

    138. Which beverage can be treat tremors in humans recently ?

    Answer: Alcohol

    139. High speed bullet train was launched by which country at Quingdao ?

    Answer: China

    140. Which missile was successfully test fired by India recently ?

    Answer: Agni-1

    141. From which place the Interceptor missile was launched successfully?

    Answer: Orissa

    142. The earth observation satellite from where it was launched recently ?

    Answer: Sriharikota

    143. Which country has invented the worlds fastest K-computor recently ?

    Answer: Japan

    144. Which is the earth -size planet orbiting in space discovered by the NASAs kepler?

    Answer: kepler- 20e & 20f

    145. Who has been appointed as microfinance ombudsman for the SKS microfinance ?

    Answer: Virghese Jacob

    146. Who is the 19th Director general of Indian coast Guard ?

    Answer: M.P.Muralidharan

    147. Who is the new 7th chief minister of Arunachal pradesh ?

    Answer: Naban tukisworn

    148. Who is the new advocate general who was appointed by state government ?

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    Answer: D.Sundharam reddy

    149. Who is the independent Director of Infotec enterprises for the year 2012 ?

    Answer: Vikas sehgal

    150. Who is the person who is US ambassador to India resigned in the year 2011 ?

    Answer: Timothy Roemer

    151. Which state minister had resigned recently after indictment in illegal mining scan ?

    Answer: Karnataka

    152. Who is the women general secretary for SAARC who resigned recently?

    Answer: Fathima Dhiyana Saeed

    153. M.B.Hussan Farook who died recently was the governor of which state ?

    Answer: Kerala

    154. The former deputy chief minister P.Jaganath rao who died recently worked in which year cabinet?

    Answer: 1982

    155. Freedom fighter of Indian diplomacy who was an architect of Indo-soviet treaty passed away inNew Delhi on 31st Jan 2012 ?

    Answer: A.K.Damodharam

    156. Who is the P.M of Thailand who visited India and has been the chief guest for the 63rd RepublicDay ?

    Answer: Yingluck Shina Watra

    157. Who is the president of Mali who visited India recently ?

    Answer: Amadou Toumani Toure

    158. Kamla persad Bissesar is Prime minister for which country who visited India recently ?

    Answer: Trindad &Tobago

    159. Which countries P.M is Sheik Hasina who visited India on 12th Jan 2012 ?

    Answer: Bangladesh

    160. Who is the Myanmar oposition leader who is standing for parliment on 1st April by election in2012?

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    Answer: Aung San Suu Kyi

    161. What did the pakistan supreme court said against its P.M Yousaf Raza Gilani recently ?

    Answer: Not an honest man

    162. Who had been Jailed more than 20 years for charging against secretly filming T.V documentery ?

    Answer: Sarah Ferguson

    163. What is the magnitude of earth quake on rickter scale which took place in Japan recently ?

    Answer: 7

    164. Who is the author of the book who wrote 20 great personalities of India ?

    Answer: Gopalkrishna Gandhi

    165. Who wrote the book Pharaoh & the King ?

    Viswanath Venkat Dasari

    166. Which is the book writen by MarkTuly recently ?

    Answer: Non stop India

    167. Who wrote the book The sence of an ending ?

    Answer: Julian Barnes

    168. Who is the author who had recieved Business Book of the year award 2010 for his book Faultlines?

    Answer: Raghuraman rajan

    169. Who had constituted a committee to increase the productivity of agriculture sector?

    Answer: Pratibha Patil

    170. Where was the 19th ASEAN summit took place ?

    Answer: Bali ( Indonesia)

    171. To whom the review committee on the Delhi Education Act & Rules 1973 submitted its report ?

    Answer: Sheila Dikshit

    172. . Who had won the US Republic Florida Primary election held recently ?

    Answer: Mitt Romney

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    173. By the end of which year the American military is going to end the combat operations inAfghanistan?

    Answer: 2013yr

    174. What is the mechanism policy of EU to double their renewable energy?

    Answer: Rio+20

    175. In which place the National Australia Bank was opened its Maiden Branch in India recently ?

    Answer: Mumbai

    176. Which country is going to grant India the MFN status by the end of 2012 ?

    Answer: Pakistan

    177. Who is new US abbassador to India ?

    Answer: Nancy J.Powell

    178. What is the bilateral trade target set up by India & China recently

    Answer: $100b

    179. China wants to work with India in which issue recently ?

    Answer: piracy fight

    180. Between which two countries the 12th defence policy group meeting was held in New delhi ?

    Answer: India & US

    181 .Which disease had been included in lifestyle other than diabetes and hypertension ?

    Answer: cancer

    182. Which are the three most happiest countries where people reside ?

    Answer: Indonesia,India &Mexico

    183.. From which place India is going to test its most ambitious missile Agni- V ?

    Answer: Odisha

    184. According to researchers which country is losing its forests more rapidly ?

    Answer: India

    185. Samsung had launched which type of note book into the market recently ?

    Answer: series 5 ultra

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    186. From which date the implementation of Matatma Gandhi Rural Employment, Guarantee Act willstart ?

    Answer: 4/1/2012

    187. Who inaugurated the 12th polio summit 2012 which was held in NewDelhi recently ?

    Answer: Manmohan singh

    188. How many people died of malaria worldwide in 2010-2011 according to the world malaria report?

    Answer: 46800

    189.. Name the maths social net work in face book called ?

    Answer: Teaching Tomorrow

    190. Which city in A.P had decided to become cycle proud and introduced no Motor vehicle zonesacross 20km of roads ?

    Answer: Vishakapatnam

    191. Which state Government had shortlisted for the two companies for setting up the E-wastedismantlity facilities ?

    Answer: West Bengal

    192. Who had launched a major state wide de- warming campaign in Delhi recently ?

    Answer: Sheila Dikshit

    193. Which state ranked top in investment proposal in the year 2011 ?

    Answer: Gujarat

    194. .Where was the National Conference on Governance meeting organised on Jan 29 2012 ?

    Answer: New Delhi

    195. . Where was the 58th annual meeting of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular & ThoracicSurgeons held at ?

    Answer: Kolkata

    196. On which date the Indian -Asean summit was held for two days in NewDelhi recently ?

    Answer: 12 th Feb

    197. Who inaugurated the 15th National conference on e-governance held for two days ?

    Answer: Mr.M.Naveen Patnaik

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    198. The P.M of Mauritius Navinchandra Ramloolam had been honoured with which Dr. recently ?

    Answer: Doctor of law

    199. Who had been awarded as sports women of the year 2012 recently at Laureus sports awards ?

    Answer: Vivian Chruiyot

    200. Who is the Indian to receive the pretigious honour, Manager of the Year 2011 award recently ?

    Answer: Siva ram krishna prasad

    201. To which tennis player the serbian president Boris Tadic conffered the highest Serbain awardGold star of Karadjordge for 2012?

    Answer: Novack Djokovic

    202. Who had been graced as chief guest for the 5th Ramnath Goenka Awards for the excellence inJournalism 2012, held at Taj palace in NewDelhi ?

    Answer: Hamid Ansari

    203. Who had won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year Award for 2011 ?

    Answer: Rahul Batia

    204.. Who had won the mens national grass court tennis championship from A.P ?

    Answer: Saketh Mineni

    205. Which country had won the Africa nations cup title cup which held on 13 Feb 2012 ?

    Answer: Zambia

    206. Who is the cricket player who had awarded with ESPN Cricin for best batting performance awardin test matches ?

    Answer: Sachin tendulkar

    207. W ho is the cricket batsman who had announced recently retirement from one day cricket ?

    Answer: Ricky Poting

    208. Who is the person, who had won the Mens 85 plus 5km walk event held at Manipur from A.P onthe opening day of 33rd National Masters Atheletics Championship ?

    Answer: G.Satyanarayana rao

    209. Who won the SAIL SBI open Golf title on 25 Feb 2012 held in Delhi ?

    Answer: Anirban Lahiri

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    210. The RBI of India is going to issue how much rupee note denomination with insert letter R in theMahata Gandhi series ?

    Answer: Rs 1000

    211. The RBI had made an announcement to bring Rs 5 coin was devoted to which person recently ?

    Answer: Bhagat singh

    212. Who had directed the Unoin Government to issue Broad band license to Qual comm ?

    Answer: Telecom dispute settlement Appellate Tribunal

    213. Who had issued a circular for development of white label automated teller machines from non-banks ?

    Answer: Reserve Bank of India

    214. What is name of home cleaning robot within the vaccum cleaner segment ?

    Answer: Niche

    215. Which country had launched the self guided bullet missile ?

    Answer: US (America )

    216. What is the name of orbit above, an observation satellite launched by Iran on 3 Feb 2012 ?

    Answer: Navid

    217. Which is the new planet discovered by the researchers recently found water on it ?

    Answer: GJ1214b

    218. Name the new US-based racing bike which was manufactured by the worlds largest two wheelerHero Motocorp recently?

    Answer: Erik Buell Rcing

    219. Name the new gene, which was discovered by the UK scientists recently ?

    Answer: Meg I

    220. Name the Chinas global navigation and positioning network known as ?

    Answer: Beidou

    221. Who had been appointed as the Honarary secretary for the Royal College of Surgeons ofEdinburgh from Andhrapradesh ?

    Answer: Dr.P.Raghuram

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    222. Who is the president of Maldives who had resigned on 7 Feb 2012 ?

    Answer: Mohamed Nasheed

    223. Who is the world bank president who resigned recently for completing his five yrs term ?

    Answer: Robert Zoelllick

    224. . Who is the German president who had resigned recently over a scandal recieved beforebecoming the head of the state ?

    Answer: Christian Wulff

    225. Who is the pop music singer ,six times Grammy award winner deid on 11 Feb 2012

    Answer: Whitney Huoston

    226. Who is the British Journalist who on 22 Feb was shot dead by the French photographers in Syria?

    Answer: Marie Colvin

    227. Who is the foriegn correspondent and a two time pulitzer prize winner died in Eastern Syria on 16Feb 2012 ?

    Answer: Anthony Shadid

    228. Mr.Navinchandra Ramgoolan is P.M of which country who visited India on 7Feb 2012 for sixdays ?

    Answer: Mauritius

    229. Name the Indian-American person who had made himself the cover of the prestigous Timemagazine recently?

    Answer: Preet Bharara

    230. Who is the author of the book Nirbasan whose opening ceremony of the book releasing wascancelled in India ?

    Answer: Taslima Nasreen

    231. Who was the author of the book Time Guerrilla recently released of his own memoir ?

    Answer: Fidel Castro

    232. Name the book which was released by the vice president of India Mr.Hamid Ansari in Newdelhirecently?

    Answer: Sufism & Indian Mysticism

    233. How many EU states had signed the pact for budget discipline on 2 March 2012 ?

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    Answer: 25 states

    234. Who is the Asia s richest man according to the forbes list ?

    Answer: LI Ka Shing

    235. Which are the most ethical firms of the world according to the report revealed by the EthicalInstitutes ?

    Answer: Tata & Wipro

    236. Which is worlds largest art, antiques market owing country ?

    Answer: China

    237. Which country gave a call to boycott American products recently for voting against a resolution?

    Answer: Srilanka

    238.Who is the Arab League head , who discussed on the issue of Syrian fate failed recently held inCairo on 3 March2012?

    Answer: Nabil Elaraby

    239. Who had inaugurated the trade show in Jakarta by India, to reach the target of $ 25 billion by2015 ?

    Answer: Mr. Anand Sharma

    240. Where was the Indo-Israel free trade agreement meeting was held recently?

    Answer: Hyderabad

    241.Which are the two new missiles developed by defense research & development laboratory handedover to Navy & IAF on 3 March 2012?

    Answer: Torpedo & Akash

    242. Who is the next Army cheif for the Indian Army after the retirement of Gen.V.K.Singh on 31 May2012?

    Answer: Lt,Gen.Bikram singh

    243. Who is Asias richest woman with a net worth of $ 12billion in our country?

    Answer: Savitri Jindal

    244. Who is the Foreign minister of Italy who has been camping in India relating with two ItalianMarines recently?

    Answer: Staffan De Misture

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    245. How many new trains had been introduced by the railway minister in Railway budget 2012-13?

    Answer: 75

    246. Which company had opened centre of excellence for oracle recently for IT services and businesssolutions ?

    Answer: Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS)

    247. Name the project which had been sanctioned 423crore rupees loan assistance in Gujarat fromNABARD

    Answer: Narmada link project

    248. Which state recorded the highest voting percentage in the history of election, which were held inthe month of Feb in five states recently?

    Answer: Goa

    249. Who is the first independent woman loco driver in SCR?

    Answer: S. Satyavathi

    250. What is the assets declared by Mayawati while her nomination for the Rajya Sabha recently?

    Answer: 111.64 crore

    251. Which is the plan , which was launched by the Chief minister of A.P Kiran Kumar recently?

    Answer: SHG Linkage credit plan

    252. From which place in Andhra Pradesh the first International flight took off recently?

    Answer: Visakhapatnam

    253. Who inaugurated the 50th golden jubilee celebration of Afro-Asian Rural DevelopmentOrganisation held in New Delhi recently?

    Answer: Manmohan singh

    254. In which place the Turkeys World Trade Bridge International Summit is going to be held ?

    Answer: Istanbul

    255. In which place was the International Monitory Fund Summit was held recently ?

    Answer: New Delhi

    256. Where was the second conference of nuclear security summit held recently?

    Answer: Seoul

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    257.. Where will be the third Nuclear Security Summit is going to be held next year ?

    Answer: Netherland

    258. Who is the Telugu novelist, who had been awarded Kurra Kotisuryamma Memorial Award for hisoutstanding contribution to Telugu literature?

    Answer: Bheemaraju Venkataramana

    259. Who is the worlds tallest man, finally stopped growing after treated ?

    Answer: Sultan Kosen

    260. Who had been awarded with Ugadi Puraskaram from the Andhra Pradesh Government recently?

    Answer: P.Surya Rao

    261. Who is the women, awarded with Nirmal Gram Puraskar for the year 2012 from Andhra Pradeshfrom the President Pratibha Patil recently?

    Answer: Y.Chintamma

    262.How many new World Records were set up in 12 hours by the former England cricketer AndrewFlintoff and Steve Harmison ?

    Answer: 14

    263. Who is the Hungarian Mathematician who has been awarded with Abel Prize for the year 2012?

    Answer: Endre Szemerede

    264. To which place India dropped in ODI championship Table after losing their triangular series inAustralia?

    Answer: 3rd place

    265. Who is cricket player who made 100 centuries in his career recently?

    Answer: Sachin Tendulkar

    266. Who is the sportswoman from Andhra Pradesh ,who is going to represent India at the World Cupfor Archery which is going to held in China in April 2012?

    Answer: Jyothi Surekha

    267. Who had won the BNP Paribas Womens single title for the year 2012?

    Answer: Victoria Azarenka

    268. Who is the Worlds no-1 ranking Golf player , Who had won the US PGA TransitionsChampionship held at Florida recently?

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    Answer: Luke Donald

    269. Who had been the Player of the Tournament in the Asia Cup 2012 held at Dhaka recently ?

    Answer: Shakib Ali Hasan

    270. What is the name of the new card product which was launched by ICICI bank for the super richrecently?

    Answer: Sapphiro

    271. . In which place is Indian railways in World ranking?

    Answer: Fourth place

    272. What is the percentage of service tax , which had been raised in the budget 2012-13?

    Answer: 12%

    273. What is the per capita income of India for the year 2012-13 ?

    Answer: Rs. 60972

    274. Which country is the highest consumer of oil in per capita terms ?

    Answer: United states

    275. Which country stood at the least place in service sector ?

    Answer: India

    276 .What is the per capita GDP of Qatar ?

    Answer: 44.45 lakh

    277. How much financial aid was granted by the World Bank to India ?

    Answer: $4.3billion

    278. Name the new equality saving scheme announced in the budget 2012-13 recently?

    Answer: The Rajiv Gandhi Equality saving scheme

    279. In how many planets in solar system life may exist according to the researchers ?

    Answer: 5 Planets

    280. What is the name of the second largest Moon of Saturn?

    Answer: Rhea

    281. What is the name of the submarine which had been taken as lease from Russia recently?

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    Answer: INS Chakra

    282. Which type of Asprin was invented by the scientist to fight against Cancer?

    Answer: Gas-filled

    283. Who is the new M.D for Hyundai Motors India , who was appointed recently?

    Answer: Bo Shin Seo

    284. Who is the New President of Germany , who has been elected recently?

    Answer: Joachin Gauck

    285. Who is the new Railway minister for UPA Government ?

    Answer: Mukhul Roy

    286. Who is the Railway minister , who had resigned recently from the cabinet for raising the railwayfares ?

    Answer: Dinesh Trivedi

    287.Who is the philanthropist who died recently, vice chairman of Sankar foundation?

    Answer: Sankar Rao

    288.Who is the Egypt Ambassador, who visited India for the golden jubilee celebration of (AARDO)?

    Answer: Mr.Ahmed Abulkheir

    289. Who is the Turkish Ambassador who visited Hyderabad recently?

    Answer: Dr.Burak Aklapar

    290. Who is the managing director of International monitory fund ( IMF) , who visited India recently?

    Answer: Christine Lagarde

    291. Who is the Prime ministe of Canada who had visited Thailand recently?

    Answer: Staphen Harper

    292. Who is the US Secretary of commerce who visited India for bilateral trade meeting ?

    Answer: John Bryson

    293. Who is Bollywood Actress to become the sixth Bollywood celebrity to be honoured with a waxlikeness?

    Answer: Madhuri Dixit

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    294. AIMA stands for ___________All India Management Association

    295. Who had written the book Didi: A Political biography of Mamata Benerjee recently?

    Answer: Monobina Gupta

    296. Russian court dismissed the plea seeking ban on which Holly Literature book translation recently?

    Answer: Bhagwad Gita

    297. Aung San Suu Kyi who recently won in Myanmar parliament elections, belongs to which politicalparty?

    Answer : Nation League for Democracy (NLD)

    298.The US Govenment announced an additional 12.2 million aid to which country recently?

    Answer : Syria

    299. Who is the Chief of Laskhar e-Taiba, a reward money of $10 million has been announced on himby America?

    Answer : Hafiz Saeed

    300. Indias which board was admitted as the 11th member of MDEP recently?

    Answer : Atomic Energy Regulatory

    301.Which two countries signed an agreement on Contract Workers ?

    Answer : India & UAE

    302. Which countries had signed six agreements in diverse areas recently including oil& gas?

    Answer : India & Qatar

    303. In which country the Industrial Canton Fair is going to be held?

    Answer : China

    304. Where is the largest Tulip garden is situated in Asia?

    Answer: Srinagar

    305. Which country had stated to expand the members in UN Security Council recently?

    Answer : India

    306. Where was the oldest and largest bank of South Korea had set its branch recently in India ?

    Answer : Chennai

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    307.Commemorative Postage Stamp of which president was released to mark the birth centenaryrecently?

    Answer : R.Venkataraman

    308.. Union Government decided to raise working capital ECB resources for which sector recently?

    Answer : Aviation sector

    309. Where was the foundation stone for countrys first financial city laid up in ?

    Answer : Bangalore

    310. In which state the 4G services were launched recently?

    Answer : Kolkata

    311. In which place was the 20th ASEAN Summit held recently?

    Answer : Combodia

    312.Where was the RIC trilateral conference held recently?

    Answers : Mascow

    313. Where was the 6th summit of the Americas held recently?

    Answer : Colombia

    314 .Who is the Democratic leader of Myanmar awarded with Sukarno Prize for creation of Democracyin the country?

    Answer : Aung San Suu Kyi

    315 . Which award has been presented to Lt.Gen.Bikram Singh?

    Answer : Gallantry Award

    316 . Novack Djikivic world no-1 defeated whom to claim the Miami masters title in the final held inFlorida?

    Answer : Andy Murrey

    317. Who is the first woman wrestler to be qualified for the Olympics afterwinning gold in Astanarecently?

    Answer : Geeta Kumari

    318. Who is the Tennis player captured her 40th career title in WTA tournament?

    Answer : Sarena Williams

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    319 Who had won the 11th Asian Billiards championship held in Goa recently?

    Answer : Pankaj Advani

    320. Where was the Archery World Cup Stage-I games held recently?

    Answer : Shanghai

    321. Who had won the Mens Single Asian Badminton Championship recently?

    Answer : Chen Jin

    322. .With the cooperation of which country Multiskill development centre is going to start inBangalore and Gulberg?

    Answer : Germany

    323. According to the World Economic Outlook report what is the lowered economic growth of India in2012?

    Answer : 6.9%

    324. What is name of the Worlds first flying car ?

    Answer : Terrafugia

    325. Where was the new ISRO spy satellite centre was launched recently?

    Answer : Sriharikota

    326. In which place India has successfully carried out the AWACS test flight recently?

    Answer : Brazil

    327. From which place the Agni-v long range ballistic missile was test fired recently?

    Answer : Odisha

    328. .What is the name of the ballistic missile which was test fired by Pakistan recently?

    Answer : Hatf-IV

    329. What is the name of all weather radar imaging satellite launched recently by India ?

    Answer : RISAT-I

    330. What is the name of the stealth frigate which was inducted into navy recently?

    Answer : INS Teg

    331. Who is the new special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan?

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    Answer : Amarendra Khatua

    332. Who is the new king of Malaysia elected recently?

    Answer : Sultan Abdul Halim

    333. Who had been appointed as UNHCR special envoy recently?

    Answer : Angelina Jolie

    334. Who had been appointed as the President of World Heart Federation ?

    Answer : Dr.Srinath Reddy

    335. .Lucas Papademos is president of which country resigned recently due to early elections in thecountry?

    Answer : Greece

    336. Who is the president of Mali resigned recently?

    Answer : Amadov Toumani Toure

    337. What is the name of Jordan Prime minister who resigned recntly?

    Answer : Awn aL Khasawneh

    338 Who is the legendary newsman popular CBS 60Minutes programmer died recently?

    Answer : Mike Wallace

    339. .Who is president of Malawi died of heart attack recently?

    Answer : Binju Wa Mutharika

    340.The Chancellor of Exchequer of UK, who visited India for the fifth economic financial ministerialmeeting held in New Delhi?

    Answer : George Osborne

    341. Who is the Pakistan president visited India recently?

    Answer : Asif Ali Zardari

    342. .Who is the Norwegian Minister of Trade & Industry visited India regarding Telenor issuerecently?

    Answer : Trond Giske

    343. Which city is the worlds most impressive city according to the Wealth report?

    Answer : London

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    344. Which organisation has became the heritage of the sank Titanic ship 100 years ago?

    Answer : UNESCO

    345. Where is the name of the worlds highest tunnel bridge located in China?

    Answer : Aizhai

    346. Reflections of a Statesman book was written on whose life history ?

    Answer : R.Venkataraman

    347. Under whom the two member Adarsh Judicial Commission was set up by the MaharashtraGovernment?

    Answer : N.N.Kumbahar

    348 .Who is the new president of Russia recently taken sworn?

    Answer : Vladimir Putin

    349. The Hamburg harbour celebrates how many years recently?

    Answer: 823 years

    350. Which company become number one mobile company in the world?

    Answer: Samsung

    351. Which country had discovered petroleum recently?

    Answer: Bangladesh

    352. .Liberias president for his war crimes sentenced to jail for ?

    Answer: 50years

    353.What is the place where Pakistan lost nearly 140 soldiers after a masive avalannde entombed theGayari army base recently?

    Answer: Siachen

    354 .Sahar signed an agreement to build and develop a new city in which country?

    Answer: Bangladesh

    355. India made dozen agreements with which country recently?

    Answer: Myanmar

    356. The country with the greatest numbers of preterm birth with 35,19,100 is ________?

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    Answer: India

    357. Where was the statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled recently?

    Answer: South Africa

    358. What is the position of India in cyber crime according to report given by SDA?

    Answer: fifth place

    359. Where will be the 46th Asian Development Bank Meeting of 2013 will be held?

    Answer: New Delhi

    360. How many years were completed by our existing parliament after the first election held in 13 May1952?

    Answer: 60 years

    361. What is the name of the TAPI gas pipeline project (TGPP) which originate from the Turkmenistanreaches to India via Afghanistan and Pakistan?

    Answer: Peace pipeline

    362 . Whose death anniversary is observed as the Anti Terrorism Day?

    Answer: Rajiv Gandhi

    363. Osmania University Ranked ______ in the top 121 Universities in the country according toNielsen survey

    Answer: 6th

    364 .The Indian Institute of Chemical Technology Hopes to Establish Deflouridation Plants in whichstates?

    Answer : A.P & Rajasthan

    365. At which place the World Wildlife Fund summit is going to be held ?

    Answer: Brazil

    366. Where was the NATO summit 2012 held for Three days recently ?

    Answer: Chicago

    367. Who had been awarded Kalpana Chawla Excellence Award?

    Answer : Miss Vinya Mishra & Sushma Seth

    368. Who is the person from India got the prestigious International Jurists award?

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    Answer : Mulayam Singh Yadav

    369. Who has been conferred The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun title recently?

    Answer: Ratan Tata

    370. Who has been awarded the first Tagore Award for cultural harmony ?

    Answer : Pt Ravi Shankar

    371. who awarded in 65th cannes film festival as best actor ?

    Answer: Mads Mikkelsen

    372. Rahul Battachary who is an Indian won British friction prize on ?

    Answer: Literature

    373.Who had won the World Snooker Title for 2012 held at Sheffield?

    Answer: Ronnie OSullivan

    374.What is the new national record set by Krishna Poonia atTrack crew Throwdown Meet recently inHawaii?

    Answer : 64.76m

    375. Who had won the World Cup Title recently held at Antalya, Turkey?

    Answer: Deepika Kumari

    376. Who had won the Madrid Mens Open title held at Madrid , Spain recently?

    Answer: Roger Federar

    377. Who had won the National Junior Boxing championship for 2012

    Answer: Manjeet Singh

    378. Sania-Mattek pair recently won which title?

    Answer: Brussel open Title

    379. who won orange cap in IPL-5 ?

    Answer : Chris Gale (RCB)

    380. The total 6s in th IPL is

    Answer: 728

    381. Formulae one Manacco Grand pix won by ?

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    Answer: Mark Weber

    382.the winner of thomas cup in London olympics is ?

    Answer: Lin danled(china)

    383. chattisgardh girls and boy clinch national tites on which game ?

    Answer : Basket ball

    384. Grand master Anand belongs to which state in India?

    Answer: Chennai

    385. Which state topped the list of highest per capita income in the country with 1,92,652 rupees?

    Answer: Goa

    386. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided assistance of how many USD aid to India?

    Answer: $6.25 billion

    387. What are the norms called for the implementation of the new global capital adequacy which wasdirected by the RBI to Indian Banks?

    Answer: Basel-III

    389. Andhrapradesh high court invalidated which % sub-quato for Minority?

    Answer: 4.5%

    390. Which country had recently test fired a short range ballistic missile ?

    Answer: Pakistan

    391. Which country has launched TMA-04M rocket recently?

    Answer: Russia

    392. India test fired the which type of Akash Missile recently?

    Answer: Surface to air

    393. pakistan test fired Nuclear capable _______ Missile ?

    Answer: Hatf9

    394. Name the Vatican Envoy to India and Nepal, who inaugurated A.P Mission Congress?

    Answer : Sarvotore Pennacchio

    395. Who has been appointed as the German ambassador to India recently?

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    Answer: Michael steiner

    396. who selected as a member of Borad Federation Against drugs from India?

    Answer : Kiran Bedi

    397. Who is Snooker champion announced his retirement recently?

    Answer : Stephen Hendry

    398. Who is the Indian American scientist quits from top energy post recently?

    Answer : Apunava Majumdar

    399. who is vice president and CCO of infosys Bpo reginesed recently?

    Answer: Ritesh Idnani

    400.Who is the Afghan peace negotiator shot dead recently?

    Answer : Arsalan Rahmani Daulat

    401. Who is the Mexican novelist played dominant role in Latin America died recently?

    Answer : Carlos Fuentes

    402. Who is the EU Ambassador to India visited Nagaland to interact with chamber of commerce andindustry recently? Answer: Joao Cravinho

    403. who is the democracy Icon in Myanmar ,first visit to abroad in 24years is ?

    Answer: Aung san suu kyi

    404. Where is the worlds largest temple is going to be built by Mahavir Mandir trust?

    Answer : Bihar

    405. At which place the Awan ka Cinema film festival is going to be organized?

    Answer : Kargil

    406. Tallest residential building princess tower located at ?

    Answer : Dubai

    407. Worlds richest lady according to business review weekly ?

    Answer : Gina Rinehart

    408. who is the present president of myanmar ?

    Answer: Theinsein

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    409. The laughter day is celebrated on which day?

    Answer: First Sunday of May every month

    410. Anti tobacco day is celebrated on which day?

    Answer : May 31st

    411. Who is the author of the book Harbinger of Social Justic ?

    Answer: Sarah Booth

    412.Where was the 47th IAC committee meeting of NDA held?

    Answer: Khadakwasla

    413. In which region of Italy faced powerfull earth quake ?

    Answer: north eastern region

    414.India joined recently in which council of nations in Geneva on June 1st?

    Answer: UNHRC

    415. Who is the Ex-President of Egypt sentenced to life imprisonment ?

    Answer: Hosni Mubarak

    416.What is the company that is recently bought by google

    Answer: Meebo

    417. The defence secretary of which country visited India recently to discuss chinas growingassertiveness

    Answer: U.S

    418.What is the prize money given for Noble prize?

    Answer: 10million crowns

    419.What is the organization that conducts auction on Gandhis memorabilia?

    Answer: Sothebys London

    420. Who is the new President of Egypt ?

    Answer: Mohammed Morsey

    421. Who is newly appointed Saudi Arabian Prince ?

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    Answer: Prince salmon Bin Abdul Aziz

    422.The PM of Pakistan who was disqualified by court of Prime Minister-ship recently, is ?

    Answer: Yusuf Raza Gilani

    423. Who is the new PM of Greece ?

    Answer: Antoni Samara

    424.The Oracle CEO, who bought Hawaiis sixth largest island,Lanai , is ?

    Answer: Larry Ellison

    425.Who was the Kenyas Internal security minister killed in helicopter crash on 10 June 2012?

    Answer: George Saitoti

    426. Which Agency given the list of failed state Index ?

    Answer: Foreign policy agency

    427. Which party Parvez Ashraf belongs to?

    Answer: Pakistan peoples party

    428. Who is elected as the president of Egypt ?

    Answer: Islamic Mohamed Mursi

    429. Who is composed the official song for London 2012 Olympics?

    Answer: Muse

    430.Which countrys court held US health care Law constitutional ?

    Answer: U.S

    431. .India allowed which country FDI?

    Answer: pakistan

    432. who is elected as the 2nd highest court of US?

    Answer: srikanth srinivasan

    433.Who is the richest sports person in India according to Forbes list of Worlds 100 richest sportsperson ?

    Answer: M.S.Dhoni

    434. In the 7th G-20 summit ,how much contribution did India made to IMFs bailout Fund ?

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    Answer: 10million US Dollars

    435. Which company want to invest 1.5billion euros to set up 25 stores in the country under singlebrand retail FDI?

    Answer: IKEA

    436.who is the artist recently called off the Israel visit to disapprove Israeli policies?

    Answer: Zakir Hussain

    437.Which country stood 1st for the strongest annual growth rate according to the global survey byknight frank ?

    Answer: Brazil

    438. What is the name of only country where the worlds largest selling soap brand is being launchesas deodorant ?

    Answer: India

    439.Which computer educator creates Indias first 3D ad film ?

    Answer: Aptech

    440.Who is the president of NASSCOM?

    Answer: Som Mittal

    441.Who won in the by-elections of A.P?

    Answer: Y.S.R Congress party

    442.What is the sex ratio of urban girls out of 1000 boys according to 2011 census in A.P state ?

    Answer: 946

    443.Indias first River-lake link project launched In ?

    Answer: Bundelkhand

    444.Which state Government announced an un-employment scheme ?

    Answer: Rajasthan

    445. Indian science congress held at ?

    Answer: Kolkatta

    446.What is the name of the alternative International AIDS conference held by India ?

    Answer: Dubar Mahila Samanway samiti (DMSS)

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    447.Who inaugurated the 28th Annual conference of chief commissioners and Directors General ofIncome Tax in the capital?

    Answer: Pranab Mukharjee

    448. Rio+20 earth summit took place at ?

    Answer: Rio de Janeiro

    449.who is the first Indian to receive Wisden India outstanding achievement award?

    Answer: Sachin Tendulkar

    450. Who awarded as the Best actor in IIFA awards?

    Answer: Ranbir Kapoor

    451. Which Organization got wins Effie award ?

    Answer: Ogilvy Mumbai

    452.Who got Mexican Honour from India during G-20 summit ?

    Answer: R.K.Pachauri

    453. Which organization received 2012 WorldBusiness & Development Award ?

    Answer: ITC

    454. which organization awarded as G20 challenge award for Medicare?

    Answer: Apollo

    455.Who bagged the Entrepreneur of the year award,2012 of Hyderabad Management Association?

    K.Ravi, M.D of NCL industries

    456. Ratan Tata was recently honoured for his innovation in philanthropy by _______

    Answer: Rockefeller foundation Life Time achievement award

    457. Who won ITF mens future title, which held in Mandya karanataka on June 2nd 2012 ?

    Answer: Saket Myneni

    458. Who won on June 4 a golden Medal in prost pree elite womens discus throw event, where shebelong s to Russia ? Answer: Darya Pischalnikova

    459. who won the French open title 2012 in mixed doubles?

    Answer: Bhupati-sania

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    460. Eurocup is oraganized by

    Answer: UEFA

    461. Who won the 2012 French Open title in Mens singles?

    Answer: R

    462 .Who is the Indian Cricketer appointed as a brand ambassador of Nepal cricket Association?

    Answer: M.S.Dhoni

    463. Who is the First woman to win 3 tittles of indonesia open super series in India badmintonhistory?

    Answer: Saina Nehwal

    464. Who is the Indian Hockey goal Keeper suspended recently for being positive in the doping test?

    Answer: Adrin Dsouza

    465. Who won bronze in Junior womens meeting of shooting hopes Championship concluded at Plzenin Czench Republic on 10 June ?

    Answer: Tejaswini

    466. Who won the 800m race in Diamond league meet with a time of one minute 41.74 seconds ?

    Answer: Rudisha

    467. Who shared the title with humpy in the FIDE womens Grand Pix ?

    Answer: Anna Muzychuk

    468.Who is organizes the Wimbledon Championship?

    Answer: All England Club

    469.The country which is going to sent women athletes in the Olympics for the first time ever

    Answer: Saudi

    470.Who is the first amputee runner to compete at the Olympic games ,2012?

    Answer: Oscar Pistorius

    471. Bihar topped in Gross State domestic product with which percent Growth in 2011-12?

    Answer: 13.1

    472.Which Federation stated 10 point agenda for economic survival of India ?

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    Answer: CII (The confederation of Indian Industry)

    473. Which rating agency downgraded 15 of the worlds biggest banks on 21 June ?

    Answer: Moody

    474.Which organization set the norms for listing SEs?

    Answer: SEBI

    475.What is the current limit of foreign investment in government bonds?

    Answer: 20 billion dollar

    476.which vegetables genome was sequenced completely in 2012?

    Answer: Tomato

    477. what is the name of the missile test fired by the pakistan recently.

    Answer: Haft VII(babur)478. When did the largest solar flare occurred ?

    Answer: March 7.2012

    479.Where the largest database of martian impact creates on Mars is ?

    Answer: At the university of Colorado

    480. who is the first woman Astronaut of china sent into space ?

    Answer: Liu Yang

    481. Fourth human spaceflight shenzhon-9 was launched into space by which country in 2012 ?

    Answer: China

    482. 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

    483. What is the first country where German house was started for the first time ?

    Answer: U.S

    484. Who is appointed as the IAFs western Air command chief ?

    Answer: Arup Raha

    485. Who is appointed as the new chairman of LIC ?

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    Answer: Dinesh Kumar Mehrotra

    486. Who is the cricketer taken oath as a Rajya sabha MP recently on June 4?

    Answer: Sanchin Tendulkar

    487.Who is recently appointed navy chief?

    Answer: D.K.Joshi

    488. who retired as CEC recently?

    Answer: S.Y.Qureshi

    489. who appointed as the head of DGH ?

    Answer: R.N.Chaubey

    490 .Present deputy governor who reappointed recently of RBI ?

    Answer: K.C.Chakrabarty

    491. Who is the new CEO of Tata Global ?

    Answer: Harish Bhat

    492 .Who is the chairman of FAI- south ?

    Answer: K.Rahul raju

    493 . who is new chief of ICC ?

    Answer: Alan Isaac

    494. who is the new commissioner of Delhi Police after B.K.Gupta ?

    Answer: Neeraj Kumar

    495. Who is appointed as the US ambassador to Myanmar ?

    Answer: Derek Mitchell

    496. who resigned as the commerce secretary of president Obama ?

    Answer: John E. Bryson

    497. Who is the union minister for micro,small and medium enterprises resigned recently on fraudcorruption charges Answer: Virbadra Singh

    498. Who is the first women to win Nobel Prize in Economics ?

    Answer: Elinor Ostrom

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    499. The first boxer to win the first olympic gold medal,who died recently?

    Answer: Teofila Stevenson

    500. .Mehdi Hassan, how died recently is a ______ by profession?

    Answer: Ghazal Singer

    501. Who is national secretary of CITU died recently?

    Answer: Dipankar Mukherjee

    502. Which place visited by PM Manmohan after 2 summits ?

    Answer: Pretoria

    503. Who is the US Defence secretary visited india recently ?

    Answer: Leon Pnetta

    504. Britain Queen Elizabeth-II celebrated her diamond Jubilee at ?

    Answer: Thames ,London

    505. Who is the Japanese mountaineer climbs the worlds 14 tallest mountains ?

    Answer: Hirotaka Takeuchi

    506. Who won Indian Spell Bee by spelling word Belligerent conducted by Times of India ?

    Answer: Samvida Venkatesh

    507. Who beat the R.J.Rolling book harry potter record of fastest selling in a week?

    Answer: Erika Mitchell

    508. The worlds environment day is celebrated onAnswer: 5th June

    509. Refusee Day is obeserved on ?

    Answer: 21st June

    510. Abdul kalam Turning points is a sequel of ?

    Answer: Wings of fire

    511.What is the book released about L.K.Advani?

    Answer: Those were the day and then -The Life & times of L.K.Advani

    512. Who headed the (GTA) high power committee?

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    Answer: Retire Justice Shyamal sen

    513 .Which country faced earth quake of Magnitude of 5.9 rectar scale on june 4.Answer: Indonesia Sumitra island

    514. What is the happiest place on earth as announced the new Economics Foundations Happy Planet

    Index ?

    Answer: costa Rica

    515. IUCN stands for ?

    Answer: International Union for Conservation of Nature

    516.ESI stands for ?

    Answer: Environmental Sustainable Index