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CURRENT AffAIRS 5. The Western Ghats, in July (1) Bhutan NATIONAL 2012, made it to the coveted (2) Germany list of World Heritage Sites. (3) New Zealand 1. Union Rural Development Min• _ Which of the following related (4) Norway ister Jairam Ramesh, on July statements is/are correct? 1, 2012, laid the foundation 8. With a view to protecting the a. It was inscribed under criteria stone for nine roads to be built Jarawa tribes, the Supreme 9 and 10 of the Operational under the Pradhan Mantri Court in July 2012 banned all Guidelines of the World Heri• Gram Sadak Yojana and inau• kinds of commercial and tour• tage Convention. gurated the check-dams in the ism activities within a five-ki• b. The World Heritage Commit• erstwhile Maoist bastion in lometre radius around the tee meeting was held in Rus• (1) Raipur Jarawa Tribal Reserve in sia in July 2012. (2) Purulia (1) Arunachal Pradesh Select the correct answer us• (3) West Singhbhum (2) Andaman and Nicobar Is• ing the codes given below: (4) Hazaribagh lands (1) Only a 2. The six-member panel consti• (3) Lakshadweep (2) Only b tuted to review the cartoons (4) Assam (3) Both a and b used in social sciences text• 9. Which country, in July 2012, (4) Neither a nor b books of the NCERT ordered assured India of its readiness deletion of several cartoons in 6. With reference to the inclu• to resolve the controversy over July 2012. This panel is head• sion of Western Ghats to the its tax treaties and appreciat• ed by coveted list of World Heritage ed New Delhi's help to bolster (l)S.K. Thorat Sites, Criterion nine of the Op• its security and safety? erational Guidelines of the (2) Bina Sen (1) Poland World Heritage Convention (3) A.K. Chaturvedi (2) Denmark deals with properties which (4) D.R. Ghosh are "outstanding examples rep• (3) Mauritius 3. Prime Minister Manmohan resenting significant ongoing (4) Morocco Singh on July 2, 2012, an• ecological and biological pro• 10. The government on July 13, nounced an ad hoc support of cesses in the evolution and de• 2012, announced the setting Rs. 500-crore for flood-hit velopment of up of a five-member commit• (1) Bihar (1) Terrestrial and freshwater tee, to be headed by Cabinet (2) Maharashtra ecosystems Secretary, to look into pay and pension-related issues of de• (3) Assam (2) Coastal and marine ecosys• fence services personnel and (4) West Bengal tems ex-servicemen. Who is the Cab• 4. The United Nation's Millenni• (3) Communities of plants and inet Secretary? um Development Goals Report animals (1) Alok Dhuria of the U.N. Secretary-General, (4) All of the above (2) Kumar Mitra 2012, was released in July 7. Almost three decades after 2012. According to this report, deadly gases spewed out of the (3) Ajit Seth India's Maternal Mortality Union Carbide plant in Bho- (4) Pancham Seth Rate (MMR) is per one lakh pal, the Union Cabinet recent• 11. Which of the following state• live births. ly approved the proposal to ments is/are correct regarding (1)189 (2)212 airlift 350 tonnes of toxic Pranab Mukherjee who was (3)228 waste from the defunct pesti• sworn in as the new President (4) 235 cide factory site to of India on July 25, 2012? (l)He is the first Bengali to (1)2 years (2) 5 years 21. India test-fired which 290 hold the post of President (3) 10 years (4) 14 years supersonic cruise missile fro of India 16. Seeking to end the discretion the integrated test range a (2) He was sworn-in by the in the allotment of retail out• Chandipur off the Odish Chief Justice of India lets for which of the following, coast on July 29. 2012? (3) He bested P. A. Sangma in the government on July 20, (l)Nag (2)Dhanush the race to Rashtrapati Bha- 2012, announced that in the (3) BrahMos (4) Agni-IV van future such allotments would 22. The Union Power Ministry o (4) All of the above be decided through lotteries? July 30, 2012, announced constitution of a three-me 12. Which country, in July 2012, (1) Tatkal Railway Tickets agreed to extend a $3.4-billion ber panel to probe the North (2) Petrol pumps ern grid collapse which brought credit for setting up two more (3) Food grains for Public Dis• the northern states to a virtu• 1,000-MW atomic power plants tribution System al halt. Who is heading this at Kudankulam in Tamil panel? Nadu? (4) Free seeds and other provi• sions to farmers (1) A.S. Singh (1) Britain (2) Russia 17. The Supreme Court, on July (2) M.N. Rathod (3) France (4) USA 23, 2012, reduced the number (3) Sulabh Sharma 13. Known as 'Paniwali Bai,' a vet• of seats to from the 5,050 (4) Aniket Sachdeva eran socialist and dauntless activist on the issues of price recommended under the gov• 23. Which of the following pairs rise, water rights and women's ernment's discretionary quota (New Cabinet Minister as on July 31, 2012: Portfolio) is not empowerment, passed away in for the 2012 Haj pilgrimage. correct? Thane district in July 2012. (1)2500 (2)1000 Who was she? (3)300 (4)200 (1) P. Chidambaram: Finance (2)Sushil Kumar Shinde: (1) Amrita Bhosle 18. Home Minister P. Chidam• Home (2) Mrinal Gore baram announced in July 2012 (3) Veerappa Moily: Power (3) Sushma Prakash that over 500 new border out posts (BOPs) would be con• (4)Ambika Soni: Human Re• (4) Aruna Roy structed along international source Development 14. Rajesh Khanna, a famous Bol• borders with which of the fol• 24. Four key Finance Ministry lywood actor, film producer and lowing to check infiltration functionaries demitted office politician, died in Mumbai on and cross border movement of on July 31, 2012. With refer• July 18. 2012. Which of the terrorists? ence to them, match List I (Fi• following statements regarding nance Ministry functionaries) (1) Pakistan him is/are correct? with List II (Position) and se• (l)He was referred to as the (2) Afghanistan lect the correct answer using "first superstar" and the (3) Bangladesh the codes given below the list: "original superstar" of Indi• (4) Both 1 and 3 List I an cinema 19. Which of the following Indian A. R. Gopalan (2) He won three Filmfare Best environmental philosopher B. Kaushik Basu Actor Awards and was nom• and activist was, in July 2012, C. Laxman Das inated for the same four• chosen for the 2012 Fukuoka D. S.K. Goel teen times Prize? List-II (3) He was a Lok Sabha mem• (1) Anna Hazare 1. Department of Economic Af• ber of the Indian National (2) Vandana Shiva fairs (DEA) Secretary Congress from New Delhi 2. Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) constituency from 1992 to (3) Aruna Roy 1996 (4) Arundhati Ghosh 3. Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chairman (4) All of the above 20. Who among the following were, 4. Central Board of Excise and 15. The Union Cabinet, on July 19, in July 2012, chosen for the Customs (CBEC) Chief 2012, approved a proposal to prestigious Gujar Mai Modi Codes: replace the word "rape" with Award for Innovative Science the phrase "sexual assault," & Technology? A B C D making it a gender-neutral of• (1) Physicist A. K. Sood (1) 1 2 3 4 fence, and identified acid at• (2) Geologist K. S. Valdiya (2) 2 3 4 1 tacks as a separate offence (3) Astronomer S.K. Mehrotra (3) 3 4 1 2 punishable by a maximum of (4) Both 1 and 2 (4) 4 1 2 3 25. The Prime Minister, in July (1) Kerala (1) Delhi 2012, halved the number of the (2) Gujarat (2) Bihar Empowered Group of Ministers (3) Punjab (3) Uttar Pradesh (EGoM) from the earlier 12 to (4) Jammu & Kashmir (4) Kerala six at present, while reducing 31. The Legislative Assembly of 37. The Raj as than government de• the number of the GoMs from which state, on July 6, 2012, cided on July 18. 2012. to ban 27 to passed a Bill that would pro• the production, storage, distri• (1)21 (2)18 vide 17 per cent reservation to bution and sale of gutkha. (3) 15 (4) 12 Other Backward Classes Which other states have done (OBC) in government jobs? it before? STATES (1) Punjab (1) Bihar 26. Which state of India an• (2) Bihar (2) Kerala nounced on July 2, 2012, that (3) Uttar Pradesh (3) Maharashtra one crore jobs will be created (4) West Bengal (4) All of the above in the state during the 12th 32. Which state government, on 38. Which state recently replaced Five Year Plan period (21012- July 11,2012. announced a Rs. Kerala as the best in the com• 17)? 2,685-crore relief package to posite educational develop• (1) Bihar alleviate the water crisis in the ment index (EDI), to be among (2) Madhya Pradesh state? the top three States? (3) Uttar Pradesh (1) West Bengal (1) Punjab (4) Tamil Nadu (2) Assam (2) Bihar 27. The Union Cabinet on July 3, (3) Maharashtra (3) Maharashtra 2012, gave the green signal for (4) Madhya Pradesh (4) Gujarat the Rs.5,128-crore Metro Rail 33. Which state, in July 2012, 39. Scientists from the Indian In• project of claimed to have emerged as the stitute of Chemical Technolo• (1) Salem (2) Kochi first hookah bar-free State in gy (IICT), in July 2012.