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5. The Western Ghats, in July (1) Bhutan NATIONAL 2012, made it to the coveted (2) 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) 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) 17. The Supreme Court, on July (2) M.N. Rathod (3) (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. an• (3) Pune (4) Panaji the country? nounced to have a developed a 28. Uttarakhand Governor Aziz (1) Punjab know-how to produce bio-hy• Qureshi. in July 2012, pro• (2) Uttar Pradesh drogen, a renewable energy, through wastewater and in• posed establishment of a Char (3) Haryana dustrial effluents. Where is Dham Development Authority (4) Bihar IICT located? to look after shrines of 34. Fifty six-year-old Lingayat (1) Chennai (2) Bangalore (l)Gangotri and Yamunotri leader from north Karnataka (3) Hyderabad (4) Pune (2) Badrinath and Kedarnath Jagadish Shettar was sworn in (3)Tirupati and Ajmer Sharif Chief Minister on July 12, 40. Which state and Punjab signed Dargah 2012, becoming the Chief an MoU in July 2012 for exe• (4) Both 1 and 2 Minister of the state. cution of the Shri Naina Devi- Anandpur Sahib ropeway 29. According to the report "Crime (1) 18th (2)21sl project to link the two most in India 2011," put out by the (3)27lh (4)36lh famous shrines in the States? National Crime Records Bu• 35. Union Human Resource Devel• (1) Jammu & Kashmir reau (NCRB), which state tops opment Ministry, in July 2012, (2) Uttar Pradesh the list in cases registered for announced establishment of obscene publication or trans• two Central universities in (3) Himachal Pradesh mission in electronic form? which state of India? (4) Uttarakhand (1) Bihar (1) Bihar 41. The Centre, in July 2012, an• (2) Delhi (2) Gujarat nounced a relief package of what amount to the States fac• (3) Kerala (3) West Bengal ing drought-like situation and (4) Maharashtra (4) Odisha offered a diesel subsidy of 50 30. The Chief Minister of which 36. The Cabinet of which state, on per cent to farmers for saving state, on July 5, 2012, asked July 16, 2012. decided to ex• standing crops? Prime Minister Manmohan tend the benefit of enhanced (1) Rs. 1.000 crore Singh to immediately withdraw pension of Rs. 1,500 per month (2) Rs. 1,900 crore any proposal to impose a 12.36 to all categories of women in per cent tax on remittances distress — widows, divorced, (3) Rs. 2,400 crore from NRIs? abandoned and separated? (4) Rs. 3.600 crore 42. The Supreme Court, in July tablish literacy committees at 2012, granted permission for all village panchayats to controversial US ship Oriental achieve the targets of "Saak- INTERNATIONAL 51. Protests were recently held in Nicety, earlier known as 'Exx• shar Bharat" programme and Hong Kong amid swearing-in on Valdez', involved in one of spread literacy among the of Leung Chun-ying as the new the worst US oil spills off Alas• youths above 15 years of age? and third Chief Executive. The ka, to beach at Gujarat coast. (l)Chhattisgarh When did the Alaska spill off present political system of (2) Rajasthan take place? Hong Kong has been in place (3) Madhya Pradesh since (1) 1976 (2) 1981 (4) Himachal Pradesh (1) 1981 (2) 1988 (3) 1986 (4) 1993 48.,Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), (3) 1997 (4) 2006 43. The Centre, in July 2012, ap• / the Central armed police force proved a pilot project for a vo• 52. In a report titled "Women Mat• under the Union Ministry of cational education programme ter," released by consultancy Home Affairs, in July 2012, for school children above Class firm McKinsey & Company in announced to set up its sector IX in July 2012, which country came headquarters at Mauzpur vil• first with respect to percent• (1) Assam lage in age of women in board rooms (2) Bihar (1) Jaipur (2) Jodhpur of companies? (3) West Bengal (3) Alwar (4) Bharatpur (1) (4) Odisha 49. National Bank for Agriculture (2) Hong Kong 44. Which state government, in and Rural Development (NA- (3) Australia July 2012, announced MLAs to BARD), in July 2012, an• (4) USA get 20 lakh each to buy swanky nounced to have identified cars from "Vidhayak Nidhi" (lo• 53. Protesters shouted and danced warehousing as one of the pri• cal area development fund for , at the gate of a Japanese nu- ority areas for financially sup• the legislators)? v clear power plant as it restart• porting ed on July 1, 2012. Which is (1) Bihar (1) Madhya Pradesh that plant? (2) Madhya Pradesh (2) Chhattisgarh (l)Ohi (3) Uttar Pradesh (3) Rajasthan (2) Hiroshima (4) Haryana (4) Jharkhand (3) Iwo Jima 45. The Karnataka High Court on 50. Which State government, in (4) Tokyo July 5, 2012, constituted a July 2012, approved commit• committee comprising three 54. Islamist rebels, in July 2012, tees formed to examine and sitting judges of the High smashed the entrance of a Court as the State-Level Com• recommend means of imple• 15th century Timbuktu mittee (SLC) to strategise an mentation of eco-sensitive mosque, escalating a campaign action plan for the implemen• zone guidelines around 12 of destruction of the city's cul• tation of the Juvenile Justice sanctuaries in the State? tural treasures despite threats (Care and Protection of Chil• (1) Kerala of prosecution for war crimes. In which country is this dren) Act, (2) Odisha mosque located? (1) 1985 (2) 1991 (3) Assam (1) Botswana (2) Mali (3) 2000 (4) 2009 (4) West Bengal (3) Algeria (4) Egypt 46. Which State Cabinet decided in July 2012 that 75 per cent 55. Pakistan, in July 2012, decid• intake of students of a noti• ed to reopen the NATO supply fied minority community is lines running through its ter• mandatory for an institution ritory into Afghanistan after to be accorded minority sta• USA said "sorry for the losses tus? suffered by the Pakistan mili• tary" in the attack of Novem• (1) Kerala ber 26, 2011. Which attack is (2) Andhra Pradesh being hinted here? (3) Karnataka (1) Karachi (4) Maharashtra (2) Rawalpindi 47. Which state government, in (3) Salala July 2012, announced to es• (4) Quetta 56. Iran, on July 3, 2012, took the (1) India 67. The United States, on July 12, first step towards military in• (2) Afghanistan 2012, unleashed a fresh wave tervention in which of the fol• (3) Pakistan of sanctions against Iran. The actions lowing bays/straits — a move (4) Libya that could skyrocket global oil a. Impose additional sanctions 62. Severe flash floods killed al• on Iran's "nuclear and ballis• prices? most 100 people and displaced tic missile proliferation net• (1) Bay of Fundi about 13,000 in which coun• works". (2) Hormuz Strait try in July 2012? b. Identifies Iranian "front com• (3) Cala Luna Bay (1) China panies and banks". (4) Oakura Bay (2) Thailand Select the correct answer us• 57. Which country, in July 2012, (3) Russia (4) Indonesia ing the codes given below: declared a national animal 63. Donors at a major develop• (l)Only a health emergency in the face ment conference for Afghani• (2) Only b of an aggressive bird flu epi• stan in July 2012 pledged aid demic? of more than $16 billion for (3) Both a and b (4) Neither a nor b (1) Japan (2) Mexico four years to 2015. Where was this conference held? 68. The lower house of parliament (3) (4) Chile (1) New York of which country, on July 13, 58. A bill granting official status 2012, approved a bill that to Russian and other languag• (2) Islamabad brands as "foreign agents" non• es triggered a major political (3) Tokyo governmental organisations (4) crisis in which country in July who receive funding from 2012, with the Speaker of Par• 64. Bangladesh Prime Minister abroad? liament resigning in protest Sheikh Hasina, in July 2012, (1) China and the President threatening announced that her country (2) Australia to dissolve the legislature? would itself implement the $3- (3) Russia (1) Latvia billion bridge project through mobilising domestic (4) Britain (2) resources after the World Bank 69. For the first time, which coun• (3) Uzbekistan cancelled the loan deal recent- try admitted in July 2012 that (4) Lithuania iy- its colonial forces in Kenya 59. Which country, on July 5, (l)Padma (2) Majuli tortured and abused Mau Mau 2012, pledged financial aid to (3) Sonapani (4) Alvira rebels in the 1950s and 1960s? Cuba as it undertook historic 65. Which of the following major (1) France economic reforms, promising international developments are (2) Germany visiting President Raul Castro associated with July 9, 2012? (3) Britain a new credit line as well as help (1) Aung San Suu Kyi attend• (4) Spain in health care and technolo• ed Pa ament as a lawmak• 70. The Upper House of Parliament gy? er for the first time of which country, in July 2012. (l)USA (2) South Sudan marked its ratified the agreement to join (2) China first year of independence the World Trade Organisation (3) India 3) Egypt's top court rejected a despite widespread opposition (4) Russia decree by President Moham- inside the country? ed Morsy to reinstate Par• 60. Which of the following coun• (1) China liament tries boycotted the "Friends of (2) Russia (4) All of the above Syria" meeting that was held (3) Venezuela 66. The International Monetary in July 2012? (4) Iraq Fund (IMF) said in July 2012: (1) Russia and China 'The economy is expected to 71. The United States House of (2) USA and Britain continue contracting through Representatives, on July 21. (3) France and Germany the year owing to tight finan• 2012, unanimously voted to (4) USA and Germany cial conditions, the global cut American military aid to 61. The Obama administration, on slowdown, and the needed fis• which country by $650 million? July 7, 2012, declared which cal consolidation." IMF said (l)Iraq of the following countries as this about the economy of (2) Afghanistan the United States' newest "ma• (1) (2) Spain (3) Pakistan jor non-NATO ally?. (3) Italy (4) Croatia . (4) India 72. Which country, in July 2012, (3) Rs.45 lakh marked the 70th anniversary ECONOMY & BUSINESS (4) Rs.60 lakh of the start of Nazi Germany's 76. According to the data released 81. Aditya Birla Group announced mass deportation of Jews from by the Commerce Ministry in in July 2012 to have signed an the Warsaw ghetto to the death New Delhi on July 2, 2012, agreement to buy the Terrace clamp of Treblinka, one of the India's exports took a plunge Bay Pulp Mill in North West• darkest episodes of the Holo• in May, registering a drop of ern Ontario in caust? (1)2.25 per cent (1) Venezuela (1) The Czech Republic (2) 3.56 per cent (2) Canada (2) France (3) Poland (3) 4.16 per cent (3) Mexico (4) Switzerland (4) 5 per cent (4) 73. Venezuelan President Hugo 77. In the data released by the Chavez, in July 2012, unveiled 82. Planning Commission Deputy Commerce Ministry in July a digitised 3-D image of which Chairman Montek Singh Ahl- 2012, the decline in exports in leader, based on remains ex• uwalia, on July 6, 2012, con• May was particularly witnessed humed two years ago to deter• ceded that achieving a GDP in top exporting commodities mine whether the South expansion of through the such as American independence hero XII Plan would require a "ma• (1) Petroleum products and en• was murdered? jor effort." gineering goods (1) Che Guevara (1)8 per cent (2) Gems and jewellery (2) Simon Bolivar (2) 9 per cent (3) Readymade garments (3) Alfred Allende (3) 9.5 per cent (4) All of the above (4) Kirk Bishop (4) 10 per cent 78. The Central Government, in 74. Which country, on July 29, 83. India and which of the follow• July 2012, decided to set up a ing countries, in July 2012, de• 2012, won the exclusive right venture capital fund of cided to fast-track the negoti• to exploit a deep-sea mine in Rs.2,000 crore which will pro• the Indian Ocean that could mote research and develop• ations for sealing a Preferen• produce more than $300 mil• ment (R&D) in tial Trade Agreement (PTA)? lion worth of minerals a year? (1) Export sector (1) UAE (1) China (2) USA (2) Pharmaceutical sector (2) Mauritius (3) South Korea (3) GM Food Sector (3) Singapore (4) Japan (4) Readymade Garment Sec• (4) South Africa 75. Which country, on July 30, tor 84. International ratings agency 2012, announced a massive 79. Reserve Bank of ? dia Gover• Standard & Poor's Ratings Ser• naval rearmament and un• nor, D. Subbprat,'on July 4, vices (S&P), on July 9, 2012; veiled plans to build scores of 2012, asked t ks to look at announced to have raised its warships by the end of decade? the feasibility oi re-occupying long-term corporate credit rat• (1) China the last mile' in which of the ing on which of the following (2) Russia following operations? to 'BB' from 'BB-' with a posi• (3) Iran (1) Micro finance tive outlook? (4) North Korea (2) Crop loans (1) State Bank of India (3) Retail Banking (2) Kingfisher Airlines (4) Personalized Banking (3) Tata Motors 80. In a bid to prop up housing (4) All of the above construction for the middle 85. In the official data on direct and lower middle-class, the- tax collection released in New government, in July 2012, ex• Delhi in July 2012, the growth tended the one per cent inter• in which of the following tax est subvention scheme on housing loans of up to Rs.15 sectors was described as a lakh by a year, provided the 'worrying factor'? cost of the house does not ex• (1) Wealth Tax ceed (2) Corporate Tax (1) Rs.25 lakh (3) Sales Tax (2) Rs.35 lakh (4) Securities Transaction Tax 86. Steel Authority oflndia (SAIL), 91. For setting up a 0.5 million 95. In the WPI data for June 2012 in July 2012, announced plans tonne per annum iron ore nug• released in New Delhi in July to invest a whopping Rs.1.31 get plant at the Alloy Steel 2012, headline inflation eased lakh crore to expand its pro• Plant in which place, did SAIL a tad to 7.25 per cent in June duction capacity to 45 million and Kobe Steel of Japan enter following a marginal cooling in tonnes per annum, leaving IIS- into a MoA in Tokyo in July prices of CO Steel plant out of the ex• 2012? (1) Food items pansion purview. Where is it (1) Durgapur (2) Petroleum products located? (2) Bokaro (3) Manufactured goods (1) Bokaro (3) Rourkela (4) All of the above (2) Jamshedpur (4) Bhilai 96. The International Monetary (3) Bumpur 92. As per the data released in New Fund (IMF), in July 2012, mar• (4) Rourkela Delhi on India's exports and ginally reduced India's growth 87. How many Indian companies imports in July 2012, which of projections from 6.8 per cent made the cut in the list of the following statements is/are to 6.1 per cent for 2012. and world's 500 largest companies correct? from 7.2 per cent what per cent compiled by Fortune magazine in 2013? a. Shaip compression in imports in July 2012, with Indian Oil and declining exports has nar• (1) 6.9 per cent and Reliance Industries find• rowed the trade deficit to a 15- (2) 7 per cent ing a place in the top 100? month low of $10.3 billion in (3) 6.5 per cent (1) Three (2) Six June. (4) 6.3 per cent (3) Eight (4) Twelve b. In June 2011, the trade gap 97. Who among the following, on 88. The Central Board of Excise stood at $14.42 billion. July 17. 2012, proposed a Pro• and Customs (CBEC), on July Select the correct answer us• ducer Price Index (PPI), which 10, 2012, clarified that remit• ing the codes given below: would measure the average tances from abroad would not (l)Only a change over time in the sale attract prices of domestic goods and (2) Only b (1) Excise Duty services? (3) Both a and b (2) Custom Duty (1) Montek Singh Ahluwalia (4) Neither a nor b (3) Service tax (2) D. Subbarao 93. In a bid to bring 'greater clari• (4) Sales Tax (3) Manmohan Singh ty' on GAAR (General Anti- 89. Market regulator Securities (4) Anand Sharma Avoidance Rules), Prime Min• and Exchange Board of India ister Manmohan Singh, on 98. Which of the following banks, (SEBI), in July 2012, granted July 13, 2012, constituted an in July 2012, decided to start permission to MCX Stock Ex• expert committee which is supporting deals denominated change (MCX-SX) to operate as in their local currencies under headed by a full-fledged stock exchange its Trade Finance Programme (1) Parthasarthi Shome which would be able to offer (TFP)? additional asset classes such (2) N. Rangachary (1) World Bank as (3) Ajay Shall (2) State Bank of India (1) Equity and equity F&O (4) Sunil Gupta (3) Asian Development Bank (Futures and Options) 94. As per an announcement (4) Reserve Bank of India (2) Interest rate futures made by Commerce, Industry 99. The Securities and Exchange (3) Wholesale debt segments and Textiles Minister Anand Board of India (SEBI), on July (4) All of the above Sharmaon July 16, 2012, the 18, 2012, issued guidelines al• Technology Upgradation Fund 90. India, in July 2012, announced lowing overseas individual in• Scheme (TUFS) would be con• to have set a target of $40 bil• vestors to invest up to how tinued in the XII Plan for lion trade turnover with which much in corporate bonds and which sector with an alloca• of the following nations from debt schemes of mutual funds the present $20 billion? tion of Rs. 15,886 crore? without any lock-in period? (1) Textile (1) G8 nations (1) $1 billion (2) West African nations (2) Jute sacks (2) $2.5 billion (3) Latin American nations (3) Special Economic Zones (3) $4 billion (4) South East Asian nations (4) Gems and Jewellery (4) $5 billion 100. As per the CPI inflation data a. The Cabinet approved the im• the first quarter (April-June) ] released in New Delhi in July position of 21 per cent duty on this fiscal? 2012. retail inflation eased import of power equipment. (1) 2.2 per cent marginally to 10.02 per cent in b. The Cabinet approved 5 per (2) 3.61 percent June from 10.36 per cent in cent basic customs duty, 12 (3) 4.9 per cent May. Which of the following per cent counter-veiling duty (4) 5.5 per cent and 4 per cent special addition• kept retail inflation in double 109. In its Macroeconomic am digits for the third straight al duty on import of power Monetary Developments firs month? gear. quarter review 2012-13, which (1) Vegetables Select the correct answer us• was released on July 31.2012. (2) Edible oils ing the codes given below: the Reserve Bank of India cut the gross domestic product (3) Milk products (1) Only a (2) Only b (GDP) forecast for the current (4) All of the above financial year from 7.3 per cent (3) Both a and b 101. The Prime Minister's Office to (4) Neither a nor b (PMO), in July 2012, an• (1) 7.1 per cent 105. The Reserve Bank of India nounced the setting up of a (2) 7 per cent (RBI), on July 20, 2012, said Project Clearance Board under (3) 6.5 percent that foreign banks having which of the following to speed (4) 6.3 per cent up clearances for infrastruc• or more branches in the coun• 110. In its Macroeconomic and try will be brought on par with ture and energy projects? Monetary Developments first domestic banks for priority sec• (1) Cabinet Secretary quarter review 2012-13, which tor targets in a phased man• (2) Home Secretary of the following was not done ner over a maximum period of by the Reserve Bank of India? (3) Finance Secretary five years (l)Cut the Statutory Liquidi• (4) Deputy Governor of RBI (1)5 (2)10 ty Ratio (SLR) by one per• 102. U.S. oil giant Chevron Corpo• (3) 20 (4) 25 centage point from 24 per ration, in July 2012. an• 106. The Reserve Bank of India cent to 23 per cent nounced to have bought 80 per (RBI), in July 2012, introduced (2) Left interest rates un• cent stake in Reliance Indus• a new category of NBFCs, Non- changed for the second tries Limited's (RIL's) two oil Banking Financial Company- straight review blocks in Kurdistan region of Factors and stipulated that (3) Increased the Repo rate to (1) Libya every company seeking registra• at 8.5 per cent (2) Oman tion as NBFC-Factors would (4) Kept the Cash Reserve Ra• (3) Iraq have a minimum net-owned tio (CRR) at 4.75 per cent fund (NOF) of (4) Saudi Arabia (1)Rs. 1 crore 103. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), in (2) Rs. 3 crore July 2012, approved the disin• (3) Rs.5 crore vestment in Steel Authority of (4) Rs, 10 crore India Limited (SAIL) to the 107. Tata Power, on July 24, 2012, tune of 10.82 per cent. The gov• announced the commissioning ernment at present holds what of the second unit (525 MW) percentage stake in SAIL? of the Maithon power project in (1) 51.6 per cent (2) 68.2 per cent (1) Odisha (3) 85.82 per cent (2) Jharkhand (3) Chhattisgarh (4) 90.45 per cent (4) Andhra Pradesh 104. For protecting the interests of domestic power equipment 108. According to the quarterly re• port on 'Public debt manage• manufacturers from cheap ment' which was released in Chinese imports, which of the New Delhi on July 27, 2012, following decisions was taken the Centre's total public debt, by the Union Cabinet in July excluding liabilities, increased 2012? by what per cent at the end of (1) Only a (2) Only b (1) Sushil Kumar SPORTS (3) Both a and b (2) Gagan Narang 111. India lost wickets in a heap to• (4) Neither a nor b (3) Saina Nehwal wards the end of the innings 116. Who. on July 8, 2012. claimed (4) Sania Mirza as the under-19 Asia Cup fi• the ninth win of his career, L22. Which Indian golfer, in July nal ended in a thrilling tie at when he swept to a dramatic 2012, birdied the first play-off victory in an incident-filled the Kinrara Academy Oval in hole to defeat Italy's Francesco British Grand Prix in Silver- Kuala Lumpur on July 1,2012. Molinari and claimed the Scot• stone? Which team shared the title tish Open golf title? with India? (1) Mark Webber (1) Jeev Milkha Singh (l)Sri Lanka (2) Lewis Hamilton (2) Anirudh Gogia (2) Pakistan (3)Jenson Button (3) Sunil Mann (3) Bangladesh » (4) Fernando Alonso (4)Vinit Solanki (4) Afghanistan 117. Roger Federer, in July 2012, re• 123. Which of the following teams 112. Who among the following won gained the Wimbledon crown emerged the overall champion the 1500 metres in the Asian when he beat Andy Murray in at the 39th junior National All Stars meet that recently four sets in the final. The vic• concluded in Almaty, Kazakh• tory was his major title. aquatic championships in Chennai in July 2012? stan? (1)9"' (2) 13th (1) Sandeep Karan Singh (3) 17* (4) 19'" (1) Karnataka (2) Avinash Bansal 118. Sri Lanka won its first Test se• (2) Maharashtra (3) Sunil Sinha ries in three years on July 12, (3) Goa (4) Anil Manocha 2012, after the final Test (4) Gujarat against which team ended in 113. Who, on July 3, 2012, became 124. Nandini Parmar, in July 2012, a thrilling draw in Pallekele? India's 28th Grandmaster on became the first Indian to win his way to the runner-up spot (1) India a medal in the Asian karate behind compatriot Abhijeet (2) Pakistan championships when she won Gupta in the Philadelphia In• (3) Bangladesh a bronze medal in the Asian ternational chess tourna• (4) South Africa senior, junior and cadet ment? 119. David Millar, on July 13,2012, championship at Tashkent. (1) M.R. Venkatesh won the longest stage of the She is from (2) S.N. Tyagi Tour de France after dominat• (1) Uttar Pradesh (3) Krishan Swamy ing a two-up sprint with (2) Rajasthan Frenchman Jean-Christophe (4) Joseph Verghese (3) Madhya Pradesh Peraud in Annonay (France). 114. Serena Williams, on July 7, (4) Himachal Pradesh 2012, grabbed her fifth Wim• Millar is from 125. Queen Elizabeth declared open bledon title with a 6-1, 5-7, 6- (1) Australia (2) Germany 30th in Lon• 2 victory over Agnieszka Rad- (3) Britain (4) Spain don on July 27. 2012. The spec• wanska of 120. Which of the following teams, tacular opening ceremony was (1) Romania (2) Croatia on July 15, 2012, clinched the brilliantly crafted by which overall championship at the (3) Poland (4) Lithuania Oscar-winning director? 115. Which of the following state• National junior athletics (1) Francis Ford Coppola ments related to Wimbledon championships at the Sree 2012 is/are correct? Kanteerava Stadium in Ban• (2) Christopher Nolan galore? a. Serena and Venus Williams de• (3) Danny Boyle feated the Czech pair of Andrea (1) Karnataka (4) Ridley Scott Hlavackova and Lucie Hradec- (2) Tamil Nadu 126. Alexandre Vinokourov claimed ka in the women's doubles fi• (3).Kerala an unexpected but deserved nal. (4) Andhra Pradesh win in the men's Olympic road b. In the final of the men's dou• 121.Who among the following race on July 28, 2012. Which bles, Marray and Denmark's sportspersons of India was the country is he from? Frederik Nielsen beat Sweden's flag-bearer of the Indian con• (1) Uzbekistan Robert Lindstedt and Roma• tingent at the opening ceremo• nia's Horia Tecau. (2) Tajikistan ny of the Olympics in Select the correct answer us• (3) Russia on July 27, 2012? ing the codes given below: (4) Ukraine 127. China's world number one (1) France player won the first gold of the (2) Latvia PERSONS, PLACES & London Olympics in the wom• (3) Germany AWARDS en's 10m air rifle competition (4) Italy at London's Royal Artillery 136. Football's world governing Barracks in July 2012. Who is 133. Gagan Narang, on July 29, body FIFA, in July 2012, agreed she? 2012, shot the bronze medal to allow the introduction of (l)Yi Siling for India, its first medal, on the goal-line technology (GLT) at fourth day of the Olympics, at a meeting of the sport's exec• (2) Nin Li the Royal Artillery Barracks. utives in (3) Pi Chu He won in men's (1) Zurich (2) Paris (4) Yu You (1) 10m air rifle competition (3) Venice (4) Geneva 128. Which American swimmer, on (2) 25m pistol competition 137. Australian pace bowler Brett July 29, 2012, powered her way Lee announced his retirement to a brilliant world record in (3) 3-Gun shooting event from international cricket on ' the women's 100m butterfly of (4) 30m Crossbow July 13, 2012. He would con• the swimming competitions in 134.Who among the following tinue to play the less demand• London? have/had won an Olympic ing Twenty20 cricket in the (1) Christina Palmer medal for India in shooting? (1) Indian Premier League (2) Dana Vollmer (1) Rajyavardhan Singh (2) Australian Big Bash League (3) Daniela Williams Rathore-Silver Medal in (3) Champions Trophy (4) Susan Mitchell Athens 2004 (4) Both 1 and 2 129. Who delivered a flawless per• (2) Abhinav Bindra-Gold Med• 138. Which former Indian cricketer formance from the pole posi• al in Beijing 2008 and the Board of Control for tion to the chequered flag to (3) K.D. Jadhav^Silver Medal Cricket in India (BCCI) ce• win the Hungarian Grand Prix in 1952 mented their recent efforts to in in July 2012? (4) Both 1 and 2 bury the differences and came (1) Lewis Hamilton 135.At just 15, schoolgirl Ruta on. a common platform for the (2) Bruno Senna Meilutyte, on July 31, 2012, improvement of the game and its image in July 2012? (3) Mark Webber showed nerves of steel as she (4) Felipe Massa claimed Lithuania's first ever (1) Dilip Vengsarkar 130. Which team won its seventh swimming medal. Which of the (2) Kapil Dev consecutive Olympic gold med• following related statements (3) Sunil Gavaskar al in the women's team ar• is/are correct? (4) Sourav Ganguly chery competition in July a. She has become one of the 139. Who among the following was/ 2012, defeating China in a youngest women to win an were elected vice-president(s) rainy final? Olympic title. of the International Olympic (1) Japan b. In 1980, at the Moscow Olym• Committee on July 26, 2012? (2) South Korea pics, Lina Kaciusyte became (1) Sir Craig Reedie and Nawal (3) India Lithuania's first champion El Moutawakel (4) Iran when she won the 200m (2)Ching-Kuo Wu and Pat 131. Lasha Shavdatuashvili won breaststroke, competing for the Hickey the men's under-66kg gold in . (3) Sergei Bukka the Olympic judo competition Select the correct answer us• (4) Thomas Bach and Sebas• in July 2012. Which country tian Coe ing the codes given below: is he from? (l)Only a 140. Match List I (Formula One (1) Motor Racers in news in July (2) Only b (2) Georgia 2012) with List It (Country) and (3) Both a and b (3) Belarus select the correct answer us• (4) Neither a nor b ing the codes given below the (4) Ukraine list: 132. Ukraine's Yana Shemyakina, List I on July 30, 2012, caused an upset by winning gold in the A. Nico Rosberg women's individual epee with B. Mark Webber a victory over defending cham• C. Lewis Hamilton pion of D. Romain Grosjean List-II 146. Which of the following cities 152. Nearly 12 million children 1. Germany 2. Australia hosted the third meeting of the across South Africa kicked oil 3. Britain 4. France 'Friends of Syria' in July 2012 celebrations on July 18. 2012, Codes: which insisted that President for the 94th birthday of Nel• A B C D Bashar al-Assad would have to son Mandela who became quit and sought a resolution South Africa's first black pres• (1) 4 3 2 1 under the U.N. charter's Chap• ident in (2) 2 3 4 1 ter 7? (1) 1989 (2) 1991 (3) 1 2 3 4 (3) 1994 (4) 1997 (4) 3 1 2 4 (1) Tokyo (2) Moscow 141. A global leader in addressing (3) Paris (4) Beijing 153. On July 20, 2012, a mass women's issues who helped 147. The International Criminal shooting occurred at a Centu• ry movie theater in Aurora. prod the U.N. to define a wom• Court, in July 2012, sentenced Colorado, United States, dur• an's right to say no to sex as Thomas Lubanga to 14 years ing a midnight screening of the an essential human right, died in prison, a watershed mo• film on Jun 29, 2012. Who was ment for the 10-year-old tri• she? bunal. Lubanga is from (1) Total Recall (l)Joan Dunlop (1) Uganda (2) Rwanda (2) The Dark Knight Rises (2) Jenny Finch (3) Congo (4) Sudan (3) Spiderman III (3) Hagar Finer 148. An Israeli court, on July 10, (4) Gothica (4) Vonetta Flowers 2012, cleared the former Prime 154. A 1979 batch officer of Indian 142. Indian-American Governor Ni- Minister, Ehud Olmert, of the Civil Accounts Service took kki Haley was recently cleared central charges in a multi-case charge as the Controller-Gen• of wrongdoing by an ethics corruption trial that forced eral of Accounts (CGA) in the committee which probed alle• him from power in Union Finance Ministry in gations that she lobbied on (1) 1989 (2) 1991 July 2012. Who is he? behalf of her employers when (3) 2002 (4) 2009 (1) Ashok Bais she was a legislator. She is the (2) Jawahar Thakur Governor of 149. France's far-right National (3) Abhishek Rastogi (1) Dakota (2) Ohio Front, in July 2012, an• (4) Deepak Verma (3) South Carolina nounced to sue which singer (4) Kansas and performer over a video at 155. Which popular and celebrated 143. Which city in the south-west• a concert in France showing Assamese poet and winner of ern province of Sichuan in the party leader, Marine Le the Sahitya Akademi Award China, in July 2012, an• Pen, with a swastika on her and several honours passed nounced to have scrapped forehead? away in Guwahati on July 4, plans for a copper plant after (1) Lady Gaga 2012? thousands of people protested (2) Madonna (1) Hiren Bhattacharyya the project's possible health (3) Lindsay Lohan (2) Kaushik Bose risks? (4)Alizee (3) Sudhendu Mitra (l)Shifang (2) Sania 150. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, on (4) Anand Sen (3) Beijing (4) Wuhan July 16, 2012, became the first 156. Which batting great was, in 144. Enrique Pena Nieto claimed woman elected to head the Af• July 2012, recommended for victory in the presidential polls rican Union (A.U.) Commis• the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna of which country in July 2012? sion. Which country is she award by the BCCI? (1) Venezuela (2) Cuba from? (1) Sachin Tendulkar (3) Mexico (4) Argentina (1) Kenya (2) Virendra Sehwag 145. A former South American dic• (2) South Africa tator Jorge Rafael Videla was, (3) Rahul Dravid in July 2012, convicted and (3) Somalia (4) V. Lakshman sentenced to 50 years for a sys• (4) Ghana 157. Prime Minister Manmohan tematic programme to steal 151. U.S. President Barack Obama, Singh was dubbed an "under- babies from prisoners who were in July 2012, nominated achiever" by which magazine/ kidnapped, tortured and killed James B. Cunningham as the newspaper in July 2012? during the military junta's war new U.S. Ambassador to Af• (l)The Sun on Leftist dissidents. Which ghanistan; and Richard G. (2) The Guardian country is in reference here? Olson as the new envoy to (3) Time (1) Brazil (2) Chile (1) India (2) Pakistan (4) The Economist (3) Argentina (4) Colombia (3) Russia (4) Britain 158. Who recently became the first (l)Truvada (2) Angela 16169! . India on July 13, 2012, suc• Indian ever to win the junior (3) Kinky (4) Chinmai cessfully test-fired which nu• Asian badminton champion• 54. Using cells from rat hearts and clear- capable ballistic missile, ship girls' title in South Ko• a seer polymer film, scientists from a test range on Wheeler rea? on July 22, 2012, reported Island off the Odisha coast? (l)Anjali Bose (2) P.V. Sindhu they had created an artificial (l)Agni-I (2)Agni-III (3) S.N. Negi jellyfish that could one day (3) Agni-IV (4) Agni-V

help save patients with heart 17 (4) Nirmala Agarwal 170. The All-India Institute of Med

ical Sciences (AIIMS), in July advance in so-called 2012, upheld the life imprii 2012, launched Methadone (1) Nanotechnology onment sentence awarded t Maintenance Treatment (MMT) (2) Biomimicry which former Lok Sabha men programme at its National (3) Stem cell research ber for instigating a mob to ki Drug Dependence Treatment erstwhile Gopalganj Distri* (4) Photon Centre (NDDTC). The project Magistrate G. Krishnaiah i 165. China successfully launched a is a joint effort of AIIMS and 1994? satellite in Sichuan province :e a. The United Nations Office on (1) Munna Shukla in July 2012, completing thle e Drugs and Crime (UNODC) • country's first data relay sat• (2) Anand Mohan Singh l" b. The Regional Office for South ellite network system. The (3) Pappu Yadav le Asia (ROSA). name of the satellite was (4) Surajdev Singh Select the correct answer us• (l)Tianlian 1-03 160. Uttarakhand Chief Ministc ing the codes given below: (2) Izmit L-101 Vijay Bahuguna, on July 1 (1) Only a (2) Only b (3)ChaoP-12 (4) Ming T-112 2012, emerged winner in whic 2 (3) Both a and b 166. Which of the following African Assembly by-poll, defeating h: ^ (4) Neither a nor b nearest rival, former Speak< countries was in news in Jully . Prakash Pant of the Oppos 2012 for wrong reasons whe»n MISCELLANEOUS tion BJP? the deadly Ebola virus killed a a I (1) Dehradun (2) Almora lot of people and forced its Pres• ident to warn against shakinsg- 171. Which bank, on July 2, 2012, (3) Sitarganj (4) Haridwar ig sold its entire debt of Rs.430 hands and other physical con• i- crore in the crisis-ridden King• tact? SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY fisher Airline to Srei Venture (1) Uganda (2) Nigeria Capital Ltd., a group company 161. Which country on July 7, 201! (3) Botswana (4) Ivory Coast 3t of Srei Infrastructure Finance announced to have begu 167. The University of Technology off Ltd? mass production of Dehlaviel which city, on July 31, 20122,, (l)ICICIBank a new and advanced lasei announced to have created a (2) State Bank of India guided anti-armour missil< 'Swumanoid' robot using a 3D (3) HDFC Bank which can destroy a "variety < scanner to perfectly map a (4) Canara Bank tanks"? human swimmer's physique, e- 172. European aerospace giant Air- (1) Syria (2) Libya which has perfected the back• t_ bus. in July 2012. announced (3) Iran (4) Algeria stroke and tries freestyle swim• *" to build its first assembly plant ming? 162. NASA announced in July 201 in the United States in that the US astronomers ha (1) Birmingham (l)Ohio (2) Dakota / found S/2012, a fifth moo (2) Tokyo (3) Montreal (3) Alabama (4) Nebraska orbiting (4) Darwin 173. The Union Cabinet, on July 4, (1) Jupiter (2) Saturn 168. Scientists at the world's big%•" 2012, approved the proposal of (3) Pluto (4) Mars gest atom smashing facility, oin the Tamil Nadu Government to 163. The U.S. Food and Drug Ac July 4, 2012, claimed the dis9•- set up a Petroleum Chemicals ministration, in July 2015 covery of a new subatomic parr~• and Petrochemicals Investment gave its first ever nod for a ticle. They found it to be "coni-• Region in which of the follow- anti-HIV drug, known chem sistent" with the long-soughitt ing districts? cally as a fixed-dose, daily ir Higgs boson, popularly knownn (1) Cuddalore and Nagapatti- take combination of emtricii as . nam abine and tenofovir disoprox (l)The God particle (2) Salem and Madurai fumarate. What is the name ( (2) Plasma (3) Photon (3) Chennai and Salem that drug? (4) Fourth state particle (4) Cuddalore and Madurai 174. The Associated Chambers of 180. According to official figures re• 186. Buddhist artefacts worth mil• Commerce and Industry of In• leased in Beijing on July 13, lions — possibly dating back dia (Assocham), in July 2012, 2012, China's economy grew by to the first century A.D. pitched for a postponement of what per cent in the second Qandhara School of Art — were GAAR till quarter of the year, marking a recovered by the police in (1)2013 (2)2014 three-year low? which Pakistani city in July 2012? (3) 2015 (4) 2016 (1) 6.1 per cent (1) Islamabad 175. Britain's Serious Fraud Office (2) 6.9 per cent (SFO), on July 6, 2012, (3) 7.6 per cent (2) Karachi launched a probe into which (4) 8.2 per cent (3) Multan bank at the centre of an inter• 181. The eurozone nations, on July (4) Lahore est rate fixing scandal? 20, 2012, sealed a deal to pro• 187. The U.N. food agency FAO and (1) Citibank vide rescue loans up to 100 the OECD said on July 11, billion euro ($122 billion) to (2) Standard and Chartered 2012, that the world farm pro• the ailing banks of which of the Bank duction must rise by what per• following countries? (3) Barclays Bank cent by 2050 to meet the needs (1) Spain (2) France of a growing population but (4) Royal Bank of Scotland (3) Italy (4) Greece this has to happen in a "more 176. Which of the following 182. The reconstituted Empowered sustainable way"? launched its application cen• Group of Ministers (EGoM) on (1)30 per cent tre, App Centre, in India and natural gas and allocation six other countries in July (2) 45 per cent was, in July 2012, announced 2012, a move that will help (3) 60 per cent to be headed by users to find games, music ser-. (4) 80 per cent (1) Sharad Pawar vices and other media content 188. A cargo ship carrying humani• (2) A. K. Antony easily? tarian aid from the U.S. to (3) Kapil Sibal (1) Google (2) Apple Cuba — in the first expedition (4) P. Chidambaram (3) Facebook (4) Yahoo of its kind in 50 years — ar• 183. Which of the following Islam• rived in Havana in July 2012. 177. Samsung won a patent battle ic nations, in July 2012, sent What was the name of this on July 9, 2012, against U.S. women to the Olympics (Lon• ship? rival Apple, with a British don) for the first time? judge ruling that Samsung's (1) Mary Rose (1) Galaxy tablet was not "cool" (2) Ana Cecilia enough to be confused with (2) Brunei (3) Catherine Pie Apple's iPad. Samsung is a (3) Iraq (4) Shay Doron company of (4) Both 1 and 2 189. With which of the following ti• (1) China (2) Japan 184. Which Bollywood megastar tles was the North Korean (3) South Korea Amitabh Bachchan, on July leader Kim Jong-un named in 26, 2012, carried the Olympic (4) Singapore July 2012, cementing his sta• torch at Southwark in London, tus atop the authoritarian 178. European Union finance min• a day before the opening cere• nation's military as he makes isters bought which country mony of the sporting specta• key changes to the 1.2-million- more time to revive its sickly cle? man force? economy on July 10, 2012, of• (l)Shahrukh Khan fering 30 billion euro to save (1) Chief (2) Marshal (2) Aamir Khan the country's banks? (3) Boss (4) General (3) Amitabh Bachchan (1) Greece (2) Italy 190. According to the new official (4) Dilip Kumar (3) Spain (4) Croatia data released by Australian 185. Which Indian business con• Immigration Minister Chris 179. Reliance Power, in July 2012, glomerate, in July 2012, an• Bowen, who is also Citizenship tied up loans of $1.1 billion nounced to reward gold medal minister, in July 2012, which from three Chinese lenders for winners at the London Olym• country has become the larg• its upcoming 3,960 MW Sasan pics with a five kg medal of pure est source of permanent mi• Ultra Mega Power Project in gold? grants who chose to make Aus- (1) Gujarat (1) Reliance tralia their home in 2011- (2) Madhya Pradesh (2) Bennett and Coleman 2012? (3) Karnataka (3) Sahara India Pariwar (1) China (2) India (4) Chhattisgarh (4) Tata Group (3) Iraq (4) Pakistan 191. In a recent report titled The 196. Which country, on July 5, Globalisation of Crime,' the 2012, banned the Indian Mu- United Nations Office on jahideen (IM) describing it as Drugs and Crime (UNODC) a threat to national security claimed in July 2012 that In• and citing its alleged involve• ternational crime generates a ment in several terror attacks? whopping $870 billion. What (1) Britain per cent of global GDP is it? (2) USA (1)1 per cent (3) India (4) Australia (2) 1.5 per cent 197. South Africa wicketkeeper (3) 2.5 per cent Mark Boucher, in July 2012, (4) 5 per cent retired from international 192. French troops, on July 31, cricket after suffering a severe 2012, handed over one of their eye injury during his country's tour match against bases near Kabul to Afghan soldiers as part of the transi• (1) Nottingham tion to Afghan control over (2) Sussex security and the pullout of (3) Somerset 2,000 French combat soldiers (4) Berkley by the year-end. Which is that 198. Which of the following was ad• base? judged the best university in (1) Begram the country, according to the (2) Sadiq National Assessment and Ac• (3) Surobl creditation Council? (4) Manjra (1) University of Delhi 193. Which of the following banks, (2) Mumbai University on July 1, 2012, nationally (3) Jawaharlal Nehru Univer• launched its exclusive range of sity credit cards for doctors to (4) Madras University mark the Doctors Day in Chan• 199. Dara Singh, the famous Indi• digarh? an wrestler-turned-actor, died (1) State Bank of India in Mumbai in July 2012. (2) Axis Bank Which of the following state• ments is/are correct regarding (3) HDFC Bank him? (4) Citibank (1) He was the first sportsman 194. Which of the following compa• to be nominated to the Ra- nies announced a 'family sup• jya Sabha port' scheme for its Olympic (2) In 1996 he was inducted Ratnas at a function in New into the Wrestling Observ• Delhi on July 2, 2012? er Newsletter Hall of Fame (1) Nokia (3) His real name was Deedar (2) Samsung Singh Randhawa (3) Toshiba (4) All of the above (4)LG 200. The Organisation for Economic 195. The World Heritage Committee, Cooperation and Development in July 2012, decided to in• (OECD) on July 18, 2012, scribe 39 serial sites of the amended its rules on obtain• Western Ghats on the World ing classified tax information Heritage List. Where was this by partner-countries. Where is important meeting held? it based? (1) Seattle (1) Frankfurt (2) Munich (2) Vienna (3) St. Petersburg (3) Paris (4) Jakarta (4) Geneva ANSWERS

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