CURRENT AFFAIRS & ANALYSIS

Thursday, November 01, 2012

CURRENT AFFAIRS 02/11/2012

Ques. : 1   Which of the following world’s two leading English language publishing houses has announced to merge recently?
1) Penguin-Ransom (ans) 2) Penguin-HarperCollins
3) Ransom-HarperCollins 4) Penguin-Elsevier
5) None of these

Ques. : 2   Who is the writer of the recently published book Return to India?
1) Javid Chaudhury 2) Arvind Verma
3) R Nagraj 4) Shoba Narayan  (ans)
5) None of these

Ques. : 3   After the recent cabinet reshuffle who has assumed the charge of the Railway Ministry which has returned to Congress party after 17 years?
1) C P Joshi 2) Pawan Kumar Bansal  (ans)
3) S Jaipal Reddy 4) Jitendra Singh
5) None of these

Ques. : 4   Union government has recently approved Reliance Industries to further develop its which of the following largest oil and gas producing block?
1) Panna-Mukta oilfield 2) Mangala Area
3) KG-D6  (ans) 4) Tapti fields
5) None of these

Ques. : 5   Home Ministry has recently cleared the India-Pakistan cricket series. This series will be played between the two teams in December-January in
1) India (ans) 2) Pakistan
3) both the countries 4) a third country to be decided later
5) None of these

Ques. : 6   In its second quarter review of the monetary policy, RBI cut the cash reserve ratio (CRR) by 25 basis points to fix it at
1) 4.25 per cent (ans) 2) 4.50 per cent
3) 4.75 per cent 4) 4.00 per cent
5) None of these

Ques. : 7   Haldia port has been in news in recent days. Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding its present crisis?
1) Cargo handling company at the port, HPT wrote KoPT seeking more cargo allocation as it was suffering losses due to lack of cargo. 2) After KoPT not committing more cargo, HPT laid off 275 workers following which workers launched an agitation against HPT.
3) TMC MP Suvendu Adhikari who is taking up cause of laid off workers is said to own port’s only other cargo firm. 4) All the above are correct (ans)
5) None of the above is correct

Ques. : 8   It has been decided to invite Sultan of Oman as the chief guest for the Republic Day parade next year. Name the Sultan of Oman.
1) Tunku Mahmud 2) Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem
3) Qaboos bin Said Al Said (ans) 4) Hassanal Bolkiah
5) None of these

Ques. : 9   Which of the following cyclones hit Tamil Nadu coast recently bringing heavy rainfall and strong winds?
1) Nilam (ans) 2) Onil
3) Laila 4) Agni
5) None of these

Ques. : 10   High court in Rwanda sentenced the leading opposition leader Victoire Ingabire to eight years in prison recently. She has been accused of
1) conspiring to harm the country through war and terror. 2) minimising the 1994 genocide that tore the nation apart.
3) trying to mend the constitution of the country in favour of Hutus. 4) Only 1) and 2) (ans)
5) Only 1) and 3)


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