Current Affairs october 2012 Quiz-30

1. An expert panel set up by the Prime Minister recommended complete decontrol of the sugar industry. Who headed this committee? (The panel submitted its report in October 2012) 1) Kaushik Basu 2) Bimal Jalan 3) C.Rangarajan 4) R.S.Gujral 5) Y.V.Reddy 2. Who are awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of G-protein coupled receptors? 1) Thomas Steitz (USA) & Ada Yonath (Israel) 2) Barry Sharpless & William Knowles (USA) 3) Robert Lefkowitz & Brian Kobilka (USA) 4) Peter Agre & Roderick Mackinnon (USA) 5) None of these

Current Affairs october 2012 Quiz-29

1. Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2012 for their work with light and matter at the most fundamental level? 1) Adam Reiss and Brian Schmidt 2) Adam Reiss and Saul Perlmutter 3) Serge Haroche and David J.Wineland 4) Charles K. Kao and Willard S. Boyle 5) Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov 2. Who was conferred with the prestigious Lata Mangeshkar Award by the Maharashtra government in September 2012? 1) Khayyam 2) Udit Narayan 3) Anandji Shah 4) Suman Kalyanpur 5) None

September 2012 Bilateral Relations Affairs

Aiming to improve ties between India and Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), "INS Sudarshini", a sail training ship, began its journey on 28 September, from Chennai on a nine nation voyage. Director General, Naval Projects (V) Vice Admiral V K Namballa flagged off the ship, manned by five officers, 31 sailors, 30 Naval and Coast Guard cadets, from the Chennai Port Trust. During its journey, the ship would call on 13 foreign ports across nine nations to bolster friendship across the seas. The ship would take the ancient route of Indian mariners to South East Asia, it said, adding during its journey, the ship would spend a total of 127 days before berthing back at Kochi on March 29, 2013.

September 2012 National Affairs

On instructions from the Central Vigilance Commission, the CBI on 24 September, decided to expand the scope of its investigation into the scam in coal blocks allocation to private firms between 1993 and 2004. The probe will now cover the blocks given during the six-year tenure of the BJP-led NDA government, from 1998 to 2004, besides those allotted by the Congress government led by P.V. Narasimha Rao after 1993 and the United Front government from 1996 to 1998. Till now, the CBI was investigating private companies that got blocks between 2004 and 2009.As per the Comptroller and Auditor-General’s report on the allocation between 1993 and 2009, 215 blocks were allotted and 99 of them went to government companies and 105 to private firms, while 11 were allotted for ultra-mega power projects. Twenty-four blocks were de-allocated between 2003 and 2011 for non-performance by companies. On representations from MPs, Coal Minister Shriprakash Jaiswal wrote to the CVC, seeking a CBI probe into the allocations since 1993 when the government started giving blocks to private players for captive use. Mainly Congress MPs alleged massive irregularities in the allocations under the NDA rule.

September 2012 International Affairs

Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg appointed a 29-year-old, Hadia Tajik, a Muslim woman of Pakistani origin, as the new Culture Minister. Hadia Tajik is the first Muslim and youngest Minister ever in Norwegian political history. Ms. Tajik, who has degrees in law and journalism and has been a career politician in Norway’s Labour Party, was appointed in a Cabinet reshuffle. Ms. Tajik has already declared that cultural diversity should become more integral to the life of her fellow citizens. She said her programme would focus on how this reflected on Norwegian society as a whole. Conservative elements in Norway believe that a very rapid influx of foreigners and foreign cultures has destabilised the steady and stable pattern of Norway’s essentially Christian society. Last year, Anders Breivik randomly shot 69 people at a summer camp organised by the Workers' Youth League (AUF) of the Labour Party after blowing up a Norweigan state building. During his trial, Breivik reasoned that multi-cultural policies were harming Norway, adding that he considered Islam his enemy.

Current Affairs October 2012 Quiz 27

1.Pauline Marois became the first female Premier of which of the following provinces of Canada in September 2012?
1) Alberta
2) Nova Scotia
3) Quebec
4) British Columbia
5) Ontario

2.The Central Government appoin-ted Y.C. Deveshwar as a director on the central board of directors of the Reserve Bank of India in September 2012. He is the chairman of which of the following companies?
1) Bombay Dyeing
2) ITC
3) Murugappa Group
4) Future Group
5) Essar Group