Current Affairs - (SET-3)

General Knowledge for all types of Competitive Exams

1.      Which High Court on 28 May 2012 scrapped the Union Government's 4.5 per-cent quota for minorities, carved out of the 27 per cent reservation for the other backward classes (OBCs)?

2.      The DRDO test-fired indigenously built ‘Akash' missile from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur on 28 May 2012. What kind of missile Akash is?

3.      Brahmeshwar Singh alias ‘Mukhiyaji,' the head of a dreaded private militia of upper caste landowners in Bihar, was shot dead on 1 June 2012. Name the group he was head of?

4.      Which Company had signed the world chess Champion Viswanathan Anand their Brand Ambassador on 26 June 2012?

5.      Which Indian cricketer was conferred upon the Wisden India Outstanding Achievement award in Dubai on 11 June 2012?

6.      The Pakistan government on 28 June 2012 released Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh after he served life imprisonment in Pakistani Prison.  Who is the other Indian citizen who has been languishing in Pakistani prison and was denied liberty by the Pakistani authorities on 26 June 2012?

7.      Which is the application developed by face book using which developers can translate names and descriptions into other languages?

8.      Who pro-democracy leader of Myanmar who belongs to the NLD party, won a parliamentary seat in a historic by-election and attended the lower house in April 2012?

9.      Who became the first woman officer to get the Sena Medal (Gallantry), two Yudh Seva medals, nine Sena medals (Gallantry), two Sena medals (Distinguished) and eight Vishisht Seva medals?

10.  Name the credit cards HDFC launched for doctors?

11.  Which is the world's tallest building?

12.  Which is the India's longest six-laned controlled-access expressway stretch?

13.  Which two countries shared the Under-19 Asia Cup 2012?

14.  Which company launched its famous Swiss Chocolate brand ‘Tolerance’ in India?

15.  Which US Defense Secretary arrived in India on a two day visit in June 2012?

16.  Who was removed from his post on 29, May 2012 by President of Nepal, Ram Baran Yadav?

17.  Who is the new brand ambassador of computer major, Lenovo, in India as of 29, May, 2012?

18.  Who was the world's first elected woman President?

19.  Who has planning to make Film on Marry Com?

20.  Recently Indian born American who has gone to space?

ANSWERS

01. Andhra Pradesh High Court

02. Surface to air missile

03. Ranvir Sena

04. True Value Homes

05. Sachin Tendulkar

06. Sarabjeet Singh

07. App Dashboard

08. Aung San Suu Kyi

09. Doctors Superia and Doctors Platinum

10. Major Mitali Madhumita

11. Burj Khalifa

12. Yamuna Expressway

13. India and Pakistan

14. Cadbury

15. Leon Panetta

16. Baburam Bhattarai

17. Ranbir Kapoor

18. Vigdis Finnbogadsttir of Iceland
19. Sanjay Lila Bhansali
20. Sunita Williams