Objective Current Affairs

Q. Recently Supreme Court ordered the Constitution of Special Investigation Team on--
1 Corruption
2 Black Money
3 Telangana issue
4 None of the above
Ans: 2
Q. The Union Cabinet provision has given its formal approval for increasing the amount under MPLAD (Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme) from Rs. 2 crore to--
1 RS. 5 crore
2 Rs. 6 crore
3 Rs. 3 crore
4 Rs. 4 crore
Ans: 1
Q. Under the Food Security Bill as approved by Union Cabinet recently, which of the following statements is incorrect?
1 Under the provision of the Bill, each beneficiary under the BPL will be given 10kg of foodgrains
2 The Bill seeks to entitle 75% BPL (Below Poverty Line) to heavily subsidized food
3 The Bill entitles 50% of urban population of heavily subsidized food grains
4 The Bill in totality entitles 68% of country's Population to Food security
Ans: 1
Q. 'Rani Rashmoni' which recently came into news is India's--
1 Satellite vehicle
2 Missile
3 Fast Attack Craft
4 Patrol vessel
Ans: 4
Q. India has recently signed a MoU to rebuild a port with--
1 Sri Lanka
2 Thailand
3 Myanmar
4 Maldives
Ans: 1
Q. In recently reshuffled union Council of Ministers who has been made Law Minister?
1 Salman Khursheed
2 Dinesh Trivedi
3 Veerappa Moily
4 Jayanti Natrajan
Ans: 1
Q. The ninth indigenously built Fast Attack Craft (FAC) of the Navy which was commissioned on July 12, 2011 is--
1 Rani Rashmoni
2 INS Koswari
3 Sharabh
4 None of the above
Ans: 2
Q. Which one among the following is the best reason for the marked increase in the agricultural production in India in the past decades?
1 use of improved agricultural methods and technologies
2 increase in the area under cultivation
3 conversation of barren land into agricultural land
4 priority status given by the successive governments to agricultural sector over the industry sector
Ans: 1
Q. October 2nd of every year has been declared by UNO as:
1 International Anti-terrorism Day
2 International Moral Values Day
3 International heritage Day
4 International Non-violence Day
Ans: 4
Q. The author of the book titled "The Future of India" is:
1 Deepak Chopra
2 Bimal Jalan
3 Amitav Ghosh
4 N.K. Singh
Ans: 2