1. Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission or Solar India has been launched to create an installed capacity of 20000 MW by the end of 13th Plan.
2. Bollywood actors who, on February 2, 2010 rang bells in NASDAQ on Time Square, New York—an honour usually reserved for CEOs of major corporations, are Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol.
3. The term ‘16 yards hit’ is associated with Hockey.
4. The vital constituent of blood that helps in clotting is Platelets.
5. The acid rain destroys vegetations because it contains Sulphuric acid.
6. Man Booker Prize winner Ms. Kiran Desai’s novel, ‘The Inheritance of Loss’ deals with Gorkhaland movement.
7. The largest fresh water lake, ‘Lake Superior’ is located in Canada.
8. Largest river island, Majuli is in ASSAM.
9. Government’s ambitious UID Project has been renamed Aadhar.
10. Cherie Blair is the author of the book ‘Speaking for myself’.
11. The name of India’s first homebuilt stealth warship whose features reduce the probability of being detected at sea is Shivalik.
12. The Islam was established in 7th A.D.
13. The part of the human body which is highly affected by the nuclear radiation first is Skin.
14. Charles Ginsberg invented the video-tape.
15. Varanasi–Kanyakumari NH–7.
16. Kolkata–Chennai NH–5
17. New Delhi–Amritsar NH–1
18. Agra–Mumbai NH–3
19. The Rate on which Banks borrow from the RBI is called Bank Rate.
20. The venue of the India-ASEAN Summit to be held in 2012 is New Delhi.
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21. As we know the RBI is the apex Bank of India, similarly the apex Bank of USA is called Federal Reserve.
22.The Govt. of India is planning to link the prices of diesel and petrol to market prices and may also introduce a graded system of sharing subsidy on the recommendations Kirit Parikh Committee.
23.The practices adopted by the banks launched to ensure that the money from illegal activities/ sources does not come to banks and therefore, the economic health of the nation does not get affected is Know your Customer.
24. As a practice, all banks now deduct some amount from their pre tax income and set aside in a separate account to create a cushion for the loans which may go bad. This is called PLR.
25. Javed Akhtar was recently nominated as the ‘Member of the Rajya Sabha’.
26. The 97th annual session of the Indian Science Congress was held in Thiruvananthapuram in January 2010.
27. Paddy crop need plenty of water to grow.
28. Sugarcane crop is one which is used to make biofuels.
29. India is the largest producer of milk in the world.
30. The following terms are associated with the game of Hockey
a) Bully.
b) Short Corner
c) Goal
d) Penalty Corner.
31. IFFCO is the abbreviated name of the company which produces chemical fertilizers in India.
32. Duleep Trophy is associated with the game of Cricket.
33. As per the “Education for All Global Monitoring Report”, released by the UNO, over half of the total illiterate population of the world lives in just four countries. They are (a) China (b) India (c) Pakistan (d) Bangladesh.
34. In Rajiv Gandhi LPG Vitrak Yojana, Women/men in the age group of 21-45 years will be stakeholders.
35. The construction of a dam on Brahmaputra River in Arunachal Pradesh has become a matter of concern as some people feel that it will damage the socio cultural environment of the State.
36. India recently provided a US $ 1 billion credit to Bangladesh so that bilateral trade with it can be improved.
37. RBI has celebrated its Platinum Jubilee in the year 2010.
38. China is called the “Door of South East Nations”.
39. The 16th SAARD summit was held on April 28-29, 2010 at Thimpu, Bhutan. The next 17thsummit will be held in 2011 in Maldevis.
40. Gram Nyayalayas are mobile courts and will function at Panchayat level. The Magistrate of these courts will go to the villages in their area of coverage and will dispose off cases of the villages there itself.
41. The concept of ‘Carbon Credit’ is associated with Protection of environment.
42. A drought of 1987 was worst in this century but PDS played a vital role in overcoming the drought.
43. RBI maintains the Micro Finance Development and Equity Fund.
44. Direct Taxes Code (DTC) Bill presented in the Parliament will bring some changes in existing tax regime.
45. Under Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS), the benefits are available to the people having minimum age of 65 years.
46. Govt. of India has decided to review its Foreign Direct Investment Rules twice in a year. This will be done from 2010.
47. Hawala in India is prohibited under the provision of Foreign Exchange Management Act.
48. The main exports from India to Russia are Pharmaceuticals.
49. Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) is the nodal agency in the field of foreign investments in India.
50. As per the figures released by the World Bank, India was the largest recipient of loans from the World Bank during 2009-10.
51. The target fixed for fiscal deficit 2010-11 (In terms of percentage of GDP) is 5%.
52. kfw is an organization/ bank based in Germany.
53. Israel has become the main supplier of Defence goods to India and has replaced Russia.
54. As per existing policy, new foreign investments in manufacturing
Of Cigarette and Cigars is not allowed.
55. India’s political relations with its neighboring countries are a critical part of its Foreign policy.
56. The organization of Indian Origin which is helping Sri Lanka in rehabilitation of its war widows is SEWA.
57. IRDA has decided to make major changes for ULIPs.
58. The 16th SAARC Summit was organized in Thimpu. The declaration of the Summit was named as Silver Jubilee of SAARC.
59. The name of the programme launched by the Govt. of India to help lonely women by providing vocational training to make them self dependent is Swadhar.
60. In the terms of economics, the recession occurring two times with a small gap in between is known as Double Deflation.
61. Department of Food and Public Distribution operates the ‘Village Grain Bank’s Schemes’.
62. Kyrgyzstan recently conducted general election and became the first Parliamentary Democracy of Central Asia.
63. The book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage is written by Chetan Bhagat.
64. Fiji is the recent one to join Non- Aligned Movement (NAM).
65. Hiroshima Day is observed on 6th August.
66. Justice K. G. Balakrishnan is the Chairperson of the Human Right’s Commission of India at present.
67. ‘Booker Prize’ is given in the field of Literature.
68. Dronacharya Awards are given to a person associated with Sports.
69. India is providing help to Bhutan in setting up a Medical College
there on the lines of the AIIMS.
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