India Current Affairs-Jul 2011

INDIA CURRENT AFFAIRS

JUL-2011

1. Oil ministry blocked which organisation’s plans to begin oil production from the Bhagyam oilfield which is the second biggest find in the Rajasthan block.
a.    Cairn India
b.    ONGC
c.    IOC
d.    HPCL
Answer: (a) Cairn India

2. Name the Textiles Minister who on 7 July 2011 tendered his resignation following allegations by businessman C Sivasankaran that he misused his position as telecom minister from 2004 to 2007 and sought favours for granting a telecom licence.
a.    Kalanithi Maran
b.    Dayanidhi Maran
c.    Shankar Singh Vaghela
d.    Madhavsinh Solanki
Answer: (b) Dayanidhi Maran

3. Which state government launched Website & Helpline to discourage Sex Determination Tests?
a.    Maharashtra
b.    Haryana
c.    MP
d.    Punjab
Answer: (a) Maharashtra

4. Renewable energy power company Orient Green Power Company (OGPL) commissioned a 18.7 MW wind farm project at Gudimangalam in Tiruppur district. To which state does the Tiruppur district belong to?
a.    Karnataka
b.    Bihar
c.   Tamil Nadu
d.    Andhra Pradesh
Answer: (b) Tamil Nadu

5. Name the 1977 batch of the Indian Administrative Service who July assumed charge as Secretary, Department of Defence Production in the Ministry of Defence.
a.    Shekhar Agarwal
b.    Madhusudan Ganapathi,
c.    Sindhushree Khullar,
d.    Shashikant Sharma
Answer: (a) Shekhar Agarwal


6. Which one of the following Indian states launched a website to help curb sex discrimination?
a) Maharashtra
b) Haryana
c) UP
d) MP
Answer: (a) Maharashtra  

7. The HRD ministry took over National council for teacher education. Who is at present the HRD minister at the centre? 
a) Arjun Singh

b)  Kapil Sibal
c) Rahul Gandhi
d) Sonia Gandhi
Answer: (b) Kapil Sibal

8.    According to an Intelligence Bureau (IB) report, which of the following Indian dams is on the hit-list of Pakistan-based militant outfits such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD)?
a.    Gandhi Sagar Dam
b.    Nagarjuna i Sagar Dam
c.    B.R.P Dam
d.    Bhakra Dam
Answer: (d) Bhakra Dam

9.    Which Indian Institute of Management (IIM) won a decade-long battle for autonomy, with HRD minister approving dramatic amendments to the institution’s memorandum of association with the government?
a.    IIM-Ahmedabad
b.    IIM-Indore
c.    IIM-Bangalore
d.    IIM-Calcutta
Answer: (a) IIM-Ahmedabad

10. Name the Solicitor-General , who hurt at Communications Minister Kapil Sibal's decision to engage a lawyer to defend him in the Supreme Court resigned from his post.
a.    Gopal Subramaniam
b.    G.S. Singhvi
c.    Pranav Mukherjee
d.    Asok Kumar Ganguly
Answer: (a) Gopal Subramaniam

11. Supreme Court in its judgment held that ban imposed by centre on non-iodised salt is unconstitutional.  What is added in sea salt that it becomes iodized sea salt?
a) Potassium Iodide
b) Magnacium Iodide
c) Sodium Chloride
d) Potassium Permanganate 
Answer: (a) Potassium Iodide

12.    Name the BJP leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister who was elected Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on GST.
a.    Sushil Kumar Modi
b.    Prafulla Chandra Ghadai
c.    Vijay Kumar Chaudhary
d.    Parveen Amanullah
Answer: (a) Sushil Kumar Modi

13.    Who did Gujarat High Court appoint on 19 July 2011 to head the three-member body probing into 2004 Ishrat encounter?
a.    Satish Verma
b.    Karnail Singh
c.    Mohan Jha
d.    Rajiv Ranjan Verma
Answer: (d) Rajiv Ranjan Verma

14.    According to statistics for 2010 released by the Union tourism ministry, which Indian state gained the position of the most visited destination in the country recording 155.8 million domestic tourists?
a.    UP
b.    Andhra Pradesh
c.    MP
d.    Tamil Nadu
Answer: (b) Andhra Pradesh


15.  India and Sri Lanka signed a MoU on 20 July 2011 to develop the __port.
a) Kankesanthurai
b) Hambantota
c) Oluvil
d) Port of Point Pedro
Answer: (a)  Kankesanthurai

16.  which one of the following countries announced a visa category named new Tier 1(exceptional talent) for India and Non-EU countries.
a) Britain
b) USA
c) India
d) Japan
Answer: (a)  Britain

17. The Annual Plan Outlay for Kerala for the Year 2011-12 Finalised at __ Crores. 
a) 12010 crores
b) 15010 crores
c) 17110 crores
d) 18010 crores
Answer: (a) 12010 crores

18.  The Union Cabinet Approved National Social Security Fund for Unorganised Sectors. The fund is likely to benefit __crore workers in the unorganized sector. 
a) 43.3
b) 38.6
c) 30
d) 20.0
Answer: (a) 43.3

19.    Who did the Union government appoint on 23 July 2011 as the Solicitor-General, the second senior most law officer of India?
a.    Fali S Nariman
b.    Rohinton Nariman
c.    Gopal Subramanium
d.    Harish Salve
Answer: (b) Rohinton Nariman

20.    Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was honoured with Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government by the Ambassador of France in New Delhi, Jerome Bonnafont on 13 July 2011. Which of the following Indian celebrities in the past did not win this prestigious award?
a.    Sharmila Tagore
b.    Upamanyu Chatterjee
c.    Habib Tanveer
d.    Sachin Tendulkar
Answer: (d) Sachin Tendulkar

21.     India accepted international norms for the prevention of air pollution emanating from ships. The norms were proposed under a 1997 protocol of the International Maritime Organisation(IMO). When was IMO established?
a)    1948
b)    1998
c)    1986
d)    1939
Answer: (a)  1948

22.    According to World Health Organization-sponsored study on Major Depressive Episode (MDE) published in the BMC Medicine journal what percentage of Indians suffer from what is called Major Depressive Episode (MDE)?
a.    36%
b.    28%
c.    44%
d.    48%
Answer: (a) 36%