1. Who among the following has been appointed as the new Deputy Governor of the RBI?
(1) Urjit Patel (2) Subir Gokaran
(3) Kalpana Kochar (4) Arun Jain
2. Who among the following has chosen for the Ireland’s prestigious Tipperary International Peace Prize for 2012?(1) Sonia Gandhi (2) Malala Yousafzai
(3) Hillary Clinton (4) Dilma Rousseff
(5) None of these
3. Recently Brij Bihari Lal Butail elected new Speaker of Legislative Assembly of which state?
(1) Uttar Pradesh (2) Madhya Pradesh
(3) Himachal Pradesh (4) Gujarat
(5) None of these
4. India test-fires manoeuvrable version of BrahMos from a naval warship off the coast of Vishakhapatnam in Bay of Bengal. What is the range of the missile?
(1) 220 km (2) 290 km
(3) 330 km (4) 250 km
(5) None of these
5. Who has been appointed as the chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India?
(1) Vimal Jalan (2) Jishnu Krishnan
(3) Sandeep Sarkar (4) D.K Jain
(5) Neeraj Mehta
6. National Data Centre for Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to come up in which among the following cities_____?
(1) New Delhi (2) Bangalore
(3) Lucknow (4) Gurgaon
(5) Jaipur
7. Recently Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam visited India. Identify the person?
(1) Nguyen Tan Dung (2) Do Muoi
(3) Vu Van Ninh (4) Phan Van Khal
(5) None of these
8. Which among the following footballer won the FIFA Ballon d’Or Award for fourth time?
(1) Cristiano Ronaldo (2) Andres Iniesta.
(3) Jimmy Magee (4) Lionel Messi
(5) None of these
9. Which country became first country in Asia to order Chemical Castration of Child Rapist?
(1) China (2) India
(3) Japan (4) South Korea
(5) Sri Lanka
10. Recently Haradhan Bandopadhyay, passed away. He is a famous ____?
(1) Artist (2) Actor
(3) Politician (4) Writer
(5) None of these
Answers with Explnations:
1. (1) Urjit Patel was appointed as the Deputy Governor of the RBI on 3 January 2013.
He succeeded Subir Gokarn, who handled Monetary Policy in RBI.
2. (2) Ireland’s prestigious Tipperary International Peace Prize for 2012 was awarded on 3 January 2013 to Malala Yousafzai the teenage schoolgirl from Pakistan, who was shot by Taliban’s Gunman in October 2012.
Malala became the second Pakistani National to win the award. Lt. Benazir Bhutto was awarded with the same award in 2007.
3. (3) Senior Congress leader, Brij Bihari Lal Butail was unanimously elected new Speaker of Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
4. (2) BRAHMOS is a two-stage missile with a solid propellant booster engine with a range of 290 km.
The present test firing is considered to be the 34th launch of BrahMos after the successful October 2012 launch from INS Teg in the Arabian Sea.
5. (4) Union Govt. of India appointed Justice D.K. Jain as Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India and take on the chair of the Chairman of the Law Commission on 24 January 2013 after he retires of a Judge of Supreme Court on the same day.
The commission is responsible for identification of obsolete laws and suggest measures suitable for quick grievance handling and redressal of the citizens.
6. (4) The Chief Minister of Haryana, Bhupinder Singh Hooda on 7 January 2013 laid the foundation of the National Data Centre of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) at Maneshar, Gurgaon in Haryana.
The development work of the UIDAI center would be completed by mid 2014 and is being developed as a green data centre and abides to all the global standards and guidelines.
7. (3) Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam Vu Van Ninh arrives in New Delhi this evening on a three-day visit to India.
During his stay, the visiting dignitary will hold discussions with several leaders to boost cooperation between the two sides.
The current prime minister of Vietnam is Nguyen Tan Dung has served since 2005, and he is serving his last term.
8. (4) Lionel Messi, the Argentine footballer won FIFA Ballond’Or Award on 7 January 2013 as a reward to his 91-goal in a year for Barcelona and Argentina, in the year 2012.
Messi beat his close competitors, Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid and Barcelona teammate Andres Iniesta.
He left behind the three time FIFA winners namely Zinedine Zidane of France and Ronaldo of Brazil.
9. (4) South Korea Became First Country in Asia to Order Chemical Castration of Child Rapist.
The sentence of chemical castration was given to 31-year old pedophile (a person who is sexually-attracted to children) along with 15 years of jail term.
In Asia, South Korea was first country to order such a treatment. Other countries to adopt this treatment are Denmark, Germany, Poland, Sweden as well as U.S. state of California.
India too is debating whether punishments like chemical castration should be introduced or not.
10. (2) Haradhan Bandopadhyay, (86) the renowned Bengali actor died on 5 January 2013 in Kolkata.
He worked with Satyajit Ray in movies such as Mahanagar, Shonar Kella, Jai Baba Felunath and many more.
In 2012, Haradhan Bandopadhyay was also conferred with the Banga Bibhushan award by the government of West Bengal.
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