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1. India ranks_____ in a human freedom development index among 123 countries ?

(a) 92nd
(b) 78th
(c) 90th
(d) 68th

2. Urjit Patel took charge as Deputy Governor of the RBI. He took this charge in place of who among the following ?

(a) Ranjit Sinha
(b) K. C. Chakrabarty
(c) Subir Gokarn
(d) Anand Sinha

3. Which of the following countries recently, inaugurated world's longest high-speed rail route ?

(a) United States of America
(b) Mauritius
(c) Japan
(d) China

4. Which of the following state's legislative assembly became the first state in the country to have passed the Foob Security Bill 2012 ?

(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Maharashtra
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Chhattisgarh

5. Who among the following received the 'Best Administrator in India Award' instituted by K. Karunakaran Foundation ?

(a) Pranab Mukherjee
(b) Manmohan Singh
(c) Sushil Kumar Shinde
(d) P. Chidambaram

6. Who has been elected as Prime Minister of Japan by Lower House of the Parliment ?

(a) Taro Aso
(b) Yasuo Fukuda
(c) Shinzo Abe
(d) Yukio Hatoyama

7. Who inaugurated the 4th World Telugu Conference in Tirupati ?

(a) Jayalalitha
(b) Manmohan Singh
(c) Sonia Gandhi
(d) Pranab Mukherjee

8. Who has been chosen for the Aryabhatta award for the year 2011 ?

(a) Prof. N. M. Ashok
(b) Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat
(c) N. Prahlad
(d) P. Chakraborty

9. Justice D. K. Jain, Judge, Supreme Court of India, is the Chairman of the___Law Commission of India ?

(a) 10th
(b) 20th
(c) 30th
(d) 40th

10. India has declared_____ as the "Decade of Innovation" ?

(a) 2010-20
(b) 2020-30
(c) 2030-40
(d) 2040-50

11. Which country hosted the sixth World Future Energy Summit ?

(a) UAE
(b) Japan
(c) Iran
(d) Iraq

12. Which among the following has been upgrated as an observer state of the UN by its General Assembly on November 29, 2012 ?

(a) Taiwan
(b) Palestine
(c) St. Davis
(d) Switzerland

13. National Policy for Children, 2012, has recognised a CHILD as a person below the age of_____ ?

(a) 14 Years
(b) 18 Years
(c) 15 Years
(d) 21 Years

14. According to the Quality of Living Survey - 2012, which among the following has been declared as the best city in India offering the highest quality of Living ?

(a) Hyderabad
(b) Bengaluru
(c) Ahmedabad
(d) Jaipur

15. A joint military exercise between India and Russia with codename - INDRA was held from November 20, 2012 to December 3, 2012 in _____?

(a) Kolkata
(b) Visakhapatnam
(c) Mumbai
(d) Chennai

16. Who has been appointed the first chairperson of the National Green Tribunal ?

(a) Justice N. K. Khare
(b) Justice Mohan Prakash
(c) Justice Sudha Srivastava
(d) Justice Swatanter Kumar

17. Who among the following has been selected for the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 ?

(a) Pt. Ravi Shankar
(b) Gulzar
(c) A. R. Rahman
(d) Lata Mangeshkar

18. Which country has the maximum amount of black money, according to the Global Financial Intefrity Report published recently ?

(a) India
(b) China
(c) Russia
(d) Singapore

19. Which of the following is the first country to boycott a UN review of its human rights practices ?

(a) USA
(b) South Korea
(c) North Korea
(d) Israel

20. India has dropped nine places in the list of 179 countries in the 2013 World Press Freedom Index. Now India's rank is_____ ?

(a) 139
(b) 140
(c) 141
(d) 142