Tag Archives: General Awareness
Andhra Bank / Probationary Officers 2008 / GK
22 Sep1. Who amongst the following does not belong to political party which is normally
2. Sujat and Balsara villages were in news recently as breach in main Narmada Canal
(C) Gujarat
3. As per the estimates given by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) the Indian
4. Which of the following is NOT one of the recommendations of the committee setup on
5. The Govt. of which of the following States has formed a Fisherman Debt Commission
(B) Keral
6. Federal Reserves is the Central Bank of ___
7. Which of the following was the issue over which one section of the UPA withdrew its
8. As a gesture to promote denuclearization and also to end nuclear arms programme the
9. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) keeps on modifying various rates / ratios to keep the
10. China has signed an agreement with which of the following countries, which will help
11. The former President of which of the following countries has taken over as the Prime
(A) IDBI Bank
13. Michel Sleiman has taken over as the president of____
14. Which of the following is/are true about the “Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana” to
15. Which of the following countries had decided to come out of the membership of
17. As per the figures released recently, the rate of growth of agriculture during 2007-08
18. The import of which of the following has raised the Current Account Deficit of India
19. The National e- Governance plan was launched by the Govt. of India in the year 2006
21. Ana Ivanovic won the “French Open Women’s Singles” of Lawn Tennis after
22. The World Environment Day is celebrated on which of the following days?
23. Who amongst the following is included in the list of “Biggest Brains in Business”?
24. Which of the following cannot be called as a value Added service offered by a Bank?
26. Which of the following States of India was recognized as the Best e- Governed State
(D) Goa
28. Which of the following airlines became the first Indian Based Airlines to operate
(B) G-8 Summit
(C) Nepal
31. Opening the Saving Bank Account of a minor girl will be called as which of the
32. Which of the following terms NOT used in Banking Sector?
(B) Service Sector
(B) RTGS
36. The foreign Direct Investment this year in India reached to the level of about US $
37. The duration of which of the following Policies / Schemes is from 2004-2009 ?
38. Which of the following test is conducted to know if a sportsman has taken any
(D) Mind mapping
(B) Ashok Lahiri
41. Which of the following awards is given in the field of cinema?
42. Sudan recently cut its ralations with which of the following countries following an
(C) Shabana Azmi
44. Which of the following is the abbreviated name of an autonomous organization under
45. World’s largest oil reserves (about 2/3rd) are located in____
46. Who amongst the following is the author of “Animal People” which was adjudged as
47. What is India’s rating in the “Doing Business Report” prepared by the World Bank ?
48. Which of the following term related with the game of Cricket ?
(B) China Sea
General Awareness.
9 SepGeneral Awareness
1. The Govt. of India has taken a decision to open more IITs during the year 2008-09. These IITs will be in which of the following groups of States?
(A) Bihar,Rajasthan,Andhra Pradesh
(B) Andhra Pradesh,Orissa,Karnataka
(C) Karnataka,Tamilnadu,Kerala
(D) Uttar Pradesh,Madhya Pradesh,Bihar
(E) None of these
ANS (A)
2. Which of the following is /are NOT the highlights of the Union Budget 2008-09 ?
(1) A risk Capital fund is to be set up and maintained by one of the financial Institutes.
(2) Allocation for defence is reduced by 10% to make it Rs. 10,000 Crore.
(3) Several new scheme to be introduced for providing social security to the people in unorganized sectors.
(A) Only (1)
(B) Only (2)
(C) Only (3)
(D) Both (1) & (2)
(E) All 1,2 & 3
ANS (B) The amount allocated for for defence in the budget 2008-09 is Rs. 105600 Crore which is higher than that in the Budget 2007-08.
3. To help farming community the Govt. of India has decided to raise the minimum support price of Paddy for current Kharif marketing season. What is that Price ?
(A) Rs. 800/quintal
(B) Rs. 900/quintal
(C) Rs. 950/quintal
(D) Rs. 1200/quintal
(E) none of these
ANS (D) The purchase price recommended by the CACP fOR The Crop Year 2008-09 for general category Rice is Rs. 1000 per quintal and for A- Grade is Rs. 1050 per quintal.
4. Wchich of the following is the correct definition of the term commercial paper ?
(1) It is nothing but the popular name of the judicial stamp papers used to register financial transactions.
(2) It is one of the instrument through which corporate raise debt from the market.
(3) It is the name of the “Certificate of Deposits†provided by the banks to its retail customers.
(A) Only (1)
(B) Only (2)
(C) Only (3)
(D) Both (1) & (2)
(E) All (1),(2) & (3)
ANS (B)
5. As per the Railway Budget 2008-09 the operating ratio of Railways is pitched at which of the following levels? Approximately—
(A) 70%
(B) 75%
(C) 98%
(D) 90%
(E) 81%
ANS (E) As per the Railway Budget 2008-09 the operating ratio of Railways is pitched at 81.4% .
6. As per the new figures released in recent past what has been the ratio of taxes to gross domestic product (Tax-GDP)in 2007-08 ? Approximately —
(A) 8%
(B) 9%
(C) 10-%
(D) 11.5%
(E) 12.5%
ANS (E)
7. Which of the following companies has got “Navratna Status†recently ?
(A) National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC)
(B) National Textile Corporation (NTC)
(C) Maruti Udyog Ltd.
(D) IDBI Bnak Ltd.
(E) None of these
ANS (A)
8. Who amongst the following established the “Anandvan†a rehabilitation centre for Leprocy patients in Maharashtra ?
(A) Baba Amte
(B) Pandurang Shashtri Athawle
(C) Medha Patkar
(D) Asaram Bapu
(E) None of these
ANS (A)
9. Thaksin Shinawatra’s name is associated with which of the follwing countries ?
(A) Singapore
(B) Thailand
(C) North Korea
(D) Soth Korea
(E) None of these
ANS (B)
10. Who amongst the following agreed to supply aircraft carrier “Gorshkov†to India for its defense services ?
(A) Russia
(B) France
(C) Germany
(D) Italy
(E) None of these
ANS (A)
Books And Authors / I
5 SepBooks and Authors
| Books | Authors |
|---|---|
A Bend in the river |
V.S. Naipaul |
A Brush with Life |
Satish Gujral |
A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Granth Sahib |
S.S. Kohli |
A Foreign Policy for India |
I.K. Gujral |
A Fortune Teller Told Me |
Tiziano Terzani |
A Gender Lens on Social Psychology |
Judith A Howard and Jocelyn A.Hollander |
A General and His Army |
Georgy Vladimov |
A Himalayan Love Story |
Namita Gokhale |
A Last Leap South |
Vladimir Zhirinovsky |
A Nation Flawed-Lesson from Indian History |
P.N. Chopra |
A Peep into the Past |
Vasant Navrekar |
A Possible India |
Partha Chatterjee |
A Psychoanalysis of the Prophets |
Abdulla Kamal |
A Reveolutionary Life |
Laxmi Sehgal |
A Secular Agenda |
Arun Shourie |
A Simple Path |
Lucinda Vardey |
A Suitable Boy |
Vikram Seth |
A Tale of Two Gardens |
Octavio Paz |
A Tribute to People’s Princess: Diana |
Peter Donelli |
A Tryst With Destiny |
Stanley Wolfer |
Abbot |
Walter Scott |
Absalom, Absalom |
William Faulkner |
Absalom and Achitophel |
John Dryden |
Acoession to Extinction |
D.R. Mankekar |
Across Borders, Fifty-years of India’s Foreign Policy |
J.N. Dixit |
Adam Bede |
George Eliot |
Adhe Adhure |
Mohan Rakesh |
Adonis |
P.B. Shelley |
Adrain Mole-The Wilderness Years |
Sue Townsend |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain |
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe |
Daniel Defoe |
Adventures of Sally |
P.G. Wodehouse |
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Mark Twain |
Adversary in the House |
lrving Stone |
Advice and Consent |
Allen Drury |
Aeneid |
Virgil |
Affairs |
C.P.Snow |
Affluent Society |
J.K.Galbraith |
Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx and Mujahid |
R.H. Magnus & Eden Naby |
Africa’s Challenge to America |
Chester Bowles |
After All These Years |
Susan Issacs |
After the Dark Night |
S.M. Ali |
Against the Grain |
Boris Yeltsin |
Age of Reason |
Jean Paul Sartre |
Agni Pariksha |
Acharya Tulsi |
Agni Veena |
Kazi Nazrul Islam |
Agony and the Ecstasy |
Irving Stone |
Ain-i-Akbari |
Abul Fazal |
Airport |
Arthur Hailey |
Ajatshatru |
Jai Shankar Prasad |
Akbarnama |
Abul Fazal |
Alaska Unbound |
James Michener |
Alchemist |
Ben Johnson |
Alexander Quartet |
Lawrence Durrel |
Alexander the Great |
John Gunther |
Alice in Wonderland |
Lewis Carroll |
Alien Nation |
Peter Brimelow |
All for Love |
John Dryden |
All is Well that Ends Well |
William Shakespeare |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
Erich Maria Remarque |
All the King’s Men |
Robert Penn Warren |
All the President’s Men |
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward |
All things Bright and Beautiful |
James Herroit |
All Under Heaven |
Pearl S.Buck |
Along the Road |
Aldous Huxley |
Altered States |
Anita Brookner |
Amar Kosh |
Amar Singh |
Ambassador’s Journal |
J.K. Galbraith |
Ambassador’s Report |
Chester Bowles |
Amelia |
Henry Fielding |
American Capitalism |
J.K. Galbraith |
An American Dilemma |
Gunnar Myrdal |
An American Tragedy |
Theodore Dreiser |
An Apology for Idlers |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
An Autobiography |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
An Eye to China |
David Selbourne |
An idealist View of Life |
Dr.S. Radhakrishnan |
Anandmath |
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
Anatomy of a Flawed inheritance |
J.N. Dixit |
Ancient Evenings |
Norman Mailer |
Ancient Mariner |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
And Quiet Flows the Don |
Mikhali Sholokhov |
And Through the Looking Glass |
Lewis Carroll |
Androcles and the Lion |
George Bernard Shaw |
Angry Letters |
Willem Doevenduin |
Anguish of Deprived |
Lakshmidhar Mishra |
Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
Anna Karenina |
Count Leo Tolstoy |
Another Life |
Derek Walcott |
Answer to History |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
Antic Hay |
Aldous Huxley |
Antony and Cleopatra |
William Shakespeare |
Ape and Essence |
Aldous Huxley |
Apple Cart |
George Bernad Shaw |
Arabian Nights |
Sir Richard Burton |
Area of Darkness |
V.S. Naipaul |
Arion and the Dolphin |
Vikram Seth |
Arms and the Man |
George Bernard Shaw |
Around the World in Eighty Days |
Jules verne |
Arrangement |
Elia Kazan |
Arrival and Departure |
Arthur Koestler |
Arrow in the Blue |
Arthur Koestler |
Arrow of Good |
Joseph Conrad |
Arrowsmith |
Sinclair Lewis |
Arthashastra |
Kautilya |
As I Lay Dying |
William Faulkner |
As You Like It |
William Shakespeare |
Ascent of the Everest |
Sir John Hunt |
Ashtadhyayi |
Panini |
Asia and Western Dominance |
K.M. Panikkar |
Asian Drama |
Gunnar Myrdal |
Aspects of the Novel |
E.M. Forster |
Assassination of a Prime Minister |
S.Anandram |
Assignment Colombo |
J.N. Dixit |
Assignment India |
Christopher Thomas |
Athenian Constitution |
Aristotle |
Atoms of Hope |
Mohan Sundara Rajan |
August 1914 |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
August Coup |
Mikhali S. Gorbachev |
Author’s Farce |
Henry Fielding |
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian |
Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
Autumn Leaves |
O.Pulla Reddi |
Avanti Sundari |
Dandi |
| Books | Authors |
|---|---|
| A Bend in the river | V.S. Naipaul |
| A Brush with Life | Satish Gujral |
| A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Granth Sahib | S.S. Kohli |
| A Foreign Policy for India | I.K. Gujral |
| A Fortune Teller Told Me | Tiziano Terzani |
| A Gender Lens on Social Psychology | Judith A Howard and Jocelyn A.Hollander |
| A General and His Army | Georgy Vladimov |
| A Himalayan Love Story | Namita Gokhale |
| A Last Leap South | Vladimir Zhirinovsky |
| A Nation Flawed-Lesson from Indian History | P.N. Chopra |
| A Peep into the Past | Vasant Navrekar |
| A Possible India | Partha Chatterjee |
| A Psychoanalysis of the Prophets | Abdulla Kamal |
| A Reveolutionary Life | Laxmi Sehgal |
| A Secular Agenda | Arun Shourie |
| A Simple Path | Lucinda Vardey |
| A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
| A Tale of Two Gardens | Octavio Paz |
| A Tribute to People’s Princess: Diana | Peter Donelli |
| A Tryst With Destiny | Stanley Wolfer |
| Abbot | Walter Scott |
| Absalom, Absalom | William Faulkner |
| Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden |
| Acoession to Extinction | D.R. Mankekar |
| Across Borders, Fifty-years of India’s Foreign Policy | J.N. Dixit |
| Adam Bede | George Eliot |
| Adhe Adhure | Mohan Rakesh |
| Adonis | P.B. Shelley |
| Adrain Mole-The Wilderness Years | Sue Townsend |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Adventures of Sally | P.G. Wodehouse |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| Adversary in the House | lrving Stone |
| Advice and Consent | Allen Drury |
| Aeneid | Virgil |
| Affairs | C.P.Snow |
| Affluent Society | J.K.Galbraith |
| Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx and Mujahid | R.H. Magnus & Eden Naby |
| Africa’s Challenge to America | Chester Bowles |
| After All These Years | Susan Issacs |
| After the Dark Night | S.M. Ali |
| Against the Grain | Boris Yeltsin |
| Age of Reason | Jean Paul Sartre |
| Agni Pariksha | Acharya Tulsi |
| Agni Veena | Kazi Nazrul Islam |
| Agony and the Ecstasy | Irving Stone |
| Ain-i-Akbari | Abul Fazal |
| Airport | Arthur Hailey |
| Ajatshatru | Jai Shankar Prasad |
| Akbarnama | Abul Fazal |
| Alaska Unbound | James Michener |
| Alchemist | Ben Johnson |
| Alexander Quartet | Lawrence Durrel |
| Alexander the Great | John Gunther |
| Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| Alien Nation | Peter Brimelow |
| All for Love | John Dryden |
| All is Well that Ends Well | William Shakespeare |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque |
| All the King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| All the President’s Men | Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward |
| All things Bright and Beautiful | James Herroit |
| All Under Heaven | Pearl S.Buck |
| Along the Road | Aldous Huxley |
| Altered States | Anita Brookner |
| Amar Kosh | Amar Singh |
| Ambassador’s Journal | J.K. Galbraith |
| Ambassador’s Report | Chester Bowles |
| Amelia | Henry Fielding |
| American Capitalism | J.K. Galbraith |
| An American Dilemma | Gunnar Myrdal |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
| An Apology for Idlers | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| An Autobiography | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| An Eye to China | David Selbourne |
| An idealist View of Life | Dr.S. Radhakrishnan |
| Anandmath | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
| Anatomy of a Flawed inheritance | J.N. Dixit |
| Ancient Evenings | Norman Mailer |
| Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| And Quiet Flows the Don | Mikhali Sholokhov |
| And Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll |
| Androcles and the Lion | George Bernard Shaw |
| Angry Letters | Willem Doevenduin |
| Anguish of Deprived | Lakshmidhar Mishra |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| Anna Karenina | Count Leo Tolstoy |
| Another Life | Derek Walcott |
| Answer to History | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
| Antic Hay | Aldous Huxley |
| Antony and Cleopatra | William Shakespeare |
| Ape and Essence | Aldous Huxley |
| Apple Cart | George Bernad Shaw |
| Arabian Nights | Sir Richard Burton |
| Area of Darkness | V.S. Naipaul |
| Arion and the Dolphin | Vikram Seth |
| Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules verne |
| Arrangement | Elia Kazan |
| Arrival and Departure | Arthur Koestler |
| Arrow in the Blue | Arthur Koestler |
| Arrow of Good | Joseph Conrad |
| Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis |
| Arthashastra | Kautilya |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| As You Like It | William Shakespeare |
| Ascent of the Everest | Sir John Hunt |
| Ashtadhyayi | Panini |
| Asia and Western Dominance | K.M. Panikkar |
| Asian Drama | Gunnar Myrdal |
| Aspects of the Novel | E.M. Forster |
| Assassination of a Prime Minister | S.Anandram |
| Assignment Colombo | J.N. Dixit |
| Assignment India | Christopher Thomas |
| Athenian Constitution | Aristotle |
| Atoms of Hope | Mohan Sundara Rajan |
| August 1914 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| August Coup | Mikhali S. Gorbachev |
| Author’s Farce | Henry Fielding |
| Autobiography of an Unknown Indian | Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
| Autumn Leaves | O.Pulla Reddi |
| Avanti Sundari | Dandi |